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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 1d

Eight thousand iterations of this discourse later, there is no political utility in calling fascists fat. All you're doing is propping up the brutal hierarchy which lets people like them work up from deniable social torture to state violence.

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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 1d

show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn't a selfie

A shirt with cute rubber ducks on it and the text:
M R DUCKS
M R NOT
O S M R
C M WANGS
L I B
M R DUCKS

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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 1d

10 horror movies to get to know me by

☎️ Skinamarink
🫎Evil Dead 2
👁️The Beyond
🔩Tetsuo: The Iron Man
📼Videodrome
🫙Bride of Frankenstein
🚗Titane
👽Attack the Block
🏜️The Outwaters
🩸Braindead (aka Dead-Alive)

Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 1d

10 horror movies to get to know me by

🦇Bram Stoker's Dracula
✝️The Devils
🍼Rosemary's Baby
👻The Medium
👫Possession
📹Lost Highway
💉Audition
🐸The Wicker Man ('73)
⚫Under the Skin
♦️The Neon Demon

Tiffany Morris @tiffmorris.bsky.social · 1d

10 horror movies to get to know me by
🪡 May
🩸 Nosferatu '22
🩸 Nosferatu the Vampyre
🩸 Nosferatu ‘24
🌸 Midsommar
💀 Blood Quantum
🩰 Suspiria '77
🐝 Candyman
🐅 Manhunter
🌲 Antichrist

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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 1d

is it halakhically acceptable to wave a lemon and a leek from my fridge under a blanket fort in my living room bc this is just Too Much

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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 1d

the timing of Sukkot is absurd, who thought we needed a weeklong holiday literally right after the high holy days??

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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 2d

how do you turn "adjunct instructor at 5 different colleges over the past 8 years, with a 2-year period of actual full employment at another college in the middle" into brief coherent bullet points????

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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 2d

trying to turn an academic CV into a resume suitable for applying to non-academic jobs is pure hell lol

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Bricky @brickyo8.bsky.social · 2d

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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 3d

cancelable take apparently but I really liked breaking bad but found the first season of better call saul so excruciatingly dull that I never bothered with the rest of it

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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 3d

36 years old and I don't really know the difference between Pokemon and Mario

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 4d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 3d

every transition is a miracle

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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 3d

if u take lactaid before consuming dairy, ur guts will be much happier even tho you've always been skeptical of your spouse's contention that ur probably a little lactose intolerant

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · Aug 9

What’s your favorite food fact that is true but sounds totally made up?

I’ll start: about half of the mushrooms produced across the United States of America each year (more than 300 million pounds of mushrooms in recent years) are produced in *one county* in Pennsylvania.

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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 3d

but also, go to movies and concerts alone! this is something I've always done occasionally, but I swear it gets better with age

maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 3d

if you've been mostly able-bodied up to now, start expecting physical decline 😅 last fall I wrenched my back lifting something that wasn't even heavy, and spent like 3 days supine

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 5d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 3d

if you stay out past your bedtime you will need a lot of time to recover

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 5d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 3d

yes, and
I've been trying (and so far failing) to formulate some thoughts on autism in the age of AI, bc I think autistic forms of relationality w the nonhuman have the potential to be *opposed* to the fascist kind of object-relationality described in this skeet

Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 3d

Empathy limited to objects that can be *imagined* as subjects but that won't actually confront you as subjects is an essential aspect that ties a lot of fascist and fascism-adjacent projects together, imho. Animals, robots, unborn children, even the anti-feminist imagination of women, etc

your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 3d

remember how Caroline Ellison, formerly of FTX and now of jail, was a Effective Altruist deeply concerned about the suffering of wild fish and *also* such an extreme race scientist she theorised about the genetic basis of Indian castes

rationalists, man

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　　　the　　　 ghostes @rem.bsjky.team · Oct 5

im friends witg a marxist who frequently messages me just like, absolute walls of text, and im like Babe please, im an anarchist i canott read that many words in a row

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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 5d

youtu.be/zsEUcRHlS0w?...

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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 6d

It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me. Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 6d

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

geoffrey, 💀 mode @parsnip.bsky.social · 6d

why is sentence two in every story not "congress has not authorized the use of military force"

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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 7d

carbo-loading and hyper-hydrating

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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 7d

Carbo-loading is the best way to prep for Yom Kippur right?? 😅

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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 7d

the number of times I STILL type "relgion"...

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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 8d

I'm not much of a photographer but every once in a while fate gifts me with a great shot

A very cute corgi standing at the top of the steps outside a bodega, leash extended in one direction, head turned in the other

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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 8d

I have another chapter in a wildly expensive academic book you should ask your library to get! The Palgrave Handbook of Queer and Trans Studies in Religion, available now link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

The Palgrave Handbook of Queer and Trans Studies in Religion

This handbook offers a unique, high-quality resource for exploring queer and trans studies in religion, guiding readers through new insights

link.springer.com

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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 9d

it's hilarious to see kids romanticizing the Y2K era, aka a time I spent romanticizing the 1970s due to how bad the Y2K era sucked. like, at least the 70s had good music!

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