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Babsmageddon @babssignal.bsky.social · 12h

my adult son is outside pumping a tire on the car and I have heard at least three men come out to chat with him about it. Some man signal has activated that I know nothing about

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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 30/09/2026

Gendered violence is a systemic cultural and societal problem. And when one of these cases boils to the top, you can see that in how many survivors come forward to explain how similar their experiences are, in ways both big and small.

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Babsmageddon @babssignal.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

bad here, but bravely taking the sea air

1 million barnacles, sea stars, and anemones on a rock at low tide

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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YTJF. @thewayoftheid.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This Nikole Hannah-Jones discourse has jumped the shark. What was supposed to be a vulnerable story about a Black family navigating the public education system became an indictment of NHJ’s parenting and, I can’t go for that. No can do.

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

it’s a precarious thing to publish writing about parenting (&, thus, your children). especially when they’re teens. they can engage the text and consent to or veto certain content. but they don’t yet understand the longterm implications of publication. and neither does the parent, tbh.

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I will say, as someone born in 1979, who was latchkey from age 8, never had homework checked, flamed out academically from 6th-11th grade & got myself on track just long enough to be admitted to college… some attitudes re:the role of the schools in children’s’ education are generational & familial.

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Babsmageddon @babssignal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

( I had a baby about the time Cindy Crawford did and I did her postpartum workout video and she was carrying her baby and man, my heart goes out to her today)

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Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

WHAT: Simone Rocha (spring 2027) OCCASIONS: ironic half-smiling or when papà has foolishly let your estate to parvenus & you must live at your sister’s & it’s fine until you see the sailor whose marriage proposal you rejected! IF IT WERE A SCENT: new saddle EMOTIONAL RANGE: ❤️‍🔥/💖 #MJMfashionGuidea

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Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Tearing through MAZYWOOD, the excellent new novel by @tananarivedue.bsky.social. Come celebrate her book launch with me @strandbooks.com on SEPT 22 at 7PM. Tri-state, let’s pack the house and make this evening a blast. Link below to reserve a spot. www.eventbrite.com/e/tananarive...

eventbrite.com

Tananarive Due + Victor LaValle: Mazywood

Join us for a release event with award winning author Tananarive Due, discussing her new novel MAZYWOOD.

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Bebe Neuwirth (she/her) @bebeneuwirth.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Thought I saw a tapir on a leash today but no it was a weirdly groomed shih-tzu.

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Babsmageddon @babssignal.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

took dementia mother to the grocery store and for a scenic drive and cleaned entire downstairs bathroom so I get a GLASS OF WINE I don't make the rules

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Babsmageddon @babssignal.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I was trying to explain to my husband how posh Miss Porter's School is and he just said, "That can't be real"

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Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Thank you, Bob Mackie, for showing us a way.

Young Cher, in a sequined & feathered transparent gown, & a young & bow tied Bob Mackie.

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Babsmageddon @babssignal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I was thinking about the last professor I had at undergrad and I want everyone to know about him. He whacked me on the head so hard and was across the gym yelling "come on, come on" before I could register what had happened. 💜

alc.wisc.edu

Kiyota, Minoru (Min)

College of Letters & Science

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LadyBusiness @ladybusiness.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A face made for a radio that's unplugged

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Babsmageddon @babssignal.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I turned on my furnace today.

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Babsmageddon @babssignal.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Phoenix Park is one of my favorite political assassinations:

en.wikipedia.org

Phoenix Park Murders - Wikipedia

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Babsmageddon @babssignal.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

okay we saw a spotted ratfish and it's JUST AS WEIRD as it sounds. And if you look it up, it's crazy. "Cephalic tentaculum." Males tiny vs. Big females. Crazy blue-green eyes. Poison spine. This fish has everything.

spotted ratfish washed up on a PNW beach. It has a long tail and enormous blue green eyes.

view of the mouth, which is madness. Its closest relatives are rays and sharks. It can hang out at depths of up to 3K feet.

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 12/09/2026

New instant classic just dropped

Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates
file:///C:/Users/swilentz/Downloads/
01_9781419791758_int_RTP_Iowres-2.pdf
9:59 AM • 9/12/26 • 174 Views

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Babsmageddon @babssignal.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I've been knee-deep in folklore at Duchas.ie and it's fucking excellent.

