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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 12h

/3 But a huge plurality, at least, of the modern GOP is of the opinion that noticing bigoted trash is more un-American and destructive than BEING bigoted trash: that dehumanizing fellow Americans based on immutable characteristics is morally superior to criticizing anyone for doing that.

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 23h

It should not be understated how much clever shit like this actually annihilates morale at places like ICE/CBP.

Getting made fun of like this on national television while people laugh at you is.. well, you may call it victory wine, but it ain't.

Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 1d

I love this so much. Funny, sweet, hopeful, and kind of bad-ass.

youtu.be/bw5zxdSObso?...

A Message From The Frog Resistance

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

youtu.be

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Em 🏳️‍⚧️🦀 @msnook.xyz · 10h

If you want to say "inshallah" but you're a white American, try this one instead: "the good lord willin' and the creek don't rise"

just tack it onto the end of any hopeful sentence to acknowledge that we are all humbled by the power of god and/or the creek after a rain

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The Doctor of Spooktober Past @lucidillusions.in · 8d

Want a limited edition postcard in your mailbox?
(run of 9) ko-fi.com/s/ee6af4d821

But if you think it's too small, and you'd want a larger print? I have it on Darkroom: lucidillusions.darkroom.com/products/bir...

#Mammals #Tiger #Nature #Wildlife #BigCats #SciArt #Photography #Prints #BSNM 🌿🖌️ 🦊

Tigress - Postcard - Lucid Illusions's Ko-fi Shop

I am offering to send a postcard to you, this is a limited run of this postcard (black and white) - there are a total of 9, and I will number each of ...

ko-fi.com

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Cassandra and the Infinite Doomscroll @eris523.bsky.social · 9h

Fizzgig, from the movie The Dark Crystal, is a round orange ball of fluff about the size of a basketball with two small, close-set yellow eyes. His mouth is open to about half the size of his head (which is also his body). Behind the first row of many sharp teeth is a second row of teeth far back in his throat.

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Cassandra and the Infinite Doomscroll @eris523.bsky.social · 3d

Art of the evening, as determined by me: Salvador Dali's "Burning Giraffe" (because there was one, except as an animate topiary, straight from the Overlook Hotel).

Song of the evening, determined unanimously by the players: "'Yakety Sax played in a minor key" (eg share.google/yyE11yGi8DX1...)

Two tall, skeletal figures occupy the foreground; they appear to be female and statues. The nearest one has a drawer in her chest and another set of drawers embedded down her left leg. Both statues are supported by... Look, it's Salvador Dali. There is far too much going on here to describe, and it's all incredibly weird. The pertinent point is that in the background, there is also a giraffe that is on fire and doesn't seem too troubled by that.

Cassandra and the Infinite Doomscroll @eris523.bsky.social · 3d

...a possibly-arch-fey possibly-ancestor to "fix him", at which point the barbarian remained a flattened worm, but now with a tiny magic-worm vasectomy.

When I needed the phrase "tiny magic-worm vasectomy" to describe the results of a player's actions, I had to stop & question all life choices.

Cassandra and the Infinite Doomscroll @eris523.bsky.social · 3d

The barbarian, currently a furry talking inchworm, got crushed flat by a rolling boulder summoned by a horned beast on the playing field. Fortunately, the druid, his fake-widowed fake wife (who possibly slightly hates him) was able to "reinflate him like a balloon".

But not before she called on...

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Cassandra and the Infinite Doomscroll @eris523.bsky.social · 3d

The druid, currently a Labyrinth Firey, used favorite tactic of web+fire despite being unable to cast Web. A topiary spider "the size of a bedroom" (book's exact words) webbed her w/ sticky sap-covered vines, so she just set them on fire, and herself in the process. Fire spread & got passed around.

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Cassandra and the Infinite Doomscroll @eris523.bsky.social · 3d

Tonight's D&D defies description. 1 decapitation and 1 count of arson before the 1st bio break. Another decapitation, several more arson, a flaming decapitated head w/ dead chicken-hat grafted on launched into active game of capture the flag, and some light theft before calling it an early night.

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Very Antifascist Fuckery [no spooky blend] (he/him) @digitaldiscipline.bsky.social · 4d

Pre-session filking at @eris523.bsky.social table.

