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Grace Pritchard Burson

@gaudynight78.bsky.social

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Twitter's official Dorothy L. Sayers stan account, 2018-24, now on Bluesky. New Englander in Quebec. Eph '00/YDS '04. Mom, priest (the sweary kind), writer (ask me about my musical!), doula. Yes, my grandma shot a Nazi. She/her. INTJ/5w4.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1h

I have long believed that we should be WAY more vocal about how police and ICE constantly murder dogs, and I think this is great messaging actually.

The reality is that you can mobilize a whole lot of usually tuned-out Americans around a “someone is being mean to hecking doggos” cause.

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Grace Pritchard Burson @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 1h

The Catholics have been solid on the environment for longer than that (with the significant exception of refusing to budge their nonsensical position on family planning)

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 4h

A pilot out in Nova Scotia seems to have had some fun yesterday.

www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...

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Grace Pritchard Burson @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 2h

YUP

Since the advent of ebooks, and therefore the elimination of the condition of "I don't have anything to read", I have become more and more ruthless about DNFing books that aren't doing it for me.

Grace Pritchard Burson @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 2h

... I mean, if you're speeding, you're speeding, I don't see why you shouldn't get dinged for that.

(Fifteen years of driving hybrid and then electric cars have made me a total killjoy about driving speed, a fact for which I do not apologize. Get off my ass, I'm mileagemaxxing here.)

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Grace Pritchard Burson @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 3h

It's an opt-in feature of their app, which detects phone use while driving. (And is clearly able to distinguish between when I'm at the wheel and when I'm using public transit, since I am pretty much always doing something on my phone while on the bus/metro!)

Grace Pritchard Burson @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 3h

You know what got me to quit, cold turkey, ever looking at my phone in the car for any reason other than GPS navigation?

Knowing that my insurance company was tracking my driving patterns and that un-distracted driving would save me money.

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 4h

Also, people gotta make up their minds about white people and food because they’re always like “your food is unexotic and bland and also how dare you ever try anything from anywhere else.” Give us an out here.

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Grace Pritchard Burson @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 3h

(Yes, Fetterman was already problematic; no, he wouldn't be the mess that he now is without the stroke)

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Grace Pritchard Burson @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 3h

Platner seems unlikely to have a debilitating stroke weeks after taking office and undergo a major personality shift

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Grace Pritchard Burson @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 3h

Goats: "Become ungovernable. I've shown you how. What are you waiting for?!"

Grace Pritchard Burson @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 6h

Yeah, it's not exactly normal from the beginning.

Grace Pritchard Burson @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 6h

🤣🤣

Grace Pritchard Burson @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 7h

Right?!

Grace Pritchard Burson @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 8h

And in fact, there are many, many books that are bad and no one should read.

"Any book is better than no book" is simply false.

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 1d

books are not empathy hacks and reading a lot of them is not necessarily a mark of moral character.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Grace Pritchard Burson @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 8h

... no it doesn't.

Grace Pritchard Burson @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 8h

Hell, we're already at the Imperium in many ways.

Grace Pritchard Burson @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 8h

People are such absolute shit at understanding statistics. It's truly mind-boggling.

Grace Pritchard Burson @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 8h

Baby I AM flirting, you just can't tell because I comprehensively suck at it

Claire Huxtable’s Thoughts 🇹🇹 ♑️ @pagesandbeats.blacksky.app · 8h

Baby I’m not flirting….. I’m just bored.

Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 9h

Baby I’m not flirting… I’m just southern

Grace Pritchard Burson @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 8h

Except that usually if it's packaged as litfic it kind of sucks in genre terms (no, I didn't just finish yet another unsatisfying litspec novel, why do you ask?)

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Grace Pritchard Burson @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 9h

Sounds like the way an LLM operates. No actual human thought or contact with reality, just an infinite recursion of references in an echo chamber.

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Brendan Davey @brendandavey.bsky.social · 9h

This is why I believe, that even if Jeff Bezos was a fucking saint who gave away 99.9% of the billions he can never spend anyways, I would still rather tax his dumb bald ass to hell.

That money, handled by actual experts, from a large, efficient, governmental perspective, would be

6/

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Grace Pritchard Burson @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 19h

Otherwise, however, I generally eat bagels one of three ways:

- toasted with butter
-cream cheese, sometimes with stuff mixed in
- as a breakfast sandwich, which I make myself and which are damn good

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Grace Pritchard Burson @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 19h

THIS

Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social · 1d

it's hard to get mad at Kamala over anything except Gaza because otherwise the party treated her horribly and she nearly saved them from oblivion anyway

☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 1d

The other fun one is where people retcon the joe biden being forced out by leftist posters rather than like a bunch of dem insiders leaking to the times axios and other rags starting early spring 2024. like pelosi was leaking this shit by march and most of the ones pushing it early didnt want harris

Grace Pritchard Burson @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 19h

When you get a fresh hot dozen of sesame bagels from Fairmount in Montreal, it's involuntary. At least one of those babies will have been inhaled by the time you get to the bus stop. They're just that good.

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 4d

SOME OF YOU ARE EATING YOUR BAGELS DRY WITH NOTHING ON THEM????!!!!!!

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