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Micah @rincewind.run · 3d

Discworld QOTD, from Wyrd Sisters

“The night was as black as the inside of a cat. It was the kind of night, you could believe, on which the gods moved men as though they were pawns on the chessboard of fate. In the middle of the elemental storm a fire gleamed among the dripping furze bushes like the madness in a weasel’s eye. It illuminated three hunched figures. As the cauldron bubbled an eldritch voice shrieked: ‘When shall we three meet again?’ There was a pause. Finally another voice said in far more ordinary tones: ‘Well I can do next Tuesday.’"

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 7d

Halloween is near! It's time to post this marvellous articulated Roman skeleton, presumably meant to be a reminder to enjoy life to the fullest, since pleasure ends irrevocably with death.
In Petronius’ Satyricon, the host of a dinner party brings out a small skeleton with moveable...🧵1/2

Bronze figurine of a walking skeleton with elongated limbs and detailed ribcage, shown against a dark gradient background.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 9d

My big conspiracy is that due to our overall systemic decline in both cultural literacy and actual literacy we have spawned a generation of people who don’t even know how to get horny anymore

TheGamersician 🎮🎶 @thegamersician.com · 9d

🤦🏾‍♂️

Speak for yourself lol

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Nyx, Bitch King of Angmar @ylvacornix.bsky.social · 11d

Today I saw a perfect centaur carved into the wall of a medieval church

Crude carving of a really happy centaur wielding two knives. His tail is delightfully curled at the end.

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Fantômas, Le contrebandier de DEI @theefantomas.bsky.social · 12d

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Nyx, Bitch King of Angmar @ylvacornix.bsky.social · 12d

It’s finally “pick up a little chestnut to keep in your pocket”-season

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 13d

I cannot believe these lyrics from the new Taylor Swift album are real

Pledge allegiance to your hands, your team, your vibes"

"You made a deal with this devil, turns out my dick's bigger"

"Everybody's so punk on the internet"

"So we all dressed up as wolves and we looked fire"

"Got me drеaming about a driveway with a basketball hoop - Boss up, settle down, got a wish list"

"Please, God, bring me a best friend who I think is hot"

"He dick-matized me and opened my еyes - Redwood tree, it ain't hard to see - His love was thе key that opened my thighs"

"Good thing I like my friends cancelled - I like 'em cloaked in Gucci and in scandal"

"Did you girl-boss too close to the sun?"

"Who's the baddest in the land? What's the plan? - You could be my forever night stand"

"They ripped me off like false lashes - And then threw me away"

"Her name was Kitty - Made her money being pretty and witty - They gave her the keys to this city - Then they said she didn't do it legitly"

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Futurism @futurism.com · 14d

It eats... and eats... and eats...

Scientists Spot "Rogue" Planet Floating Between Stars, Devouring Everything in Reach

Astronomers have discovered that a "rogue" planet is going through a massive growth spurt and it's eating everything around it.

trib.al

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Nyx, Bitch King of Angmar @ylvacornix.bsky.social · 14d

She was very polite, too. Truly a person in perfect harmony with herself

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Nyx, Bitch King of Angmar @ylvacornix.bsky.social · 14d

Lady next to me on the train has a nude glamour shot of herself as her phone background and I respect her immensely

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Nyx, Bitch King of Angmar @ylvacornix.bsky.social · 15d

While he is very wrong I am sorry to let you know that looks-wise, he is simply extremely Danish (I say this as someone with a Danish parent💔)

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Nyx, Bitch King of Angmar @ylvacornix.bsky.social · 18d

Unfortunately pomelo is also a no-no, but that’s basically super grapefruit so I think other citrus should be ok

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chimera aunt @strangelittlevine.bsky.social · 20d

"isekai" used to mean Escaflowne. we gotta go back

Xiaoyi @cleefouti.bsky.social · 21d

Been trying to read some isekai lately.

