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Allison @rooflizard.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

This is real and true and I miss Braum's all the time

Allison @rooflizard.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I'm the recipient of this text and BOY am I in my feelings today about how much some people truly feel having to see unhoused people existing is perpetrating violence upon them, and do not see the homeless as PEOPLE in a real way

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Allison @rooflizard.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I actually really like this place and want to keep working on it, myself. Happy birthday to the place most people I love live.

A person walking on a pedestrian bridge over Town Lake holds a large American flag, photo taken sitting on a paddle board on the lake

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dan solomon @dansolomon.com · 04/07/2026

this remains one of the most beautiful and haunting pieces of writing i’ve ever read. if you have small kids in your life, read when you’re feeling emotionally durable, but do read it

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/07/2026

one of those coincidences that seems too good to be true but it is!

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Allison @rooflizard.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

It's true! This is actually a thing I feel really strongly about -- you have to leave your house, you have to talk to strangers, you have to extend invitations, you have to be able to handle rejection. There are many rewards on the other side but like, you will have to make this happen

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dr. hazel 🕸️ @hazelmonforton.com · 02/07/2026

i know this is a meme but the actual answer is going out and doing things and being willing to talk to strangers

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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

this video from the bbc about texas bbq is frying me

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Walter MOONdale @dabenner.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

This is a pretty clear cut principle:

Cher: So, OK, like right now, for example, the Haitians need to come to America. But some people are all, "What about the strain on our resources?"

But it's like when I had this garden party for my father's birthday, right? I said RSVP because it was a sit-down dinner. But people came that, like, did not RSVP. So I was, like, totally buggin'. I had to haul ass to the kitchen, redistribute the food, squish in extra place settings. But, by the end of the day it was, like, the more the merrier!

And so, if the government could just get to the kitchen, rearrange some things, we could certainly party with the Haitians.

And in conclusion, may I please remind you that it does not say "RSVP" on the Statue of Liberty.

Thank you very much.

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Thomas Neville @goobermunch.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Thank an archivist and a cataloguer every time you find what you’re looking for.

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I'll say this: the liberal project in America has been to try & put a floor under everyone, so that no matter who you are or where you live, your basic rights are the same. Rs have worked to make that not the case & once again where you live—& what party controls your state—really matters bc of that

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Laura Seay @texasinafrica.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

This is no way to run a country.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Trans rights are human rights always and forever.

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Kayleigh Donaldson @ceilidhann.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Fine, let's talk about Simone, Connor Storrie, fandom stalkers, and the commodification of the parasocial. gossip-reading-club.ghost.io/its-getting-...

gossip-reading-club.ghost.io

It’s Getting Worse: Club Chalamet, Connor Storrie, and Parasocial Fandom

Get a job. Stay away from him.

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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Lynda Barry did not squeeze your heart and simultaneously explain the point of all art with the barest of line drawings so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

HOW TO LOOK AT ART by Lynda Barry

In the first panel, a dog-headed woman, a mother, looks at a painting in the "Madonna with Baby Jesus" vein. A small blobby child is standing next to her.

Mother: IM NOT SURE HOW TO LOOK AT ART.
Child: WHATS SPOSTA HAPPEN?

In the second panel the dog-headed mother holds up her hands (paws?) trying to explain to the child.

Mother: SOMETHING BIG. A REVELATION.
SUDDENLY YOU JUST UNDERSTAND.

In the third panel dog-headed mother goes back to looking at the painting. The child holds up their arms to be lifted.

Mother: NOT SURE HOW TO MAKE IT HAPPEN
Child: HOW BOUT LIFT ME UP SO I CAN SEE BETTER

In the last panel, the dog-headed mother is holding the child, their position mirrored by the Madonna and baby Jesus in the painting.

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Allison @rooflizard.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I am on day three of this headache and am soon not going to be held responsible for my actions

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resa! @disasterisms.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Little Egret for #BirdWhisperer and also, let’s go los jibbities

Digital doodle of a little egret– a white long necked bird with a dark beak and legs, yellow feet, and fine white feathers– over a dry brush stroke-esque rainbow background

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Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

[being murdered in the kitchen] are you serious i just frickin mopped

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Allison @rooflizard.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Where is my wealthy benefactor when you need one

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I asked Norman Rockwell's granddaughter, Daisy Rockwell, about this use of her grandfather's work. She writes: "It goes without saying that they have completely misunderstood the meaning of the painting, which is tolerance for others and peaceful coexistence."

