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Alison Withonel @withonel.bsky.social · 20h

That moment when the sauce spills out and runs down the flutes is so sexy it should be illegal

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 22h

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 1d

ME: *last night* I'm really enjoying these harpsichord pieces by John Bull. I should look into his life. I'll bet he wasn't a spy for Queen Elizabeth who had to flee England after the Archbishop of Canterbury declared him "the horniest man alive."

WIKIPEDIA:

In 1586 he received his degree from Oxford, and he became a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal that same year. In 1591, following the death of John Blitheman, he became organist at the Chapel Royal; in 1592 he received his doctorate from Oxford, and in 1596 he became the first professor of music at Gresham College on the recommendation of Queen Elizabeth, who admired him. There is some evidence that she sent Bull on espionage missions: his eighteen-month trip to the continent in 1601–02, ostensibly for health reasons, has never been satisfactorily explained, and his whereabouts there, apart from a visit to Brussels, then in the Spanish Netherlands, remain a mystery.[4][5] On the death of Elizabeth, he entered into the service of King James, establishing a reputation as a skilled composer, keyboard performer and improviser.

Just after publishing seven keyboard pieces in Parthenia, Bull left England for good, secretly and with great haste in October 1613. His salary at the Chapel Royal was paid in lieu to Edmund Hooper.[7] Bull was fleeing the wrath of George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury, and King James himself; the charge this time was adultery. William Trumbull, the English envoy in the Low Countries, after first attempting to cover for him – but later fearing for his own position if he continued to do so – wrote to the King in early 1614:

Bull did not leave your Majesties service for any wrong done unto him, or for matter of religion, under which fained pretext he now sought to wrong the reputation of your Majesties justice, but did in that dishonest matter steal out of England through the guilt of a corrupt conscience, to escape the punishment, which notoriously he had deserved, and was designed to have been inflicted on him by the hand of justice, for his incontinence, fornication, adultery, and other grievious crimes.

The Archbishop of Canterbury had said of him the previous year: "the man hath more music than honesty and is as famous for marring of virginity as he is for fingering of organs and virginals."

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Foone @foone.bsky.social · 7d

I accidentally glitched out an animation I was working on and created a perfect example of what the passage of time feels like to someone with ADHD

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Alison Withonel @withonel.bsky.social · 17d

sex car sex car sex car

Tiki Bunny Imports🍹🐇🛻🏳️‍🌈 @tikibunnyimports.bsky.social · 17d

#RadRide at auction today bonus feature! Yep, ya'll been good today so here's a third! A 97 Honda S-MX. Turn that M 90 degrees to the left & it'll show you what they was going for here! A fold-flat interior that has space for a queen bed! Puts the F in Functional! DM for interest or to bid! #JDM

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JG Pasterjak @jpasterjak.bsky.social · Sep 7

Sometimes, motorsports gets it.
SCCA Solo Nats competitor is protested on Day 1 in a ladies class for being trans. Protest committee rules aggrieved party should get fucked into the sun. Day 2 the rest of class shows support for the protested party on way to her first run. She would go on to win.

A protest form from the Sports Car Club of America national autocross championships, alleging that a trans woman is not eligible to compete in ladies classes for [reasons]. Ruling of protest committee is that the protest has no basis and protesting party is an asshole.

Competitors (the not-asshole kind) in the SSC Ladies class at the SCCA Solo Nationals show support for their colleague who was protested for competing in a class she was not eligible for (spoiler alert: she totally was eligible).

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Alison Withonel @withonel.bsky.social · Sep 7

cbat by hudson mohawke

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"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · Aug 21

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · Aug 26

gymleaderoz on tumblr: "Do I want this? Yes. Do I need this? Also yes."
[image of two pill bottles, a red Tylenol and a blue Ibuprofen, both featuring Psyduck.]
sew-birb: "I love the idea that Psyduck is the only starter Pokémon in both Pokémon: Ibuprofen and Pokemon: Tylenol"

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Michael @aband0nedmilk.bsky.social · Aug 22

As the saying goes, nothing lasts forever

Goodbye Oswald. Between the mold, the mice, and the numerous mechanical issues you had when I laid you up last year, there was no saving you from this. Thank you for 75,290 miles and 6 years of fun and frustration