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pumpkin spice Toddé @toddedillard.bsky.social · 6h

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Steven Genise @stevengenise.bsky.social · 7h

They keep making incredible Tim Robinson shows hoping that I’ll forgive them for cancelling Detroiters, but sorry, no.

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little lamb @puddleofbrain.bsky.social · 1d

Charlie Browns mom: Waaah wah wah wah waaah waaah waaah wah

Charlie Brown: oh, you mean pigpen

Charlie browns mom: Wah way. Waaaah wahwahwah wah wah waaah waaaah wahwhawah wah wah

Charlie Brown: yeah I get that. It’s pretty bad over there but I don’t think they hit him

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The Needling @theneedling.com · 16h

ICE Detains Leaves as They Turn Brown: tinyurl.com/37euaejk

Masked ICE agents throwing bags of brown leaves in unmarked van

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Steven Genise @stevengenise.bsky.social · 1d

It’s like the 1936 Olympics if Hitler expelled himself instead of Lithuania

Dr Alex Cruikshanks @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 1d

Serious chance he's basically going to break one of the world's premier sporting events on a whim one day.

Trump threatens removal of World Cup games from Boston, Olympics from LA

Blaming Boston street takeovers and LA wildfires, the US president said both global sporting events could be moved for supposed safety reasons

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 2d

Lee Pace in The Fall is the result of a decades-long experiment to see what happens if all the hotness for an entire generation is concentrated in the body of a single man

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Aubrey Hirsch @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social · 1d

Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

Jonathan Franzen is like somebody trained an LLM to write a pretentious American middle-aged dude novel and then asked it to be more misogynistic.

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Mythcreants @mythcreants.bsky.social · 2d

The Hero's Journey is a scam by big structure to sell more stages

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Steven Genise @stevengenise.bsky.social · 1d

You’ll be speaking to their manager about this

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Steven Genise @stevengenise.bsky.social · 2d

Elena Ferrante’s real name is Chuck Tingle, Chuck Tingle’s real name is Elena Ferrante, but neither of them know this about the other.

I guess that’s not an opinion so much as an indisputable fact.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t think a long book is even primarily about plot, or character, or any of the patterned information on its pages. A long book is practicing over time a way of being in the world. Reading even a very good summary is not the same as giving over some portion of your own life to that practice.

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Steven Genise @stevengenise.bsky.social · 2d

Pumpkin family

Baby dressed in a jack-o-lantern sweater, orange socks, and a hand-knitted pumpkin beret

A family of pumpkins sitting outside my door

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Andy Pearlman @apearlma.bsky.social · 2d

SCOTUS: "At long last, we have created a Dictatorship from classic historical document Don't Create The Dictatorship."

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 2d

But when it comes to it, if it comes to it, in that awful moment of decision, yes, you will want the old grandmas and grandpas at the front, as many of them as you can get, so those terribly young fellows with the rifles understand what a wicked, awful thing is being asked of them.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 2d

Choosing to fire is not, of course, an 'I win' button for MAGA and Trump. It takes a lot of force to hold a country of 300m by arms alone and it is easy to imagine Trump swallowed whole by the outrage of people seeing that confrontation.

But the country would never be the same either way.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 2d

In that, dreadful, terrible moment, every black bloc protestor in the world is useless, but a line of concerned senior citizens, office workers and house-spouses is actually a 'harder' target.

And 'the soldiers stood aside' is the sentence in the history book that goes before 'and the regime fell.'

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Steven Genise @stevengenise.bsky.social · 2d

“Don’t judge him by the standards of our time” why not?? that’s when I live

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IYKYK @nisslbody.blacksky.app · 2d

The reason colonizers are so afraid of immigrants is because they make the mistake of thinking that because all colonizers are immigrants, all immigrants are also colonizers. They think immigrants come with evil in their hearts, because colonizers come with evil in their hearts.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 2d

"While your proposal to increase the bed availability in your shelter from 80 to 140 by purchasing accessory dwelling units was a surprisingly resourceful plan, the budget and governance committees have identified pickleball as the issue that voters care about most."

Thank You for Submitting Your Homeless Shelter Application, but We’ve Decided to Use City Funds for Thirty-Five New Pickleball Courts Instead

Thank you for submitting your grant application for a homelessness shelter expansion. We received many competitive proposals, including yours. With...

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 5d

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · 4d

there are torment nexuses everywhere for those with eyes to see

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Steven Genise @stevengenise.bsky.social · 3d

People who argue Bernie should stay misunderstand his legacy. He is not irreplaceable, and in fact his greatest political achievement by far is that there are now hundreds of people who could relate him.

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · Mar 25

what about Bernie? retire. what about some other person? they should retire too.

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 4d

I had a lot of convos with people who said they were sympathetic, but Defund the Police was a "bad slogan". I told them it wasn't a slogan. It was an answer. It was an answer to the constant question "what can we do to actually lower crime and make our neighborhood's safer?"

Anyway. Here we are.

Jay @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 4d

Should’ve defunded the police like we instructed smh

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John @johnlk.bsky.social · 4d

This is the fucking Prussian constitutional crisis. If you let them fund the military without Congressional authorization you've just given up on constitutional government. Congress is a dead letter.

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