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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

the perfect Bluesky sequence of sentences does not exist—

Lizzy @someonelizz.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The lack of an Oxford comma here indicates that this is a list of three items and that there are no appositives. If you added an Oxford comma, then it would be ambiguous whether “a New York vigilante” was a) an appositive coreferential with “Sylvia Plath” or b) simply the second item in a list.

BlueSky post reading “Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.” The image it’s referring to is a headline reading “Sylvia Plath, a New York vigilante and Shah or Iran featured in latest historical fiction”

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Lizzy @someonelizz.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

The only reason I took Hindi instead of Sanskrit in college was that Sanskrit was at 8 am and Hindi was at 11 am

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Lizzy @someonelizz.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

who knew that that Brian Eno quote would also apply to Swiss cheese

In Swiss cheese production, the number and size of eyes declined in the 2000s. This was due to increased hygiene standards, which reduced the number of dust particles in the milk around which gas bubbles form. In 2025, the Swiss Federal Administrative Court approved the addition of hay flower [de] powder (a mixture of various wildflowers and grasses) to the milk during cheesemaking, to allow for eyes of the typical number and size to form.

Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.
Brian Eno, A Year With Swollen Appendices

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Lizzy @someonelizz.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I’m a simple woman, I repost Angels in America posts

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Lizzy @someonelizz.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

perhaps Millie Bobby Brown would like to read Idlewild by James Frankie Thomas

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Lizzy @someonelizz.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

life goal (that I cannot achieve because I live in an apartment building with communal garbage)

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Lizzy @someonelizz.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I read Meeting New People by Daniel Lavery! It’s about loneliness and friendship breakups, and it said exactly the thing I needed to hear about my friendship breakup. If you’re sad and also tired of feel-good platitudes about loss, this book is for you.

Cover of Meeting New People. It has a painting of a stubborn-looking little girl sitting at a table.

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Lizzy @someonelizz.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

if your adult son calls you from a pay phone in the middle of the night and says “Mama, I’m a homosexual,” do NOT respond, “You’re old enough to understand your father didn’t love you without being ridiculous about it”

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Lizzy @someonelizz.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Louis Ironson’s understanding of child development surprisingly accurate

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Lizzy @someonelizz.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

me reading a post about pickle-flavored Oreos: Is this an Angels in America reference? 🤔

Taste: For starters, the OREO cookie part tastes like a regular OREO chocolate sandwich cookie. The fudge part tastes like: FUCK YOU I’M A PICKLE!!!!!!!!

LOUIS: How?
PRIOR (Furious): Fuck you! I’m a prophet!

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Lizzy @someonelizz.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Spent Easter Sunday watching a story about a man in his early 30s who was unfairly persecuted by society, was betrayed by a man close to him, and who went to Heaven and came back. I’m referring, of course, to Angels in America.

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Lizzy @someonelizz.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

A verb is not “an action word.”

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Lizzy @someonelizz.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

retelling of A Midsummer Night’s Dream as a season of The Ultimatum: Queer Love

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Lizzy @someonelizz.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

The way I explain this idea is, if a non-native English speaker hears someone use the word in its common but prescriptively incorrect meaning & asks you what it means, it’s not helpful for you to only tell them what it’s “supposed” to mean. It’s helpful to tell them how it’s actually used.

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Lizzy @someonelizz.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

the greatest millennial novel is Idlewild by James Frankie Thomas

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Lizzy @someonelizz.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

I recently watched Angels in America with a friend who suggested they should change all the ozone references to climate change references, and my whole body went “no!!!!!!!!!”

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Lizzy @someonelizz.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Watched Heated Rivalry with some friends who don’t read fanfiction and am now watching them invent RPF from first principles

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Lizzy @someonelizz.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

hello I am the target audience for this

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Lizzy @someonelizz.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

unfortunately for me this is neurofibromatosis, the disease that I wrote a report on for 9th grade biology

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Lizzy @someonelizz.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I always find it obnoxious when people say they’re taking a break from social media, but I got an app that enforces a 20-second delay when I try to open BlueSky, and it immediately made me use this app way less, and it’s great.

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Lizzy @someonelizz.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

I once recommended this book to a friend and only subsequently learned that she does not like sad books 🙃

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Lizzy @someonelizz.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college. -Language Disorders -Marine Mammals -Linguistic Field Methods -The Lesbian Novel -[language redacted for being so rarely studied it’s potentially identifying]

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Lizzy @someonelizz.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

In all fairness, I think there are a lot of people who remain married even when it does not in fact benefit them

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Lizzy @someonelizz.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

nathan fielder is that you

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Tawny Owl The female owl: ‘To-wit!’ (‘Yoohoo!’) ‘To-woo!’ says her suitor (‘It’s you!’) This strygine duetting Is a way of abetting Their main purpose. To wit: to woo.

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Lizzy @someonelizz.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

actually this whole thread is fascinating

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Lizzy @someonelizz.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Shakespeare was a podcaster send skeet

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m @mirative.moe · 14/01/2026

A syntactician walks into A'

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Lizzy @someonelizz.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

I’m generally tired of openings like “[Character] [verb]ed the [noun] as they [verb2]ed, [verb3]ing the [noun2] [adverbial]”

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Jennifer Dees @jdees.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

If you are in or near San Francisco, there is an emergency protest at 6 pm on Sansome, at immigration court. It is safe, I’ve been there multiple times, but large numbers of people would be very helpful. It’s time for us to get in the streets. Please turn out wherever you are, if you can.

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Lizzy @someonelizz.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Someone once told me that nobody ever died of cancer until seedless watermelons were invented.

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Angels in America @angelsinamerica.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Post a famous bathroom scene

Scene from the HBO adaptation of Angels in America, showing Louis and Joe in a men’s room. The dialogue caption reads “Well, oh boy, a gay Republican!”

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Lizzy @someonelizz.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

reordering the alphabet by place of articulation tired: from A to Z wired: from P to H

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🚬🐚 @clammee.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

foot fetishist (iambic pentameter)

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Lizzy @someonelizz.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

somebody’s read Metaphors We Live By

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Lizzy @someonelizz.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

I finished 30 books this year. Here are a few of my favorites:

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Lizzy @someonelizz.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Average person only sniffs one ham a week. Jamón Jorge, who lives in Spain and sniffs 800 hams a day, was an outlier and should not have been counted

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Lizzy @someonelizz.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

👀 Now I really want to read this

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Lizzy @someonelizz.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

I once watched a movie set in the 70s, I think it was All the President’s Men, and there’s a scene where a character lights a cigarette while IN AN ELEVATOR WITH ANOTHER PERSON, and I was so shocked I literally screamed out loud

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