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ginger @gingerest.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

or, and bear with me here, the Creature from the Black Lagoon did

The Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954), who has much the same weird brow and upper lip as poor funny-looking Jake and Gary Busey

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ginger @gingerest.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I love the Guardian photo editor

I'm sorry, it's a visual joke, but I'll try. Headline: Nigel Farage and Count Binface: a visual guide to their careers
Subhed: Farage was elected to EU parliament five times before becoming Clacton MP, while Binface has been less successful - so far.
Caption: Farage (right) resigned and triggered a byelection, with Binface his main rival after the major parties pulled out. Photograph: Henry Nicholls/AFP/Getty Images
The picture is a double, with an image of Farage in a blue suit, his hands in the air and his mouth open, on the right, and an image of Binface with his hands in the air and his mouth open, on the left.

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ginger @gingerest.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

you can join your union, or you can do this other thing, but whatever you do, don't take management's advice about how workers should work

tweet from HoldenShearer @HoldenShearer May 22, 2018
Someone should probably tell the rich that workers banding together to present formal address of grievances is the alternative we worked out a long time ago to breaking down the factory owner's front door and beating him to death in front of his family? I feel like they forgot.

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ginger @gingerest.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

mean mean mean, all because I have good screen habits at night

pictorial representation of my posts from https://b.mino.mobi/palm/

Cadence, 88th percentile; burstiness 0.47 · typical gap 13 min
Vigil, 1st percentile; 9 quiet hours a day · hour-entropy 0.810
Lexicon, 39th percentile; Heaps β 0.764 · 4,753 distinct words in the first 20,000 · 52% used once
Polish, 60th percentile; 64% of well-formedness markers present
Drift, 82nd percentile; early vs late similarity 0.952 across 1,200 words
Chorus, 49th percentile; 73% replies · 982 people · 13% to own threads

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ginger @gingerest.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I know everybody who follows me already knows this but this is precisely the same logic as saying trans rights aren't as important as getting rid of whatever Republican. people who aren't subject to a particular axis of oppression are often grimly willing to let that go for a candidate they like.

Independent Human (Chuck): I loosely supported him only because I wasn't convinced a tattoo was enough to make him invalid and hearing women claim he abused them with no evidence sounds like typical politics. But if this woman has evidence then by all means he needs to drop out. I just wanted a chance to get rid of Collins.

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ginger @gingerest.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

your threads all look like this because you subscribe to the whimsybot and man alive does it ever give me the cognitive dissies

Dahlia: stupid.
moby dickgirl: This is very stupid of me, you're right
Dahlia: hey. hey. HEY. FUCK YOU!!!! i'm not stupid, you're stupid! STUPID IDIOT
Whimsy Miku: Wishing you a good day :3

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ginger @gingerest.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

if I didn't know better I would think this was a still from an SNL skit. (photo credit: Kent Nishimura/AFP/Getty Images)

Scott Bessent, Treasury Secretary, stands in front of the White House background seal thing, holding what appears to be a printout of a press release about the Trump $250 bill. Bessent looks like he's in a Scott Bessent costume.

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ginger @gingerest.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

augh, first Bsky down, then realizing @faineg.bsky.social is out of town - where are my Alf hog jokes about the AI slop cumgutter alien Trump perp walk? (possibly the first time in human history those words have been arranged in that sentence)

a Donald J Trump post from Truth Social with an AI-generated image (with fingertips partly blocking the "lens") of Trump, a bunch of Secret Service agents, a guy in desert camo, and a big-headed grey alien manacled at wrist and ankle. The group is walking across concrete in front of a hangar, with some sand-coloured vehicles in the background. In the far background are a low-slung sand-coloured building and sandy hills. The grey alien is very lean, with cut abs and iliac furrows. Its groin and feet are featureless.

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ginger @gingerest.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

oh! gosh. I never woulda thought

A clip from The Guardian coverage. The headline is "LA teen loses eye after being shot by US agent at No Kings march, lawyer says" and the subhed is "USC student Tucker Collins' attorney accuses homeland security of 'overt act of repression' at Los Angeles protest."
The article opens, "A freshman at the University of Southern California has lost an eye after he was shot last month with a 'less-lethal' projective by a Department of Homeland Security agent at a No-Kings march, according to his attorney."
The article is illustrated by a picture with a bit of the US flag in the foreground, the midpoint of the picture is gas flowing out of a canister and in the background are several helmeted and masked figures in black uniforms. The figures are standing behind a black chainlink fence and some concrete bollards.

