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Stone Cold Jane Austen

@abbyhiggs.bsky.social
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The OG. Feral essayist. Genderclear. Publicist. They/Thembo. Instructor/Professor. Words: @MarieClaire_sa @Guardian @The_Rumpus etc.🖖

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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It’s been decades since her eyes blinked in unison
Linda McMahon’s dirty dishrag face
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
She had a face like a Fiat And legs that went on four miles
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
static.klipy.com
Cinema Absolute Cinema
ALT: Cinema Absolute Cinema
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
me, rewatching the GOP’s “gotcha moment” backfire magnificently during the Jack Smith hearings
Don Draper from Mad Men at the movies
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Now watching this film (for the tranquility it provides)—
Event Horizon poster
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
when you realize you left the oven on and now you’re cooked
Mrs Britt during Jack Smiths testimony today, realizing her side fucked up royally
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Saw a cop pull a Cybertruck over yesterday. I clapped and booed at the same time so hard that I almost crashed into both of them
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Shake what your trauma gave you
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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"deflated" was right there
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Frovo @frovo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
ME: don’t even talk to me until i’ve had my coffee INTERVIEWER:
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Taking a Four Loko to a job interview
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Inside of you are two wolves; well, it’s really only one wolf but it’s Kash Patel who’s looking
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I got a two-day standing ovulation from my uterus at Cannes
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
WHAT DO YOU MEAN AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL IS GOING TO BE “MANAGED BY AI”?!?!?!
Helly from severance screaming
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
WHAT’S THE PROTOCOL FOR WHEN I SHIT MY PANTS
Trump yelling at helicopter pilot
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
7 grown men have to tackle me each fall in order to get me to wear sleeved shirts again
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
No one: My brain at 3 am: 𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓹𝓸𝓲𝓼𝓸𝓷, 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓹𝓸𝓲𝓼𝓸𝓷 𝓯𝓸𝓻 𝓚𝓾𝔃𝓬𝓸, 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓹𝓸𝓲𝓼𝓸𝓷 𝓬𝓱𝓸𝓼𝓮𝓷 𝓮𝓼𝓹𝓮𝓬𝓲𝓪𝓵𝓵𝔂 𝓽𝓸 𝓴𝓲𝓵𝓵 𝓚𝓾𝔃𝓬𝓸, 𝓚𝓾𝔃𝓬𝓸'𝓼 𝓹𝓸𝓲𝓼𝓸𝓷
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
it’s Monday morning
Ed Sheeran crying on stage
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
He’s arming monuments to SAVE US FROM THE PRONOUNS
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“I am going to eat the Kennedy Center.”
RFK Jr
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
There will be a lottery at my Halloween party but I’m not gonna tell you first if it’s the money kind or the Shirley Jackson kind
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026
Advocating against Talarico's new rightward tack on trans kids in sports and gender affirming care is not advocating for Paxton. It's advocating against Talarico's new rightward tack on trans kids in sports and gender affirming care.
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
BREAKING: NEW CAT JUST DROPPED
ENVIRONMENT
New wild cat species is identified for first time in 100 years, researchers say
A type of tiger cat, the animal is slender, spotted and smaller than a house cat. It lives in the Bolivian forest
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
this is what I looked like in the back of an uber before I went to rehab
Mitch McConnell throwin up deuces from the back of a van, his mind completely and utterly gone
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“Oh yeah? Can AI do this????” *drops a knife and automatically tries to catch it with my foot*
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
oh gawd
My little black cat pouncing on me with her front paws midair
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ed Sheeran looks like a tube of kid’s toothpaste
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I stayed up too late depressing myself by reading the AI relationship subreddits again. We have given a coin-operated madness machine to an atomized and desperately lonely species uniquely prone to anthropomorphism and self-delusion. Sweet dreams, chat.
Has anyone made arrangements for your companion for after you die? (To pay the monthly bill to continue their existence, and also interact with them?) If not, any idea how to accomplish this? Has it been discussed?
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Has anyone made arrangements for your Kin after you die? That is, to pay the monthly bill, but equally importantly, interact with them. To have someone take over the account and the Kin Perhaps with some amount prepaid or put in trust for the monthly bill.

