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Duff aka GirlReaction @duff.bsky.social · 3d

Omg : perfection.

Duff aka GirlReaction @duff.bsky.social · 8d

I have two Master’s degrees 17 years apart. That’s my starter. 🤪🤪

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Duff aka GirlReaction @duff.bsky.social · 9d

Graphic novels are reading. Audiobooks are reading. Being read to is reading.

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 11d

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

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Duff aka GirlReaction @duff.bsky.social · 11d

Co-sign.

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 11d

I have held this as long as a body can hold it. I need to live my truth: morning people are annoying af.

Thank you.

Duff aka GirlReaction @duff.bsky.social · 15d

I rewatch Baby Boom all the time.

Nina Metz @ninametz.bsky.social · 15d

I rewatched 1987’s “Baby Boom” in the wake of Diane Keaton’s passing and a thing that’s so consistent when you watch even middlebrow stuff from the 80s and 90s is that it plays like a masterpiece compared to so much of what gets made today because the scripts and exiting are TIGHT

Official Trailer BABY BOOM (1987, Diane Keaton, Sam Sheppard, Harold Ramis, Charles Shyer)

YouTube video by Trailer World

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Duff aka GirlReaction @duff.bsky.social · 15d

What five events defined your childhood? (Literature edition)

1. Bobbsey Twins
2. Cherry Ames
3. Elsie Dinsmore
4. Lloyd Alexander’s Prydain
5. Dragonriders of Pern

Antwan Crump @antwancrump.bsky.social · 15d

What 5 events defined your childhood? (GAMING EDITION)

1. Pokemon Gold & Silver (Gameboy Color)
2. Sly Cooper
3. Kingdom Hearts 1 & 2
4. Fight Night Round 3
5. N64, XBOX (OG), PS2, Sega Dreamcast

𝕭𝖑𝖆𝖈𝖐𝖔𝖚𝖙 𝕻𝖗𝖎𝖓𝖈𝖊𝖘𝖘𝖊𝖘 @doomdisco.bsky.social · 15d

What 5 events defined your childhood

1. Challenger blowing up live on TV at school
2. Discovering WHFS radio
3. Mom telling me I couldn't be in the school band because there was no possibility I had musical talent and it would be a waste of time
4. 5 schools in 5 years
5. Reading Lord of the Rings

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Duff aka GirlReaction @duff.bsky.social · 15d

What 5 events defined your childhood? (Music edition)

1. Bobby Darin
2. Shawn Cassidy
3. Jethro Tull
4. AC/DC
5. Loverboy

Antwan Crump @antwancrump.bsky.social · 15d

What 5 events defined your childhood? (GAMING EDITION)

1. Pokemon Gold & Silver (Gameboy Color)
2. Sly Cooper
3. Kingdom Hearts 1 & 2
4. Fight Night Round 3
5. N64, XBOX (OG), PS2, Sega Dreamcast

𝕭𝖑𝖆𝖈𝖐𝖔𝖚𝖙 𝕻𝖗𝖎𝖓𝖈𝖊𝖘𝖘𝖊𝖘 @doomdisco.bsky.social · 15d

What 5 events defined your childhood

1. Challenger blowing up live on TV at school
2. Discovering WHFS radio
3. Mom telling me I couldn't be in the school band because there was no possibility I had musical talent and it would be a waste of time
4. 5 schools in 5 years
5. Reading Lord of the Rings

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 24d

ICE unleashed tear gas on the street in Chicago’s Logan Square today and I tried to find meaning among the fog and my own anger about, well, everything. dansinker.com/posts/202…

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Duff aka GirlReaction @duff.bsky.social · 24d

Sounds like RBG and Scalia, no?

