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AltBronte (she/they)

@altbronte.bsky.social
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The same AltBronte you've known and tolerated on other platforms since 2012. Kink, swords, birds, books, food, crafts.

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 18h
Australopithecus 3 million years ago:
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Mad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 18h
What, mine eyes doth see? The Tragedy of Macbeth with Denzel Washington, Francis McDormand & Brendan Gleeson, directed by Joel Coen as if by Welles possessed, one foot in film, one theater. Silhouettes galore. No mannered elocution. Treachery in blood. Shakespeare for the people.
Black-and-white image from Macbeth (2021). 3 characters arranged from middleground to background type together, black walls and shadows in foreground, creating frames within frames, diagonal light shafts as geometric visual accents.A grid of eight images from the 2021 Macbeth, emphasizing silhouettes, frames within frames, extremes of black-and-whiteThe three witches from the 2021 film of Macbeth seen in shadow in middle distance, long robes. Missed galore.A leafless tree, a ruined cottage, in a bowl shaped crater. A road leads toward it from the foreground, but diverges into two directions. Forced perspective mountain backdrops, fog rolling down  embankments.
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Suzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · 9h
For me good art has to put its head into the jaws of Insisting Upon Itself and sometimes it gets devoured but the greater sin lies in the opposite direction, which is never giving us the chance to care at all
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I am furious, but I am sailing @stcaffeinated.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
hello??? police??????????
Los Angeles Times: "In every version, Carrie is this clenched up, traumatized, terrified person who is afraid of everything in the world from the minute we meet het. Part of the fun for me was thinking, "Let's throw all that away. What's the opposite of Carrie?" This Carrie is curious eager, kind, earnest, and excited to be there." - Mike Flanagan, showrunner of Prime Video's "Carrie"
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Eve Harms, Orph Understander @eveharms.com · 10/10/2026
What if instead of cosmic beings that erotically tortured people seeking the extremes of hedonism, Pinhead and the Cenobites appeared from their hell dimension to lecture deviants on the importance of safe sex, enthusiastic consent, and personal responsibility. Wouldn’t that be groundbreaking
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 23h
Not only is this true, one of the reasons tomatoes are extra good is that they contain MSG and drying them concentrates it. You can also add MSG to things.
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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 11/10/2026
“Give us the money we need to make Stephen Miller cry on national television”
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It's actually not complicated. You end homelessness with safe, dignified housing people can afford.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 09/10/2026
elon musk has more empathy for lines of code than a majority of humanity
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Mid Fimbulwinter @curgoth.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
To paraphrase @annaleen.bsky.social and @charliejaneanders.com, the question is not whether or not AI is sentient, it's whether or not, in the eyes of the super wealthy, the rest of us are.
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Overheard train chat between two tough-looking youths: Youth one: “I got déjà vu, man. I saw this dog and felt like I’d seen it before.” Youth two: “That’s not déjà vu. You just saw a dog twice.”
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DC Council @councilofdc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is clearly not acceptable
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Juni! 🥰 @literallyjustadog.online · 08/10/2026
bondage for the sake of shutting you the fuck up
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 09/10/2026
People in California who are facing a terrible ICE surge: remember that if you need whistles, we are still sending them out for free. In fact, we just passed 1.7 million whistles sent out. linktr.ee/3Dwhistles
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3D Printed Whistles | Linktree
We ship community protection whistles for free. Need some? Click the email link below & tell us how many you need (between 100 - 3000) & where to send them.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026
jesus christ i have never heard a democratic talk this bluntly about an opponent
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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Governments around the world have openly declared war on queer people in general and queer youth in specific, but yes, what's causing the decline in identification "is unclear." You can be arrested for being the wrong kind of queer or needing the wrong kind of health care, but it's "unclear."
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.
, it's
and I
have some personal news to share with you.
Being a mom is one of the greatest joys of my life, and I feel deeply that we should have salad tonight
This year has been challenging in many ways, and I have immense gratitude for the kindness and support of family, community, and people like you who have continued to stand by me through everything. It means the world, and I wanted you to be among the first to know that squash is in the oven and kale is in the fridge.As many of you are aware, ve been navigating one of the most challenging periods of my day while waiting for dinner.
Facing baseless federal hunger brought on by not eating since lunch, fighting for the working kids of this country, and now caring for a mean toddler and helping him grow up in a world that isn't always easy. But it has also reminded me exactly why I do this work and who I do it for.
I will never stop working to eat dinner. I will never stop fighting for what is right, even when there is also some feta in the fridge. And I will never stop being so very thankful that you are by my side in this important work and that there is tahini in the pantry for dressing
With love and gratitude,
stop to end
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Charlotte Tangle @charlottetangle.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
there's a bit in Saga where a revolutionary says something like "everyone thinks the opposite of war is peace, but it's not. the opposite of war is Fucking." and i didn't really get it when i read it back in 2021, but let me tell you, I Get It Now. I Get It.
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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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Punished Cat Guy (extra punished Cenobite version) @majima.club · 06/10/2026
“That’s What You Get,” (Riot! 2007)
"America is grateful all the time for our federal law enforcement officers who keep us safe," a DHS spokesperson said in a statement to Fox News. "We suggest Ms. Williams to thank them for their service, not belittle their sacrifice," the agency's statement said.

