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NightflyerJen @nightflyerjen.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

For those following me from that starter pack: I don't understand why I'm in it. I'm not happy with how things are, I have Opinions, yes! But this is just a lil' personal account. I lurk & post whenever whimsy strikes me. It's NOT just politics; if that's what you're looking for, I'm *not it.*

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 29/05/2026

Everything has to change. Everything. Do not settle for politicians who want to go back to "normal." "Normal" was the garbage state of existence that allowed all of this evil to take root and thrive. Everything has to change.

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🦇Red Vampire🦇 @redvampire.itch.io · 29/03/2026

Report this AI bro for plagiarism + harassment bsky.app/profile/erik... Posts: bsky.app/profile/erik... bsky.app/profile/erik...

Someone's skeet of a photo of their notebook pencil sketch of Nomad and "Fuck Ai" lettering"

user erikswartz.bsky.social responded with "Here you go saved you some time (winky tongue out emoji)" and an AI plagarism of their sketch colored.

erikswartz.bsky.social responds "Yeah, it was meant to be disrespectful. You're a good artist, and I appreciate your talent. But shitting on something that you feel threatened by and don't fully understand deserves to be mocked."

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NightflyerJen @nightflyerjen.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

I'm not Sicilian, but I do love some garlic... 🤔

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NightflyerJen @nightflyerjen.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

@littleevil0ne.bsky.social have you seen this? It's not a done deal yet, but... 🥰😁

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NightflyerJen @nightflyerjen.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.

Characters from the TV show "Highlander" in a still from the final episode: from left to right, Jim Byrnes as Joe Dawson, Peter Wingfield as Methos, Elizabeth Gracen as Amanda, and (seen from behind) Adrian Paul as Duncan MacLeod. Joe, Methos and Amanda have champagne glasses in their hands; Amanda has two and appears to be passing one to Duncan.

For those unfamiliar with the series: Amanda was an unrepentant and incorrigible thief, so it's not a big stretch to imagine her coming up with a ridiculous scheme to rob the Louvre and roping her friends into helping, which is why they're a reasonable "right answer" to "Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only." They're probably drinking to their successfully pulling it off. 😉

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Why the hell does everything have to happen at once?

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NightflyerJen @nightflyerjen.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Every so often, a post floats through my timeline that confirms, with crystal clarity, the knowledge that "*yes*, following this person was absolutely the right and only correct move to make." 😁👍

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The Other Happy Place @theotherhappyplace.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Living in interesting times is exhausting

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

We should have a Bluesky main character of the day that everyone is nice to, just pick someone and shower them with appreciation.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 07/07/2025

the core idea that can radicalize people is so simple: there is enough. there is enough food to feed everyone. enough resources to house everyone. money and technology and medicine to stop the suffering of people around the globe. once you accept that there's only one question: why don't we?

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Linda Butler @heninahat.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Boooo Paramount made me take these off Et$y but they can still be yours!!!! Who wants a Lower Decker on their head? (I'm beyond broke at the moment so an order would help me out enormously 🙏) #StarTrek #StarTrekLowerDecks #crochet #cosplay

Dr T'Ana, Rutherford, Sending, Boimler and Mariner as crochet hats.

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John Chen @johnchen.com.au · 29/03/2025

hear hear

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NightflyerJen @nightflyerjen.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

"Have you said 'thank you' even once?"

This is an image from Star Trek: the Next Generation. In the attached still photo, a Cardassian (a vaguely reptilian looking alien) interrogator (named Gul Madred, portrayed by the excellent David Warner) leans close to intimidate Captain Picard (played by Patrick Stewart.) Gul Madred was attempting to break Picard through torture, abuse and deprivation; he ultimately failed. This is the episode where Madred tries to bully Picard into saying there were five lights-- a deliberate lie, since there were in reality only four lights.

Whether or not Gul Madred would fit right in amid the current Administration, and where, is probably an exercise best left to the viewers of this post.

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NightflyerJen @nightflyerjen.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

*gulp* Well, I think it might be done... #altidance #dtiys @sephiramy.bsky.social I won't say it's *great*, but I had fun, and it made me stretch and learn (I usually use speckle brushes instead of cel shading but I think it worked okay.) Thanks for the challenge, and belated happy birthday!

