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Abby
@abbothegreat.bsky.social
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She/her • 27 • I love stories! It doesn’t matter whether I read them, play them, or view them. As long as I have them I can live. 📚💕
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letitmelo.bsky.social
Yasumi "The World Has Not Improved In The Last 30 Years" Matsuno
"Nearly 30 years ago, the collapse of Japan’s bubble economy engulfed the nation’s financial institutions in mountains of bad debt, triggering a wave of corporate bankruptcies, a sudden and extreme rise in unemployment rates, and stagnation of Japanese society as a whole. It was an era when many were robbed of hope, when dreams were measured by their price tag. “Against this historical backdrop, I crafted a story. It was the story of Ramza, a young man who fought tirelessly against the entrenched social class system. It was the story of Delita, who sought to take advantage of this confusion and despair to advance his own social position. It was a story of a peculiar destiny, in which friendship and betrayal intertwine. “And now, in 2025 – a time when inequality and division are still deeply rooted in our society – I offer this story once again. “The will to resist is in your hands.” Yasumi Matsuno -- Original Script, Scenario Writer and Editor
September 24, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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huxleymorgan.bsky.social
Black and white image of Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, smoking a cigarette. "The world is not divided between east and west. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same."
June 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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nellucnhoj.bsky.social
create

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bonus comics:
patreon.com/nhoj
4 panel comic P1: a right hand draws a wavy stroke on a sketchbook page. A caption box up top reads "draw" P2: the word "CREATE" dominates a panel with a black background, forming in the negative space. Various small shapes surround it. P3: a lone simplified humanoid figure is on the bottom right of a another panel with a black background. A thought bubble forms above their head, the words "if not for others, then at least for yourself" within. P4: The Earth dominates the bottom of the panel, with a sliver of space above it. Clouds swirl and boil across the Earth, which is the only element on the entire page coloured a pink-red. A caption box above reads "now, more than ever"
November 8, 2024 at 5:10 PM
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gaijinmommy.bsky.social
There is always something about the wild ones.
Single wild blue hydrangea, between 2 tall trees. With her leaves she is showing you the rice fields slightly visible through a small clearing below. White hydrangeas in in an enchanted forest before tall trees. I call it enchanted because by some magic there was no one else there on a weekend. Closeup of a white hydrangea with a stone Torii in the background which leads to a shrine that is too blurry to make out because camera settings. Blue and white hydrangeas surrounding the sculpted stones at a shrine, as if defying gravity to hold them up, for as I said, the forest is enchanted.
June 22, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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nedroid.com
Why does this soap label look like it should be the first book in a trilogy called “The Ryver of Shaedows”
A bottle of Softsoap hand soap. The label features sliced limes and flowers. Inconsistently bolded text intertwined with the graphics reads “WILD BASIL & LIME”
June 21, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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laurakeeney.bsky.social
The more we learn about UHC, what happened to Brian Thompson increasingly makes sense to more folks. Even my octogenarian parents can understand the rationale behind it. They may not agree on moral grounds, but they get it.

UHC is vile and corrupt.

#FreeLuigi
chimeracoder.bsky.social Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️‍🌈 @chimeracoder.bsky.social · May 21
UnitedHealth secretly pressured nurses to change patients' records to include DNRs (Do Not Resuscitate) without their consent, so those patients would die instead of being saved with medical interventions that could cost UnitedHealth money.

This is murder.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Cost-cutting tactics The secret bonuses were just one of many maneuvers UnitedHealth devised to track and cut expenses in its nursing home initiative. Internal emails show, for example, that UnitedHealth supervisors gave their teams “budgets” showing how many hospital admissions they had “left” to use up on nursing home patients. The company also monitored nursing homes that had smaller numbers of patients with “do not resuscitate” – or DNR – and “do not intubate” orders in their files. Without such orders, patients are in line for certain life-saving treatments that might lead to costly hospital stays. Two current and three former UnitedHealth nurse practitioners told the Guardian that UnitedHealth managers pressed nurse practitioners to persuade Medicare Advantage members to change their “code status” to DNR even when patients had clearly expressed a desire that all available treatments be used to keep them alive.
May 22, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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lauramac95.bsky.social
Thread.

From further along in the thread: medical misogyny means "No care when alive & forced 'care' when dead".
broadwaybabyto.bsky.social Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · May 22
When I had my hysterectomy, I was told recovery would be quick because I was young, fit & otherwise healthy.

They were wrong. The surgeon made an error and despite signs of post op bleeding, discharged me & went on vacation.

When I returned to the ER, I was ignored & gaslit 🧵
May 22, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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loreleywrites.bsky.social
Doesn't matter the medium. Doesn't matter how old the work is. Doesn't matter if you feel embarrassed to say something. If you like an artist's work, TELL THEM.
kim-hu.com Kim Hu @kim-hu.com · May 11
Anyway, if you like a creative's work, please tell us. Tell us what you like. Tell us what it means to you. Because we probably don't see it ourselves.
May 17, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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May 17, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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troubledminnesotan.bsky.social
Okay so maybe not 27 hours but here you go
Panel 1: a person reclines on a bed holding a switch saying, “ah, time to sit and play one of my childhood faves! Lets relax and forget our worries for a little bit~” Panel 2: PS1 sprite Barret stands staring out sadly saying, “corporations are destroying the planet, valuing profit over lives and morals. Every day is a struggle to hope and fight back.” Panel 3: person from panel 1 stares down at their switch with a blank smile and a tear rolling down their cheek as they state, “oh dear”
May 18, 2025 at 9:12 PM
abbothegreat.bsky.social
Brb, I’m divining my future within the swirling amber of my miso soup
May 15, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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bodegacats.bsky.social
May 13, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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renaryuugu.bsky.social
fucked up at the crib playing Father 2
May 12, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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chikenmilky3.bsky.social
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March 25, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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laurahowes.bsky.social
Guys, I just want to say that on Friday I renewed my library card and took out a bunch of books that are not worthy, or serious, or educational. They're just stories, and they have already fundamentally made my mental health better.
Thank God for the story tellers.
May 11, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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annacwebs.bsky.social
They should invent a fun little lipgloss that your hair doesn’t stick to
May 9, 2025 at 12:22 AM
abbothegreat.bsky.social
Authors so good they make you finish two and a half books in less than ten days…Judith Merkle Riley, woman that you were…
May 11, 2025 at 11:28 PM
abbothegreat.bsky.social
I climb da mountain, I see da wisteria
May 11, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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gaijinmommy.bsky.social
Some color for your grey morning, because the yellow wisteria is still in bloom.
Bright yellow wisteria hanging from above and taking up the entire frame in a manner that makes you think that the world might just be a a bright yellow friendly place. Yesterday.
May 11, 2025 at 10:15 PM