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zoya the destroyer @sophiahelix.bsky.social · May 1

Going to start making up novel or movie titles based on words I missed in the NYT Spelling Bee

Yesterday's is "Gangland Adagio," obviously a cringe memoir by a white teacher about working in the hood

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zoya the destroyer @sophiahelix.bsky.social · 22m

(I would also recommend the ebook because the print version has tiny text with very small margins and was hard on my eyes)

zoya the destroyer @sophiahelix.bsky.social · 23m

I really enjoyed this last year -- like reading the wiki entry for all the movies you're too scared to know about, with some good cultural discussion

Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 2h

The audiobook of HORROR FOR WEENIES is on sale at Chirp Books this week for $3.99! :D

www.chirpbooks.com/audiobooks/h...

Horror for Weenies
Written by: Emily C. Hughes
Narrated by: Cassidy Brown
Categories: General Nonfiction, Arts & Entertainment
Feel left out when friends talk about horror flicks? Perfect for scaredy-cats who still want to sound like film buffs, this witty Bram Stoker Award winner unpacks 25 iconic scary movies with jokes, sharp insights, and zero jump scares. An “accessible, entertaining, and informative” guide that’s like having “a conversation with a horror-fan bestie” (Library Journal starred review)!

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zoya the destroyer @sophiahelix.bsky.social · 2h

I check my period app constantly to figure out what my hormonal state should be (partly bc I don't have periods but do have a hormone cycle so I need to keep external track)

zoya the destroyer @sophiahelix.bsky.social · 12h

Joan Aiken’s A Fit of Shivers, if you can find it

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

Thinking about viscachas again

The viscacha, an absurd, rabbit-like creature. They are fat, furry, and have hilariously long whiskers that extend far past their bodies. This one is plopped on his butt.

A viscacha with his whiskers pointed down and his paws in a dainty position

A viscacha holding his hand up as if to say no pictures please

Another sitting viscacha but he looks SO soft and SO fat

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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 15h

The Mariners came to their school last year to do a day long intensive thing for outreach so both of my children keep referring to whichever player is batting as “my friend” regardless of whether or not they actually met them and it is so funny and cute 😂

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 16h

The male loneliness crisis will never end until men are willing to hear loved ones tell them "bro you are wrong."

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · Jul 19

The actual public service chatgpt provides is in demonstrating the effect of never hearing the word no on the human psyche, it has made billionaire brain pudding a condition accessible to everyone irrespective of net worth

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 15h

Today in "things I assumed would not be a problem" -- last time I washed this duvet cover, the zipper catch (??) got knocked off somehow and vanished.

"Well that's ok," I thought, "you can still put the duvet in, it's not like it'll fall out through the opening"

True

But cats can get in there now

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zoya the destroyer @sophiahelix.bsky.social · 16h

I recommend watching The Mask next, which I used to love as a young teen and recently revisited. It holds up well enough and the aesthetics are great (and so vibrant and cartoony)

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amy brown (spooky edition) @amybrown.xyz · 20h

riding in the car when my son (3.5) said “i have something silly to tell you. roll up the windows so nobody hears” and then he told us a clown is coming to our house. to live with us forever

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 21h

not one of the linux people in this thread is doing a single, solitary thing to refute the joke

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 21h

every linux person i know: you should try linux, it’s great and easy!

also every linux person i know:

Ed @ed3d.net · 22h

ed: I want to just install a Linux desktop and I prefer KDE

also ed: fedora doesn't have even nouveau out of the box and says "mess with rpmfusion"

also ed: "'nobara linux'? that has one developer"

also ed: "kubuntu's installer crashes making encrypted partitions"

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zoya the destroyer @sophiahelix.bsky.social · 20h

our vacation house this week had a smart oven and Tween was like “why would the stove need to connect to the internet??”

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zoya the destroyer @sophiahelix.bsky.social · 21h

I’m getting more annoyed as I think about other sports. In baseball they make a fair/foul call immediately, though it can be reviewed. Hockey has some similar rules re faceoffs but infractions are immediately called. Basketball has out of bounds but not “guy down court was out of position” Etc!

zoya the destroyer @sophiahelix.bsky.social · 21h

What I hate is for some reason family and personal friends are spread out across different apps, so my sister is Messenger, parents and college roommate are text, law school friend is IG, hs friend group is Whatsapp…I don’t know how this happened

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zoya the destroyer @sophiahelix.bsky.social · 21h

I now communicate with people via text, Gmail, Discord, FB messenger, Whatsapp, Signal, iMessages (iPad only), IG dms, Tumblr dms, bsky dms, and two different healthcare messaging systems and I don’t even currently work. It’s absurd and untenable.

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zoya the destroyer @sophiahelix.bsky.social · 22h

I’ve never watched rugby closely but it seems like they don’t have this problem!

zoya the destroyer @sophiahelix.bsky.social · 22h

“well there’s too many guys to watch and we have to give everyone a minute to watch it all and make sure it’s all being done right” sounds like a flaw of the design of the game if you can’t monitor it well enough to stop play as soon as something goes wrong!

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zoya the destroyer @sophiahelix.bsky.social · 22h

like just the design of football makes it very easy for completions to happen and the play to continue when something went wrong earlier, versus other sports you get a foul or a lineout or some kind of call right away and it stops the play

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zoya the destroyer @sophiahelix.bsky.social · 22h

not that all sports don’t have bad calls, but even good calls mean that sometimes an entire TD plays out and gets undone which is just a bummer to watch

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zoya the destroyer @sophiahelix.bsky.social · 22h

honestly why I stopped being even a casual football watcher; other sports aren’t constantly taking away home runs and 3 pointers and goals after the fact for some tiny infraction, and I was tired of always waiting for it

Andrew Callahan @andrewcallahan.bsky.social · 1d

This "offensive pass interference" erased a 61-yard TD for the #Patriots. Outrageous call.

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zoya the destroyer @sophiahelix.bsky.social · 1d

I absolutely loved those episodes and learned a lot

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zoya the destroyer @sophiahelix.bsky.social · 1d

Thoughts and suggestions appreciated friends ❤️ I'm just turning off replies now

zoya the destroyer @sophiahelix.bsky.social · 1d

hell they don’t even let the AP attend White House press conferences anymore

zoya the destroyer @sophiahelix.bsky.social · 1d

watching All the President’s Men which I assume will, like the book I just read about McCarthy and the red scare, depress me with reminders that nobody cares about any political misdeeds anymore

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zoya the destroyer @sophiahelix.bsky.social · 1d

yes I thought that was charming