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Grin & Bear It

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Absurdist. Human. She/her. I use em dashes and semicolons.

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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Calling all bookworms… What a wonderful idea. 👰📖❤️ #BookSky
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 6h
The image is of a four panel comic. The title reads "Dracula's Cat".
In the first panel we see a computer screen that reads "child-size coffins".
In the second panel we see Dracula looking at his computer.
In the second panel we see Dracula hiding in the shadow of a curtain as a delivery man drags the coffin to his doorstep.
In the third panel we see Dracula sleeping in his coffin and a cat loafing in the child-sized coffin beside him.
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Brynn Tannehill @brynntannehill.bsky.social · 6h
A number of people have asked why Trump has suddenly torn the mask off and gone fully pro-Putin. My guess: he knows the GOP is hosed in the mid-terms, and he needs full Russian support to help shape public opinion that it was rigged, and thence to overturn the results.
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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 7h
Fellow humans, please touch grass
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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
your next dive into the horror tingleverse in coming... RAINBOW CAPITAL BY CHUCK TINGLE from @tornightfire.bsky.social with cover art by cassie vu. support human art AND treat yourself to a future gift by taking a moment to preorder here us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
cover of RAINBOW CAPITAL by chuck tingle with art by cassie vu. yellow background with the title on top and author name below. there is a womans face neck and shoulders looking at the viewer but her face is split horizontally and the top have is missing. various crimson sea creatures our bursting out of the top and twisting a round making vague shape of hair and the rest of her face. tagline is 'execution is scalable'
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Joey McAllister @joeymcallister.com · 22h
Sigh. We shouldn’t have to do this.
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Grin & Bear It @michelesliger.bsky.social · 18h
Those damn double knit orange and brown uniforms with the cap were so nasty, were so hot and trapped all the smells. I went home smelling like a grease trap for two weeks, even my hair reeked. I’m surprised I stuck with it that long tbh.
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Grin & Bear It @michelesliger.bsky.social · 18h
Made it two weeks at my first job, Burger King. At the interview I said the only day I could not work was Sundays, for religious reasons (a lie, Sundays were the only day I got to see my boyfriend). Weeks 1 & 2 the boss honored that, week 3 he didn’t (just being a dick), so I quit. No regrets.
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Joey McAllister @joeymcallister.com · 16/10/2026
“What is a skeleton’s favorite snack?”
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Skull Boy Tells a Joke (The Real One)
YouTube video by Tom Schalk
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Grin & Bear It @michelesliger.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
And if you don’t know who Victor Marx is, here ya go, and yes this is real youtube.com/shorts/3SO7V...
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Colorado's Victor Marx can't tell you where he's been, but he CAN tell you he's an exorcist
YouTube video by The Daily Show
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Grin & Bear It @michelesliger.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
What the…🤣🤣🤣 I mean this is some serious LOL *while by yourself*, it’s that bananas. 🥃🥃🥃 Dems on drugs! 🍳 And the moderator just following the script, wtf she should be ashamed, how could you not ask if the candidate had been drinking? With robots like her will we even notice if AI takes over?
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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 15/10/2026
I’m not one for feel good slogans and such, but I do think we have an obligation to focus on beauty—as a means of feeding ourselves. Maybe you aren’t great at mindfulness. But I’ve found that something as simple as looking at trees helps. Really look. Individual leaves on an endless sky. Sunlight.
Maple tree leaves just beginning to fade from summer green on an expanse of blue
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Grin & Bear It @michelesliger.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Ooooo the WIG! 😍😆
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
the thing i like about the phrase "vibe coding" is it lets every genuine developer know the app in question will be an absolute clusterfuck within two major updates.
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
"I have a girlfriend, she lives in Canada" ---> "I have a law degree, it's from China"
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Grin & Bear It @michelesliger.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Such good live summaries, like the Jon Stewart of SCOTUS reporting🫡🙏
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Grin & Bear It @michelesliger.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Brilliant. Wonder if this would work at the gym… youtu.be/QctnL4aHa9g?...
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Want to be taken seriously as a woman? Try this!
YouTube video by Yvette Segan
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Grin & Bear It @michelesliger.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Brilliant. Wonder if this would work at the gym… youtu.be/QctnL4aHa9g?...
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Want to be taken seriously as a woman? Try this!
YouTube video by Yvette Segan
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Grin & Bear It @michelesliger.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Oh no, just heard that the Grace Hopper Celebration (a conference for female computer engineers & students) was cancelled just two weeks prior to opening😭 I was only able to attend once but I’ll never forget being so overwhelmed at the number of women there—thousands!— that I just started crying.
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Grin & Bear It @michelesliger.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Oh no, just heard that the Grace Hopper Celebration (a conference for female computer engineers & students) was cancelled just two weeks prior to opening😭 I was only able to attend once but I’ll never forget being so overwhelmed at the number of women there—thousands!— that I just started crying.
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Grin & Bear It @michelesliger.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Right? I know you have to secure funding pretty early, and sponsors typically don’t pull out at the last minute because it’d be bad PR (unless they discovered they’d accidentally funded a dog fighting symposium for example, and staying in would be worse PR than getting out). Smells fishy.
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Grin & Bear It @michelesliger.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
The costumer for the show does amazing work.Everything he wears is just the right level of threadbare, stained, poorly fit. Those thin white shirts and that nasty-ass trench coat are the worst! (in the best way!)
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Grin & Bear It @michelesliger.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I debated reading the books but decided not to because I’m enjoying the show so much. You know how sometimes it can ruin the show if you’ve read the book and already formed ideas about the characters and story? Like right now I’m hate-watching Murderbot because I feel the books are so much better.
