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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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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 4h
So uh, American people. You ok? Can we talk in private
an orange cat is sitting with his arms folded under his load body. his face looks concerned and a bit discomfited
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"I thought he wears Brioni." This is the American version of Brioni (Jabroni)
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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Found 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
Hello Bone Colleagues, 
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans. 

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine 
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.
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matte jones @pillowfort.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
without any doubt:
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Neiman 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. 🧵
A notice about the Neiman Marcus store opening in downtown Dallas.An old photo of the Dallas flagship.
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DENVER’S FUCKING WEATHER @denversweather.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I'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.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Data 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...
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‘I Know I Couldn’t Live Here’: Standing Up to a Data Center in Alabama’s Black Belt - The American Prospect
Faced with little transparency about a mammoth facility, Lowndes County fights back.
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Paul Constant @paulconstant.com · 01/10/2026
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 · 30/09/2026
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

Reply:

river
@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
could call geralt of rivia a cunt while serving cunt. Sexy Dijkstra contains multitudes
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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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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @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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