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Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren)

@gfrancie.bsky.social
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I make dinner & swear too much. I think that's all you need to know. 'Chocolate Cake for Imaginary Lives' published by Deixis Press is available now She/her

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Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren) @gfrancie.bsky.social · 37m
Washington state ferries management tried to do this bullshit anti-union post about the workers in the engine room, on instagram and it has NOT GONE DOWN WELL in the comments. I have never felt so proud of my fellow Washingtonians standing up for the workers and being so pro union.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 5h
For clarity, this is the list of demands at Cornell I find the strongest. Focused on accountability and a shift in power dynamics as a means of producing cultural and structural change.
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George J. Horvath @landofobscusion.bsky.social · 6h
This meme is seemingly what every single company that agrees to be bought up by private equity thinks will happen, regardless of how often it's been proven that private equity continually ruins things, all for the sake of a quick buck & offloading their debts elsewhere. Stop it. You're not special.
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Arrested Development But It Might Work For Us
Alt: Arrested Development But It Might Work For Us
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Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren) @gfrancie.bsky.social · 5h
Barley stew for dinner. Let's rejoice.
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acabylon 👻👻 BOO 👻👻 @acabylonbee.bsky.social · 7h
if you were wondering how he only served 13 months in prison after raping multiple minors, it's because he served zero jail time for raping multiple minors. the only jail time he served was for financial crimes covering up sexually abusing children. he kept his congressional pension up to now
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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 6h
On BBC Four at 22.00, Anita Brookner on Art: 100 Great Paintings. (From 1981.) Cezanne, Ingres, Delacroix and David. Cool.
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BBC Four - Anita Brookner on Art: 100 Great Paintings
Anita Brookner shares her unique insights on works by the world’s greatest painters.
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Paul Carnahan @pacarnahan.bsky.social · 5h
Readers are falling in love with 'End of a Century' – a warm and witty Britpop-era romance set in Glasgow and London during the long, hot summer of 1995. Now reissued in a razor-sharp new cover by design ace @gailmyerscough.co.uk! www.amazon.co.uk/End-Century-... @BookSky
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Wolfmanning Skull 🎃 @manningkrull.bsky.social · 7h
A can of Monster Energy drink. It's a tall badass-looking black can with bright green and white text. I've photoshopped the big scary green M to be an S, I've replaced the word Monster with Sleepytime, and I've replaced the words Mega Energy with Herbal Tea.
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Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren) @gfrancie.bsky.social · 10h
Note that they didn't show his face because those dead eyes of his give everything away.
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Ghostbusters (1984) @ghostbusters1984.bsky.social · 10h
But if I'm right, and we can stop this thing; Lenny, you will have saved the lives of millions of registered voters.
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Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren) @gfrancie.bsky.social · 11h
I heard this scuffling noise at the window. I thought it was a bird. I looked up and saw a squirrel was standing RIGHT in the window. It saw me and it fell over over in fear and ran off to a tree.
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Alex Awoos @alex-awoos-backup.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I feel like more people should be talking about this part
Screenshot from the article that reads, The Stud, San Francisco's oldest gay bar, was only able to have its Meta pages restored because of the bars popularity among gay tech executives with connections to Meta
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Múmer @mumermao.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026
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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 16h
My mother put the fear of god into me re: tanning but I consider that to be good parenting. You teach kids to look out for traffic, don’t litter, don’t smoke, don’t tan. You only have one body. Tanning influencers are going to have skin like a gator in 10-15 years and that is best case scenario
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G @gpatrick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sums up my feelings. 
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Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren) @gfrancie.bsky.social · 15h
Wizard Of Oz. Age three. Holy shit that was a lot. Miss Gulch transforming into the wicked witch in the twister. The witch terrorising everyone? Then the flying monkeys? The witch melting? Let's take a moment to judge my mom's parenting.
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Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren) @gfrancie.bsky.social · 23h
A little xanax and soft music.
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Loony Tunes Cat Melting on Stairs
Alt: Loony Tunes Cat Melting on Stairs.
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Jill S @outseide.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Amanita are popping up everywhere! This one was the size of my face!!
A top-view of the crown of an Amanita muscaria mushroom. The top is red with white spots. It is surrounded by green leaves that may or may not be ivy.
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Sarah O @erniebufflo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I'm tired of white men telling us we just need to talk more with people we disagree with. Maybe these men live in bubbles, but for the rest of us: why assume we don't already do this? Hell, every time I'm with my in-laws, I'm having a meal with people who voted for Trump.
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Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren) @gfrancie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I am sleep-deprived. I had too much tea. I am having big feelings that I am trying to wrangle. I am making a roasted vegetable soup that better cure everything. EVERYTHING.
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Mikell Taylor @mikell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I argued once with some military guys about the different standards. I asked what pushups show about your capability. They said “oh it’s so we know they could pull a comrade off the field if needed.” I said okay, women would do that more with leg strength than upper body strength. Why not
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Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren) @gfrancie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I have begun decorating around the house for Halloween. Good lord do I ever have a lot of pumpkins in assorted forms.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 04/10/2026
"A ten-year contract signed in 2015 gave the Abu Dhabi United Group (ADUG) preferential access to land identified for development by Manchester city council.""
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Christina Martin @christinamartin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
*takes off smoking jacket sadly*
Facebook memory of a sign seen in Croatia. Red circle with a picture of a smoking pipe crossed through.
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Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren) @gfrancie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I had a horrific night of insomnia, so no one better trifle with me or cause any upset. If y'all can do that, there is cake at tea time. And the cake is good, I made it..
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 03/10/2026
The Beetle by Richard Marsh was published the same year as Dracula and outsold it. It is a compact megapack of *every single thing* Victorian empire men were scared of, including but not limited to women,sex, homosexuality, foreigners, gender, race, the end of empire, old things, and new things.
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Green Jacket Lady @greenjacketlady.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Since the original jacket, I’ve also made a marimekko-style one, a fleece-backed orange one (for extra warmth), and a mustard yellow one. But the green will always be my favorite.
A woman stands with her arms out and a goofy expression. She’s wearing a jacket with a large navy and orange floral print.A woman wears an orange jacket. A mirror selfie of a woman in a yellow jacket.
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Green Jacket Lady @greenjacketlady.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Some people have had questions about my jacket, so for my #garmentsewing and #seattlesews friends, here are the details! I made this jacket in 2017. It’s the Kelly Anorak pattern from Closet Core Patterns.
A smiling woman wears a bright green rain jacket. She’s standing in front of a yard covered in leaves. In process photo of a jacket being made. A woman tries on an unfinished hood of a green jacket to check for fit. An in process photo of a jacket being made. The body of a green jacket, lying flat without sleeves yet. A mirror selfie of a woman wearing an in-process jacket, without sleeves yet.
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Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren) @gfrancie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I want to see it. Because now and then I am a sicko.
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Paul Constant @paulconstant.com · 03/10/2026
I’m far from the first person to point this out but Digger is an extremely appropriate choice for the final movie to be released by Warner Bros. before it becomes Junior Ellison’s House of Slop. Couldn’t have planned it better.
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(hollaback/cc) @drun.v25media.com · 03/10/2026
🎃
Halloween costume for Gen X
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 03/10/2026
"I should get to sit down when I work but you shouldn't" is a great high level summary of labor disputes
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DocDeezWhat @docdeezwhat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
To Valhalla
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Elizabeth DeLoria, Pope of Chili-Town @yourdadloves.me · 03/10/2026
A two panel meme of the Simpsons. The top panel has kirk van houten gesturing to a race care bed. The text reads "im an AI guy. How many local models do YOU run?" The bottom panel is homer with a pope hat photoshopped onto his head. The bottom text reads "I run the catholic church."
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Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren) @gfrancie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I am finding every excuse to add shallots to dinner. More vegetables please.
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
When I used to write for The Guardian, every time I wrote the word “meow” the editors would change it to “miaow”. It used to really get on my wick. Don’t try to make my cats sound like your upper middle class London cats, you fuckers. My cats did not go to your posh cat schools. They say “meow”.
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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 13/01/2024
Capital "create[d] the housewife to service the male worker physically, emotionally, and sexually, to ... patch up his ego when it is crushed by the work and the social relations (which are relations of loneliness) that capital has reserved for him." Silvia Federici, Revolution at Point Zero. 1/2
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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I chatted to the incomparable Susanne Sundfør about faith, collaborating across centuries, and how her 14th century co-writer is ‘like the Beatles’. www.clashmusic.com/features/des...
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Describing Love: Susanne Sundfør Interviewed | Features | Clash Magazine Music News, Reviews & Interviews
“I need that spiritual dimension to feel like I’m human, and to make sense of the world. That is like a red thread running throughout my life. This world
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Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren) @gfrancie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I sometimes get the urge to return to advertising just to help these places. "Uniform for the guy who likes a Dan Brown book AND Ludwig." "You are more than just a colourful socks guy".
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Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren) @gfrancie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A little anchovy butter on this cheese on toast? Don't mind if I do.
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Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Boy with Toys by Paul Klee, 1940 botfrens.com/collections/212/conten…
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Estate of Karl Nierendorf, By purchase

