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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

RFK Jr. wants to eradicate autistic people and also has no idea what an autistic person is

"These are kids who will never pay taxes," Kennedy declared. "They'll never hold a
job. Theyl never play baseball. They'Il never write a poem. They'll never go out
" on a date. Many of them will never use a toilet unassisted. We have to recognize
doing this to our children.
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Yanncé ✨ @uhnopenottoday.blacksky.app · 13/03/2025

People with glasses and contacts have to realize that we have a disability that just happens to be highly accommodated for in modern society and that accommodation is the only reason why poor eyesight is not considered a disability.

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Steve Held @peoplesfabric.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

This feels like a major inflection point. If ICE can apparently unlawfully arrest & disappear a permanent resident and it is not immediately met with strong opposition from the public, officials, and courts, there is no going back.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

I am so fucking tired of these fucking people.

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

The only reason previous terrible times in history produced great art is a mix of wealthy patrons and cheap rent, our modern innovation is eliminating both concepts, so of course art is largely stagnant in our culture.

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Word discovery of the day is ‘yoke-devil’ (17th century): an accomplice in a villainous or immoral undertaking.

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Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedy.northsky.social · 21/02/2025

Where I think different fonts would stand on trans issues, a thread

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Kirk W. Johnson @kirkinson.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Spent a good chunk of therapy today talking about the Trump admin's threats to ADHD meds & how insane it makes me feel that I might end up rooting for the pharmaceutical industry to flex their lobbying muscles to stop government regulation. Anyway everything is fine.

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kim @kimmymonte.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

oh hey sorry i haven’t texted you back in months it’s just that you asked me how i was

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Kirk W. Johnson @kirkinson.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I'm not sure my self-consciously silly hope that Canada really will annex OR, WA, and CA in the near future is actually less silly than Democrats' expectation that a substantial number of Trump voters will eventually come around and see reason.

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 18/02/2025

I wish the 'we need to focus on economics and the working class' people could understand that race, disability, gender, immigration status...these things ARE economic and working class issues. Anticapitalism is a feminist issue. Justice for some is justice for none.

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Kirk W. Johnson @kirkinson.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

When I was in my late teens and I was all starry-eyed about the successful filmmaking career I thought I was going to have, I made a top-10 list of all the people I wanted to work with the most. Jerry Goldsmith was #1, and I don't even remember 2-10.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Not exaggerating when I say I would like a personal, handwritten apology from every pundit who barfed out a dozen "the left wants to change the way you talk!" op-eds based on non-mandatory guidelines in obscure PDFs.

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Kirk W. Johnson @kirkinson.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

With the rapid and exhaustive dismantling of government funding for social goods, the supposedly good billionaires that supposedly exist have more opportunities than ever to step up and demonstrate their value to society.

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a man wearing a suit and tie is standing in a field of yellow flowers

Alt: Animated gif of Mr. Bean standing alone in a field of yellow flowers, checking his watch and waiting. And waiting.

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silas denver 🍎 @sweatermuppet.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

redesign of the piece that has gotten me restricted/suspended at least 4 times 😇

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

People today watching movies on their phones! It's the death of cinema! We need to bring movies back to their roots, which were... coin-operated peepshows with communal earbuds

man using peepshow movie machine circa 1890s

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Kirk W. Johnson @kirkinson.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

1. I love this era of baffling classical music album covers! 2. TREMENDOUS use of alt text in the quoted post!

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

the thing is that “keep posting, post everything, ignore the people from the community you claim to be defending who are telling you that your post does more harm than good” only feels like an important argument to make if posting about it is the only thing you ever intend to do for that community

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Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

The high temperature tomorrow in Chicago, where action is threatened, is only two degrees. So it would not only be your legal right to leave these a-holes out in the cold, it would also be immensely satisfying.

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Memento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

David Lynch was a goth girl at heart

David Lynch tweets 3 days apart:

"This weekend I'm going to try to find out if I'm connected to the moon."

"I'm pretty sure I'm connected to the moon."

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I don't think it was pain that made him so great, I think painting brought him whatever happiness he had. * RIP David Lynch

People might bring up Vincent van Gogh as an example of a painter who did great work in spite of, or because of, his suffering. I like to think that van Gogh would have been even more prolific and even greater if he wasn't so restricted by the things tormenting him. I don't think it was pain that made him so great, I think painting brought him whatever happiness he had.

