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romy @romyromyromy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

did you think that the girl whose username was her own name thrice-repeated understood the self-other boundary very well did you really

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romy @romyromyromy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

it's gonna be really great once i develop more of a sense of self so i can learn to read books without believing everything they say

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Alex Morris @asjmorris.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

So many things to enjoy here in so few words.

An old news report which reads: FIVE £1 NOTES BLOWN INTO SEA.
During the gale at Llandudno on Tuesday a woman opened her purse at the corner of a street and six £1 notes were blown out.. One was recovered by a boy, but the others were carried eastwards into the sea, followed a few minutes later by an umbrella.

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romy @romyromyromy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

RIGHT, like, is it...dust??? when I sweep am I preventing my house from being buried in dirt???

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romy @romyromyromy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

i was consistently 'stuffed animal' as child, but as an adult i find i have somehow become habituated to 'stuffie', a truly heinous word

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Jaz @jaz.sh · 27/09/2026

Okay so I've built a new Atlas, this time it lets you explore the conversations on Bluesky over the past 7 days graphically. It should update every ~6 hours and help you navigate the information environment that exists on here. I've learned a LOT about what people do here today... atlas.jazco.dev

atlas.jazco.dev

Atlas

A living map of what Bluesky is talking about: the past week's conversations, grouped into topics and regions and rebuilt every six hours.

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romy @romyromyromy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

have you considered becoming your fursona in real life! i recently discovered this was possible to do through "wearing different clothes" and offer the heartiest of recommendations thereof

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romy @romyromyromy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

oneofthe fastest trains oneofthe fastest trains

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romy @romyromyromy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Book rec! A story of love in hard times, harder even than ours. Beautiful art, beautiful writing, beautifully researched; also it made me cry twice This is a book that will show you why you have to survive this

The front cover of Charity and Sylvia by Tillie Walden. Two women are drawn sitting facing each other, surrounded by an ornate border.

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romy @romyromyromy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Congrats Prague! European tram driver champions for 2026!! 🎉 🇨🇿 Worlds in Melbourne next year... Should be great to see how the europeans do without hometown (and home-timezone!) advantage

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🌙 @awawawa.world · 18/09/2026

im the first trans woman ever to have long brown hair with bangs and big round glasses

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Well done to the picture editor who captioned this delightful snap of a black pig swimming off the west coast of Greece “swine-dark sea” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Swine-dark sea ... Mediterranean black pigs swim at a beach on the private island of Atokos, in the lonian Sea off the west coast of Greece. The island, which is uninhabited by humans, is owned by a shipping magnate
Photograph: Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images

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romy @romyromyromy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

is there a discord for liberal trans women to which anyone could recommend me or do I just have to fork out $50 to join the liberal currents one

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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This is even better than the Dutch word "(mijn) reeëeer" (pre-1995 spelling), coined by Brands Corstius iirc. Which means "(my) honor as a deer" and is very common among cervid nobility

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Nat Gertler, only mildly scarier @nat.gertler.com · 11/09/2026

The people who design modern newspaper banners are all cowards. (1910)

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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 10/09/2026

Intro to Secretary Hand today. Our room full of 18th century scholars collectively saying “thank God they stopped doing this in our period”

Letterforms from secretary hand. Only some of them are recognizable.

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Ollie (Ollie Edition) @bigboybark.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

*pounding on table* pig tummy pig tummy pig tummy

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 09/09/2026

When I pitched a review of Anton Jäger's Hyperpolitics, I wanted to read it against Fukuyama's End of History and the Last Man because both books tackle similar themes in radically different ways. The result is a double-helix of an essay that is one of the best things I've ever written for LC.

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The End of History and the Final Girl

Anton Jäger’s "Hyperpolitics" is, at its best, late marginalia for "The End of History and the Last Man." At its worst, Jäger, like Fukuyama, is a prisoner of his political pieties.

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Laura Knetzger @lauraknetzger.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Trying to hold all moments in time and possibilities and outcomes in my mind at once and getting mad when I can't solve all hypothetical problems

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romy @romyromyromy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

maybe the solution really was "create the social norm that every member of society spend 1-1.5 hours a week engaging in communal ritual and being morally exhorted by a member of the intelligentsia" all along

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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

From: Winnie-the-Pooh Goes Visiting (1971), dir. Fyodor Khitruk, Soyuzmultfilm

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romy @romyromyromy.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

dude who saw me from behind said either 'excuse me, man' or 'excuse me, ma'am' and i am taking it as a win

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romy @romyromyromy.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I am not sure how I feel about historical fiction as a medium for creating fursonas (ain't that just an OC?) but if we're being honest it's pretty dang romy soooo

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romy @romyromyromy.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I need to do more research on 19th c. Mexican immigration, but this Romy is a native English speaker and lives in, like, Cleveland it doesn't matter if this is plausible bc this is imaginary furry America where furry Henry George was elected president four times so she's a pocha bc I'm a pocha

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romy @romyromyromy.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

combine those two & that's me, Rosa María Nash de los Ángeles/Rosemary D. Nash, top of her business college class in penmanship and Gregg shorthand; sews badly; loves her bicycle but puffs on the uphills and crashes on the down; takes lots of Kodak pictures of streetcars

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romy @romyromyromy.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

and another imageboard with a different vibe that is equally important but orthogonally intersecting in words: aspirational middle-class turn-of-the-century independent woman

An advertisement for shirt collars, 1900s: A woman sits between two men. All three wear high starched collars and neckties.

