elisa
@aefrankes.bsky.social
interdisciplinary humanities graduate student researching the stories we tell ourselves • whimsy enthusiast • all shoulder chips and paper skin • she/they • 🇨🇦🫐🏳️🌈 • St. John's, Ktaqmkuk (island of Newfoundland)
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Someone keeps putting on all of the sad songs, and I keep singing along.
February 10, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Someone keeps putting on all of the sad songs, and I keep singing along.
I'm not a parent but I'm finding the replies and quote posts of this skeet (sorry, not sorry) very wholesome and hilarious.
always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay
February 10, 2026 at 3:55 PM
I'm not a parent but I'm finding the replies and quote posts of this skeet (sorry, not sorry) very wholesome and hilarious.
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"in the street of money in the city of money in the country of money,
our great country of money, we (forgive us)
lived happily during the war."
- Ilya Kaminsky
our great country of money, we (forgive us)
lived happily during the war."
- Ilya Kaminsky
February 9, 2026 at 12:12 PM
"in the street of money in the city of money in the country of money,
our great country of money, we (forgive us)
lived happily during the war."
- Ilya Kaminsky
our great country of money, we (forgive us)
lived happily during the war."
- Ilya Kaminsky
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writing a horror novel with one hand. using the other to make the spiraling “cuckoo” sign so everyone knows I don’t condone
February 9, 2026 at 6:33 PM
writing a horror novel with one hand. using the other to make the spiraling “cuckoo” sign so everyone knows I don’t condone
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why do you need to observe your house if you're not in it. you are giving yourself an opt-in mental illness. no one has to live like this
February 9, 2026 at 6:06 AM
why do you need to observe your house if you're not in it. you are giving yourself an opt-in mental illness. no one has to live like this
oh. right. yeah. now I remember why I got rid of instagram in the first place 🙃
February 9, 2026 at 1:28 AM
oh. right. yeah. now I remember why I got rid of instagram in the first place 🙃
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yeah, this is absolutely a reason why there are a lot more gleeful predictions about AI taking over all creative work than there are about it taking over sports
This too is Gender. Football is a Man Thing (vital), while many other creative pursuits are Woman Coded (frivolous, disposable, not Really Important).
February 8, 2026 at 7:39 PM
yeah, this is absolutely a reason why there are a lot more gleeful predictions about AI taking over all creative work than there are about it taking over sports
this loses a little something when it's not sung in a cold church by a dude in a weird faux-operatic with the organist missing the cue and coming in around the second "Christ"
Christ has died. Christ is risen. Christ will come again.
February 8, 2026 at 7:58 PM
this loses a little something when it's not sung in a cold church by a dude in a weird faux-operatic with the organist missing the cue and coming in around the second "Christ"
the Streisand Effect? more like the King Taejong Effect, amirite???
Never forget the anniversary of King Taejong falling off his horse!
February 8, 2026 at 1:42 PM
the Streisand Effect? more like the King Taejong Effect, amirite???
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man I’m sorry to be all corny here but when I see a “the city is beautiful! There’s more to it than homeless people!” I gotta say you know who’s also beautiful? People who have no place to live & are trying to get by in a system that has turned its back on them & if you don’t see that that’s on you
February 8, 2026 at 4:42 AM
man I’m sorry to be all corny here but when I see a “the city is beautiful! There’s more to it than homeless people!” I gotta say you know who’s also beautiful? People who have no place to live & are trying to get by in a system that has turned its back on them & if you don’t see that that’s on you
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this is what people should do when they fuck up my name in an email
NOOO I spelled it wrong even though it's right there. NOOOOO.
February 8, 2026 at 2:04 AM
this is what people should do when they fuck up my name in an email
eyyyyy new intrusive thought just dropped (someone taking my cat’s body from me when she dies)
February 8, 2026 at 1:51 AM
eyyyyy new intrusive thought just dropped (someone taking my cat’s body from me when she dies)
my elderly cat is losing her sight 🥺
I found this out by not understanding why she was crying for food when it was already out until I put it under her nose and she followed it to her usual spot.
😮💨 I am not ready for her showing significant signs of aging 😭
I found this out by not understanding why she was crying for food when it was already out until I put it under her nose and she followed it to her usual spot.
😮💨 I am not ready for her showing significant signs of aging 😭
February 7, 2026 at 7:33 PM
my elderly cat is losing her sight 🥺
I found this out by not understanding why she was crying for food when it was already out until I put it under her nose and she followed it to her usual spot.
