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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 20h

I spoke your true name. It's not what I thought it would be. And I don't feel easy about it. As if I'd left something unfinished. But it is your name. If it betrays you, then that's the truth of it.

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Captain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One tangible reward of becoming an Unrepentant Vibe-Killer For Unsafe Men is that your social circle will rapidly contain fewer Unsafe Men.

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Witch Cabell, PhD @cabell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Spouse recently set up a household media server. He ripped all the movie DVDs we still had lying around but while renaming some of the files he misspelt my childhood fave as “The Chipmonk Adventure” When I tell you I have never felt such an intense wave of nostalgia for my 90s Napster downloads… 🤣

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 29/09/2026

I think it's pretty neat that one of the legit breakout indie success stories this year is a game about painstakingly designing and sewing opulent ballgowns store.steampowered.com/app/4019220/...

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Dressmaker on Steam

Become a dressmaker! Choose fabric, cut out patterns, and sew them all together to satisfy (or sabotage!) townsfolk in this cozy crafting game inspired by real dressmaking.

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Theo Lorenz (theonicole) @theotrix.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Sci-fi written by cishet authors can be so jarring. Like you’re telling me you dreamt up a whole universe of aliens, but every species has separate bathrooms for men and women? The sentient ooze is a lady ooze? The spacefaring tentacle monarch is in a heterosexual marriage? Okay Matt.

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Witch Cabell, PhD @cabell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This Wikipedia editor who took a photo of their own penis and carefully labeled the frenulum is a HERO

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The last superintendent role the guy who made this decision had was in Manitowoc, where he served from July 2022 until he resigned in August 2024, a year before his contract expired. (In 2023, 600 residents signed a petition calling for him to resign over not providing children with free lunches.)

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Do not carry a cold beverage in their presence. Politely decline any drinks or sweetmeats they may offer. Keep a plain iron nail in your left trouser pocket and a sachet or paper twist of coarse salt in your right shoe. Enter and leave your chair moving clockwise. Follow up with a thank-you note.

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Witch Cabell, PhD @cabell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

You can tell I’m a Scorpio because a giant spider jumped on me on the bus this afternoon and while I fully realize it is a ridiculous & shameful impulse, I cannot deny that deep in my soul I am still thinking “SOMEONE IS TO BLAME FOR THIS & I WANT THEM PUNISHED”

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golden apples 🍎 @applecider.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

happy bi visibility day, especially if you are like me and in your 40s and had to work all day so you're just tired and forgot what day it was

Smoking Ben Affleck meme overlaid with a pink to blue gradient that mimics the bisexual pride flag. He is standing smoking on a doorstep, with his eyes closed, looking long-suffering. he has a sweater on and jeans.

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Taught the Fugitive Slave Act for the first time in a few years. Man, my head was spinning as I uttered my familiar refrain about how the FSA radicalized Northerners who maybe never thought much about slavery until they saw people being snatched off the street right in front of them...

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Euphoria Wait Is This Fucking Play About Us

Alt: Euphoria Wait Is This Fucking Play About Us

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Witch Cabell, PhD @cabell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Okay, Lanterns is blowing my fucking mind, y’all

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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"[Scheufele] violated university policy by participating in sexual and romantic relationships with two of his students...The Office of Compliance concluded Scheufele failed multiple times to maintain professional honesty and integrity as required by faculty policy in his interactions with students."

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 22/09/2026

P.S. Get a year of The Flytrap for $39 if you want to read this piece AND SO MUCH MORE. www.theflytrapmedia.com/no-slop

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Witch Cabell, PhD @cabell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Right?! Every shitty isekai is like a tiny window into an alternate universe Professor Marston and the Wonder Women 😂

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Witch Cabell, PhD @cabell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Some mornings just really require the Pigeonhed mix of “Battle Flag” by Lo Fidelity Allstars on repeat

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Spork loves you @strivingally.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It’s quite a sight to see the almost single-minded dedication the tech sector has to enthusiastically hurling themselves through the Trust Thermocline, Leeroy Jenkins style. The success of streaming services has been predicated on easy, cheap, *frictionless* access to vast amounts of media.

