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Page of Words @ratliff.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
went on a lengthy and disdainful jeremiad about AI in front of my class of 10 people (including "it makes people stupider"), forgetting that one of the people in class had told me she uses it 😞
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
as a kid growing up in Texas, New York City seemed so far away and glamorous and mysterious and cool, and as an adult I know it's just a city like any other but whenever I see shit like this I get a little of that same feeling of magic again
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Page of Words @ratliff.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
the new "men are afraid women will laugh at them and women are afraid men will kill them"
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Page of Words @ratliff.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
16. Never ever open and then close a bathroom medicine chest mirror 17. Never ever open and close a door that obscures part of the room 18. Never be a boyfriend 19. Don't own knives 20. If something seems scary and then turns out to be nothing and you relax and laugh, it was nice knowing you
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
I've gone to two non-Alamo theaters this month and both of them had the big reclining chairs that Alamo has and I didn't see anyone on their phones or being overly talkative at either of them, so I guess now the Alamo pitch is it's the 1 theater where you will DEFINITELY see phones during the movie
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Page of Words @ratliff.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
what's on your nightstand?
photo of an end table / nightstand lit by a table lamp. a realistic painting of two fish and a tootsie pop leans against the lamp. in front of it are three lioconcha hieroglyphica shells. toward the right are a cheap digital alarm clock, a wristwatch, a silver bangle, a scented candle in a holographic jar, and a bottle of clobetasol propionate. at the center are two boxed decks of cards, the oblique strategies deck and the moonlit hermit tarot, and some paper money folded in half with two quarters on it.
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Page of Words @ratliff.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Catastrophizin' Triscuit
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Page of Words @ratliff.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
One Free Refill of Jest
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Page of Words @ratliff.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
getting genuinely worried about tim heidecker's throat
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Page of Words @ratliff.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
congratulations to vic berger on his new gig directing piers morgan uncensored
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 24/04/2026
the double coke machine meme with labels: "Grateful for the insight I have gained from all my experiences" and "Still thinks some of that sh*t should not have happened"
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Page of Words @ratliff.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
if john lydon had been posh and not so irish
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Page of Words @ratliff.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
there are so many worse things in the world, but the decline and fall of once-great copyediting departments is a source of personal grief for me. (there's a bluesky stalwart being done dirty in a major outlet this morning.)
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Page of Words @ratliff.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
i for one do not wish to see the full display
a white house post on x announcing a news conference tomorrow with the phrases "american strength. full display. don't miss it."
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Page of Words @ratliff.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
would really like to force these people to list in detail all the horrors they'd vote for as the lesser evil
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
"litmus test" is just consultant speak for "having beliefs"
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Page of Words @ratliff.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
i think this person has good intentions but the fiction that "objectivity" is possible when assessing oneself is responsible for a lot of bad behavior; e.g., i'm sure both musk and andreesen consider themselves to be wholly objective even as they continually inflict their own neuroses on the world
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Page of Words @ratliff.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
I think this is a sensible take, but what all the heated arguments (including some in these replies) seem to ignore is that unless you're a sociopath you have a red line you won't cross to vote for someone. These arguments all boil down to "Your red line is different from mine and therefore wrong."
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
our whole world would be different if this had been the way tech journalists talked to AI company CEO's five years ago
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Page of Words @ratliff.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
well who knew
an amazon author photo that shows e. m. forster as a middle aged modern lady wearing glasses, a colorful top, chunky jewelry, and a shag haircut
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Page of Words @ratliff.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
ERIKESTRADA
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Page of Words @ratliff.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
for the last time, i'm not voting for gavin newsom
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Page of Words @ratliff.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
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Page of Words @ratliff.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
mandatoryrollercoaster.com/post/8081046...
