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geminica @geminica.com · 4d

Sarah Jane Smith : "You're serious, aren't you?"
The Doctor : "About what I do, yes. Not necessarily about the way I do it."

-- Doctor Who, Time Warrior

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 5d

Ginger!—what the devil is ginger? Sea-coal? firewood?—lucifer matches?—tinder?—gunpowder?—what the devil is ginger, I say

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 8d

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

The Obama Hope poster, but it's a frog and it says "Hop"

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 8d

My sign.

“Woody Guthrie’s New Years Resolutions for 1943: Don’t get lonesome. Beat fascism. Love everybody. Wake up and fight.”

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 13d

my means are sane, my motive and my object mad

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geminica @geminica.com · 17d

"It is terrifying and paralyzing as the strands of sound disintegrate. We hold onto them, hovering between hope and submission..."

Leonard Bernstein re: Mahler. Gorgeous.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-wr...

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 20d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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geminica @geminica.com · 24d

"You are an accidentally united little lump of something. That little lump ferments."

-- also Tolstoy

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geminica @geminica.com · 24d

"Man dies, and nothing is left of him, and that is stupid."

-- Tolstoy

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geminica @geminica.com · Sep 26

Horseradish is delicious.

I don't know why it has fallen out of popularity in the US but I'm bringing it back (in my household).

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geminica @geminica.com · Sep 21

I should clarify, I'm specifically a *bsky* rando.

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geminica @geminica.com · Sep 21

Rando from the internet here... the song is referenced multiple times in the Aubrey/Maturin book series that the M&C movie is based on. It was a fave of early 19th c British sailors so made sense as cultural context for the story. Also yes boat dwellers love it :-D Can confirm, have sung it on boats

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geminica @geminica.com · Sep 13

- a grey damp chill outside
- wrapped in blankets
- piping hot coffee in my favorite mug with a square rig ship on it
- Debussy and Rameau performed by Vikingur Olafsson
- Civ 6, building biremes and cothons as Dido of Carthage

#mood

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · Sep 5

human infants while suckling will calmly and fixedly gaze away from the breast, as if leading two different lives at the time

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Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · Sep 2

So many bangers, this fucking guy

Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · Sep 2

He was an old man, who, at the age of nearly sixty, had postponedly encountered that thing in sorrow’s technicals called ruin.

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An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social · Aug 29

Just in time for Labour Day, our list of stories depicting labour unions in science fiction and fantasy has reached 250 entries.

Thanks to @joachimboaz.bsky.social for all the help on this.

List as HTML: hugoclub.blogspot.com/2018/12/orga...

List as Google Doc: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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geminica @geminica.com · Jul 24

That was a great day! 🙏

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Working Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org · Jul 14

The United States summed up in two headlines.

Headline 1, "Americans are losing spending power, say researchers: Most can no longer afford a 'minimal quality of life.'" Headline 2, "The 10 richest Americans got $365 billion richer in the past year. Now they're on the verge of a huge tax cut."

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · Jul 4

Freedom from kings.
Freedom from fascism.
Power to the people forever. ♥️

Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸

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geminica @geminica.com · Jul 3

I haven't stopped thinking about this existing in the world, since you posted.

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Susie Dent @susiedent.com · May 2

Word of the day is ‘forswunk’ (13th century): exhausted from too much work. I like to think that ‘foreswunk’ is to be exhausted before you even begin.

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Susie Dent @susiedent.com · Jul 1

Word of the day is ‘forwallowed’ (15th century): extremely weary from tossing and turning all night.

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geminica @geminica.com · Jun 25

TFW friends are drifting away and you can't tell which of you is in motion. You're like astronauts releasing chunky grips on each other (intentional or not) and spinning out on inertia.

To flail at renewed contact, turn to page 233.
To breathe and accept we're all alone in space, turn to page 1.

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geminica @geminica.com · Jun 11

Edinburgh has been wonderful to me this week. I'm regularly in a soppy emotional state of being bowled over by the beauty of the world.

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geminica @geminica.com · Jun 6

Went wandering in Edinburgh. Found a stair, took it, ended up in a quiet grave yard empty of tourists, just me and a senior couple with their dalmatian, with this view. Maybe 3 minutes' walk away, hundreds of tourists are in a crowd selfie-ing together.

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