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Tristan Elwell @tristanelwell.bsky.social · 1d

Prophesy!

Screenshot of a twitter post from the Masters of Our Domain Podcast dated Jan 3, 2002
Text:

INT. JERRY'S APARTMENT

GEORGE: Somebody hacked my apes. They're all gone.

JERRY: All gone?

GEORGE: Every single one! Funged!

JERRY: You can't just funge a man's ape!

GEORGE: That's society for you - people are sick!

[KRAMER enters smoking a cigar in an ape costume]

Tristan Elwell @tristanelwell.bsky.social · 1d

Not to be stereotypical, but publishing was historically an "acceptable" career for women (if not at the very highest levels), so the corporate culture developed very differently from most industries.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 3d

Oh, so when YOU grab a Danish for a quick snack, it's a guilt-free, tasty little treat. But when I, Grendel,

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Tristan Elwell @tristanelwell.bsky.social · 3d

This is the hardest and most important thing I’ve ever done (and continue to do).

Gorey Cask of Amontilladoing @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 3d

I think its genuinely a virtue to accept that you could be wrong about anything and kill the part of yourself that needs to always be seen as correct and smarter than others on any given topic

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 6d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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It's Halloween. Yep. @itsabbyyep.bsky.social · 4d

I thought "the president's just a wannabe king who flies a shit-dropping plane over his own country" is something his enemies would say about him but you do you

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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 4d

illustration showing an 18th century guillotine with a banner reading "no kings no tyrants"

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Tristan Elwell @tristanelwell.bsky.social · 10d

If Graham-Dixon is correct, this is the biggest breakthrough in Vermeer studies ever.

Vermeer — the riddle of the mysterious Dutch master is solved at last

For centuries the Girl with a Pearl Earring painter’s life was a closed book. After a decade in the archives, art historian Andrew Graham-Dixon reveals his links to a radical sect

www.thetimes.com

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Tristan Elwell @tristanelwell.bsky.social · 10d

Yuuuuup

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Tristan Elwell @tristanelwell.bsky.social · 10d

At least it’s not the song I assumed it was 😳

The Blogging Goth @theblogginggoth.bsky.social · 10d

The unauthorised use by the #DepartmentofHomelandSecurity of #TheCure 1992 hit has been met with copyright requests to remove it from social media.

The Cure song triggers takedown of US Government video

The Department of Homeland Security has been forced to withdraw a video it shared on social media after a copyright violation over “Friday I’m In Love” by The Cure

theblogginggoth.com

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Tristan Elwell @tristanelwell.bsky.social · 10d

I’m relieved it’s not the first Cure song that came to mind for DHS 😳

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Tristan Elwell @tristanelwell.bsky.social · 12d

Working in publishing was another story. I once had to repaint the sky on a cover for a book with a male teen protagonist because it was, and I quote, "too girly."

Tristan Elwell @tristanelwell.bsky.social · 12d

When I was little, I loved Alice in Wonderland and the Oz books. Later, I loved Harriet the Spy and A Wrinkle in Time. I never had any issue with girl protagonists because, thanks to my parents and the other adults in my life, I didn't know I was supposed to.

Shea Fontana @sheafontana.bsky.social · 12d

A question that I'm often asked goes something like, "Is it great to create content that shows girls how strong they can be?" YES. It is an honor to have girls who read my books or watch my shows to feel empowered. But...
IT'S EQUALLY IMPORTANT FOR BOYS TO SEE GIRLS AS MAIN CHARACTERS TOO.

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Tristan Elwell @tristanelwell.bsky.social · 12d

When I was little, I loved Alice in Wonderland and the Oz books. Later, I loved Harriet the Spy and A Wrinkle in Time. I never had any issue with girl protagonists because, thanks to my parents and the other adults in my life, I didn't know I was supposed to.

Shea Fontana @sheafontana.bsky.social · 12d

A question that I'm often asked goes something like, "Is it great to create content that shows girls how strong they can be?" YES. It is an honor to have girls who read my books or watch my shows to feel empowered. But...
IT'S EQUALLY IMPORTANT FOR BOYS TO SEE GIRLS AS MAIN CHARACTERS TOO.

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Tristan Elwell @tristanelwell.bsky.social · 13d

"Brett Ratner is MAGA's Leni Riefenstahl" is not a sentence I would have ever predicted, but is appropriate on every level.

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Everything Hat Ever Sent You Is Off The Record @kenwhite.bsky.social · 14d

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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Tristan Elwell @tristanelwell.bsky.social · 14d

I’d be honored

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Glenn Arthur @glennarthurart.bsky.social · 15d

If you see this post a goth or punk girl 🖤

An ink and watercolor fanart illustration of Siouxsie Sioux

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Tristan Elwell @tristanelwell.bsky.social · 15d

“killed”
BOOOO!

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Tristan Elwell @tristanelwell.bsky.social · 15d

Oh man. You’re going to lose your shit when you find out about owls!

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Tristan Elwell @tristanelwell.bsky.social · 15d

That's actually only a slight exaggeration from the modern conception of sauropods! Skinny swan necks (and shrink-wrapped skeletons in general) have been out for quite some time.

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Tristan Elwell @tristanelwell.bsky.social · 15d

If you see this post a goth or punk girl
#artsky

YOU RANG?

Cartoon sketch of a girl with heavy eyeliner, dark lipstick and straight, black bangs that come down to her eyes. Captioned "Nobody sees my eyebrows... nobody."

Pen-and-ink sketch of the Anadin Brothers, the female backup dancers for Doctor and the Medics. The have white faces, black eye makeup, very long black hair, flower crowns, and white gowns. Their nails, lips, and some of the flowers are bright red.

A pencil sketch of Tairrie B (My Ruin). She has a pale, oval face with heavy eye makeup and lipstick, and a tangled rat's nest of long, teased black hair.

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Tristan Elwell @tristanelwell.bsky.social · 15d

Nah man, that’s one of the Balearic Islands.

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Tristan Elwell @tristanelwell.bsky.social · 15d

Fuckin’ banger! I want the 12” extended remix!

Sexy Henry Kissinger Costume @mightygodking.com · 15d

today seems like a things-fall-apart-the-center-cannot-hold sorta day so how about a timeline cleanse for you? this is absolutely the best thing you will watch at least this week

(via Matt Storer on IG)

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Tristan Elwell @tristanelwell.bsky.social · 15d

My work here is done.

Candra Hope @candrahope.bsky.social · 15d

Courtesy of @tristanelwell.bsky.social

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 15d

10/07/2025

a crude drawing of a trash bin with a large human face sticking out of the top of it, surrounded by trash, with the caption "early testing for the public trash bins with human faces that beg to be fed garbage indicated that most found them too unsettling to use. However, the small number of participants, including some investors, who said they found the bins deeply erotic, and attempted to form romantic relationships with the bins was considered promising enough to continue funding the project."

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Tristan Elwell @tristanelwell.bsky.social · 15d

"So, kids, the lesson for today is that you are meat and you will be forgotten."
– Me, to my students.

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