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Laura Garrison
@pickleboots.bsky.social
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Laura Garrison @pickleboots.bsky.social · Sep 10
Inspired to make this after taking an infuriating survey about how I use genAI at work, WHICH I EXTREMELY DON’T.
cut-paper art: purple background, bright letters reading MAKE ART, NOT SLOP with the letters of “slop” floating in a puddle of orange barf spewed from a robot
pickleboots.bsky.social
Slightly diminish a band.

Tom Petty and the Heartchippers
kablackquois.bsky.social Aaron Kablack @kablackquois.bsky.social · 8d
Bruce Springsteen and the E-flat Street Band
scottyramone.bsky.social Intellectual Homer Simpson @scottyramone.bsky.social · 8d
Slightly diminish a band.

Pretty Spicy Chili Peppers
January 10, 2026 at 2:25 PM
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The view from my desk—I looked up and saw a cardinal, but not soon enough . . .
#WorstBirdPic
#PhotoFailFriday
a cardinal flying away from the top of a dogwood tree
January 2, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Reposted by Laura Garrison
onslies.bsky.social
31 December 1995. Still the perfect goodbye.
The final Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. The entire page is mostly white as they're in the winter snow. The pair is walking with a sledge, nicely duffled in in scarves, hats, gloves. Calvin delightedly exclaims 'wow, it really snowed las night! Isn't it wonderful?'. Hobbes follows up with 'Everything familiar has disappeared! The world looks brand-new!' -- A new year... a fresh, clean start!' adds Calvin. As they look over the landscape, Hobbes observes 'it's like having a big white sheet of paper to draw on!' -- 'A day full of possibilities!' Calvin affirms. They get ready on their sledge and Calvin tells his friend 'it's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy... let's go exploring!', and the pair sledges off into the wintery landscape.
December 31, 2024 at 12:21 PM
pickleboots.bsky.social
This is what being married to me is like.
screenshot of text chat; Justin’s message reads “I don’t know if you could hear me, but the clothes should be done in about 15 minutes. Would you be able to fold them?” My reply is a meme of the Swedish Chef from The Muppets captioned “NURT TE VURRY / I FURLDED DE CLURRS!”
December 27, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Issue 130 is hatched and wriggling! New stories and poems! www.jerseydevilpress.com?page_id=9117
Issue 130, October 2025
Read the pdf People Eater, Nicholas Alti”You want to go blow for blow? What kindof sexy threat is that? Don’t hurt me! Harm me.” haiku, Randy Brooks”dishwater handsfingering out a…
www.jerseydevilpress.com
December 17, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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mikexnichols.bsky.social
This is Spinal Tap. “It really puts perspective on things, though, doesn’t it?” “Yeah, too much. There’s too much fucking perspective now.”
December 15, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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Artist! Quote with your most detailed art!
construction-paper art of Mothra; green sky, pink full moon, night cityscape in the background
December 15, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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yazagames.com
We can’t afford a $1M trailer slot 😔

But reposts on Bluesky cost $0 - and they really help tiny teams like ours ❤️

If cozy medieval creativity is your thing, here’s our Scriptorium trailer!
December 11, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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One of the few aesthetic delights reserved for extremely nearsighted folk is gazing at a well-lit Christmas tree with one’s glasses off.
December 10, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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DRACULA (Bram Stoker)
REBECCA (Daphne du Maurier)
CHARLOTTE’S WEB (E. B. White)
ARISTOTLE AND DANTE DISCOVER THE SECRETS OF THE UNIVERSE (Benjamin Alire Sáenz)
(oops; that’s four)
December 10, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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Lolita
On the Waterfront
Inception
December 9, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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You will be visited by three spirits.
Danny DeVito, Anne Ramsey, and Billy Crystal in THROW MOMMA FROM THE TRAIN (1987)
December 9, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come
December 9, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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My kid: Aren’t you a teacher?

Me: Yeah, but I don’t teach math; I teach English.

My other kid: I thought you taught creative wiping?
December 9, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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from Naomi Shihab Nye, “Valentine for Ernest Mann”
Once I knew a man who gave his wife two skunks for a valentine. He couldn't understand why she was crying. "I thought they had such beautiful eyes." And he was serious. He was a serious man who lived in a serious way. Nothing was ugly just because the world said so. He really liked those skunks. So, he re-invented them as valentines and they became beautiful. At least, to him. And the poems that had been hiding in the eyes of skunks for centuries crawled out and curled up at his feet.
December 7, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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How do we feel about holiday horror films? Any favorites? #scriptchat
jeannevb.bsky.social Jeanne Veillette Bowerman @jeannevb.bsky.social · Dec 6
It's #SCRIPTCHAT O'CLOCK!

Let the holiday films games begin ... #scriptsky
jeannevb.bsky.social Jeanne Veillette Bowerman @jeannevb.bsky.social · Dec 6
There's been a request for a #scriptchat topic tonight of Holiday Movies. I think @leahfromsd.bsky.social requested, but my memory is crap, so who knows.

See you at 5pm PT (8pm ET)

#scriptsky
December 6, 2025 at 1:19 AM
pickleboots.bsky.social
Me begging the Great Old Ones for a snow day when I forgot to study for a big test.
A partially deflated snowman lawn decoration reclines among some green shrubs, stubby twig arms upraised imploringly, carrot nose pointed toward the heavens like a cathedral spire.
December 3, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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There’s no street like Elm.
Slightly blurry selfie with a wax figure of Freddy Krueger. There’s a suggestion of a boiler room in the background. We are both smiling, but he is gazing off past me to something off camera.
November 29, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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courtneymilan.com
I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.
November 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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My 7yo just pointed out the “portal potty” for a renovation project down the street, so there’s a free story idea for someone.
November 3, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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coreybrickley.bsky.social
happy halloween 👻👻👻
scene from x2 where magneto bitchily says We love What youve done with your hair, to an outraged rogue, being held back by ice man. magneto makes a lil stinker face while mystique laughs Dr Victor Frankenstein (peter cushing version) says We Love What You've Done With Your Hair The bride of frankenstein looks shocked, being comforted by Frankensteins monster Victor Frankenstein smiles coyly while egor from young frankenstein laughs
October 31, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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So excited for this one. 🐦‍⬛
Poster for Author Studies course with green-tinted photo of EAP in background with “enchanted garden enthusiast,” “mercurial languisher,” and “s-tier poet” in black bars across his face, with the letters spelling Edgar Allan Poe capitalized and the rest in lowercase.
October 24, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Found the perfect sticker for my new travel mug.
navy travel mug with body-horror jellyfish creature sticker on it
October 20, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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This set of lunch notes brought to you by Ed Emberly and my incredible wit.
five simple marker drawings of unicorns and unicorn-adjacent equine variants (moonicorn, spoonicorn, balloonicorn, cornicorn)
October 17, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Delighted with this order from @lydiajeanart.bsky.social—and the bonus Halloween postcard and vinyl stickers were a fun surprise!
colorful postcards, sticky notes, and stickers arranged with some books on a desktop; many feature creepy-cute stylized cryptids, including Mothman and Bigfoot
October 7, 2025 at 12:27 PM