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This might be a weird one, but "The Sundial" by Shirley Jackson? A horrible new-money family backstabbing each other over inheritance, accidentally creates a doomsday cult as an excuse not to get kicked off the estate.

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I am furious, but I am sailing @stcaffeinated.bsky.social · 5h

hello??? police??????????

Los Angeles Times: "In every version, Carrie is this clenched up, traumatized, terrified person who is afraid of everything in the world from the minute we meet het. Part of the fun for me was thinking, "Let's throw all that away. What's the opposite of Carrie?" This Carrie is curious eager, kind, earnest, and excited to be there." - Mike Flanagan, showrunner of Prime Video's "Carrie"

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Deb Gau @debbigau.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I know it's probs just part of the plan to carve up the world into company-town fiefdoms, but . . . Do job creators not need accountants? Like. Absolutely not handing it to them, but these dudes function like apex predators. They *require* a massive invisible web of peons just to survive.

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Skellyton 🦇 @infinitefinite.blog · 08/10/2026

okay but when I said "ravage me," I wasn't talking to time, and yet

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Deb Gau @debbigau.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

. . . Omigod this is so goofy. Chat, should I add the phrase "Let's Encyclopedia Brown this bitch!" to my profile?

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Deb Gau @debbigau.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Whoa, Mandela Effect in action: Watching 1408 for the first time, and I swear I remember the marketing being about a haunted motel-type room instead of an NYC hotel.

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Deb Gau @debbigau.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And not *only* immortality and revenge, but specifically what it means to stay alive at all costs through technology, which seems . . . prescient. What really stays with me is how each boss is another revelation of just how *fucked* the Solarians' whole species is.

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Deb Gau @debbigau.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Medication is making my stomach hurt, and my left arm has become a hell of scorching red welts after a gnat got into my shirt sleeve or something. Whoever's torturing a doll of me today can knock it the fuck off.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.

From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water. I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there? God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"

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Deb Gau @debbigau.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A lot of my favorite music is stuff I had no idea I wanted when I first heard it. What good is infinite recombinations of things I've already listened to?

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Deb Gau @debbigau.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

However, the machine the scientists built to detect pudding, according to some loose "pudding" definitions they programmed into the machine to detect pudding, says yes! The world is ABSOLUTELY made of pudding!

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Deb Gau @debbigau.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I *have* heard it a few times while surfing the radio on road trips. It's just kind of a nothing song? Like, I remember the central hook of the title/lyrics being about a guy cheating on the narrator, but I can't recall the tune at all. A lot of country today is like that.

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Deb Gau @debbigau.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There's an AITA post for the ages. "How big should I let the neighbors' rooftop trash pile get before I complain?"

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Deb Gau @debbigau.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A mystery: this morning there was a shiny empty Bud can on the roof outside my window. Who put it there? Simplest explanation is the next door neighbors hucked it out their window. If true, I hope it doesn't become a habit . . .

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Greg the Miller @gregthemiller.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

pasta three meals a day is fine if they’re different shapes

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Deb Gau @debbigau.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

And also mayonnaise - king of the "not-a-salad" salad ingredients, lol!

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Deb Gau @debbigau.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's funny how much that looks like the kind of Midwestern salads people mock as not being "real" salad.

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Deb Gau @debbigau.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Tonight, in Cooking to Feel Control in My Life: A giant skillet full of cheese and the last of the summer veggies everyone's trying to get rid of.

Close-up of a skillet full of zucchini slices, tomatoes, mushrooms and SO MUCH melted cheddar.

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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Deb Gau @debbigau.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Feels like a good time to also point out that a city near you might run Met Live broadcasts. Tickets are pricey as far as movie seats go, but there's no way my broke hayseed ass would've made it to the opera otherwise!

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Deb Gau @debbigau.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Answer, according to the chart: "A VARIETY OF HUMAN-SIZED HEIGHTS. DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT."

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Deb Gau @debbigau.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"Jo Jacon Boga" going on my roster of joke character names, right up there with Sleve McDicheal and Mike Truk.

