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@octopushearts.bsky.social
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Teaching, horror, food, and absurdity

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Tess @itstessinadress.bsky.social · 5h
The canon timeline of Pacman isn't that he started a family with Ms Pacman, it's that all those pills he spent 1980 eating were estradiol, and 1981 was when she started wearing a hair bow and updating people on her pronouns
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Em @octopushearts.bsky.social · 7h
Showed the Mr. Rogers doc 'Won't You Be My Neighbor' to my media kid yesterday. I remember watching it w/ teacher friends when it debuted. We all just cried the whole time. This segment where Daniel Striped Tiger sings with/against Lady Aberlin always gets me. youtu.be/Hx02q-lLdtw?...
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Daniel Tiger ''Mistake''
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bobby @bobbylewis.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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Hackers heat French supermarket fridges, sparking fires and spoiling food | CNN
Hackers raised the temperature of refrigerators and freezers ​at hundreds of French supermarkets to as high as 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit) overnight, causing fires and spoiling food.
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STABbins McGee (Halloween Themed) 🇵🇸 @stabbinsmcgee.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
You. Never. Know. I’m no stranger to those thoughts either. But you have no idea who your suicide would devastate. Someone you haven’t thought about in ages would pay any price, travel any distance to beg you not to. Someone will wish for the rest of their life that you’d given them the chance.
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Jeremy Whitley @jeremywhitley.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
If any of what AI companies say about the dangers of AI is true, they need to be shut down immediately for the public good. If it's not, they should be shut down for fraud. Two potential problems, one simple solution.
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Ben (Bee) Kahn @benkahncomics.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
No King's Comic-Com is a free, digital comic con on Thursday night featuring amazing speakers and guests. The @comixaction.com crew has worked so hard on this, would love it if you can attend!!
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Jeremy Whitley @jeremywhitley.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Oh, hey, what's this? A buzzingly positive Kirkus review for the currently pre-orderable The Dog Knight: Chaos Bites Back? "Another satisfying, paw-sitively epic adventure, sure to leave readers eager for the next volume." Take that, book banners. www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
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THE DOG KNIGHT | Kirkus Reviews
The Dog Knight returns for another world-saving mission.
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Em @octopushearts.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Hell yes, new season of Haunted Hotel!
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Haunted Hotel Abaddon
Alt: Haunted Hotel Abaddon and Esther doing a handshake that ends in Devil horns
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gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Soulja Boy owned Johnathan Blow so hard his brain exploded
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Em @octopushearts.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Updating my emergency sub plans from a 2020 doc and I see the following italicized note at the top of the page: "Many of these students are English Language-Learners. Please be patient with them." My heart. It's wild to think that those freshmen are all in their 20s now. I bet they're doing great
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Em @octopushearts.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I think about this poem all the time.
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Handy Devine 🇵🇸🏴 @almightybob.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hemingway eat your heart out
r/legaladvice 1d ago u/Mooselet211
Toilet exploded
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Em @octopushearts.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I look for this thread every time there's a Steam sale and it never disappoints
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Ben (Bee) Kahn @benkahncomics.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I've had the best time working on Barbie. Can't wait for you to see the adventures we're cooking up for her!!
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SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The secret ingredient is a half teaspoon of rosewater. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/cardamom PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
1-panel SMBC comic update. A man is leaning into a guillotine to be executed. Surprised, he asks "is that... Cardamom?" The executioner answers "with a hint of aniseed." The caption below the comic reads "the best thing about holding The Revolution in Fall was the pumpkin spice guillotine."
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 06/10/2026
“This doesn’t actually have anything to do with me” is such a powerful anti-posting mental device. Discourse I could jump in on? This doesn’t actually have anything to do with me. Other posters beefing? This doesn’t actually have anything to do with me. An internet personality exposed? Guess what
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Em @octopushearts.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Finalizing Q1 grades and I notice my students do this strange thing. Titles are usually centered, and then the rest of the text is left-aligned. But my kids, they'll center the title and just leave it like that. Their essays end up looking like lantern poems.
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Jeremy Whitley @jeremywhitley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is not the great white hope of the Democratic Party. This is a Republican in cosplay.
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gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If you want to learn more about how pervasive and normalized college sexual assault is, I recommend the book Missoula by Jon Krakauer. It’s a tough read but essential.
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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 01/10/2026
if you aren't already supporting @mothership.blog, you should be. support women and queer people in video game criticism and journalism. we deserve to exist in these spaces but, at least in the case of mothership, we can only exist and pay our writers and introduce you to new writers if YOU help us.
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Em @octopushearts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For most of my career, I've been the safe teacher on campus. This is do in no small part to 1) being warm and welcoming 2) having a classroom pantry 3) being generous with supplies It's almost like humans work better when you treat them as such
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Em @octopushearts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Successfully convinced the district's tech services dept to unblock mothership.blog for potential use in my media class! According to them: "The site contains legitimate media journalism, criticism, and essays that may be useful in a media course"
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Mothership
Video game coverage for her, them, and yes, him, too.
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Em @octopushearts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It's been more than a decade since I was a grad student, but this is a really fascinating list of books. I could some of them making interesting excerpts for my high school students' study of rhetoric or even our Project-Based Learning work
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Em @octopushearts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Me, while showing my media class the Muppets (2011): "Think about the parallels between this and Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo, where they have to dance to raise money for the community center."
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Bongo” Ballpoint pen, pencil, watercolor, acrylic paint, and a little colored pencil.

