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Z H Challah esq., Cavalier of the 8th @challahchic.bsky.social · 5h

Babatha's first wife was named Jesus ben Jesus

Z H Challah esq., Cavalier of the 8th @challahchic.bsky.social · 4d

i need four ocs all named Babatha

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Z H Challah esq., Cavalier of the 8th @challahchic.bsky.social · 5h

Amaury Guichon X POPMART

3ft tall SkullPanda and Dimoo MEGA dolls with matching chocolate/candy sculpture and multi-component desserts

A skulpture of a pale woman with very exaggerated features in a yellow spacesuit covered with lines of cursive text and three dimensional sunflowers. her helmet has a protruding sphere on either side of her head.

A chubby boy figure with purple hair, wearing only swim trunks.there are butterflies in varying shades of purple and white alighting on him.

French pastry chef Amaury Guichon gesturing with a wide smile at a life-size, fully-realistic fire hydrant, which is pouring milk from one bolt

Context added: the hydrant is made of chocolate, but that is not clear in the photo

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 6h

Good heavens, I didn't know this fabulous video is on YouTube. It's lovely to see my friends and neighbours Brian and Wendy Froud when they were still so very young! I've spent the last year helping them with a new book (we're not allowed to reveal the subject yet), which will be out in autumn 2026.

Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 3d

"The World of the Dark Crystal" documentary (1983, 1 hour) is available for free on Youtube.
>> www.catsuka.com/breves/2025-...

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Z H Challah esq., Cavalier of the 8th @challahchic.bsky.social · 7h

One-family homes. Revolutionary, etc

Z H Challah esq., Cavalier of the 8th @challahchic.bsky.social · 7h

I hate that I fully understood

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Z H Challah esq., Cavalier of the 8th @challahchic.bsky.social · 7h

joss whedon ruined the name drusilla for me and i will not forgive him

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Z H Challah esq., Cavalier of the 8th @challahchic.bsky.social · 9h

Chan's gotta drop the OF link

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Himbo Beefcake, PhD 🔞💪 @jendrawscomics.bsky.social · 12h

I am going insane

Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 20h

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 20h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

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Emma Graff • DC • NYC 🍉 @emmagraff.com · 20h

One of R&B’s most avant-garde (or avant-soul) artists. Thank you for your non-linear approach to your craft and for creating a beautiful body of work rooted in your artistic integrity. May D’Angelo rest in eternal peace 🕊️

“𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐳…” @killlthehype.blacksky.app · 21h

RIP D'Angelo (1974-2025) 🕊️😔

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Dee Phunk @deephunk.bsky.social · 21h

He deserved to grow old. He deserved the space to be more creative and share more art w/ the world. He deserved to be adorned in praise while he was still able to receive it in the physical. Luckily, music and spirit is eternal.

RIP Michael Eugene Archer aka D'ANGELO. 🕊️

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T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel (Retired)" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 13h

My vote in the 2028 D primary for POTUS will hinge almost entirely on the % of this Administration they promise to imprison

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 15h

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense.

www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

www.newsweek.com

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Z H Challah esq., Cavalier of the 8th @challahchic.bsky.social · 1d

too hot? nausea
too cold? nausea
light too bright? nausea
eat too much? nausea
eat too little? nausea
toothache? nausea
allergies? nausea

would it kill my body to learn one (1) other symptom

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 1d

Christopher Columbus himself was a monster, but Columbus Day was instituted in 1892 to combat rising anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic bigotry after the lynching of eleven Italian-Americans. The same revanchists defending Columbus Day as "part of our US heritage" in 2025 would have opposed it in 1892.

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Meek (Spooky) 👻 @themeekwarrior.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, Alaska's been hit by a typhoon and no one is talking about it. Indigenous towns are in need of aid. People are missing and the gov't is still shut down.

If any creators here are in affected areas, please drop links for aid.

