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Gratitude is a weapon
@sjbertorello.bsky.social
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I'm a tulip in a cup 😵‍💫
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1) [citation please].
2) Love it when commentators from the Institute of Centrist Purity Control hide behind slippery “pragmatism” to accuse progressives of purity testing 🙄
November 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
Cover image of the Smashing Pumpkins’ 1995 album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.
November 17, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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November 9, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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Delayed check-in…Auntie @naylandblake.bsky.social, class is in session.
October 25, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Sure, Jan
Screencap of the New York Times’ Spelling Bee mobile game for October 21, 2025. The legitimate word “endonym” has been entered, but the game replies with the “Not in word list” denial.
October 21, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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She doesn’t even go here
Screenshot of @talleststone.bsky.social’s profile description. An Austrian flag emoji is circled do emphasis.
October 8, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Recent acquisitions:
• Boys and Oil, Taylor Brorby
• Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas: Revised and Updated Edition, @aduralde.bsky.social
• The Butcher's Daughter, @daviddemchuk.com and @corinneleighclark.bsky.social
Photo of the paperback spines of Boys and Oil by Taylor Brorby, Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas: Revised and Updated Edition by Alonso Duralde, and The Butcher's Daughter by David Demchuk and Corinne Leigh Clark.
September 29, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Posting hole (belly button with weird white snaggletooth hair)
September 2, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Baby’s first microplastics?
Photo of classic 1970s-1980s Tupperware pitcher, captioned with “What’s in this pitcher?”
May 29, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Weekend despair bookstore haul
Photo of two books. First, Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Harding by Brad Gooch. Second, Harriet Tubman : Live in Concert by Bob the Drag Queen.
April 8, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Farewell, happy doggy 😭
March 5, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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February 11, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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Bookstore haul @eoinhiggins.bsky.social @bcdreyer.social
Photo of four books I purchased this evening: Louis B. Mayer & Irving Thalberg The Whole Equation by Kenneth Turan; Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left by Eoin Higgins; Screenplay: The Foundation of Screenwriting by Syd Field; and Dreyer’s English by Benjamin Dreyer.
February 7, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Wasp Rick and Morty might have been on to something.
Alternate reality Wasp Rick and the Smith family happily feast upon a living caterpillar Mr. Goldenfold as Rick C-137 (in a Wasp Rick clone body) watches.
February 5, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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"We don't have inalienable rights, we have conditional privileges, divvied out according to the whims of whoever [sic] currently holds the reins."

www.reddit.com/r/CuratedTum...
Screenshot of a CuratedTumblr subreddit post by Justtisdudeyaknow. Original Tumblr text by existennialmemes. Text: Listen, if a Bad President can come in and take away our rights and w're dependent on a Good President replacing them in four years to give us back our rights, then we do not have any rights. If politicians can take or distribute them, then they're not "inalienable" and they're not "rights." We don't have inalienable rights, we have conditional privileges, divvied out according to the whims of whoever currently holds the reins. And if we want to have actual rights, then we must build a system in which no one has the power to take them away to begin with.
February 3, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Screencap of Tumblr entry by user vampirisms that reads “Spotify wrapped? No, Spotify unprotected. Spotify I’m pregnant and it’s yours.”
December 4, 2024 at 7:08 PM
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NYT's placating the fascist powers that be even bleeds into their games
A screenshot of the New York Times' Spelling Bee game app, showing that "outted" is not on the game's list of correct words.
November 25, 2024 at 5:11 AM
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Can't decide...
November 14, 2024 at 1:19 AM
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Is he, you know...?
Screen capture of a partial social media profile indicating the user's preferred pronouns. These are he, him, and Sir (capital S).
October 23, 2024 at 12:24 AM
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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,645,000!

Guess I’m just follower trying to make “fetch” happen 😭
September 17, 2024 at 8:36 PM
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Excuse me?
New York Times Spelling Bee app claiming “unrung” is not on its word list New York Times Spelling Bee app claiming “unring” is not on its word list
September 11, 2024 at 4:59 PM
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The compose post icon is homophobic
August 24, 2024 at 3:41 AM
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Don’t you understand? I’m not in love with you, I’m in love with abortions!
Eric Cartman as wrestling alter ego Bad Irene, from South Park episode W.T.F.
August 19, 2024 at 10:10 PM
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HOTD’s hairstylists are doing Kieran Bew a disservice. I mean, look at that natural hairline! The Hugh Hammer wigs ain’t wigging.
Actor Kieran Bew at a House of the Dragon event. Photo by Jeff Spicer, from Getty Images.
July 29, 2024 at 2:57 AM