mandatoryrollercoaster.com
Mandatory Roller Coaster
This is Progress
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Page of Words @ratliff.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Obi Wan Kenobi plays a cat and mouse game of espionage with Jean Luc Picard (okay, fine, it was a tv miniseries)
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Page of Words @ratliff.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
i was once talking to someone (in broad daylight, in a crowded mcdonald's) who said she thought blair witch was underwhelming. under questioning she admitted she had watched some of it through her fingers and so had missed some of it. i asked her if she had seen the last image in the movie. 1/2
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Page of Words @ratliff.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
bolstering the point that americans can't process information, the comments are full of people decrying the stupidity of all those other people but almost nobody points out that this chart assumes "dem" and "rep"" are two cohesive, coherent, and mutually exclusive points of view, which they're not
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Page of Words @ratliff.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
A Field in England (2013)
A still from the black-and-white 2013 film A Field in England showing a somewhat psychedelic symmetrical mirror image of a 17th-century Englishman bound by a rope and grinning maniacally
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Page of Words @ratliff.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
more intense and concerted online bullying is apparently necessary eyes on the prize, people: ZERO convention delegates
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Page of Words @ratliff.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
this is delightful AND did anyone else think your mac was rebooting?
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ostonox @ostonox.com · 26/02/2026
Kat Abughazaleh on ICE in IL-9 debate "We need to fully abolish and prosecute ICE. We need to repeal the Patriot Act. We need to lift refugee caps. And we need to offer complete amnesty and citizenship to any immigrant here who has not committed a violent crime."
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Page of Words @ratliff.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
there are some good things here so i am trying to give them the benefit of the doubt but how the FUCK do you do a 12-episode podcast about fela and never even MENTION let alone talk to any of the musicians who played with him? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...
podcasts.apple.com
Fela Kuti: Fear No Man
Society & Culture Podcast · Series · In a world that’s on fire, what is the role of art? What can music actually…do? Can a song save a life? Change a law? Topple a president? Get you killed? In Fela K...
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Page of Words @ratliff.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
holy shit
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Page of Words @ratliff.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
bluesky, help me out: i get a ton of posts in my following feed from people i'm not following. these are not reposts, they're people i don't know ENTERING MY SPACE UNINVITED. what obvious thing am i missing here?
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Page of Words @ratliff.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
jesse jackson was the first candidate i ever worked for because he was the only democrat saying that we needed to UNDO what reagan had done rather than just accept it as the new reality not that this has any relevance to the current moment
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Page of Words @ratliff.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
I don't think the powers that be care about these guys in particular, but if they're easily replaceable that might suggest they're not worth all that money they're being paid, and that's an idea they don't want anyone reflecting on.
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Page of Words @ratliff.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Post a banger that isn't in English youtu.be/lp9uZKy6H7Y?...
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Jorge Ben - Ponta de Lança Africano (Umbabarauma)
YouTube video by maxitaxiphone
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Page of Words @ratliff.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. "Okay, but that's an idea, not an emotion."
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Page of Words @ratliff.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
A journal of amphetamine reviews called Maslow's Hierarchy of Speeds
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
James Frey, it's your time to shine!
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Page of Words @ratliff.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Tour guide Radio DJ Improv teacher Copy editor Drafter of honorary and congratulatory resolutions for the Texas Legislature
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Page of Words @ratliff.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
this would require seeing the other side as an enemy to be destroyed, which democrats are constitutionally incapable of
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Ben @gridlock.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
interesting to note both treatments for alzheimers are infusions that are delivered every 2-4 weeks via IV in the hand, and require both MRI and cognitive tests to monitor. Weird.
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Page of Words @ratliff.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
realizing that if you don't support free speech for people you disagree with, you don't actually support free speech challenge: impossible bc what is the point of bringing this up in this context other than to suggest that nobody should care too much about this, harp being bad and wrong and all?
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
trying to marry one of the shadows on the cave wall
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Page of Words @ratliff.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
one of the many infuriating things about this is that it assumes people are selfish and care more about their own well-being than they care about other people at a time when ordinary people are risking their lives to defend their neighbors
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Page of Words @ratliff.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
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Page of Words @ratliff.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
I can sympathize with wanting to include everything you've learned as a biographer so that your research isn't wasted, but the book I'm reading now goes into *excruciatingly* detailed family histories for every minor figure, which feels more like it's there because it was easy to look up
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Page of Words @ratliff.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Beyond how inadequate this response is, how the fuck do you reconcile "This is not who we are" with "That's what he wants"? Does he think everyone's only going to read the part specifically addressed to them?
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