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spiritomb ⚧✡🏴‍☠️Ⓐ @spiritomb.bsky.social · 1h

my english teachers in the mid-aughts weren't allowed to tell us that "shall i compare thee to a summer's day" (shakespeare's sonnet) is addressed to a man.

if you teach this poem without mentioning that fact, you are not adequately teaching how to interpret it.

this is how homophobia kills art.

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spiritomb ⚧✡🏴‍☠️Ⓐ @spiritomb.bsky.social · 1h

sorry, you're right. i actually prefer your choice to disrupt the meter

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spiritomb ⚧✡🏴‍☠️Ⓐ @spiritomb.bsky.social · 1h

"and several of her kids died" could also be "and several of her kids, they died", if you want. but disrupting the rhythm there (and in "for five days") is also a valid choice because disrupting nostalgia is always a good idea.

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spiritomb ⚧✡🏴‍☠️Ⓐ @spiritomb.bsky.social · 2h

might i suggest replacing "for five days" with "for most the week" to keep the meter? i love the rhythm

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spiritomb ⚧✡🏴‍☠️Ⓐ @spiritomb.bsky.social · 2h

(reposting as a quote in order to add a cw.)

content warning: CSA

i love the literary genre of turning nostalgia upside down and inside out by pointing out that the "good old days" fuckin sucked. i love the reprisal of the first two lines at the end.

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 8h

Amen

Exodus 8:2-6

“But if you refuse to let them go, I will place your whole country with frogs… the frogs shall come up on you and your people and on all your officials”

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spiritomb ⚧✡🏴‍☠️Ⓐ @spiritomb.bsky.social · 18h

how am i supposed to cope with the knowledge that Charlie Chaplin had DEVASTATING crushes on other boys when he was an adolescent, when I'm already struggling not to melt into a puddle with heart-eyes when i see the Tramp kissing and flirting with men onscreen

Highlighted text on an e-ink screen: At this stage of his life, Charlie was subject to devastating crushes on other boys, and his affections soon settled on the son of the family next door.

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spiritomb ⚧✡🏴‍☠️Ⓐ @spiritomb.bsky.social · 18h

how am i supposed to cope with the knowledge that Charlie Chaplin had DEVASTATING crushes on other boys when he was an adolescent, when I'm already struggling not to melt into a puddle with heart-eyes when i see the Tramp kissing and flirting with men onscreen

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mr. cannoli @boner.ink · 18h

dante was the first guy to post through it

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 1d

We did it, folks! We ran a Charlie Kirk Remembrance Day Art Contest: And here are the results.

(I'll thread some of our favorite entries, but to know who won the grand prize and the two jewelry prizes from @nora.zone you're gonna have to click through.)

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Trans News Site Remembers Charlie Kirk With a Vengeance — Assigned

Our community remembers Charlie Kirk as the vicious, hateful, divisive, violence monger he was.

www.assignedmedia.org

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Torch Antifa Network @torchantifa.bsky.social · 1d

rt if you are the founder of antifa

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

An integral part of the social fabric was understanding what “guy” a man was. Were you a guy with a truck? A guy who put stuff in the truck? A guy who could fix a toilet?

ceej @ceej.online · Aug 30

my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy

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Will BOO-rows 🖖🍞🥀 @reforest-kelley.bsky.social · 1d

A photo of three people in inflatable frog suits outside an ICE detention center in Portland, overlaid with an excerpt from Exodus 8:2-6

"But if you refuse to let them go, I will
plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on
your people and on all your officials."

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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 1d

books should have an anti-acknowledgements section where the author talks shit about all the people who fucked them over while they were trying to write the thing. not bc I personally want to write one but bc I love gossip

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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spiritomb ⚧✡🏴‍☠️Ⓐ @spiritomb.bsky.social · 1d

my unhinged literary opinion is that the one time when Walt Whitman and Oscar Wilde met in 1882, in addition to talking about poetry and philosophy and gushing about beautiful men, they fucked.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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That tree guy 𓅃 @somearborist.bsky.social · 1d

3M is an abbreviation for ANTIFA, which is a common mis spelling. It’s actually spelled MAMTIFAM, hence 3M ANTIFA

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

3M is antifa now

Kimberly Vega

@caligurlluv

Replying to @MrAndyNgo and @patrioticmouse

Interesting same pink gas mask as those whose them in Portland, Oregon!!!!!

