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RF O’Shaughnessy

@rfoshaughnessy.bsky.social
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Most likely not going to follow you back. Tired writer. She/they. CO. Social media is a performance and I have forgotten my lines. I like knitting, coffee, and Les Misérables

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Eric Budd @ericmbudd.com · 05/10/2026
hey all, posting my 2026 voter guide today! a lot of work when into writing this year and I hope you find it useful. covers all Colorado ballot measures and more specifics if you live in Boulder County / City of Boulder. cheers! bouldercoloradovoterguide.com
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Election 2026 — Boulder Colorado Voter Guide
Boulder Colorado Voter Guide from Eric Budd covers 2026 Boulder City Council candidates — Colorado, Boulder County, and City of Boulder ballot issues, candidates, and judicial retention questions
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed
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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Max Scherzer going on short rest to catch Verlander's strikeout total -- and nearly damn well doing it -- is some all time inner circle king petty shit, and I mean that in the most complimentary way imaginable. You gotta tip your cap to a true psycho, and Max Scherzer is an all-time baseball psycho.
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Sarah @sosomanysarahs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
By the way, Coloradans, there's still time for people to register. If you know some low propensity voters who are turned off by the candidates in the upper tier races but who hate ICE and TERFs, this is a good year to nudge them to help defeat this utter garbage.
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silver @silverboots.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is just to say I have eaten the moon that was in my orbit and which you were probably wanting to study Forgive me it was delicious so crunchy and so cold
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Democrats are well positioned to inherit power thanks to disgust with Trump, but ultimately none of this is about what Dems did in response to Trump. They mostly capitulated and are benefiting from being the other party in a two party system, I don’t have any positive expectations for them.
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RF O’Shaughnessy @rfoshaughnessy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I just witnessed a pair of Canada geese nonchalantly ambling around in the middle of the road blocking traffic. What delightful menaces. Someone attempting to turn had to maneuver around them
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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 08/09/2026
Gonna disrupt the book industry by starting a publisher that markets its books.
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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Coincidentally this is historically the accession policy of the British Museum
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
idk man i just don't think the question is "is ai (claude, chatgpt, etc) useful?" more than it's "can we use ai ethically / safely" and the answer to the latter is no
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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
In 1986, contracting HIV meant you were going to die, usually slowly, painfully, and alone. Now it's a chronic illness like hypertension. In 1986, gay and lesbian couples couldn't have their relationships legally recognized and had to adopt elaborate legal workarounds.
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Brittney Bush Bollay @brittneybush.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
We have a cure now for Sickle Cell and HIV is preventable and treatable.
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the bipolar bear @bipolrbear.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
women's sports and baseball are 2 of my favorite things in the world. so you best believe i am going to be coming on social media more than i ever have just to remind folks they need to be tuning in, promoting, and cheering on all these amazing women in the WPBL all love. all cheering. all respect.
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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
"Being trans is sad Being trans is horrid." Shut up. Being trans is great. Look. I've got inner peace and a fucking scythe.
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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Jurassic Park is a perfect franchise because the question "why would they keep doing this" is answered by simply asking yourself if you would want to go see a dinosaur. Of course you would want to see a dinosaur.
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RF O’Shaughnessy @rfoshaughnessy.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I’m writing in my favorite independent coffee shop, and the employees and owner are Talking Shit about Starbucks. I love it so much
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Ghoulothy @landbeforetim.myatproto.social · 08/07/2026
In honor of her death anniversary today (July 8th, Flossie Wong-Staal, a Chinese-American woman, was a part of the team who discovered HIV and she was the first to clone HIV, fully genetically mapping it, enabling HIV tests to exist & large-scale screening of donated blood. She saved countless lives
A photo of Flossie Wong-Staal
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Will BOO!-rows 🖖🥖🥀 @reforest-kelley.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
My feed is half people watching the World Cup, half people watching the Catholic schism, and half people watching Deep Space Nine.
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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Well that's definitely one way to solve bisexual invisibility
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
My crankiest old man take is that referring to all art/entertainment/journalism/criticism/comedy/advertising as “content” helped pave the way for broad-ish acceptance of AI slop.
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The Walking Punchline™️ @jaisonatalives.blacksky.app · 01/06/2026
Starting tomorrow 🙂‍↕️ 🏃🏿🏳️‍🌈
post by bilalcynic

caption: Gay people are now 2x faster. Be careful

Image: screenshot of directions showing the different methods and how long they take

