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Jellyfish @jellyfish31.bsky.social · 21h

This perfectly describes how day to day life feels lately when every bit of news feels like an assault on decency, logic, and reason.

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 22h

"I realize there’s a lot going on right now between work and the seven-headed dragon that is here to brutally murder us, but I really need you to focus."

Don’t Let the Beasts from Revelation Distract You from Your Expense Reports

Thanks for coming in. Have a seat. I realize there’s a lot going on right now between work and the seven-headed dragon that is here to brutally mur...

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Jellyfish @jellyfish31.bsky.social · 4d

Boil the spaghetti for 20 minutes and then bake it for 50 minutes more? I wonder if that ends up as a sort of noodle-loaf?

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 7d

Book Cover of the Day:

Ed Gorey cover:
Nineteenth Century German Tales
Edited by Angel Flores
A Doubleday Anchor Original
Illustration of spider in flames with scrubby landscape and cliffside in background.

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Jellyfish @jellyfish31.bsky.social · 11d

Owl Secrets.
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#Halloween #owl #theowlsarenotwhattheyseem #autumn #snapshot

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Jellyfish @jellyfish31.bsky.social · 11d

Halloween!
|JW
#Halloween #pumpkin #autumn #photo #snapshot

Ceramic Halloween pumpkin with orange lights inside.

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Jellyfish @jellyfish31.bsky.social · 11d

Halloween Market
|JW
#Halloween #spooky #pumpkin #snapshot

Halloween decoration arrangement. A woman with a witch hat, a human figure with a smiling pumpkin head, standing in front of a cart stocked with broomsticks.

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Jellyfish @jellyfish31.bsky.social · 11d

Halloween Boo.
|JW

Ceramic ghost Halloween decorations lit with orange lights.

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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social · 13d

I had that dream again

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 13d

Autumn Morning, Adolf Kaufmann, 1918.

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Helen Bailey @blackbirdsing.bsky.social · 15d

a lovely nutty acorn

Large nut brown striped acorn on tree cup hat gold green surrounded by small branches and oak leaves

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 17d

Book Cover of the Day:

GHOSTS AND GOBLINS
BY Wilhelmina Harper
Black cover with large orange moon and witch crossing it on a broomstick.

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Jellyfish @jellyfish31.bsky.social · 18d

What beautiful pieces of art those are.

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⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (StinaMarie) @stinasdemons.com · 20d

It's official, and time for my annual post:

HAPPY 1ST DAY OF SP🎃🎃KY SEASON!

Illustration of a pumpkin person with a pumpkin head, wearing a pink robe, holding a mug of coffee with ghost smoke coming out of it, standing in front of an open window, looking out happily.

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Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival @theharvestmaid.bsky.social · 20d

Finally! October is here!

three skeletons are dancing in a cemetery

ALT: three skeletons are dancing in a cemetery

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 29d

"These individuals are unbothered; immune to the turbulence of fact. While the rest of us chase revelation, saddled by the tangible information our five senses pipe into our brains, these dark luminaries coast along, happily certain that certainty itself is not necessary."

Ignorance Isn’t the Absence of Knowledge; It Is the Presence of Maximum Comfort

“We are going to have to live here with one another, believing what we believe, disagreeing in the ways we disagree… To recognize that does not mea...

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Jellyfish @jellyfish31.bsky.social · Sep 18

Are there tears in this? Ya. Too salty. And of course the extra moisture gave you a soggy bottom.

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · Sep 16

Here’s my Free Stuff Thread, if you want some silent movie goodness but are short on cash

Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · Sep 16

Bringing my FREE STUFF thread over.

Lots of archives, national film institutes, nonprofits and others have made collections of silent films available for free, no signup needed.

I have the links

an animated image with the words did you say free stuff

ALT: an animated image with the words did you say free stuff

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · Sep 16

An intellectual's delusion is to think that the only way to understand someone is by analyzing their words to understand the ideas behind them

Often the best way to understand someone is to analyze their actions to understand the feelings behind them.

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Jellyfish @jellyfish31.bsky.social · Sep 15

I appreciate the concerns raised in your writing. I've been reading the book Stolen Focus by Johann Hari who deals with similar ideas and has similar questions.

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