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I apologize to the harried marketing person tasked with building out a demographic persona for kinky, roided up, morticians with a penchant for the fibre arts and slime.

Screenshot of an instagram advertisement for a metal mug being held by a hand with the wrist flexed so tightly. the caption reads, "bro, it takes some muscle to handle this mug"

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Amanda🍁🦫 @realamandalive.com · 13h

A new fun hobby of mine is tricking my algorithims by lingering on and taking screenshots of the weirdest ads I see. Instagram thinks I'm an absolute psycopath now.

Screenshot of an instagram advertisement for lobster-shaped slide on shoes.

Screenshot of an instagram advertisement for a full 9 person morgue fridge

Screenshot of an instagram advertisement for a long black mourning dress with veil

Screenshot of an instagram advertisement for a full body pleather sack with only a face hole

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Amanda🍁🦫 @realamandalive.com · 1d

Caution: Happy Fun Ball may suddenly accelerate to dangerous speeds.

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Amanda🍁🦫 @realamandalive.com · 1d

I love that she's not a troublemaker, she's not a fellow student, she's an AGITATOR

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Ham @johnnydewdew.bsky.social · 1d

The face I make when lightning strikes twice

Close up screen grab of the image from the above post (a poster for Titanic 2). The image is zoomed in on the smoke stack of the ship which looks like it has googly eyes and a worried expression.

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Amanda🍁🦫 @realamandalive.com · 1d

a group of people playing instruments on a stage with marshall amps in the background

Alt: A very small model of stonehenge is lowered on a stage, while a group of people playing instruments on a stage with marshall amps in the background

media.tenor.com

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Amanda🍁🦫 @realamandalive.com · 2d

Every different camp you help in Borderlands 4 is like a different kind of discord server.

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Amanda🍁🦫 @realamandalive.com · 2d

I know job hunting right now *feels* impossible, but it isn't. It's difficult but not impossible.

Telling yourself that a problem is impossible to solve as an excuse to just not try at all is self-sabotage, friends.

Anyway, back to writing my little cover letters.

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Amanda🍁🦫 @realamandalive.com · 2d

Epomaker RT100 and a Logitech G203 - both wired! I have been using them both for almost a year and have been really enjoying them both! Affordable and do what they say on the tin!

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Joshua "The Crypt" Keep(er) @jekeep.bsky.social · 2d

Is it really democracy when the people don't get what they voted for in any real, material sense?

Fair Vote Canada 🗳️🍁 @fairvote.ca · 2d

Newfoundland and Labrador’s election shows the problem again. A party can win a majority of seats without majority support.

Proportional representation would make every vote count equally and ensure real majority rule.

Two pie charts compare votes and seats in Newfoundland and Labrador’s election. The left chart shows the popular vote: PCs 44.5%, Liberals 43.7%, NDP 8.4%, Independents 3.9%. The right chart shows seat share: PCs 52.5%, Liberals 37.5%, NDP 5%, Independents 5%. The graphic highlights how first past the post gave the PCs a majority of seats despite not having majority voter support, with a message calling for proportional representation.

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Amanda🍁🦫 @realamandalive.com · 2d

I remember when there was a campaign promise to institute proportional representation... I guess doing what voters want is vewy hawd because of (checks notes) not wanting to.

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Amanda🍁🦫 @realamandalive.com · 2d

Among other things, yes haha

Amanda🍁🦫 @realamandalive.com · 2d

I think he breaks the sound barrier at some point!

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Amanda🍁🦫 @realamandalive.com · 2d

A CBC podcast about Murdoch Mysteries hosted by Jason Mewes? Right on!

Inside Murdoch Mysteries with Jason Mewes: with guest stars Yannick Bisson and Countess Luann

YouTube video by CBC

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Amanda🍁🦫 @realamandalive.com · 3d

Tarkies!!!!!

TARKIES 2025 - Coming November 13th! - Escape from Tarkov Game Award Show

YouTube video by Pestily

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Amanda🍁🦫 @realamandalive.com · 4d

It's Millers Crossing/Goodfellas double feature weather!

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🜲 James @jamesskeets.blacksky.app · 21d

Through her creative platform, Saint Heron, Solange has launched The Saint Heron Library, a digital archive dedicated to making rare and out-of-print works by Black authors, poets, and artists accessible to all.

🔗 library.saintheron.com

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 4d

who the hell is columpus

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Amanda🍁🦫 @realamandalive.com · 4d

Anchorman 3 would just be the whole gang serving in dangerously powerful positions.

Brick is president.

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Harlem Toots @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 4d

Not only is he calling out chumps but you can literally trace many of the threads in our modern reactionary moment to many of the currents shot through in the writing by the authors listed here. It’s also a heads up.

Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 4d

Du Bois basically did a version of this in his bibliography in Black Reconstruction

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