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@megrosejoy.bsky.social

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Salty New Englander. She/her.

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Meg @megrosejoy.bsky.social · Sep 12

Countless people have been in my house and no one has commented on this.

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 9h

British Columbia, it’s not too late to come over to the right side of history. The Blue Jays play 2,500 miles away. They are not your home team!

Meg @megrosejoy.bsky.social · 9h

omg.

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Mike G @mikeginmd.bsky.social · 9h

Little Nicky (2000)

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 9h

If I send you this, know I’ve lost my shit

Sal Frelick

Meg @megrosejoy.bsky.social · 9h

Hams?

A tabby cat peeks out from behind a gray curtain. A little white dog on the bed in the foreground watches her.

Meg @megrosejoy.bsky.social · 10h

Okay that last sentence, maybe not DAO/the Blight. But you weren’t gonna win the war without helping those in Thedas and gaining their support. (And yes you could do it evilly.)

Meg @megrosejoy.bsky.social · 10h

It’s not a bad game, and it’s enjoyable to play. But the other 3 DA games (more 2 and Veilguard, to a different extent Origins) pack a much more emotional punch for me. The threats feel more existential, because they’re born of how those in power treat those without power.

Meg @megrosejoy.bsky.social · 10h

DAI just… ignored them. It says “but both sides bad” and then dangles the Corypheys-shaped keys.

Meg @megrosejoy.bsky.social · 10h

In DAO, it’s a smaller scale. You have to solve all the little issues in each faction before they’ll agree to help you fight the BBEG. In DA2 and DAV, the BBEGs are taking direct advantage of societal ills (inequality, oppression, violence, poverty) to prop up their causes and gain power.

Meg @megrosejoy.bsky.social · 10h

I thought about Dragon Age while swimming laps tonight and pinpointed one of the reasons that Inquisition is at the bottom of my DA tier list. It’s the only game that ignores societal blight (no pun intended) to focus on the BBEG, whereas the other games have the two issues relate.

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BASTARD MAN ETERNAL™️ @hombrebastardo.bsky.social · 13h

i’m sorry who is playing at what

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 13h

“her critically reviewed single”

Covie @covie_93
X.com
BREAKING: Lara Trump will be performing her critically reviewed single to close the TPUSA
Superbowl halftime show.

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April Wolfe @aprilwolfe.bsky.social · 13h

Short story collections should be way more popular and marketed better for the short-attention present.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 22h

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

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 18h

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 20h

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 22h

Police officers who publicly declare that they’ll quit if a mayoral candidate they dislike wins the election are (1) usually bluffing—sure buddy, toss away that paycheck and pension—and (2) exactly the sort of cops cities would be better off without, ones who don’t see themselves as public servants.

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.bsky.social · 22h

Congress better hurry up and settle the shutdown before everyone figures out they’re nonessential personnel.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 15h

Put them in Foxboro and they’ll be playing a home game

Men in Blazers Media Network @meninblazers.bsky.social · 16h

CAPE VERDE, POPULATION 560,000, QUALIFY FOR A FIRST-EVER WORLD CUP 🇨🇻

The second-smallest nation ever to achieve that feat. Every US state has a bigger population, yet the Blue Sharks are on their way to football's big dance. Astonishing and inspiring 🦈

Meg @megrosejoy.bsky.social · 15h

Sheesh, this storm won’t let up.

Meg @megrosejoy.bsky.social · 16h

I’m settling in…

a man in a striped sweater is sitting on a couch

ALT: a man in a striped sweater is sitting on a couch

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Meg @megrosejoy.bsky.social · 17h

plankton from spongebob is sitting in a chair holding a bucket of popcorn

ALT: plankton from spongebob is sitting in a chair holding a bucket of popcorn

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Meg @megrosejoy.bsky.social · 17h

I think some of my mutuals might be sub-posting each other.

Meg @megrosejoy.bsky.social · 17h

a woman wearing a blue shirt that says rice volleyball on it

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 2d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Meg @megrosejoy.bsky.social · 20h

I thought the timing of the ceasefire happening right before the Nobel Peace Prize was curious.

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Anna Clark @annaleighclark.bsky.social · 20h

A surprising sight in St. Clair County, Michigan: A man waving Fixodent denture cream before the county commissioners at an August meeting.

“I am an unfluoridated child,” he declared, “with a set of uppers and lowers.”

Man with wire-frame glasses, blue overalls, and a gray zip-up hoodie waves a tube of denture cream before the dais of the county commissioners at an August meeting in St. Clair County, Michigan.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22h

i'm sure duffy is just lying here but also i'll say again that they hard time conceptualizing relations between people that aren't strictly hierarchical.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."