A "draw this in your style" challenge, based on @sephiramy's work. A serpentine woman is dancing, her long black hair flaring out as she moves. She's wearing a purple-and-silvery dress, torn fishnet stocking, and black high-heeled shoes. There are brown and gray diamond patterns on her arms, shoulders, and face.

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NightflyerJen @nightflyerjen.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Apologies-- I forgot to check for alt text before I reskeeted @straczynski.bsky.social 's post. Since accessibility's important, I'm going to see if I can manage it. Original is here: bsky.app/profile/stra...

THE RULES OF THE NEW ARISTOCRACY

It doesn’t matter how much food costs increase, doesn’t matter if vou can only afford fast food, we will always be able to buy steak. And we will invest heavily in fast food stocks to ensure we make money off this. Doesn’t matter how much gas costs, we will always be able to afford it.

In addition to poor food choices and health coverage, your kids will grow up without proper nutrition which will cause them problems on every level, from physical to educational difficulties. Our kids will grow up straight and true and healthy.

It doesn’t matter how much an education costs, doesn’t matter if your kids can’t afford to go to college or come out with massive debt, we will always be able to send our kids to university. And
because a lot of our income is derived from tax incentives and taxpayer-fundeded bailouts your taxes are sending our kids to school. But you do not have the right to any of our money to send your kid to school.

If you or your kids want to start a business, you will find that because we’ve sucked all the money out of the economy, there is simply no available cash around to help you finance your startup. (Unless you want to go to your friends online at sites like Indiegogo, and isn’t that just cute?) We just cut our kids a check and tell them to go have fun.

Your kids are born with a glass ceiling above which they will almost certainly never have the opportunity to rise. Our kids are bom with a marble floor beneath which they will never be allowed to fall.

If you accidentally provide incorrect information on your tax retum, you could lose your house, your possessions, and your livelihood. We lie all the the time on our tax information and none of us ever have to deal with this. We squirrel away billions of dollars in overseas accounts and do all we can to ensure that your money never leaves our control because we’ll doubtless need to scoop out more of it soon.

You live in a Company Town; we pay you to work for us, while making sure that we own all the stores in town that sell our goods, the doctors offices where you go in town, the restaurants where you eat, and that we charge you just enough to make sure that at the end of the week you don’t have any leftover money to squirrel away, so you can never leave the company town, can never get ahead, and can never risk criticizing the company town. You work for us. We own the town where you live. We own you.

If one of you takes a hundred dollar bill from the cash register, you will go to jail. If we take billions out of the savings of ordinary people then crash the economy, costing thousands of jobs, not one of us will ever be prosecuted. Because the New Aristocracy is above such things. So we’ll just keep on doing it. Enjoy the ride.

Your local police belong to us now. We’ve militarized them into soldiers who treat you like terrorists. If you speak against us, we will ensure that you are tear gassed and beaten and handcuffed and caged into “free speech zones” designed to make you forget that the whole country was supposed to be a free speech zone. But now you have free speech only when and where we say you can have it. Meanwhile, we can say and do pretty much anything we want, to you or anyone else, and get away with it.

If you happen to figure out our game and talk about it, we will accuse you of Class Warfare, in order to distract anyone from realizing that yes, there was a class war, that it was against you, that the war is over, and we won.

Yes, you get a chance to vote for congresspeople and senators and presidents. But only after we’ve decided, Iong before the first ballot is ever cast, which candidate we will finance. Those we like, those who will give us what we want first and foremost, we will finance and you will get to vote on one of the two pre-screened candidates we have given you.

If we don’t like them, if we think they will challenge us, we will not finance them and you will never have the chance to vote on them. Because you don’t get a real vote in the New Aristocracy.

We own the White House. We own Congress. They pass the bills we write for them. They make the laws we want them to make, and make sure that they only limit you, never us. We own the courts. We own the lawyers. They are the club we use to beat you into submission.

There are no Democratic or Republican Senators, or Congresspeople or Presidents. Those parties have not existed for decades. There is only the Party of the New Aristocrat. The rest is Kabuki theater. It is Mexican Wrestling. It is the illusion of choice, of difference, of democracy. This is not a democracy. It is a monarchy of money. In that monarchy, we are the Aristocracy, the royalty, and what we say, goes.

If you dump trash illegally, you will be fined and potentially arrested. If we dump hundreds of tons of toxic waste into rivers and streams, none of us will ever be arrested and if we are fined, we will simply raise our prices so that you are the one to actually pay for what we did.

