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Chrysten Lofton.

@saltwaterfish.bsky.social

200 followers 340 following 340 posts

36 She/Her. I write scary stories and kiss bugs. Also kissing: @zap-d-canon.bsky.social Abolish ICE. Free Palestine. Love each other.

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Chrysten Lofton. @saltwaterfish.bsky.social · Dec 15

She’s had enough of me.

Chrysten Lofton. @saltwaterfish.bsky.social · 1d

fucking sick 🔥

Trevor Henderson 🍉 @slimyswampghost.bsky.social · 1d

evening walk

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 1d

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

SAY. THAT. SHIT!

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Catherine Subsisting in revolting times...Unbelievable @glasscatty.bsky.social · 2d

Good night peeps, sweet dreams.

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Cliff @cliff.leaninto.it · 1d

Cuomo is gonna run a Florida HOA like its the fuckin navy

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jenn schiffer 🕷️🕯️ @jennschiffer.com · 1d

i hope this election cycle empowers everyone the next time a centrist liberal says to drop pro-trans and pro-immigrant rhetoric to enthusiastically tell them to shut the fuck up

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Jay Madison @jaymadiv.blacksky.app · 1d

You know...everyone is celebrating Mamdani right now and that's cool and fantastic and wonderful...

and I'm struck by just how thoroughly they put belt to ass in Virginia.

like damn.

an older man with glasses is standing next to a younger man in a room with a table .

ALT: an older man with glasses is standing next to a younger man in a room with a table .

media.tenor.com

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esti @estibass.com · Jun 25

Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.

Zohran standing amidst a crowd in winter clothing

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Cynthia “Cina” Pelayo @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social · 1d

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Girls be like I needed this and it’s just a free and fair election

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 1d

REMINDER: A socialist act by a New Yorker was a major reason why polio was eliminated in the US.

Nick Pettigrew
@Nick_Pettigrew
Polio was eradicated because Jonas Salk chose not to patent the vaccine, if you want a perfect example of a socialist act.
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Garry Kasparov
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Socialism is like polio, it comes back when people forget about the horrible damage it did last time.

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Chrysten Lofton. @saltwaterfish.bsky.social · 1d

I found a lot of catharsis, post religious deconstruction journaling, in writing, “I am no longer begging to differ. I differ, bitch.” I enjoy the misuse because it fits the narrative of that situation in a loud way.

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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 4d

Matthew Lillard from the "Scream" screening at Hollywood Forever:

“Fuck ICE! In this time, in this city, we need to lead with love. Do not forget that shit in this moment. Not to be political, but to be political as shit. Second of all: vote Prop 50. And if you don’t like that, I’m so not sorry!”

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Alexandria Stone @alexandria-stone.bsky.social · 9d

🕯️Manifesting 🕯️

THIS IS THE
EMPLOYMENT JELLY
Drawing of a slime with a briefcase and pencil
REBLOG WHENEVER THE HELL YOU LIKE AND YOU'LL GET A JOB THAT YOU LOVE AND DESERVE.

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Justin ✊🏽🇵🇷 🪷 @justinbx.me · 6d

If SNAP benefits pause on Nov 1, Gopuff is offering $50 in free groceries (up to $10M total) for SNAP customers. Add your EBT card in-app. Please share this with others if you can 🫶🏽

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Trevor Henderson 🍉 @slimyswampghost.bsky.social · 14d

M.R. James style ghost / living dead sketch

screaming rotten skull with no eyes, the background is abstract tangles of red and olive colours

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Mo Moshaty @momoshaty.bsky.social · 16d

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 16d

After this Amazon outage today, you can really see the number of services Amazon is running and how that’s a problem. Even my cats’ Litter Robot’s app was affected, 🤨.

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Stephen Graham Jones @sgj.bsky.social · 16d

I wish ellipses A) had spaces between them, so we could feel the pause visually (I do this in my books when I can), and B) had the first period just normal, the second a little wider, nearing a 'ground-hyphen,' and then the third was kind of a smeared-to-the-right ground-hyphen

this the word "hm" with my proposed ellipses after it. hand-written on lined notebook paper, the image high-res enough that the grains in the paper are CRATERS. seriously, this is like someone was drawing on the face of the moon or something. I'm sort of impressed, really. I mean, some lens on my phone is broke, so my shots are all usually somewhat blurry—like I care: I mostly only take photos of trucks and predated-upon critters—but, for this, man, it brought the goods, I'd say. which, to someone who thinks as magically as I tend to (see, um, all of my books? but, say, Mapping), can only mean "providence." as in: the world, it's agreeing with me on this. an error has been made, and let live. we've gone astray, and need to dial back, start over with ellipses like THIS, please. could it be the corrective that fixes the world? I mean, I don't want to make any claims. but I don't think it could particularly hurt, either. and, it would definitely make prose fiction cooler. though, not saying I'm here to promote the Wild West of ellipses, either. if this gets implemented, it won't be a free-for-all, as we sort of have now with em-dashes and semicolons—both of which I love as much as anyone. maybe more. but, like Matt Dillon says, it's all about moderation. however, yeah, he does qualify that with, of course, "even moderation." which I've always appreciated. anyway, only meant to say: couldn't this be cool? but, zero clue how to get it into a character-set. and, can only imagine what typesetters and layout-folk, and copyeditors would have to say. none of them are inherently evil, no more than the rest of us, but they are always telling me there are "standards," that things can't be peculiar. to which I say: Dali, Lynch. but of course I'm just arguing with the wind, really. which, today, has been a very real argument, as it's blowing Halloween decorations all over my yard. I want to curse it, but don't want to be Tayo and make it go away. I'm sure it does something good.

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Chrysten Lofton. @saltwaterfish.bsky.social · 19d

Going out tomorrow to let em know somethin
#noice #nokings #nokingsprotest

Chrysten Lofton. @saltwaterfish.bsky.social · 23d

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Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - but a whimper | The Gorge (Soundtrack from the Apple Original Film)

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Chrysten Lofton. @saltwaterfish.bsky.social · 24d

Nope 🐬 You both stirred the passions of every witness, including the aquatic ones.

Chrysten Lofton. @saltwaterfish.bsky.social · 24d

Happy Anniversary you lovely love birds 🖤🖤🖤

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Chrysten Lofton. @saltwaterfish.bsky.social · Oct 7

Sick ✂️

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Jason Kander @jasonkander.bsky.social · Oct 6

I was a skeptic about the import of the Epstein files.

But 3 invasions of cities, one military buildup outside Venezuela, a government shutdown, and so many other things meant to distract have me convinced whatever’s in there is the biggest presidential scandal in U.S. history.

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