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Awkward OMINOUS pause 🎃 @awkwardpause.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I MEAN. COME ON. #spellingbee #nyt #bastardpeople
Spelling Bee game showing the perfectly good word “flyball” with the message “not on word list”
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Awkward OMINOUS pause 🎃 @awkwardpause.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Sure but hear me out.
Dictionary entry from Merriam-Webster showing that galavant is a valid word, dammit
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Awkward OMINOUS pause 🎃 @awkwardpause.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
ALSO WHAT FRESH HELL
Spelling Bee board shows the spelling of a perfectly good word, GALAVANTING, as ineligible.
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Awkward OMINOUS pause 🎃 @awkwardpause.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
lol. The timeline delivers.
Part of Louie Stowell’s post, beneath which is a Bluesky user’s status with a video of a heron using its wings as an umbrella.
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Awkward OMINOUS pause 🎃 @awkwardpause.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
This site got so much right @notpodium.bsky.social Unfortunately I can’t get the sound to play.
Screen from the new Beeswax spelling game that speaks five words a day to the player and lets them try to spell all five correctly.
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Awkward OMINOUS pause 🎃 @awkwardpause.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Repost with the Russian agent who spies on your posts.
Misinformation superspreader Megyn Kelly
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Awkward OMINOUS pause 🎃 @awkwardpause.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Thanks, you’re awful.
Banner for the Washington Post vertical series “Make it Make Sense” with a picture of one of their Opinion editors bloviating about the right to eat hamburgers.
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Awkward OMINOUS pause 🎃 @awkwardpause.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Sarah Paulson. #MetGala
Woman in a grey taffeta dress with a huge bow and opera gloves poses with a dollar bill fastened across her eyes, effectively so she can’t see.
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Awkward OMINOUS pause 🎃 @awkwardpause.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
May I suggest The Happy Hocky Family.
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Awkward OMINOUS pause 🎃 @awkwardpause.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Pretty things coming up in my garden, mostly just leaves. This is Anise Hyssop.
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Awkward OMINOUS pause 🎃 @awkwardpause.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Rubio yesterday: Iran is too obsessed with war to invest in its own people.
Headline from Truthout: Rubio Unironically Says Iran Should Spend Money on its People, Not on the Military
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Awkward OMINOUS pause 🎃 @awkwardpause.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Oh, right you are. Thank you. My apologies. It also looks like CNN got the memo about their framing.
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Awkward OMINOUS pause 🎃 @awkwardpause.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
This is the great poet Homer.
Russian Blue cat on white sheets, fully topped off on naps
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Awkward OMINOUS pause 🎃 @awkwardpause.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Reading José Saramago’s Blindness and thinking about what happened today. What happens everyday.
Portion of text from a book that starts and ends mid-sentence, and reads, …”mine, we never know what might lie in store for us. You’re right, who would have thought, when I left the house this morning, that something as dreadful as this was about to happen. He was puzzled that the should still be at a”…
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Awkward OMINOUS pause 🎃 @awkwardpause.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
It took me three tries; sounds about right for the coming year.
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Awkward OMINOUS pause 🎃 @awkwardpause.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
A modest table with chanukiat and latkes.
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Awkward OMINOUS pause 🎃 @awkwardpause.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Best comment of the day award
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Awkward OMINOUS pause 🎃 @awkwardpause.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Rubio chattering on at Trump, who is asleep and also dressed as Sleepy the fairy tale dwarf with a long beard and red cap.
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Awkward OMINOUS pause 🎃 @awkwardpause.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
The people are learning, and carrying the good news.
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Awkward OMINOUS pause 🎃 @awkwardpause.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Matthea Harvey, Shiver and You Have Weather: In the aftermath of calculus your toast fell butter-side down. Squirrels swarmed the lawns in flight patterns. The hovercraft…
In the aftermath of calculus
your toast fell butter-side down.

Squirrels swarmed the lawns
in flight patterns. The hovercraft

helped the waves along. From
every corner there was perspective.

On the billboards the diamonds
were real, in the stores, only zirconia.

I cc’ed you. I let you know.
Sat down to write the Black Ice Memo.

Dinner would be meager &
reminiscent of next week’s lunch.

So what if I sat on the sectional?
As always I was beside myself.
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Awkward OMINOUS pause 🎃 @awkwardpause.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Without downloading any new pics, describe your gender.
Marian Webster dictionary-stile cover that says ALL CAPS
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Awkward OMINOUS pause 🎃 @awkwardpause.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Look how he’s aged in 10 months:
Photo of Sean Duffy at early press conference, January 2025
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Awkward OMINOUS pause 🎃 @awkwardpause.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Vivid color drawing of ancient slaves quarrying stone under the whiplash of an overseer, with the words quoting Trump’s recent post about his bathroom, “Highly polished statuary marble.”
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Awkward OMINOUS pause 🎃 @awkwardpause.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Nbd just something I happened to see while out protesting on Saturday. They don’t pay this kind of bonus for traditionally peaceful NPS officers letting kids pet their horses.
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Awkward OMINOUS pause 🎃 @awkwardpause.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Definitely not funded by Soros. #nokings
Crudely made cardboard sign saying NO HUMAN IS ILLEGAL
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Awkward OMINOUS pause 🎃 @awkwardpause.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
“The girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa.”
Mills Jovavich from Fifth Element in fight position.
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Awkward OMINOUS pause 🎃 @awkwardpause.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
And again, the internet does its thing.
Pairing of Benjamin Dreyer’s skeet showing a bald misshapen Stephen Miller at a podium above another person’s skeet of a the bald, misshapen Freddie from Nightmare on Elm Street seeming also to be speaking from a podium.
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Awkward OMINOUS pause 🎃 @awkwardpause.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Also, who wore it better?
Kash Patel Charles Manson
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Awkward OMINOUS pause 🎃 @awkwardpause.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
John Cusco as Lloyd Dobler saying “I don’t want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career.”
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Awkward OMINOUS pause 🎃 @awkwardpause.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
The Internet delivers
Bradley Whitfoed: when authoritarianism is on the rise, you can count on the richest, least vulnerable men in the planet to be the biggest cowards. 

