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Lee Wright @thewrightwordsmith.bsky.social · 10h

GODDAMMIT I KNEW IT

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Lee Wright @thewrightwordsmith.bsky.social · 10h

This lil' light o' mine

The Hermit of Everything @hermiteveryday.bsky.social · 10h

When the world gets darker try to find ways to shine a light..✨

A hand holds a lantern that has a pressed flower visible on it.

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Lee Wright @thewrightwordsmith.bsky.social · 10h

I wouldn't be surprised if it was a cost/labor choice.

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Gracu ✨🌈 @prismagic.bsky.social · 10h

Hey. Things are rough. If no one has told you recently, I'm proud of you.

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Lee Wright @thewrightwordsmith.bsky.social · 10h

One I wanna know more about

Kelly Turnbull @coelasquid.bsky.social · 10h

This tells a story

Picture of me bridal style carrying Wasteland Fancyboy, Mr. Privilege

Picture of me presenting an open suitcase full of contraband cans

Closeup of can reading “A TASTE OF PRIVILEGE” and "IT'S LIKE SOMEONE TURNED A CREEPY VICTORIAN PUPPET INTO A REAL BOY AND NOW WE GET TO EAT HIM!" With an illustration of a smiling, reclining Mr. Privilege being sliced like a 1950’s ham advertisement

The back of the can with banners of text reading “THE SOFTEST MEAT IN THE WASTES” and “THIS FLESH HAS NEVER EXPERIENCED HARDSHIP!” Over a lump of indiscriminate ground meat with an inset circle of a smiling Mr. Privilege giving a thumbs up

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Lee Wright @thewrightwordsmith.bsky.social · 16h

Its still a valid social mecia presence

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Lee Wright @thewrightwordsmith.bsky.social · 16h

And you get to make art!!

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 16h

What better example of how we live in multiple worlds at the same time than a bunch of people living in the french catacombs together watching movies and eating couscous

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 2d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Lee Wright @thewrightwordsmith.bsky.social · 1d

I am now on step 5! EAT THE (RICH) QUICHE

Lee Wright @thewrightwordsmith.bsky.social · 1d

1. Make pumpkin pie
2. Realize you can make quiche with the leftover eggs
3. Spill some of the quiche but manage to get it in the oven
4. Wait

I'm on step 4

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Lee Wright @thewrightwordsmith.bsky.social · 1d

100% agree with needing more Trans Masc writers, but... writer's block is a luxury? Like in the sense of "you push through or starve"?

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Lee Wright @thewrightwordsmith.bsky.social · 1d

1. Make pumpkin pie
2. Realize you can make quiche with the leftover eggs
3. Spill some of the quiche but manage to get it in the oven
4. Wait

I'm on step 4

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Lee Wright @thewrightwordsmith.bsky.social · 1d

Something like 99% of my creative fiction is written in 3PO so 👍

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Lee Wright @thewrightwordsmith.bsky.social · 1d

Eventually the cat will get hungry and you can enjoy a trip to the kitchen together.

Could be five minutes, could be five hours. May the odds be in your favor.

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Ethan M. Aldridge @ethanmaldridge.bsky.social · 1d

Speaking of, I have a webcomic for you to read! Sablecomic.com

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ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · 1d

i forgot that i saved this, but my book is currently in an exhibit about Indigenous picture books at the Carle Museum (which made me squeeeee) and they provide an amazing list of recommendations of Indigenous picture books by subject matter are

Entwined Memory: Indigenous Stories of Creation, Place, and Continuity

Booklist for Entwined Memory: Indigenous Stories of Creation, Place, and Continuity, on view in the Reading Library from August 6, 2025 -August 2, 2026.

carlemuseum.org

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Lee Wright @thewrightwordsmith.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Columbo's Day!

matthew @pahuski.com · 1d

Happy Columbo’s Day

Screenshot from Columbo. He his talking to his dog, which is sitting is the drivers seat of a car. “Okay, I’m gonna put you in charge. You take care of the car. You’re a responsible dog. When I get back, if the car’s okay, I’ll give you another cookie.”

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Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 1d

"A liberal arts education encompasses the arts, the humanities, the social sciences and STEM. It rejects the notion that some branches of knowledge are more important than others. Instead, it emphasizes that tackling the big questions of our current moment requires cross-disciplinary approaches."

Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 2d

My latest: "Numerous studies show that majors in the humanities—typically, in departments of English, history, philosophy, religious studies, classics and languages—lead students to employment and life satisfaction outcomes as positive as those for majors traditionally championed as 'practical.'”

Counterpoint | Minnesota humanities graduates thrive in meaningful careers

"The stereotype of the underemployed history major is simply not true," professor Andrea Kaston Tange writes.

www.startribune.com

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Lee Wright @thewrightwordsmith.bsky.social · 1d

Rigsby WI is the good stuff, you should read it (and if you can, get the books!)

S E Case @secase.bsky.social · 12d

In the hopes of getting more eyeballs on Rigsby WI: Burn it Down leading up to the print edition's Kickstarter launch, I'll be posting Burn it Down pages in this thread over the next few days! If you havent read it, check it out ⬇️
KS: www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro...
Webcomic: rigsbywi.com

(1/?)

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Lee Wright @thewrightwordsmith.bsky.social · 1d

ooooooh myyyyyy

Claire, BOO Haver @progesteronipizza.bsky.social · 1d

product design is my *mmpf~* passion

"after changing their bottle shapes, sales spiked, this proves how smart design drives big results"

then four extremely phallic bottle shapes

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Lee Wright @thewrightwordsmith.bsky.social · 1d

IT'S A USEFUL FEATURE

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

it's high time people on this website realize that reply controls are variable and controllable on this site and someone could simply only have replies on for people that follow them. stop moralizing anti-harassment measures, it's weird.

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Lee Wright @thewrightwordsmith.bsky.social · 2d

w h a t

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Lee Wright @thewrightwordsmith.bsky.social · 2d

A lotta kids programing has The Juice, as he would say

Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 2d

This is maybe for kids but the vibes are immaculate

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Lee Wright @thewrightwordsmith.bsky.social · 3d

Which concert?

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Lee Wright @thewrightwordsmith.bsky.social · 4d

This was my thought. That's not a game, that's a tragedy about to happen

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 5d

This is hilarious

chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · Jun 1

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

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