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Still the number one Cane Hill fan | your favorite rhetoric scholar's favorite rhetoric scholar | worst competitive Pokemon player of all time | AuDHD | Fuck you, make me They/he

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that's doctor arin to you @iconqueity.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Add me, I share frequently!! (but not these probably, lol) 9733397865522243
Also from TCG Pocket, my Trainer name is Iconiquety, my friend ID (also in post), and a QR code to add me as a friend
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that's doctor arin to you @iconqueity.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Holy god pack, Batman! #PokemomTCGpocket
A card pack opening screen from Pokemon Trading Card Game: Pocket. I opened a holo full art Rotom EX a rainbow Vespiquen EX, a holo full art Psychic, an immersive Mega Rayquaza EX, and a full art Vullaby.
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that's doctor arin to you @iconqueity.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
It's so ugly omg What a perfect visual representation of what having this natal chart feels like tho.
A graphic showing the pantone colors for astrology chart. My leo sun is "solar gold," a a warm yellow. My pisces moon is "deep mermaid," a slightly neutral, medium shade of blue. My virgo rising is "clean fern," a pastel grey green. And my Gemini Venus is "mimosa wink," a light but muted yellow. My leo sun kind of clashes with the other three.
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that's doctor arin to you @iconqueity.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I made it to ultra ball!!! #PokemonVGC
A screenshot from Pokemon Champions showing a teal-haired trainer standing victorious next to a screen showing I have won 5 battles in a row to enter Ultra Ball tier, rank 4.
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that's doctor arin to you @iconqueity.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Met a new friend today
A small grey toad sits half covered in various lawn grasses and weeds
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that's doctor arin to you @iconqueity.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
The PhD experience
A hastily made graph depicting a reverse bell curve. The Y axis measures "how frequently they have to look up the definition of what they study" and the X axis measures "how good a PhD student is at what they study." Thus, the worst students look up the definition of their field often, a good student looks this up infrequently, and a great student also looks this up often.
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that's doctor arin to you @iconqueity.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
I prefer this title: "When Asked if He's Queerphobic, Slaughter to Prevail's Alex Terrible Says No, Responds With Queerphobia Anyway."
Screenshot of the quoted article. "When asked directly if he is racist, homophobic, or LGBT-phobic, terrible said no to all three. Regarding previous criticism of a 2023 Instagram post titled four rules of real men, he stated: "If you don't like that I'm a straight man and have traditional family values, please unfollow me! I don't give a shit who you are and if you suck dick, balls, ass or pussy, it's not my fucking deal. I don't want to know that. That's your personal fucking stuff.""
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that's doctor arin to you @iconqueity.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
RFK MUST RESIGN Text PZWDXO to 50409 (the redacted text is my legal name lol)
Text "Sign PZWDXO" to 50409 to join [redacted] & tell your officials to Remove RFK Jr, Deny O'Neill, Appoint qualified HHS leaders, restore vaccines".
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that's doctor arin to you @iconqueity.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Communicate the more serious stuff IRL or with E2 encryption (i.e., not on here). A trans partner may in particular have ideas about how to have you help them continue accessing hrt. - Anne Frank rules now apply - Follow lots of queer and/or trans journalists - check out @runforsomething.net 2/4
As of now, Anne Frank Rules Apply:
1. Protect targeted people and make sure they don't disappear
2. Hide targeted people and make sure they are informed
3. Deliver no usable information to any official person
4. Offer no help or facilitation to any official person 
5. Surround yourself with trusted people who feel the same
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that's doctor arin to you @iconqueity.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Little guy (gender neutral) maker for you in these trying times: picrew.me/en/image_mak...
A cartoon person with lots of green frizzy hair, glasses, and an all-black outfit with progress pride and nonbinary t shirt pins sits on floor next to a sleeping cat. The person is thinking "..." (an ellipsis) in a speech bubble. The background is a field of dark green on light green polka dots.
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that's doctor arin to you @iconqueity.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Another beautiful day, another good opportunity to impeach RFK
Tell the US Congress: For the health safety of the nation, RFK jr must be removed from his position [as secretary of health and human services]. Text SIGN PQNBKB to 50409".

