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Bobby A-Morgue 🪦 @kunstderfuge.bsky.social · 5h

Running a bit behind on my "life well-lived" revenge plans

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samus aran enjoyer @riotlinguist.bsky.social · 6h

i am extremely certain there are untold thousands of palestinian victims, of all genders and ages, who have been subjected to systematic mass rape by the occupying forces. untold and untellable numbers because of how many of the victims are now dead. we will never know the true number.

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samus aran enjoyer @riotlinguist.bsky.social · 6h

(> to paraphrase one of my favorite history papers by historian brooke holms.)

Greta was singled out because she is a highly visible woman, and thus needed to be highly visibly sexually humiliated as an example, as a message, as an act of bragging about their impunity and power to violate.

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 4h

Ogress (The Incredible Shrinking Woman)
by Shana Ross

"I cannot give anyone answers, so I become a small

chip of flint, a small silence in a conversation, a small carving in the rock
face."

Link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

#poetry #speculativepoetry #specpo #sff

POETRY

by Shana Ross
Ogress (The Incredible Shrinking Woman)

Quote
"I cannot give anyone answers, so I become a small

chip of flint, a small silence in a conversation, a small carving in the rock
face."

13 October 2025
Strange Horizons

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Martin John @martinjohn.bsky.social · 13h

This meme made me laugh.

A meme with a character from Watchmen whose name I can’t remember, saying:

It is 1982. I am one year old. Tron bombs at the box office
It is 2010. I am
twenty-nine years old.
Tron bombs at the box office
It is 2025. I am
fourty-four years old.
Tron bombs at the box office

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frankestein 🧟‍♂️ @aefrankes.bsky.social · 3h

I’m a prison abolitionist and vehemently against the death penalty in all its forms but I do think this actually would make the world a better place unfortunately

cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 3h

honestly if you so much as try to type that shit anywhere your computer should automatically fire a spear into your skull at point blank no exceptions

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 3h

I will climb aboard by any means available however improbable and you will simply never see me again

Greg Fromenteau - Art @gfro-art.bsky.social · 3h

Little #fish and #ships #ink sketch last night - petit #croquis de porteflot hier soir.

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 10h

Nemiscam, Alberta

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frankestein 🧟‍♂️ @aefrankes.bsky.social · 20h

totallyyyy

like, oh. you think that lady across the street playing the Ghostbusters theme on her clarinet is an existential threat to your life and safety?

*pulls at collar* yikessss

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frankestein 🧟‍♂️ @aefrankes.bsky.social · 21h

There's an article in today's CBC about another country giving artists a UBI and whether it could work for Canada, & I always think about how the Venn diagram of people who would think that would be wasting tax dollars on malingerers and people who comment "paywall" is very nearly a circle. pay me!

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 1d

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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Welcome to Night Vale @nightvaleradio.bsky.social · 22h

Hi I'm Johnny Knoxville, and this is continuing to go to my email job during These Times.

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UNB Research @unbresearch.bsky.social · 7d

Research celebration moments: Check out Dr. Gabriel Hrynick's New Brunswick Archaeology Podcast, co-hosted with Dr. Kenneth Holyoke (University of Lethbridge)!

The podcast recently received a Public Communications Award from the @can-arch.bsky.social.

Find the podcast at rss.com/podcasts/nba...

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frankestein 🧟‍♂️ @aefrankes.bsky.social · 22h

I feel like people who say the protestors in animal suits aren't serious truly underestimate how much fascism is dictated by what makes the top boys feel like big powerful cool men™️ and forcing them to arrest a singing giraffe is going to make at least some folks reconsider what they're supporting

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 23h

Bari Weiss launched her own path to stardom with the argument "it is oppression to dislike me for being bad" and now we will get to see what an entire media ecosystem built with that philosophy looks like

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 23h

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

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frankestein 🧟‍♂️ @aefrankes.bsky.social · 23h

I love first past the post. What a democratic, fair, and representative way of determining the leaders of our government. What could possibly go wrong.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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frankestein 🧟‍♂️ @aefrankes.bsky.social · 23h

as an extremely tall woman, #3 is my nightmare. but we need all kinds in the world! (mostly so I can always get #1)

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable

You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month

Headline reads: Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow erotic for adult users.

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frankestein 🧟‍♂️ @aefrankes.bsky.social · 1d

Lindsay Ellis when the news finally reaches her:

a man in a police uniform and tie is talking to a woman .

Alt: Brooklyn 99 VINDICATION meme

media.tenor.com

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frankestein 🧟‍♂️ @aefrankes.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sure Lindsey Ellis would agree with you (sincere)

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

“I object to seeing brown people on my street but I will give up this view if graduate requirements are shortened from two years to 18 months” give me a fucking break.

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frankestein 🧟‍♂️ @aefrankes.bsky.social · 1d

which means they co-opt the language of social justice and civilized society to keep the left in a circle jerk of making sure we don't seem fascist to our own community--which is way better at policing each other than anyone else--and laugh all the way to the bank/halls of power. it's exhausting.

frankestein 🧟‍♂️ @aefrankes.bsky.social · 1d

this is the natural result of the whole "taking the high road" thing, btw. we think we're better and more civilized than them, and,even if that's true, it doesn't matter. you can't shame people over something they don't value. they don't want your civility. they just want you to get out of the way.

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Every time a Democrat gets caught on tape saying like “Some Trump voters are racist” we have a national scandal and JD Vance demands an entirely new kind of apology and meanwhile every Republican group chat is like “Good morning fellow SS members. Who’s ready to respect Hitler today?”

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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 1d

I know the temptation is to just scroll past this with a “not surprised” reaction, but you should read this if you have the emotional bandwidth to encounter horrifying slurs and violent sentiments, because there’s an important takeaway: extremism is often performed to reinforce an in-group’s bond.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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frankestein 🧟‍♂️ @aefrankes.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, I know! I was doing a "yes, and" pile on of unbelievability, not saying you're wrong in any way! More in the theme of "tag yourself, I'm [x] horrible part" lol I forget I don't know everyone on the internet sometimes 🤪 haha

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