Our man is in trouble this time, reader. Art supplies are scattered around a painting of an abstract cityscape. On the canvas we see a man in a telephone booth making a frantic call to his cat, Bongo. In the foreground, an answering machine is taking his voicemail, [Leave a message at the beep] --- “Bongo, Daddy got stuck in the painting. Go get help, Bongo.” Bongo stands at the base of the easel looking at the phone. Her tail in the air and ears perked up. Whether she’ll be able to help is open to interpretation.

Artist’s note: One of my favorites from the Spooky Pants book. I was playing around with the idea of a painting coming to life (like that guy in Ghostbusters 2) and kind of fumbled my way into this version. I really draw a lot of corded phones. I won’t stop.
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Liam Hogan @liamjhogan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Watched in reverse, this project is losing all its backers... But from THIS rather more conventional perspective, it's ticking along and getting very close to full funding! 3 days to go, 101 backers already behind it, 85% there...
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Astreia @redoubters.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 25/09/2026
ME: Trying to remember which Avengers were in the first movie. Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, Hulk, Black Widow…that’s everyone, right SCOTTISH GUY: Och aye ME: Oh right. Easy to forget him though
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haunt-a willow 🐈‍⬛🐦‍⬛🔮🖤✨ @hanawillow.kim · 25/09/2026
COME ONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN
writing on an in-game chalkboard that says "FIX YOUR HEART OR DIE"
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haunt-a willow 🐈‍⬛🐦‍⬛🔮🖤✨ @hanawillow.kim · 25/09/2026
it’s no big deal they probably just said this for no reason and i definitely haven’t been thinking about it for seven years
dylan channeling the hiss in control (2019) and saying “the egg cracks and the truth will emerge out of you.”dylan speaking to his sister and saying “but in the dream, i was alone, it was just me.”dylan continues, “a girl.”“my name was jesse dylan faden.”
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Coyote vs. LinkedIn @knabewolf.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
September, but I lost my 45 adapter
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If you’re moved by this guy crying boy oh boy are there some other images and videos you should check out
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Em @octopushearts.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Watching 'Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island', it's pretty clear that a select subset of people had this movie be their awakening
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Janet Ghoulcia @gameonysus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Tomorrow! 9/19 at 11 am PT me and @isaiahsmith.dev will be raising money for the American Heart Association on Twitch by playing Silent Hill 2 Remake together! We've never played (beyond the first hr or two). Watch: Twitch.tv/gamesandnotgames Donate: tiltify.com/@gamesandnot...
Promo image for the stream using the Silent Hill 2 Remake key art (but edited to have my face over the wife's and to have Isaiah in the foreground. Text on the image explains the aforementioned time, date, and url to watch
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Em @octopushearts.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
As a person that loves a personal narrative, I'm a total sucker for this every time. Especially if involves a food I love--or could grow to love.
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Jeremy Whitley @jeremywhitley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
ICYMI: Our friends at @slj.com have an extended preview of Navigating with You Vol 2, currently available for preorder everywhere books are sold, but I'd love it if you used my Bookshop affiliate link: bookshop.org/p/books/navi... goodcomicsforkids.slj.com/2026/09/15/n...
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‘Navigating with You,’ Vol. 2 | Preview
Gabby has a lot of emotions on her first day at her new school - miles from Neesha - in our excerpt from Vol. 2 of Navigating with You.
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Em @octopushearts.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Here's a great interview from our hometown, independent newspaper talking with Boots Riley about his roots in NC and organizing indyweek.com/news/culture...