#mutualaid #crisis #alaska #typhoonhalong #helpourcountrymen

Rescue and recovery efforts underway as remnants of Typhoon Halong hit western Alaska | Alaska Beacon

Rescue and recovery efforts began Sunday in western Alaska as a major storm caused by remnants of Typhoon Halong hit coastal communities with massive storm surge, flooding and hurricane-force winds up...

alaskabeacon.com

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Dr. Suzanne Scott @iheartfatapollo.bsky.social · 1d

Are you 18 or older with a fandom-related tattoo (or know someone who has one)? Please take 10 min to fill out this survey for my new book project on embodied fan identities and practices. Share widely! utexas.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Contact info: [email protected].

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Kenzie ✨ @notknz.is.tall.fyi · 2d

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day ✨

Info graphic by: @ODDDAUGHTERCO
Heading: ways to honor indigenous people today & every day.
-learn about whose land you live on
-read books by indigenous authors
-research issues that directly affect the native population and vote accordingly
-support native artists and businesses
-educate yourself and honor the lives of missing and murdered indigenous women

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 1d

"You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you."

- Miss Major, 2023 💔

One of the things I hear with some younger trans people I know is they feel, "I'm gonna get this surgery, and I'm gonna learn that way of speaking, and I'm gonna be done." You're never done. If you're a straight, cisgender person, you're never done. Things are always happening that have the potential to change you. So all I am today is not who I'm gonna be tomorrow, because of the things that happened to me today and later tonight. People forget that. "Oh, after I transition, I'm gonna be through." Well, good luck with that. 'Cause if you're through, then it's time to leave, you know, and I don't wanna go anywhere yet.
I'm in my seventies. Why didn't I stop? Number one is community. My gurls. I've had moments of thinking about stopping, but I didn't. I made sure I would step back, reju- venate myself, and then got back out there, and that's how you make a way. Our stories are not all the same, but the destination is: to get some place where we have some peace and harmony, and we can be at ease with ourselves and the people around us. You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you.

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Annalise Ophelian @dr-ophelian.bsky.social · 1d

The documentary I made with Miss Major 10 years ago is on Vimeo on Demand. If you want to spend some time with her on screen tonight and learn some abolitionist trans history while you're at it, it's free to rent with the code "shinebright" vimeo.com/ondemand/major

Watch MAJOR! Online | Vimeo On Demand

The award-winning documentary "MAJOR!" follows the life and campaigns of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a Black transgender elder who has been fighting for…

vimeo.com

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Maya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social · 1d

Rest in Power, Miss Major.💔

On solidarity: “We can’t go it alone… I mean, you can try, and get knocked down and get up and try again, and get knocked down and get up and try again. But that’s how it’ll be, until somebody helps you up and says, let me stand with you.”
truthout.org/articles/a-m...

A Mother’s Day Chat With Revolutionary Trans Activist Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

Janet Mock has called Miss Major, who has nurtured generations of queer and trans youth, “the mother we all deserve.”…

truthout.org

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 1d

God this is going to sound obnoxious but I'm doing it anyway: one of the most radical and genuinely bolshy things you can do right now is just fucking check stuff. Take a moment, find some sources, talk to some humans, corroborate stuff using independent pathways.

It is going out of fashion fast

Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 1d

In which John Oliver methodically unpacks how thin it is to claim you’re all about “the truth” when you’re only running essays don’t get properly fact-checked — and don’t hold up to even basic reporting scrutiny www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

www.youtube.com

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Z H Challah esq., Cavalier of the 8th @challahchic.bsky.social · 1d

I think a) it's tricky to try and read more specific than the author's basic worldview in most fiction, and b) not everyone is literate enough to do so, but i perceive and broadly agree

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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 1d

Breaking: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, the legendary transgender activist and veteran of the Stonewall uprising who dedicated her life to the liberation of trans people, especially Black trans women, has died at 78.

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Z H Challah esq., Cavalier of the 8th @challahchic.bsky.social · 2d

need morr mafia!skz fic

Z H Challah esq., Cavalier of the 8th @challahchic.bsky.social · 2d

Ah, I see! Sorry, the weirdness of so many intentional misreadings had me jumping at shadows

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Z H Challah esq., Cavalier of the 8th @challahchic.bsky.social · 2d

The "funny" in that text is satire or irony, not sincere belief! Hope that helps

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