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@angryonabus.bsky.social
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another iteration of the nonsense artist sometimes known as etben. they/them, late 30s. usually in Boston, but sometimes I go to the woods to Live Ridiculously

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les swimming poules! @angryonabus.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Which, to be clear, is a GOOD THING. You shouldn’t ask random people you work with if they’re pregnant unless you are PRETTY DAMN SURE the answer is going to be “Yes!” …it’s just funny to realize how much less obvious this is for people who aren’t living in my body.
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les swimming poules! @angryonabus.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Fred update: apparently 30 weeks was some kind of Pregnancy Threshold, bc abruptly I have a bunch of people asking, “wait, are you pregnant?” Which is hilarious to me, because I feel SO pregnant, but I guess from the outside it’s not obvious? Or at least not enough for ppl to ask about it.
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les swimming poules! @angryonabus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This week, I have been completely unable to find a comfortable sleeping setup that lasts me for more than one night at a time, which feels VERY unfair. Like, can we at least do two nights in a row? Because coming up with a new pillow infrastructure plan every single evening is fucking exhausting.
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les swimming poules! @angryonabus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Fred update: One of the things that’s hard about pregnancy is that I keep needing to find new solutions to the same problems, bc my previous solution stops working. Which makes sense - Fred is growing! my body is changing! Like, I hate when things don’t stay fixed, but I do get it. HOWEVER.
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les swimming poules! @angryonabus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
so far i have been pretty lucky with the intrusive questions! mostly people just say, "well, you're looking GREAT!" in a way that makes me want to reply, "thanks! 😊 I feel like ass! 😊"
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les swimming poules! @angryonabus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
like, A) of all, we are NOT the kind of close where you get to ask me about my reproductive planning, buddy, but also, B) of all...dude, I don't know yet! Right now I'm just aiming to get through ONE (1) pregnancy without any major mishaps! Ask me again once I've given birth! (but actually? DON'T.)
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les swimming poules! @angryonabus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Fred Update: a new contender for the "Wow, That's For Sure A Thing You Just Said" awards has emerged! "So, do you plan to have more than one kid?" This from a not-terribly-close coworker, as his FIRST QUESTION upon learning that I'm pregnant. 😐
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les swimming poules! @angryonabus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
personal computer has three pinned tabs (personal email, 2 work emails) and...really any possible number of other tabs, depending on what I'm up to? but i try to keep the number low unless I'm actively in the middle of a research project / fic binge. ...phone is, uh. Less disciplined. 😬
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables
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les swimming poules! @angryonabus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Fred update: woke up in a cold sweat from a dream where the OB told me I was going to give birth in two weeks (actual ETA: 11.5 weeks). Not fun, but now whenever Ray or I start feeling stressed about Baby Stuff, we can remind ourself that at least we have more than 2 weeks? so that's nice, i guess.
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les swimming poules! @angryonabus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Absolutely TRIUMPHANT morning of errands with the incomparable @pullthroughs.bsky.social - we got up early, set a land speed record for grocery shopping, then collected @rayoflight.bsky.social and went to IKEA for various necessities. A+ work all around, now to nap the smuggest possible naps.
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les swimming poules! @angryonabus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
in conclusion, pregnancy is going GREAT and we are definitely approaching this in a DEEPLY NORMAL WAY.
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les swimming poules! @angryonabus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
...and then, maybe twenty minutes after Ray left me to sleep, I stumbled out of bed, bleary-eyed, to say, "if a cow is pregnant...there are EIGHT STOMACHS in that cow." Ray, horrified: "that's TOO MANY STOMACHS." Me: "Right????" *staggers off to pee for the third time in an hour*
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les swimming poules! @angryonabus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
well, somehow it took us until last night to realize that this logic can also be applied to organs? cue the two of us cackling with laughter, saying things like, "you have FOUR KIDNEYS in you!!" and "i have TWO APPENDICES! and neither of them does ANYTHING!"
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les swimming poules! @angryonabus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Fred update: we've had a running bit since...basically conception? about how i'm building my own skeleton army and helping the average number of skeletons-per-human-body to 'slightly more than one'. (this, ftr, is why the baby is Fred - short for Manfred, of Dragon Age fame. A happy skeleton!)
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 24/09/2026
lol lol lol lol lol lol lol
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les swimming poules! @angryonabus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Yeah, I kind of figured! Still, I guess it’s nice to have confirmation that kiddo is in fact taking up a TON of space right now? Because my WORD does it feel like it.
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les swimming poules! @angryonabus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
…I really hope not? 😬
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les swimming poules! @angryonabus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Idk, there’s not too much else to report rn? Fred is kicking a lot! Fred appears to have all of the correct organs! Fred is compressing *my* organs!
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les swimming poules! @angryonabus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
@rayoflight.bsky.social thinks Fred has been listening to the Junior Statescat, who has also grown SUBSTANTIALLY MORE than expected.
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les swimming poules! @angryonabus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Fred update: kiddo is in the 74th percentile by weight, which is both good (growing! We like growing!) and moderately concerning (what happened to “50th percentile across the board, absolutely average baby in every way”??)
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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If AI *didn't* suck our electricity grids dry and hadn't caused a financial bubble and hadn't made key computer components unaffordable it'd *still be based on mass theft of the labour of others* and the people running these companies know that. Staggers me just how many people dismissed that.
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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 18/09/2026
man he cant equip that shit hes a cleric not a wizard. this DM sucks
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What a week, huh? all Wednesdays @whataweekhuh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Captain Haddock looking very frazzled, saying, “What a week, huh?”
Tintin leans into the frame and says, “Captain, it’s Wednesday.”
Snowy aka Milou is very excited about the drink he has found.

