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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 3d

And Quincy has a backstory of dealing with Vampiric bats in the Pampas, making Dracula the first Weird Western

s’more of babylon @smoreofbabylon.bsky.social · 21d

it’s so important, now more than ever, that we remember: there’s a cowboy with a big knife in Dracula, because Dracula takes place in cowboy times.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 9h

What do you mean "possible rise," dude is at the top of the pack. He is the literal pope

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 17h

As Pope Leo begins to reveal some of his views on divisive issues, some conservative critics of his predecessor are rejecting the possible rise of another “liberal pope.”

As Pope Leo riles conservatives, some say ‘just focus on the church’

Conservatives who hoped that Leo, the first U.S.-born pope, would be more of a traditionalist instead hear echoes of his predecessor, Francis, in his public statements.

www.washingtonpost.com

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jordan, but spooky 👻🦇🎃 @jbythekilowatt.bsky.social · 11h

😭😭 a straight woman marrying a bi man is not a lavender marriage omg

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Sharky 🦈 @sharky.bsky.social · 8h

They should tell him he won but then ship him a box of glitter.

Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 11h

The Guardian- The US president may impose tariffs, demand higher NATO contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says, if on Friday he is not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. www.theguardian.com/world/202...

Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize

US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says

www.theguardian.com

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 21h

A lot of the anxiety from those who still support groups like the ADL is that they want to live in a world where most Americans see Israel positively. And we don't live in that world anymore, and there is no policy shift short of a free Palestine that will cause us to live in that world.

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

Apropos absolutely nothing else there is still a rather rude awakening which is yet to come for those in the Democratic Party and in the camp of liberalism writ large if they think Israel's public image is at all recoverable among young and nonwhite voters and apparatchiks.

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Emily Zhou @emializh.bsky.social · 10h

us government: we are fascist

your roommate who just started vyvanse: hey man just letting you know I consolidated the coriander

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 8h

"No one today can say, ‘I did not know.'" #PopeLeoXIV www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

Pope: In this age of communication, nobody can say 'I did not know' - Vatican News

Addressing a global network of leading news agencies, Pope Leo thanks reporters who every day work to share the truth, often risking their lives. It ...

www.vaticannews.va

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gzt aka zoidberg @giziti.bsky.social · 8h

on the one hand, he's a Presbyterian and they don't get called "priests". On the other, "priest" is etymologically from "presbyter".

Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 10h

Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.

Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls while praying outside an ICE facility.

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 18h

1) every year we all get to vote on which classic story gets made into a muppet movie

2) every year you guys make that muppet movie

3) we will ALL go see every one of these

4) you will never not profit from this

5) why are we not doing things this way

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alexis @soyauntie.bsky.social · 12h

everyone should watch nova's human series. it can be very easy to feel pessimistic about us a species but we should all be reminded of the metal shit we're capable of outside of capitalism

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 12h

Discovered a new incredibly based medieval person

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tar-minyatur’s court twink ✵ @caranthirs.bsky.social · 12h

must’ve felt so good in the 18th century to scowl severely at another man and say “you forget yourself” and know he wants to suck you off so bad

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 2d

Highland cattle are famous for their ability to "disco nap". Normally these brief, efficient sleeps will last between three and twenty minutes, deploying a variety of objects as pillows, including moorland boulders, cars or any particularly large dog or sheep who happens to be nearby.

A highland cow having a little nap on a boulder on Dartmoor (ok, it was actually scratching its head)

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 15h

Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme

tweet from childish branzino @absflora:
timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 13h

“Trumped” in this usage is from the French “tromper” meaning to deceive, which also gives us Trompe-l'œil for all the artists out there.

Danny Cooper @dannycooper.bsky.social · 13h

Future generations are gonna be really confused about the etymology of “trumped-up charges”

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📚 r.e.a. / smols 🦇 @smolsdarklighter.bsky.social · 11h

(iirc, I stopped reading the fic either somewhere in part two or right after finishing part two, bc it was announced that it was getting pulled to publish, and I decided I'd rather read it that way).

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📚 r.e.a. / smols 🦇 @smolsdarklighter.bsky.social · 11h

SLY really managed to deepen and add to the shocking twists that existed in the fic draft.

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📚 r.e.a. / smols 🦇 @smolsdarklighter.bsky.social · 11h

Finished part two of Alchemised last night, and I think I'm gonna need a while 24 hours before I read part three.

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📚 r.e.a. / smols 🦇 @smolsdarklighter.bsky.social · 11h

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BlindManBaldwin @blindmanbaldwin.bsky.social · 13h

every story about trump going after every prominent black woman in government with "mortgage fraud" allegations must include the contextual information of his beginnings in business of racial discrimination in leasing. he doesn't think black people should have homes, or at least in "his" status.

Lincoln Journal Star @journalstar.com · 13h

A grand jury indicted New York Attorney General Letitia James on a fraud charge, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Thursday.

New York Attorney General Letitia James indicted on fraud charge, AP source says

A grand jury indicted New York Attorney General Letitia James on a fraud charge, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Thursday.

journalstar.com

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Word Art Online @r042.bsky.social · 2d

seeing the government once again tilt at literature study as worthless makes me particularly sad because from experience that is not purely a right wing economic populist position but an annoyingly prevalent "leftist" one from tediously online leftists who are mad they had to read a classic once

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Word Art Online @r042.bsky.social · 2d

I'm less worried about the right's open hostility to academic and philistinism and much more worried about some idiot who calls themselves progressive playing into their hands because they believe all literary degrees are PALE MALE AND STALE LITFIC hagiography without ever educating themselves

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Alex James Kane @alexjkane.bsky.social · 13h

How I’m trying to be

My dog Sam, 14, asleep on the floor. A Chihuahua–Yorkie mix in a checkered sweater.

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 16h

Funston Elementary School’s sense of safety was violated last Friday when a federal agent threw a tear gas canister from their vehicle across the street and the gas wafted over the school property, a teacher told reporters Thursday.

'Sanctuary' mission of Logan Square grade school tested by fed's use of tear gas, teacher says

Funston Elementary School's sense of safety was violated last Friday when a federal agent threw a tear gas canister from their vehicle across the street and the gas wafted over the school property, she told reporters.

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 16h

Perry asks whether the “petty acts of vandalism” including "slashed tires" and "keyed cars” is significant enough to impede the execution of federal laws even if it does not make it as “quick and easy” as they would like.

"Some of this frankly sounds like a Carrie Underwood song."

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