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Tegiminis @tegiminis.bsky.social · 9h

Counterpoint: I think people need to lose their shame instinct about media, and calling stuff you like "trash" is just debasing yourself in the eyes of others. Love what you love, without reservation. It's not "so bad it's good"; it's just good.

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 12h

One of the best things you can do for yourself is embrace the fact that some things you like aren't very good and may even be trash

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Transphobes Can't Read @lordaslan.bsky.social · 4d

Public service announcement

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Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition) @shaneburley.bsky.social · 10h

Shout out to the Naked Bikeride who today ran hundreds of naked people directly through the line of federal officers and effectively blocked them from assaulting demonstrators. Being naked on a bike goes on the list of effective tactics if you get at least 500 of them and the city loves you.

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Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 17h

Walked by a guy, hunky, in gym clothes, with his bro, hunky, also in gym clothes, who said, in the most SoCal accent possible, “It’s not a kind of sitch where you normally RSVP but I don’t want to be rude so I’m going to fucking RSVP” & I hope this is a new Jane Austen project.

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Mel @silvermoonshadow0.bsky.social · 3d

tbh about it the fact that so many indie romance writers use trope lists is prolly why some tradpub folks get such sticks up their asses about it lmao yeah the people who know nothing about that market & do nothing but call our books slop really have good advice on how to reach our community lol

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〽️ax krieger does the damn thing @maxkriegervg.bsky.social · Nov 3

this magnificent fat bastard is older than the united states

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 10h

I am so weary of that class of extremely online leftists who think being a Serious Person™️ who only posts and does nothing else is superior to being a Fun Person™️ who physically shows up

Aaron Putnam @aaronputnam.bsky.social · 13h

I deleted a post of me in a frog suit with my 7-yr old daughter because a big account reposted, admonishing us for not being serious enough protestors (or something). I shouldn’t have included my daughter in the image, which was why I deleted it. But I was stunned by the condescension.

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Emma Cifrino (dr. maine witch, DMA, PhD⁷) @mainewitch.bsky.social · 9h

Hello! Here is a vintage Doodle in her natural habitat: a sink

A tortie point cat curled up in a white porcelain sink looking supremely satisfied

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📚 r.e.a. / smols 🦇 @smolsdarklighter.bsky.social · 9h

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 12h

Max loves you.

Max the Cockapoo is wearing a hoodie that says Canada on it for Canadian Thanksgiving.

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Tammi, yeah, that one. 2.1 @tammi.bsky.social · 18h

I found a 19th century Cat Villain!

A huge chonk of a fluffy cat sitting on a table near an open fire. The cat is cream and grey and appears to be shaped like a barrel in a fur coat. They are scowling fiercely with their moustache and bewhiskered ears apparently flowing back into the cold wind. There's a definite vibe that this villainous cat twirls their moustache as they evict orphans into the aforementioned blizzard and think Scrooge was an easy-going lightweight. They are magnificent.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 1d

The WHO has verified the elimination of both measles & rubella in all Pacific Island countries, alongside rubella elimination in Japan. The achievement follows 2 decades of coordinated immunisation campaigns, regional surveillance, and high routine vaccine coverage. buff.ly/EpFb7HK
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Rubella elimination verified in Japan, and measles and rubella elimination verified in Pacific island countries and areas

The World Health Organization (WHO) today announced that the 21 Pacific island countries and areas that are part of the WHO Western Pacific Region have collectively been verified as having eliminated…

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 12h

You might wonder how they landed on “hairy balls milkweed” as a name but then you see it and:

Hairy balls milkweed, showing large round balls that are in fact hairy

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Hazard @datgreenmonstah.bsky.social · 17h

Catnip fish time

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Sapient PC-98 Tapedeck (Cosette) @cosettetape.bsky.social · 13h

The key to it being aura farming, in a fictional or real context is that the character/person chose to do the thing in that way, it wasn't a natural consequence of the story, setting or moment.

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Jeremy Ghost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 12h

As unofficial town sorcerer, I'm sending out a mild, almost ineffective spell that will make you slightly more likely to see a lovely owl silhouetted against the eventide sky.

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📚 r.e.a. / smols 🦇 @smolsdarklighter.bsky.social · 20h

apologies to @senlinyu.bsky.social, but

close-up crop of the High Necromancer Murrough from an illustration for SenLinYu's novel, by Elithien.

meme image of orange cat seeming to speak into a mic, with the caption "WOULD"

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 12h

I squeezed that sperm till a strange sort of insanity came over me

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 22h

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 12h

One continuous scene of two separate run-ins with ICE from an alley in Rogers Park this morning, from three entirely different POVs.

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3. bsky.app/profile/juri...

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 12h

It’s impossible to overstate how much “abolish ice” is the normie position now here in chicago — just countless random moms at toddler soccer on a park district field asking me where I bought my anti-ice t-shirt. average people don’t like our neighborhoods being terrorized.

laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 18h

A friend ran the Chicago marathon today and said he couldn’t count the number of FUCK ICE signs along the way.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 14h

Indeed. The issue is not "Jews are white and Palestinians are brown" the issue is the state of Israel, defined constitutionally as a Jewish state in its political, legal, and social character is as a result explicitly exclusionary and creates 2nd and 3rd tiers of life. It is racial, just arbitrary.

Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 14h

What it means is quite literally that you can, in fact, find people of physical traits you wouldn't expect in almost every ethnic group in the world. There are Saudis who are natural blondes and Finns whose grandparents were all born there who are remarkably swarthy. It just happens.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 14h

And in fact all racialized structures are arbitrary, they're just not necessarily on the axis of skin color. In the case of Israel it is on the axis of Jewishness vs non-Jewishness. This is why the Mizrahi, or "Arab Jew" and the Ethiopian or "Black Jew" both are advantaged over all non-Jews.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 14h

This is also why arguments against the term apartheid's applicability on the basis that Israel's regime of control over Palestinians does not constitute a racial one all fall flat, because race is a construct and there are infinite ways to construct it as a result. The US's way is only one way.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 13h

In fact like most 18th and 19th century philosophers were noting: arbitrariness is one of the fundamental roots of injustice.

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