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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Can’t say why exactly, but the phrase “once again refused a pierogi” made me laugh out loud.

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spideybitey @sciolista.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Someone knocked on my office door and I forgot to switch to Work Me mode, so Regular Me answered, “Come INNNNN” in a deep, vampire-y voice. (Pardon me while I walk out into the sunlight to incinerate myself.) Teams status: Appear Away. Duration: Eternity

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spideybitey @sciolista.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

My top match was Horatio (from Hamlet). And then… Frodo. EGWENE??!!

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Darrel “the highest of IQs” Plant @darrelplant.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

‘These are results from the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz.‘ Seems bad. openpsychometrics.org/tests/charac...

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spideybitey @sciolista.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

The dry down of the perfume (some Gucci sample) I’m wearing smells like baby lotion. I mean, a very luxurious baby lotion, but still.

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spideybitey @sciolista.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Am muting a conversation and not replying how I would like to reply ONLY because a friend suggested “deep breaths and relax. It’s all good. It’s Ramadan!” I’m not an observer, but I can observe goals of increased kindness and charity and not blowing up a volunteer organization with justified ire.

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spideybitey @sciolista.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

“Catsup”, though, can go fuck itself.

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spideybitey @sciolista.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

I always order my burgers w/o ketchup (I don’t have a problem with ketchup, just don’t like it on a burger), so I’m glad someone gets to be the beneficiary of my largesse. Disclaimer: I’m one of those freaks who likes ketchup with scrambled eggs.

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spideybitey @sciolista.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

The bathroom cleaning schedule in my office building (one restroom for the entire first floor, no other public bathrooms in the building) is precisely timed to coincide with my digestive system. I did not anticipate that this much of my adult working life would be spent trying not to wet my pants.

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spideybitey @sciolista.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Oh ho ho, aren’t you fancy, eating in your car instead of hunched over the trash/recycle bin? Seriously, though, I’m sorry you’re having a crap day and I’m glad Wawa is there for you.

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spideybitey @sciolista.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

And I’m a NOBODY. It infuriates me that the overwhelming response of our ELECTED officials and representatives is to alternate wringing their hands and holding them out for reelection dollars. I want them to (figuratively) THROW hands, or at least stick out a foot so a fascist might trip over it.

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spideybitey @sciolista.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

For crissake, I aligned myself with Jill fucking Stein post-2016 bc that’s who was organizing to address election interference. Did I like her or otherwise support her? No. Did I think I’d be successful? Also no. But my goal was to be a wrench in the machine, provide resistance wherever possible.

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spideybitey @sciolista.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I will never not be mad that they didn’t already try it. Like, wtf have y’all been doing??

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spideybitey @sciolista.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

The attack on Roe v. Wade was no surprise, and yet not one lawmaker had a bill ready to go. I don’t care if it gets voted down. Have one and a dozen more just like it and fucking bring them all. Same here, on a larger scale. FUCKING DO SOMETHING. Other than wring hands and campaign for reeelection.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Don’t worry everybody, the same Democrats who protected women’s health and trans people are going to save us from fascism!

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

This matters. Not because I think Trump is capable of mercy or empathy towards these vulnerable groups. But because it is a public act of defiance. Contrast that with all these other powerful people in this country signaling nothing but appeasement and obedience.

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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce. Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.

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spideybitey @sciolista.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

I keep forgetting bsky is a thing & am frantic at work, which doesn’t help with memory. Also, I promise you, your “endless” whinge is a mere drop in the bucket compared to some people’s nonstop lamentations over stuff far less serious than general surgery! AND, you’re allowed to whinge bc SURGERY!

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spideybitey @sciolista.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Yikes, oh no! How did I miss this?? I’m so sorry. I hope your recovery is swift and uneventful. Ouch. Sending you a very gentle hug.

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spideybitey @sciolista.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Turn it into a coach and take it to the ball at the palace, of course.

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Jerry Levine @jerrylevine.com · 17/11/2024

The guest essay that everyone is talking about: (Full Alt-Text In ALT)

The New Lork Cimes

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/16/opinion/donald-trump-women-
girls.html

GUEST ESSAY

I'm 16. On Nov. 5 the Girls Cried, and the Boys
Played Minecraft.

