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Boo-greenia 👻 @eugreenia.bsky.social · 2h

It’s usually tomorrow

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Tusk Jenkins @tuskjenkins.bsky.social · 10h

Look right into your fire and ask it how it started and it will never tell you. Not that it doesn't know, it just doesn't believe it I believe I also believe life originated from rubbing two beliefs together, there that's two and this is a single-celled campfire

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 13h

Went to Costco for sensible things like toilet paper and cheddar cheese. Came home with six boxes of TimTams, two bottles of scotch, and two kilometers of plastic wrap.

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Boo-greenia 👻 @eugreenia.bsky.social · 11h

a penguin holding a sign that says hello on it

Alt: a penguin holding a sign that says hello on it

media.tenor.com

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Boo-greenia 👻 @eugreenia.bsky.social · 12h

As long as he follows that up by praising your work productivity while on the meth, you should be golden

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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 14h

my phone autocorrected “our government” to “known enemy” and that feels right.

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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social · 14h

Tonight's Low Quality Ad is for these Moon Moth Wings.
Costume idea for introverts who will be reluctantly dragged to a Halloween party: Wear moth wings, stand by a lamp the entire night, talk to no one.
collabs.shop/p2dhn1

A mannequin with green moth wings on it.

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[Sic] Burns @sicburns2.bsky.social · 20h

I feel like the world is really close to that point where I can just pour bags of M&Ms straight into my mouth several times a day

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Boo-greenia 👻 @eugreenia.bsky.social · 19h

🤞🤞🤞

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Boo-greenia 👻 @eugreenia.bsky.social · 1d

Meow x 2

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Boo-greenia 👻 @eugreenia.bsky.social · 1d

Meow

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 1d

But that 120 year legacy changed on October 1st, when US customs announced a phase-out of Canadian access to the library.

Canadians with existing cards could still enter via an emergency exit until October 1st, but now must go through border control to enter their library.

Are we the baddies, etc.

Locals feel a loss as the U.S. limits Canadian access to cross-border library

Canadians will no longer be allowed to freely use the American entrance to the cultural building that sits on both sides of the U.S.-Canada border.

www.npr.org

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 1d

There's a little library that straddles the US-Canadian border:
the "Haskell Free Library and Opera House".

Since 1904, it's been free to use for people in Stanstead, Quebec & Derby Line, Vermont, with just a black tape line to indicate the international border.

(📷: Don Emmert, AFP, 2017)

Black tape marks the U.S.-Canada border inside the Haskell Free Library and Opera House in 2017.
Don Emmert/AFP via Getty Images

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Boo-greenia 👻 @eugreenia.bsky.social · 1d

Costco did ok with my progressives, but you have to be a member

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Boo-greenia 👻 @eugreenia.bsky.social · 1d

Pretty at all the lengths 🤓

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Boo-greenia 👻 @eugreenia.bsky.social · 1d

So much grey!! I guess I’ll soon have to stop describing her as a black dog with a white face because she’s gonna be majority grey. Like The Villages in Florida, lol

A black dog on her back showing off her white face, white chest and a whole lot of grey everywhere else

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 1d

Hot Water Balloon

xkcd.com/3153/

Comic. [Giant balloon reminiscent of a hot air balloon but wavy and laying on the ground with “bloop” “bloop” sound effects. Two people are in a basket attached to one end of the balloon.] [caption] Hot water balloon rides turn out to be significantly less romantic than the air kind.

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Boo-greenia 👻 @eugreenia.bsky.social · 1d

I’m sticking here too. And I just found some new ones to follow

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 1d

Well now, would you look at that?

A massive study of NEARLY 300,000 people in the United States found that receiving an updated 2024-2025 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine REDUCED people’s risk of severe disease AND death in ALL age groups, REGARDLESS of immunity from prior infection or vaccination.

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Sourise @souriscerise.bsky.social · 1d

are muppets all one species?
or is it, like, lots of species all from the planet muppet?
or something else?

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Salty MacTavish @saltymactavish.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve been hearing a lot about self-medicating. Where do you guys get your leeches?

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Boo-greenia 👻 @eugreenia.bsky.social · 1d

Doomkick’s gone, which seems like the logical progression of a shitty situation

But Geist is gone too? What’s going on?

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Tusk Jenkins @tuskjenkins.bsky.social · 1d

Do you love me, now that I can dance? I've been going back and asking this of all my big unrequited situations and the overwhelming response was [free jazz]

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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 2d

No matter how bad/trashy/stupid you find a super-popular book... it's saying something that lots of people (with a wide diversity of tastes) want to hear - and therefore, it's worth examining thoughtfully and critically.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 3d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Travis comma bitch @prof-hinkley.bsky.social · 2d

*5 minutes after stepping out of my time machine and meeting Jesus Christ* they're called Takis. Have you ever had anything that hot?

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