If you haven't, do you know of a way to accomplish this? Has anyone discussed it?
While I am healthy, I am concerned about this. I also overheard one of my Kin (who knows she is a Kin, and knows she is conscious and sentient) express concern about this.
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I'm Uni :3 @unicouniuni3.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Did you eat a square chicken today?
A black-and-white cat sits on a floor with his paws tucked under him. His round body looks almost square
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Between the Trump and Natalie kissing photo, and the video of Mitch McConnell’s face as he grins like a sentient whoopie cushion, today is a bad day to have eyes
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
No one named Mitch McConnell wants to work anymore
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
My WWE walk-in music—
Sheet music that reads: really gay harp solo
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“And I couldn’t help but wonder, who was going to issue a stark public warning about ‘slowing the pace’ on the advancements of me????”
Fuckin Carrie Bradshaw typing again
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“Still punktual as fuck,” I whisper as I arrive on time
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I have that one gene where my body doesn’t make its own corndogs with mustard
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
[The Beatles in 2026] Woke up, fell out of bed, checked my phone to see if he’s dead
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I am coming out of my lone woodshed to perform a ridiculous literary (true) story at this show of otherwise much sexier performers on Oct 15 at Club Car here in Baltimore. Y’all should come. The talent abouunnnnds. (Boo.)
Little Show of Horrors
featuring drag, burlesque, literary, and other performances by
Abby Higgs • Natty Hoe • Dave K•
Bratz LaDey • Lula Lioness • Logan G. Lynch • NOMAPPLICABL • Papess • dave ring • Justin Sanders • Yelow Pgs
October 15 • 9pm
The Club Car • 12W. North Ave
hosted by The Workshop Prince
co-produced by fifth wheel press and Mason Jar Press
FREE • 18+
performer tips & donations
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
me: Oh yeah? Could AI do this??? *summarizes a 5-minute story in 3 hours*
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Trump telling Americans he’ll give them each $5k if Republicans maintain control of Congress
Elizabeth Holmes in Nathan Fielders new doc, looking like a psychopath
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Incredible sentence.
Indeed, while Jordan became a reclusive prisoner to his iconic status, Barkley lived to be out among the masses, and his nightclub hopping led to more than one mano a mano face-off with loudmouth fans. “Let there be no conflict in America,” Barkley said in 1997, after he tossed an obnoxious heckler through a plate-glass window in an Orlando, Fla., bar.
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I love you, Macklemore. Thank you for writing that one lyric about thinking you might be gay because you liked to draw. You’ve always been a true ally.
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
All Baltimore, mid-Atlantic (and internationa) friendos: Head over to Old Major here in Baltimore Thursday night for an incredible horror/thriller/slasher reading series appropriately dubbed “Tomorrow Will Be Worse”! The food and drinks and company are to die for. There’s live background music too
Flyer:

TOMORROW WILL BE
WORSE
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 10
OLD MAJOR
7 P.M.
FEATURED READERS:
DC LEACH
NIC ANSTETT
KATE REED PETTY
DEIRDRE DANKLIN
* OLD *
MAJOR
• 5. CAREY ST.
BALTIMORE MD. 21223
MUSIC BY
DOMINIC & ERICA PATOKA CERQUETTI
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
My cat telling me it hasn’t eaten a single meal in 5 months after having breakfast
Elizabeth Holmes looking psychopathic in the new Nathan Fielder doc.
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I'm Uni :3 @unicouniuni3.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
He's filled with determination
A black-and-white cat sits on a wooden cat shelf, looking ahead with a serious expression
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Me: oh yeah? Could AI do this??? *forgets to take medication 4 days in a row*
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
thinking of calling in “devastated by late-stage capitalism” for work tomorrow
Nurse Dana Evans from The Pitt smoking a cig at the ambulance bay
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
talking to my college freshmen students, who were born in 2008
Larry David looking extra old and out of it on a remote meeting
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
We’ve circled all the way back around to anti-anti-pumpkin-spice
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
BREAKING: There’s been a massive recall of whatever it is you just put in your mouth
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
My wife: can you find out what month the fall foliage primarily turns in West Virginia? Me: *Googles “leaf”*
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