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Anthea but blue ☂🚲 @inamellowwood.bsky.social · 26d

(Once upon a time Elisa and I tried to have a podcast called Monster Girls that was ostensibly about horror through a feminist lens but mostly just us watching horror movies and then talking about them for an hour and a half, and this made me want to revive that)

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Anthea but blue ☂🚲 @inamellowwood.bsky.social · 26d

We only had one really substantive gripe about a production element; the writing and direction are tight, smart, and surprising.

Recommended for: former DONNIE DARKO teens and true crime girlies.

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Anthea but blue ☂🚲 @inamellowwood.bsky.social · 26d

HAPPY SCREEPY SEASON. Last night we watched 2016's I AM NOT A SERIAL KILLER and it's frankly a nearly perfect movie??? Those exist??? Please go watch this immediately, Christopher Lloyd and Max Records are both AMAZING in it.

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Jacob Bogage @jacobbogage.bsky.social · 26d

Lightning round of what’s closed and what’s open during this government shutdown.

Got questions?

Drop them in the replies and I’ll work to answer them through the day.

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A.G.Willow | looking for work + comms open @willowsquest.co.uk · Sep 25

Throwback to the time i wrote a joke "one-page game" called HOBBYJOB RPG: YOUR HOBBY IS YOUR JOB in an effort to capture the vibe of the freelancer/self employed lifestyle

HOBBYJOB RPG
your hobby is your job, this may have been a mistake

__ACTIONS__
HOBBY
JOB
CRY
SLEEP

ENERGY: 🔳🔳🔳🔳🔳
STRESS: 🔳🔳🔳🔳🔳
BILLS: 🔳🔳🔳🔳🔳🔳
PROJECT: 🔳🔳🔳🔳🔳🔳

MONTHLY ACTIONS: 🔳🔳🔳🔳

Hobby: -1 stress -1 energy +1 project
Job: +2 stress +2 bills -2 energy
Cry: -1 stress
Sleep: +2 energy

•if BILLS bar is not full by end of every month, you FAIL
•if STRESS meets or exceeds bar, you have an ANXIETY ATTACK. reduce ENERGY to 0.
•if PROJECT meets or exceeds bar, add +1 to BILLS at start of month (the fabled PASSIVE INCOME)
•you WIN when BILLS is filled entirely by PASSIVE INCOME

CHANCE (roll 1d6 once a month)
1: nothing happens. continue as usual.
2: an unexpected expense. -1 BILLS
3: someone on social media left nice comments on your stuff :-) -1 STRESS
4. your files corrupted. -1 PROJECT
5. someone on social media REALLY likes your stuff. +1 BILLS
6. working at a computer all day has given you a repetitive stress injury. -2 bills OR reduce ENERGY bar by 1 for (1d4) month(s) as you attempt to rest the injury.

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Anthea but blue ☂🚲 @inamellowwood.bsky.social · Sep 8

You know something that would make Seattle better? Denser housing! More mixed use and corner stores! Neighborhood centers! And you can tell the City Council you're into all this before 9/12 with just a couple clicks:
housingconsortium.salsalabs.org/seattlecompp...

Pass a Bold Comprehensive Plan Update for Seattle!

Take Action for abundant and affordable housing in Seattle

housingconsortium.salsalabs.org

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S.E. Fleenor @sefleenor.bsky.social · Sep 8

Download Krita for free and just start making.

This is how I've been teaching myself digital art and hoo buddy, I have learned so much so fast.

(Also there are other open source/free softwares out there for all kinds of things!)

angel💀 @sabattons.com · Sep 8

"but art should be accessible" it is, you can learn to draw, paint, collage, sculpt, make pixels. right now, starting today. art has never been more accessible monetarily nor physically than it is now in this age. access to artist labor and machine production is not an accessibility issue.

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Mike Sellraiser III: Sell on Earth @profmikesell.bsky.social · Sep 8

Scary Movies grad seminar, night 2. Tonight's topic is monsters, monstrosity, and teratology. We're reading Cohen, Braidotti, and Thacker and discussing Sinners, Blue Velvet, I Saw the TV Glow, The Thing, The Brood, and Nope.

