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frequentlybees @frequentlybees.bsky.social · 6h

oh my godddddddddddd they're ✨perfect✨

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 15h

Sometimes there'll be a joke written by someone who's been dead for tens, hundreds of years & i'll stop and think about another human reaching through time to make another human laugh, long after they're gone, and it's so beautiful it makes me well up.

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 17h

Tell me your most life-affirming literary opinion.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 15h

Them: need help doing things?

Me: yes

Them: we have a doing things medication

Me: ooh

Them: hahahahaha guess what you have to do to get it?

Me: oh no

Them: things.

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 1d

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:

I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.

So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 2d

as much as I love them one thing I always disliked about the Redwall books was the designation of certain species as constitutionally evil. I think rats and weasels should be friends with mice and shrews

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frequentlybees @frequentlybees.bsky.social · 2d

As someone else asked, if the app can't load and unload the dishes for me then WHAT POSSIBLE IMPROVEMENT COULD IT BRING TO THE PROCESS???

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frequentlybees @frequentlybees.bsky.social · 2d

"I DO NOT WANT A DISHWASHER WITH AN APP" and other very normal sentences to say on a Sunday afternoon during this specific, very stupid moment in late-stage capitalism. 😂

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Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 2d

Kani Bucho, an office boss with an entire crab for a head, is the mascot for Yokobiki, a company that makes metal roller shutters for store windows.

A mascot in a blue suit with a red crab for a head enters a building.

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Karthik Sankaran @rajakorman.bsky.social · 3d

The Uncanny Valet

Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 3d

our economy is currently being propped up by the promise of billions of fully autonomous robot butlers coming in a year or so

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TrustedReveler @trustedreveler.bsky.social · 7d

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 3d

thank you for your service

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 3d

The couple in costumes said they wanted to bring joy to the protests and show that demonstrators are "fun loving people."

Unicorn bride marries Kenny from South Park at Portland ICE protest

The couple in costumes said they wanted to bring joy to the protests and show that demonstrators are "fun loving people."

www.oregonlive.com

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frequentlybees @frequentlybees.bsky.social · 3d

OH NO YOU GOT THE SQUASH BEETLES :( :( :( These are the little motherfuckers I got last year :( :( :(

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chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · 3d

here have another clip from Shakespeare in the Park's production of Much Ado About Nothing

watch it here: archive.org/details/xebp...

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frequentlybees @frequentlybees.bsky.social · 3d

HUGE milestone in the healing journey today: I have Put The Couch Back Like It Normally Is. The cats are IMMENSELY suspicious.

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frequentlybees @frequentlybees.bsky.social · 3d

I’M PROUD OF U!!!!!

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frequentlybees @frequentlybees.bsky.social · 4d

Honestly so valid, and you’ve got X-2 in the wings if you need it!

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 4d

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Dia ➡️ NFC @diazrar.bsky.social · 4d

just another one of those memories that haunts me daily

[ #art / #sillyhours ]

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Oregon Zoo @oregonzoo.bsky.social · 4d

Juno is a clam dunk champion 🏀

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Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 4d

Tama Kyoryu (dinosaur) is a mascot for the parks of Tama Hills, Tokyo. It has acorns for eyes, grass on its belly, and flowers and trees growing out of it.

A round green dinosaur character with acorn eyes stands in a park.

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frequentlybees @frequentlybees.bsky.social · 5d

#medical It has been eight (8) days since my top surgery and I’m VERY BORED of this stage of healing but I DID just beat* Silksong so!!!!!!!

*(I beat the final boss. In the same way that the Hollow Knight was the final boss of the first game. WHATEVER IT COUNTS.)

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 5d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 5d

ME: Now Mom, just remember, there's a lot of disinformation and AI in your social feed and your friends' Facebook.
MOM: I know! My friend sent me this crazy post where someone used AI to make an image of a giant frog fighting Army troops!
ME: ... okay, no, that one's ... goddamit, Portland.

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frequentlybees @frequentlybees.bsky.social · 6d

There is, in Portland, a street called "Couch". Gets 'em every time.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 6d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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