Nov. 16, 2024, 7:00 a.m. ET

By Naomi Beinart
Ms. Beinart is a 16-year-old high school junior.

On the morning after the election, I walked up the staircase of my school. A preteen
was crying into the shoulders of her braces-clad peer. Her friend was rubbing
circles on her back.

I continued up the stairs to the lounge, where upperclassmen linger before classes.
There I saw two tables: One was filled with my girlfriends, many of them with
hollows under their eyes. There was a blanket of despair over the young women in
the room. I looked over to the other table of teenage boys and saw Minecraft on
their computers. While we were gasping for a breath, it seemed they were
breathing freely.
We girls woke up to a country that would rather elect a man found liable for sexual
abuse than a woman. Where the kind of man my mother instructs me to cross the
street to avoid will be addressed as Mr. President. Where the body I haven't fully
grown into may no longer be under my control. The boys, it seemed to me, just
woke up on a Wednesday.

Why did it seem these boys were so unperturbed? I worried that my guy friends
might only care about women until it conflicts with other, more pressing, priorities.

That morning, I spoke with a male classmate. He asked if I was OK. I nearly
melted with relief. See, I knew not all guys were ignorant! Then, before I
responded, he continued. Why, he wondered, are so many girls crying? I stared. I
swallowed that familiar lump. And I had one thought: I pray that my older brother
never asks that question. How could my classmate not know why girls in his grade
were biting their nails and doing breathing exercises in the bathroom? It seemed
like our future was sliding down the sides of our faces, and he asked me why we
were crying? I have never felt that disconnected from men. I have never felt more
like a girl.

Eight years ago, I was too young to feel the full force of Hillary Clinton's loss. Now
at 16, I've had the wind knocked out of me. On Wednesday, I was flush with anger
- but it was diluted by an even stronger feeling: defeat. I saw it in the eyes of
women in my subway car that morning. I saw it in the barista at the coffee shop on
the corner, the female security guard at my school and in the face of my history
teacher.

In a terrible way, I've never felt more part of a sisterhood or more certain that pain
is shared within that family. I wish the consequences of this moment for young
women punctured the apparent indifference of so many men and boys I saw that
day. I wish they could breathe in what the women and girls I know have been
inhaling since Nov. 5.

I can't predict how well I'm going to do on an English test tomorrow and I
definitely can't predict the future for me and my fellow young women. For now, all I
can do is tell you how I feel.
Naomi Beinart is a 16-year-old girl and a junior in high school.

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spideybitey @sciolista.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

An actual cop I know got all pissy: “The OFFICER is the HANDLER; the DOG is a K-9 unit!!” He’s a MAGA misogynist who can eat shit, though, bc 1. My client prevailed. 2. It was otherwise a fucking awesome pleading. 3. Sorrynotsorry I thought a dog could hold a rank/possibly outrank you, dickhead.

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spideybitey @sciolista.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

HOW TF SHOULD I KNOW DOG RANKS ARE CEREMONIAL?? Cops are so freaking touchy, and I was trying to be RESPECTFUL. (The school caved and I negotiated a plea on the criminal charges, so I didn’t actually file the complaint, thank dog.)

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spideybitey @sciolista.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

It’s been years, but I still think about the complaint I drafted on behalf of a kid who facing expulsion from uni after police violated his civil rights and charged him with b.s. offenses. Wherein I referred to a drug dog as “the canine officer” throughout the pleading.

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spideybitey @sciolista.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I wish. Pelosi’s was a photo op at best. Nothing backing it up.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 14/11/2024

Māori MPs briefly suspended the Aotearoa parliament’s attempts to reinterpret their founding treaty in the most bad ass use of the Haka I’ve ever seen.

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spideybitey @sciolista.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

PDX? With bonus Harmony? I second that motion and third and fourth it. Plus the rhodies in the Spring.

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spideybitey @sciolista.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I would not survive my job without my rage laps around the parking lot.

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spideybitey @sciolista.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

NO BUT GUESS WHAT I’M READING NEXT? I know it’s supposed to be like horror or something but it kinds sounds like a love story. Like, “And they all lived happily ever after.”

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Paul and Storm @paulandstorm.bsky.social · 30/06/2024

[P] Shut up, I do not Shut up I said

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spideybitey @sciolista.bsky.social · 30/06/2024

The Dutch are the Phillies fans of F1.