An 1890s advertising poster for bicycles. A woman rides a bicycle with her legs raised off the pedals. The caption reads "Ride a Stearns and be content."

A 1900s advertisement for Kodak cameras. A woman in a striped dress stands on a cliff above the sea, holding a camera. The caption reads "Take a Kodak with you"

An 1890s portrait by John Singer Sargent. A woman stands confidently in the foreground, hand on her hip; a man is shadowed in the background.

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romy @romyromyromy.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I've been thinking about my fursona a lot over the past couple days so here's an imageboard of the vibe I'm going for good pig vibes: ✓ "when pigs fly" ✓ piggy bank :) ✓ cute and round ✓ eating mushrooms in the forest

A piglet sits in a wicker basket. Attached to the basket is a paper reading "I am the first pig [to fly]"

A yellow ceramic piggy bank. It has a striped party hat on.

A chestnut colored piglet stands in a field of grass at sunset. (Basile Morin, CC-BY-SA-4.0)

A scruffy brown pig stands between two trees on ground covered in leaf litter. (Byrdyak, CC-BY-SA-4.0)

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romy @romyromyromy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

being transgender means wearing your furry con T-shirt but doing a French tuck with it

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GeorgistSteve 🔰🏗️🌆🪩🗽 @georgiststeve.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Oh, you're saying that land enclosure has deeply indebted future generations, enabling their hard earned income to be extracted by landowners for the mere right to physically exist somewhere? That sounds like such a horrific injustice that it would justify aggressive policy intervention to remedy.

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romy @romyromyromy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

idk a week ago a friend of mine asked how it was, and i said, "oh, i had a bad week" and he said "you're kind of always going through it aren't you" and like, gosh, that's true, but now i feel guilty about it somehow...

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romy @romyromyromy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

the quiz results look weird because it's 2026 and the Harvard Dialect Survey it gets its data from ended in 2003 at this point it's less 'how do you talk' and more 'how would someone a quarter-century ago have perceived your strange futuristic accent'

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romy @romyromyromy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

that or we've had 10 more years of all American dialects being californianized

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romy @romyromyromy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I think the way I talk has gotten 10 years more fucked up since the last one of these

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romy @romyromyromy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

i am not 'voice training'! (how vulgar...) i am merely attending *elocution lessons*

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🌈coddybarks🌈 @coddybarks.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Being perceived can be scary sometimes #furry #furryfandom

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romy @romyromyromy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

where do i find the support group for pochos do they have like Spanish classes for no sabo kids

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Shear (pronounced Cher (but like how she pronounces it)) @choob.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

been trying to work out why my energy tanks every day except for ones i spend with my BF or friends that i can be intimate with and i think the penny just dropped that i need a bit of cuddle every day or i start to fucking die

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I unironically love this kind of stuff. I remember finding the by then generation old textbooks about my town when I was a kid. I think we lost something by not having this sort of thing

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romy @romyromyromy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

A well-set table, where I eat till I'm full (actually full, not polite pretend full) and there are still leftovers – that's the stuff that makes me cry

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romy @romyromyromy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I think it's neat! For a lot of fatfurs the archetype of being fat seems to be either Power (like being a macro but real) or Helplessness (blob/med stuff) but for me it's always been Having Enough and Not Being Too Much (tbc: I don't think of myself as a fatfur, just a furry who is fat)

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romy @romyromyromy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Like, to me, THIS is what being fat looks like, ideally. Abundance (so much food), relaxation (this seems like a leisurely breakfast), luxury (these are in direct contrast with "why I don't eat what I want" day to day: too ashamed, too harried, too poor)

A painting of a fat, pale woman drinking tea. In front there is a table full of fruit and pastries, as well as a samovar. Next to her a cat stretches contentedly. The Merchant's Wife by Boris Kustodiev (1918).

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romy @romyromyromy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

like, what? some people find it difficult to continue eating after they become full? not everyone is constantly repressing food cravings? I thought everyone just had stronger willpower than me!!!

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romy @romyromyromy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

it's so wild when gainers talk about putting canola oil in their milkshake or whatever to gain calories. you mean y'all you don't even have any food you particularly want to eat??? honestly it's been great for my own fat acceptance (no judgment on gainers tbc, self-determination for everyone)

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romy @romyromyromy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

the rain came back on the first of September

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romy @romyromyromy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

playing bridge was just a thing that was trendy among young people in the 40s and 50s, which is why we associate it with seniors today this is what your D&D actual play podcast is going to look like in, say, the 2070s

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The Marx Brothers: Championship Bridge With Charles Goren

YouTube video by YouTube Movies

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 28/08/2026

if you're a normal person please do not play the fucking strip mahjong game. do not let the fun and friendly appeal of something as inoffensive as pornography trick you into playing a game as evil as mahjong

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romy @romyromyromy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I have mixed feelings abt this (the culture of celebrity is icky-yucky to me because I am very clever and fancy) but, oh, I love seeing how much the people yearn for saints! would to God that all the Lord's people were prophets!

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