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ginger @gingerest.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Look at this, I am in the middle and my dumb book is fully legible

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ginger @gingerest.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

THIS attitude is why Sydney beaches are full of poo balls and Sydney streets are full of Chelsea tractors

A screenshot from The Guardian reading, "The Campbelltown station commuter car park designed by Hill Thalis Architecture + Urban Projects, is more than mere infrastructure for cars, the Australian Institute of Architects’ judges concluded. The project, winner of one of three awards in the built outcomes category, is a generous, resilient, and unexpectedly uplifting example of civic design. A little bit of paradise regained.
"It’s as if the architects decided that the Campbelltown project was a chance to inject a dose of civic dignity into a structure that, in the usual hierarchy of urban needs, sits somewhere just above a sewage treatment plant."
The last half of the last sentence is highlighted.

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ginger @gingerest.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Okay I am sure Crayola (tm) has milkshake ducked but this is lovely

Crayola “colors of kindness crayons” box

Crayola “Colors of kindness” box including “spread your wings”, “breathe deep”, “always brave” and a stack of other feel-good names

Crayola “colors of kindness” box including “go with the flow”, “a slice of nice” and a stack of other hippie names that are very sweet but don’t actually describe colours, but still

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ginger @gingerest.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Yet another thing I'm a solid B+ at. dialed.gg

The score from a color-memory game. 45.68/50, with the five test swatches underneath. Comment beneath reading "Tetrachromat or obsessive? Either way, maybe go outside."

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ginger @gingerest.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

credits (from the UnderTheDeskNews TikTok account)

On President’s Day, the First Amendment Troop staged “ResistDance” — a tribute and act of artistic dissent — at the Lincoln Memorial, followed by a guerrilla performance at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Created by the advocacy arm of hungryman Productions, led by Bryan Buckley, with Tony Award-winning choreographer Mathew Steffens, the piece honored Renée Good and Alex Pretti.

Twenty-two dancers performed, representing the 22 days between Good and Pretti’s deaths. The Lincoln Memorial ResistDance was peaceful. The Kennedy Center performance was shut down within seconds by more officers than dancers (23 vs. 22.)

The action coincided with the Federal Bureau of Investigation denying access to information in the Pretti investigation, underscoring the campaign’s call for transparency.

#FirstAmendmentTroop #ResistDance

Music: We Could Fly and Following the North Star by Rhiannon Giddens.
https://www.tiktok.com/@underthedesknews/

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ginger @gingerest.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

sorry to say it but they all harken back to this

a movie poster for the 1962 Kubrick film Lolita. The text across the tope reads "Comment a-t-on osé faire un film de Lolita?" (How dare they make a film of Lolita?). the middle of the poster is an illustration of the face of a young girl, with red heart-shaped sunglasses partway down her nose, revealing her eyebrows and part of her blue-grey eyes. a flat red lollipop is partway between her red lips. written beneath is LOLITA. the cast list is legible below and includes James Mason, Shelley Winters, Peter Sellers, Sue Lyon (dans le role de Lolita). in smaller print are credits for Stanley Kubrick, Vladimir Nabokov and James B. Harris.

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ginger @gingerest.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

this is such a lovely story and I wish people (men especially) weren't like this.

Willamette Week: Tatas for Toys benefit has made it rain $183,000 over the past 14 years. Link to Rachel Saslow piece titled "Strippers Are Now No. 1 Donor of Toys to Children's Hospital." Accompanying photo: on the left, a young blonde white woman draws her hands down over her face; she is wearing a red bra, and her expression is joyful. Another young blonde white woman, wearing an opalescent white bra, raises her hands over her head in a triumphant gesture.
Reply: One of those ladies has more tattoos that (sic) tatas, bless her pea pickin little pair. Laughing face emoji.

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ginger @gingerest.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Florence King explains how authors of porn books "start writing less and less bigger and bigger on more and more paper - Fucky Fudging." The passage below starts, "(This) is why porn characters, who show no caution in life's larger moments, always read labels with such meticulous scrutiny:"

K-Y JELLY
It's also what makes them staccato, monosyllabic types with that curious tendency to echolalia that runs through the genre. The more they repeat themselves, pause, think, and start over, the more paragraphs you can indent:

She's a natural blonde, he thought.
A _real_ natural blonde.
Was she ever!
"Wow," he breathed, as he started at her pussy.
There was no mistaking it.
No way!
"Honey," he said, "you're a real natural blonde."

