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Imaginary Stories

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Due to migraines I'm now on medical leave from work. I applied for EI but I didn't have enough hours to qualify (because my migraines made me miss a lot of shifts). So I'm running an ongoing fundraiser for December's rent, bills, and groceries.

8 December: $0/$1,500
#ttrpg #ttrpgmaps

Imaginary Stories @imaginarystories.bsky.social · Jun 22

I'm a small (miniscule) indie writer with too many migraines and not enough income. If you'd like to help, check out my Ko-fi and consider buying something or tipping. It helps keep the lights on and the cats fed!

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December 9, 2025 at 6:54 PM

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Dom Evans

@domevans.electricmarshmallow.com

Hey everyone. I regularly help run a WishList program for families that don't have much or get much for the holidays.

We have multiple kids/teenagers that need help this year. If you would like to adopt one of them, please let me know.

November 16, 2025 at 7:25 AM

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Luke Snowbrr ☃️

@lukesteuber.com

Take away this man’s keys

"We get bubbles when everybody believes the price cannot go down," the venture capitalist Ben Horowitz wrote in an email. "The clearest sign that we are not actually in a bubble is the fact that everyone is talking about a bubble."

December 9, 2025 at 10:30 PM

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Luke Snowbrr ☃️

@lukesteuber.com

Ever get the sense that pretty much all of these assholes are basically rich kids with infinite risk tolerance and no impulse control who made one lucky gamble before contributing zero and then falling ass backwards into more money?

🤔

December 9, 2025 at 11:38 PM

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Moira Donegan

@moiradonegan.bsky.social

Anyway it’s not that “men need to be Men” it’s that men need to be grownups.

December 9, 2025 at 6:56 PM

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Moira Donegan

@moiradonegan.bsky.social

One theory I have is that competence, self-control, responsibility, and expertise have all been feminized, leaving “masculinity” with the realm of impulsivity and petulance. So the divide is not really between “femininity” and “masculinity” so much as between adulthood and childishness.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 16h

Everything else aside, the idea that this is a model for many men of *masculinity* is so wild. This? This is "manly"? This is how people think it's cool to act?

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Dave Portnoy Demands NFL Investigate Pete Carroll & Raiders For Rigging

YouTube video by Clasher Sports

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December 9, 2025 at 6:41 PM

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Moira Donegan

@moiradonegan.bsky.social

The trend precedes this but in the 90s when every sitcom started depicting marriage as a relationship between a hypercompetent, long-suffering, overburdened woman and the overgrown manchild whose antics she has to sighingly indulge … that probably wasn’t great.

December 9, 2025 at 6:48 PM

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Derek Burgan

@derekburgan.bsky.social

Ive seen so many ridiculous posts over the years comparing the cost of a Disney theme park ticket to things like Broadway shows, NFL game, big concert etc

You want something that provides LONG TERM entertainment for mere pennies per hour? These books. Couldnt give a higher recommendation.

Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 11h

🕒 LAST DAY OF HOLIDAY SALE!
📚 Mere hours left in the "14 Days of Black Fridays" sale on Tom the Dancing Bug book packages!
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14 days of Black Fridays

Yes, Black Friday lasts two weeks in Tom the Dancing Bugland. For a limited time, from now until December 9 (subject to my pulling the plug, at my sole discretion), you can purchase either, or both…

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December 10, 2025 at 1:09 AM

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Ello after dark 🔞

@ohnoello.bsky.social

A little sketch for @theposearchives.bsky.social ‘s drawing challenge bc I am a sucker for these kinds of pinup poses
#art #nsfw #DTPYSDEC25

Digital sketch of a man standing with his back to the viewer, green ribbons wrapped all around his body that he holds up at hip level. He looks over his shoulder with a shy smile, a blush on his face

December 7, 2025 at 3:09 AM

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Hedrick

@hedrickart.bsky.social

Little Study of one of @theposearchives.bsky.social pose !
Their work is incredible, and I wanted to make a quick study as a sketch relief !

#art #reference #Rkgk

December 6, 2025 at 1:30 AM

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The Spaceshipper 🚀

@thespaceshipper.com

December 10, 2025 at 2:43 AM

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neko_designer

@nekodesigner.bsky.social

Kinda looks like the Enterprise - e

October 2, 2025 at 6:45 AM

Imaginary Stories

@imaginarystories.bsky.social

🇨🇦Australia must burn.

Alex Freeman @northernnerd.bsky.social · 1d

The Australians have declared war, I'd like to see whatever twisted individual dreamed this up and attributed it to us tried in the Hague.

December 10, 2025 at 3:21 AM

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Christopher Bird

@mightygodking.com

What, and I say this with love for all my Aussie cousins, the ever loving fuck

Alex Freeman @northernnerd.bsky.social · 1d

The Australians have declared war, I'd like to see whatever twisted individual dreamed this up and attributed it to us tried in the Hague.