Who's supplying them?!!!

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spiritomb ⚧✡🏴‍☠️Ⓐ @spiritomb.bsky.social · 1d

a "knocker-up of workpeople" was an industrial revolution profession that existed before alarm clocks. you (factory worker) could pay a morning person who owned an accurate clock (often a widow or old woman) to go around your neighborhood and knock on your window to wake you up for work.

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Chai‏ @axoga.to · 5d

someone shared this meme about % of programmers identifying as LGBTQ by language, but it had no citations (gasp!), so I wanted to collect my own data. reposts are appreciated, esp from non-queer programmers cause my circle is pretty damn queer ^-^;

forms.gle/AcwKK1qg2dZk...
#programming

Which Language Is the Most Queer

forms.gle

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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 2d

It’s Indigenous People’s Day. Today, I honor my great grandfather, Cre. His mother, a full Cherokee, was wed to a German immigrant with land. They had two children, then the man died. His family dispossessed Cre’s mother; they were forced out of their home in early winter. With no where to go (1/11)

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BOO-trous BOO-trous-Ghoulie @dlbowman76.com · 2d

Good morning all. Today's a good day to remember that Christopher Columbus was a monumental asshole.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 3d

Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.

FORM A CROWD
STAY LOUD
PROTECT EACH OTHER
CODE I:
ICE NEARBY
BLOW QUICKLY IN A BROKEN RHYTHM:
PRE-PRE-PRE!
→ ALERTS THE COMMUNITY THAT ICE AGENTS ARE IN THE AREA.
ROGERS PARK WHISTLE PROTOCOLS
WHY A WHISTLE? ON THE STREETS
• A SIMPLE TOOL FOR FAST ALERTS.
• LOUD.
RECOGNIZABLE.
IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE.
• OUR VOICES ARE
STRONGER TOGETHER.
WHISTLES GUIDE
PEOPLE TO:
• FOLLOW ICE CARAVANS
• CATCH UP WITH THE CROWD
• ALERT NEIGHBORS
TO JOIN IN
NOISE = VISIBILITY.
CODE 2:
CODE RED
BLOW THREE LONG BLASTS:
PREEEE-PREEEE-PREEEE!
→ ICE IS DETAINING SOMEONE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
DON'T STAY SILENT. STAY NONVIOLENT.
WHY IT WORKS
• INSTANT ALERT
SYSTEM
• FASTER THAN SOCIAL MEDIA
• TURNS SILENCE INTO COMMUNITY
ACTION
ORIGINAL FLYER CREATED BY:
WHAT YOU CAN DO
• WEAR YOUR WHISTLE AROUND YOUR NECK
TEACH FAMILY
EIGHBORS TH
CODES
• USE IT WHEN ICE IS
SPOTTED
• PROTECT EACH OTHER, ALWAYS
TOGETHER, WE KEEP OUR COMMUNITY SAFE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
THIS FLYER DISTRIBUTED BY:
PROTECT RP
• @PROTECTRP_

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 3d

"Slashdot: What's the reason OneDrive tells users this setting can only be turned off 3 times a year?

[Microsoft's publicist chose not to answer this question.]"

Microsoft's OneDrive Begins Testing Face-Recognizing AI for Photos (for Some Preview Users) - Slashdot

I uploaded a photo on my phone to Microsoft's "OneDrive" file-hosting app — and there was a surprise waiting under Privacy and Permissions. "OneDrive uses AI to recognize faces in your photos.....

slashdot.org

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 3d

Thankfully, some of yesterday's CDC firings have been rescinded.

But this should be a major scandal, not business as usual in this shitshow of an administration. It's either spectacular incompetence or an effort to make even politically untouchable positions feel precarious to those in them.

Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 3d

100s of #CDC employees were notified Friday they were being fired — RIF'd. The firings cross multiple parts of the agency, endangering its core mission of keeping Americans safe.
Saturday, some were informed they were RIF'd in error.
Hard to imagine how this happens www.statnews.com/2025/10/11/c...

CDC battered by government shutdown firings, while some are rescinded

The White House’s mass firing of CDC staff on Friday has decimated offices related to injury prevention, respiratory disease surveillance, and chronic disease, according to four people familiar with t...

www.statnews.com

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Shammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 3d

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