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She'll come back as fire, to burn all the liars, leave a blanket of ash on the ground

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Witchy Annie 🏳️‍⚧️ 🔞 @possmom.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"JK Rowling is already a billionaire and everyone already knows about Harry Potter, what's the point of boycotting?" Nobody thinks boycotting will bankrupt her. We know she's gonna die rich. We're just asking you to show a shred of solidarity with trans folk. Absolute low bar bare minimum shit.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Yes, computers do everything at our company but don't worry, there's always a human reviewer. Nothing goes out the door without one of our highly trained shruggers briefly glancing at it and clicking Approve
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Kate @hellapants.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
When I was in rehab years ago and got caught drinking a Monster energy I wasn't supposed to have and was sentenced to write an essay about it, that was ridiculous, but at least a fairly proportional response
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🚨 BEWARE of VoteSafe.org 🚨 While it bills itself as a “safe” way to register to vote, it is actually a digital surveillance machine created by Elon Musk’s super PAC.
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Kate @hellapants.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Watching Beavis & Butthead Do the Universe and you know what just occurred to me? I bet being very stoned and at a Michael Bolton concert could really rule
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 02/09/2026
MapQuest is now the No. 1 U.S. app after bucking Trump’s ‘Lake America’ renaming
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MapQuest is now the No. 1 U.S. app after bucking Trump’s ‘Lake America’ renaming
The once-dominant mapping app has surged to the top of Apple’s U.S. App Store after refusing to adopt Trump’s “Lake America” name, drawing more than half of its 2026 U.S. downloads in just six days.
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Kate @hellapants.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I gotta admit, I misread this myself the first time and was kind of into "fearmongrel"
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Never forgiving Apple or Google for participating in this bullshit.
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Kate @hellapants.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
My first wedding, I walked down the aisle to that song and it was pretty pimp
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
"We can't use your product if anyone knows it's your product because everyone hates your product" is maybe a sign that your company stinks
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Technology is cool, too bad they made it evil
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Kate @hellapants.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 31/07/2026
looking at the headlines and reflecting once again on how all the smart, hard-working, honest people I know feel like they’re going at least a little insane in our era of total Stupid Immoral Asshole ascendancy
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Kate @hellapants.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
This Fred Meyer is playing Silverchair and I think that means I now have to walk into the sea
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
This shit is not inevitable, it could be made illegal tomorrow if our governments weren't in the pocket of Big Pervert.
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Kate @hellapants.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Tor Thom's unabashedly but contextually surprisingly misogynistic and homophobic voices in the Game Changer series audiobooks are basically unforgivable, but also up there is his mispronunciation of the word "toque."
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 10/08/2025
"The future offers us little hope for those who expect that our new mechanical slaves will offer us a world in which we may rest from thinking. Help us they may, but at the cost of supreme demands upon our honesty and our intelligence.” ~Norbert Wiener, God and Golem (1964)
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Kate @hellapants.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Was in the backyard yesterday, reclaiming some space from all the stuff growing up through the fence, when these guys came along and made a pretty persuasive case for leaving the lilac intact
Some lilac flowers against a lightly cloudy blue sky. Atop the flowers are a fuzzy bee friend and a yellow-orange and black butterfly.Black and white photo of a butterfly on a lilacProfile shot of an orange and black butterfly (some sort of swallowtail, I think) on a lilacAction shot of possibly-some-type-of-swallowtail butterfly taking off from the lilac bush
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Kate @hellapants.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Cream cheese, caramelized onions, and jalapenos, baby #seattle
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Tim Ellis, TDSB Ward 2 candidate 🍁 @djdynamic.ca · 08/07/2026
"They just want to turn it off." A fascinating story of the librarians who have started teaching classes showing people how to remove AI "features" from their phones and apps. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/02/m...
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These Maine librarians are helping patrons resist AI and Big Tech
Despite breathless reporting on how AI is going to change the world, Hannah Cyrus, a Bangor librarian, said that, in her experience, most library patrons aren’t finding it helpful.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Meta Glasses are like, a Cybertruck for your face.
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Kate @hellapants.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I dunno about great, but it definitely popped back into my head fully formed just from seeing that post, so
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to show up in full combat gear on a hot summer day to the pool he filled with algae because he gave a paint job to one of his cigar puffing cronies. you are ordered to stop tourists from touching the green water. good luck soldier
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Kate @hellapants.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Watching that episode of the Good Place where everyone is served their favorite meal from life and wondering desperately what mine would be
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Kate @hellapants.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Tbf, remaining uncommitted is very Washington of us
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Picard Tips @picardtips.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Picard morality tip: If one side of a conflict preaches purity of bloodline above communal benefit for all, join the other side.
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Kate @hellapants.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
#WorldBeeDay
Black and white photo of a bee on a chive flower Black and white close up of a bee on a chive flower
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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 19/05/2026
the fuck it will
A white man in a business suit pointing a handgun at an open laptop
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I think the reason I've been a little ambiently mad all day is because January 6th rioters are statistically the most likely group of pedophiles in the world and they clubbed a guy to death and they're going to be rich from the tax money that I give to the country I live in.
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KAFUI 🇬🇭 @mykafuiohkafui.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
The best place to be when It happens would be a music venue mid-concert. A little drunk. A little sweaty. The news rippling through the crowd as people’s phones light up. An abrupt halt to a banger before the announcement is made from the stage. Everybody kissing like it’s V-J Day in Times Square.
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Kate @hellapants.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Mark Renton climbing out of the worst toilet in Scotland
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Dave Holmes @daveholmes.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
A simple plea from me to you. Read and share and knock this shit off. www.esquire.com/news-politic...
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I’m Begging You, Please Don’t Share Fake Trump Posts
We’re facing an epidemic of demented screeds from the president. Not all of them are real. With this three-part checklist and just two seconds of your time, you can spot a Trumpfake—and avoid helping ...
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Nic McConnell @mcconnell.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
A class at my kids’ school put up little statements about the good they want to do in the world and I was over the moon about this one - then I learned they meant to say “teach people in jail” which is also good!
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Kate @hellapants.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Both for content and quality, probably the one on my ribcage that says, "nolite te bastardes carborundorum." The spacing sucks, it's fuzzy. I got it ~2014 maybe? Definitely pre-Trump, pre- Handmaid's Tale TV show. I liked the book and liked the secret pep talk
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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters
All you do is take all the sex out, and use little short words, and little dumb ideas, and don't be too scary, and be sure there's a happy ending. Right? Nothing to it. Write down. Right on.

