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Poppamunz (they/them)

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Choir, computers, tabletop, New Jerseyan rage. I'm also @[email protected] on Mastodon. Pfp by @dftbarachel.dftba.social. Creator of @effing-hank.dftba.social. I don't reskeet images without alt text.

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Poppamunz (they/them) @poppamu.nz · Jan 10

can we just make it a rule that if your political post can be summed up as "everything and everyone sucks and nobody's doing enough!!", then you have to include a meaningful answer to the question "so what do we do about it?" that an individual can reasonably take action on. otherwise just STFU.

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Oregon 🕎🎲

@oregonthedm.bsky.social

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November 6, 2025 at 4:56 PM

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Archai

@archai.bsky.social

This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said “we should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.

Photo of NBC’s exit poll data (from my work laptop, lol) showing Mamdani splitting the straight vote equally with Cuomo, but taking the LGBTQ+ vote by more than 5:1. Even though the LGBTQ+ slice is only 14% of the population, they were a LANDSLIDE in his favor.

November 5, 2025 at 5:39 AM

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Hank Green

@hankgreen.bsky.social

I feel like I say this every year but I really need people to hear it. Halloween is the best American holiday. Just kids outside welcomed into their world, marching around together, showing off their costumes to the elderly, parents meeting parents, neighbors catching up with neighbors.

November 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM

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✨brit✨

@britculpsapp.bsky.social

for those unfamiliar with the nazi bar:

Michael B. Tager has left the... • 7/8/20
I was at a shitty crustpunk bar once getting an after-work beer. One of those shitholes where the bartenders clearly hate you. So the bartender and I were ignoring one another when someone sits next to me and he immediately says, "no. get out."

Michael B. Tager has left the... • 7/8/20 g And the dude next to me says, "hey i'm not doing anything, i'm a paying customer." and the bartender reaches under the counter for a bat or something and says, "out. now." and the dude leaves, kind of yelling. And he was dressed in a punk uniform, I noticed

Michael B. Tager has left the... • 7/8/20 g ...
Anyway, I asked what that was about and the bartender was like, "you didn't see his vest but it was all nazi shit. Iron crosses and stuff. You get to recognize them."
And i was like, ohok and he continues.

Michael B. Tager has left the...• 7/8/20 9 •••
"you have to nip it in the bud immediately.
These guys come in and it's always a nice, polite one. And you serve them because you don't want to cause a scene. And then they become a regular and after awhile they bring a friend. And that dude is cool too.

Michael B. Tager has left the...• 7/8/20 S ...
And then THEY bring friends and the friends bring friends and they stop being cool and then you realize, oh shit, this is a Nazi bar now. And it's too late because they're entrenched and if you try to kick them out, they cause a PROBLEM. So you have to shut them down.

Michael B. Tager has left the Naz... X.com
@IamRageSparkle
And i was like, 'oh damn.' and he said "yeah, you have to ignore their reasonable arguments because their end goal is to be terrible, awful people."
And then he went back to ignoring me. But I haven't forgotten that at all.

October 22, 2025 at 8:32 PM

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑

@emilylhauser.bsky.social

I didn't get a picture of the best sign I saw today, but I remember what it said:

Somewhere in America
A little Hispanic girl
Is hiding in an attic
And keeping a diary.

#NoKings

October 19, 2025 at 12:11 AM

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Paperback Paradise

@paperbackparadise.bsky.social

All 40 freaking bookmarks for 20 friggin dollars 🚨 extended to Sunday 🐸 shop: paperbackparadise.bigcartel.com/product/ever...

Photo of two bookmarks. Left one features a frog and reads
Need to remember dis page?
FROGETTABOUTIT
I’ll have my boys look after your spot
Ey!
I’m in da freakin mafia!
Yo!

Right bookmark features an hourglass on an old dusty tome and reads

One of these days I am going to

FINISH THAT OTHER BOOK
that I was reading before I started this one

It’s not my fault they made two good books

October 17, 2025 at 8:18 PM

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Thanks For The Turkey, Jerk

@thx4sharingjerk.bsky.social

You have no idea how little I can accomplish if I put my mind to not doing it

October 16, 2025 at 5:31 PM

Poppamunz (they/them)

@poppamu.nz

people on the internet stop making broad hurtful generalizations about christianity challenge (impossible)

October 13, 2025 at 1:57 AM

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Rosemary Mosco

@rosemarymosco.com

An older comic about pigeon nests.

A six panel comic called Why Pigeons Build Bad Nests: A defense of pigeon aesthetics. A drawing shows a pigeon standing next to a couple eggs and some sticks while looking mildly guilty. Panel 2 says, many people think that pigeons are bad at making nests. Here are three good reasons why pigeon nests look bad. There's a drawing of a pigeon sitting on a pile of sticks. Panel 3 says, One: some birds, like orioles, nest in tree branches, so they weave elaborate structures that can withstand the elements... The image shows a baltimore oriole adds a new piece of grass to her beautiful woven nest. Panel 4 says, ...but rock pigeons evolved to nest in crevices in cliffs, safely tucked away. The image shows a rock pigeon on a nest in a hole in a cliff. Panel 5 says, Two: people domesticated pigeons ages ago. Pigeons didn't need fancy nests because they had human-built homes. The image shows pigeons clustering around a fancy pigeon tower. Panel 6 says, Three: Less time making nest equals more time eating seed. The image shows a pigeon wandering off of its poorly built nest to eat a seed, and it says "It's called math."

September 13, 2025 at 1:49 AM

Poppamunz (they/them)

@poppamu.nz

ngl i'm sure Trans-Siberian Orchestra are a fine band and all, but I remain disappointed after learning they are neither trans, Siberian, nor an orchestra

September 12, 2025 at 3:47 AM

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Cheshire Cat ᓚᘏᗢ,

@autismsupsoc.bsky.social

Alt text added 💛

A humorous map of the United Stated color coded to the 3 regional terms for carbonated beverage where the south east and north west call it soda, the north west calls it’s pop and that the south east calls it Coke.

Alaska is divided between Soda and Pop

Hawaii is Soda.

For humorous twists however they are labeled

K-pop demon hunters
K-soda demon hunters
K-Coke demon hunters.

This is.a reference to K-pop demon hunteds movie where K-pop means Korean Pop Music.

September 11, 2025 at 6:58 PM

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Effin' Birds

@effinbirds.com

A painting of a bird beside the text "well isn't this a shit sandwich"

September 6, 2025 at 9:10 PM

Poppamunz (they/them)

@poppamu.nz

Catholic Mermaid Man be like "THE INVISIBLE POPE-MOBILE"

September 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM

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✮ ⋆ ˚｡ kaiya ⋆｡°✩

@sloppyghoul.bsky.social

waiter! more woke please!

September 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM

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bagged milk

@bagmilk.swifties.social

collecting library cards like infinity stones

September 8, 2025 at 6:16 PM

Poppamunz (they/them)

@poppamu.nz

I'm so tired of hearing "it'll get worse before it gets better" about the current political moment in the US. Can I get an ETA (with evidence backing it up) on the "gets better" part? Will I live to see it? :P

September 8, 2025 at 7:10 PM