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Gary Numan in the streets, David Bowie in the sheets. Robert Smith in the skeets. mind-wandering bendy abolitionist nerd still soapboxing about the isms. aspiring bog witch. rambling on about frogs, music, games, books, movies too. she/they 🎃 😷 🎧 📼 🎮 🫖 ✨

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ren, book and candle 🕯️✨👻 @renandpen.bsky.social · Jun 28

in case you need a reminder. or a dragon.

An art print sits above the head of a red and orange Lego dragon, from the DnD set. The print had a medieval frame around it in rainbow coloring. The text, also in medieval fonts and rainbow coloring reads “I am gonna make it through this year if it kills me” A small crochet goblin and mushroom and assorted things on the shelf.

If you zoom in, you can see a smaller print from the same artist (link below and in reply to this), also medieval design, there’s a knight with the trans flag colors on their cloak, it’s putting a jousting lance through a dragon’s gullet. Text on it reads “A world without trans people has never existed and never will.”

https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/outoutbriefcandle/

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geoffrey, 💀 mode @parsnip.bsky.social · 11h

victory at the end of this looks like millions of people doing their best to never let who they really are slip in public

Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 14h

“It’s actually better when they’re openly Nazi rapists” no it’s not. That’s not true.

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ren, book and candle 🕯️✨👻 @renandpen.bsky.social · 11h

yeah so 7 months later, it’s really hard to see how the democrat party as it currently exists thinks any different from the fascists or wants anything more or better for our future. the majority of that party are in favor, at least in part, of much of the current administration’s policies, full stop

ren, book and candle 🕯️✨👻 @renandpen.bsky.social · Mar 15

And yeah, Schumer and the rest can get fucked. I’m wholly convinced at this point any Democrat not shouting, not doing town halls, not calling this out in the media—those going along like any of this is normal, are complicit and they want this. I gave grace the first month, it’s unforgivable now.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 11h

in all the discussion (and sometimes tokenizing) of Portland protests being a creative spectacle that neutralizes law enforcement, don’t overlook:

Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 14h

Members of the Unpresidented Brass Band were bull rushed & brutalized in the middle of playing "Ghostbusters." One was sent to the hospital and another tackled, arrested, and taken across state lines where she is still being detained.

Read more about Sunday's protest in Portland here:

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ren, book and candle 🕯️✨👻 @renandpen.bsky.social · 11h

like I know it’s a big sea out there but still

ren, book and candle 🕯️✨👻 @renandpen.bsky.social · 11h

overheard a woman the other day talking about her 4 upcoming cruises and all I could think of was this (& all the norovirus, covid, flu, measles, other fun stuff)

ren, book and candle 🕯️✨👻 @renandpen.bsky.social · Sep 2

I’ve no plans to take a cruise and probably never will but between the US warships and a now military strike in the Caribbean, uhhhh

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ren, book and candle 🕯️✨👻 @renandpen.bsky.social · 11h

rainbow crosswalks
frog costumes
naked bike rides

just remembering all the “ARE YOU TRIGGERED?!” & “fuck your feelings” & “snowflakes!” over the years when they can’t handle anything they don’t like happening anywhere ever

they’re all so evil & miserable & clearly don’t know how to have any fun

ren, book and candle 🕯️✨👻 @renandpen.bsky.social · 12h

yeah, each week seems to offer at least one new article detailing how intertwined it’s become and all i can think is how royally fucked we will probably be

geoffrey, 💀 mode @parsnip.bsky.social · 13h

i had sort of been operating under the assumption that the ai bubble, if/when it pops, would not be interconnected enough to cause a real rippling crisis of the kind we normally imagine, but man, i dunno

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What’s the Hold Up Pod Dan @jacketdan.bsky.social · 1d

He did it again for the 5 year anniversary

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 12h

The ability to cheaply and aggressively manipulate the bodies and voices of the dead without their consent feels like it's the majority of the appeal of AI for a whole subset of ghouls.

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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 17h

What's on your minds?

As is seasonally appropriate, I've been thinking about death.

B/c I can't help myself I've also been thinking about Christianity's fucked up relationship to death, and the toxic dynamics of hardline faith.

The latest Bugbear Dispatch:

www.bugbeardispatch.com/some-thought...

