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phebe @clitullus.bsky.social · 3h

look at her!!!! she’s a perfect baby angel. talk shit, get hit :)

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phebe @clitullus.bsky.social · 3h

well she is YOUR daughter…

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phebe @clitullus.bsky.social · 3h

But also: don’t fucking talk about my dog.

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phebe @clitullus.bsky.social · 3h

I then walked one hundred feet to the shop, bought some pedialyte, and returned to find them gone! If there’s one thing that teaching ages 10-18 has taught me, it’s how to handle a little shit.

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phebe @clitullus.bsky.social · 3h

I was fair until the puppy-fucking… then I called them fourteen year olds, a palpable hit, and told them to hurry up and hop the fence, as my puppy (like them) was out past her bedtime—or should I call security, as they didn’t look athletic enough to repeat the feat without injury or embarrassment?

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phebe @clitullus.bsky.social · 3h

They laughed at me, told me to go fuck myself, asked me if I ever fucked my puppy, said she was stupid and turd-shaped, and were otherwise extremely unpleasant.

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phebe @clitullus.bsky.social · 3h

I was very reasonable! I just pointed out that it’s rude and fucked up and selfish — and also they were trespassing and littering and generally being complete and utter shits!

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phebe @clitullus.bsky.social · 3h

this time, it was the spoilt sixteen year old shits from soho who broke into the community garden* to smoke cigarettes and feel cool

*funded solely by donation; maintained entirely by elderly volunteers; beloved by all locals

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phebe @clitullus.bsky.social · 3h

not even 30 and already spending my saturdays yelling at local youths…

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phebe @clitullus.bsky.social · 13h

“brad lander and a contingent of drag queens” is my ideal rotation

adam whalen, mph 🐳 @awhale.bsky.social · 14h

hundreds of people out for No Kings NYC, led by @bradlander.bsky.social and a contingent of drag queens carrying signs that read “no kings only queens”. solidarity is palpable

photo of the protest, lots of people and signs

Brad lander poking out of the front of the march crowd

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phebe @clitullus.bsky.social · 1d

you know shit is bad when kinsale’s prince of midnight is your comfort read.

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 1d

every adult should know how to craft something. i use that loosely: cook a meal, do a bit of DIY, sew a button, grow a plant.

if there is nothing in this world that you can make yourself... why. what are you doing

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 2d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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phebe @clitullus.bsky.social · 1d

can’t wait

phebe @clitullus.bsky.social · 2d

Probably not to any degree of detail!

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phebe @clitullus.bsky.social · 2d

Sheridan le Fanu’s supernatural feel like gossamer.

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phebe @clitullus.bsky.social · 2d

I look really good FYI

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phebe @clitullus.bsky.social · 2d

don’t worry it was lighthearted teasing AND I loomed over their lunch table for five whole minutes in my gorgeous armani houndstooth blazer from 1986 and expressed such repeated shock, bewilderment, and sartorial confusion (I don’t look like that witch today) that they felt really bad! teaching :)

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phebe @clitullus.bsky.social · 2d

dude one of the eighth graders asked me in the most sweet and guileless of tones, “did you intentionally dress like margaret thatcher today?” and it was all I could do to not yell “BITCH?”

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phebe @clitullus.bsky.social · 2d

I have GOT to get my shots soon. I’m just struggling to find a time to schedule them so I don’t lose work and don’t have a massive flare up.

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phebe @clitullus.bsky.social · 4d

😎🤘🔥

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phebe @clitullus.bsky.social · 4d

LFGO — I really hope yall talk about lion in winter as GOTHIC af

Shelf Love Podcast @shelflove.bsky.social · 4d

How has Lisa Kleypas ret-conned her characters for modern readers, or the idea of what modern readers want? Tehyah Carver shares revisions made to Kleypas's Wallflower series and the project of rehabilitating villains like Sebastian St. Vincent. #romancebks
shelflovepodcast.com/episodes/sea...

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phebe @clitullus.bsky.social · 4d

hey sam what the exact fuck do you mean when you say you’re going to be less “careful with mental health issues” and just how do you think this decision will play out, in terms of suicide rates

(I know! he doesn’t care!)

Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 4d

i don't have the words to emphasise how seriously bad things are gonna get

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phebe @clitullus.bsky.social · 4d

the online audience has uniquely little interest in any nuance, knowledge, tone, or context to which they aren’t immediately party. and the ambiguity of “gay” here is intolerably tense but utterly unresolved! as a result, the replies are a fun and revealing game of association and assumption. :)

phebe @clitullus.bsky.social · 4d

I’ll give you that it’s a provocative little post, at once sweeping and shallow and suggesting not a thought in my head! just an ignorant yank spouting off? but this is the age of reader response, and so audiences must bear some responsibility for their blind readings…

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phebe @clitullus.bsky.social · 4d

Also, whom does it serve to so flatten this complex issue? The poster, because they get to show off about knowing more/better than the reader? (and they don’t!) That really just reads as guilt-alleviating, not liberating or educating.

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