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Merc with a 🫦 @mercuryal.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

*digs out my old Ankh choker from high school and buys a ticket on the Hiawatha*

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Witch Cabell, PhD @cabell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Half of teaching sociology is coming up with new, CONSTRUCTIVE responses to this all semester long, and then again the next semester, repeating until you die 🤦🏻‍♀️ (Retire? HAHAHAHAHAHA*cough*spit*)

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Witch Cabell, PhD @cabell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Would I actually set up a surveillance camera? No. Am I now considering getting one of these signs to put up on the side of our lot where people keep leaving dog shit ON THE LITERAL SIDEWALK? Abso-fucking-lutely.

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Witch Cabell, PhD @cabell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

You know, people always talk about Disney’s Robin Hood (1973) as the film that launched a thousand furries but why don’t we ever continue that discussion to include the ThunderCats??

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

the ideal M/F ship is a woman who is constantly charging headfirst into danger and chaos with zero sense of self-preservation, and her emotional support himbo who follows along like “this is a deranged plan, but fine”

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Witch Cabell, PhD @cabell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

YouTube commercial pushing CoPilot for small businesses like “Pete’s Auto” comes on. @aj-the-great.bsky.social: “This is why Pete is a FAILURE who is going to FAIL.”

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Witch Cabell, PhD @cabell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Also, how can anyone not care VERY MUCH about things that asshole wants, if only to DEEPLY DESIRE that his every hope burns to ash right in front of him??

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots.

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Witch Cabell, PhD @cabell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“Recover”? Are they also claiming that the vandals are running one of those totally real* retail theft rings? *In the sense that they are 100% made up

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Serial Experiments Abigail @popeguilty.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Me throwing a disposable minority under the bus: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Me getting grabbed and pulled down with them: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

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Witch Cabell, PhD @cabell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I’ve got another kid requesting shaving lessons. Since this is not my first rodeo, I have explicitly informed them that I will be purchasing them a razor of their very own because, & this is v important, THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A COMMUNAL HOUSEHOLD RAZOR Every regulation written in blood, etc 😬

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Witch Cabell, PhD @cabell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Today I asked my sociology of fandom class if fighting is TECHNICALLY allowed in hockey (a good teacher is a lifelong learner) Several students: “Yes!” A couple others: “Sometimes.” (General agreement) Me: “So when, exactly?” Hockey fan: “Well, refs don’t break it up until someone goes down.”

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Witch Cabell, PhD @cabell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

OH walking across campus: “Well, last semester I always avoided eating if I knew we were gonna be out drinking that night… but maybe that’s why I blacked out so much.” 🤯

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Witch Cabell, PhD @cabell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Throwback Thursday! In my fandom class today when we discuss claims that mythology necessarily reinforces hegemony, I’m gonna show them the clip of Garak & Bashir arguing abt the moral of The Boy Who Cried Wolf (ofc you can also argue it demonstrates Garak is no silly human; I don’t think he’d mind)

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🍂 Megs 🍂 @megshensley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I made a purse because I always wanted one after playing with my grandmother's sewing box of a similar build approach. And I created a cosplay for an event to have an excuse to make it finally. I present Baba Yaga's House as a purse. (I might have posted this already but I love it so much.)

A photo of a black lace dress hanging on a beige door with a house shaped purse which has dangling chicken feet.

A close up photo of the house purse with chicken feet. There are white chicken buttons on the front and on the chimney. The feet are still dangling.

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Witch Cabell, PhD @cabell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We went to 14yo’s back-to-school night & music teacher (whom I liked!) clearly thought 14yo is NB, kept saying “they” So I said “she” a lot while we talked After I was like “so I guess now she either knows you’re not NB *or* she thinks I’m an oppressor” 14yo: “yeah… not great odds for you tbh”

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Witch Cabell, PhD @cabell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

12yo wants me to attend her next parent-teacher conference. Spouse almost always handles them so I was like “why, which teacher do you want me to fuck up?” 12yo: “It’s not that! I just want them to think I have COOL PARENTS. I mean Dad is COOL but you can’t really TELL bc he’s so… put together.”

