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Dinosaur Dracula 🦖🧛 @dinosaurdracula.bsky.social · 1d

The greatest thing I own or will ever own is this old retail standee where Dracula casually reveals a coffin full of Doritos and Pepsi.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 2d

a friend just texted me to say she’d found our favorite piece of journalism of the 2010s in the Gawker archives and I must reiterate - as I have said on here before - that I do believe this is where the internet peaked on March 20 2014 and it has all been downhill from there

The Best Restaurant in New York Is The American Girl Café

There are a bunch of restaurants in the world, including some in New York City. But in a city of over 24,000 restaurants, how do you find the best? You begin your search in places that are already pop...

www.gawkerarchives.com

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 5d

"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 7d

slightly ominous mailer from the Red Cross

Mailer that reads: Molly, Seasons may change, but the need for blood is constant.

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 8d

And now for today's good news ... a wonderful librarian now has a full time job getting people excited about books. All kinds of books. Even the diverse ones that the government doesn't want you to read.

Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 9d

OMG! Mychal did it. Anyone who first caught this wonderful human gaining an audience on TikTok knew there was something special happening. What an incredible journey and story. Promoting reading and libraries is so damn important right now, and I can't think of a better ambassador.

Reading Rainbow Returns With New Host and Celebrity Guest Stars

Reading Rainbow is back after almost 20 years! The beloved children's TV program — which ran for 26 years before wrapping in 2006 — is celebrated for fostering childhood reading and literacy.

people.com

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Reebs @reebsonstage.bsky.social · 8d

I appreciate your vote against the CR, but after watching everything that this fascist administration has done, how can you truly believe that any of them will "negotiate" in good faith? We need you to fight for the most vulnerable among us, not continue this futile "bipartisan" pipe dream.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 9d

"When you interrupted my story with a story about yourself, I was so, so glad."

Texts You Should Send Me After We Hang Out

Hey, thanks so much for coming tonight. I’ve just checked with everyone else at the party, and we’re all in agreement that you behaved really norma...

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Reebs @reebsonstage.bsky.social · 11d

The cast of Saved! looks a lot different than I remember.

A TV screen showing the description for the movie Saved! but with an accompanying photo of the cast of Saved by the Bell: Hawaiian Style.

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Cass Morris @cassmorriswrites.com · 12d

I have no need for genAI. It would improve nothing in my life. It wouldn't save me time. I could not trust any text it assembled. It cannot research. It cannot write like I do. It cannot create like I do.

It cannot justify its existence or its expense.

It is not inevitable. It is not unavoidable.

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Reebs @reebsonstage.bsky.social · 13d

Shit yes, Calgon take me away

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Reebs @reebsonstage.bsky.social · 14d

Happily! It's the most wonderful time of the year.

A wooden china cabinet decorated with pumpkins, a skull, leaves, and candles

Wooden shelving with various Halloween decorations

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Reebs @reebsonstage.bsky.social · 17d

What movie do you consider "perfect"?

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 20d

"Right now, the most important thing is for us to come together as Americans and stop listening to those voices who would push us apart. That is why asking me to stop beating you with this sock full of quarters will only further divide our nation."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ask...

Asking Me to Stop Beating You with This Sock Full of Quarters Will Only Further Divide Our Nation

The social bonds that hold us together are fraying, and sadly, many of our citizens no longer trust the institutions that govern us. Right now, the...

www.mcsweeneys.net

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 21d

Back when I was in college and wrote for the school newspaper I wrote a whole thing about the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which eliminated media ownership restrictions, and how that was going to fuck us over forever and people were like "Dan, I dunno this is an art school," well eat shit fuckos.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 21d

You know what can do this shit right now and you can’t blame WiFi for? A fuckin cookbook lol, maybe invent a book

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 21d

It is the job of the Democratic party to sell and defend the policies that most Democratic voters want, not to present a candidate slate that is palatable to moderate Republicans who might switch if they hate their own candidate enough.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 21d

You want to be alive, but they want you dead. We’re a new, well, funded democratic group that thinks you can meet them halfway.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 23d

What's being "protected" is not "free speech" but rather the RIGHT for white men to be white supremacists in public without any criticism or any consequences. I hope that's clear.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 25d

Debate is a hobby.

It’s not a thing you do to understand another person.

Listening is a thing you do to understand someone.

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Nikita Gill @nikitagill.bsky.social · 26d

Conservative white men are not used to actually being the victim of violence which is why we are seeing such a massive fear reaction from the Right disguised as “where is your EMPATHY, perform it for me RIGHT NOW!”

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 27d

update: male loneliness epidemic solved

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 27d

Let me tell you something….

Cool ranch Doritos?????

An experience

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Reebs @reebsonstage.bsky.social · Sep 5

When did "unleash" become the go-to buzzword for government officials/statements (particularly the GOP)? Talking-point-ass corporate jargon bullshit.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · Sep 4

Wife: I'll buy a subscription to any publication that writes one honest story about the "masculinity crisis" that just says "Men want to be able to treat women like shit and still get laid" and just be done with it. There's no more depth to the discussion. There is no nuance.

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ceej @ceej.online · Sep 3

wrapped in chains, howling in the basement as my crying wife presses her body against the door to prevent me from leaving the house to buy another shacket

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