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😌 frances merkins 😌

@agonistes.bsky.social
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a high plains drifter; a Front Ranger at large. southern expatriate. civil servant. big ol’ queer. (she/her.)

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Paul Constant @paulconstant.com · 1h
Ratting on that spineless fink Ed Sheeran is the coolest thing Bono has done in four decades.
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😌 frances merkins 😌 @agonistes.bsky.social · 20h
hands 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
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This will be a thread of essays I recommend to students in my creative nonfiction workshop:
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Sam King @samcking.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I hope everyone has a Hussein
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
kind of a misnomer: death cannot be trapped. still the dream remains
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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If 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
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SmashMarioPro2000 @smashmariopro2000.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"Man I hope we see an Ace Attorney announcement soon"
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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
oh no
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
the horse is spitting fire
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Ryan McDiarmid @ryanmcdiarmid.com · 22/09/2026
A friend sent me this one last night.
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unbearable experience @paso • Sep 17
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just remembered that time i was stealth mode at a conference and this guy asked me how come i 'decided to work on trans communities as a cis gay man' and i panicked and just replied 'well, marxism' to which he just said
'right of course

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@KuwaCos
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disco elysium roll
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Jacob Reproaching Laban, by Hendrick Terbrugghen, 1627, 📸 by @iamrandyjw
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😌 frances merkins 😌 @agonistes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
every 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
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😌 frances merkins 😌 @agonistes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
big gilear faeth energy tbh
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Fall of the Rebel Angels, by Charles Le Brun, before 1685
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I am advised that it’s the coach not a player. As a guy who lives in Durham I get this a little better now
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Copper Hamster @copperhamster.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
My friend got a picture of them all together.
Sailor Moon cosplayers in a Mexican themed variation
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Macey Levington @macey.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
THE 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!!
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😌 frances merkins 😌 @agonistes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
i understand that this is the name of the municipality but also this 9news graphic is calling all us sinners to repent, quick now
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Squirrels 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.
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I don’t usually meddle on the writing side of Jeopardy!, but tonight I called in a favor for our Bluesky viewers.
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Stephanie 🍉 @ageofoddish.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
mmygod
the slut gnomes of false berlin jeopardy bluesky posttoday's jeopardy categories. the last 2 are "false berlin" and "bizarre little men"
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026
and 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
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026
beyond 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.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026
i 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?
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😌 frances merkins 😌 @agonistes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
mmmm 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.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026
i 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.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026
but 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?
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DENVER’S FUCKING WEATHER @denversweather.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
DENVER 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
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😌 frances merkins 😌 @agonistes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
did the same thing.
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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 24/08/2024
My brother is in a touring hardcore band and just arrived at his venue for today
[photo of a punk venue with Statler and Waldorf puppets in their own little nook]
TEXT: I cannot mess up any songs tonight
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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It's finally out! www.himalmag.com/mary-slusser...
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Mary Slusser’s secret loot of Nepal’s sacred art and heritage
A 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
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026
ah 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
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 15/09/2026
If you need a handy mnemonic, try "It's probably BEST if FBI agents don't fuck animals."
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Cher’s outfit reveals on The Cher Show (1975) designed by BOB MACKIE — who passed away today at the age of 87.
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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
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
What 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.
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Oakland Toots @peterwbloom.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Look 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.
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Yzma's Shock: A Llama in Emperor's New Groove
ALT: Yzma's Shock: A Llama in Emperor's New Groove
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robert j bennett, ceo, results omega @robertjbennett.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
if 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”
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😌 frances merkins 😌 @agonistes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
GOOD.
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Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 09/09/2026
A 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?
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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
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😌 frances merkins 😌 @agonistes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
having 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!!!
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Ocarina of Agrarian Collectivism
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
John 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.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/09/2026
this 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.”
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/09/2026
worth 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.
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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
ENJOY YOUR LABOR DAY BUCKAROOS
cover of THE PHYSICAL MANIFESTATION OF MY COWORKERS AND ME DISCUSSING OUR SALARIES EVEN THOUGH OUR BOSS TOLD US NOT TO GETS ME OFF featuring a beautiful ladybuck on the left wearing stripped down business attire she is in a modern office and on there is the physical manifestation of salary discussion lookin like a NICE BIG DOLLAR SIGN with a smiling face
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JRho @jrho.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The 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.
Massive quilt made of prize ribbons in blue, red, yellow, and whiteCenter square of quilt made of yellow and red ribbons and yellow rosettesBlock of quilt made of blue, yellow, red, and white ribbons. Ribbons state the year. Some have the prize winning object written on in markerCarol St. Clair Johnson
born 1954; resides Albuquerque, NM

O Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years
2023
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After unexpectedly winning her first blue ribbon for a sewn cape in 1981, Carol St. Clair Johnson developed an enduring love for the New Mexico State Fair. The quilt Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years incorporates more than six hundred of the ribbons she won at the fair every subsequent year except 2020 (when the fair was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic). Johnson earned ribbons for needlework, knitting, crochet, pies, cookies, cakes, canning, jewelry, flowers, vegetables, and potted plants. The title of the quilt is a reference to the state song, and the design places the state's Zia sun symbol at the center. The quilt earned Johnson yet another ribbon: Best in Category (miscellaneous quilt) at the 2023 New Mexico State Fair.

Courtesy of Carol St. Clair Johnson
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
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What to do if i have theories?
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