We are the New Aristocracy, and we do not pay fines.

We are the New Aristocracy, and we are immune from prosecution.

We are the New Aristocracy, and we find your poverty and your powerlessness and your struggles disgusting. You are beneath us.

Understand something: we don’t want you to succeed. We don’t want someone coming along to slice the pie into smaller pieces. We want to ovn all of it. If we really wanted more of you where
we are, do you think we would Inve spent the last thirty years consolidating every major company into smaller and smaller groups owned by fewer and fewer people?

We are the New Aristocracy because we were born into it. We got our money the old fashioned, Medieval way: our parents gave it to us. We were born into the wealth that we stole from you and
your family over the last fifty years.

You were not born into anything other than poverty and struggle. You will never be us. You will never have our our advantages. And we like it that way.

We like that you peer through the bars of your cage to all that we have. We like that you think you can have it yourself one day. Because that illusion keeps you on our side. But you wiil never
have those things. We’ve made sure of that. Because what you’re looking at is ours, and we do not share.

The world we have carefully constructed for you is like one of those boardwalk games of chance where if you knock down the big pins with a baseball, you win a huge prize. But the pins are
weighted and positioned so that you will never, ever knock them down. Yet you’ll keep paying anyway, and keep throwing, until you exhaust yourself and your wallet. And we like it that way.

We don’t want you to have opportunities, we don’t want you to have an education, we don’t want you to have a voice in what happens to you, we don’t want you healthy, we don’t want you to do anything but be frightened, helpless, docile consumers who will eat and watch and buy what we tell you to eat and watch and buy while we keep all the good stuff to ourselves.

Because you’re not in our club.

Because we are the New Aristocracy.

And you are the New Peasants.

And we very, very, very much like it that way.

An essay by J. Michael Straczynski

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NightflyerJen @nightflyerjen.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

I *wish* I could say he was wrong. But he isn't, because this describes the present all too accurately.

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Lieutenant Commander Aurora C. Travis @lttriptravis.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

@paramountplus.bsky.social We want #StarTrekLowerDecks back. Give us back the ditzy but hilarious crew of the Cerritos just doing their thing. Everyone, if you agree, repost this.

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⛓ X-Wing @ Alicianess ⛓ @allieinchains.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Reskeet if you're fucking tired of things being so fucking hard and you just want a goddamn break man

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borderless @borderless.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

BlueSky is trying to monetize so let's show them some numbers: Reskeet this if you refuse to pay for BlueSky+ until trust & safety decides to prioritize marginalized users. That's $96 / year of lost revenue for each reskeet...

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NightflyerJen @nightflyerjen.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Same here, 1000%. Singal and buds are OPENLY ANNOUNCING they're here to target and harass trans people and allies. That is abuse of the platform. @aaron.bsky.team @safety.bsky.app if BlueSky wants to be taken seriously, they need to be shut down, hard, NOW. NOBODY wants their bullshit here.

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NightflyerJen @nightflyerjen.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Name a TV show you're positive no one remembers but you. Of the three rotating storylines, I was most interested in the one with Dracula, who was played by Michael Nouri. Considering I was probably seven when it aired... I am old. 😭

This is an ad for a 1970s TV show titled Cliffhangers! It featured three serial stories: Stop Susan Williams (who was a journalist and is pictured with a camera); The Secret Empire (which had both Western and futuristic elements, if I remember correctly) and The Curse of Dracula (who is shown as a looming, caped figure above the image of an explosion.) The ad promises "Three different suspense thrillers in one action packed hour!"

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Crockett Houghton @crocketthoughton.com · 16/11/2024

My life is a series of awkward moments punctuated by moments I don’t yet know will be awkward.

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NightflyerJen @nightflyerjen.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

The canceled TV show you'll never stop thinking about

Three men, each standing in front of color blocks resembling the American flag. An older man in a black motorcycle jacket and fingerless gloves is backed by a field of red; he's Frohike. A younger man with long blond hair and a punk t-shirt stands backed by white; that's Langly. A third man looks dapper and dignified in a suit and neatly-trimmed beard before a sea of blue; he's Byers. Together they investigate conspiracies and oddities, fighting to let the truth be known and always believing in helping others and doing the right thing... as the Lone Gunmen.

And I don't care *what* that crappy vindictive episode said-- they're NOT dead. They're still out there, doing their best and fighting the good fight... if only in our hearts.