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Ed Sheeran would one hundred percent hide a zombie bite.

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Witch Cabell, PhD @cabell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Oooh, need to be sure to debunk this when we talk about Mature Minor Doctrine in class tomorrow

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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

“When we were being stolen from our parents and experienced genocide in Indian Residential Schools, we wondered, ‘Who are the people that will help us?’ Today, we are those people. Today we offer our help, support, and jurisdiction to override these dehumanizing laws.”

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Witch Cabell, PhD @cabell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Throwback to the time my oldest child, then age 10, muttered this at the dinner table and that’s how I discovered that a) there is a Heathers musical & b) she’d been listening to it on Spotify 😂

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Witch Cabell, PhD @cabell.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Uh oh. I had to look up the Wisconsin statute on informed consent requirements for physicians for my class tomorrow and sure enough, it angried up my blood 😑

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Scarleteen @scarleteen.com · 14/09/2026

School’s in! And so is Scarleteen’s annual fundraiser. We’re raising $7k for our 7m visitors in 2026. Chip today or become a monthly recurring donor here: give.gofundme.com/7kfor7m

Yellow school bus against a teal background. The side of the bus reads "Scarleteen. Queer sex ed for all since 1998." The text above the bus reads "Your math homework: help Scarleteen raise $7,000 by September 28th so a trans- and queer-led team of REAL PEOPLE can provide inclusive sex, health, and relationships education. (AI is an automatic F!)" in red and black text.

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Kell Compost 😷 @compostwitch.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

i need to know more about these specific individual people but also i want them to remain private and a mystery forever also peak selection of technically G-rated image for Wikipedia article

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Witch Cabell, PhD @cabell.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Spouse has this habit of wandering by & demanding what’s happening in extremely complicated prestige dramas he hasn’t been watching 🤦🏻‍♀️ Today it was Lanterns, so I was like “ok, so you need to understand Jon Stewart’s parents here are basically Black Panthers?” But ofc that was just MORE confusing 😬

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Witch Cabell, PhD @cabell.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

So this week my soc of fandom class was talking about kids’ shows they’d watched and they all LOVED Dinosaur Train— Spouse: “Did you tell them my theory??” Me: “That there’s an extinction event at the end of the line? Yes, and they were horrified.” @aj-the-great.bsky.social: “Jesus CHRIST, Dad”

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Witch Cabell, PhD @cabell.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This semester I’ve added a note about not using LLMs to the email etiquette section of my syllabus (I KNOW but hope springs eternal) & in my first day spiel I pointed out that presumably if they’re emailing me, they want SOMETHING, so it’s in their best interest not to irritate me from jump. 🤦🏻‍♀️

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Kythryne Aisling/Wyrding Studios @wyrdingstudios.com · 13/09/2026

Hiiiiiii can I interest you in shiny things? I’ve been out sick for a week so no new pieces, but I did restock some sold-out leaf earrings and there are other pretties that haven’t found a home yet. wyrdingstudios.com (Shares very appreciated since being out sick for a week is, uh, Kinda Not Great)

A collage of seven photos of jewelry made with colorful beads and swirly wire. There are two necklaces, two pendants, and three pairs of earrings, mostly made with flower and leaf beads.

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Witch Cabell, PhD @cabell.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

My 14yo (@aj-the-great.bsky.social): “Which way do I put this CD in the CD player?” Me: “Uh… I would have to see the CD player.” 14yo: “I mean which way is UP.” Me: <crumbles into dust>

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 11/09/2026

bad news everyone. i wrote a program in qbasic that was just 10 KILL ALL HUMANS 20 GOTO 10 which means we are all going to die. does anyone want to give me 7 billion dollars

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