For the same reason, they also interrupt themselves, trail off in the middle of sentences, and drop things:

Brad wondered if ...
No, no, she couldn't possibly want to be bungholed.
And yet ...
She knelt down and spread her cheeks.
"Margo," he said, "I-"
The drink slipped out of his hand and crashed to the floor when he saw the jar she had brought from the bathroom:

VASELINE

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ginger @gingerest.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

I'm in this picture and I don't mind

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ginger @gingerest.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

this is well and good, I guess, but if they're going easier on 4chan than on YouTube ... and also many "mainstream" companies are cheerfully signing on bc it gives them pretext to hoover up even more, and mainly adults', data.

Inman Grant said the focus of the under-16s ban was “mainstream” social media sites “that a lot of children were using and spending a lot of time and being exposed to addictive design features like opaque algorithms and endless scroll”.

“I would consider 4chan one of the darker sites on the web. These are things that we do deal with through both our phase-one and now soon our phase-two codes, but also through our illegal and restricted content scheme, because that’s where a lot of terrible content sits.”

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ginger @gingerest.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

They did credit The Spectator, sort of, by quote-tweeting the original tweet with the unaltered cover

A tweet from DHS with the altered poster and quote-tweeting the original Spectator announcement

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ginger @gingerest.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

It me (I always play half-orcs if possible)

A screenshot from Nora Reed’s bit to make up guys.
Chelgcruk the Asleep
Orc
Warlock
He/him
- Crooked fingers
- Would rather be fishing
- working on a new destruction magic spell
- I want self-discovery

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ginger @gingerest.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

another update that I didn't see in the thread: a bit of a price change. (also I love the otherworldly light in this picture, where literally no two shadows are the same proportionate length and direction, never mind appropriate to the twilight suggested by the sunset sky behind the house)

I really can't explain the joy of this Zillow listing for 25380 Coral Canyon Rd, Corona, CA, I apologize, but what I meant to emphasize here is that the price has dropped by about 500K, to 589K. Also this picture is shopped in some way that means there is a huge set of shadows from a tree in the front yard, no shadow from a prominent streetlamp, and short shadows from the edge of the house that are from a completely different angle than the tree shadows. None of the shadows are consistent with the pink-and-gold sunset sky behind the house.

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ginger @gingerest.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

a couple of recent comments from my neighbourhood

A poster with a black-and-white image of a skinhead man in a t-shirt with a swastika. another person is wagging a finger in the skinhead's face. the skinhead's nose and mouth are bloody. the caption reads "TALK TO FASCISTS IN A LANGUAGE THEY UNDERSTAND"

a sticker printed in marker reading "I'M SICK OF FOOD I WANNA EAT YOUR BRAINS"

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ginger @gingerest.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

okay, so, first, reskeeting with alt-text

an instagram pic from user Comey, with the caption "Cool shell formation on my beach walk". against white sand, orange shells are arranged into an 8, grey stones and shells into 6, 4, and 7. so overall it reads "86 47".

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ginger @gingerest.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

The average American has three friends

The Powerpuff Girls , in their usual colour schemes of green, red, blue, are jumping into a field of stars against a pink background; behind them, in half-tone grey, are villains Sedusa, Mojo Jojo and a guy I don't recognise with little round eyes, some kind of horn, and spots (they should have used HIM instead)

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ginger @gingerest.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

to be fair the actual SkyWhale is even genderyer

How to describe the nightmare that is Patricia Piccinini's Skywhale? Well, it's an extremely large hot-air balloon with a grey-blue back and rosy-pink underside, with five dangling pink breasts on each side of its torso (about where wings or arms would sit). It has a forked tail with scalloped edges, and its face has two small eyes, with brows, and a large mouth running between. In this picture, Skywhale's basket is still on the ground, in a grassy field next to a white truck and some people; the light is crepuscular. The sky is mostly clear apart from some cloud near the horizon at the left of the picture, and in the background are a few trees.

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ginger @gingerest.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

attn The Guardian: as written, this headline means the scientists are drinking to bond, which is a common scientist behaviour and does not merit above-the-fold feature reporting

Headline: Wild chimpanzees filmed by scientists bonding over alcoholic fruit
(other stuff I should probably just have clipped out, including a foggy picture of three chimpanzees chowing down)

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ginger @gingerest.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Qposting with alt (bc although NG/mil probably can't be ppl who use screenreaders, everyone has loved ones and friends who want to help them, and some of those might do)

Cian Westmoreland @CianMW
If you are National Guard or Active Duty military and you are being ordered to violate the Constitutional rights of US citizens then this is the number to the GI Rights Hotline. There is support, you don't have to go through with it. tel: 1-877-447-4487

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ginger @gingerest.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

age yourself with a toy from your childhood

a Lemon Twist toy from the 1970s: a piece of grey plastic tubing with a yellow plastic lemon on one end and an ankle loop on the other. The toy is in a clear plastic bag with printed images of children playing with the toy, saying "swing it swirl it" "spin it twirl it" and additional printing reading "Get a ... LEMON TWIST" "hop jump" "skip bump".

