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cephander.bsky.social
C.S. (Creepy Skull)
@cephander.bsky.social
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he/they | polisci major (for my sins), recovering theatre kid, seattle mariners enthusiast, food discourse centrist, theoretically I write sometimes
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This user has muted the word mariners for the next 7 days. Please respect their wishes and don’t talk about it until they’ve recovered
October 21, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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My one and only comment on the manner
Tumblr post by user unionizedcrabbucket reading “oh it must be spring the mariners fans are doing the charlie brown kicking the football thing again”
October 18, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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Thank you Marcus Aurelius, I think
“Though thou shouldst be going to live three thousand years, and as many times ten thousand years, still remember that no man loses any other life than this which he now lives, nor lives any other than this which he now loses. The longest and shortest are thus brought to the same. For the present is the same to all, though that which perishes is not the same; and so that which is lost appears to be a mere moment. For a man cannot lose either the past or the future: for what a man has not, how can any one take this from him? These two things then thou must bear in mind; the one, that all things from eternity are of like forms and come round in a circle, and that it makes no difference whether a man shall see the same things during a hundred years or two hundred, or an infinite time; and the second, that the longest liver and he who will die soonest lose just the same. For the present is the only thing of which a man can be deprived, if it is true that this is the only thing which he has, and that a man cannot lose a thing if he has it not.”
September 19, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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Dril tweet: and another thing: im not mad. please dont put in the newspaper that i got mad.
September 8, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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Kathryn’s bird avatar in silhouette superimposed over the bat signal.
September 7, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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It’s a very good article and this bit made me chuckle out loud
The Posse Comitatus Act, last updated in 2021 for reasons that will become immediately clear, is one sentence: "Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army, the Navy, the Marine Corps, the Air Force, or the Space Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both."
August 19, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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WHY WOULD YOU SAY ANY OF THIS
Q: Aren't the Nicosia's millionaires and live in a 9,000 square feet mansion in East Avenue? A: No and No, we are by no means millionaires and our mansion is 12,000 square feet, not 9,000 square feet. We are proud of our historic family home, and it provided au ideal backdrop for this narrative and has been greatly exploited by Jerrod Jones and the Rochester media. Our The poster has incredulously highlighted the first sentence of the answer because who the fuck would admit that and think it makes them look better
August 12, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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This was one of my many gripes w/ Presidents, Populism, and the Crisis of Democracy when I read it for class—Howell and Moe seemed to half acknowledge the racism inherent in that and then turned around and pretended it’s an urgent problem that actually needs fixing
Highlighted text from a book with a read sticky note flag next to it and handwritten annotation. The relevant highlighted portion reads “Second, support for populist parties is driven by both economic insecurity and cultural disruption. That said, populist leaders have clearly made immigration, which is partly economic but mainly cultural, their number one political issue. They have depicted immigrants as the reviled "other," and as distinct threats to their nation's way of life; they have used the issue to roil emotions and stoke fear; and they have succeeded in growing their base of support. Economic insecurity matters. Culture is explosive.” Another photo of a book page with sticky notes and handwritten annotations. The relevant paragraph reads “Whatever the means, today's crisis calls for well-designed policies and programs targeted most directly at those communities whose security and well-being have been ravaged by the disruptive forces of modernity. People need jobs; they need education and training for high-skill occupations; they need assistance in relocating; they need health care; they need security in old age; they need child care — and more — and they need to have their cultural concerns and fears of marginalization recognized and addressed (for example, through comprehensive immigration reform)” The words “cultural concerns” have been underlined and labeled “eww”. At the end of the paragraph, the poster has written in “I don’t think they do! I just don’t! I don’t think a non-racist version of this exists.”
August 12, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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It's one lesser part of the whole evil that is Alito's opinion, but my heart goes out to this student board member. I felt weird when I was one and I got quoted positively, much less in this kind of circumstance. You were trying to do good, and you don't deserve this.
religions out there that teach that women should only achieve certain subservient roles in life, and MCPS would never think of not having a book in a classroom that showed a woman” in a professional role. The Board’s student member agreed with the sentiment and proclaimed that “ignorance and hate does exist within our community, but please know that every student—each of our 160,000 students in our large county—has a place in the school system.”
June 27, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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This is making me miss the white and grey pigeon who lived by St. Peter’s…
A white pigeon with bits of grey spotting captured mid-takeoff. It’s photographed against a background of Roman cobblestone and a brown stone wall. The pigeon is only a few inches off the ground
May 7, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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An image of a scattered bunch of charcoal on a slightly off-white background
February 20, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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My sign and my favorite I saw today
A hand holds a cardboard sign in front of the sky. It says “No damn kings” in all caps, written in black marker A protest sign covered in child sized handprints in various bright paint colors. The text says “our kids deserve better”. The inside of the letters are various flags.
February 6, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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@indivisible.org @workingfamilies.org @moveon.org University students went to tell Wyden his constituents demand he refuse to play along with the illegal Republican takeover, only to find his Salem office is entirely inaccessible to the public. Undeterred, we left voicemails and emails. #VoughtNo
The user, in a winter coat, scarf, a university sweatshirt standing outside the locked doors to Senator Wyden’s office. Two other students are standing behind them, backs turned to the camera. A television inside the office building has a list of suites. Senator Wyden’s office is in suite 285 An electronic directory. There is only one page, and Senator Wyden’s office is not listed as able to be contacted.
