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🦇🍄J🕯n & T🎃nic💀🔮 @porgs.bsky.social · Nov 18

#Reylo 🫱🏽🫲🏽 #Adariel
If I had a nickel for every time a melancholy dark man offered his heart to a fierce sunshine incarnate woman, I'd have two nickels—which isn't a lot, but it's w̶e̶i̶r̶d̶ wonderful that it happened twice

The reylo hand touch scene ™ from the last jedi
Right before luke bursts in to clockblock

Close up of Rey and Ben about to touch hands in the reylo hand touch scene ™ from the last jedi

Adar holding his hand, his heart, and the ring nenya out to Galadriel

Galadriel taking her ring and touching Adar's hand

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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 1h

Daily bunny no.3109's seafaring days are behind him

A bunny, dressed like a sea captain, smokes a pipe as he sits on the roof of his tavern in a town by the sea. The tavern is called "The Birb & Bun", and there are a few seagulls on the roof with him, relaxing. At the entrance to the tavern, younger sailor bunnies are on shore leave.

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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 1h

Jupiter (credit: NASA's Juno Mission, Gerald Eichstädt, & Seán Doran) & JMW Turner's A Disaster at Sea, oil on canvas, 1835 (unfinished)

the blue, white, and gold cloudscape of Jupiter swirling and eddying together

unfinished Turner painting possibly depicting a ship called the Amphitrite - it's burning and breaking up, with roiling, foamy sea carrying and swallowing up the people aboard. there is no clear delineation between the sea and the sky and the clouds - blue, white, and gold swirl together.

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CeeJay Johnson-Yellow Hawk @adriftalchemist.bsky.social · 1d

“Five months before catastrophic floods swept through the Alaska Native village of Kipnuk on Sunday, tearing many houses off their foundations, the Trump administration canceled a $20 million grant intended to protect the community from such extreme flooding”

Maxine Joselow @maxinejoselow.bsky.social · 1d

Before catastrophic floods swept through the Alaska Native village of Kipnuk on Sunday, the EPA canceled a $20 million grant intended to protect the community from extreme flooding. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/c...

Before Alaska Flooding, E.P.A. Canceled $20 Million Flood Protection Grant

www.nytimes.com

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☁️ sal ☁️ @buriedbloom.bsky.social · 1d

ofcourse they're just sleeping, why what happened #reylo

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🦇🍄J🕯n & T🎃nic💀🔮 @porgs.bsky.social · 2h

if you're the praying sort, please pray for me tomorrow
I have two performance reviews for two engagements that I had screwups on and I have this deep anxious pit in my stomach about how bad they're going to be 🥲

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Hannah Pumpkins 🎃 🍂 @hannahposts.bsky.social · 8h

American Christianity is measured by how much Christian content you consume

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 10h

these metrics are not meaningfully connected to the claim

Eric Daugherty: JUST IN: Stunning data reveals Christianity is SURGING in the United States

Bible sale: +41.6%
App downloads: +79.5%
Christian music streaming: +50%

What an amazing sight to see.

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clare @sadderlizards.bsky.social · Apr 3

your email finds me deeply unwell. teetering on the edge really

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i amar prestar aen @oakleaf.bsky.social · 1d

#Tolkientober day 14: colors

Three Rings for the Elven kings under the sky

#Tolkientrewsday

A watercolor painting of three rings linked by a coronet of green leaves. One ring is gold with a ruby stone, one is gold with a sapphire stone, and one is silver with a white stone. They are shining on a blue-grey background that is bright around them and darker at the edges

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Suzannah Rowntree @suzannahrowntree.bsky.social · 4h

I looked up Tolkien's Letter to Milton Waldman again the other day and haven't stopped thinking about how precisely he predicted Silicon Valley in general and generative AI in particular here..."all use of external plans or devices instead of development of the inherent inner powers or talents"

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Stine | Silver_Snidget @silversnidget.bsky.social · 6h

Helena Marino. 💔

Inspired by the "Two-thousand yard stare" by Thomas C. Lea.

#Alchemised @senlinyu.bsky.social

Helena Marino with a haunted expression on her face and a golden halo behind her.

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Karina Giada @karinagiada.bsky.social · 15h

“I’m not fragile. I am not going to break. Please believe that about me.”

#alchemised @senlinyu.bsky.social

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laura @lauraillustrates.bsky.social · 11h

:) making a scarf

illustration of a white sheep knitting a blue scarf while sitting in a wooden chair that has flowers painted on the back. there is a yarn basket with three yarn balls in different colors.

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Luisa @saturniasvart.bsky.social · Apr 8

#PortfolioDay
Hi! I’m a Ukrainian artist exploring the shadowy corners of the soul through dark, ethereal, and mystical art.
My work is inspired by nature, gothic aesthetics, and the beauty of melancholy.
I’m drawn to mysterious places, old cemeteries, vintage things, dark music, and quiet books.

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🦇🍄J🕯n & T🎃nic💀🔮 @porgs.bsky.social · 7h

redeemed ben solo

Fat Kid Deals @fatkiddeals.com · 2d

This Dominos is in an old Pizza Hut building 😭😭

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Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 9h

Look, this whole presidency is void. Get out the megawatt woodchipper and reset to June 30, 2024.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 9h

like I just don't think "they were always like this" is a particularly useful framing for this stuff because the GOP of Trump is meaningfully different than the GOP of Romney even if both are awful and we need to actually deal with the real world consequences of what they're becoming

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Micah @rincewind.run · 9h

I think two things are true:

1. young republicans were always terrible and racist

2. young republicans become openly hitler-loving groypers is in fact a new and alarming development that is worth paying attention to

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🦇🍄J🕯n & T🎃nic💀🔮 @porgs.bsky.social · 7h

they're so pathetic I love them your honor

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 8h

it is ALWAYS worth pointing out who gets to be just a helpless little innocent precious baby boy at the age of 34, vs. who is framed by the cops as a big scary dangerous man whose candy bar might be a gun when he's barely in middle school, or described as a "13-year-old woman" by her predator

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h

last i checked these young republicans were like 25 years old. but this is a classic case of infantilization to diminish the significance of the offense. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Vance downplays group chat messages: ‘Kids do stupid things, especially young boys.’

The vice president called the texts "edgy, offensive jokes."

www.yahoo.com

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 13h

as conservatives, the party of selfish shitheads, they were indeed shitheads, often racist to boot. but the GOP used to have some taboos. "I love Hitler" would have been FAR over the line even for Dixiecrats bsky.app/profile/bill...

BillThePony @billthepony.bsky.social · 13h

There is a double game at play tho among the people saying what marcotte is.

Its true not "every" Republican was like this but what's also true is.... A whole lot of them have been!

They were in the reagan and GWB coalition too.

The "not everyone" crowd needs to accept that "a lot" of them were

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 9h

“they’ve always been like this” is such a lazy argument, it’s demonstrably untrue and pushing them back means understanding that it is untrue

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 13h

"they've always been like this" is always a tempting savvy take but it is just not true that Republican staffers were 100 percent open Nazis back in 2004, or hell even 2014. they just weren't

Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 14h

there have been a lot of responses to this arguing that young Republicans were motivated by such feelings but didn't express them openly

and I think a crucial lesson of the Trump era is that there is great value in people not expressing these things openly! that's a big and decisive change!

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 9h

The subtext of this comment is that the Mayor of Boston is Asian-American, whereas the Mayor of Chicago (like almost everyone else that Trump refers to as “a low IQ person”) is Black.