Reposted by 😌 frances merkins 😌Paul Constant @paulconstant.com · 1hRatting on that spineless fink Ed Sheeran is the coolest thing Bono has done in four decades. 1143
😌 frances merkins 😌 @agonistes.bsky.social · 20hhands down the stupidest part of doing associated board exams outside of school while doing string orchestra, marching band, and jazz band inside of it. oh, you’re required by law to demonstrate knowledge of music theory? better not call it a crotchet in front of a hundred of your fellow 15yos 000
Reposted by 😌 frances merkins 😌Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This will be a thread of essays I recommend to students in my creative nonfiction workshop: 740384
Reposted by 😌 frances merkins 😌Sam King @samcking.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I hope everyone has a Hussein 7111142572
Reposted by 😌 frances merkins 😌the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026kind of a misnomer: death cannot be trapped. still the dream remains 921514
Reposted by 😌 frances merkins 😌Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026If you adopted a feral cat to the inside and he keeps meowing maybe he just really wants to smoke real cigarettes. You don’t know what he was up to before 633239399
Reposted by 😌 frances merkins 😌SmashMarioPro2000 @smashmariopro2000.bsky.social · 24/09/2026"Man I hope we see an Ace Attorney announcement soon" 040828
Reposted by 😌 frances merkins 😌the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 23/09/2026the horse is spitting fire 6750114
Reposted by 😌 frances merkins 😌Ryan McDiarmid @ryanmcdiarmid.com · 22/09/2026A friend sent me this one last night. 165101704
Reposted by 😌 frances merkins 😌ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Jacob Reproaching Laban, by Hendrick Terbrugghen, 1627, 📸 by @iamrandyjw 340236
😌 frances merkins 😌 @agonistes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026every so often i forget about how much i dislike cons and start daydreaming about how i would make a Sexy Sigismund Dijkstra cosplay so good* that it would bring about world peace *screaming with laughter at the idea this could be “good.” i would be good at the sewing though 100
Reposted by 😌 frances merkins 😌ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Fall of the Rebel Angels, by Charles Le Brun, before 1685 91644214
Reposted by 😌 frances merkins 😌the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I am advised that it’s the coach not a player. As a guy who lives in Durham I get this a little better now 41071
Reposted by 😌 frances merkins 😌Copper Hamster @copperhamster.bsky.social · 19/09/2026My friend got a picture of them all together. 77125205110
Reposted by 😌 frances merkins 😌Macey Levington @macey.bsky.social · 19/09/2026THE UNSPOKEN NAME by AK Larkwood. gorgeously written adventure fantasy of an orc sacrifice turned warrior fighting free of the terrible wizard mentor who saved her, takes Tombs of Atuan & blossoms open at Planeswalker scale. doomed by its Feb '20 release 😭 dead planets! fighter/mage f/f! butch mc!! 65422
😌 frances merkins 😌 @agonistes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026i understand that this is the name of the municipality but also this 9news graphic is calling all us sinners to repent, quick now 001
Reposted by 😌 frances merkins 😌Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Squirrels on suicide missions have knocked out power to Castle Rock, Colorado twice this week. Our investigation has revealed a century of squirrel attacks covered up by the pro-squirrel media. 1422423542
Reposted by 😌 frances merkins 😌Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I don’t usually meddle on the writing side of Jeopardy!, but tonight I called in a favor for our Bluesky viewers. 15710297780
Reposted by 😌 frances merkins 😌jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026and so white nationalism must be a response to something, it can't be it is own ideological formation with its own history driven by people with their own agency 703226255
Reposted by 😌 frances merkins 😌jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026beyond bad faith part of what is happening here is that people who think this are basically incapable of thinking historically and see the political world as simply a set of actions and reactions. 333178252
Reposted by 😌 frances merkins 😌jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026i am genuinely bewildered by people who say that the rise of white nationalism in the republican party is a response to the "woke left." like, did the woke left cause pat buchanan's 1992 presidential campaign? is the woke left why steve king had a long career in congress? 430103801921
😌 frances merkins 😌 @agonistes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026mmmm i got a lot of opinions about white people from the south especially pointing fingers about where the fash came from and then somehow all those fingers are pointed at people of color. mmmm. 010
Reposted by 😌 frances merkins 😌jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026i simply cannot imagine the level of delusion and sheer ignorance it takes to believe that the rise of Republican Nazis is some outside imposition and not something that has come from within the American right. 303126242
Reposted by 😌 frances merkins 😌jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026but again, genuinely hilarious (derogatory) for a guy whose father was a klansman to say "the presence of nazis in the republican party is because black people wouldn't shut up." oh, is that why nazis immediately began organizing in the wake of donald trump's 2016 victory too? 262951247
