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The Late Rackletang 🪦🦇

@rackletang.bsky.social

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Big butter and egg woman. Burnt out. Neurofunky. Annoyingly political or annoyingly light-hearted. Everyone gets full human rights without exception or GTFO. Weenie was my sweet jerkface tabby.

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The Late Rackletang 🪦🦇 @rackletang.bsky.social · May 8

Hug your kitties while you can. RIP Weenie Bean 2011-2025

A fat brunette woman is cradling a beautiful tabby cat in her arms.

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The Late Rackletang 🪦🦇 @rackletang.bsky.social · 4h

Aaaaaaaaa please just invent teleportation and I can get my stuff and me to the various places we need to go!

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sky @iamspacegirl.bsky.social · Jun 11

the Lord is my shepherd, He shaves my entire body to make sweaters

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 11h

I’ve got a few more hours to make money tips to pay my water bill and my Internet bill to get them caught up so they don’t shut off

I am publishing journalism tomorrow too. For free —with no ads. I do every other Thursday

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Butcher Baker Citizen Kater @citizenkate.satan.social · 11h

Logging off

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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 13h

horror movie posters but with muppets: thread

Oscar the Grouch in the movie poster for Alien.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 11h

Incredibly alarming—after the whole ridiculous antifa roundtable at the White House, as Mark was moving with his family to Europe after threats…

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Saeed @saed-in-gaza.bsky.social · 23h

Hello, I'm Saeed from Gazan currently displaced with my family in Al-Mawasi Khan Younis. We urgently need your support to cover rent (500$) and food for the week (200$). Can we make it happen today?

Plz Donate via GoFoundMe:
gofund.me/a0a540b8

@mommunism.bsky.social
@slimyswampghost.bsky.social

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The Late Rackletang 🪦🦇 @rackletang.bsky.social · 14h

Seriously!

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Extinct Thing @flightless.bsky.social · 16h

Currently i have one small piece, Moon Box, in the “Women of the DMV” show, at McLean (Virginia) Project for the Arts. mpaart.org
Until Nov. 1.

Wooden box assemblage with pieces of rusty metal, bone, melted glass, etc.

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Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 19h

The flotilla carrying Jewish Currents reporter Emily Wilder has been captured by the Israeli military. Please contact Emily's senators and representatives—Adam Schiff, Alex Padilla, and Jimmy Gomez—and urge them to advocate for her safe release from Israeli detention

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KC @ixia.bsky.social · 18h

Also, the way to not "die on that hill" is to be united. These folks who want to jettison trans folks, immigrants, Black folks, etc. are so short sighted they think it'd be a victory to die a couple steps later, when choosing solidarity is actually choosing to not die at all

✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 19h

If you are willing to throw away entire groups of people to protect your insular strategy that will only protect you instead of protecting everyone then I don’t want your leaders and I sure as hell don’t want to be associated with you.

the tallest stone @talleststone.bsky.social · 21h

I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of trans rights. We can’t protect ANY groups if we can’t win a national election, so purity tests only serve to make specific groups feel triumphant. That’s not “erasing” them; it’s long-horizon strategy.

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Clayton Ashley @claytonashley.bsky.social · 22h

tumblr post by barackinaroundthechristmastree which reads:
please. stop praying for my grandpa!!!! you are making him too strong. he broke out of the hosptial and the cops cant get him. he's too powerful

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The Late Rackletang 🪦🦇 @rackletang.bsky.social · 18h

I'm always under this name, and if I'm not I'll make a note of it in my bio

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Bess Hamilton @besshamilton.bsky.social · 19h

All of us or none of us. I dont want people making decisions for the country of they're willing to sacrifice people for political expediency.

If these losers can't get there for selfless reasons, you'd think selfishly they'd grasp who's to say they won't be next to be on the altar of expediency?

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Misha Zahradník @mishazgreen.bsky.social · 19h

If you want your liberal ass politician voted for, they have to be unwilling to throw marginalized people away. That's the bare fucking minimum. And these parties are failing so bad at this in so many countries right now.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 22h

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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The Late Rackletang 🪦🦇 @rackletang.bsky.social · 1d

Fresno Nightcrawler

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️ @sophianyx.bsky.social · 1d

Name your Fav Cryptid.

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · 7d

October! Spooky fundraiser!

As we made last month's extreme goal (thank you, thank you,) we're caught up on bills and fees!

That means we can set a slightly more reasonable goal: 2500!

Art theme: Abstract Animals!

Paypal in bio, if you're European: bank info in the DMs!

A ginger cat in a found footage horror movie.

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The Late Rackletang 🪦🦇 @rackletang.bsky.social · 1d

"I believe you will find that the boat you require will be of enormous size"

The Late Rackletang 🪦🦇 @rackletang.bsky.social · 1d

I just find their vocal capacities fascinating, but I hear ya

The Late Rackletang 🪦🦇 @rackletang.bsky.social · 1d

I have a lot to do and a quickly shrinking amount of time to do it. But I have hit the wall tonight, so I'm gonna get into bed. I fell asleep to a YouTube video essay earlier and had a dream I was in the backseat of a car and the host was telling me the story from behind me in a wayback of some sort

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Gail Drakes @gaildrakes.bsky.social · 1d

Are you a non-Black person pissed at Bluesky leadership and feeling a little jealous of all the good vibes coming from Blacksky?

There are Blacksky adjacent options for you! Here’s info from the Blacksky migration guide!

docs.blacksky.community/migrating-to...

Screengrab from Blacksky migration guide:

blacksky algorithms

A Warning: Anyone else using a blacksky.app handle will receive a warning at first and then a suspension.

Alternative PDSs for Everyone
Blacksky Algorithms also operates two other
PDSs that are open to anyone:
• myatproto.social - Open to all
• cryptoanarchy.network - Open to all

These servers run on the same infrastructure as blacksky.app and are maintained by the same team, but are available for anyone to use regardless of background.

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The Late Rackletang 🪦🦇 @rackletang.bsky.social · 1d

Yup. I prefer a native species but they're all still cute to me.

(I admire European starlings too! Would intentionally rearrange land I owned to attract the locals, but without that I just appreciate what's in front of me)

The Late Rackletang 🪦🦇 @rackletang.bsky.social · 1d

How did I just this week see this picture of a brain eating amoeba? I'm tired, I reckon he can have it if he wants it, the little problematic looking photo negative juggalo

A black and white image of a brain eating amoeba from an electron microscope. It happens to be arranged in such a way that it resembles a cartoonish face with big white eyes and a big white smiling mouth.

The Late Rackletang 🪦🦇 @rackletang.bsky.social · 1d

Slug slug slug slug slug

1622mhb @1622marlene.bsky.social · 1d

#PacificNortwest 🇨🇦 #FungiFriends #Fungi
#Westcoast

Pacific Northwest forest trail scene. A dark grey slug is busy eating a white oyster mushroom from the top middle of the cap. The mushroom is part of a 7-cluster of oyster mushrooms, set against a bright green moss-covered tree stump.

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