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queenregnant.bsky.social @queenregnant.bsky.social · 9h

Dang satah this is an intriguing one

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 18h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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queenregnant.bsky.social @queenregnant.bsky.social · 1d

Fix it after launch

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 4d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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queenregnant.bsky.social @queenregnant.bsky.social · 1d

I don't stan Chappell Roan personally per se, love her tunes but I know nothing about her personally? But my god the number of times people have thrown up some weird theory or insisted they were picking up some obscure vibe and so actually she sucks has made me feel protective of her

Ophie Dokie 🌻 @ophiedokie.bsky.social · 1d

Would anyone like to come tell me some stupid bullshit about her being a secret Republican like you were last summer.... Come on up to the front. Tell everyone how feeble minded you become when theres a woman you can hate.

Owen Dennis @oweeeeendennis.bsky.social · 1d

I was at this concert and lemme tell you, I've never seen a bigger audience pop than this.

If only there was some kind of message Democrats could read from this. Oh well!

www.thedailybeast.com/pop-star-cha...

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Ophie Dokie 🌻 @ophiedokie.bsky.social · 1d

Would anyone like to come tell me some stupid bullshit about her being a secret Republican like you were last summer.... Come on up to the front. Tell everyone how feeble minded you become when theres a woman you can hate.

Owen Dennis @oweeeeendennis.bsky.social · 1d

I was at this concert and lemme tell you, I've never seen a bigger audience pop than this.

If only there was some kind of message Democrats could read from this. Oh well!

www.thedailybeast.com/pop-star-cha...

Pop Star Pauses Concert to Say ‘F*** ICE’

Chappell Roan slammed the federal agency on Friday, while Chance the Rapper put out the same message at a different concert.

www.thedailybeast.com

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Mircalla @inplacesdeep.bsky.social · 3d

This is old and it's not even the first time I've seen it but I need to stress to everyone that I am the reincarnation of this teenage girl

Tale Foundry
@TheTaleFoundry
Brainrot this, chronically online that...
Meanwhile some teenage girl in the 1930s was sending these to her faourite horror magazine:

Devil's Croft is enticing. Raggh---woof---grr---I like so very much.

If you can get me any more story-length poems like Lovecraft's Psychopompos---by all means 'gimme.'

Ah---ahaha---haw haww---chuckle!

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queenregnant.bsky.social @queenregnant.bsky.social · 3d

"This government is interested in results, not objectives." Like ok man but what does that MEAN??!! "I'm interested in arrivals, not destinations" Huh?! "I'm interested in feeding hungry people, not serving dinner." WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO SAY

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queenregnant.bsky.social @queenregnant.bsky.social · 3d

There's this particular language Carney always uses here, that he's used before, to say he's not committed to reaching a climate target that drives me wild, to wit: "this government is interested in results, not objectives."

a cartoon of a man sitting at a desk with the words " i was elected to lead not to read "

Alt: Simpsons gif, the President saying "I was elected to lead, not to read."

media.tenor.com

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queenregnant.bsky.social @queenregnant.bsky.social · 4d

Don't know what point I'm making, it's not like I will defend Far Cry 5 as rhetorically coherent in any particular way. But I guess it's sad to lose that possibility space, that way of reading ourselves into these violent texts created by giant conglomerates, because fascists aren't bad guys anymore

queenregnant.bsky.social @queenregnant.bsky.social · 4d

(It's always sad and pathetic when leads come out and explain how their game about murdering Christo-Fascists isn't political. Dunno man they could be Martians on Alpha Centauri but you made them heavily-armed, extremely religious, politically connected white USAmericans in a rural environment)

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queenregnant.bsky.social @queenregnant.bsky.social · 4d

One villain literally tries to use conditioning to change your beliefs at one point. A Christo-Fascist. Uses conditioning. To change you. Hi, I'm a trans woman, what do you think this plot point signified to me? (It rhymes with bonversion verapy.)

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queenregnant.bsky.social @queenregnant.bsky.social · 4d

Far Cry 5 asks you to spend dozens of hours murdering Christo-Fascists. They have the serial numbers filed off so there's some deniability that they're Christo-Fascists but I don't think any USAmerican didn't understand who they were. Playing that as a trans woman was very interesting.

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queenregnant.bsky.social @queenregnant.bsky.social · 4d

In some ways this is an alignment with an underlying reality, because it's very hard for AAA action games to have coherent progressive messages, being products of late capitalism, but they have sometimes created interesting canvases for player interpretation.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 5d

It's now considered controversial to fight the KKK in a video game.

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queenregnant.bsky.social @queenregnant.bsky.social · 5d

Worcester; sleeper hit, Peabody

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 5d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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queenregnant.bsky.social @queenregnant.bsky.social · 5d

10 Horror Movies To Get To Know Me

🧗‍♀️ The Descent
☎️ Scream
🎃 Halloween (1978)
👾 Alien
📺 I Saw The TV Glow
💐 Midsommar
🦪 It Follows
🍔 The Menu
📽️ Mulholland Drive
❄️ The Thing (1982)

Tanya Floaker @floaker.bsky.social · 6d

10 horror movies to get to know me

❤️‍🔥 Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
🔥 The Wicker Man (1973)
🪨 Enys Men
💐 Midsommar
👁️ Ringu (1&2)
🤯 The War Game (1966)
🩸 Tokyo Gore Police
📺 I Saw The TV Glow
🐺 The Company of Wolves
⛪ Penda's Fen

Shane Marble @shanemarble.bsky.social · 6d

10 horror movies to get to know me

🩰 Suspiria (1977)
💃 Suspiria (2018)
🚘 Titane
✏️ Eraserhead
🪰 The Fly (1986)
👰 Bride of Frankenstein
🧺 Basket Case
😴 Nightmare on Elm St 1-3

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queenregnant.bsky.social @queenregnant.bsky.social · 5d

Honestly this seems like the hero we need in 2025

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S. Kaiya J. || Mirror-lock Atelier @mirror-lock.bsky.social · 5d

Who's excited for spooky season? 🎃✋

Who's also struggling with SAD and and feeling overwhelmed by the sheer number of small tasks to juggle every day? ✋✋

If you're interested in a tiny game that encourages mutual accountability through hexing your friends, keep a sharp eye out here next week... 👀

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queenregnant.bsky.social @queenregnant.bsky.social · 5d

I honestly hate when people say this kind of thing but I feel like it's out of vogue enough that I can say it ironically, also I very genuinely have a bit of a hyperfixation on female pop and punk artists from the 80s and early 90s

queenregnant.bsky.social @queenregnant.bsky.social · 5d

Important life update, I have reached the conclusion that I should have been born in 1971. This would make me ideally placed to hear early Madonna, Cyndi Lauper, and Pat Benatar at a formative age, get into Romeo Void in my late teens, and transition after seeing Bikini Kill live

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queenregnant.bsky.social @queenregnant.bsky.social · 5d

This is the same Muppet 20 years earlier

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queenregnant.bsky.social @queenregnant.bsky.social · 5d

Important life update, I have reached the conclusion that I should have been born in 1971. This would make me ideally placed to hear early Madonna, Cyndi Lauper, and Pat Benatar at a formative age, get into Romeo Void in my late teens, and transition after seeing Bikini Kill live

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