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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 25/02/2026

Poem in the Shape of the Poet Beating Henry Kissinger to Death with Their Bare Hands by Felix

A poem in the shape of the artist beating Henry Kissinger to death, full text can be found on the website Taco Bell Quarterly

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Phantomarine @phantomarine.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

"concept artists can experiment with AI to make their lives easi-" wrong I smack you with Claire Hummel's immaculate and detailed understanding of costume design, which she got by studying historical references, which made her strong, which you will not become by relying on AI get good

Concept art of Rosalind Lutece's wardrobe and outfit construction from Bioshock Infinite, drawn by Claire Hummel

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026

BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome

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Ximena Cearley @sojourncircus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Oh yeah. One of the world’s great misunderstood songs

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

from Grimm's Fairy Tales — Elenore Abbott, 1920

Painting of a woman in green with long red hair dealing beside a very ferocious looking dragon - Chinese influence on that Dragon I think

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Ximena Cearley @sojourncircus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

They really did not make a bad album. All their stuff is good. Every Breath You Take maybe overplayed, but it’s not actually a bad song

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Ximena Cearley @sojourncircus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

On that topic, BRB queuing up “Too Old to Rock & Roll”, which has been stuck in my head for a week

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Ximena Cearley @sojourncircus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“Oh honey, I envy you the experience you’re about to have.”

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Ximena Cearley @sojourncircus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The thing is, I can’t identify Taylor Swift by audio. I can usually tag Lady Gaga (as in, “huh, this sounds like it could be lady Gaga” and then it is) but there’s SO MUCH out there that I simply don’t care enough about to register

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Ximena Cearley @sojourncircus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It’s likely that you know the songs without knowing who it’s by. One of the great bands of the 80’s. Honestly they simply did not make a bad album

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Ximena Cearley @sojourncircus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I recently had a whole conversation with an entire adult person who didn’t know who The Police were

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Ximena Cearley @sojourncircus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Lois Bujold does this really well, to the point where it was more fun reading the Vorkosigan books in reverse order

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Ximena Cearley @sojourncircus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Training Day, with Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke

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Ximena Cearley @sojourncircus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yeah when I was coming up, “middle school” was literally 5th and 6th grade, “junior high” was 7th-8th. And Middle School wasn’t necessarily a separate place, it was just a developmental and educational window. Middle schoolers could be the oldest class in an elementary or the youngest in a Jr High

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Ximena Cearley @sojourncircus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I will definitely give you this. You are so right

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Ximena Cearley @sojourncircus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Middle school always sucks but that’s because middle *schoolers* suck. People that age are terrible little shits to each other, even in the best schools! The *school system* is a separate problem

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Ximena Cearley @sojourncircus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

By “desk to desk” you mean getting up from seated, moving to a different classroom, and being once again seated and Ready To Learn™️, not switching desks inside the same classroom, right? Because if it’s that second thing that’s *weird*

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Ximena Cearley @sojourncircus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Holy crap. That’s some *bullshit*

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Ximena Cearley @sojourncircus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Pretty tiny, plus some specific procedure for the kids to be packed up, move, and unpack, plus maybe potty/snack in that time frame. (My Catholic school could do this but there were only 25 of us in a grade level and they marched us along in file.)

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Ximena Cearley @sojourncircus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The period of time you are allowed for passing (traveling) from one classroom to the next in your schedule. OP’s child’s school allows three minutes, which is insane unless it’s a one-room schoolhouse

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Ximena Cearley @sojourncircus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I’m seeing a triple feature here

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Ximena Cearley @sojourncircus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I’ve never seen it, and always thought I should, and now I feel like I might be okay after all

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Ximena Cearley @sojourncircus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I’m pretty sure analogous movies are in fact being made today. By people like Kevin Sorbo. They just aren’t getting the same traction, because they suck

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Ximena Cearley @sojourncircus.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Pretty sure those parents will absolutely be denying paints, crayons, markers, etc. Sorry kid, you gotta use cream colored paint on this ecru paper

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BOGLUDDITE @brucemackay.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

It must be so frustrating to have worked for years on a breakthrough in robotics only for it to happen in a time when every advancement is marketed as a replacement for humans and every normal person outside of the tech bubble actively hates it.

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KJ Shepherd @kjshepherd.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

there will be many ways to celebrate dolly parton and the one I want to point out is that she was a friend of Miss Piggy

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Ximena Cearley @sojourncircus.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Dolly was “only a millionaire” because she gave it all away.

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Ximena Cearley @sojourncircus.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I think I remember an interview where she basically said, or the producers said, it had to be her because she was the only one who could bring the warmth to the part. It would have never worked otherwise

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Ximena Cearley @sojourncircus.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

“Sneaking around with you” I have this movie and it’s the first thing I thought of because I thought “everyone is going to talk about 9-5 but no one will talk about Whorehouse”

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Ximena Cearley @sojourncircus.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I was wondering where all this “spreadsheet people” discourse was coming from this morning!

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Ximena Cearley @sojourncircus.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Now *that* is interesting! Did your prof write a paper I can read about this?

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Ximena Cearley @sojourncircus.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Alphabetical by author, then chronological by original publication date. If series, then the series stays together starting with the pub date of the first volume *as possible, according to size, due to space constraints **I’m fussy about format because of this, i don’t like splitting a set

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Ximena Cearley @sojourncircus.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

No salads. Drinks had to be verifiably boiled, so a lot of Papaya Salvietti (which I wish we could get here!) and tea, and mineral water (yuk). There was also something about ice cream?

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Ximena Cearley @sojourncircus.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

This is all taking me back to spending summers in Bolivia as a child. We ate well, but entire food (and drink) types were off limits

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Ximena Cearley @sojourncircus.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Just this morning at work I heard two guys talking plans for lunch and one says “Taco Bell” and the other goes “oh you want the diarrhea huh” I said “Taco Bell is safer rn than your other options bc they caught it and pulled the tainted produce, you don’t know that about anyone else”

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Ximena Cearley @sojourncircus.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I learned through trial and error that I operate best in a midsized company (or a midsized division in a large corporation), but my current employer is a small local business and they’re lovely people. Fortunately, their specific “small owner quirks” are stuff I can live with.

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Ximena Cearley @sojourncircus.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

This is getting a lot of likes so I’m going to caveat it with a standard-issue #notall, it’s just something to have on your radar when job hunting You may have to make tradeoffs. Be alert to your personal boundaries and have an exit plan. (Should do that anyway, but small businesses can be *weird*)

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Mon Mothra @flobbert.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

one of the better pieces of job-hunting advice ive gotten was "sometimes people start small businesses and startups because they're otherwise unemployable"

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Ximena Cearley @sojourncircus.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Yep, Most small single-owner businesses I worked for, though often dedicated to whatever their product or service was, were *terrible* employers, and they all basically had struck out on their own because they simply couldn’t play well with others in a larger organization

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Ximena Cearley @sojourncircus.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Hah I read this and thought “huh, that sounds like it could be that Myke Cole book I haven’t read yet” and then you posted the link :D

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Ximena Cearley @sojourncircus.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I recently googled my grandmother’s beautiful old brick house and whatever flipper bought it painted the whole thing snail gray *that is not what old Fort Worth is supposed to look like like aaaaaarrrrgghhh*

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themboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

the world does not need any more LOTR adaptations. the 2001 trilogy, flawed though it was, was lightning in a bottle and will never be captured again. LOTR does not need to be an endlessly fruitful "IP" franchise. let it rest on its laurels and make new things instead.

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