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@jaredparker.bsky.social
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Former Christian fundie trying to redirect his idealism toward more humane ends. Immigrant lives matter. Black lives matter. Trans lives matter. John Hodgman once told me I was just daddin’ it up. he/him

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 7h
In my quest for minimalism, I have made a relaxing game of balance 🧘 Please try it and let me know what you think? It’s real quick, and I’m proud of this one.
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A quiet black-and-white nonogram that starts at two by two and eases up to fifteen.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 6h
I can't get over the fact that he thinks daylight savings is bad because you have to climb up "high and dangerous steeples" to change the clocks. Like a fire engine full of cats has to go out and they climb the ladder like in a Richard Scarry drawing
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Ems @veggiemom3.bsky.social · 14h
It's funny to me because I was recently looking up trail cam photos and owls hunt above their weight class too.
A picture of an owl swooping down on a much larger deer. The owl's sharp feets are extended towards the deer like it's going to snatch it up and fly away with it. He is inches away from making contact and his wings are spread in a beautiful display. I'm using "he" for convenience only.
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Parker @jeffparker.bsky.social · 8h
Olivia Jaimes' Nancy, on cartoonists.
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Hearsay @hearsay.bsky.social · 8h
My A24 / Warner Bros pitch...
I Tot I Taw the TV Glow poster
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Katie O'Reilly @drkatfish.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A screenshot of a Tumblr post about scientists wanting to tell people about their science
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 10h
These people cannot be trusted to vote in their best interests. Ever. They have failed at the most simple task and have driven this country to ruin. They are too stupid to be allowed to have a say in the future of the country. Convince a non-voter to vote. There are LOTS of those.
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ceej @ceej.online · 09/11/2024
pacino in dog day afternoon
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molly tanzer (I guess!!) @mollytanzer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
please. do NOT f.irework And Plastics I w.ould Eat but m0ther says PUTTHATDOWN WHATAREYOUDOING
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Booort @senatorgiggity.bsky.social · 10h
I'd be super comfortable if I'd done a bunch of horrendous and/or illegal on behalf of my boss who now sounds like Horse_ebooks
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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 22h
"A man riding a bicycle was struck by a Waymo on 4th & Market in San Francisco today. First responders arrived and treated him at the scene before he was taken to the hospital with injuries." OP: tiktok.tl2active Waymo has reported 39 crashes w cyclists to NHTSA, inc at least 12 w injuries.
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Scare-a Anderson @magneticsara.bsky.social · 10h
Unpopular opinion: chai is just old country pumpkin spice.
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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 10h
Imagine how many drugs they have to give him to keep him going. The kaopectate alone is probably enough to tile grout the ballroom.
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Meatwad Ron: Summer of Ron @wrenispinkle.bsky.social · 10h
That kid was clearly sandbagging him. A true patriot
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ceej @ceej.online · 10h
“how do we win back trump voters in 2026” we don’t. we create an environment where admitting to voting for trump is so socially embarrassing as to render them completely inert. you don’t “win back” trump voters. you demoralize them into staying home. you make it a dunce cap
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Jesse Thorn @jessethorn.bsky.social · 10h
There were two different guys with mountain bike unicycles at my college. I will grant that. Meanwhile these elite schools are like “well, once you’ve slit the emu’s throat, then you have to punch a virgin and drink 666 ounces of purest mountain whiskey, then you become a State Senator”
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Jesse Thorn @jessethorn.bsky.social · 10h
Sometimes I hear about the shit going down at some of these colleges and I’m like “they thought it was weird that some people at our school did and/or foraged for mushrooms sometimes?”
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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 10h
INSULINDIAN PHASMID - I exist. YOU - I exist too.
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Sarah Z @sarahz.bsky.social · 15h
Also, it does not inspire confidence when the CEO of the company keeps openly mocking the idea that someone's old writing could be flagged as a false positive, like this is so ridiculous and never happens and people who say it does are making it up... when it very demonstrably does happen, and did.
A tweet from Bryne Hobart: "Pangram is good, but has some well-known failure modes, like: - A time you heard it didn't work - A school essay you wrote years ago that it flagged as AI (you don't have a link or the essay text handy) - A different AI detector got it wrong, and they're all the same, right?"Max Spero, the CEO of Pangram, quote tweets the Byrne Hobart tweet to agree with it.
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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 16h
This is perfectly consistent with evangelical white Christian culture in Texas. Everything a man has ever done MUST be forgiven as long as he’s white and loves Jesus
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 15h
I think people are amazing
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Aaron Hammond @aaronhammond88.bsky.social · 19h
The Ellisons are doomed to fail because they’re in so much debt that they can only make mega-hits but they’re also going to insist that all of these movies be devoid of woke and play to Middle America and that’s just completely unsustainable
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 20h
Mike Pompeo, whom Columbia's SIPA has just hired, had this to say about American Muslims in 2013, after the Boston marathon bombing, though every significant American Muslim leader condemned the attack.
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 17h
Putting a bottle or can of pop in the freezer to cool it quickly and assuming you'll pull it out before it explodes is known as 'the devil's fizzy wager.'
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 17h
In a gesture of reconciliation I am adding Tom Cotton to all the group chats I have made fun of Tom Cotton in.
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Jason, ex Inferis @benedictsred.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
You know this dude went hard on some cafeteria whole milk
A passion for sitting sideways against the window on the bus
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Sarah Walsh @bigdamnherossir.bsky.social · 16h
OP, writing a good thread: "Surely we can agree—" Bluesky: 🤬 The hell we can
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 05/05/2024
2 frames.

