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Rob @thedreadfulpoint.bsky.social · 23h

People should buy more pamphlets and broadsides

thedreadfulpoint.com/catalog/

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Xina @ciw.bsky.social · 16h

*snort*

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Xina @ciw.bsky.social · 16h

I can’t believe my mom, a woman who to this day who won’t watch JAWS because it’s too scary, is in the other room watching _The Substance_. My dad, who’s pretty impervious to horror-gore, is with her and he just said, “Think I’ll have nightmares after this.” 😬 😬

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Xina @ciw.bsky.social · 16h

Caked up on a Tuesday night. ✨

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Xina @ciw.bsky.social · 16h

Complete chills. ❤️

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Xina @ciw.bsky.social · 1d

So delighted to finally have a copy of Ellen Dillon’s _Butter Intervention_ in my hands. 🧈 ☘️

Small paperback book about the size of a block of butter. Cover art looks like an Irish butter wrapper.

Back cover:

Nothing less than a history of Ireland sculpted in semi-solid emulsion, 'Butter Intervention' is sceptical about narratives and their revisions alike, as refined and as salty as the creamery product it subjects to forensic documentary survey and lyrical deconstruction.
- Kit Fryatt
Ellen Dillon takes the everyday and reveals it as strange, beautiful, poetic and political. I never realised before how much I needed to know about butter. And now I do, I'm grateful and amazed.
- Wendy Erskine

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Xina @ciw.bsky.social · 1d

Cc: @citizenrobot.bsky.social

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Xina @ciw.bsky.social · 1d

Very handsome set! Looks invaluable.

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Autumnal Dunks @dunks.bsky.social · 1d

“we accidentally figured out why men are increasingly insane”

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 1d

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Xina @ciw.bsky.social · 1d

Same, but still. Jesus. 😱

Xina @ciw.bsky.social · 1d

The good Blake (😇).

Very glad to have Will Smith catching for Roki tonight.

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Xina @ciw.bsky.social · 1d

Right??

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Xina @ciw.bsky.social · 1d

Can we go back in time and leave Snell in?

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Xina @ciw.bsky.social · 1d

He’s utterly repugnant.

Xina @ciw.bsky.social · 1d

😂😂

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Xina @ciw.bsky.social · 1d

Sucks all the life out of one of the most magical potentialities of the medium.

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Tim Watson @timwatson.bsky.social · 1d

"free indirect discourse" is an absolutely terrible phrase to describe one of the most important features of prose fiction and we should have found a new term decades ago

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Xina @ciw.bsky.social · 1d

Freddie!!!!!

Xina @ciw.bsky.social · 1d

🎪 🤪 www.mlb.com/news/near-ho...

Near home run robbery causes chaos on basepaths, bizarre double play

Nobody on the field was quite sure of the situation in the fourth inning of NLCS Game 1 on Monday night, even Brewers center fielder Sal Frelick, who was at the center of the chaotic play when he leap...

www.mlb.com

Xina @ciw.bsky.social · 1d

Blake Snell utterly unphased. Stone-cold fourth inning after that bizarre double play force out. Go, Dodgers!! 💙💙

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Xina @ciw.bsky.social · 1d

Very apt guest for the end of an era: in podcasting and in US liberal democracy. 😞

Marc Maron @marcmaron.bsky.social · 2d

Today is the final episode of the show! wtfpod.com

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Xina @ciw.bsky.social · 1d

The Waves >>>> Ulysses

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 1d

NO

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 1d

The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact that would grant preferential federal funding in return for commitments to specific policy changes like DEI bans, according to a source

Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT

The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in return for commitments to specific policy changes like DEI bans, according to a person familiar with the matter.

bloom.bg

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Xina @ciw.bsky.social · 1d

Mine; my parents’ cell phones; my landline from childhood 👻 ; my parents’ old landline in their current house (they are mobile only now) 👻 .

Xina @ciw.bsky.social · 1d

Better luck calling Gov Healy’s office than the Everett PD about this matter.

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