Reposted by 😌 frances merkins 😌DENVER’S FUCKING WEATHER @denversweather.bsky.social · 18/09/2026DENVER THE SUMMER IS DYING ... A SLOW FUCKING DEATH. HURRY UP AND DIE YOU SHIT. FRI: 82°/57° THUNDER THUNDER SAT: 79°/53° THUNDER THUNDER SUN: 73°/52° FUCKING LOVE THIS FOR US 0185
Reposted by 😌 frances merkins 😌Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 24/08/2024My brother is in a touring hardcore band and just arrived at his venue for today 5058691599
Reposted by 😌 frances merkins 😌Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 16/09/2026It's finally out! www.himalmag.com/mary-slusser...himalmag.comMary Slusser’s secret loot of Nepal’s sacred art and heritageA US scholar made her name as an expert on Nepal’s cultural heritage – while illicitly buying sacred artefacts and smuggling them out to the United States 431092
Reposted by 😌 frances merkins 😌jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026ah working class is when you are a contractor pulling six figures from a business that earns seven, professional is when you pull $40K doing office work 753092446
Reposted by 😌 frances merkins 😌KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 15/09/2026If you need a handy mnemonic, try "It's probably BEST if FBI agents don't fuck animals." 110911
Reposted by 😌 frances merkins 😌Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Cher’s outfit reveals on The Cher Show (1975) designed by BOB MACKIE — who passed away today at the age of 87. 18962121407
Reposted by 😌 frances merkins 😌Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 13/09/2026“why are all the ai ceos all of a sudden saying this weird thing?” burning man was last week and this may actually just be the explanation 424298857
Reposted by 😌 frances merkins 😌Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 12/09/2026What he doesn't realize is if the yuri writers get replaced, their backup plan is to finish their papers on probabilistic approaches to nonlinear dynamics. So, it should all even out. 61058143
Reposted by 😌 frances merkins 😌Oakland Toots @peterwbloom.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Look I’m sure you put lovingly crafted, detailed descriptions in your books (which I can’t stress enough how much I love), but my vision of the characters was set in chapter 1 and hasn’t budged.static.klipy.comYzma's Shock: A Llama in Emperor's New GrooveALT: Yzma's Shock: A Llama in Emperor's New Groove 0121
Reposted by 😌 frances merkins 😌robert j bennett, ceo, results omega @robertjbennett.bsky.social · 11/09/2026if they ever make a show of Ana and Din I’ve gotta see if one episode can end with “In the Court of the Crimson King” 2571
Reposted by 😌 frances merkins 😌Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 09/09/2026A flyover...with a commercial airliner...escorted by fighter jets...on 9/11... Who the hell thought any of this was a good idea, and why did nobody at the likely dozen or so planning meetings stop it? 2139898
Reposted by 😌 frances merkins 😌headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 09/09/2026(in the family group chat): that wont matter. without radical change all of this is meaningless in fifteen years. we have no idea how dire things are (in the communist group chat): they should make a turn based final fantasy again with the two minute summon animations 233831787
😌 frances merkins 😌 @agonistes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026having access to Computer but not Video Game as a child means that while the rest of the internet is having opinions about the ocarina of time remake i am over here having opinions about the carmen sandiego remake. let her just do crimes!!! god forbid women have hobbies!!! 000
Reposted by 😌 frances merkins 😌the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Ocarina of Agrarian Collectivism 723023
Reposted by 😌 frances merkins 😌Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026John C. Calhoun wasn't a conservative; he was a radical. Stephen Miller isn't a conservative; he's a radical. "Tradition" isn't a real thing that once existed and we can go back to, or something worth conserving, but an imaginary place that they'll destroy the current world to create. 212417360
Reposted by 😌 frances merkins 😌jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/09/2026this enormous wealth is driving the ideological transformation as much as anything else. where once the defense of slavery was “we don’t know what else to do and besides we can’t let the blacks go free,” by the 1840s it is much closer to “slavery is the single greatest social system ever devised.” 192388190
Reposted by 😌 frances merkins 😌jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/09/2026worth tying this into the political economy of the slave south as well. from roughly the 1820s onwards, slavery became enormously lucrative in ways that had never been seen before. slave traders became millionaires. large planters had tremendous purchasing power. just huge amounts of wealth. 8157211153
Reposted by 😌 frances merkins 😌Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 07/09/2026ENJOY YOUR LABOR DAY BUCKAROOS 132448718
Reposted by 😌 frances merkins 😌JRho @jrho.bsky.social · 06/09/2026The most absolutely massive flex from the state fair exhibit. This quilt is made of 40 years of prize ribbons from various categories at the New Mexico State Fair won by Carol St. Clair Johnson. She also won a prize for this quilt. 6861112009
Reposted by 😌 frances merkins 😌the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 06/09/2026 313767567