Reposted by 😌 frances merkins 😌Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 4hSo uh, American people. You ok? Can we talk in private 66127384
Reposted by 😌 frances merkins 😌derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/10/2026"I thought he wears Brioni." This is the American version of Brioni (Jabroni) 26150036
Reposted by 😌 frances merkins 😌toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately 190113933094
Reposted by 😌 frances merkins 😌matte jones @pillowfort.bsky.social · 05/10/2026without any doubt: 24238943
Reposted by 😌 frances merkins 😌derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Neiman Marcus closed its downtown Dallas flagship on Wednesday. The store played a notable role in the history of desegregation in Dallas. Previously, Black shoppers across the US could enter department stores, but they weren't allowed to try on clothes without adhering to certain conditions. 🧵 10459901692
Reposted by 😌 frances merkins 😌DENVER’S FUCKING WEATHER @denversweather.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I'VE SAID IT BEFORE, I'LL SAY IT AGAIN [PUTS ON SHADES, HOISTS ROCKET LAUNCHER, AIMS FOR THE SKY]: I'M GOING TO KILL THE SUN. 23010
Reposted by 😌 frances merkins 😌David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Data center construction has migrated to places of low resistance: poor, often Black areas where corrupt deals are commonplace and the harms to residents invisible. Lowndes County, Alabama, in the heart of the Black Belt, is one of those places. 🧵 prospect.org/2026/10/01/d...prospect.org‘I Know I Couldn’t Live Here’: Standing Up to a Data Center in Alabama’s Black Belt - The American ProspectFaced with little transparency about a mammoth facility, Lowndes County fights back. 7442179
Reposted by 😌 frances merkins 😌Paul Constant @paulconstant.com · 01/10/2026Ratting on that spineless fink Ed Sheeran is the coolest thing Bono has done in four decades. 2203
😌 frances merkins 😌 @agonistes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026hands 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: 181260270
Reposted by 😌 frances merkins 😌Sam King @samcking.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I hope everyone has a Hussein 6121202842
Reposted by 😌 frances merkins 😌the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026kind of a misnomer: death cannot be trapped. still the dream remains 921814
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 633295409
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. 166681733
Reposted by 😌 frances merkins 😌ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Jacob Reproaching Laban, by Hendrick Terbrugghen, 1627, 📸 by @iamrandyjw 340636
😌 frances merkins 😌 @agonistes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026could call geralt of rivia a cunt while serving cunt. Sexy Dijkstra contains multitudes 000
😌 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 91652215
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. 77125405120
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. 1412426545
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. 15710318785
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 693226255
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. 333180252
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? 431103821923
😌 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. 303123243
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? 262948247
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 😌Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 24/08/2024My brother is in a touring hardcore band and just arrived at his venue for today 5058681599
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 753091443
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. 18962111408
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 424296853
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. 61057143
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 233828786