© 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Once I found out about it, I contacted the reporter and asked him to retract the piece--or at minimum add an editor's note acknowledging the NYT reporting about how Jane Doe did NOT tell police that she consented to her rape. Thus far, the publication has refused to do so.
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Alison @alisonbee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Have a lovely weekend 🐑🐏
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Blackford Safe Routes @blackfordsaferoutes.co.uk · 02/10/2026
Benches are important mobility aids - they allow people to take frequent rests, enabling them to walk greater distances, by breaking them down into stages
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juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 02/10/2026
Hey hey hey Can I please have some money for food/groceries I haven’t eaten today and you’d be helping me eat for the first time today
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Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren) @gfrancie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Miss Biscuit says this challenge reminds her of forest school in primary school. Lots of screaming and flinging the dirt. #celebritytraitors
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Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren) @gfrancie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NOTHING will settle Ross Kemp. NOTHING. You could offer him cocoa and marshmallows and he would think you were out to ruin his life. #celebritytraitors
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Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren) @gfrancie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Younger kid comes home with more opinions from A level English. Portrait of Dorian Gray, "Chaotic twinks who are feral. Messy Messy gays."
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Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren) @gfrancie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I needed a big laugh today.
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Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren) @gfrancie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My friend Bryan is a very cool person, and he is dealing with some significant legal fees due to standing up for vulnerable people. Community service is very much his MO in life. gofund.me/ee1294993
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Donate to Help Bryan recoup legal expenses standing up to injustice., organized by Bryan Middleton
Hello friends, My name is Bryan Middleton and I’ve … Bryan Middleton needs your support for Help Bryan recoup legal expenses standing up to injustice.
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