1st frame: Leia and a Wicket. Caption: "Just chilling in the woods with a bear."

2nd frame: Bunch if stormtroopers appears. Caption "Bunch if men showing up to tell you why your choice was illogical"
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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 07/05/2024
Anakin/Padme meme with a bear in the first panel and Anakin in the 3rd. No text.
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julia 🌋 @hypv.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
endnotes are a plot by big bookmark to sell twice as many bookmarks
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 18h
Happy anniversary to this, the greatest Facebook comment I’ve ever received.
Darlene

Antifa calls themselves anti fascists, they are cowards that want sharia law in the USA, they call patriots nazi and call each other Conrad
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Scott Merms 🏞️ @shmermel.bsky.social · 18h
Look at this higher order rainbow I think double reflecting through the water pitcher
A water pitcher on a glass table. The reflection of the water pitcher shows a series of colors from teal to purple to yellow to green, all a bit pastel
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Antigone @antigoneinthebes.bsky.social · 22h
People don’t realize how serious the situation is.
A graph showing number of Germanies over time. Losing one on October 3rd 1990 means by projection we are only decades before reaching -1 Germany in 2072
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 21h
GOP ads right now are all about attacking trans people. Over, and over, and over. I was a gay teen in 2004 watching the Bush campaign try to win on attacking gay marriage, but the resort to this hate drive in campaign ads feels so dialed up now. I can’t imagine being an lgbt kid watching tv today.
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Chris 🧠 talk with humans @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 23h
that decides it I'm going back *as a reply pointed out this is also because our eyes working rely on light passing through water in them but still kinda narrows it down because not like if we'd evolved in dirt like earthworms we'd see through dirt with dirt filled eyes holup can they are we so sure
Drawings of two ungulates talking:
Pakicetus: "Andohyus, my brother, I've decided to search for more food in the waters."
Indohyus: "You will regret this, Pakicetus. The environment will force you to adapt."
P: "I just need some shrimps lol I will be perfectly fine."

[35 million years later]

Panel showing a baleen whale "AAAAOOOOOOOOOOAHHHH MRUUUUHHH BWOOOOEEEEE"  and a deer head in the corner saying "WTF".
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shy's video folder @shyvideos.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Marly @verbsrproudest.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
You can't allow people to be rude to an elderly person. Usually I like to gently, but firmly, interject something like this: Me: *cheerful smile, stepping forward, outstretched hand* Hi! Forgive me. I don't think we were really introduced! My name's Marly, but you can just call me your huckleberry.
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notjewelosco.bsky.social @notjewelosco.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Do you ever think about how society looped back to medicinally branded sodas
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Meditation Funnies @meditationfunnies.bsky.social · 21h
The thing that's really most likely to kill us all is greenhouse gasses, and if the “do the most good” freaks aren't working on that, it proves they're full of shit
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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/10/2026
this is especially funny in coding because there is nothing in the world coders like more than gaming stupid leaderboards, it's our whole reason for existence
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Jeremy @floregonian.com · 29/06/2024
I just want to remind everyone out there that rest is an actual thing you do and when you do it you aren’t doing “nothing,” you’re doing something essential to your health and wellbeing and also essential if you want to do *anything else.*
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🐈‍⬛🎃🔪 Adam Jay 🍁💀👻 @bullgooseparty.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
As a kid I absolutely loved Roy Lichtenstein and it was such a shock to learn what a hack and a thief he was
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
@JFriedhoff

me at 13: wow i can't wait til we have immersive computers everywhere like star trek
me at 30: wow i can't wait until we destroy all computers like in dune
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 03/10/2026
Ran into two aliens from The Outer Wilds on the subway. Took me a minute to realize what they were. If you’re one of these people and you’re on this website I think you’re cool as hell
Two people on the subway in blue alien costumes with another set of eyes painted on
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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I have been thinking about this graph all day. It definitively proves that the Atari 2600 is better than a TI-85 calculator, which is better than the Nintendo 64, which is better than the Magic 8 Ball, which is better than all LLMs. My new graph will have to be logarithmic scale.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 02/10/2026
Wait. What? www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ten...
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Ten Objects Around Your House That Are Actually Just Tilda Swinton Getting Lost in a Role
November 5, 2021 (her b-day) 1/13/23
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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
a battle royale mode where all the lawyers who use phone numbers that are all one number must fight until only one survives
Lawyer with all 4s phone numberLawyer with all 7s phone numberLawyer with all 8s phone number
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Viola Smart @smartvpants.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Laughing at this ad for an app that helps you plan every step of your career post high school. I don't know any successful person whose career has followed a predictable trajectory.
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James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
There's a poll for this: (www.cato.org/blog/75-amer...)
70% of Americans say the US would be better off with more people working in factories, but only 33% want to personally work in a factory.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Ich thynke but litel of a Mondaye bleake Tuesday grey and Wednesdaye eke Thursdaye Ich care not for thee Yet Fridaye Ich am yn love [dreamye lute solo] Mondaye thou kanst fall awaye Tuesdaye, Wednesdaye, myne herte slaye No mirthe ys founde upon Thursdaye Yet Fridaye Ich am yn love
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