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spicynoony

@spicynoon.bsky.social

screaming crying at @neonheartbeat.bsky.social's beautiful fanfic of elizabeth and the creature.....i had to draw fanart....please go read it I beg of u all #frankenstein #thecreature #elizabethharlander

archiveofourown.org/works/737951...

November 19, 2025 at 10:54 AM

redbrunja

@redbrunja.bsky.social

@elenacarey.bsky.social making sure I’m following you here….

October 24, 2025 at 5:37 PM

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maraleia

@maraleia.bsky.social

Democratic state legislators are doing so much more on the ground work to protect people in this country than elected Dems in Congress.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · Sep 20

State Senator Graciela Guzman is out here in front of the facility demanding the release of two of her constituents (who are U.S. citizens), asking to speak with federal agents. No response from them so far. Shes putting on a respirator.

September 20, 2025 at 1:45 AM

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Mikki Kendall

@karnythia.bsky.social

The crystal girlie pop team has been asking above and below for this for months. They might have finally hit paydirt and I am so proud of them

Earn @nregib.bsky.social · Aug 30

Saw a skeet that said “I’m an atheist but last night I prayed for one very particular thing” and do you know how much you gotta hate a mfer to pray for their death to a god you don’t believe in?

August 30, 2025 at 12:38 PM

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Sherrilyn Ifill

@sifill.bsky.social

This.

JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · Aug 28

I know it's illegal on here to notice that our leaders are actually fighting back in the job we actually elected them to do, but here's the Wall Street Journal bitching about Schumer's "historic" delaying tactics that have left almost 90% of Trump appointee slots empty.

archive.ph/2025.08.27-0...

August 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM

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Kasey Gifford

@kaseygifford.bsky.social

Wow. Who knew animated films could have mass appeal. Gee whiz it's almost like the female poc director was able to make the film she wanted to make and her vision flourished/grew in the hands of skilled artists, animators, musicians and actors without Ai being shoved down their collective throats.

Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · Aug 26

"KPop Demon Hunters" is now the most-streamed movie in Netflix history (236 million views).
variety.com/2025/film/ne...

August 27, 2025 at 1:35 PM

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jamelle

@jamellebouie.net

from chandra manning's wonderful book "what this cruel war was over"

Nothing made slavery’s toxicity more obvious to Union troops than its effect on the fundamental unit of society, the family. For one thing, slave sales separated families. In the Upper South, where many Union soldiers were stationed in 1861, about one in three first marriages was broken by sale, and about half of all slave children were separated from at least one parent. 129 With their own eyes, soldiers saw slavery snap bonds between parents and children. The men of the Seventh Wisconsin were awakened by gunshots one November night. The following day, soldiers “learned, and saw the cause of the alarm in the form of two negro women—a mother and a daughter.” The pair had fled to Union lines to avoid the proposed sale of the “goodlooking” daughter into the so-called fancy trade, which soldiers viewed as a form of concubinage. Outraged by the plight and moved by the vulnerability of the mother and daughter, “every private in the ranks” cursed “that system which tramples on the honor of man, and makes merchandise of the virtue of women,” according to one member of the regiment. 130 When an Iowan encountered a young child about to be sold by her own father, who was also her master, he vowed, “By G–d I’ll fight till hell freezes over and then I’ll cut the ice and fight on.” 131

August 19, 2025 at 11:39 PM

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j o n e s y 🔞

@peachmilkpanda.bsky.social

samira, my heart. MY SHAYLA.

August 15, 2025 at 1:12 AM

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j o n e s y 🔞

@peachmilkpanda.bsky.social

my night shift loves 🫶🏽🩺✨️ wip #thepitt #mohabbot

August 13, 2025 at 1:30 AM

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kyle marie (commissions open!)

@thatsouthernanthem.bsky.social

Just a lil somethin’

July 29, 2025 at 1:46 AM

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j o n e s y 🔞

@peachmilkpanda.bsky.social

happy mohabbot monday 🫶🏽 #mohabbotnsfw

I’m still learning how to make my art less blurry. I’m sorry if the quality is shitty 😭

July 29, 2025 at 12:59 AM

redbrunja

@redbrunja.bsky.social

I saw superman which honestly might now be my favorite superman movie ever.

The relationship with Lois (and Lois in general) was AMAZING – sexy and funny

I love that this was NOT an original story and that we enter a world that already feels expansive and has other superheroes

July 28, 2025 at 5:14 AM

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AskAubry 🦝 🐆

@askaubry.com

Sabina Chebichi in 1973 at the age of 14 won the Commonwealth Games barefoot and in a dress like a goddess.