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Deb Gau @debbigau.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I know this is either a fake or a terrible sign of things to come, etc. On the other hand, the part of my brain tickled by nonsense is just repeating "Chousedeburger" and giggling.

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Deb Gau @debbigau.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It's the first Big Sweater/Soup for Dinner day of the season, and you better believe I'm ready for it. I just wish I had an old house in the misty forest, in which to contemplate mortality and the passing of time, while I drink barrels of tea.

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Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

calling in sick to the kickflip factory and confusing everyone as to whether i'm coming in or not

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Deb Gau @debbigau.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I think that part got the hardest laughs of the movie from all the over-30s women at my local theater, for exactly these reasons.

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Deb Gau @debbigau.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Fun facts: I literally just did this now.

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Deb Gau @debbigau.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Oh. So he just dressed like Buckaroo Banzai all the time, then.

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

thinking about her 😍

still of Olympia Dukakis in Moonstruck saying "I just want you to know no matter what you do, you're gonna die, just like everybody else."

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themboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

just saw someone say "i don't think it's about gender. it's about control." and boy do i have shocking news for you about gender

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Deb Gau @debbigau.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Been pondering a haunted-house book I'm in the middle of reading. Is there like, a fictional ghost equivalent of "a face that knows what a cell phone is?" Just, the way some of the ghosts in the story are described - it's like you can picture the CGI effects.

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Deb Gau @debbigau.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

What gets me is, you *could* make a textual argument for making Magician's Nephew a rock opera. As Aslan sings Narnia into existence, I remember they describe the animal-creation music as something that made you want to rush at people & either fight or "hug" them. That's rock, baby!

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Deb Gau @debbigau.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Kinda bummed they lead with "rock-inspired" and then immediately walk it back & say it's not a musical. It's a straitlaced British Christian fairytale for babies - fuck it up! Have some actual fun with it! Make it anachronistic, who cares?

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Deb Gau @debbigau.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

IIRC, yes. Aslan is like pacing around in the formless void, singing things into existence. (Magician's Nephew was the only Narnia book I really dug as a kid.)

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Deb Gau @debbigau.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If the word "draught" is pronounced "draft," does that mean "naughty" is supposed to be pronounced "nafty?" . . . . . omigod is that where we get the word "nasty"??? - Tonight's Insomnia Thought

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Deb Gau @debbigau.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Spoonbill and pelican doing the shaking-hands meme.

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Deb Gau @debbigau.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I mean, not so much once a seagull has been at them, lol.

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Deb Gau @debbigau.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It's kinda funny how fast the bird runs away with his meal. Trust me, nobody wants Seagull Chips that badly, little dude.

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Deb Gau @debbigau.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It's like they're interpreting "audit" as "micromanage the books for *every* state-run service."

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Deb Gau @debbigau.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Now remember, the liquid death only physically heals a corpse's wounds, you gotta have the life water to bring him back fully!

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Todd Alcott @toddalcott.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

In other news, please look at this photo of a 16-year-old Willem Dafoe playing Charlie Brown in a production of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown.

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Deb Gau @debbigau.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

There's even a couple seconds when you think it's just regular cheesy soundtrack sax - and then you see her playing & realize it's diegetic. 😆

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Deb Gau @debbigau.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I sympathize with you, Chubby Emotional Support Pitbull Sitting on the Sidewalk at a Small-Town Festival and Quietly Going out of Your Mind with Desire. That kettle corn vendor stand *does* smell fucking amazing right now.

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Sorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Leo: They broke the mold when they made you. Mostly so no one could ever, ever use it again and have this shit happen twice, but still, they broke it.

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Deb Gau @debbigau.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

*zooms in on the art-supply cups in top right image* The little girl's pencils are all greens and earth tones FUUUUCK

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/09/2026

i am incredibly excited to share our research about how paying people’s rent through mutual aid made an impact on minnesota this year we accidentally collected more data than anyone ever has for an effort like this, and can very seriously say we prevented an eviction bubble that everyone expected

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