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Laine Ballou
@laineballou.bsky.social
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Trying my best. Probably failing. Really like to overuse the ❤️ button.
#ActuallyAutistic, AD(H)D, and oh good, early onset dementia now too, so if I misunderstand you, I'm sorry.
She/her
They/them works too 🤷🏻‍♀️
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Reno's face after being told not to chew the Christmas tree
A calico cat making a face like "are you kidding me, human?"
December 13, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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I don't usually post stuff like this, so mega trigger warning, but this guy...
Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com Joined Apr '23 Bluesky Elder If I'm being entirely honest my view of how many men are abusers shifted dramatically when that 70 yr old French woman in a small town realized her husband was drugging her and like 50+ men within a 15 mile radius had assaulted her w/o her knowledge and this was just happening in the open on the web R. Stephen Browning @rstephenbrowning.bsky.social Joined Nov '24 Follow So the husband videoed each of the now 72 men who he invited over during those years to rape her? It obviously happened, but isn't it odd that she never seemed to realize she had been raped while she was asleep...72 different times? November 18, 2025 at 7:41 PM
November 19, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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Labelers being accurate in predicting personality type once again. It's like horoscopes except true.
The same skeet from Jason Glover quoted above showing the labels I subscribe to. Joined Nov 2024, AI avatar or banner, uses occasional AI imagery. Skeet reads: it's a good step forward and hopefully puts an end to this discussion. The vast majority of people will agree with this and it's the fairest thing to do.
November 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Who’s your favorite reoccurring (that is not part of the regular cast but kept showing up) sitcom character?
Jean Ralfio and Mona Lisa Sapperstein from Parks and Recreation Derek from The Good Place Doug Judy from Brooklyn Nine-Nine Lucille Austero from Arrested Development
October 18, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Also, also! Panthers are more than one thing. Black leopards, black jaguars, and regular-colored mountain lions are all panthers. There can be a regular leopard and a "black panther" as siblings born in the same litter.
Three tiny leopard cubs. One is black and the others are yellow with black spots. Two leopards, one black and one yellow with spots. The yellow one is grooming the black one.
October 13, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Quote this with your reaction to getting left behind during the rapture
A girl grinning and giving a thumbs up alone in a candy store
September 23, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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I'm enjoying this labeler, though
Screenshot of the above quoted tweet with labels for anti-Black racism, liberal apologia, gloats over harm, trans scapegoating, transphobia, denies U.S. genocide role, joined November 2024.
September 18, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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Steve Buscemi in his role as the cringey principal of goth-school in Wednesday
September 17, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Play something like Brick Breaker or Bubble Pop, that goes rapidly from side to side.
An image from the game Brick Breaker
September 10, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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I think? It's hard to tell. This is eyelet lace.
Man wearing a shirt of eyelet lace A strip of eyelet lace
August 12, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Like this but I think the wheel is much wider, like a car tire almost.
Man riding a gas-powered standing unicycle
August 7, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Post a picture of when your pets were little
Two calico kittens cuddled together. One is tossing her head back dramatically. A calico kitten dangling from the raised foot of my sister sitting in a chair.
June 28, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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Everyone should just post wedding gowns that are better than Lauren Sanchez Bezos's and we can enjoy looking at them like it's Oscars night. I'm bringing Audrey Hepburn and Lily Allen.
Audrey Hepburn and her husband. She's wearing a white chiffon calf-length dress with a voluminous circle skirt, a wide waist sash with a soft bow in the back, a high collar, and soft leg-o-lamb sleeves that are puffed at the top and tight below the elbow. She's wearing white gloves and a modest wreath of white roses as a crown. Lily Allen standing on a city sidewalk with her groom. She's wearing a short off-white coat dress that hits above the knee. It's double-breasted with black buttons and a narrow belt. It has a bateau neck with a slight v at the front, and short sleeves. Her hair is styled in a 1960s-style small beehive bun with bangs, and she has a voluminous two-tiered fingertip veil, and a small bouquet of peach and coral roses.
June 28, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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I was being nosy and wanted to see the full thread and him being yelled at, and ran into this hilarious landslide of blocklists I had to keep unblocking like Russian nesting dolls to be able to see his posts. It wasn't worth it. I never learn.
Profile of Adam Sessler, with a notice saying he's blocked by "misogynists who think they're funny." Profile of Adam Sessler after I unblocked the first list. Now it says blocked by "homophobic." Adam Sessler again after I unblocked the next blocklist. Now it says he's blocked by "Matty Glassy Ass followers" a blocklist for followers of Matt Yglesias. Sessler again but now it says user blocked by "Blocklist: Bigots, edgelords, creepers, other"
June 27, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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Update: Tilly really loves two things right now: The new rug my sister got for her birthday, and this bone that belongs to the dog.
A long-haired calico cat blissfully cuddling with a large piece of cow rib bone on a light velvet rug The same cat in the same position as before, now with a short-haired calico cat on the rug in the background, grooming
June 21, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Is it Saturday? I heard we you're supposed to post cats on Saturdays

Tilly and Reno. For short, Miss Tilly Milly Meow and Be-Bop-a-Reno-oh-Reno-Bambino-Banana-Fana-Feeno.
A long-haired calico cat lying with her hind quarters on one cat tree, her front half on another, and her belly sagging in the middle. A short-haired calico cat rolling around on a cat tree and looking exceptionally cute while taking a break from evil-doing.
June 21, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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If you see this, post an image you have saved because it made you laugh.