Viñeta de Tintin
El capitán Haddock, sentado a una mesa y con aspecto de estar agotado, dice: "¡Menuda semana, ¿eh?".
Tintín, a su derecha, le dice: "Capitán, es miércoles".
A la izquierda, Milú mira muy contento la bebida que está en la mesa.
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Virgo's Constant Groove @ceencrumpets.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A lot of things that have paywalls actually do not if you use the library.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026
Cis people do not understand how much trans people's rights have regressed in just 5 years. 5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions. 19 states banned legal recognition 21 states have bathroom bans 8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs 25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth
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les swimming poules! @angryonabus.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
a new low: presenter in a training about accessibility saying that he uses AI to generate alt text for images in his presentation. fucking ALT TEXT.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
the point of freeing yourself from the prison of ego is not getting there you’re not gonna do that. never gonna happen. the point is cultivating a practice of routinely asking “wait, I am too into my own shit here?” in every aspect of your dealings at least once or twice a day. anyhow good morning
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
1/x On September 11, 2001 Coast Guard Lieutenant Michael Day, aboard the Sandy Hook pilot boat New York, keyed his radio: "All available boats. This is the United States Coast Guard. Anyone wanting to help with the evacuation of Lower Manhattan, report to Governors Island." #maritimehistory
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les swimming poules! @angryonabus.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
All day training on “ethical uses of genAI”? Wow. 😐 Thanks so much. 😐 I can’t wait. 😐
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les swimming poules! @angryonabus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This is a really good point! when I rail against genAI, I'm usually doing it from a position of "it's wrong about so much stuff" / "it undermines the learning process" / "datacenters have horrific environmental impacts"...but even if none of that were true, genAI would still be built on theft.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
the quilt made of ribbons is now ten million times more beautiful
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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
satin ribbons

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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les swimming poules! @angryonabus.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
…well, that’s fair.
The results of a dialect quiz, saying that I talk like someone from northern MI or MN.
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les swimming poules! @angryonabus.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
…there’s also a third wolf that just wants a sandwich and a nap, but that wolf is basically always here.
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les swimming poules! @angryonabus.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The other one wants very badly to make a tutorial document for our new gradebook system, because both the official documentation and the “guide” that the district put out are fucking GARBAGE, and I know in my heart that I can make something a million times better.
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les swimming poules! @angryonabus.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
There are two wolves inside of me: One of them knows how easy it is for women* to get pigeonholed into “secretarial” roles, and is deeply wary of becoming unofficial tech support for the entire district in a way that overshadows my actual job. * / people perceived as women
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Have we not eaten while another starved? Will you punish us for that? Will you reward us for the virtue of starving while others ate? No man earns punishment, no man earns reward. Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think
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les swimming poules! @angryonabus.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Like, you could at least PRETEND to care about whether or not people have retained literally anything you’ve just said, you know? But instead they create a system where I am actively incentivized to mute my computer and do work on another device while the videos play through. Such pedagogy. Wow.
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les swimming poules! @angryonabus.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
WELL. Today I learned that I hate it even more when the dumb training videos don’t have any assessment attached. Which feels absurd, given how much I hate the quizzes…and yet somehow the versions with no quiz offend me more, just on a pedagogical level.
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les swimming poules! @angryonabus.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Like many people, I absolutely loathe trainings with unskippable videos. Just give me the text! I read faster than you talk, I promise! And some of those trainings have “quizzes” built in, which I also hate, mostly because they are usually badly-written and barely require you to watch the videos.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Hello, i'd like to report a hate crime.
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Akilla Cooper @akelacooper.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
a game of thrones meme featuring arya's fencing teacher in the top half asking what do we say to the god of death. the bottom half features arya saying that was the wrong fucking 80 year old
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Meg Frank @peripateticmeg.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
truth from Jenny Zigrino
A stacked set of two screenshots from a standup routine by Jenny Zigrino that say “I know the grim reaper is a white man because if anyone else was this bad at their job, they’d be fired”
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Basil May @basilmai.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Tim Curry and Dolly leaving us within hours of each other is homophobic.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I'm also having complicated thoughts I don't know how to articulate perfectly about Dolly as like . . . high femme Gender Euphoria™️ (for folks of all genders!) and that big hair / big boobs / sequins / high-pitched voice, etc are not - and should not be - incompatible with being taken seriously
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Whit EM @whittyrem.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is literally always in the back of my mind
A meme of two teens writing. The woman is labeled Dolly Parton and underneath it says 9 to 5. The man is looking at her work. He is labeled Karl Marx and underneath it says the communist manifesto
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
her very existence was an indisputable reminder of how many things framed as inevitabilities were actually just someone’s choice. there actually is enough money for everything. the wealthy could fully fund literacy and public health and the arts and child welfare. they just won’t
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/08/2026
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les swimming poules! @angryonabus.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
She is such a deeply unserious creature! No dignity, no poise, just an absolute unit made of love and goofiness.
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