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Elly @ellysaysopa.bsky.social · 2d

Elly @ellysaysopa.bsky.social · 3d

Greek people know that *everyone* is your aunt, uncle, or cousin growing up whether they are related to you or not. But also 100% do not know my actual relation to my dad's cousin, so yeah man, she's my aunt.

Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 3d

I used to love how my daughter's little friend Neha, down the street, would call me "Uncle Jeff" when the girls were little.

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Elly @ellysaysopa.bsky.social · 8d

Can't say I have any notes on this lede.

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Elly @ellysaysopa.bsky.social · 14d

I'm that age where you run into friends at physical therapy.

Elly @ellysaysopa.bsky.social · Sep 27

and not for nothing if all of America had the food in Dearborn MI we'd be a better country

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Elly @ellysaysopa.bsky.social · Sep 27

Is this America? You mean people voting to elect representatives and having religious freedom? Uh.

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Elly @ellysaysopa.bsky.social · Sep 27

As someone who grew up in Dearborn, I sure hope America looks more like Dearborn in 50 years than this racist xenophobic shit.

Shoe+ @shoe.bsky.social · Sep 27

Ask Matt Walsh what the Founders and the first oh 200 years of America thought about Catholics. Total bigoted dumbass. Shame that Dearborn Michigan sided with him in protest.

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Elly @ellysaysopa.bsky.social · Sep 27

If you're near a college, see if they have a closet for interview clothing (the one I work at does).

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Elly @ellysaysopa.bsky.social · Sep 26

only a 40% tariff on the hardworking Susans

Elly @ellysaysopa.bsky.social · Sep 25

amazing

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Elly @ellysaysopa.bsky.social · Sep 24

"Civility obsessives love a silver-tongued devil, wearing a nice suit, sporting a tidy haircut, while whispering sweet bigotries."

Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · Sep 24

I wrote about the dangerous fantasy of the civility framework in political discourse. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

Opinion | Civility Is a Fantasy

www.nytimes.com

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Elly @ellysaysopa.bsky.social · Sep 19

not to mention he attended new member orientation 😂

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Elly @ellysaysopa.bsky.social · Sep 17

A case! You would've been toast.

Elly @ellysaysopa.bsky.social · Sep 16

People often ask why I don't like bubbles and it's because they're trying to kill me.

Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · Sep 16

Costco considers a recalled wine so dangerous that it has sent a letter to every store member who bought a bottle telling them to immediately throw it away.

Costco’s urgent recall: Get the bottle out of the house, don’t even try to return it

Costco considers a recalled wine so dangerous that it has sent a letter to every store member who bought a bottle telling them to immediately throw it away.

trib.al

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Sep 15

i have said this before but when “getting rid of race in admissions” for the administration means “you can’t even try to reach out to underrepresented communities and encourage them to apply and if you do it is illegal discrimination against white people” then the actual goal here is segregation

Harvard Ends Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program as Trump Targets Race in Admissions | News | The Harvard Crimson

By ending the minority recruitment program in May, Harvard shuttered a more than 50-year-old initiative to encourage minority high school students to apply.

www.thecrimson.com

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Elly @ellysaysopa.bsky.social · Sep 9

Electrolite and So Fast So Numb. Two of my fav REM songs, ever, really.

Elly @ellysaysopa.bsky.social · Sep 5

thumb bottom

Squirma (Halloween version) @eckslibris.bsky.social · Sep 5

Country Ham

two maps--of the US and the world--with the legend "tell me where you are from using only 2 words"

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Elly @ellysaysopa.bsky.social · Sep 2

wow so many colors and numbers and symbols and groups

a cartoon of homer simpson with a monkey in his mind

ALT: a cartoon of homer simpson with a monkey in his mind

media.tenor.com

Elly @ellysaysopa.bsky.social · Sep 2

every time I open the hard difficulty level Pips my brain completely shuts down

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Elly @ellysaysopa.bsky.social · Sep 2

Strange Currencies (for 30 years prior to The Bear tyvm).

Electrolite, Walk Unafraid, Country Feedback, So Fast So Numb, Drive, Fall On Me and a million more way up there tho 🙃

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️ @sophianyx.bsky.social · Sep 1

Without saying Losing My Religion, fav R.E.M. Song?

michael stipe in a black suit blue shirt bald five o clock shadow leaning into the side of a brown building with a zig zag design. hot.

"We're absolutely American and distinctly so, I think. That's part of what people respond to outside of this country, part of the reason that we're such a huge band outside of the U.S., where we're not so popular now as we were 10 or 12 years ago."

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Elly @ellysaysopa.bsky.social · Aug 26

New York Times Connections. Broke my streak though 😬

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Elly @ellysaysopa.bsky.social · Aug 26

On the train reading @chrislhayes.bsky.social's book while simultaneously doing the Connections and eavesdropping on another woman's call, and uh I think I get it

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Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social · Aug 22

I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.

Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad

The president’s latest criticism of museums is a thinly veiled attempt to erase Black history.

www.theatlantic.com

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Elly @ellysaysopa.bsky.social · Aug 22

20 years old? Pretty sure we need to do some fact checking here because this album came out when I was in my 20s and oh no

Chris DeVille @chrisdeville.bsky.social · Aug 22

Twin Cinema: what an album! I wrote about it:

The New Pornographers' 'Twin Cinema' Turns 20

Carl Newman was on an unstoppable tear — an all-time NBA Jam “HE’S ON FIRE” power-pop onslaught. His band the New Pornographers had exploded out of Vancouver with their high-powered, ultra-catchy 2000...

www.stereogum.com

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Elly @ellysaysopa.bsky.social · Aug 21

Just birds. We knew about them - assumed they were the ones that may have been responsible for pecking away/lifting the shingles to build nests, but thought it was more cosmetic than anything. Alas, it was the attic moisture that started all of that. Yay, homeownership!

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