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local blogger @fergoe.blacksky.app · 6h

Baseball really is the best sport because all it takes is one little bobble and suddenly a game built on routine and order devolves into panic and chaos

CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 6h

what in the hell just happened in Milwaukee

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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 6h

With apologies to Dodgers fans, I have not experienced this level of delight watching a baseball game in a WHILE.

A bases-loaded 8-6-3 double play, no runs scored??????????

WHAT??????

I am howling at the moon; this rules. This is Halloweenball. This is haunted chaos. Maybe my favorite play ever

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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · 7h

Chef Boyargirl

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Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 10h

You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't

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piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · Aug 26

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Cassie, Anxious Millennial Pixie @cassieceleste.bsky.social · 10h

Oh wow, that must have been incredible. Glad you got to do that.

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Cassie, Anxious Millennial Pixie @cassieceleste.bsky.social · 10h

The thing about Steely Dan is that they write songs about (and often from the perspective of) absolute slimeballs, but it's very self-aware and good. Love that band. Gaucho was one of my favorite records as a teen, to the confusion of every other kid I knew.

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Cassie, Anxious Millennial Pixie @cassieceleste.bsky.social · 10h

Yeah, we're fully in agreement on that. I love the rawer/punkier side of Weezer on that record but oh wow is it not fun to listen to the lyrics.

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Cassie, Anxious Millennial Pixie @cassieceleste.bsky.social · 10h

I haven't seen any of that from you! You're good. Just commenting on The Discourse of the Day.

What's your Pinkerton stance tho? I am curious!

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esoteric cyberdoll @dyadicsapphic.meangirls.online · 11h

wlw (women who love wrestling)

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Cassie, Anxious Millennial Pixie @cassieceleste.bsky.social · 11h

I highly recommend seeking out "dudes rock" content, because it's often the most wholesome stuff in the world, and it shows that masculinity can be beautiful and connective for those who choose to embrace it. Toxic masculinity is super common, but it's far from the only path.

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Mistress Weatherwax the Witch @ysabellweatherwax.bsky.social · 11h

From my time working at Home Depot, I can tell you that they assume every rating other than "perfect" as "bad". Rating has you choose 1-10 and you put 9? Welp, that's basically a catastrophe. It's all fucked. "When a goal becomes a metric" and all that.

Cassie, Anxious Millennial Pixie @cassieceleste.bsky.social · 11h

And it's not even actually rating the experience! The actual question is, "will you give this person five stars, or will you contribute to them losing their job?" This puts all the power in the hands of a few assholes who don't actually care about anyone.

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Amos Posner @amosposner.bsky.social · 12h

I think businesses asking people to rate every single experience has furthered this damage. We shouldn't have this many opinions about this many things, and we certainly shouldn't expect other busy people to care if we do.

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Cassie, Anxious Millennial Pixie @cassieceleste.bsky.social · 11h

You have to accept that something that was literal poison for you is not inherently poisonous. Something that caused you pain your entire life is not inherently painful. Something that was oppressive toward you is not inherently oppressive.

It's really hard! But it's super important work.

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Cassie, Anxious Millennial Pixie @cassieceleste.bsky.social · 11h

A large chunk of trans women will go through a misandrist phase shortly after coming out, especially those who felt the oppressive weight of manhood forced on them for decades.

You simply have to keep working on yourself, deal with it, and for the love of god DO NOT POST ABOUT MEN until you have.

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Cassie, Anxious Millennial Pixie @cassieceleste.bsky.social · 11h

I have to deal with this bullshit on eBay. 99% of transactions are fine, but 1% of them are Trump-brained assholes who think everyone is out to get them. You can't reason with them, you can't "make things right," you just have to take it on the chin. And they're responsible for all my bad reviews!

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Cassie, Anxious Millennial Pixie @cassieceleste.bsky.social · 11h

And it's not even actually rating the experience! The actual question is, "will you give this person five stars, or will you contribute to them losing their job?" This puts all the power in the hands of a few assholes who don't actually care about anyone.

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Amos Posner @amosposner.bsky.social · 12h

I think businesses asking people to rate every single experience has furthered this damage. We shouldn't have this many opinions about this many things, and we certainly shouldn't expect other busy people to care if we do.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 12h

few ideas have damaged the average psyche more than ‘the customer is always right.’ it should be a little bit humiliating, being a customer. you should walk into any service transaction knowing that the other person, and not you, is in control over whether you get your treats

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Cassie, Anxious Millennial Pixie @cassieceleste.bsky.social · 14h

You ever think about the word 'landlord'? It's so medieval. Like, yes, my liege, thou art the lord of this land, and thus mine thermostat control must remain forever in your hands. Feudal bullshit. We're patching this shit out in the revolution.

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Cassie, Anxious Millennial Pixie @cassieceleste.bsky.social · 14h

Anyway, apologies to my grad school classmates who wanted a real discussion about guys like Karl Ove Knausgård and were instead treated to me griping about how much he sucked for three hours during our seminar discussions.

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Cassie, Anxious Millennial Pixie @cassieceleste.bsky.social · 14h

This is definitely personal preference, since I used writing as a tool for introspection as much as anything, and I was writing for myself first. I never really wanted to write about anything that I wasn't also personally curious about, and the process of discovery itself is so interesting to me.

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Cassie, Anxious Millennial Pixie @cassieceleste.bsky.social · 14h

To me, language and structure are there to foster engagement with complex themes, characters, and ideas! If you're using them to paper over the fact that you don't have anything interesting to say, why are you writing?

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Cassie, Anxious Millennial Pixie @cassieceleste.bsky.social · 14h

I am much more interested in a book where a writer uses simple and straightforward language and structure in order to explore something complex and hard to understand than when someone makes me work really hard to get at the heart of a text when it's just the most dull and basic thought down there.

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Cassie, Anxious Millennial Pixie @cassieceleste.bsky.social · 14h

Too much litfic, mostly by white men, uses deliberate linguistic and structural obfuscation in order to trick the reader into thinking they're engaging with something complex and profound when there's often no actual thematic substance or unique thought in the text at all.

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Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 19h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Cassie, Anxious Millennial Pixie @cassieceleste.bsky.social · 1d

People forget that this is why Hillary Clinton lost! Her entire pitch was "things are great and fine right now, but that man over there will ruin them" while Trump was at least honest about the status quo being bullshit. Dems need to run on CHANGE again but actually do it.

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 1d

I truly believe a big reason why Democrats are failing to appropriately respond to the moment is a pathological refusal to admit that there were aspects of the American status quo pre trump that were extremely fucked up and unjust

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

Listen to the response to this and look how easy it is to say it.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 1d

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Cassie, Anxious Millennial Pixie @cassieceleste.bsky.social · 2d

AEW has so much yuri on it now, thank you Toni and Big Stat Daddy AKA Kris Straplander

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