December 10, 2025 at 2:48 AM

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Ilhan Omar

@ilhanmn.bsky.social

Trump’s obsession with me is beyond weird. He needs serious help.

Since he has no economic policies to tout, he’s resorting to regurgitating bigoted lies instead.

He continues to be a national embarrassment.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Trump: "Ilhan Omar, whatever the hell her name is. With her little turban. I love her. She comes in, does nothing but bitch ... we ought to get her the hell out ... she's here illegally."

The crowd in Pennsylvania then starts chanting "send her back!"

December 10, 2025 at 2:40 AM

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ashley fairbanks

@ziibiing.com

If you are running, hit me up for a logo. I’ve done like 60 candidate logos and I love giving a good deal to good candidates.

Even/especially if you won’t have the resources for a proper logo until after you launch.

Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 4h

2026 is going to be a great year to run for office. It’s not too late in most places! runforwhat.net

December 10, 2025 at 2:29 AM

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Reconstructionist

@unavaleable.bsky.social

Dawg what is going on with grandpa

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 4h

Every part of this is bonkers. The intro is bonkers. The transition to his health is bonkers. The mention that other presidents didn't need cognitive exams is bonkers. The claim that this screening test is somehow hard is bonkers. The idea that criticism of him is treason is bonkers. All of it.

There has never been a President that has worked as hard as me! My hours are the longest, and my results are among the best. I’ve stopped Eight Wars, saving many millions of lives in the process, created the Greatest Economy in the History of our Country, brought Business back into the United States at levels never seen before, rebuilt our Military, created the Largest Tax Cuts and Regulation Cuts, EVER, closed our open and very dangerous Southern Border, when previous Administrations were unable to do so, and created an “aura” around the United States of America that has led every Country in the World to respect us more than ever before. In addition to all of that, I go out of my way to do long, thorough, and very boring Medical Examinations at the Great Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, seen and supervised by top doctors, all of whom have given me PERFECT Marks — Some have even said they have never seen such Strong Results. I do these Tests because I owe it to our Country. In addition to the Medical, I have done something that no other President has done, on three separate occasions, the last one being recently, by taking what is known as a Cognitive Examination, something which few people would be able to do very well, including those working at The New York Times, and I ACED all three of them in front of large numbers of doctors and experts, most of whom I do not know. I have been told that few people have been able to “ace” this Examination and, in fact,

most do very poorly, which is why many other Presidents have decided not to take it at all. Despite all of this, the time and work involved, The New York Times, and some others, like to pretend that I am “slowing up,” am maybe not as sharp as I once was, or am in poor physical health, knowing that it is not true, and knowing that I work very hard, probably harder than I have ever worked before. I will know when I am “slowing up,” but it’s not now! After all of the work I have done with Medical Exams, Cognitive Exams, and everything else, I actually believe it’s seditious, perhaps even treasonous, for The New York Times, and others, to consistently do FAKE reports in order to libel and demean “THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.” They are true Enemies of the People, and we should do something about it. They have inaccurately reported on all of my Election Results and, in fact, were forced to apologize on much of what they wrote. The best thing that could happen to this Country would be if The New York Times would cease publication because they are a horrible, biased, and untruthful “source” of information. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

December 10, 2025 at 2:58 AM

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Liberal Currents

@liberalcurrents.com

"Security, in this telling, means preserving a conception of the nation rooted in a blood-and-soil identity rather than shared civic ideals." www.liberalcurrents.com/sovereignty-...

Sovereignty For Me, None For Thee

Donald Trump's 2025 National Security Strategy reveals a radical blood-and-soil conception of national strategy based on maintaining white patriarchal Christian domination at home and abroad.

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December 9, 2025 at 4:06 PM

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Uncanny Magazine

@uncannymagazine.bsky.social

ICYMI! Reading 2025 fiction?

Try the short story "The Prodigal Mother (excerpt from Lessons in Magic and Disaster)" by Charlie Jane Anders @charliejane.bsky.social!

You can read it here!

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The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 63, “Blessed Universe" by Galen Dara: An ethereal figure stands front and center of the frame, behind here there is a shower of stars on a violet space-landscape. She is dressed in robes that blend into her, and she holds her palms open. On each hand and the center of her chest there are three sources of light, as if she has the moon for a heart, and stars on the palm of her hands, a mist rises from her open palms. The quote reads: "So Jamie stands frozen. She tries instead to gather her thoughts, and stares at the ancient one-room schoolhouse where her mother, Serena, has hidden from the world for the past six and a half years, ever since her life fell apart."

December 10, 2025 at 3:00 AM

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The Authors Guild

@authorsguild.org

“As prices for streaming subscriptions continue to soar and finding movies to watch, new and old, is becoming harder as the number of streaming services continues to grow, people are turning to the unexpected last stronghold of physical media: the public library.”