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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 7h
we fucking loved it, even when there was basically nothing on it, and let me tell you something else: we loved it because of human connection, human diversity, human creativity. WE DON'T NEED A SINGLE THING ANY OF THESE COMEMIERDAS HAVE MADE AND TRIED TO SELL US IN ORDER TO HAVE A GREAT INTERNET.
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Matthew Lawrence @beefcakefactory.bsky.social · 2h
Yes most people today agree that it is very bad! I had never heard of the Claymation adaptation before today.
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Matthew Lawrence @beefcakefactory.bsky.social · 5h
If you are like me and can never remember whether or not you've already gotten the tickets, the confirmation email comes from Wanderground (not URI) and the subject line is "Event Registration Details." (I have done this at least twice already for this specific event.)
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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 8h
New: As gay bars across the country say that Meta is flagging and deactivating their accounts without warning, I spoke to an Austin queer bar that says Meta nearly destroyed their ability to advertise events: www.chron.com/culture/arti...
chron.com
How Meta's new content moderation upended a Texas gay bar
At least one LGBTQ establishment in Texas says the social media giant has incorrectly disabled its social media account, potentially hurting business.
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Planned Parenthood Votes! Rhode Island @ppvotesri.bsky.social · 17h
TODAY is the deadline to register to vote in the November 3rd General Election! Make your voice heard on issues that are important to you 📣 Check your registration status and get registered at vote.ri.gov ☑️✨ #PlannedParenthood #Vote #RegisterToVote
Illustration with two raised hands holding flags that say "Vote" against a crowd background. Text reads "Voter Registration" at the top and "Deadline Today" at the bottom.
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Matthew Lawrence @beefcakefactory.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I am the audience for Rhode Island minutiae! And this was exhausting to read, especially when there is no mention of, say, the Atwells pine cone not actually being there right now in the blurb about how you should check out the pine cone arch.
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Matthew Lawrence @beefcakefactory.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I counted 79 attractions with captions written by a bunch of people but also some just attributed to Providence Journal.
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Matthew Lawrence @beefcakefactory.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A concerned friend sent me this listicle of Rhode Island attractions and it is really uhhhh something. www.providencejournal.com/picture-gall...
providencejournal.com
The ultimate tour of Rhode Island’s weirdest attractions and oddities
Giant bugs, quirky landmarks and some of Rhode Island's strangest attractions. See the photos and decide for yourself which ones are worth the trip. 📸✨🚗🎡
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Matthew Lawrence @beefcakefactory.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If you had asked me to guess the state with the country's highest incarceration rate for women, South Dakota would not have been in my first twenty guesses.
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lauren benet @laurenbenet.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Something I learned just this week: "only 4% of the world’s women and girls live in the U.S., but the U.S. confines ONE-QUARTER of the world’s incarcerated women and girls." www.prisonpolicy.org/global/women...
a chart from Prison Policy comparing states' incarceration rates of women to the other countries' rates.
it shows about 20 states who incarcerate women at a higher rate than even the most incarceration-friendly countries (el salvador, dem. rep. of congo, thailand). three states - south dakota, montana and idaho - incarcerate women at a higher rate than the country of El Salvador.
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Matthew Lawrence @beefcakefactory.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
He was literally elected!
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Matthew Lawrence @beefcakefactory.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Probably should have had Portishead on mine too
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Jon W. @rarefilmm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Here's a link to the complete CHILD'S PLAY trilogy with original commercials, as it aired on the USA Network on consecutive days, October 13, 14 and 15, 1998. gofile.io/d/SRf4a2zN
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Inkstand @inkstand.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today on #Days: Alice Horton's famous donuts get dosed with weed...for the second time!! 😂
Sydney DiMera asking if there is a secret ingredient in the donuts. Weed, it's weed. This is a baby shower, and the new mom has been using THC for chemo treatment. There was obviously a mix up with the ingredients. This happened once before, years ago, during a book club meeting.
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Matthew Lawrence @beefcakefactory.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A gorgeous hunk of man suggestively eats a banana while wearing a ridiculous blue T-shirt with palm trees that he sleeps in most nights9 important albums to me:

Elastica's self titled debut
Born in the USA By Bruce Springsteen 
Different Class by Pulp
Blue by Joni Mitchell 
Baduizm by Erykah Badu
The Letter by Judy Garland
Rumor and Sign by Richard Thompson 
99.9 Farenheit degrees by Suzanne Vega
The Weight of These Wings by Miranda Lambert
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Matthew Lawrence @beefcakefactory.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
*The general public meaning people who are not reading news online for twenty hours a day.
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Matthew Lawrence @beefcakefactory.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
So I think two things the general public* needs to acknowledge is that 1) this is very bad, and 2) OF COURSE this is what was going to happen. If the technology is there—and in this case we all know it is—then they are going to use it. Anyway, TGIF!
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Matthew Lawrence @beefcakefactory.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It's so nuts.
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Matthew Lawrence @beefcakefactory.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Skydance reminds me of when former Alex & Ani CEO Giovanni Feroce launched a semi-pro basketball team that won a championship sponsored by, uh, his other company (Benrus). They lasted one season but the cheerleaders were called Skydancers and for some reason I remember this. pbn.com/feroce-benru...
pbn.com
Feroce, Benrus and Sky Chiefs settle compensation insurance penalties
PROVIDENCE – Giovanni Feroce, current Benrus LLC CEO, settled two cases in Workers’ Compensation Court on Wednesday. Feroce settled with the Department of Labor and Training for inadvertently failing ...