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Grin & Bear It @michelesliger.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Here’s the article explaining it was due to a lack of funding… but so late? Feels like there’s more to the story. www.forbes.com/sites/sandyc...
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What The Grace Hopper Celebration Cancellation Means For Women In AI
AnitaB.org canceled the 2026 Grace Hopper Celebration weeks before it opened. Here is what the loss means for women in AI and the companies hiring them.
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Grin & Bear It @michelesliger.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
It is so meaningful to see that you’re not alone. It was so healing not being the only woman in the room. No fear of assault or harassment, no need to keep defenses up. Just women wanting to share what they’ve learned, and exchange ideas. Just joy.
Me holding up a cutout with a pic of Hopper in uniform pointing at me with the caption “I’m the next Grace Hopper”
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Grin & Bear It @michelesliger.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
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Damn Straight Saturday Night Live
Alt: Kenan Thompson of SNL in soldier garb saying Damn Straight
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Grin & Bear It @michelesliger.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Yes, and I love how his character always refers to his flock of incompetent sheep as “my Joes.” I haven’t read the books so I don’t know if this is an original or something the show writers created, but it puts him solidly in the “heart in the right place” list for me, and keeps me rooting for him.
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Grin & Bear It @michelesliger.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Re: Slow Horses It’s even more wild when I stop to think about Oldman’s previous high-sex-appeal roles (Sid Vicious, Dracula, Sirius Black) and now just how damn nasty and gross he is as Lamb. Such a brilliant actor!🫡
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Grin & Bear It @michelesliger.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Thanks, Kyle 👍
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Grin & Bear It @michelesliger.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I think we keep watching this incompetence porn because their hearts are in the right place and they really want to help people (well, enough of them do, the others are just comedy relief like Ho), and also because Gary Oldman is just masterful. I swear I can smell him thru the screen.
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
This is a bop youtu.be/3TNpOD6bov8?...
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LGTM (Looks Good to Me) - Claude Opus 5.5 music video
YouTube video by Degenerative Pixels
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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
A Northern Cardinal #LookingDown for the #BirdOfTheDay #birds 🌿
A reddish brown bird with a red beak stands on a branch leaning forward and looking down towards the ground.
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The Seven Stages of Democrat Rage When Republicans Are Fascistic: 1. This is simply wrong 2. We are better than this 3. It’s downright un-American 4. Reagan would be rolling in his grave 5. This is simply wrong (reprise) 6. I am writing a letter 7. Can you chip in $5 to help me put a stop to this
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Grin & Bear It @michelesliger.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Here’s the link to the ProPublica Rx Inspector site where you can see who makes your medication and what their inspection reports look like: projects.propublica.org/rx-inspector/
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Where Was My Generic Prescription Drug Made? - Rx Inspector - ProPublica
The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information on your prescription label to locate the factory and see inspection reports.
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Grin & Bear It @michelesliger.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
WATCH THIS! This is horrifying. If we’re lucky enough to avoid being poisoned by tainted food and water, and avoid being shot by police or disappeared by ICE, and dodge environmental disasters caused by climate collapse and chemical spills, they may still kill us via contaminated medicine 👇
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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
if you have even a second of wondering, "well maybe she did something..." -- she was raided by DHS, not the FBI
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Grin & Bear It @michelesliger.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
One more in the Hope for Humanity column… Timeline Cleanse 🥲 youtu.be/TnI8-dWfPaI?...
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The dog rescuer
YouTube video by CBS Sunday Morning
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Grin & Bear It @michelesliger.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Yo bros, contemplate this
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Grin & Bear It @michelesliger.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Genius
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
St. Sabina Catholic Church in Chicago has placed more than 100 crosses outside the parish. Each bears the name of someone who died in ICE custody or during an immigration enforcement action. Union workers built the traveling memorial, which began at Holy Name Cathedral last month.
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Brian Kane @briank3387.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Not a bad idea
A Twitter post reads: "Today I'm coining a new internet slang term: ai;dr. AI, didn't read. Start using this to reply to comments that are obviously written by AI and watch what happens."
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
If you need a pickmeup, Ukraine struck and destroyed a Russian data center last night, reducing Russian bot traffic by 50%, dropping online pro-AfD discussion to zero, cratering MAGA traffic, and making Elon big mad. Just in time for the mid-terms. Slava fucking Ukraini.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 09/10/2026
if you don’t keep up with the youth i want you to know they’ve renamed “tramp stamps” to “cake toppers” which feels like the first advancement for feminism in a long time
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Satan @satan.wsocial.eu · 11/10/2026
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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
A reminder that alt text is great for many reasons, in addition to providing info about an image for people with visual impairment. I use it all the time for reading text images. Also the second reason listed below made me giggle and also applies to me.
A sassy blue bird with a white throat and belly looks towards the camera with a speech bubble above saying: do you add alt text to your images.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 11/10/2026
Hi, I’m a sighted alt text user! Here are some reasons I use it: - Slow Internet on an airplane - I’m over 40, I have no idea who that celebrity is - Bluesky broke images again - My vision sucks and that text is too small to read otherwise - Conveys further context and authorial intent
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 11/10/2026
Also mutes take alt text into account. If you mute a word and it shows up in alt text, you won't see that post. I deeply appreciate people who use alt text!
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JacketDan’s Stunt Spooktacular @jacketdan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
A valuable lesson
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Grin & Bear It @michelesliger.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Kaiju Preservation Society should be your next one then. Same author. Excellent, funny, a damn delight in every way.
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Sean Eric Fagan @kithrup.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The Dive Bar at the End of the Road, by @kelleyarmstrong.bsky.social, is *not* the light urban fantasy I was expecting, but is instead very, very effective horror. It had me in suspense until the end, which is a perfect ending (in that, any other ending would have lessened the story to that point).
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