Some Thoughts about Fear, Death, and Christianity

In his Society without God (NYU Press, 2008), sociologist Phil Zuckerman documented the many ways in which the Scandinavian countries--some of the least religious on earth--put highly religious countr...

www.bugbeardispatch.com

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ren, book and candle 🕯️✨👻 @renandpen.bsky.social · 13h

I’ll still get sad but at least it won’t be because I’m all out of tea

ren, book and candle 🕯️✨👻 @renandpen.bsky.social · 14h

filling up my travel mug for tea along with my regular mug so I don’t get sad when I’m all comfy in bed and I finish the first cup

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 14h

i have tools that leonardo de vinci could only dream of but im using them for this

purple circle with big green eyes done in a riso style

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ren, book and candle 🕯️✨👻 @renandpen.bsky.social · 14h

filling up my travel mug for tea along with my regular mug so I don’t get sad when I’m all comfy in bed and I finish the first cup

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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 15h

If you can't afford a subscription, you can pay for single paywall drops! That's $2 dollars per article. Each piece we run is edited and copy edited, and our freelancers are paid. Most importantly, we are not beholden to corporate censorship.

Eight Years After #MeToo, the Intimacy Coordinator Backlash Has Arrived

Intimacy coordinators were supposed to make sets safer. Instead, they've become a flashpoint.

the-flytrap.ghost.io

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ren, book and candle 🕯️✨👻 @renandpen.bsky.social · 14h

okay, here’s what ya gonna wanna do:

take your leftover Taiwan fried chicken, pour some Rao’s marinara, generous amounts of parmesan (shaved is best or shredded) & fresh mozzarella (don’t skimp on the cheese!), heat it up, throw some pasta on the side and eat

Staring at my plate: there’s a light brown breaded pieces of thin boneless fried chicken, mostly covered with red marinara sauce, thick white mozzarella (I actually used burrata because that’s what I had), shredded parmesan next to some fusilli pasta. The pasta is curly shaped, like little springs. It also has some sauce and cheese mixed in with it.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 16h

lamented to my partner today that I have known about Peter Thiel and Bari Weiss as threats to the media industry and culture writ large for nearly a decade and despite raising alarms about them in any number of capacities—as a student, a journalist, etc—now they are more powerful than ever

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ren, book and candle 🕯️✨👻 @renandpen.bsky.social · 15h

feeling this, a lot

Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 16h

this sounds very "i was so smart why didn't anyone listen" and that is not at all what i mean. i knew because people reported it + because i paid attention to what thiel and weiss were saying. i'm just bummed because it wasn't a secret and now we're here and most ppl i know don't know who they are

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ren, book and candle 🕯️✨👻 @renandpen.bsky.social · Jun 27

actually, Peter Thiel IS the antichrist

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ren, book and candle 🕯️✨👻 @renandpen.bsky.social · 15h

just counting the days for more of the peter thiel shit to sink into the mainstream. it’s (maybe?) better now than in years past but still,

ren, book and candle 🕯️✨👻 @renandpen.bsky.social · Feb 14

it’s cool that people still look like i’m going on about some wild conspiracy theory when i start talking about thiel

ren, book and candle 🕯️✨👻 @renandpen.bsky.social · 17h

professional movers are truly amazing!

ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 17h

i can't believe there's not a holiday for professional movers. they seriously are incredible

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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 17h

I'm not sure how much more "kitchen table" you can get than masked government agents are kidnapping my neighbors at work, from schools, while going about their business and tear gassing my street but yet, here we are.

Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 23h

I love how Republicans are saying NO KINGS is anti-American and anti-fascism is fighting against American interests and Democrats are like "what's up with healthcare premiums and groceries" as if freedom from a monarchy isn't considered a kitchen table issue

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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 17h

Whimsical cynicism (whimsicism?) is walking around every day hoping to find a fairy ring that you can "accidentally" trespass on in the hopes of being abducted.

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ren, book and candle 🕯️✨👻 @renandpen.bsky.social · 18h

the visions did show myself screaming and crying though

ren, book and candle 🕯️✨👻 @renandpen.bsky.social · 18h

sad to find out the scrying club meeting was not to come together to scream and cry

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"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 18h

i've said it 100x and i'll say it 100x more: every ounce of energy expended on trying to help the democratic party unfuck itself is energy better spent organizing in your local community to be resilient against fascism and climate collapse because the dems will always sabotage whatever you do.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 19h

🚨 The DSCC — led by Kirsten Gillibrand, Mark Kelly, Adam Schiff, and Lisa Blunt Rochester — has formed a joint fundraising committee with Janet Mills.

Mills, running against Graham Platner in the Maine Democratic Senate primary, would become the oldest freshman (79) ever elected, to a 6-year term.

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