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Boots Riley on Labor Organizing, His North Carolina Family Roots, and “I Love Boosters”
The filmmaker makes stops in Durham and Winston-Salem, this week, as part of his tour for his new anti-capitalist caper, "I Love Boosters."
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Ben (Bee) Kahn @benkahncomics.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Linguistic drift gives us incredible lines like this one from John Carpenter's Vampires: "He's been setting this up all along! One goon at time."
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 17/09/2026
find one thing today that isn’t awful and notice it’s not-awfulness i believe in you
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ceej @ceej.online · 15/09/2026
ME: I’ve tried every kind of lotion and I still just think it’s icky. I hate feeling all slimy; it makes me feel all greasy and sticky. I just wish there were an easier way THE SKINTAKER: (already having sunk too much PTO into this murder to quit now) Please just rub some into your elbows at least
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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It's alive... alive!!!! #OpportunityWindow, an anthology of time loop stories, has launched on BackerKit! Come join the adventure! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...
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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Gonna have to wrap the screen we watch this on in one of those anti-bedbug plastic covers. Gonna have to put the film in a medical waste container once we're done.
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Tess @itstessinadress.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Pandemic? Higher grocery bills. Inflation up? Higher grocery bills. War in Iran? Higher grocery prices. Good weather? Higher grocery bills. Bad weather? Higher grocery bills. War in Iran called off or inflation goes down? Believe it or not, higher grocery bills.
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Em @octopushearts.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This was so lovely. I know I'm a sucker for a personal story with an interesting framing, but this seems like something my memoirs students would really appreciate
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USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
FLCL did nothing for me personally.
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Jeremy Whitley @jeremywhitley.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
If you are looking for some queer comics to support as a reviewer without spending any money, I have two upcoming books on @netgalley.bsky.social right now you can review www.netgalley.com/catalog/book... www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...
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Em @octopushearts.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Long ago, I was gonna see The Black Keys at Cat's Cradle in Carrboro, NC. It's a smaller venue; the stage itself is only a few feet off the ground. Anyway, I drove 40 min there, parked, and handed the dude my printed ticket (I know, I know). He takes one look at it and goes, "This was last night."
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STABbins McGee (Halloween Themed) 🇵🇸 @stabbinsmcgee.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
MAHA doctors be like, “Technically, we’re all ‘bleeding internally.’”
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Holy shiiiiiiit if you know anyone in North Carolina who may even know anyone who knows anyone who's been to an event by these people, get them to go get the rabies post-exposure prophylaxis shots RIGHT THE FUCK NOW, DO NOT WAIT, YOU CANNOT TREAT IT AFTER SYMPTOMS START
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Disney Prime Video + ᵖᵃʳᵒᵈʸ @disneyprimevideo.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Weapons (2025)
Bluey, Coco and Snickers play Keepy Uppy in the dark Brisbane nght

"Fuck off" - Toddler Parent magazine

Last Night
at 2:17 am
(Austrialian Eastern Standard Time)
Every Child
In Calypso's Class
Woke Up
Got out of Bed
Went downstairs
Opened the front door
Walked out into the dark
Played Keepy Uppy
...and they never came back
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