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they/them | 30 | no gender, only wife | tx (not ok) lots of politics posting, cat photos, shitposting also at mastodon.social/@okiedotgay pfp credit: https://picrew.me/image_maker/38011

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spookie @okie.gay · Jan 21

pinning this list of goals for myself for accountability

spookie @okie.gay · Jan 21

More time in community with other queer (esp trans) people
Limiting social media usage for mental health + to actionable items
Consistently being a squeaky wheel for local legislation
Giving and mutual aid, including more small actions

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spookie @okie.gay · 28m

it is a treat!!!

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spookie @okie.gay · 37m

truly nothing greater than the high of getting an A on a paper that you pulled an all-nighter for after the professor saying on the first day "you can't just pull an all-nighter and expect to get a good grade in my class"

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 4h

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 6h

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 8h

Dolly Parton called a press conference to clarify formally that no weapon formed against her will prosper

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ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 4h

Wow.

Alan Fossler @alanfossler.bsky.social · 5h

Metro to remove pride crosswalk after Abbott threatens to withhold funding from Texas cities www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/tex...

Metro to remove pride crosswalk after Abbott threatens to withhold funding

He threatened to withhold road funding from cities and counties if they do not remove “political ideologies” from their streets.

www.houstonchronicle.com

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spookie @okie.gay · 4h

sharknado mtg deck actually goes hard

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Ronnie Chen @ronnieftw.bsky.social · 1d

every recipe can be a one bowl recipe if you're not a coward

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spookie @okie.gay · 10h

it’s very funny when my manager introduces me with my extremely stereotypically feminine government name and then people look over at my little window and are visibly surprised to see A Queer waving to them 😂

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 16h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 17h

JUST IN: The Republican Mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska’s second biggest city, lost re-election last night to a Democrat.

Mayor David Pruhs is a conservative who fought protections for LGBTQ+ residents; he made comments this year drew condemnation this year from Alaska Natives. He lost to Mindy O'Neall.

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ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 1d

Man, if you're going to share a screenshot of the story and a screenshot of an X post of someone else sharing the story, just share the fucking link! wacobridge.org/2025/10/06/d...

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spookie @okie.gay · 1d

I made some offhand comment about “no worries, I’ve already been delayed over a day, one more delay won’t kill me” and he looked me dead in the eyes and said “no. I’m getting you on that plane.” and then he fucking did!

spookie @okie.gay · 1d

I will never forget the AA agent in the Chicago airport who, upon seeing an extremely exhausted me having issues with my ticket, made it his personal mission to get me on the next available flight home and made multiple calls to make it happen

Bless that man

Nome @nome.bsky.social · 1d

16) Airports have a lot of rules and overlapping systems - and because so much of it is managed by people, everyone who works in the airport has (within their limited authority) broad latitude to make your life easier if you're visibly stressed or in need of help.

Just treat them kindly.

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 2d

“where’s the whale? did he get the whale yet?”

lindsey adler @lindseyadler.bsky.social · 2d

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a wicked and unusual boy @myrrlyn.net · 1d

every day i go in to the office and collaborate with a graphical UI designer and every time he says he’s updated figma for me i do not say “figma balls” back at him. i would like a fifty thousand dollar bonus for this effort please

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flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 1d

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Maja Öberg @majaoeberg.bsky.social · 2d

I do find it hilarious how they immediately backtracked after this and deleted the comment

a member of bluesky saying "Yeh" in response to the above post, with a journalist responding asking to get their exact quote over the thread in which the bluesky member responds with "what" and the journalist then rephrasing the question only for the bluesky member to delete the entire thread

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CNN @cnn.com · 2d

Famed primatologist Jane Goodall gave an interview on Netflix's show "Famous Last Words" that would only be released after her death. Goodall shared some candid words about world leaders.