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@strida.bsky.social

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editor at bullet points. horror writer. live at the death factory. worked on roman sands & paratopic overdub w arbitrary metric writing: astridannerose.gumroad.com/ astridannerose.itch.io/

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pick-me’s model @strida.bsky.social · Jan 10

all my writing is now for sale on itch—for fans of tanith lee, robert aickman, ms james, dell abyss, elena ferrante

astridannerose.itch.io

astrid anne rose

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Trump opens the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "This is the first time we've been at the new and improved Rose Garden. And people are loving it. They are loving it like they have not loved a lot of things."

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pick-me’s model @strida.bsky.social · 1h

📢 I KNOW IT SMELL CRAZY IN THERE

pick-me’s model @strida.bsky.social · 6h

Cool

St1ka @st1ka.bsky.social · 10h

I am covering EVERY First Person Shooter EVER made in Japan.

From 1985 to 2025, that's over 40 years and 70 games of gaming history.

Link: youtu.be/F80Cl6WzBNo?...

This was without a doubt the most ambitious video I've ever made.

pick-me’s model @strida.bsky.social · 6h

Obama had to sit down w maron to castigate “latinos who voted for trump bc of inflation and now their kids are being rounded up by ice.” What a statesman

pick-me’s model @strida.bsky.social · 6h

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Rico Charges @nochorus.bsky.social · 12h

bsky.app/profile/adam... Delighted that Astrid, Adam and Degen (being cornered by his greatest enemy: me) all feature in Mothership's MEGADAMAGE 2. As does Brian Evenson! God willing I'll be contributing some of that much, much more as well. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/t...

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pick-me’s model @strida.bsky.social · 10h

the article answers the headline with “not really.” important work all around

pick-me’s model @strida.bsky.social · 10h

katherine dee is so dumb man

GQ @gqmagazine.bsky.social · 1d

Is hard-right streamer Nick Fuentes winning over women on the left? Writer Katherine Dee investigates www.gq.com/story/nick-f...

Is Nick Fuentes Winning Over Women on the Left?

There are the Tumblr “Nickstorians” and sincere fanfics. But are young, liberal, possibly irony-poisoned women fetishizing or even falling for the hard-right streamer with the “groyper” following? Wri...

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 11h

Developing: per photographer Matthew Kaplan and others on scene, neighbors are currently facing dozens of Border Patrol agents on the east side. Feds have been all over the area, some kidnappings confirmed. Saw one gas canister deployed on FB live earlier.

Militarized federal agents in street at 105th and N

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Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 12h

Pritzker *has* made a difference at the Broadview Detention Center. We had to switch from gas masks to helmets. And now he’s threatening to make us wear both.

NLG Chicago Responds to Attacks on Free Speech at the Broadview Detention Center

nlgchicago.org

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pick-me’s model @strida.bsky.social · 12h

its been reported on by multiple sources but for some reason hasn't stuck that the october 7 death toll includes israel killing its own soldiers and citizens. The same death toll used to justify the ensuing genocide. even in sympathetic coverage theres deference to this narrative

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pick-me’s model @strida.bsky.social · 12h

hostages that were likely killed by israeli bombs ...

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12h

"a test"? you mean...a violation?

AP: Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages, a test for the Gaza ceasefire

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pick-me’s model @strida.bsky.social · 23h

Money moves 🙏

Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 1d

French's Dijon Mustard, 105 oz - One 105 Ounce Bottle of Dijon Mustard with Chardonnay is $6.91 on Amazon buff.ly/QwXsGXl #ad

pick-me’s model @strida.bsky.social · 1d

📝👀

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 1d

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy passed away today according to the House of GG. She was a veteran of the Stonewall rebellion and a lifelong organizer for the safety and dignity of trans people, sex workers, and the incarcerated. She came from the same generation and milieu as Marsha and Sylvia. She was 78.

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pick-me’s model @strida.bsky.social · 1d

also bourdain was dishing on this from day one ... is this the literacy crisis in action ??

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pick-me’s model @strida.bsky.social · 1d

the amount of people shocked and disgusted to learn how much restaurant food is brought in by one of two distributors is in itself shocking ... Some Of Yall have never worked a day in ur lives