[to the theme of "The Flinststones"]

Headphones!
Find your headphones!

They're important to play D n Deeeeeeee.

Headphones!
Charge your headphones!

And update
the
VTT.

I have no idea why half the party wants my character dead.

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Cassandra and the Infinite Doomscroll @eris523.bsky.social · 23d

Excellent to know. Thanks!

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 26d

“What, me?” said Appeasement, “You want me? After all these years quietly gathering dust in the history books, you want me again?”
“Yes, of course! It’s your time to shine once more! Come on buddy, look sharp, you’ve got a lot of work ahead of you”

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 27d

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

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Medusa’s Łink (just unban him ffs) @medusaswink.bsky.social · Jul 11

Me: i’m Autistic

Them: Oh you take things literally

Me: No that’s kleptomania

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Your Auntie Grizelda @auntie-grizelda.bsky.social · Sep 15

OMG. Made me cry.

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · Sep 15

Stephen Colbert's Emmys acceptance speech: "I have never loved my country more desperately. God bless America. Stay strong, be brave, and if the elevator tries to bring you down, go crazy and punch a higher floor."

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · Sep 15

It’s 1300 days today

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Principia Discordia @principiadiscordia.bsky.social · Sep 15

Surreal Discordian meme. The background is a desert landscape with cacti under a purple sky and a faint moon. In the foreground stands a figure in a yellow coat with a radiant sunburst for a head; inside the sunburst is the golden apple of Eris, marked with a “K.” Overlaid text reads: “I get my news from the only reliable source, Bibliomancy done with the Principia Discordia.”

It mixes mystical absurdity with satire of media trust, pointing to the Discordian practice of divining meaning chaotically from their parody-holy book.

Generated with Bluesky AltText, a CustomGPT.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · Sep 14

Every pundit article: BLUESKY IS A HOTBED OF RADICALIZATION

Majority of posts in my feed: Check out this cool bug/bird/random historical personage I found!

Small but vivid minority of posts: Do you think Gritty and Alf are in a polycule or nah?

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · Sep 14

If there’s one thing Republicans have always been consistent about, it’s that one must be impeccably polite about Republicans who have recently passed.

SAVE
AMERICA
PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP
- October 19, 2021 -
Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th
President of the United States of
America
Wonderful to see Colin Powell, who made big mistakes on Iraq and famously, so-called weapons of mass destruction, be treated in death so beautifully by the Fake News Media. Hope that happens to me someday. He was
a classic RINO, if even that, always being the first to attack other Republicans. He made plenty of mistakes, but anyway, may he rest in peace!

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Cassandra and the Infinite Doomscroll @eris523.bsky.social · Sep 14

The whole book is pretty inside, with new art and a gallery of movie stills and battle maps for every scene and a secret hollowed out space inside to hold 2d6 customized for the game (with the 1s replaced by little owls). Visually, it's a treasure!

A page from "Jim Henson's Labyrinth the Adventure Game" with a drawing depicting the Labyrinth at the top, rules 3 through 6 for playing the game, and a hole in the pages to store 2d6 inside the book.

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strixus @strixus.bsky.social · Sep 14

I absolutely don't trust my immune system. It is a delusional NIMBY, who regularly destroys its own neighbourhood with its delusions. I'm absolutely going to try to educate it to recognise actual threats, even if I can't get it to stop attacking bits of me like they're 5g cell towers.

Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · Sep 14

“I trust my immune system. I don’t need a vaccine.”

Ok, I trust mine to protect me too. Which is why I trained it extensively on what the virus looks like so it can handle it.

Boxers don’t enter the ring without a plan. It’s the punch you don’t see coming that knocks you out.

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Rachel @rachelneedsanap.bsky.social · Sep 14

A lot of parents of autistic kids are autistic, too, but we’re expected to help our autistic kids navigate these systems. I don’t have the executive functioning or communication skills they seem to assume I do. I need assistance with getting my child assistance.

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · Sep 14

Even the newer kinder ABA variations still prioritizing making autistic kids "indistiguishable from peers" and that is not an outcome that actually benefits autistic people.

#neurodiversity #SNS25

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · Sep 14

If you have any family members who happen to watch Fox News, ask them if they support the overtly genocidal views of Brian Kilmeade.

Fire Brian Kilmeade. Call out Fox News.

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