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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 7h

Be the sort of person where even the rumor of your demise sparks a global depressive spiral and not the Ewok celebration from Return of the Jedi

PBS News @pbsnews.org · 10h

“There are just a lot of rumors flying around. But I figured if you heard it from me, you’d know that I was okay,” Dolly Parton said in a new two-minute video posted on Instagram. “I’m not ready to die yet. I don’t think God is through with me. And I ain’t done working.” https://to.pbs.org/4hc1DXB

'I'm not dying': Dolly Parton responds to concerns about her health

Late last month Parton postponed her first Las Vegas residency in 32 years, citing “health challenges.”

www.pbs.org

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Greg Stolze @gregstolze.bsky.social · 7h

I misspoke, I meant four backers.

Greg Stolze @gregstolze.bsky.social · 15h

If just five more people backed this, it would hit an even hundred, which means nothing but looks tidy. You wish something was tidy, right?

kck.st/3IO7kye

DISCOMFORT FOOD

A collection of Greg Stolze's recent science fiction, fantasy and horror. Contains love potions, cursed art and telepathic speed dating

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Greg Stolze @gregstolze.bsky.social · 11h

…yeah, there are always sticky issues of “Well, if he did his time shouldn’t you get on with it?” and… sometimes yes? But I feel like if I shot someone in the head while robbing them, I would do more than ten years. Maybe I’m wrong.

Greg Stolze @gregstolze.bsky.social · 14h

I guess? Apparently he was a murderer and an internet masturbator?

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Greg Stolze @gregstolze.bsky.social · 15h

If just five more people backed this, it would hit an even hundred, which means nothing but looks tidy. You wish something was tidy, right?

kck.st/3IO7kye

DISCOMFORT FOOD

A collection of Greg Stolze's recent science fiction, fantasy and horror. Contains love potions, cursed art and telepathic speed dating

kck.st

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Greg Stolze @gregstolze.bsky.social · 15h

Interestingly, I live in Wisconsin and what I’d really like to see from him is a face turn on TRANS RIGHTS, dammit.

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Greg Stolze @gregstolze.bsky.social · 15h

The idea that an artist or art work might leave space for the reader/listener/viewer to occupy is absolutely batshit to people raised on TV that pre-chews every idea for you.

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Greg Stolze @gregstolze.bsky.social · 16h

Today I found out about Leslie Grantham and is England OK? Like… really OK? And I know I’m typing this from the country that gave the world MIKE TYSON MYSTERIES, but still…

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Greg Stolze @gregstolze.bsky.social · 1d

you fool, you're not actually unhappy, you're delighted but too stupid to realize

Greg Stolze @gregstolze.bsky.social · 1d

Some of us become grammar nerds, some of us have grammar nerdismé thrust upon us.

Rabbit @lochinvar.bsky.social · 1d

@gregstolze.bsky.social -/ this strikes me as useful.

Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 1d

Because it feels relevant as we continue to evaluate the media and our representatives’ statements, my favorite way to identify the active vs. passive voice.

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Alan Bundock @izombieeu.bsky.social · 1d

A bit of Stolze fiction might not be your thing. But it might. Hopefully one day ima get one of his lino prints too since he's managed to give me the art equivalent of an ear worm on that front.

Greg Stolze @gregstolze.bsky.social · 1d

One of the stories in DISCOMFORT FOOD is “Fun At the Synthecoid™️ Factory.”

www.kickstarter.com/projects/gre...

It is possibly the most cynical thing I’ve written. It’s about a toy—a tiny, indestructible pretend human that you can punish, and punish, and punish. It deserves it, forever.

DISCOMFORT FOOD

A collection of Greg Stolze's recent science fiction, fantasy and horror. Contains love potions, cursed art and telepathic speed dating

www.kickstarter.com

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Greg Stolze @gregstolze.bsky.social · 1d

One of the stories in DISCOMFORT FOOD is “Fun At the Synthecoid™️ Factory.”

www.kickstarter.com/projects/gre...

It is possibly the most cynical thing I’ve written. It’s about a toy—a tiny, indestructible pretend human that you can punish, and punish, and punish. It deserves it, forever.

DISCOMFORT FOOD

A collection of Greg Stolze's recent science fiction, fantasy and horror. Contains love potions, cursed art and telepathic speed dating

www.kickstarter.com

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Curb Your Malthusiasm 2.0 @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 1d

"This Whole Thing Smacks Of Gondor," i holler as i overturn my uncle's funeral pyre and turn the 4th Age of Man into the 4th Age of Shit

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Greg Stolze @gregstolze.bsky.social · 1d

Oh shit I didn't know about that one!

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Greg Stolze @gregstolze.bsky.social · 1d

You and Chuck Close, damn.

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Greg Stolze @gregstolze.bsky.social · 1d

Jessi you must pace yourself

start out learning 2-3 languages and stealing maybe a dozen wives

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · Nov 2

Sign on a wall: I NEED A HUGe amount of money.

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · Nov 8

If you hold a crab up to your ear
You can hear what it's like to be attacked by a crab

Image of an impressive orange crab, the Sally Lightfoot crab, Grapsus grapsus, a shore crab that lives from the Gulf of California to the Galápagos Islands.

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DAVE! (like "Them!" but Dave) @daveexmachina.bsky.social · 2d

normal person: i just want a place to hang out with my friends
tech weirdo: and shitheads
np: no just my friends
tw: but what about hearing alternative views on race and gender?
np: we just want to hang out and goof around
tw: so where do the shitheads fit in then
np: no shitheads
tw: not following

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 2d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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Greg Stolze @gregstolze.bsky.social · 1d

Gotta say, Mark Sanchez is RACING up the list of “most disgraceful FOX on-air employees,” but he’s going to have to brutalize at least one more man in his sixties to crack the top three.

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