Williams, 37, then unleashed her response to the DHS' statement in an Instagram Story post Monday: "And may I suggest all Nazi bitches suck on my fat d***"
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 06/10/2026
Fun fact: Tesla went with a giant touchscreen instead of knobs for the Model 3 purely to save time and money. Knobs would have required spinning up a whole supply chain. The company spun it as a luxury feature and much of the industry followed suit. But it was always an inferior substitute.
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
As a society, we have forgotten that the phone still works when you hold it up to your ear
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Jessica McKenzie @jessimckenzi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
i don't think you should be allowed to call your business a speakeasy if it has a yelp page
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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
very tired of being told it is the responsibility of urban democratic voters never to risk possibly maybe by chance seeming less than respectful of rural red state life and then watching thousands in nebraska cheer on the president joking about a nuclear strike on me and millions of my neighbors
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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
will you people shut the fuck up
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feral bat @feralhattie.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
remembering fondly the historically correct behavior of purchasing a thing with money and never hearing from the seller of the thing again in my life
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nda🔞 @ndasfw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
THE BURNINATOR
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Memo Torres @eltragon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There’s a new ICE surge happening in the Greater Los Angeles Area now. At least 20 people have been taken by noon in Southern California, numbers we haven’t seen in a long time. @lataco.bsky.social
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AltBronte (she/they) @altbronte.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Dad sent me a YouTube link to an AI music video/artist page. Turned into a "They're real!" "No, they're not!" back-and-forth, but I think I talked him around when I pointed out that there were no venues or dates anywhere for the supposed "world tour."
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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
henstomper

oh my god the slot machine company says i have to keep putting coins in their machine or Im Gonna Get Left Behind. thats so scary. and it has to be true because they know more about slot machines than i do