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A story about an Eel
A woman was once passing by Letterloc Lake, Letterloc, Newport, Co Mayo, and she was attacked by a great big eel which was lying in the reeds by the lake shore. This woman was wearing a bright red flannel petticoat. She ran from the eel and the eel used to put its tail in its mouth and jump and in this way he kept up with the woman. The eel was just closing up on the woman when the flannel petticoat became unloosed. The eel at once attacked it and flittered it to pieces. Then it fell asleep on the pieces of the petticoat. The woman met some men to whom she told her story and she directed them to the place. They found the eel fast asleep and they killed it.

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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The spirit of our dear departed Janey Godley is in Doonbeg, Co Clare, Ireland today.

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Babsmageddon @babssignal.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Ghost story: I woke up at 3 to a faint blue light in just my closet and lay there trying to figure out which haint had suddenly taken up residence (I don't believe in ghosts but didn't want to see one) and after 10 minutes got up and my husband had left his iPad on his dresser.

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Joe Keenan @joekeenan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Every year on this day I recall the awful moment when Frasier's producer Maggie Blanc phoned to tell me that the show's co-creator David Angell and his wife Lynn were on the first plane to hit the towers. A week later the Advocate asked me to write about David for their 9/11 issue. (1/2)

David Angell sitting in Martin's chair on the Frasier set.

A photo of an article in the Advocate. There's a smiling picture of David Angell. The heading reads: "A creator and executive producer of Frasier is remembered by his colleague Joe Keenan. The text of the article reads: One day in the Frasier writer’s room we were toying with the idea that Niles, insolvent and desperate during his epic divorce from Maris, might stoop to writing a quickie self-help book, the sort that shamelessly flatters its readers in the hopes of achieving best-sellerdom. We needed a title for it, something both punchy and pandering. As we were all calling out uninspired suggestions I glanced over at David Angell. He smiled to himself then, adopting a look of foot-stomping petulance, said, “It’s Not Your Fault, Dammit!’ by Dr. Niles Crane.”
We laughed at its ludicrous perfection, or at least those of us who’d heard him did. David was very quiet, very soft-spoken. Unlike many humor writers who like to think out loud (making it hard for others to think at all), David mulled each comedy challenge in silence, speaking only when he felt he had something good, which he pretty much always did. He brought the same quiet wryness to his conversation and his remarks were all the funnier for his murmured, throwaway delivery. He understood, to paraphrase Dorothy Parker, that a boy’s best friend is his mutter.
He was a wonderful writer, always smart, always witty, the dialogue pitch perfect. Sometimes in the room his usual low-key drollness would give way to bursts of inspired goofiness that were both hilarious and incongruous, like a humanities professor interrupting his lecture on Middlemarch to share his Porky Pig impression. Most of all he understood that a good show wasn’t about jokes; it was about people, and telling stories about them that involve us and surprise us and make us need to know what happens next.
As good a writer as David was, he was an even better person, unfailingly kind and generous. I’ll always be especially grateful for the su…

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Babsmageddon @babssignal.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

If you're remembering something or missing someone today, you have my heart. 💜

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Babsmageddon @babssignal.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

(If Elia Kazan has no haters I am dead)

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Babsmageddon @babssignal.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

(If Elia Kazan has no haters I am dead)

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Wondering what the proper attire would have been for this 1964 "Golden Shower for Goldwater" featuring Buddy Ebsen, Gloria Swanson, and Ronald Regan (sic).

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Candlesnuff fungus (Xylaria hypoxylon) growing in our woodland. Can’t actually remember when I took this Also known as candlestick fungus, carbon antlers, or the stag's horn fungus Grows in clusters on decaying hardwood, which we of course have a lot of

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Gayer Than Thou 🏳️‍🌈 @gayerthanthou.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

What's an example of perfect casting?

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Babsmageddon @babssignal.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

(I've basically finished an ms and it's profane and ridiculous and your honor, I love it.)

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Babsmageddon @babssignal.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

So many people in my fam changed their lives with union jobs. Esp. coming from farms where you're up at 4 in the morning or being a hired girl with no set hours. Union jobs were freedom.

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Babsmageddon @babssignal.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I remember my great aunt who worked 42 unionized years on the Uniroyal floor and my own dad, who organized a union for his state revenue office. And AEA, which kept us actors safe and paid.

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big bleat from badsville @djepelgesh.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

thank you The New York Post for what may be the funniest image of all time

a picture from the NY Post titled " today’s leftists are possessed by the spirit of France’s 18th-century guillotine-loving revolutionaries" (way too long) that shows Mamdani (the specter haunting Europe) smiling in the sky as a bunch of French people goof around

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Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Thank you, Gloria Steinem, for showing us a way.

Young Gloria Steinem. Pucci dress & typewriter.

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