July 14, 2025 at 9:55 PM

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Ask a Manager

@askamanager.org

Jane is a hero

Not my mortification, but I witnessed it. I was working as an assistant to Jane, a woman who hit the “little old lady” stereotype even though she was in her forties. She wore a lot of cardigans she knitted herself and she quilted blankets for everyone who had a baby. She had quaint turns of phrase like “Thank you kindly,” which she even used in her email signature. She had a range of cat statues on her desk. That kind of thing.

We had two newer employees who were both in their mid-20s, call them Frank and Hank, and they thought it would be hysterical to substitute words in a report they were writing for Jane with similar-sounding words that were slang terms for sex acts. They assumed this sweet innocent woman would never notice, and since she was the only one who would read it, no harm done.

Jane got the document and called them in ten minutes later. I sat at my desk and listened while she grilled them about their “unusual word choices” until they broke down and admitted they had maybe used some slang terms they shouldn’t have. As a joke. Then she made them define each one. I could hear the absolute mortification in their voices as they struggled through explanations of terms I myself didn’t know, telling a woman they thought of as sweet and innocent all about these sexual terms.

Then came the one where Hank defined it and Jane said, “No, that’s not what it means,” and provided a very detailed and technical explanation using proper medical terminology. Dead silence from Frank and Hank. Jane said, “Pranks like these make you look incompetent. Using words you don’t understand makes you look like fools. And making assumptions about your coworkers’ personal lives makes you look ignorant. Now you’re going to spend the next six months trying to prove to me that you’re none of those things, and it seems like that will be quite a challenge for you.”

Frank and Hank played no more pranks for the rest of the time I worked there.

July 12, 2025 at 12:50 AM

redbrunja

@redbrunja.bsky.social

Blackglass has made a podcast of my Brooklyn99 x WonderWoman fanfic! ❤️

archiveofourown.org/works/67022458

June 30, 2025 at 1:57 AM

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Joshua Erlich

@joshuaerlich.bsky.social

when we scream and shout about doing things, this is what we mean. got popped and still went back again? hell yeah brother

Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · Jun 20

THIS JUST HAPPENED: Brad Lander walked through the fire, got burned, and came back with a fucking gasoline can.

ICE arrested him — now he’s escorting migrants right past them, again. Most politicians wouldn’t show up. He showed out.

June 20, 2025 at 9:50 PM

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Preeti Chhibber

@runwithskizzers.bsky.social

we gotta celebrate the wins and this is one helluva win!!!!

Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social · May 29

HB 3225 is dead. Texas teens maintain the right to read freely in their local libraries.

Grassroots organizing, coalition building, and individual Texas students, authors, parents, librarians, & public library supporters using their voices WORKED.

An image of a public library sitting atop the wicked witch (aka HB 3225) with a caption that says “ding dong! HB 3225 is dead!”

May 29, 2025 at 5:09 PM

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RedRoomRoaving 🔞🌹🦋 !

@redroomroaving.bsky.social

You're my compass and my sea 💛
(Bob x Yelena, #thunderbolts #boblena)
(Sorry BG3 moots thanks for your patience whilst I work through this possession)

May 10, 2025 at 3:40 PM

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kay

@kayelleare.bsky.social

I commissioned @thatsouthernanthem.bsky.social for this piece of Halbrand and Galadriel sharing a cigarette in bed together and I couldn’t be more obsessed with it❤️ she knocked it out of the park and damn she works incredibly fast

May 19, 2025 at 2:09 PM

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j o n e s y 🔞

@peachmilkpanda.bsky.social

Ok is Samira grabbing Jack by the dogtags not a thing???

#jamira #mohabbot #mohabbott #drjackabbott #drsamiramohan #thepitt

May 13, 2025 at 2:06 AM

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Claire Willett

@clairewillett.bsky.social

there is a certain type of person, and you know who you are, for whom Sorsha and Madmartigan were THE formative childhood enemies-to-lovers ship, and we should talk about that a lot more

Kyle Cupp @kylecupp.bsky.social · May 5

May 5, 2025 at 6:08 AM

redbrunja

@redbrunja.bsky.social

thepitt mohabbot thoughts:

If Samira’s mom remarried a young guy…

Samira could take Jack to meet her mother and Jack and her stepfather see the same age….

I’m pondering.

April 29, 2025 at 1:50 AM