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Matthew Lawrence @beefcakefactory.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It is! In Farm Fresh outside of New Harvest.
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Matthew Lawrence @beefcakefactory.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They Shoot Avengers, Don't They?
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Matthew Lawrence @beefcakefactory.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Just typed Ann B. Davis when I meant to type Ann M. Martin.
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Matthew Lawrence @beefcakefactory.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I spoke with local poet Karen Donovan about her collection of rocks (and the book she wrote about them). www.cranstononline.com/townnews/geo...
cranstononline.com
Between a Rock and a Reading Place
We see them every day, on the beach or in the woods or in our backyards. But how often do we think about the rocks that surround us?
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Matthew Lawrence @beefcakefactory.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Thanks!
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Matthew Lawrence @beefcakefactory.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Oh wait this was easier than I thought. It's this woman in the bottom right corner.
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Matthew Lawrence @beefcakefactory.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Am going to lose my mind. There are 31 portraits in the wall, none of which is David Morales. In the key there are 31 portraits including David Morales. WHO IS MISSING FROM THE KEY?
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Matthew Lawrence @beefcakefactory.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Still in my top ten albums ever I think. I didn't know about the bonus Adam and the Ants cover!
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Matthew Lawrence @beefcakefactory.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's not every day you see a Suki Waterhouse skeet right next to a Sookie Stackhouse skeet.
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Matthew Lawrence @beefcakefactory.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
You thinking an upstart or someone very established like a Stromae/Gims (or a Charlotte Cardin)?
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Matthew Lawrence @beefcakefactory.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
!!!
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Matthew Lawrence @beefcakefactory.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Did anyone in Providence just see a double rainbow? My partner did (he is only a few blocks away) but I only saw one.
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Matthew Lawrence @beefcakefactory.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Interesting use of closeted.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Emergency court filing from Pike's lawyers seeking to "halt and stay" the botched execution tonight in Tennessee: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
EMERGENCY MOTION TO HALT AND STAY EXECUTION
The Tennessee Department of Correction began the execution of Petitioner
Christa Gail Pike at approximately 8:00 p.m. CDT. According to counsel witnessing the execution:
1. Both syringes of pentobarbital have been administered.
2. Ms. Pike has not lost consciousness and still has a heartbeat and is
audibly snoring.
3. Curtains have gone down twice.
4. It took counsel approximately 7 minutes to be connected via phone.
Accordingly, the Petitioner requests and order immediately staying her execution
and ordering immediate medical care.
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Matthew Lawrence @beefcakefactory.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Good lord.
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Matthew Lawrence @beefcakefactory.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Geriatric millennial here and REM was omnipresent enough on MTV that I'd say we understand the Automatic for the People/Monster era but anything before that was presented as retro* and anything after that was presented as diminishing returns. * Except The One I Love and maybe Stand
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Matthew Lawrence @beefcakefactory.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The trailers got me really excited but then I got a haircut from a barber who explained the entire movie over the phone to some guy while he was cutting my hair.
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Matthew Lawrence @beefcakefactory.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
OMG that's the late Ellen Schwartz's house! I never saw the inside. That's amazing.
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Matthew Lawrence @beefcakefactory.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Was just in a meeting where some random guy spent ten minutes insisting that this is backwards and we should all be using Copilot to edit everything down. (I'm not in publishing but it's happening in comms too.)
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Matthew Lawrence @beefcakefactory.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Oh right.
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Matthew Lawrence @beefcakefactory.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Is it because of the original version with the different vocals?
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Matthew Lawrence @beefcakefactory.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
An easy fix here would be for them to avoid planning the conference in cities the summer after a mayoral election.
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Discontinued FoOoOods! 👻🎃 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
2026-2026
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Matthew Lawrence @beefcakefactory.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Last day!
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Matthew Lawrence @beefcakefactory.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
(I don't know the first thing about rocks I just want to Collect Them All.)
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Matthew Lawrence @beefcakefactory.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Recently found out a friend is also a rock hoarder and then days later I learned about Karen Donovan's love of rocks. www.cranstononline.com/townnews/geo...
cranstononline.com
Between a Rock and a Reading Place
We see them every day, on the beach or in the woods or in our backyards. But how often do we think about the rocks that surround us?
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Brianna Ashby @briannaduggan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I love it when my genetically encoded New Englandness takes control in the fall and my google searches are like, "12 golden retrievers in a wood paneled Jeep," "L.L. Bean duck boots for ducks," "full body wool swaddle (adult)," "how to eat pumpkin for every meal," "Ralph Lauren 90s grouse sweater"
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Eric Harvey @ericdharvey.com · 30/09/2026
he looks like the part in a Cronenberg movie right before a guy‘s face morphs into something crazy
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Matthew Lawrence @beefcakefactory.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Going with this one because I bought the CD single for 99 cents in a bargain bin way after the fact and also more people should know this song. youtu.be/c2DTvKGZXaM?...
youtu.be
Seaweed: Losing Skin
YouTube video by Matt Harkins
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Matthew Lawrence @beefcakefactory.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is something so gloomy about everyone doing what the algorithm tells them to when it is abundantly clear that the algorithm has no interest in them!
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Matthew Lawrence @beefcakefactory.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Like even if a human wrote them please don't start every paragraph with an emoji!
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