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The Late Rackletang 🪦🦇

@rackletang.bsky.social

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Big butter and egg woman. Burnt out. Neurofunky. Annoyingly political or annoyingly light-hearted. Everyone gets full human rights without exception or GTFO. Weenie was my sweet jerkface tabby.

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The Late Rackletang 🪦🦇 @rackletang.bsky.social · May 8

Hug your kitties while you can. RIP Weenie Bean 2011-2025

A fat brunette woman is cradling a beautiful tabby cat in her arms.

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David Cooper @davidbcooper.bsky.social · 6m

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The Late Rackletang 🪦🦇 @rackletang.bsky.social · 5m

Meowdigliani

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 1h

THREAD. When my parents' cat Bridget went missing, my dad, to try to ease his worry, painted her on a variety of historical adventures. These soon multiplied. Significantly.

After much nagging, he has had some postcards printed of this brilliant series:
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Bridget Hangs Out With The Hunters In The Snow

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The Late Rackletang 🪦🦇 @rackletang.bsky.social · 10m

It's why I push back when people say they're not cops. That is absolutely cop behavior.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 10h

I have long believed that we should be WAY more vocal about how police and ICE constantly murder dogs, and I think this is great messaging actually.

The reality is that you can mobilize a whole lot of usually tuned-out Americans around a “someone is being mean to hecking doggos” cause.

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The Late Rackletang 🪦🦇 @rackletang.bsky.social · 3h

Sad but true! (At least while there's a dang cheeto in the white house smh my head)

The Late Rackletang 🪦🦇 @rackletang.bsky.social · 4h

Ooh same! Internet Of Things is another line I won't cross. (I have a friend who lost his sight and "smart home" devices have been extremely helpful to him so he can live alone, but I will change my mind about that for me if I need to and not a second before)

The Late Rackletang 🪦🦇 @rackletang.bsky.social · 4h

Judgement Night has one of the widest soundtrack-to-movie quality gaps I've ever encountered. (Bad movie, great soundtrack)

Gore Vidal Sassoon @jimmyjazz1968.bsky.social · 4h

The early 90s were the high point of ‘suburban terror of cities’ movies. Dennis Leary as a gang lord is completely realistic.

The Late Rackletang 🪦🦇 @rackletang.bsky.social · 4h

Needs chicken legs

The Late Rackletang 🪦🦇 @rackletang.bsky.social · 4h

And to be clear, I say that because that was the overwhelming sentiment I saw on that post, I don't want to seem like I'm being an asshole for real

The Late Rackletang 🪦🦇 @rackletang.bsky.social · 4h

I mean, if you want to get clowned on in your replies we can arrange it

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The Late Rackletang 🪦🦇 @rackletang.bsky.social · 4h

I'm never buying a car with a touchscreen. I don't care. I will buy old ones and learn to change my own oil if I have to, but I'm not gonna invite any extra help getting into car accidents.

Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 17h

i have never, not once, listened to a song on spotify unless it was playing at somebody else's place

what are you a luddite about

The Late Rackletang 🪦🦇 @rackletang.bsky.social · 4h

I'm not sure how embarrassed I should be about this, but it was the first time I heard Shipoopi (I'm a recovering musical-theater-phobe, still not all in)

The Late Rackletang 🪦🦇 @rackletang.bsky.social · 4h

"He wasn't using it anyway"

The Late Rackletang 🪦🦇 @rackletang.bsky.social · 4h

They're going after all the feminist icons 😭

The Late Rackletang 🪦🦇 @rackletang.bsky.social · 4h

Can't believe y'all are talking about getting high while there's a dang cheeto in the white house

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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 9h

avril latrine: thread

Avril Lavigne wearing a blue outfit and emerging from a navy blue lit toilet.

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Vida Cruz-Borja @laviecestmoi.bsky.social · 1d

Little update. Mostly been off bsky coz I've had some complications involving fevers, bleeding. It's been a rough six weeks, physically, mentally, emotionally. Would have liked to have rested but I gotta pay for the hospital bills and various tests and medications. Anything you can spare will help.

Vida Cruz-Borja @laviecestmoi.bsky.social · May 23

Hi all; I'm going to undergo a significant procedure later this year (sorry, would rather not disclose) and my husband's health insurance doesn't cover it. We're going to need funds for the care during and after. Any help would be much appreciated:

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Medical and Post-Hospital Care for Vida Cruz-Borja

Hello, I am Vida Cruz-Borja, author of the Cirilo F. Bautista Award-winning Song of the Mango and Other New Myths and the IGNYTE Award-winning essay “We are the Mountain: A Look at the Inactive Protag...

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The Late Rackletang 🪦🦇 @rackletang.bsky.social · 8h

I can't believe Luther Vandross declined to be on that version

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 2d

Another thing regarding mutual aid & who your community is, is a lot of disabled people in particular are very isolated. They're in deep poverty & complete abandonment. Literally. So they hop online to have community. Sometimes it's the only community they have & the only way they can get help.

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The Late Rackletang 🪦🦇 @rackletang.bsky.social · 13h

Dream Halloween blunt rotation

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 15h

#til

I assumed the term "police riot" originated from an anarchist or some other outsider's critique of American society.

It turns out the term "police riot" comes from an government commission's report on what happened at the 1968 DNC in Chicago.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_...

Police riot - Wikipedia

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The Late Rackletang 🪦🦇 @rackletang.bsky.social · 15h

Totally. Just not feeling it, but I don't have to

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1d

Ahem: bsky.app/profile/kjep...

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1d

Peter's analysis of Blueskyism:

Lobster fight meme showing three people betting and yelling surrounding two lobsters poised to fight each other. The people and the lobsters are all separately labeled pedants. The scene is titled Bluesky

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The Late Rackletang 🪦🦇 @rackletang.bsky.social · 15h

Oh noooo Brad

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