February 4, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Trans day of eating a grocery store pie out of the tin
An image of a pie in a grocery store box with a fork sticking out of it. There’s been a bite taken out of a slice.
January 29, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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The “Chicago mentioned” meme edited to read “Très Riches Heures mentioned”. An anime girl holds a page from said manuscript in either hand and has the arms of John Duke of Berry slapped on her baseball cap. The background has also been replaced by pages from the manuscript.
January 27, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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@mattcameron.bsky.social my prof didn’t know, so you were the one person I could think to ask—this graph shows US Marshalls with a slice labeled “immigration”—why would someone be with them and not in the other immigration detention slice?
A pie chart from the prison policy initiative showing the U.S. prison/jail population and where they are incarcerated. The skeet is referencing the 14,000 person subslice in the U.S. marshals slice labeled “immigration”. This is separate from the blown up immigration detention portion on the side.
January 17, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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optimus desayuno :p
A baking sheet covered in conchas—pan dulces with a sugar topping scored in lines like a shell.
January 1, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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My contribution to Christmas Eve dinner (my family’s main celebration): a tiramisu Swiss roll. What I have learned from the experience is that my tiramisu cream does not have enough structural integrity for this. The freezer is helping and at least it’ll be tasty.
A Swiss roll cake coated in chocolate ganache on a white plate on a white counter in a kitchen.
December 25, 2024 at 12:32 AM
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Show me 4 of your necessary December watches
A movie poster for White Christmas. A movie poster for The Green Knight (2021), which is, *technically*, a Christmas movie in about the same way Die Hard is. A screenshot from the Christmas episode of Ted Lasso A movie poster for Henry V (1989) sloppily edited to have a Santa hat on it, because no the original poster Doesn’t watch other movies.
December 5, 2024 at 5:01 AM
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A screenshot of the Bible verse Luke 17:4 “Even if they sin against you seven times in a day and seven times come back to you saying ‘I repent,’ you must forgive them.” edited with shitty handwriting to say “you must ‘tell them to get fucked, I guess’”.
December 3, 2024 at 1:43 AM
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What is one of your comfort movies?
A gif from Henry V (1989). Kenneth Branagh as Henry V, lit by fire, sitting back in his throne.
November 11, 2024 at 12:07 AM
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The ending scene of the book is this: our lead characters get driven out to a field. /3
The car left the city and sped west along the Beijing-Shijiazhuang Highway. It exited the highway as soon as they were inside Hebei Prov-ince. Da Shi stopped the car and dragged his two passengers out. As soon as Ding and Wang got out of the car, the bright afternoon sun made them squint. The wheat felds of the North China Plain spread out before them. "What did you bring us here for?" Wang asked. "To look at bugs." Da Shi lit one of the cigars Colonel Stanton had given him and pointed at the wheat fields with it. Wang and Ding now noticed that the fields were covered by a layer of locusts. Every wheat stalk had a few crawling over it. On the ground, more locusts wriggled, like some thick liquid. "They're plagued by locusts here?" Wang brushed away some locusts from a small area near the edge of the field and sat down. "Like the dust storms, they started ten years ago. But this year is the worst." "So what? Nothing matters now, Da Shi." Ding spoke, his voice still drunk. "I just want to ask the two of you one question: Is the technological gap between humans and Trisolarans greater than the one between locusts and humans?" The question hit the two scientists like a bucket of cold water. As they stared at the clumps of locusts before them, their expressions grew solemn. They got Shi Qiang's point. Look at them, the bugs. Humans have used everything in their power to extinguish them: every kind of poison, aerial sprays, introducing and cultivating their natural predators, searching for and destroying their eggs, using genetic modification to sterilize them, burning with fire, drowning with water. Every family has bug spray, every desk has a fly-swatter under it ... this long war has been going on for the entire history of human civilization. But the outcome is still in doubt. The bugs have not been eliminated. They still proudly live between the heavens and the earth, and their numbers have not diminished from the time before the appearance of the humans. The Trisolarans who deemed the humans bugs seemed to have forgotten one fact: The bugs have never been truly defeated. A small black cloud covered the sun and cast a moving shadow against the ground. This was not a common cloud, but a swarm of locusts that had just arrived. As the swarm landed in the fields nearby, the three men stood in the middle of a living shower, feeling the dignity of life on Earth. Ding Yi and Wang Miao poured the two bottles of wine they had with them on the ground beneath their feet, a toast for the bugs. "Da Shi, thank you." Wang held out his hand. "I thank you as well." Ding gripped Da Shi's other hand. "Let's get back," Wang said. "There's so much to do."
November 6, 2024 at 7:50 AM
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I’m doing my part!
A photo of a hand holding a bag of mixed pan dulces and a bag of duros.
November 5, 2024 at 9:59 PM
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Here is something beautiful: my absolute favorite church in the city of Rome, Santa Maria in Trastevere
A photo of a church nestled between two other buildings. It has a classic Italian Basilica shape, a tall bell tower, and beautiful but faded mosaics along the top of the front wall.
November 3, 2024 at 2:39 PM
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Your wish, my command, etc (done in a free app on my phone in under 15 minutes so the quality is of course awful but I don’t care more)
A sloppily edited screenshot of the enchanter Tim from Monty Python and the Holy Grail with Tim Walz’s face under the beard. The subtitle says “There are some who call me… Tim”
November 3, 2024 at 6:18 AM