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Jana H-S (she, like a knife) @jana-aych-ess.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

minotaur walks into a bar. bartender says, "you lost, friend". minotaur kills him in a single punch. "now there's no one to pour the beers", says another patron. minotaur tears the man in half. blood everywhere. no one seems to mind. she has found this room before. the labyrinth is playing games now

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Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · 5h

Dracula, the proto-Barbie, is everything.

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Samir Sirk Morató @spicycloaca.bsky.social · 4h

there are two weeks left to enter these Storygraph giveaways! enter while you can! 🥩👁

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Garrett Young ✸ doctop @doctop.bsky.social · 3h

i’m about to do an artists residency on a very limited budget and i just found out it’s gonna cost $200 to check my bags 😬 if you’re feeling generous anything helps. vemmo - doctopmaru papal - doctopmaru@gmail cshapp - doctopmaru thank you.

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Emmett Nahil @emnays.bsky.social · 11h

genuinely unfulfilled purpose will make you a way worse person to yourself and to everyone around you!! or you'll become an asshole online, which seems to be the case for a lot of people

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Briar Ripley Page @flameswallower.bsky.social · 8h

"extremely precarious 24 year old autistic trans person called out as a sexual predator, hounded at their irl Pizza Hut job, because they once drew a comic where Dexter and Mandark from Dexter's Lab jerked each other off"

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Briar Ripley Page @flameswallower.bsky.social · 8h

and other people are reacting like this because they have a (possibly very warranted!) Fear Response around online callouts/online mob justice, & this response is preventing them from understanding that this is a totally, absurdly different situation to like

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Briar Ripley Page @flameswallower.bsky.social · 8h

the *most* sympathetic take i have on it is i think some people are reacting like this is a close, beloved friend of theirs (taking it personally, feeling conflicted, feeling like they know what's in his heart) because that's how some people get with certain kinds of celebrity,

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Briar Ripley Page @flameswallower.bsky.social · 13h

(Which ties into one broader theme of the movie: can serious harm to others actually be rectified or redressed, and does feeling guilt/remorse/hesitancy about doing a bad thing actually “mean” much of anything outside oneself?)

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Briar Ripley Page @flameswallower.bsky.social · 13h

His victim does forgive him (though it’s ambiguous if this is sincere or more to make him stop bringing it up & trying to apologize), but this is of absolutely no use or help to anyone.

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Briar Ripley Page @flameswallower.bsky.social · 13h

I think that movie attempts a sincere, nuanced depiction of a remorseful sex predator who only offended once. It makes clear that he’s pretty torn up over it. It also makes clear that the victim was much, much more fucked up by what he did, has suffered more.

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Briar Ripley Page @flameswallower.bsky.social · 13h

okay this is the only thing I will say about this directly but I didn’t really know who this particular YouTube man was, so I’ve spent the past few days picturing the remorseful cop in Bugonia who molested the main character years ago, when he was his childhood babysitter

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Briar Ripley Page @flameswallower.bsky.social · 14h

i guess at some point in some part of europe in the depths of history, women found men with a ton of body hair but scanty beards irresistibly sexy? i guess they also liked big foreheads

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Briar Ripley Page @flameswallower.bsky.social · 14h

i think i *could* develop the ability to grow a full beard after another, say, three to six years on T, based on my brother’s example, but why would the sides of our faces be the absolute last body part to Esau out, by several years. what’s the purpose.

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Briar Ripley Page @flameswallower.bsky.social · 14h

male body hair is a mystery. why can i grow a respectable amount of back hair but have to go with a goatee when i grow a beard because it only comes in as sparse partial sideburns on my cheeks/jaw.

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Briar Ripley Page @flameswallower.bsky.social · 14h

when one is inclined to immediately forgive or give extreme benefit of the doubt to another person one doesn’t know who either has admitted to or has really strong evidence in favor of their having done something violently abusive & harmful (rape, attempted murder, child-beating, that sort of deal)

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Briar Ripley Page @flameswallower.bsky.social · 14h

I think it’s good to really interrogate oneself when one either feels bloodthirsty towards another person one doesn’t know bc of “something they did wrong” (esp. if ultimately not that harmful to others, like say having a very distasteful/embarrassing sexual fetish), OR

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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If you adopted a feral cat to the inside and he keeps meowing maybe he just really wants to smoke real cigarettes. You don’t know what he was up to before

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Laika L. Gagarin @laikalgagarin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Like we're literally banning fucking KISSING and a BODYTYPE WHAT ARE WE FUCKING DOING HERE PEOPLE

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Briar Ripley Page @flameswallower.bsky.social · 15h

There Can be complicated situations where mercy may direct our conscience to help someone because, due to our lack of social safety nets, being widely disliked places them in real danger of starvation, homelessness, etc. But most of the time, simply being disliked doesn’t do that to people.

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Briar Ripley Page @flameswallower.bsky.social · 15h

If people are protected from this type of consequence— if they or those around them think that they have a right not only to eg live free from harassment/bullying, but also to be universally liked, to be respected/admired, to be “engaged with,” to have no one be mad at them— they turn into Elon Musk

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Briar Ripley Page @flameswallower.bsky.social · 15h

That might feel unfair sometimes, but it usually isn’t, and it is a good reminder of why not to do bad things, and a good reminder that your actions still exist even after you personally may have moved past them, disavowed them, etc.

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Briar Ripley Page @flameswallower.bsky.social · 16h

A good example of a natural consequence is, if people find out about a bad thing you did, they might not like you anymore, and they might decide they do not want anything to do with you anymore.

