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HerRoyalBOO👻bies

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A walking study in demonology. Engineer. Cinephile. Astrophotographer. Anarchist. Infosec. Powerlifter. Horror Enthusiast. Screenwriter. Pug mother. Can leg press an adult bull moose. Jeff VanderMeer stan. She/Her

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HerRoyalBOO👻bies @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · Aug 29

A TENDER HEART - Annette suffers from dissociative amnesia and unfortunately for her charming Tinder date, who has his own nefarious intentions, she’s starting to solve the puzzle of her past.

→ She sits on the fleor, hands in her lap as it looms before her like a womb; dark and tepic
Something drips onto the pale yellow linoleum tile as the Annette sits in a trancelike state
fingers twitching.
"Did you eat it?" Her mother's voice is panicked, she shakes Annette until her teeth rattle. Her mother had been preparing rabbit stew, and had asked Annette to chop vegetables when it happened.
Annette had been chopping carrots when her fingers had started to tingle as if she'd
stuck a fork into an electrical outlet. The spasms were subtle at first, but as the scent of the roasting rabbit intensified, her vision blurred, and the buzzing from the barn returned, filling her mind with static like her body was stuck in an in-between place, where something angry and wild writhed beneath her skin, desperate to be free. If she just relented control, if she just relaxed her grip on the knife, and let her body melt, meld, fall apart and reform..
Annette was jerked back to reality by her mother's palm cracking across her cheek. Her mother, her gentle, sweet mother, was on her knees in front of Annette, wild-eyed and sobbing, begging Annette to come back to her; as if she were a vapour instead of a twelve year old girl.
"What happened?" Annette asked dazed, her gaze unfocused, body limp as if she'd run
a marathon. Her's mother's resounding silence permeated the room like a thick smoke, filling even the smallest cracks and crevices with nothingness.
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Later that night when Annette is in bed, her heart races as she recalls the tantalizing
scent of the roasting rabbit simmering in broth, and a wave of adrenaline washes over her so intense that she swoons. Taking a deep breath, her vision blurs as she tries to focus on the tiny imperfections on her bedroom ceiling; the little divots, a yellowing water stain, a long abandoned spider's web.
Her mother hadn't answered her earlier in the kitchen, but it was clear by the guilty silence that followed her question that she knew what wa…

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HerRoyalBOO👻bies @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 44m

Hoka lost my new runners and now I have to deal with their support team which I’m certain is AI

a woman in a white shirt is making a funny face with her mouth open .

Alt: a woman in a white shirt is making a funny face with her mouth open .

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HerRoyalBOO👻bies @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 55m

Charlie is the best can confirm!

The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 59m

37/ Shout-out to @filmsonwax.bsky.social

Firstly, because he is my go-to source for movie soundtrack analysis, but also because he is one of the nicest people I have met through the internet. 🖖

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HerRoyalBOO👻bies @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 1h

It FELT like a dream!

HerRoyalBOO👻bies @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 1h

💯

HerRoyalBOO👻bies @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 1h

This show was divine.

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HerRoyalBOO👻bies @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 1h

Thinking about Channel Zero: Butcher’s Block

A person standing before a white staircase in the middle of an open field.

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Toya 🚀🔭 @astrotoya.bsky.social · 2h

Well… my bank has shutdown my checking account because I was $-1,144 and I couldn’t cover it. I want to cry.

If anyone can help, I need it and I’d be so grateful.

I was raped in July, lost a pregnancy and my job.

My v e n m o is : @astrotoya
My c a s h a p p : $astrotoya
or PayPal.me/toyamck

Toya 🚀🔭 @astrotoya.bsky.social · 21h

Hi everyone.

As yall know, I went through a traumatic rape in July. My rapist lives 2 streets over and though I have a PFA, I still feel unsafe.

Please donate if you can to help me move.

gofund.me/a7cefdeba

Donate to Help Shytoya McKinney Find a Safe New Home, organized by Toya McKinney

Hi everyone, My name is Shytoya McKinney. I’m from Alabama and on Jul… Toya McKinney needs your support for Help Shytoya McKinney Find a Safe New Home

gofund.me

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HerRoyalBOO👻bies @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 1h

This breed of man should be hunted for sport.

Andrew R @excelpope.net · 3h

See yer da’s got a new car.

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HerRoyalBOO👻bies @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 1h

Kristi Noem is like 70 pounds soaking wet just throw her out of Chicago like a lawn dart.

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HerRoyalBOO👻bies @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 1h

Just hang on to it until the movie ships lol

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HerRoyalBOO👻bies @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 2h

Slavery, as always, is the backbone of the United States.

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 3h

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

prospect.org

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HerRoyalBOO👻bies @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 2h

The Godzilla store shipped my toy separately from my Shin Godzilla collector’s edition 😪

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HerRoyalBOO👻bies @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 2h

The worst way!

HerRoyalBOO👻bies @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 2h

The AI “industry” is a giant circle jerk.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17h

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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HerRoyalBOO👻bies @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 13h

You have a police state.

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HerRoyalBOO👻bies @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 14h

My fat stupid baby 🥹

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HerRoyalBOO👻bies @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 14h

I booked a babysitter for Bean when I finish up my hand tattoos Thursday because apparently he HOWLED LIKE A WOLF IN MOURNING when I was gone.

Honestly I’d take him everywhere if I could.

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HerRoyalBOO👻bies @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 14h

MrBeast??? JARED LETO??? Now this???????

HerRoyalBOO👻bies @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 14h

What crossroads demon has Trent Reznor’s contract we need to free him from this mess

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 19h

Disney promoting AI slop posters at the ‘Tron Ares’ premiere

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HerRoyalBOO👻bies @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 15h

I just opened a dry cleaning account like a proper adult.

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HerRoyalBOO👻bies @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 17h

Rutger Hauer is the shit.

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HerRoyalBOO👻bies @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 17h

I gave this 5 stars on Letterboxd btw 👀

boxd.it/avXFN1

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HerRoyalBOO👻bies @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 17h

I hate Mark Carney but I’ve been in enough boardrooms to know what this is and this brand of bloviating works best on narcissists like Trump.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

"You are a transformative president" -- I regret to inform you that Mark Carney is kissing Trump's ass

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Lauri Donahue @lauridonahue.bsky.social · 21h

#scriptsky - this is well-worth applying to, IMHO.

blcklst.com/programs/202...

2026 Cassian Elwes Independent Screenwriting Fellowship at the Sundance Film Festival

-- all-expenses paid trip to the Sundance Film Festival accompanying producer Cassian Elwes.

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HerRoyalBOO👻bies @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 18h

Most of my career has been spent explaining very complex things to normal folk in terms they can understand. This is an accessibility issue imo and I think a lot of people in the tech community do shit like this to gatekeep 🫠

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 19h

Another problem is when tech people see normies misunderstanding tech things you to talk to us like we are a bunch of malicious idiots. When in fact we don’t have enough knowledge to parse what you are saying.

Less of vehemence against people who don’t speak your language would go a long way.

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 19h

It’s not a conspiracy, it’s that tech folks overestimate the tech knowledge of normies. What seems obvious and basic to people in tech is mysterious to the rest of us.

For example, much of what @bossett.social is saying here was gobbledygook to me until I started asking tons of questions

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