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spideybitey @sciolista.bsky.social · 30/06/2024

I did just that, for 10 years. Moved back and my agzend is way shtronger than it ever was. Wooder seeks its own level, I guess.

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spideybitey @sciolista.bsky.social · 25/06/2024

I liked JS & Mr. Norrell, loved The Ladies of Grace Adieu, meh on Piranesi. I bought the audiobook and have a longish commute, so I finished it. The book equivalent of arriving at a restaurant you’ve been eager to try, only to discover your reservation was for yesterday and now it’s out of business.

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spideybitey @sciolista.bsky.social · 24/06/2024

“Hi, this is outdated and would have been boring even if current, but please enjoy this tangible proof that I thought of you.” (When I wrote it and every day thereafter when looked at the unstamped letter but still didn’t go to the post office.) Also, I ripped up a previous unsent boring letter.”

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spideybitey @sciolista.bsky.social · 21/06/2024

Quick question: if you wrote a letter but didn’t mail it because you put the fun in executive dysfunction, should you A) mail it weeks later when you get your act together and find/buy stamps? B) rip it up and write a new letter? C) mail the old one, and write and mail a new one?

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spideybitey @sciolista.bsky.social · 21/06/2024

GRRR. I ordered checks specifically to deal with the school and activities fee issue! (Sometimes they take MySchoolBucks, sometimes Venmo, other times cash, but most often, “submit a CHECK…”). Yes, I could use online banking to send a check. Iffff my kid gives me > 90 minutes notice before it’s due.

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spideybitey @sciolista.bsky.social · 21/06/2024

Awesome, the check (yes, an actual, paper check) I wrote to pay Mr.B’s class dues back in December was just cashed last week.

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spideybitey @sciolista.bsky.social · 09/05/2024

I would now put cilantro on and in everything. I cannot tell you how many times I’ve made dinner and been like OOH DAMN, I shoulda bought cilantro! What a gift you just gave yourselves!

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spideybitey @sciolista.bsky.social · 24/04/2024

Does she have the songbook? I dated a Belgian, and the book would come out after most of the dinner party guests had departed. Late night Jacques Brel singalongs…did I know how to party or QUOI?

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spideybitey @sciolista.bsky.social · 22/04/2024

Oh, COME ON, Nordstrom, are you kidding me??? (Heh.)

Pictured: Pink Balls Facial Massager, a tool with a slightly curved pink shaft and two sparkly pink balls at one end. Apparently, you roll…the balls…on your face…available at Nordstrom.

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spideybitey @sciolista.bsky.social · 19/04/2024

ATTENTION SHOPPERS: Old Bay season is upon us!

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spideybitey @sciolista.bsky.social · 08/04/2024

There is so. much. SCREAMING going on right now in my neighborhood, evidently due to the eclipse and the entirety of what should be renamed “Chicken Little Middle School” being let out early to use their pinhole cameras and eclipse goggles.

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spideybitey @sciolista.bsky.social · 14/03/2024

Also, it doesn’t look like Jesus is fighting. More like introducing the next act at a dramatic, elaborately staged variety show. “And now…put your stigmata together and give up your hearts for the one, the only, here-for-tonight-only…” Look at his face. He ain’t mad. Fierce & fab recognizes same.

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spideybitey @sciolista.bsky.social · 23/02/2024

Interrupting me to make a point that I was in the process of making is only slightly less rage-inducing than interrupting me to make a point I already made. Ah, conference calls. At least it wasn’t a video call. My poker face skillz are way rusty from COVID (and not great to begin with).

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spideybitey @sciolista.bsky.social · 22/02/2024

Wow, I can’t wait til I’m retired so I can demand free work from relatives and friends in the middle of their work day while they’re also fighting medical and other issues on three other fronts.

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spideybitey @sciolista.bsky.social · 29/01/2024

Gaaahhhh Detroit, don’t Eagles this up…

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spideybitey @sciolista.bsky.social · 29/01/2024

Some grated orange rind or a quick squeeze of orange wedge, too. UGGGH, now I want parsnips.

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spideybitey @sciolista.bsky.social · 29/01/2024

Roasted with olive oil and a little salt. Yum.

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