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@spookyshell.bsky.social
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Shell @spookyshell.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Could it be an orb to the Blue AI’s world tho? o.0 (I love the idea that Caine has a link to the new circus but isn’t planning to interfere, just be proud of little bro’s achievement 🥹)
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Lauren C. Teffeau @teffeau.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
What you need to share about the "one big beautiful" ugly horrible bill (via @rbreich.bsky.social) open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
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What you need to share about the "one big beautiful" ugly horrible bill
(Resending so you can share over email without my inadvertent notes after the "share" button)
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Shen Comix @shenanigansen.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
if you're ever sad alone silently, consider this: - i hold a copyright on being like that - you are encroaching on my intellectual property - i will send you a cease & desist - i will possibly take you to court so please make yourself legally distinct by talking to someone about it
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Effie Seiberg is a spooky Cyborg @effies.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD... Use this link to leave a comment saying that we need vaccines for EVERYONE, not just those over 65! The best protection for the most vulnerable among us is for the people around them to not get sick!
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Regulations.gov
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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Landlines are the manual transmissions of telephony
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 14/05/2025
*crab-walked
A CNN news notification : The convicted killer crab walked between two walls and pushed through the newly installed razor wire to break out of prison, authorities say
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Shell @spookyshell.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
(not vegetarianism tho — that’s a different line entirely)
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Shell @spookyshell.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Crossing guard report: I have been gifted a tiny cake! Not all of them were handed out to teachers, apparently, so I feast on leftovers. I am usually willing to cheat on veganism in such circumstances.
A small frosted vanilla bundt cake (in a hard plastic package) inside the pocket of a neon yellow high-vis vest. Some sidewalk and part of a handheld stop sign are visible in the background.
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Welcome to Night Vale @nightvaleradio.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
7 Habits of Highly Effective People: 1. Being effective 2. But to like highly so 3. All the time 4. Just be effective 5. Okay? 6. You’re making this difficult 7. Hey get back here!
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Hector Diaz @iamhectordiaz.com · 08/05/2025
A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
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Shell @spookyshell.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Yet to see an apple car tho. Maybe someday…
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Shell @spookyshell.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Waving to the mailman as he drives by the crosswalk makes me feel like a drawing in a Busytown book and I kind of love it!
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Shell @spookyshell.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Crossing Guard Report: All these kids are walking by with cardboard plinko games they made and I haven’t spoken the words “horse plinko” out loud to any of them. Please clap for my outstanding self-restraint — it has been a struggle.
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Shell @spookyshell.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Kid: I’ve had a LONG day! Me: Oh yeah? Kid: I had to do state testing AND someone threw up during state testing AND someone feinted during state testing! Me: Wow that is a lot, but you made it! State testing is done for the day!
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Shell @spookyshell.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
One kid turned to another today and said “Remember that car with all the stickers yesterday? That was so cool!” These kids get it.
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Shell @spookyshell.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Crossing guard report: saw a car today so completely covered in stickers I have no idea what color its paint is. Selfishly wanted to keep it stopped forever to see more kids react to it, but listened to my better angels in the end and let it move along. Godspeed, sticker car.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
With the drop in shipping due to tariffs, the likelihood that a big boat will be stuck any time soon is dropping precipitously
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Increase in productivity since 1979: 86% Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 31% Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%. As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
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Shell @spookyshell.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
(Ran up against the character limit there [Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town]) Also if you don’t know the term mondegreen, enjoy learning that there is a word for that thing! And that the word itself is an example! Language is fun ✨ en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondegr...
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Mondegreen - Wikipedia
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Shell @spookyshell.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
4. I once thought that this was the real lyric then learned otherwise BUT I like my version better (“But while there’s hope, while I still grieve, I will believe” [I Will Believe, from Anna and the Apocalypse], “My world is beginning to change” [My World Is Beginning Today from Santa Claus ICTT])
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Shell @spookyshell.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
3. I do know the real lyric but I know about a very funny mondegreen from a friend so I sing that instead (“It’s Friday night on a Saturday” [Piano Man by Billy Joel], “Summer heat, born in the wheat” [Summer Nights from Grease])
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Shell @spookyshell.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
2. I don’t know the real lyric & I don’t think my version is right, but it scans well enough so whatever (“He’s Craig of the creek, he’s gonna sit doooown” [Craig of the Creek theme])
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Shell @spookyshell.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Types of mondegreens I have personally experienced, a thread: 1. I think I know the right lyric but later discover that I was wrong (“Juliet, the dice were loaded from the start, then I met you and you exploded in my heart” [Romeo and Juliet by Dire Straits])
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Shell @spookyshell.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Crossing guard report: free lemons across the street 🍋
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Shell @spookyshell.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
I mean collecting recycling for money I understand; it’s the speed that has me baffled. That and the timing — not many cans at the curb rn.
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Shell @spookyshell.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Crossing guard report: some guy with a big, black garbage bag full of… something (cans?) just got out of an SUV and started hauling ass down the street. Life’s little mysteries, I guess.
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SciShow @scishow.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
When the script says [bunny ears] and not [air quotes]... @hankgreen.bsky.social
Blurry teleprompter screenshot with the stage direction [bunny ears] clear and the rest is not relevant to the post. A BTS photo of Hank Green using his hands by his temples like bunny earsA BTS photo of Hank Green using his forefingers by his temples like bunny earsA BTS photo of Hank Green using his forefinger and middle finger on each hand out in front of him mimicking the popular US gesture to indicate sarcasm or that what you're saying is allegedly true. In this case indicating the alleged "void"
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Shell @spookyshell.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Fly free, my friend.
A white egret flying off into the distance. Blue sky with a few clouds in the background, brush and part of a transmission tower in the foreground.
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Shell @spookyshell.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Crossing guard report: an egret was standing so still in someone’s yard across the street that I had to wait for it to turn its head to determine whether it was a lawn ornament or a real bird. It eventually got up on the roof, which definitively settled that.
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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 25/04/2025
Man, this is a pretty fucking gross move from Amazon, huh? Good on @bookshop.org for not mincing words, though:
Every April, we celebrate Independent Bookstore Day to remind us how vital indie bookstores are to our communities and society. It’s a day of joy and solidarity, and significant financial impact for these bookstores.