😮💨 I am not ready for her showing significant signs of aging 😭
I found this out by not understanding why she was crying for food when it was already out until I put it under her nose and she followed it to her usual spot.
😮💨 I am not ready for her showing significant signs of aging 😭
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I just want to know that I did all I could with what I was given.
February 6, 2026 at 8:30 PM
I just want to know that I did all I could with what I was given.
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One of the children's books challenged by the parents in Mahmoud v. Taylor is 'What Are Your Words?', a “sweet, accessible introduction to gender-inclusive pronouns.” It is literally a Hachette book. The same company paying Alito for his book wants you to buy one of the books he is helping to ban.
Sam Alito’s Publisher Wants You to Buy the Children’s Books He Just Made It Easier to Ban
The author of Mahmoud v. Taylor is writing a book for a publisher that calls the push to ban books with LGBTQ characters an attack on “one of the most important foundations of a free society.”
ballsandstrikes.substack.com
February 6, 2026 at 5:49 PM
One of the children's books challenged by the parents in Mahmoud v. Taylor is 'What Are Your Words?', a “sweet, accessible introduction to gender-inclusive pronouns.” It is literally a Hachette book. The same company paying Alito for his book wants you to buy one of the books he is helping to ban.
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And you're brave, so I'm brave, or I'm trying anyway. Put the work in, plant a garden, try to stay afloat.
February 6, 2026 at 6:20 AM
And you're brave, so I'm brave, or I'm trying anyway. Put the work in, plant a garden, try to stay afloat.
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Working link: www.typotheque.com/blog/cheroke...
February 5, 2026 at 8:18 PM
Working link: www.typotheque.com/blog/cheroke...
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Sure, a wide array of American elites were palling around with a pedophile and eugenicist but did you know that a Pedro Pascal fan account on bluesky is being slightly hyperbolic when posting about it
February 5, 2026 at 11:37 PM
Sure, a wide array of American elites were palling around with a pedophile and eugenicist but did you know that a Pedro Pascal fan account on bluesky is being slightly hyperbolic when posting about it
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Somebody get the mafia romance authors down here
I knew about the tow truck wars in Toronto but I did not know that MORE THAN 1 IN 8 bullets fired by guns anywhere in Toronto in the year 2024 were related to tow truck driver turf wars???
And the police force is not just complicit but LEAKING INFO TO HITMEN????
And the police force is not just complicit but LEAKING INFO TO HITMEN????
February 5, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Somebody get the mafia romance authors down here
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I CAME OUT SWINGING FROM A SOUTH PHILLY BASEMENT CAKED IN STALE BEER AND SWEAT UNDER HALF-LIT FLOURESCENTS.
February 5, 2026 at 6:21 PM
I CAME OUT SWINGING FROM A SOUTH PHILLY BASEMENT CAKED IN STALE BEER AND SWEAT UNDER HALF-LIT FLOURESCENTS.
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We cannot ask survivors to speak out about sexual violence while simultaneously punishing them for it. We cannot hold survivors responsible for their own justice while refusing to give it to them. We cannot expect survivors to come forward while making it impossible for them to do so.
February 5, 2026 at 8:28 PM
We cannot ask survivors to speak out about sexual violence while simultaneously punishing them for it. We cannot hold survivors responsible for their own justice while refusing to give it to them. We cannot expect survivors to come forward while making it impossible for them to do so.
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Too often I hear that the answer to sexual violence is for more victims to report it and speak up, but when they do so, they are denied justice and punished. That is not the answer, it is the problem.
February 5, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Too often I hear that the answer to sexual violence is for more victims to report it and speak up, but when they do so, they are denied justice and punished. That is not the answer, it is the problem.
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It feels like it's been impossible to get people outside of higher ed to understand that eliminating staff/programs/majors is primarily an ideological project, whatever claims are made about finances.
What's happened at the Post is what's been happening in higher ed for ages.
What's happened at the Post is what's been happening in higher ed for ages.
February 5, 2026 at 1:19 PM
It feels like it's been impossible to get people outside of higher ed to understand that eliminating staff/programs/majors is primarily an ideological project, whatever claims are made about finances.
What's happened at the Post is what's been happening in higher ed for ages.
What's happened at the Post is what's been happening in higher ed for ages.
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went here and everyone said they love and support you
February 5, 2026 at 1:36 PM
went here and everyone said they love and support you