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Briar Ripley Page @flameswallower.bsky.social · 16h

I’m strongly anti-punishment and pro-consequences, broadly speaking. I don’t think people should be *punished*, either by authority or by social groups en masse, for virtually any wrongdoing shy of like war crimes. However, they also shouldn’t be protected from natural consequences of their actions.

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Lindz McLeod - THE MISEDUCATION OF CAROLINE BINGLEY is out now! @lindzmcleod.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Dane says happy #caturday, even to those who can't touch their tongues to their noses ❤️

A large brown striped Savannah cat lies in a patch of sunlight, caught in the act of touching his pink nose with his very long pink tongue. His eyes are yellow, and his ears are unusually long and pointy.

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Robert Dallas Gray @robertdallasgray.com · 03/10/2026

the plainness with which this is put covers up a sort of powerless rage that you feel as a parent of a trans kid. it’s, to say the least, an alienating experience to see people bicker over the niceties of this or that pension policy when the party and the government has done this to your family

This Labour Government is the worst thing to have ever happened to trans children.
They have step by step dismantled every protection that supported my daughter. We have tried so hard to help her grow up with happiness and self-esteem through a childhood in an increasingly transphobic UK.
At every point when the Labour Government could have made something better, they have turned around and given her another kick.

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Robyn Schindeldecker @flyrobynfly.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

How far into giving a eulogy do you think you could get before people realize you're just quoting "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"?

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Briar Ripley Page @flameswallower.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

HI! SORRY I'M A HUGE DIPSHIT. The file here is now correct; I think you should automatically get the update if you already downloaded it; sorry again for uploading the wrong file previously!

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vesta z | play angel diaclasis 🪽 @godaughtr.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

happy fat guy fall

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June Martin @theworldsgreatestwriter.com · 02/10/2026

he went on five dates with a guy who only identified himself as Brainmaster and got out of it nothing but a comprehensive and incorrect understanding of quantum mechanics

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Briar Ripley Page @flameswallower.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

like i almost want to do a big map of all the major bigotry rhetoric tropes i know about, new and old, and where they overlap. a venn diagram or something

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Briar Ripley Page @flameswallower.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

once again there is a huge overlap in the rhetorical tropes of ableism and the rhetorical tropes of old-school homophobia and the rhetorical tropes of anti-transness-- i think it's interesting how these all echo and feed off one other

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William Blake @truismsofhell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

ETERNITY IS IN LOVE WITH THE PRODUCTIONS OF TIME

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

a movie about forcing two absolute freaks to star in a reboot of the stale and psychosexually constraining franchise that launched their careers bsky.app/profile/reve...

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Magen Cubed @magencubed.net · 02/10/2026

I'm going to say something that probably sounds naive or sentimental, but the one thing thing that really sticks with me about the backlash to generative AI is how many people are now calling attention to human effort in art, with all its rough spots and imperfections, as something to value

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Simkaye 🌈 @simkaye.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

anyone else feel like this

A digital illustration of a quetzalcoatlus perched on telephone wires among a flock of crows

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Briar Ripley Page @flameswallower.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

struggling to decide if this is weirder if the internet person IS a good friend of the author, or if they're merely "famous enough" that the author decided it would be both edgy and legally/morally defensible to put them in the work as a POV character who Gets Got

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Briar Ripley Page @flameswallower.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

wait, an *irl* internet personality? not a made up pastiche of internet figures? that is pretty strange. what, like it's an ordinary novel but suddenly hbomberguy, as hbomberguy, becomes a major character?????

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Briar Ripley Page @flameswallower.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

then, also, people are scared of rejection from a sober person (or eg a person who's not their subordinate, of an appropriate age to partner with, etc). they're so scared of that rejection that the idea of pursuing someone on equal ground becomes unthinkable. and to that one i simply say: grow up

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Briar Ripley Page @flameswallower.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

and that "people in the object category can't meaningfully harm/violate another person, they don't need to ask for consent or communicate clearly because they're already objects."

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Briar Ripley Page @flameswallower.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

i think that's part of rape culture. women/non-men/some men sometimes are objectified; we learn both that "people in the object category don't or can't be asked about things, and their communication is less important, their consent is unimportant"

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Briar Ripley Page @flameswallower.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

i think there is a fair amount of rape, and a LOT of plain bad/disappointing/hurtful sex, that happens not because the offending party is intentionally, knowingly hurting someone, but bc the offending party doesn't communicate or check in around sex, &/or doesn't discipline their libidinal urges.

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Briar Ripley Page @flameswallower.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

i have unfortunately met a lot of men and a few women and nonbinary people who sincerely seem to not understand this, that even if they're REALLY HORNY and they think the other person PROBABLY likes them back the same way, they can just stop and go "oh, this person is really drunk (&c)" and WAIT.

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Briar Ripley Page @flameswallower.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

it's good; i think an earnest umbrella form of this for "clueless nice guy" type rapists is: if you're not 100% SURE that your advances are wanted & that the object of your affection is currently capable of consent, do not have sex with that person, period. better blue balls than "you're a rapist."

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Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I was talking to my friend Mae today about how I wish more people cared about and read short stories. A great short story will take only twenty minutes to read but stick with you for twenty years. Wildly powerful artform! What's a short story that fits that description for y'all?

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Briar Ripley Page @flameswallower.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

since it’s been a while since i read the book these are more based on vibes than on real textual details re: appearance, but here are the main characters of @traumbooks.bsky.social ‘s Wake Up!

a smiling 30ish trans man with a disastrous nerd outfit, mahjong tiles, and a fistful of $100 bills

a tired, semi-glamorous looking, 40ish trans woman with tattoos, smoking a cigarette

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