This medieval illustration of a lady being taken to hell, but it just looks like she and her two demon husbands are standing on the front porch of their hellmouth politely waving goodbye to guests.
A medieval illustration of an elegant young lady in a long pink gown with elaborately braided hair being escorted into the mouth of a gigantic, fire-breathing beast by two very gentle and solicitous demons. The demons are covered in hair, have horns, and one has a face for an ass. The lady appears to be waving and has a calm expression.
June 21, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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Goals 1 and 2 met!
Screenshot of Clearsky showing JD Vance's profile blocked by 33,073 accounts
June 19, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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JD Vance has been on here for an hour and has only been blocked by 18,322 people. Can we get him into the top 20 in the next 20 minutes? I at least want to see him surpass the Brazilian Taylor Swift updates. Can we get him more blocked than dril within the hour? To the top by midnight?
Screenshot from Clearsky showing JD Vance's account and that it is blocked by 18,322 accounts Screenshot from Clearsky showing the top 20 blocked accounts. Top 20 Blocked last 24h jessesingal.com 80,418 nowbreezing.ntw.app 62,898 brianna.bsky.social 60,962 mcuban.bsky.social 48,742 felipeneto.com.br 44,288 killwxve.bsky.social 36,074 krassenstein.bsky.social 35,636 taromagico.bsky.social 34,577 dril.bsky.social 30,783 ousafadenha.bsky.social 29,868 muellershewrote.com 28,739 updateswiftbr.com 28,258 eisinceraa.bsky.social 27,101 joncooper-us.bsky.social 26,963 nytimes.com 25,553 mattyglesias.bsky.social 25,304 TODAY SAY usatoday.com 24,056 TSBR taylorswift.com.br 23,981 mmpadellan.bsky.social 23,855 thegodpodcast.com 23,847
June 19, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Bad comic I made after trying to explain the word "ain't" to someone and the arbitrariness of the rules of languages in general.
Comic titled: Samuel Johnson creates the dictionary. Panel 1 has a list of English contractions. Is not = isn't, are not = aren't, etc. Panel 2 has an 18th century oil painting of Samuel Johnson looking serious. Text reads "very good." Panel 3 shows the list of contractions stamped "approved." Panel 4 reads "am not = ain't." Panel 5 shows an 18th century oil painting of Samuel Johnson peering intensely at a document. Text reads "there's no i in am." Panel 6 shows the word "ain't" stamped "not approved." Panel 7 reads "will not = won't." Panel 8 shows Johnson saying "very good" again. "Won't" is approved. Next panel shows a group of stick figures talking. They say "he ain't gonna do it." "I ain't done anything." "That ain't true." Johnson peers intensely at them and says "you're using that word incorrectly." The stick figures say "you said we ain't allowed to use it at all." Johnson responds "That's true. Stop using it." The stick figures respond "Ain't nobody gonna tell us what to do." Final panel shows an 18th century oil painting of Johnson looking disgusted and perplexed.
June 14, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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If you see this post a flower

2 years ago I got this rose named Miranda Lambert (I don't know anything about her as a musician or person, but it's a good rose). They since renamed it Legend of Rossi, I think because the end of a charity partnership. I had no idea you could just grow roses like this
A huge, spectacular rose on a bush, with a hot pink color that seems to almost glow. Another blossom of the same rose that looks very large next to my hand. Another of the same rose cut and sitting in a Coca-Cola glass on a shelf. Three of the same large blossoms on the rose bush.
June 1, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Some gigantic roses I grew without knowing they were going to eventually turn out this amazing.
I hope you feel better fast!
A very large hot-pink rose growing on a rose bush. Another very large hot pink rose, larger than my hand, which is holding it toward the camera, along with a car key because I was already holding it and it made for convenient size comparison.
May 26, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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I feel like the ones doing the breaking are not headed towards the "oh no" stage at all.
Same webcomic as posted by OP, but modified. In panel 1, a figure in a room full of tables and shelves of items says "I want things to be different." In panel 2, the figure smashes everything with a baseball bat. In the normal version of panel 3, the figure stands amid the wreckage and says "oh no," but here the head from the "Sickos" guy from another comic is pasted over the figures face, leering at the wreckage, saying "Yes... Ha ha ha... YES!"
May 10, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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One thing we should have more of in modern times is businesses with signs shaped like what the business is about.
A wrought-iron sign for a tailor shop shaped like a button with a threaded needle stuck through it. A sign on the side of a building shaped like an open book hanging from an iron bar. An iron blackbird is perched on the bar, peering at the book An iron frying pan attached to a restaurant wall. There's a white and yellow fried egg sculpted in the pan. A sign in the shape of a woman's arm and legs wearing high heels, a garter, and a bracelet sticking out from behind a curtain. The hand is holding a champagne glass.
May 2, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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This just popped up in my photo app's memories. 3 years ago today, I ordered groceries from Walmart, including a dozen eggs, and these are the eggs they gave me.
A styrofoam egg carton that looks exactly like an ordinary egg carton, but it says "chocolate covered marshmallow eggs" The open carton, indeed filled with chocolate covered marshmallow eggs. One is missing because I ate it, because even though that's not what I ordered, hey, candy!
April 19, 2025 at 2:37 PM