oh my god the slot machine company says if we dont give them money to build the world's biggest slot machine the chinese are gonna build it first and win all the prizes. and then there wont be any prizes anymore
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 04/10/2026
The “Nobody Speak” scene with the Road Runner in Coyote Vs. Acme is the hardest I’ve laughed in a long time. This may be one of my favorite movies of all time
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 05/10/2026
Incredibly-reported piece on how introduced bumblebees in Patagonia are setting off an ecological cascade that's bad for everyone, including the people who introduced them.
biographic.com
The Unwilding of Patagonia’s Pollinators  | bioGraphic
In a region synonymous with wilderness, native bumblebees are being replaced by industrial worker bees—and ecosystems are paying the price.
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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I don’t think I’m ever going to get the appeal of pivoting to video for podcasts. I’ve been listening to podcasts for 20 years, and never once have I thought, my God, I need to SEE these people! I’m on a walk or doing the dishes, I don’t need video. 
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AltBronte (she/they) @altbronte.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
There is an $18 mango at Jon's. It is large and pink, and I am desperately curious but cannot justify that, someone go in on it with me.
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AltBronte (she/they) @altbronte.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
*French accent* It is cold and grey, like a fat, dead pigeon.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
please do not post photos of barbour jackets in early october if you're not also voting for policies to address global warming
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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/10/2026
that this is over the daylight savings bill of all things is ten times funnier
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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
For those wondering what "Batman's Aff His Nut" sounds like in a proper Glaswegian accent, here's Robert Florence, who penned it, reciting it over a Batman teaser...
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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“Is it not telling that the conversation of abolition has been co-opted so strongly by liberal values that anything beyond nicely asking an abuser to volunteer to engage in an accountability process is accused of being one-in-the-same with State violence?” butchanarchy.medium.com/against-a-li...
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Against a Liberal Abolitionism
In the explosion of interest in the topic of abolitionism during and after the explosive summer of 2020 its meaning and purpose has become…
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social
wired.com
ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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jeeyon shim 심지연 @jeeyon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The whole thing is a real treat but this bit, especially the highlighted portion, put a huge smile on my face
Since joining the tech company in 2025, Gary has noticed that naming his employer prompts brutal reactions from prospective paramours. One woman, he says, called him the devil; another asked how he lives with himself. “Sometimes people would just straight up stop talking to me,” he says.

Recently, Gary’s buddies requested he not mention Palantir on their nights out together so as to not tank the whole group’s chances of getting laid. “I get nervous now. I don’t bring it up,” he says. (Gary, along with the other daters in this piece, have been given pseudonyms to protect against professional, if not romantic, repercussions.)
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
fiction leans on origin stories and I don't think we need them and often stories actually narrow rather than expand by doing them.
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Atlas Mugged (N95 Duckbill 😷)✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @pamacious.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
On Tuesday, while we were distracted, the "Pentagon rolled out a $1.5 trillion budget request that contained a line item almost nobody’s talking about: a 24,000 percent increase, from $225 million last year to $54.6 billion this year, for an outfit called the Defense Autonomous Warfare Group...
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From Surveillance State to Kill Machine: Has the Line Already Been Crossed?
What began with data collection is rapidly evolving into something far more dangerous: systems that can decide and act to kill people here in America…
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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/10/2026
genuinely do not understand how some people enjoy interpersonal conflict, I am going to have to have an uncomfortable conversation with someone and I would rather fight a rabid badger
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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago
I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861
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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My therapist used to say “your feelings are evidence but they aren’t the verdict” and boy if that hasn’t kept me out of trouble
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Really fucked up actually that the "you are valid" culture which, usefulness and uh, validity thereof aside, was intended to provide some some perspective for people who may have been blamed for harmless things they could not control morphed into if strangers on the internet do not constantly tell me I'm good and perfect they are the oppressor" and "even constructively and gently telling me that I hold some power and responsibility to seek a better situation is an unspeakably cruel act."
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Once, in an argument with my therapist about a decision I made to antagonize my mother, I snapped, "My feelings are valid," and he shot back, "They're valid because they're real, but that doesn't make them rational.*
It was a more nuanced and tailored conversation after that, but that particular quote struck me especially and made me realize how often I was conflating "valid" with "reasonable" or "justified."
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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If the argument for women should know better than to go into a rape den like a frat house, explain to me why a rape house like a fraternity is allowed to exist at all.
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AltBronte (she/they) @altbronte.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Dune 3: Don't squeeze it, you'll make it worse
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Mistrix Tomi Tortura | LA @tomitortura.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Post Folsom creature time 🌲
Person suspended by his ankles hangs upside from a cut tree trunk in the forest. Chain around the ankles. Chain around the hips. There is an inflatable gag in their mouth, leather hood, leather collar with chain attachedThe person is now suspended by all 4 limbs to the tree.Different angle of the person The person is on the grass with the leather hood on, leather wrist cuffs and the chain from the collar is draped down his back. Tomis hands are amazing
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