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Chris Marcil @chrismarcil.bsky.social · 17h

True Grit ought to be taught alongside, or instead of, The Great Gatsby as The Novel That Is About America But Is Short

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 3d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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don't @aynrandy.boontavista.com · 22h

If the twelve rules you followed led you here, of what use were the twelve rules

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Chris Somerville @chrisomerville.bsky.social · 2d

Jair Bolsonaro hospitalised again after drinking contaminated ground water

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"max" @ringworm.bsky.social · 10d

me slowly boiling to death: this pond is mad warm.. (texting my frog buddies) you gotta check out this sick pond

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Chris Somerville @chrisomerville.bsky.social · 11d

the human mind was only supposed to absorb three or four posts a day before rest time

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Super Conor Land 2: 6 Golden Coins @conorhaloreach.bsky.social · 13d

Evil Paul Simon

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Chris Somerville @chrisomerville.bsky.social · 17d

Chess would be pretty cool if you could use the pawns as moveable cover and knights were able to have guns

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Chris Somerville @chrisomerville.bsky.social · 17d

vividly

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"max" @ringworm.bsky.social · 19d

(you shyly hesitate holding the dried vegetables pouch from the ramen) here... it's good when it's wet (i mime eating) good wet.

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Chris Somerville @chrisomerville.bsky.social · 20d

reading a 700 page book in the ocean

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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 20d

History Student: (500 years from now) I don’t understand why their society collapsed. They had just invented 3D Doritos, everything was going fine

Professor: Some think the fall was caused by 3D Doritos

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Chris Somerville @chrisomerville.bsky.social · 23d

my partner has been watching Death Comes to Pemberley on Amazon prime and says their subtitles must be AI now

a baby crying and being subtitled ‘meow meow’

A woman looking out the window with the subtitle ‘I like to eat shit’

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Chris Somerville @chrisomerville.bsky.social · 26d

tenants should stan their landlords

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J🔥HELL🔥P @jlp.systems · 28d

Everyone under 30 in the entire world is constantly watching anime on their phone

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Chris Somerville @chrisomerville.bsky.social · 29d

yeah that one

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Chris Somerville @chrisomerville.bsky.social · 29d

the internet is cool for forcing you to constantly have a stance on things that should never enter your mind

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Chris Somerville @chrisomerville.bsky.social · Sep 14

when a contemporary classical musician has a track called something like “Island pt III”? that’s the juice brother

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Chris Somerville @chrisomerville.bsky.social · Sep 13

Huge loser energy from the brisbane cbd today

right wing protesters with a charlie kirk sign in Brisbane, Australia

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Chris Somerville @chrisomerville.bsky.social · Sep 12

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Chris Somerville @chrisomerville.bsky.social · Sep 8

he was invented by a cop so maybe

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Chris Somerville @chrisomerville.bsky.social · Sep 8

hearing that the Grug Memorial prize has been cancelled this year for antisemitism

Chris Somerville @chrisomerville.bsky.social · Sep 8

Australian writers love to get short-listed for the Grug Memorial prize

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Chris Somerville @chrisomerville.bsky.social · Sep 8

Australian writers love to get short-listed for the Grug Memorial prize

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John Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social · Sep 7

Reading performatively (reading aloud in such a way that my utterances bring about the states of affairs they refer to)

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Kenny Goblins @kennylogins.bsky.social · Aug 30

ringworm
@prawn_meat
(a bell rings, reminding me of previous times i have eaten) these memories are so good... might as well salivate. it's my choice.
11:59 PM • Apr 26, 2017

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Chris Somerville @chrisomerville.bsky.social · Sep 7

throw it in the garbage

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