This card is from Resistbot.
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that's doctor arin to you @iconqueity.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Oppose the bill to eat the fucking rich
A graphic from Indivisible that reads:
"Trump's Big Ugly Bill:
Forces nearly a TRILLION dollars in cuts to Medicaid, the largest cut to the life-saving program ever by a factor of 4
Gives ICE a larger budget than many militaries around the world 
Stops healthcare away from 5% of Americans
Kicks 11.8 million people off SNAP benefits
Not only cuts funding for green energy but also taxes it, threading to baloon energy costs and eliminate hundreds of thousands of jobs
Represents the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in HISTORY."
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that's doctor arin to you @iconqueity.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Oppose the bill because you're not in a death cult:
An infographic with blurry attribution that reads "Death Spiral: Republicans' Medicaid cuts threaten the health care of all Americans—even people on private insurance" and shows a spiral of effects. 1) "medicare cuts cause millions to lose health care." 2) "people without coverage can't pay for the care they need." 3) "rural hospitals lose significant revenue" 4) "health care workers are laid off, rural hospitals close" 5) "entire communities lose health care services"
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that's doctor arin to you @iconqueity.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Oppose the bill because you're not an ageist piece of shit:
A Bluesky post from Elizabeth Warren that reads "BREAKING: 1 in 4 nursing homes say they will be forced to close if Republicans pass Trump's Big Beautiful Bill. No grandma should be kicked out of her nursing home so that Mark Zuckerberg can buy another Hawaiian island." She has included a blurry bar graph from AHCA that reads "More than half of nursing homes would be forced to cut staff, and more than one quarter would have to close their doors."
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that's doctor arin to you @iconqueity.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Opposite the bill to protect Medicare and Medicaid—y'know, because apparently Making America Healthy Again happens without healthcare?!
An infographic of "how many people will lose healthcare in your state" with each state and precise number listed. Amounts range from 20,000 to over a million. The largest numbers are 2.3 million from California, 1.1 million from New York, and 1.6 million from Texas. The graphic summarizes "that's 17 MILLION lives Republicans are putting at risk."
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that's doctor arin to you @iconqueity.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Opposite the bill to opposite ICE.
An infographic from indivisible.org/stopthecuts that reads "While ripping food and healthcare away from millions of Americans, Republicans' Big Ugly Bill: increases isis detention budget by 13×, funds 10 thousand new ICE agents, provides bonuses for ICE agents, makes ICE the highest funded federal law enforcement agency in the federal government. 

FUCK THAT. Take action."

The text overlays ICE members portrayed with a red filter.
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that's doctor arin to you @iconqueity.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Drop WHATEVER you are doing to take 5 minutes to call or write (email, letter) your House of Representatives member about the Budget Reconciliation indivisible.org/resource/cal... Here's what's actually in Trump's Big Bad Ugly Bill. 👇
A twitter-formatted post from John Favreau that reads:

"shocking how bad this bill is: 
17 million would lose health care,
30% higher electricity costs,
Millions of manufacturing and construction jobs destroyed,
Biggest ever cut in food assistance for families kids veterans,
$1 trillion in tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires.

People should be on the phones, in the streets, and telling everyone who'll listen."
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that's doctor arin to you @iconqueity.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Made this one a month or two ago
A meme from the Mean Girls movie showing the popular "plastics" girls sitting in a car, captioned "get in loser, we're pressuring our congressional representatives to impeach RFK Jr"
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that's doctor arin to you @iconqueity.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Q1: 1) to go hydrate and/or unhydrate 2) somewhere to hide from my social anxiety — Q2: 1) social anxiety
A combo of the 😄 and 😔 emojis in which the sad emoji appears to be removing the happy smiling emoji like a mask
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that's doctor arin to you @iconqueity.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
is this too niche
a "yes/no" meme template, with an cute, androgynous cartoon character replacing Drake but making similar "no stop" and "finger guns" gestures. The "no" text is "owning a home and being responsible for landlord and maintenance duties on my own", with the yes text as "being able to upgrade to an induction cooktop whenever tf I want"
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that's doctor arin to you @iconqueity.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Is this Sableye variant, like, really rare??
