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XaiaX (spooky ̆̈)

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XaiaX (spooky ̆̈) @xaiax.net · Jul 2

🎼 CIS FORMERS

🎶 JUST WHAT MEETS THE EYE

🎵 CIS FORMERS

🎶 CARS YOU HAVE TO DRIVE

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 5h

Windows 10 goes out of support today. My fave useless fact about w10 is that the iconic blue desktop background is a *photograph* - not CGI.

Tiny 'making of' vid here - youtu.be/_2RacX9DgWM...

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XaiaX (spooky ̆̈) @xaiax.net · 24m

To be fair when you press the button you need to make a really big deal about how lots of prices should come down and offer a bounty for reporting price gouging.

Joy of Arc @amethystjoy.bsky.social · 37m

If I was in politics, I simply wouldn't give my opponent a "make things cheaper on day 1" button.

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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 12h

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XaiaX (spooky ̆̈) @xaiax.net · 31m

You were right the first time

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 45m

hey does anyone have any extremely heavily used mugs from print on demand companies that you are happy with that you have put through the dishwasher a million times? i am playing with some ideas for putting some of my designs on stuff and seeing if they sell

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 1h

No kings no paychecks is literally one of the dumbest political slogans I have ever heard.

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XaiaX (spooky ̆̈) @xaiax.net · 13h

Speaking of weird history did you ever find out if/how related you are to the people that sheltered the Frank family? I remember you saying something about that at some point.

XaiaX (spooky ̆̈) @xaiax.net · 13h

Like, listening to or playing?
🤔

(For the latter, I just put a bunch of “2x bass pedal version” songs on my rock band customs machine and have been trying to set my legs on fire)

XaiaX (spooky ̆̈) @xaiax.net · 13h

wtf

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Arthur Gies (he/him) @aegies.bsky.social · 13h

just following up on a conversation at the end of my stream tonight, history is weird and allan pinkerton (yes, that one) was a staunch abolitionist 1) whose home was a stop on the underground railroad, and 2) probably bought the suit that john brown was hanged in.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_P...

Pinkerton was known to be a friend of abolitionist John Brown. On March 11, 1859, he supported Brown by giving him $500 and a ticket on the Michigan Central Railroad to Detroit. He also attended the secret meetings held by John Brown and Frederick Douglass in Chicago along with abolitionists John Jones and Henry O. Wagoner. At those meetings, Jones, Wagoner, and Pinkerton helped purchase clothes and supplies for Brown. Jones' wife, Mary, guessed that the supplies included the suit Brown was hanged in after the failure of John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry in November 1859.[13]

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XaiaX (spooky ̆̈) @xaiax.net · 13h

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XaiaX (spooky ̆̈) @xaiax.net · 13h

Hummus is good as a thing but as a dip it’s inferior to tzatziki.

Dairy based dips are going to heavily dominate any western dip bracket.

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Ben "Ben Pack" Pack @packbenpack.bsky.social · 13h

Band Aid is selling glow in the dark bandaids. Couldn’t catch me in one of those. It’s the real world equivalent of a glowing weak spot that telegraphs where you can hit someone for massive damage.

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XaiaX (spooky ̆̈) @xaiax.net · 13h

This specific billboard seems to be for cringe, especially.

A billboard advertising the game Words With Friends. It says “Zynga, play around” and then a picture of the board with the word “friends” spelled horizontally and a truncated word that has to be “benefits” spelled vertically passing through the “e” in friends.

XaiaX (spooky ̆̈) @xaiax.net · 14h

She’s had a few like “Don’t Google Mommy”.

XaiaX (spooky ̆̈) @xaiax.net · 14h

Bennett Foddy’s Gone Home

lex luddy (ichiban appreciator) @lexluddy.xyz · 15h

Bennett Foddy's The Last Guardian

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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 16h

The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 16h

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 19h

Happy Anita Bryant Humiliation Day

A four-panel image of Anita Bryant being pied in her sanctimonious face by gay rights activist Thom Higgins, 1977.

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XaiaX (spooky ̆̈) @xaiax.net · 15h

I do think it is valid sometimes

XaiaX (spooky ̆̈) @xaiax.net · Jun 7

The billboards on 101 into SF are often some sort of business cringe.

A billboard for a company called single store. With text that says “manager stormy data. No hush money required.“ Next to the text is a picture of an orange human hand holding a newspaper.

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XaiaX (spooky ̆̈) @xaiax.net · 16h

Riki Lindhome wakes up and chooses violence every day.

Second Best Lover (a Comedy song by Riki Lindhome)

YouTube video by Riki Lindhome

youtu.be

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 16h

"those young republicans were practicing politics the right way"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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XaiaX (spooky ̆̈) @xaiax.net · 16h

I’m sorry I have been informed that this is cringe and therefore does not work.

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 19h

if pep boys said that now the pep boys could call you up and talk sexy to you you wouldn't think that pep boys was doing really well, as a company

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 18h

I mean we should also be continuing to hammer how Noem is a puppy-killer and Trump is the only pet-hating president ever, too

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 16h

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 22h

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

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