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Dovergirl @dovergirl.bsky.social · 10h

Brutal

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 10h

He’ll commend MTG but can’t endorse Mamdani.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Jeffies on Marjorie Taylor Greene: "It does seem to many of us that she's had a surprisingly enlightened few weeks."

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Dovergirl @dovergirl.bsky.social · 10h

Disgraceful and shameful

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Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 13h

A mom in Houston reported her 15-year-old son with autism missing. She spent 6 days terrified, searching for him. The whole time, Houston police knew exactly where he was since they helped ICE place him in a refugee facility.

This is beyond cruel.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Missing teen with autism transferred to refugee facility by HPD

He is currently being held at an Office for Refugee Resettlement facility.

www.houstonchronicle.com

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Dovergirl @dovergirl.bsky.social · 17h

Was it a mental health issue or just an asshole?

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Dovergirl @dovergirl.bsky.social · 17h

Maybe bc I’m North American?

Also the illustrator is Heidi Holder which I should have mentioned

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Dovergirl @dovergirl.bsky.social · 17h

I love this! I have an illustrated book of the crow rhyme that is one of my favourite possessions. I’m invested in this story

An illustrated page from a book called Crows/ in a drawn picture frame there is a solitary black crow flying across a grey sky. Under the frame are the words One is for bad news. Below that is a sketch of a white hare in a tunic and pants on one knee with a posey of pink flowers in one paw with other hand to his heart. A pale butterfly flutters above him and a spooky tree grows to the right of him

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Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · Aug 5

Feeling normal for the first time in a while, getting some words down.

Her laugh, a filthy cackle, reverberating from her throat, a wet, rattling noise, shaking the night like the call of some nocturnal bird; a corvid's crackling cry. I could imagine her like that, some pitch black winged thing, with her wild tangle of ebony hair, could almost see the oil-slick iridescence of the feathers. Something beautiful and cruel, intelligent and dangerous. Something sustained daily by the liver of Prometheus.

It still made sense to think of Grace as some manner of corvid, as she was smart and loyal. She responded well to gifts. There was a price of admission to her affections. New things, shiny things. But she was no longer dangerous or exciting. Ten years into our relationship, I regarded her as a solitary magpie, a harbinger of sorrow.

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EL BARTO ANTI-WORK @elbarto.bsky.social · 19h

I had a friend who was 6'1" and when guys would exaggerate their height around them, they would say they were 5'10" which, I imagine, was a devastating emotional blow.

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Dovergirl @dovergirl.bsky.social · 19h

Your agent should have been

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.bsky.social · 1d

you know that critique of ai that says it’s like taking a forklift to the gym and expecting to get stronger? well this bit of that guardian article about people using chatgpt in dating apps kinda proves it correct

Which is why the man who greeted her inside the pub – polite, pleasant but oddly flat – felt like a stranger. Gone was the quickfire wit and playful rhythm she’d come to expect from their exchanges. Over pints he stumbled through small talk, checked his phone a little too often, and seemed to wilt under the pressure of her questions. “I felt like I was sitting opposite someone I’d never even spoken to,” she says. “I tried to have the same sort of conversation as we’d been having online, but it was like, ‘Knock, knock, is anyone home?’ – like he knew basically nothing about me. That’s when I suspected he’d been using AI.”

Rachel gave her date the benefit of the doubt. “I thought maybe he was nervous,” she says. But she’d been “Chatfished” before, so when the gap between his real and digital selves failed to close on their second date, she called it off. “I’d already been ChatGPT-ed into bed at least once. I didn’t want it to happen again.”

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Dovergirl @dovergirl.bsky.social · 20h

I love Peter Straub - Ghost Story is a good one

Dovergirl @dovergirl.bsky.social · 20h

Sure reads that way 😬

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

Right like!!! We want MORE privileged safe people to protest! As many as possible! That’s what actually scares people in power! 🤦🏻‍♀️

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Tammi, yeah, that one. 2.1 @tammi.bsky.social · 1d

I found a 19th century Cat Villain!

A huge chonk of a fluffy cat sitting on a table near an open fire. The cat is cream and grey and appears to be shaped like a barrel in a fur coat. They are scowling fiercely with their moustache and bewhiskered ears apparently flowing back into the cold wind. There's a definite vibe that this villainous cat twirls their moustache as they evict orphans into the aforementioned blizzard and think Scrooge was an easy-going lightweight. They are magnificent.

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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 1d

here's a little something I wrote several years ago about Jacob's Ladder, one of my favorite horror movies all time

Jacob's Ladder | Priscilla Page

Get more from Priscilla Page on Patreon

www.patreon.com

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Kat Alderson 🎉 @klaybourne.bsky.social · 1d

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand:

Eggs
The English Patient*
We Built This City

*this despite Colin Firth, whom I've lusted after for 30 years

DaniBananica @danibananica.bsky.social · 1d

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand

Banana anything
Lion King (1994)
How Bizarre - OMC

Ashley @ashleysays.bsky.social · 2d

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand

Sushi (I’m very sorry)
Schindler’s List
That Paul McCartney Christmas song I refuse to name

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Dovergirl @dovergirl.bsky.social · 1d

Raisins

Requiem for a Dream

Blurred Lines

Boo-sty Cackleford @ginerso.bsky.social · 1d

- okra

- Trainspotting

- Lips of an Angel by Hinder

Kat Alderson 🎉 @klaybourne.bsky.social · 1d

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand:

Eggs
The English Patient*
We Built This City

*this despite Colin Firth, whom I've lusted after for 30 years

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Dovergirl @dovergirl.bsky.social · 1d

Same!!

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Dovergirl @dovergirl.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah- I was pretty impressed by how it looked like a comic book

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🎃🚨SEE PINNED🚨#ProtectJhordin🚨🎃 @blackapostate.blacksky.app · 1d

the problem i keep having with everybody i come across whether it's a friend, relative, coworker etc is the same: americans are so used to relative comfort, they don't see it as privilege. they see it as THE TRUTH. as REALITY. every problem they know of has a ready solution.

they think we're kooks.

✬Communiggty Centric✬ @urbanaudacity.blacksky.app · 1d

I don’t even know what the fix would be for communicating how bad shit can get.

Do you remember the recent blackouts in Texas because of grid failures? Imagine that, nationwide, during an extremely cold winter.

Do we need to start fear-mongering?? It’s feeling like we need to do that!