Four frames comic about two types of Isekai I found and read lately. The first frame shows a young man with a sword. He says: "My name is Josh Itcantbehelped and I used to be a loser before a car crash brought me to a world where I am a god and half the population is made of SLAVE CATGIRLS". The second frame shows him crying and clenching his fist, with many a cat behind him, wearing bikinis. He says "To make it here I guess I have no choice but to own as many catgirls as I can...how tragic...". The third frame shows another character from another type of Isekai. She's a woman with a fluffy dress. She says "My name is Elise Robespierre and after being hit by a truck of terminal cancer I am now in my favorite 900 pages novel. With many a hot man.". The fourth frame shows her giving a board presentation to citizens, with graphs and pictures of plants on it. She says: "Hello citizens. This is my plan to modernize the agricultural system and prevent any further plague by creating medicine [...] taxes which ..." the text becomes unreadable as she keeps talking to her captive audience.

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Nyx, Bitch King of Angmar @ylvacornix.bsky.social · 24d

That’s fair, I’d never heard of her before. I was disappointed with this episode and did not agree with it, I just didn’t recognise the brief recap here from what was actually said

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Nyx, Bitch King of Angmar @ylvacornix.bsky.social · 24d

Not particularly, it was a very poorly timed callback to an earlier subject

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ca-dmv-bot @ca-dmv-bot.bsky.social · 25d

Customer: MY WIFE HAS RED HAIR AND WE CALL HER THE HAMMER
DMV: RED-GANG

Verdict: DENIED

California license plate with text "RED HAMR".

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Nyx, Bitch King of Angmar @ylvacornix.bsky.social · 27d

I just listened to the episode and while I didn’t love it, trans people were not mentioned in this context. They listed people who’d been fired and what they’d said, and in your case basically just said it could have been in a group chat and moved on. Unless I’m missing some other context.

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Nyx, Bitch King of Angmar @ylvacornix.bsky.social · Sep 19

Me, on a train to Trollhättan: why does this make me want to listen to f@tt

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Nyx, Bitch King of Angmar @ylvacornix.bsky.social · Sep 19

I suddenly have hours of commuting every day until December. Maybe it’s time to catch up on the last few years of Friends at the Table

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Sep 15

"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys

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Lilly ⭐️ @mothcub.bsky.social · Sep 4

Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere

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Nyx, Bitch King of Angmar @ylvacornix.bsky.social · Jan 30

Hylonomus (a comic about PTSD)

(*For reasons I do not fully understand but I’m led to believe has to do with cranial structure, the hylonomus was not, in fact, an actual lizard)

#illustration #comic #ptsd

A lizard trailing behind a pair of human legs walking away. Text: In my body lives the oldest lizard
It still mourns the Carboniferous

A lizard curled around a human heart above uprooted fern.
Text: the lizard grips my heart and squeezes as I walk through the ferns out back
I’ve been buried in grief and then dug up
And if you squint you can tell

A nude figure from the thighs up. From the figures arm sprouts the component of a gothic cathedral, and below the bellybutton the figure disintegrates, revealing the bones.
Text: I’ve been broken down to determine
If I’m more than the sum of my parts
I’ve rebuilt myself; a cathedral
But the lizard wants towering calamites

A lizard curled up, club moss sprouting around it.
Text: it curls into club moss and it’s begging forgiveness
For being dust after all.

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Nyx, Bitch King of Angmar @ylvacornix.bsky.social · May 14

My wife, who does “not need any help” taking out the recycling

My wife, slightly visible behind the recycling she’s carrying

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · Sep 9

me in the downtown area of any city on earth: but despite all of our differences, are we not all siblings and friends?

me driving on a highway anywhere on earth: i support the total eradication of the human race and i vote

The Ken in Yellow @kenlowery.bsky.social · Sep 9

When I am in any city: "wow, I love this city!"

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Dewie @judgedewie.bsky.social · Sep 9

The new statue of the Madonna at Santa Teresa di Gallura is an "abstract of Mary's form" 👀

A diamond shaped statue with an oval at the top, said to represent the Virgin Mary - presumable her head poking out of the gown and her arms out to the side - but also it looks a lot like labia and a clitoris.

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