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Allison @rooflizard.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Wait seriously is the rest of the world fucking around with lightning?

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 23/06/2026

it was literature pub quiz night and our team name "flowers for algae gone" didn't get a single laugh, this isn't the country i grew up in

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Allison @rooflizard.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Met some neighbors on my walk tonight who said meeting my dog outside of saying hi to her at the fence everyday "felt like meeting a celebrity"

A small Bluetick hound, the celebrity in question

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Allison @rooflizard.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

The only thing we've improved about the Internet since LiveJournal is the ease of sharing pictures

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Allison @rooflizard.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I do feel like I understand my season pretty well but tbh it has not had the life-changing properties I wish it did

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Allison @rooflizard.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

At a stop sign right by my house I had to wait for a friend group that was taking photos (with a very nice camera) of themselves with bindles, fully had sticks with red bandanas tied at the ends

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Allison @rooflizard.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I went here and everyone said they knew you

Street sign saying GOOSE CROSSING and someone has added the word "silly" to the front, there are also googly eyes in the Os of "goose"

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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Happy Pride to this Caravaggio self-portrait that made one man so gay he had to go to the hospital

Caravaggio's Baccus painting, featuring a lush fruity spread and leaves bedecking a pasty twink who only works out his arms

Article screenshot that says:

The most extreme examples of
Stendhal syndrome share a sensation of
self-fragmentation. Magherini
describes the case of a 53-year-old
German man who was hospitalized
after repeatedly viewing Caravaggio's
Bacchus at Uffizi Gallery. The patient
felt "an attraction closer and closer to
an intimate sexual arousal of
ambiguous nature that invaded him
and made him feel good and bad."
Unmoored and distressed, he sought
medical attention. After treating the
subject's initial episode, Magherini
writes that he came to recognize his
latent homosexuality. Another case...

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 10/06/2026

few american cities have a better origin story than lawrence's "fuck slavery and fuck missouri" founding principles

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Micah @rincewind.run · 10/06/2026

it sucks that they're trying to ruin the world cup for everyone because this place rips, there is so much cool shit to do here

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

"Europeans discover Americans aren't kidding about all that outside" and "Americans discover Europeans aren't kidding about all that history" are my two favorite travel genres

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 10/06/2026

This is nonsensical. Libraries buy huge numbers of books you wouldn't otherwise sell. They're a massive discoverability vector for authors. The reasons behind the declining author earnings are not hard to guess. People read less, have less $ to spend, +media is being consolidated by megacorporations

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Christopher Bird @mightygodking.com · 08/06/2026

the 1972 GODSPELL cast is legendary in Canadian entertainment history and this is a pretty good thread about it and no, so far as anybody knows there's no recordings remaining of it if any were ever made

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🎃 scarecrowcialism 👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

You know whats cool and excellent and beautiful? Your Local Public Library

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Thierry Ennui @heisenbergkamp.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

(A) incredible and (B) an excuse to post this

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Allison @rooflizard.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Grackles run this city, we just live here

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Allison @rooflizard.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

@chadstolper.bsky.social sorry to only get to wave for a second during our yearly run in! Hope y'all had a great time :)

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Sarah Michelle Gellar honors her "Buffy" co-star Anthony Head following his death:

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Yep. The value of corporations rolling out the rainbow carpet isn't what's in their heart of hearts, it's the society-wide signaling of "acceptance is good, bigotry is bad." Even if entirely insincere, it tells society "we think the majority of our customers expect this," and that's good!

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Allison @rooflizard.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Goddamn, RIP to a fucking legend

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Allison @rooflizard.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Heard a guy yesterday use the phrase "private equity housing slop" to describe a certain kind of new build and my favorite part is actually based on his look you'd kind of assume he approved of that sort of thing

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Hi. Librarian here. Let me settle this once and for all: audiobooks are reading. Graphic novels are reading. It's all fucking reading. Stop gatekeeping and stfu. Thank you an have a good night.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I’m bad at this idc

A come and take it flag with a breakfast taco on it

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🎃 scarecrowcialism 👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Issuing a fatwa against all national political parachute reporters who cant pronounce Bexar correctly

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