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allidrawscomics.bsky.social
I try to focus on posting about art and comics and not my complaints about the state of everything but GOOD GRIEF
December 17, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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regretteruane.bsky.social
Merry Christmas to the two high vis clad lads sitting in their work van, blasting Wonderful Christmas time & passing a whole huge panettone back & forth, taking bites out of it as if it was a big burger
December 21, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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cryptotheism.bsky.social
Pervert is my favorite word. Layered and eminently useful. So many important things are deviant, impassioned, and libidinal. Salacious mouthfeel, purr-able alveolars and fricatives with a stop you can spit.
August 26, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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smartypantsshow.bsky.social
Should you kiss your homie?
June 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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catbus.phd
'Small Horned Owl on Maple Branch under Full Moon' (1832)
Utagawa Hiroshige
woodblock print of an owl perched on a branch under the full moon
June 5, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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edstede.bsky.social
June 2, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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sarahjen.bsky.social
hotel room service but they bring you a small cat to snuggle with
April 23, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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thisone0verhere.bsky.social
BEING INVITED TO NOTHING: I'm ever so lonely and nobody cares about me at all

BEING INVITED TO ONE THING: omg it never ends with these people
April 22, 2025 at 12:21 PM
weirdwonderful.bsky.social
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In Space, No One Can Hear You Girlboss
Strapped in next to Gayle King and an all-women crew aboard Jeff Bezos’ rocket, the pop star set a record for the most feminist publicity stunt in history as she smashed through the glass ceiling of E...
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April 15, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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nameshiv.bsky.social
about 90% of culture war grievances is literally just people with nothing happening in their lives getting mad that other people are not as unhappy as they are
nameshiv.bsky.social Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · Apr 14
the pronoun thing is so incredibly stupid at so many levels, imagine knowing that you live a life so devoid of anything interesting that you have time to sit around steaming at what someone else put in their bio, like why would you ever confess this in public
michaelhobbes.bsky.social Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · Apr 13
If I were an editor at a prestigious national publication I would simply ask writers to define what they mean by words like "forced"
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
April 14, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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sararubin.bsky.social
ghost files is nominated for a webby!!!!! please vote for my husband and his scared crying friend <3 vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting...
Vote for the best of the internet
I just voted in The Webby People's Voice Awards and checked my voter registration.
vote.webbyawards.com
April 1, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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ao3struggles.bsky.social
Hot single men DOOMED BY THE NARRATIVE in YOUR area
March 21, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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anarchygoose.bsky.social
The desexualisation of media (everyone is beautiful, and no one is horny) combined with an increasing hysteria around the 'pointlessness' of sex scenes is a key part of the fascistization of western culture and if we're going to fight back we're going to need to make it normal to be horny again.
March 6, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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timosborne.ca
There is a beaver hidden somewhere in this photo. See if you can find it despite its amazing camouflage. 😂 #wildlife
A beaver in the water with a piece of ice on his head. He is not hard to find.
February 10, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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puddleofbrain.bsky.social
Touch grass. Now touch stone. Now touch water. Now spill blood inside the glyph. Now light the brazier
January 30, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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geohenning.bsky.social
Happy 5th "Large boulder the size of a small boulder" anniversary! #Geology ⚒️
Twitter post screenshot of the San Miguel Sheriff account. 5 years ago they posted about a boulder on the road but referred to it as "Large boulder the size of a small boulder".
January 27, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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vexwerewolf.bsky.social
Look there's a LOT wrong with sci-fi and fantasy books from the 80s and early 90s but those authors would find the thirstiest, most shameless sicko imaginable and pay him $5000 to draw the horniest, most extravagant cover art you've ever seen in your life and we need to go back to those days
bookspotlight.bsky.social Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · Jan 11
STOP USING AI FOR YOUR BOOKS IT LOOKS LIKE CRAP
STOP USING AI FOR YOUR BOOKS IT LOOKS LIKE CRAP
STOP USING AI FOR YOUR BOOKS IT LOOKS LIKE CRAP
STOP USING AI FOR YOUR BOOKS IT LOOKS LIKE CRAP
STOP USING AI FOR YOUR BOOKS IT LOOKS LIKE CRAP
STOP USING AI FOR YOUR BOOKS IT LOOKS LIKE CRAP
January 11, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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rhodri.biz
1/ So, where were we? Oh yep, #duvetknowitschristmas. Firstly, some admin: Twitter/X has evidently been run into the ground by a preening, self-radicalised clot, so while there's a slim possibility that this annual celebration might be thriving over there, I won't know cos I won't be looking.
December 24, 2024 at 7:32 PM
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samreich.bsky.social
of all the nice press about dropout this ranks among the most meaningful 🥰 www.slashfilm.com/1739679/dro...
A screenshot of an article from SlashFilm entitled "Dropout was the best streaming service of 2024, and it's not even close." The snippet from the article reads: Meanwhile, Dropout's audience has continued to grow, clips of its shows go viral on social media every day, and its flagship show — and I cannot stress this enough — sold out Madison Square f***ing Garden(!!!), something that the current president-elect failed to do. And they did it all by staying true to their vision of making art that reflects the future we all deserve. One that rewards intelligence and kind-natured fun, stresses the importance of community building, and understands the life-altering power of a good sense of humor. Dropout is inclusive and innovative, the phoenix has triumphantly risen from the ashes of CollegeHumor ... and it's only $5.99 a month."
December 18, 2024 at 6:00 PM
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catsofyore.bsky.social
“Mary, posed by a small Christmas tree.” Ca. 1935. www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Imag...
Colorized photo of an adorable longhaired ginger cat sitting next to a small christmas tree on a table. The tree has red ribbons and other garlands strung about it and a gold ball ornament and mouse toy sits on the table next to the cat and the tree.
December 14, 2024 at 10:51 PM
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priscillapage.bsky.social
Raymond Chandler on what people really care about in a story
"A long time ago, when I was writing for the pulps I put into a story a line like ‘he got out of the car and walked across the sun-drenched sidewalk until the shadow of the awning over the entrance fell across his face like the touch of cool water.’ They took it out when they published the story. Their readers didn’t appreciate this sort of thing: just held up the action. And I set out to prove them wrong. My theory was that they just thought they cared nothing about anything but the action; that really, although they didn’t know it, they cared very little about the action. The things they really cared about, and that I cared about, were the creation of emotion through dialogue and description; the things they remembered, that haunted them, were not for example that a man got killed, but that in the moment of death he was trying to pick a paper clip up off the polished surface of a desk, and it kept slipping away from him, so that there was a look of strain on his face and his mouth was half opened in a kind of tormented grin, and the last thing in the world he thought about was death. He didn’t even" "hear death knock on the door. That damn paper clip kept slipping away from his fingers and he just wouldn’t push it to the edge of the desk and catch it as it fell."
December 7, 2024 at 2:12 AM
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felassan.bsky.social
dragon aaaaaage
August 10, 2024 at 5:58 PM
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kalaelizabeth.bsky.social
Mass Effect Legendary Edition is less than 5 dollars on steam. If you haven't played the greatest trilogy ever created, now is the time! #MassEffect
November 28, 2024 at 5:37 PM
weirdwonderful.bsky.social
November 27, 2024 at 10:44 AM
weirdwonderful.bsky.social
Finally, I've got the answer: write.as/alymarkland
weirdwonderful.bsky.social Aly @weirdwonderful.bsky.social · Dec 30
Jury's out on where my original writing ends up now I've deleted my Substack.
March 17, 2024 at 12:05 PM