train - 5 min
person walking - 6 min
purple person with a rainbow walking - 3 min
person on a bike - 2 min
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
look at him. he doesn't even have any money
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 27/08/2025
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
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I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
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Marie 🇨🇦⚜️ @blammarie.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
I just realized that if *I* were to write a feminist retelling of Penelope’s story during the Odyssey I would have a subplot where the suitors keep asking the women in their entourage how long weaving a funeral shroud is supposed to take, & they all agree she’s taking a normal amount of time
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 08/05/2026
Look, if you don’t do shit like this, why even be an ancient historic college?
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Apparently, journals, universities and publishers cannot do it but the Oscars can
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Karen Carpenter’s Halloween @kellylink.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying
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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
The popular meme of a man praying: JESUS, I SEE WHAT YOU'VE DONE FOR OTHER PEOPLE, AND I WANT THAT FOR ME.
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Katie @katiethecrabb.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Happy International Asexuality Day! If you’re looking for ace characters, I’ve got three major ones in my historical adventure-drama pirate trilogy. 💜🏳️‍🌈
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Joana Fraga @jojofraga.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
OLHA O QUE EU TERMINEEEEI!!! Clermont-Ferrand Cathedral ❤️
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Qsy @qsy.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Make sure to rotate your pronouns periodically, so that if your gender becomes compromised, attackers can only access it for a short period of time.
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RF O’Shaughnessy @rfoshaughnessy.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
I’m writing at a local coffee shop and outside are the fattest magpies hopping around and picking up sticks. What a time to be alive
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
"did you know the USPS is losing money" no I didn't know and I still don't care do you know how much money your president has lost you since January
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Lyr @lyraksylva.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
OK so apparently this took off on Tumblr overnight and has accidentally served as free marketing for my mutual's book so HEY. HEY. IF YOU WANT SOME GOOD ASS READING. "Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Die" by @greerstothers.bsky.social Gogogo get the book you know you wanna go readdddd it.
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Jenny with a Green Ribbon Around Her Neck @readingtheend.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
quick reminder that NT's production of The Importance of Being Earnest, starring human ray of sunshine Ncuti Gatwa, will be streaming FOR FREE on YouTube this weekend www.radiotimes.com/movies/ncuti...
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Ncuti Gatwa's acclaimed theatre run of beloved classic play is set to stream for free
Alongside Gatwa, the play stars Sharon D Clarke, Ronkẹ Adékọluẹ́jọ́, Eliza Scanlen and Hugh Skinner.
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Kym Deyn @kymdeyn.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
This is a sheer indulgence on my part, but it turns out I never actually shared the poem here, so: 🍃
Sir Gawain Fucks the Green Knight


Here’s a tale ripe for telling. Can’t say where I heard it first—in pretty French or Dutch. Perhaps as a young lady walking ‘longside the Rijn. I’ll spin it for you in an English tongue, fine as frost on lace, sweet as malmsey wine. So it goes that young Gawain, strength kissed into his limbs, fresh as the bright dawn, comes trembling down to the Green Chapel. You’ve heard this tale, I know. His breath makes peach fuzz in the air, fear into him like worm to apple. Christmas Morn is too soon, time is short. You have your own life to save, he says, picking through thorn and bough to an ivy-clad cave.
The creature is the Jack O’ the Glen / forest prince / the wood’s own laughter. Beard of lichen and eyes like dark elder. I need not repeat their exchange—my boy’s flinching heart—a songbird in a rattled cage. It is after the blows are dealt, he asks, what god is worshipped in these green trees? Boy, the Knight replies, boy, were you not just down on your knees?
The Knight is the tang of sap / bark rough and petal soft / everywhere leaves scatter / easily crushed / Gawain clings / hardly knows what he clings to / he is the forest and the flower / a turmoil of roots / where god and tree meet and melt / the birch the oak the fern the deer /  mushroom maggot crow / here Gawain is branch and bud / blow returned for blow
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RF O’Shaughnessy @rfoshaughnessy.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Mildly amusing but when I tried to open Bluesky in the Vatican, it wanted me to verify my age but outside in Rome it’s fine (thankfully. Because I’m not doing that ngl)
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RF O’Shaughnessy @rfoshaughnessy.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
I’m very good at getting lost in airports, it’s true. But Heathrow is a special level of fucked up and evil. I just got so damn lost, it’s unreal
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 23/02/2026
It is both true that Israel‘s behavior has created fertile ground for antisemitism to grow and also no antisemitism is justified ever so if you’re not Jewish and starting to have some thoughts about “the Jews“ that’s on you. You’re responsible for not being an antisemitic twit.
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Anna Moshak @aizelkonart.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
The Dracula cover I worked on is finally revealed. I am very stoked about this project, because doing a cover art for a classical book is a dream I didn't know I had, and also because they agreed to have the cover art minimalistic and elegant, and I AM SO HAPPY ABOUT IT.
Dark painting in classical style, depicting a woman in a white dress with her back facing the viewer, wrapped in red fabric. The face of a man peaking through the darkness, near the woman's bleeding neck. Book mockup of the first illustration.
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Hwch Ddu Gwta 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @mochyn.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Me writing an essay: queering the middle ages is not about uncovering sexual identities, but about examining the ways in which things don't conform to heteronormative study and thereby unsettle the established orthodoxy through which we view the middle ages Also me: hahaha he's so gay
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 11/02/2026
New pronoun labeller just dropped! Instructions are in the thread and as this is something that becomes more useful the more people are using it, plz do pass it along
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
ah i can answer this trick question actually. novels are not a race
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
so much clothing is marketed as "conversation starters" but as an introvert, i want "conversation enders." no more talking. let me go home.
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LAUcifer, Sommelier of Gothic Male Vintage @elegantlab.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
please know when I use the ✨ emoji, I do not mean anything to do with AI. they stole my emoji from me.
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marafish @marafish.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
relevant to many of yalls interests.
a red and pink cross stitch on blue fabric. "everything I love causes carpal tunnel" surrounded by hearts, a needle and thread, and a skein of embroidery floss.
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Frost || 3D Models & Reviews @3dfrost.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
I don't want gen AI in my browser I don't want gen AI in my pc I don't want gen AI in my art I don't want gen AI in my games I don't want gen AI in my music I don't want gen AI in my movies I don't want gen AI in my books I don't want gen AI in my cart I don't want gen AI in my life
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AK Faulkner ➡️ MCM @ravenswordpress.com · 14/01/2026
I haven't got a fucking clue where to find it and I'm not going to bother looking
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Liz Bourke @hawkwinglb.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
My review of @finnlongman.com's The Wolf and His King is now available on the Locus website: locusmag.com/review/the-w...
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The Wolf and His King by Finn Longman: Review by Liz Bourke
The Wolf and His King, Finn Longman (Gollancz 978-1-39962-099-4, £20.00, 350pp, hc) Novem­ber 2025. (Erewhon 978-1-64566-311-9, $32.00 368pp, hc) January 2026. I read Finn Longman’s first trilogy, …
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