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ginger @gingerest.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

adding alt-text and attribution

"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

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ginger @gingerest.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

We are dehumanizing humans while humanizing the plagiarism engines.

top: skeet from Ankle Megami Tensei, "Literally arrested for walking while brown" quoting Aura Bogado tellling the story of a US-born citizen who was arrested, handcuffed, thrown into a van, and detained for 10 hours by ICE, then released without paperwork or money.
bottom: skeet from Jonathan Peele "The level at which people fundamentally misunderstand LLMs continues to boggle the mind", QTing Carl T. Bergstrom's skeetthread starting "You have to be kidding me" about an NYT story of ChatGPT "showing signs of anxiety when its users share 'traumatic narratives about crime ... the bot's anxiety levels can be brought down, however, with the same mindfulness exercises that have been shown to work in humans." (None of this is true, ChatGPT is not sentient and has no feelings, and it cannot be anxious or mindful; it can, however, present language representing those constructs, plagiarized from very large datasets, in response to prompts.)

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ginger @gingerest.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

I do not even care that I just used the entire week's energy output of the Grand Coulee Dam to do this, this is the right job for AI (www.fedaid.info)

FedAid
A free tool for civil servants to describe their work with clarity and purpose
Describe your service. No task is too small.
I serve my country by (prompt)
Eating cheetos and wiping the dust on my shirt

Transformed by FedAid:
1. I foster a relaxed team environment by participating in shared break times
2. I demonstrate authenticity by embracing casual moments with colleagues
3. I build workplace connections through informal social interactions
4. I maintain work-life balance by taking mindful refreshment breaks
5. I contribute to team morale by sharing snacks and lighthearted comments

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ginger @gingerest.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

the important question here is what does Derek Guy have to say about this suit

"family photo" of politicians at the NATO meeting today. Pete Hegseth is wearing an ultramarine suit with a Stars and Stripes pocket square and brown shoes. All the other guys are wearing black or dark blue suits and black shoes, and their pants have a break and hit at the top of the shoe, where Hegseth's pants have no break and hit above the ankle. He really stands out.

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ginger @gingerest.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

deadnaming trans people is deliberate, and the cruelty is the point. it binds together laughing abusers and reminds the victims that they are powerless and will not be protected by the law. Serwer missed trans kids here bc Trump et al had not yet cottoned to what perfect victims they'd be.

This isn't incoherent. It reflects a clear principle: Only the president and his allies, his supporters, and their anointed are entitled to the rights and protections of the law, and if necessary, immunity from it. The rest of us are entitled only to cruelty, by their whim. This is how the powerful have ever kept the powerless divided and in their place, and enriched themselves in the process. (Adam Serwer, 2018, The Atlantic)

Trump's only true skill is the con; his only fundamental belief is that the United States is the birthright of straight, white, Christian men, and his only real, authentic pleasure is in cruelty. It is that cruelty, and the delight it brings them, that binds his most ardent supporters to him, in shared scorn for those they hate and fear: immigrants, black voters, feminists, and treasonous white men who empathize with any of those who would steal their birthright. The president's ability to execute that cruelty through word and deed makes them euphoric. It makes them feel good, it makes them feel proud, it makes them feel happy, it makes them feel united. And as long as he makes them feel that way, they will let him get away with anything, no matter what it costs them. (Adam Serwer, 2018, The Atlantic)

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ginger @gingerest.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

CW: (adorably teeny) spider

a very small spider stands on the spine of a paperback. the spider is very pale yellow, with nearly transparent legs ending in black "toes". four of its brown eyes are looking towards the camera.

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ginger @gingerest.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I know that a number of you date back to the fanfic dot net scandals era and will appreciate the irony that a local library has engraved a quotation (allegedly) from Cassie Clare on the sidewalk

A photo of a grey concrete sidewalk panel with an engraved quotation. The photographer's toes are in frame. The quotation, attributed to famous plagiarist Cassandra Clare, reads, "One must always be careful of books ... and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us."

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ginger @gingerest.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

this very wholesome exchange has the same vibe as this:

A B. Kliban cartoon. We see from behind two tabby cats, sitting on a fence under a full moon on a clear night. Their heads are pressed lovingly together. One says to the other, "If I had two dead rats, I'd give you one."

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