Frog and Toad Bot, directly below in the timeline: “That is true,” said Frog
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Awkward OMINOUS pause 🎃 @awkwardpause.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Remembering the Gay History of the World “Trade” Center medium.com/prismnpen/ma... @medium.com
View of the World Trade Center Towers from the ground
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Awkward OMINOUS pause 🎃 @awkwardpause.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Nice, guys. Thanks a million. #pedestrian #CarCulture #VisionZero #ZeroRespect
A rainy crosswalk with three cars abreast, all protruding deep into the crosswalk so pedestrians can hardly cross safely
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Awkward OMINOUS pause 🎃 @awkwardpause.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Melissa Hortman. Melissa Hortman. Melissa Hortman. Melissa Hortman. Melissa Hortman. Melissa Hortman. Melissa Hortman. Melissa Hortman. Melissa Hortman. Melissa Hortman. Melissa Hortman. Melissa Hortman. Melissa Hortman. Melissa Hortman. Melissa Hortman. Melissa Hortman.
Photograph of the late Minnesota Soeaker of the House Melissa Hortman, smiling.
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Awkward OMINOUS pause 🎃 @awkwardpause.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
And today: Come ON!
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Awkward OMINOUS pause 🎃 @awkwardpause.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Spelling Bee board spelling POTATOHEAD
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Awkward OMINOUS pause 🎃 @awkwardpause.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Close but no cigar:
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Awkward OMINOUS pause 🎃 @awkwardpause.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
I’ve enhanced the image with AI. I noticed something strange immediately.
Three wolves moon shirt from Amazon
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Awkward OMINOUS pause 🎃 @awkwardpause.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Because, like you, I’m 12.
Spelling Bee board with the immature and irresistible word BEEJAY spelled out
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Awkward OMINOUS pause 🎃 @awkwardpause.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Using one photo already on your phone, what is the announcement today at 2?
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Awkward OMINOUS pause 🎃 @awkwardpause.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
I have one of those in feline form
Grey tabby on his back extending extremely long hind legs at the camera
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Awkward OMINOUS pause 🎃 @awkwardpause.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Blurry, but this is Farragut North this morning in #DC near the White House. We counted four National Guard total (two here), all with sidearms.
Foreground two commuters in wdc and in front of them are two National Guard in fatigues, all walking with backs to camera
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Awkward OMINOUS pause 🎃 @awkwardpause.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
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Awkward OMINOUS pause 🎃 @awkwardpause.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Awww I have one of those too!
Little grey cat asleep with her paws curled.
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Awkward OMINOUS pause 🎃 @awkwardpause.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
With just basic info about location, here’s what my Merlin app suggests. (I highly recommend, it works even away from wifi because it’s powered by GPS)
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Awkward OMINOUS pause 🎃 @awkwardpause.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
And again how the internet delivers.
Two independent skeets. One from David Ho complaining of comments on his previous skeet saying he wouldn’t miss mosquitoes if they disappeared. The one below it from @weeder says “Tried to do the thing where you flex while a mosquito is biting you and we now know that mosquitos can make a little laughing sound.”
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Awkward OMINOUS pause 🎃 @awkwardpause.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
No cheating: post your Lock Screen
Bright red sandwich board sidewalk sign with white block letters that says, “ART. TOYS. MONSTERS.” Main Street Northampton Mass
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Awkward OMINOUS pause 🎃 @awkwardpause.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Here, WAPO intern Berman appears to conflate nonprofit, community-based institutions and for-profit predatory institutions; throughout the article Berman disregards the transfer process that brings many CC students to 4-year degrees.
In recent times, the two-year sector has shrunk considerably, thanks in part to a wave of regulations in the 2010sthat curbed the explosion of for-profit institutions. Nevertheless the main problem persists: Poor students continue to enroll in lower value institutions thank their rich peers.
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Awkward OMINOUS pause 🎃 @awkwardpause.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
In case we’d be tempted to think it was just a one-off, here’s another.
Another Nazi tableau of a tenderly happy blond white family with a young mother and father surrounded by little children, including an infant in arms. The golden textured background appears to be the rugged, oversized carved golden wings of the Nazi insignia’s eagle.
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Awkward OMINOUS pause 🎃 @awkwardpause.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
At your service.
Grey tabby sticking his exceptionally long legs out of his cat bed
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Awkward OMINOUS pause 🎃 @awkwardpause.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
“The Aryan Family, undated Nazi print used for propaganda, circa 1938-39
Idealized, sunny painting portraying a father and mother with three young g children and a nursing baby, all blond and healthy, surrounded by flowers and baskets of produce symbolizing plenty.
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