Here are all the films we'll be studying this semester.
boxd.it/NGlXE

Scary Movies Graduate Seminar Watchlist (Fall 2025)

These are the films we'll be studying for the Scary Movies graduate seminar I'm teaching at Indiana University of Pennsylvania in the Fall of 2025. The units are focused as follows: 1. Monsters, monst...

boxd.it

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · Nov 15

gotta bring this classic over here

a tweet from my old twitter account reading “[historian voice] it has always sucked ass to be alive”

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Anthea but blue ☂🚲 @inamellowwood.bsky.social · Sep 8

Slightly diminish a book

Finite Jest

Stu Fleming @thebasement.nz · Sep 8

Slightly diminish a book

Wuthering Flats

JessTerraformEarth 🌏 💚 🌈 💧 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇳🇿 @jessterraformearth.bsky.social · Sep 8

Slightly diminish a book

Maybe Dick

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · Sep 8

Black square (“and so on to infinity…” inscribed in Latin around its edges) representing the nothingness that was prior to the universe, as pictured by the great occult philosopher Robert Fludd, who himself passed into infinity #onthisday in 1637. publicdomainreview.org/essay/b... #OTD

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Greg van Eekhout @gregvaneekhout.bsky.social · Sep 8

Every time there’s litfic vs genre discourse I remember that writing was invented by Sumerians to track beer inventory and I head to the fridge.

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Anthea but blue ☂🚲 @inamellowwood.bsky.social · Sep 8

Comedy: Much Ado and Twelfth Night are gonna have to have a cage fight for my heart, here.

Tragedy: how can I say anything but Hamlet? I love MacB, I love R&J, I love Othello, but ... my boy.

🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · Sep 7

To push the awful demons from my head / I've thought of Shakespeare since I left my bed...

TELL ME YOUR FAVORITE:

-Shakespeare 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐃𝐘

-Shakespeare 𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐆𝐄𝐃𝐘

I prithee, doo it nowe

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Vincent Ledvina @vincentledvina.bsky.social · Sep 7

One of the most iconic videos I’ve ever filmed—stepping outside our cabin in Venetie, Alaska and seeing an auroral substorm occurring directly overhead. This was a legendary view.

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David Reamer @anchistorian.bsky.social · Sep 6

Alaska landscape woodblock print by Sumio Kawakami (1895-1972). Born in Yokohama, he spent part of 1917 to 1918 working in America and Canada, including at an Alaska cannery, before returning to Japan. From a reprint of his Alaska Story collection. #alaskahistory #alaska

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Anthea but blue ☂🚲 @inamellowwood.bsky.social · Sep 7

I DO regret that nobody ever mentioned what a complete piece of garbage Antonio is! All I ever heard is that he and Bassanio are kinda gay, which is true, but CHRIST does Antonio suck. Every single time he is given an opportunity to make a choice he goes for the worst one.

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Anthea but blue ☂🚲 @inamellowwood.bsky.social · Sep 7

Listen, you all know, I love Shakespeare, but holy shit I have never read one of his plays where I disliked every single "good guy" as much as The Merchant of Venice. ice-cold take but this play is skin-crawling. I don't regret putting off reading it for so long!

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Celia Richardson @celiarichardson.bsky.social · Sep 6

Thank you for all the suggestions for attracting more hot men to the National Trust. My favourite so far was getting Hot Priest to come and hide out in some of our priest holes. If anyone knows Andrew Scott please can you raise the idea with him - just casually.

Celia Richardson @celiarichardson.bsky.social · Sep 6

Customer feedback this week;

‘Please can you get some more diversity at the National Trust by encouraging more hot men to visit.’

Ideas for how we do this v welcome. Nothing too racy please - we are the National Trust not the National Tryst.

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Anthea but blue ☂🚲 @inamellowwood.bsky.social · Sep 6

I have seen multiple people biking up Virginia from Pike Place today and it scares the shit out of me every time. This is a steep hill! It is cobblestones! Please don't die!!

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Anthea but blue ☂🚲 @inamellowwood.bsky.social · Sep 5

@drjclau.bsky.social

Stu Fleming @thebasement.nz · Sep 5

I’ve put a task titled “The Beguine” into my teams jira backlog in To Do. Now we wait.

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Birds Are Dinosaurs 🦢=🦖 @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social · Sep 4

The movies don't really get into it, but it's worth remembering that Denethor went crazy because he spent too much time doomscrolling on the Palantír and it cooked his brain

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Anthea but blue ☂🚲 @inamellowwood.bsky.social · Sep 4

Anyway, @jordyrosenberg.bsky.social's CONFESSIONS OF THE FOX hits so many notes historical, fictional, and queerical that I've been fascinated by since high school that I had to see if we were in the same 18th cen. social deviance class together at Carnegie Mellon. (afaict we were not)

Anthea but blue ☂🚲 @inamellowwood.bsky.social · Sep 4

You know when you come across a piece of media so perfectly tailored to your interests and tastes that you're not sure you haven't found a version of yourself from an alternate universe?

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Anthea but blue ☂🚲 @inamellowwood.bsky.social · Sep 4

🎶Yeah, it's such a waste of time
Ah,
📣BROOKLYN!
📣BROOKLYN!!
🎶Take me in

Anthea but blue ☂🚲 @inamellowwood.bsky.social · Sep 4

Frankly it might just be "I and Love and You" but with every instance of "Brooklyn" replaced by the Beastie Boys

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