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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 1d

oh and how could I forget this one! if you've ever seen that old Tumblr post about the Eldritch One, Jolene, this version is basically that (but with original lyrics)

youtu.be/PSRe1F0G60w?...

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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 1d

Better than the original sorrynotsorry

youtu.be/64YBUeZKSHc?...

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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 1d

Philip Roth invented heterosexual literature as an unfortunately successful attempt to escape the "Jew-sissy" box, all literature before him was at least a lil fruity

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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

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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 1d

just applied for a j*b that required both my state gender AND my federal gender

Gender - State
Gender
Please select

Gender - Federal
Gender (for federal reporting purposes)
Please select

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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 3d

on this Coming Out Day, shout-out to the Reverend Richard Coles, formerly of the Communards, for one of the best comings-out of all time

Richard Coles first came out as gay to his mother, in 1978, when he was 16. He played her the Tom Robinson Band's "Glad to Be Gay" four times, before she said "Darling, are you trying to tell me something?"[

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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 3d

never but if I get tickets for the Rush concert next year I will strongly consider it for bathroom purposes 😅

francis @dilfkink.kindboys.online · 3d

question to all my fellow trans men: how many of you "girlmode," that is to say, presenting as a girl in certain contexts when you've already started your transition?

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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 3d

it'd been probably a decade since I'd thought about this band/singer, and literally yesterday a random tiktok had me telling my spouse about it 🤯 extremely uncanny timing

Tyron @tyron.bsky.social · 3d

well, there we are news.sky.com/story/lostpr...

Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins dies after attack in prison

Paedophile Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins has died after being attacked in prison.

news.sky.com

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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 3d

HIGHLY recommend joining some sort of in-person knitting community, or at learning with your most experienced knitter friend. it really helps to have someone who can correct your mistakes 😅

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mbbendt @bendts2cents.bsky.social · 4d

Pretty sure that when you have giant frogs everywhere, God is very disappointed in how you are treating immigrants.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 5d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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the ghost of pony pony huckabuck @spindlypete.bsky.social · 5d

this sucks ass, man. every day is such a huge bummer now. can somebody deal with the problems please

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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 5d

in honor of Krasznahorkai's Nobel, here's a picture of the building Korin from War & War stays in when he's in New York (from the time I happened to be in the relevant neighborhood while reading the book)

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 7d

Eight thousand iterations of this discourse later, there is no political utility in calling fascists fat. All you're doing is propping up the brutal hierarchy which lets people like them work up from deniable social torture to state violence.

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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 7d

show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn't a selfie

A shirt with cute rubber ducks on it and the text:
M R DUCKS
M R NOT
O S M R
C M WANGS
L I B
M R DUCKS

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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 7d

10 horror movies to get to know me by

☎️ Skinamarink
🫎Evil Dead 2
👁️The Beyond
🔩Tetsuo: The Iron Man
📼Videodrome
🫙Bride of Frankenstein
🚗Titane
👽Attack the Block
🏜️The Outwaters
🩸Braindead (aka Dead-Alive)

Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 7d

10 horror movies to get to know me by

🦇Bram Stoker's Dracula
✝️The Devils
🍼Rosemary's Baby
👻The Medium
👫Possession
📹Lost Highway
💉Audition
🐸The Wicker Man ('73)
⚫Under the Skin
♦️The Neon Demon

Tiffany Morris @tiffmorris.bsky.social · 7d

10 horror movies to get to know me by
🪡 May
🩸 Nosferatu '22
🩸 Nosferatu the Vampyre
🩸 Nosferatu ‘24
🌸 Midsommar
💀 Blood Quantum
🩰 Suspiria '77
🐝 Candyman
🐅 Manhunter
🌲 Antichrist

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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 7d

is it halakhically acceptable to wave a lemon and a leek from my fridge under a blanket fort in my living room bc this is just Too Much

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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 7d

the timing of Sukkot is absurd, who thought we needed a weeklong holiday literally right after the high holy days??

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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 8d

how do you turn "adjunct instructor at 5 different colleges over the past 8 years, with a 2-year period of actual full employment at another college in the middle" into brief coherent bullet points????

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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 8d

trying to turn an academic CV into a resume suitable for applying to non-academic jobs is pure hell lol

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