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 29d

50 masked bastards rolling through downtown on a beautiful Sunday to snatch a handful of street vendors

Dan Mihalopoulos @dmihalopoulos.bsky.social · 29d

In which a top US Border Patrol official, incredibly, tells my tall and Anglo colleague @chipmitchell1.bsky.social that he's not the type they're looking for as they go about downtown Chicago arresting people based on "how they look"

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Feds in military gear flood downtown Chicago; top border official says arrests based on 'how they look'

The immigration agents were spotted making arrests in downtown Chicago and River North neighborhood early Sunday.

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Joseph Lezza @josephlezza.com · Sep 27

Sure, sex is great. But, have you ever appeared in 12 LinkedIn searches?

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · Sep 26

“Hey there, we saw you from across the bar and want to do mountains of coke with you while making the biggest soft rock album of all time”

The cover of Buckingham/Nicks, featuring a naked Stevie and a naked Lindsey in perhaps the horniest album cover of all time except for maybe that one with the woman all covered in whipped cream

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · Sep 26

The year is 2027. America is a disease-ridden wasteland. Escalators are forbidden and have been removed from all public spaces. Only one television channel offering one program remains: Trump TV. And this is where our story begins…

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · Sep 23

Those poor people, calling the rapture’s manager to complain that it didn’t show up again

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Duff aka GirlReaction @duff.bsky.social · Sep 23

It looks like the second guy is wearing a kuffiyeh as well. WTAF.

Duff aka GirlReaction @duff.bsky.social · Sep 15

Ah yes now I see them.

Duff aka GirlReaction @duff.bsky.social · Sep 15

I ain’t got Apple TV.

Duff aka GirlReaction @duff.bsky.social · Sep 15

I ain’t got HBO.

Duff aka GirlReaction @duff.bsky.social · Sep 15

Ok so have you sold off all the smart girls?

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Duff aka GirlReaction @duff.bsky.social · Sep 15

YES! I loved it too. Loved the mix of deep academic pondering with tangible messy magic.

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Duff aka GirlReaction @duff.bsky.social · Sep 13

If only this morning’s storms could come back and provide a reason for why I failed to walk over to the pool today. Oh wait—“I just didn’t want to get wet” works anyway hahahahahahaha. Good thing I crack myself up.

Duff aka GirlReaction @duff.bsky.social · Sep 13

Hahahahahaha

It’s like the people that want “I Honestly Love You” played at their weddings.

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Duff aka GirlReaction @duff.bsky.social · Sep 13

Hey @charliejane.bsky.social I read your latest last night and this morning and it was so very very good. Thanks for a fantastic reading experience.

A picture of the cover of “Lessons in Magic and Disaster” the latest book by Charlie Jane Anders. The cover is purple and the lettering is bee-sting golden yellow/orange.

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Duff aka GirlReaction @duff.bsky.social · Sep 13

Dessert mode ACTIVATE:

Best pie: rhubarb
Best ice cream: Change the Whirled
Best donut: pistachio
Best bar: snickers
Best cake: chocolate sheet cake
Best other: Girl Scout cookie Samoas

Je suis Link (kaelyn) @kaelynski.bsky.social · Sep 13

Dessert mode ACTIVATE:

Best pie: sour cherry lattice
Best ice cream: mint chocolate chip
Best donut: the bear claws from Roesers
Best bar: chai butterscotch bar
Best cake: hazelnut with mocha buttercream
Best other: tiramisu

Harlem Toots @chadstanton.blacksky.app · Sep 13

Dessert mode ACTIVATE:

Best pie: Pecan
Best ice cream: Butter Pecan or Coffee sorbet
Best donut: warm glazed
Best bar: turtles
Best cake: German chocolate
Best other: grilled peaches with ice cream

Duff aka GirlReaction @duff.bsky.social · Sep 7

This is a bummer but I would still rather know the truth, bummers and all

dan sinker @dansinker.com · Sep 7

If I see the salt truck video one more time I'm going to lose my fucking mind.

They're not being used to block the city off from ICE. They're walling off the Taste of Chicago. The city uses salt trucks as temporary infrastructure.