If you do all that, you might even write Jonathan Livingston Seagull and make twenty billion dollars and have every adult in America reading your book.

But you won't have every kid in America reading your book. They will look at it, and they will see straight through it, with their clear, cold, beady little eyes, and they will put it down, and they will go away. Kids will devour vast amounts of garbage (and it is good for them) but they are not like adults: they have not yet learned to eat plastic.
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
It's not hyperbole in the least to say Musk purchased a six-month shadow presidency for $280 million and used the power of that shadow presidency to 1. Steal the government’s data, 2. Permanently damage the state’s ability to regulate his businesses, and 3, kill non-white people.
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Kate @hellapants.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Yeah man, the way I felt momentarily buoyed every time I was told I was a "trouper" yet again as a child who had learned that the easiest way to get praise was to just not have asks...
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Children who grew up as the easy one in a chaotic household often become adults who are profoundly lonely in a way they can't explain, because their entire childhood taught them that the safest way to...
The easy child didn't have fewer needs — they had fewer needs that anyone noticed, and the difference between those two things is where the loneliness lives.
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Kate @hellapants.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Possibly should have realized sooner that this brand is by and for shitbags
Closeup of a Halloween sized bag of "Lesser Evil" popcorn, quote-unquote boasting about containing no seed oils, a thing about which normal people do not care
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Kate @hellapants.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
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Kate @hellapants.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Hey, Rachel Reid, if you're still writing that latest book, from here on out, no one is allowed to grin or huff. Period. Please and thank you.
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Kate @hellapants.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
But we mustn't dwell... Not today...
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Lee Cronin’s Pablo Hidalgo @infinata.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Splitting the word helicopter by meaning isn't 'heli' and 'copter' but 'helico' (spiral) and 'pter' (wing) and that's neat.
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Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
I hate every bot I see. From gpa to gpt
Planet of the apes the musical
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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Does it work properly? No. Are the people making it acting in good faith? No. Have they ensured it can't be used maliciously? No. Does it make people's lives better? No. Will it make people's lives better? No. Is it profitable? No. Is it popular? No. Is it harmless? No. The argument for AI.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 29/03/2026
Like maybe this is true. But it's also true of heroin
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Kate @hellapants.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Huh, apparently anymore hearing the song Sweet Home Alabama --as just now at the pet store--just makes me want to watch Con Air
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 28/03/2026
And formally, according to our law, Depose him
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Kate @hellapants.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
This has been sitting unread on the bookshelf in my childhood bedroom since I brought it home from Wales 25+ years ago, but I just had to visit my dad and also fuck JKR
A circa 2000 paperback of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone on the bottom of an otherwise empty but filthy blue bin
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Kate @hellapants.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Dale Gribble musing, "I'm skeptical that you could, yet intrigued that you may "
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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
So if AI Psychosis is a thing that happens because the human mind breaks when it's trapped by a sycophant who affirms every thought, agrees with every delusion - does this give us a window into what's been happening into the ultra rich , and why they're such broken people?
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