A glitched Sableye card being opened in Pokemon Trading Card Game: Pocket. While most of the text is readable, the artwork is covered bright pink noise, with grey, black, and white pixels scattered randomly across the entire card.
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that's doctor arin to you @iconqueity.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Oh btw I made this the other day and it's still just as true as ever #ImpeachRFK #RFKMustResign #ImpeachTrump #CallYourReps #FuckYouMakeMe
The meme of the plastics from Mean Girls sitting in a car, with the text edited to say "Get in Loser, We're pressuring our congressional representatives to impeach RFK Jr"
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that's doctor arin to you @iconqueity.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
What's that? You want to make your voice heard about how the US will never stand for kings or tyrants? And you live in an area below that isn't purple? What are you doing? Sign the fuck up: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Creators are asking us to share to other social media as well!
A map of the United States divided by congressional districts. 67% are colored purple, representing districts with at least one person signed up to email their representatives expressing interest in presidential impeachment.
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that's doctor arin to you @iconqueity.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
5 Calls' app reports almost 150 thousand people have called about the CR for federal funding. This is good, but not enough. Do your part.
A confirmation message from the 5 Calls app that I've called my senators about "no DOGE blank check federal funding CR: Senate vote Friday." It confirms that 147,393 people have called through (presumably their app and website) about this topic.
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that's doctor arin to you @iconqueity.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
nice team, dude
A mirror match in pokemon VGC, being played in showdown. My opponent and I are both running Wolfe Glick's (in)famous EUIC-winning team using a notoriously difficult "perish trap" strategy.
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that's doctor arin to you @iconqueity.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Oh no! What ever will we do about poor Felon Musk's stress??!
Business insider headline titled "Elon Musk tells Joe Rogan he's 'not a Nazi's and the online hate he gets is 'pretty stressful'." The Nazi in question (Musk, not Rogan) is pictured below the headline.
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that's doctor arin to you @iconqueity.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Moms for Liberty has a form on the actual US government website asking for people to snitch on schools teaching DEI. Go fill it out with the most incoherent drivel you can until they take it down. enddei.ed.gov
An article from Salon titled "Moms for Liberty, Education Department launch program to report teachers who promote diversity" with a header photo of a press meeting for Moms for Liberty.
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that's doctor arin to you @iconqueity.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Only 1,000 people have called Ohio senators per this Columbus Dispatch article: If you have, fill this out: www.dispatch.com/story/opinio... If you haven't, wtf?
Data visualizations from the Columbus Dispatch on how many people who have filled out a form on their website have tried to contact a senator (88%), whether they were able to leave a comment or voicemail (less than half say no), which senator they tried to contact (overwhelmingly both at 1,000 responses), and whether they're satisfied with what the senators are doing (97% no).
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that's doctor arin to you @iconqueity.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
I wrote this poem in 2017, revised it to say 2018, made other changes based on feedback, and published it. I'd change quite a few things about it now, if I could, but none more true than the fact that this keeps. fucking. happening.
America is a Killing Name, a poem by Arin Zarles (me). Shown are the first three lines, "and if I die tomorrow, would you please / politicize my death? It would mean / a lot to me to stand beside my sistren."
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that's doctor arin to you @iconqueity.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Transvestigating is a weapon of the enemy and I will not use it
Cartoon Batman snaps a gun in half while saying "THIS Is a weapon of the ENEMY. We do not NEED it. We will not USE it."
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that's doctor arin to you @iconqueity.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Why didn't I post this? I cooked
Do we think they'll ban just Adderall, or all stimulants used to treat ADHD? On one hand why stop at a name brand? On the other hand, they aren't smart enough or good enough at googling to know there are other options. On a new, third hand, I bet they'll keep getting their own somehow anyway!