—David Lynch

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Kirk W. Johnson @kirkinson.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

"Go ahead and laugh, but he affected me. You know what I'm saying? He affected me." 💔

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Lucky clip - Gone

YouTube video by Magnolia Pictures & Magnet Releasing

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Kirk W. Johnson @kirkinson.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Theoretically this is exactly the sort of thing we *should* be using automation for. People really underestimate how physically damaging a repetitive task like this can be. But instead we live in a world where for many people the options are either 'homelessness now' or 'long-term disability later.'

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Kirk W. Johnson @kirkinson.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

My senators don't give me many opportunities to vent my frustrations with Congress at them, so I'm going to *relish* yelling at Ron Wyden for this.

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Kirk W. Johnson @kirkinson.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

"Archived posts from a long-defunct film music forum reveal that as a teenager the suspect advocated the extinction of the human race in favor of returning world domination to dinosaurs, expressing sympathy with the villain played by Diane Ladd in the 1993 film CARNOSAUR."

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Staring a religion where you if you're good in this life you get to go an afterlife that looks like an early 80s stereo catalog.

two young people on roller-skates underneath a disco ball and neon rainbow, and surrounded by high end stereo equipment

city stoop scene, a group of young people are jamming out with high end stereo equipment on the steps

distressing costume party with silver and pink balloons and lots of stereo equipment around the guests

two sailors check out a gorgeous dame at a diner counter, a high end stereo is on the countertop

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 03/12/2024

it's a great system we have: one party is a snakepit of insane fascist sex creeps. the other is pathologically allergic to wielding power

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 03/12/2024

fondly recalling how after Jan 6 Congress went home for a long weekend, didn't start impeachment proceedings for a week, which then took another month

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

i don’t think staying on twitter is some moral failure but if you claim you’re doing it to “fight” in some capacity you’re deluded. your posts can’t defeat the algorithm.

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Kirk W. Johnson @kirkinson.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

I was really hoping I'd get to experience at least of full week of unadulterated happiness that Gonzalez and Mapps both lost.

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Kirk W. Johnson @kirkinson.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Trump's victory knocked the wind out of me, but what's actually making me feel like we're doomed is logging onto Instagram where everyone's stories are like 1 post about how important it is to organize & build community followed by 9 posts about how everyone else is a moron who let the fascists win.

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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 02/10/2024

revisited Double Impact the other day, made me really miss the way movies used to look - so much color, texture, fog, sweat, gorgeous light + shadows

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 08/09/2024

Me popping into the "black and white films" prompt with "ARE YOU SURE THEY WERE ACTUALLY BLACK AND WHITE????"

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Kool Aid Man House GIF

ALT: Kool Aid Man House GIF

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Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · 21/08/2024

This is really good

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 21/08/2024

“What’s new is that today’s fans aren’t looking for a fleeting chance to feel close to an artist they love—they’re seeking confirmation of the closeness they already assume exists.” 🎯🎯🎯

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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 20/08/2024

We should attack transphobia head-on simply because it is a disgusting ideology, but if that's not enough for you, it's a system of control that stems from a patriarchal assumption about what a woman "should" be whose natural end is rigid gender roles upheld by state violence. Which seems bad!

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Kirk W. Johnson @kirkinson.bsky.social · 16/08/2024

I was trying to quickly check the ADA requirements for entryway width for a thing at work, and Google AI spit up this completely nonsensical answer. Utterly useless garbage actively shoving real information to the side.

Screenshot of a Google AI Overview which reads: "According to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the minimum clear width for doorways, doors, and gates is 32 inches, but this can be reduced to 36 inches at points for a maximum distance of 24 inches. This increased width accommodates wheelchairs and provides clear wall space on the pull side of the door next to the handle."

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Jana H-S (she, like a knife) @jana-aych-ess.bsky.social · 26/07/2024

quick guidelines for writers: a period indicates a pause of about ten seconds. a comma, about seven second. an em-dash should be pronounced as loudly as possible. an ellipsis should remove a month from your lifespan. a semicolon should taste like dirt in the reader's mouth. a sentence can end wherev

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 21/07/2024

big thing happened anxiety levels exactly the same, but the flavor's a bit different

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Kirk W. Johnson @kirkinson.bsky.social · 13/07/2024

I feel like Bluesky's small-town vibe makes it even harder to piece together a full picture of wtf happened when you weren't looking than at the other site. Everyone just assumes the whole town saw what happened.

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 25/06/2024

I think a lot about that too, that one of the big lessons the American government took away is to never, ever remind people again how possible it is that they could have been meeting some of their material needs this entire time, but choose not to.

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Kirk W. Johnson @kirkinson.bsky.social · 20/06/2024

Donald Sutherland + Gene Wilder = how I repeatedly trick myself into misremembering "Start the Revolution Without Me" as one of the greatest comedies of all time.

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