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Grem, of 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐏 🔜 MCAtlanta! @gremlin.world · 2d

I will never not repost this

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Cookie Monster—inspired generations of death metal vocalists and also Tom Waits

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👻Them Dawgs Is Spooky Don’t They?🎃 @shorterexcerpts.bsky.social · 2h

Georgia’s own Nessie, the Altamaha-Ha River monster

Illustration of Altamaha-Ha, a plesiosaur like creature with a whale tail

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 21h

One of the fundamental truths we need to acknowledge in this moment is that domestic violence is where fascists learned how to get away with their violence.

“What did you do to provoke him?” is exactly what victims hear when they try to seek help in an abusive relationship.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 22h

Y'all who keep lecturing protesters to "not give them an excuse" need to pause for a minute. Imagine yourself telling a DV victim, "Be sure not to mouth off or make any mistakes so he won't hit you. Don't give him an excuse! It's what he wants!" That's what you fools sound like.

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👻Them Dawgs Is Spooky Don’t They?🎃 @shorterexcerpts.bsky.social · 2h

Bed trebuchet?

Mattress store base propped open to look like the bed is a trebuchet

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 2d

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

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madison! @madepn.bsky.social · 1d

here is my first rendering of the bread scale of triviality (any suggestions welcome; I love thinking about bread)

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 19h

As someone who worked there, the reason CAP isn't trying is because they're not a liberal Heritage Foundation devoted to generational furtherment of liberal ideals. They were a 501c3 dedicated to making Hillary Clinton and possibly her daughter president and they catastrophically failed at it

Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 19h

The very well funded Center for American Progress has been in operation since 2004. The Democrats do not have “nothing” they’re just not trying.

LouFromBoston @loufromboston.bsky.social · 19h

The Republicans have a very well organized think-tank (Heritage Foundation) for strategizing and coordination of messaging. They control what we are seeing day to day.

The Democrats have nothing. No sense of leadership, no direction, no messaging. We need a think-tank asap!!

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 19h

Move over “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, there’s a new three word phrase in the zeitgeist

Alex Zielinski @alexzee.bsky.social · 19h

Apropos of nothing, Sec. Kristi Noem is currently praying over Burgerville with Portland ICE officials.

A screenshot of a video of Noem praying at a conference table with other people wearing suits. Fast food bags and water bottles sit on the table.

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👻Them Dawgs Is Spooky Don’t They?🎃 @shorterexcerpts.bsky.social · 20h

On the plus side it’s far better to find things like this out before you’re on an actual date (when the “moderate” states that she thinks society would be better if women “weren’t allowed to work anymore.”)

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Corinne Green @ket.bsky.social · 22h

this is a very well-reported piece and if you didn't read it last year please read it this year

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

First they tried to "cure" gayness. Now they're fixated on "healing" trans people.

Inside the movement to resurrect conversion therapy.

www.motherjones.com

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👻Them Dawgs Is Spooky Don’t They?🎃 @shorterexcerpts.bsky.social · 21h

If we’re keeping it at the same school, Eason was a higher rated HS QB than Matt Stafford

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Aieee-Iain Clark @iainjclarkart.com · 1d

Part of Russell T Davies' speech on being awarded Outstanding Contribution to Television at the Bafta Cymru awards. (via www.instagram.com/baftacymru)

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Alan Siegel @alansiegella.bsky.social · 23h

If you need a Simpsons fix, the great @bookshop.org has free shipping today and tomorrow. bookshop.org/p/books/stup...

Stupid Tv, Be More Funny: How the Golden Era of the Simpsons Changed Television-And America-Forever

How the Golden Era of the Simpsons Changed Television-And America-Forever

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👻Them Dawgs Is Spooky Don’t They?🎃 @shorterexcerpts.bsky.social · 23h

Gunship - “Taste Like Venom”
Porcupine Tree - “Trains”
Marillion - “Ocean Cloud”
Stateless - “Bloodstream”
Hiatus Kaiyote - “Shaolin Monk Motherfunk”

Taylor Nichols, MD FACEP @tnicholsmd.com · 1d

What is a song that likely doesn't make anyone's top lists, but that you think is a perfect song, or absolutely beautiful, or that you could listen to on repeat?

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👻Them Dawgs Is Spooky Don’t They?🎃 @shorterexcerpts.bsky.social · 1d

Now that’s a nice TT

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👻Them Dawgs Is Spooky Don’t They?🎃 @shorterexcerpts.bsky.social · 1d

Should probably remind National Guard folks facing deployment to a US city that it’s looking quite likely they won’t get paid

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 1d

Typically, federal government shutdowns don't have much macroeconomic impact because all the workers receive backpay after they return. If they never get paid at all, that changes things quite a bit. www.axios.com/2025/10/07/t...

Scoop: White House memo says furloughed federal workers aren't entitled to backpay

A move to deny backpay to up to 750,000 furloughed workers would dramatically escalate Trump's pressure on Democrats to end the shutdown.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 1d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 1d

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My liver is probably still recovering from 2002

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 1d

how your email finds me

Benjamin Solak @benjaminsolak.bsky.social · 1d

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👻Them Dawgs Is Spooky Don’t They?🎃 @shorterexcerpts.bsky.social · 1d

a man in a number 5 jersey is dancing in front of a speaker with the words come on jaguars written above him

ALT: a man in a number 5 jersey is dancing in front of a speaker with the words come on jaguars written above him

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DAVE! (like "Them!" but Dave) @daveexmachina.bsky.social · 2d

normal person: i just want a place to hang out with my friends
tech weirdo: and shitheads
np: no just my friends
tw: but what about hearing alternative views on race and gender?
np: we just want to hang out and goof around
tw: so where do the shitheads fit in then
np: no shitheads
tw: not following

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👻Them Dawgs Is Spooky Don’t They?🎃 @shorterexcerpts.bsky.social · 1d

This is the one area where I think robots (via traffic cameras) should take over. 76 in a 65 resulting in a ticket for everyone doing it and no cops pulling anyone over? Hell yeah I’m for it.

𝓂𝓈. 𝓅𝒶𝓉𝒽 @semiopath.bsky.social · 1d

i think an interesting cultural experiment would be if we started enforcing traffic law

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Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 1d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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