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that's doctor arin to you @iconqueity.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Shout-out to this one for making me realize my hair is approximately 6 colors currently, none of which are the one I intended
A cartoon person stylized to look somewhat like me, with purple hair in a ponytail, black glasses, blue eyes, tongue sticking out, and a black hoodie. They are on a pansexual flag colored background.
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that's doctor arin to you @iconqueity.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Spotify time! I've been on record that the Spotify algorithm is actually in love with Telescope; it's played at least 4 times in a row multiple times on shuffle.
Spotify wrapped showing my top song of the year is Telescope by Tallah. The album art is a chaotic mix of pen-art drawings of chimeric monster creatures.Spotify wrapped showing my top songs as:
- Telescope by Tallah
- The Impressionist by Tallah
- Shaken not stirred by Tallah
- Kill Me by Cane Hill
- Power of the High by Cane HillSpotify Wrapped showing that I am a top 0.5% fan of Cane Hill, who I have listened to for 1,280 minutes. The band photo shows four handsome lads in the bayou.Spotify Wrapped showing my top artists. They are Cane Hill, Tallah, Beartooth, Knocked Loose, and Gojira. I am shocked not to see Trivium on here.
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that's doctor arin to you @iconqueity.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Shoutout to the group chat for enduring my rants:
A text that reads: "Don't complain about what students don't know, teach it to them instead" with excessive question marks and exclamation points throughout for angry emphasis
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that's doctor arin to you @iconqueity.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Don't believe for a second that I haven't listened to more Cane Hill than anything else this year. Otherwise this feels representative.
A YouTube Wrapped screenshot showing my most listen to track has been The Death of Peace of Mind by Bad Omens. The album art is a naked person bent over with their hair hiding most of their body. I've listened for 236 minutes.My YouTube Wrapped showing my top five most listened to songs from 2024. They are:
- The Death of Peace of Mind by Bad Omens (55 times—feels like many more)
- Doubt Me by Beartooth 
- Aqua Regis by Sleep Token
- The First God by Hungry Lights
- The Midnight Sun by Cane Hill
My YouTube Wrapped showing my top artists of 2024. They are Hungry Lights, Bad Omens, Tallah, Sleep Token, and Cane Hill.
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that's doctor arin to you @iconqueity.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I have said before and I'll say again: I do every single picrew that crosses my timeline
A picrew (cartoon image) I've styled to look somewhat like me IRL, including purple hair, blue eyes, glasses, headphones, and a band tee. I'm also a Leo.
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that's doctor arin to you @iconqueity.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
"I don't need to use Zotero, I won't misplace multiple citations for my dissertation"
The sunglasses and clown emojis combined together
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that's doctor arin to you @iconqueity.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Bluesky, we are so back with the micro reviews for new rock/metal albums:
A group of cartoon punk/metal/skater types dance with the caption "we're so fucking back."
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that's doctor arin to you @iconqueity.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Cycles of Trying to Cope for #MothMonday
A YouTube playlist for the cycles of trying to cope album by Like Moths to Flames. I'm currently listening to track 1, Angels Weep.
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that's doctor arin to you @iconqueity.bsky.social · 30/10/2024
All right, I did it. Add me but know I don't know what I'm doing: 9733397865522243
My player info from Pokemon TCG pocket. My player name is iconiqueity and my id to add me is in the post
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that's doctor arin to you @iconqueity.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
Almost immediately lost to the first trainer with two pokemon, who had a Lairon then Snorlax. Take two may or may not be going better.
The same starter selection screen, but showing Genesect instead of oshawott.
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that's doctor arin to you @iconqueity.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
Let's go: Unova
The starter selection from pokemon white 2, but the pokemon typically offered are randomized; snivy is replaced with eevee, which is the pokemon being selected.
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that's doctor arin to you @iconqueity.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
If you understand this sequence of images you should be my moot on here #PokemonGo
Galarian Articuno from pokemon go Zorua from pokemon go
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that's doctor arin to you @iconqueity.bsky.social · 30/05/2024
Windows error code template edited to say "Warning! You have received a piece of feedback. Press OK to shutdown."
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