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The Other Happy Place @theotherhappyplace.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Not the collage I had planned on making around my I voted sticker but I made one anyway lol

A collage on brown paper. In the top are gold fireworks and an "I voted" sticker with a small American flag. In the bottom is a drawing of a sad overwhelmed woman drawn by Charles Gibson in the Gilded age style
I have added dark blue circles under her eyes to emphasize exhaustion. She is surrounded by liquor bottles and glasses I have hand drawn and colored with pen and marker. Around her are some small designs as ...---... which is Morse code fore "SOS" a sign of distress

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NightflyerJen @nightflyerjen.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

I'm proud to say, I helped crowdfund this. Maybe check it out, if you have a chance? I think it's gonna be gloriously weird and wonderful.

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 10/03/2024

If we can all collectively pretend that an hour simply vanished last night *even if we don't even agree with the practice,* then we can pretty much do anything we want. UBI. Tax billionaires. Dental care is health care. Fuck you we make time disappear we can do it all.

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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 09/02/2024

AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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Katie Aki ✶ @katieaki.bsky.social · 31/12/2023

repost for better luck next year

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NightflyerJen @nightflyerjen.bsky.social · 27/12/2023

Sooo... friends and I are doing a Babylon 5 rewatch, and we're in season 4. I see a meme popping up on the timeline, and think, "didn't we watch this scene recently?" (Please be nice, I'm nervous about sharing my sketches 🥴 )

This is a sketch of two Babylon 5 characters, Londo and Vir. Both of them are aliens from Centauri (which means they have fancy crests of hair fanning out of their scalps; other anatomical differences are hidden.) Both are wearing fairly elaborate robes, though I simplified them for the sketch. Londo is saying, "Vir, I think we're gonna have to kill this Cartagia guy, yes?" Vir is staring, dumbfounded, at the suggestion.

I highly recommend watching Babylon 5, it's *amazing.*

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 18/12/2023

'i only defied billions of years of crashing stars and the endlessly swiping hands of fate through a billion paths and decisions defying nearly incalculable odds to be here but yeah my painting is only kind of good' NO BUD. IT IS MIND MELTINGLY INCREDIBLE WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT

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NightflyerJen @nightflyerjen.bsky.social · 27/11/2023

I was looking for more craft posters to follow, and stumbled across this. WOW. Got me right in the feels.

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 20/11/2023

It's super weird how folks can easily accept that playing the right game or reading the right book at the right time can change the course of a life for the better or even save it... but not that media has the power to occasionally cause severely negative or life-threatening changes in others.

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Tales From The Stitch @thestitchkeeper.bsky.social · 18/11/2023

To make up for some lost work time last week due to ‘life’😂 I’ll bring in my legendary free shipping code for all orders today. Use the code freeship at checkout and save yourself like, $20 on some phenomenal yarn friends 👇🏾 www.talesfromthestitch.com/s/shop

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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 02/11/2023

My toxic trait is I want every human to be sheltered, fed, clothed and provided healthcare at no direct cost to themselves. I DO NOT CARE if some people then do nothing for the rest of their lives. Mazletov, god bless. I don't care if a few people figure out ways to game the system. People need help

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NightflyerJen @nightflyerjen.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

Nine and a half. In high school, our creative writing class convinced the teacher we should all go across the street to the donut shop so we could write about it. Does it count as skipping when the teacher comes along? 🤣 (And my mom was mad when she heard about our little unscheduled field trip...)

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

My politics boil down to people should be free to live their lives without fear and pain. They should be clothed, housed, and allowed to prosper. Their bodies should be nurtured through access to food and medical care. Joy and security should not be the hoarded resources they are.

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Coach Gowron @coachgowron.com · 22/09/2023

Kahless tells us there is no honor in souring someone's happiness, if they are causing no harm. Nor should you attempt to turn others away from something that brings them joy simply because it does not do so for you. Revel that they have found their joy, and go find your own.

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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

PSA: the CDC has a program that pays for your COVID vaccine if your insurer won't. The guy at CVS told me that my insurer had not added the new vaccine to its formulary yet, so I'd need to pay $190. I told him about this program, showed him the website, and paid nothing. 🤗

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Bridge Access Program | CDCCenters for Disease Control and Prevention. CDC twenty four seven. Saving...

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