This year, Amazon is undercutting that with a “Book Sale” on the same day—a calculated move by a company that has already put half the bookstores in the country out of business, controls over 60% of the market and sells far more books than all indie bookstores combined. The people at Amazon responsible for the timing of their "Book Sale" should be ashamed, but they are shameless.
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🎃👻LObu-bOoO👻🎃 @myflagmeanslo.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
*queercoded Disney villain voice* when will you fools understand that you can't hide the loquats from MEeeeeE???
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Shell @spookyshell.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
The birds get the ones way up high and the humans get the street level ones — those parrots need to honor the rules of the loquat! (Then again, I have used a telescoping fruit picker in the past, so I suppose I’m in a glass house here.)
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Shell @spookyshell.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Crossing Guard Report: Do you think holding a stop sign up for long stretches at a time will give me an edge in a stein holding contest?
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Shell @spookyshell.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Bluesky, you don’t. You don’t need to add a new notification for to the feed. Just because I reposted something. I… I am aware.
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Shen Comix @shenanigansen.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
First Image: An angry looking guy in a tank-top and dark grey pants.

Alpha Male

- Mean to others and himself

- Insecure about everything

- Anxious, distrustful

- Sets inrealistic goals

- Does not achieve them

Second Image: A guy in sweatpants and Aphex Twin t-shirt, holding something small up in his hand

Gregma Male

- This is just my friend Greg

- He wanted to be in this meme to show off his new Warhammer mini

- Greg you have to

- You have to move it closer to the camera

- Greg they literally can't see it
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Jason P. Steed @profsteed.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Arresting judges for “interfering” is another line crossed deep into the field of fascism. Not sure how the alarm can be sounded any louder.
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Shell @spookyshell.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
There are at least two children who are daily competing to be “first kid” across. One (the most committed by far) will come up to me & be like “First?” or “Second?” Today that kid ran across to reach the curb before someone else already in the crosswalk, thus technically claiming victory.
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Shell @spookyshell.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Crossing Guard Report: This gig is a serious arm workout when it’s windy! The stop sign is lightweight but it is ALL surface area. Flyin’ a dạmn kite out here 🪁
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Shell @spookyshell.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Was starting to get really worried about my bergamot tree — its mature leaves went from healthy to not-so-hot over the winter and for a while at the start of spring all its new growth was getting munched by something! Luckily it’s still in a pot, so I moved it and it’s bouncing back! #gardensky
Two thin green branches of a very young citrus tree. It has no large leaves, but is sprouting clusters of young leaves from several nodes. In the background is a blurry pigmy date palm and the exterior wall of a house. A white plant support can be seen at the bottom of the frame.
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Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 24/04/2025
Anxiety is so fun, like why is my heart pumping so fast? Why do I feel this overwhelming sense of dread? I dunno! Just kinda felt like it!
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Shell @spookyshell.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Someone in some Discord will post LLM screenshots explaining terms or concepts regularly and it deeply bothers me. If you can’t/ don’t have the time to explain them yourself, screenshot or link to a real source. Get in the habit of using AI, and you likely won’t notice when it gets things wrong.
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Shell @spookyshell.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Let the frog bicycle, Ros! Driving with the bear has a larger carbon foot print and also the navigation is questionable at best. Don’t make it even harder to be green ffs
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NPR @npr.org · 24/04/2025
NPR has been receiving tips about detentions at the Ambassador Bridge in Michigan. An inquiry by Michigan Democrat Rep. Rashida Tlaib has revealed more that 200 detentions this year at the bridge, including American citizen children.
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Wrong turn leads to hundreds of immigrant arrests at the Detroit-Canada border bridge
NPR has for months been receiving tips about detentions at the Ambassador Bridge in Michigan. An inquiry by Michigan Democrat Rep. Rashida Tlaib has revealed more that 200 detentions this year at the ...
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Shell @spookyshell.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
In the spirit of loquats wanting to be free, I got this tree from my local crop swap. It may be small but it is growing new leaves rapidly this spring and I think it’s gonna do great!
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Shell @spookyshell.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
One day, I will provide to the street loquat economy with fruit overhanging the sidewalk that makes people go “yeah, that seems like fair game” and the karma cycle will be complete. #gardening
A very, very young loquat tree with six deep green leaves around the edges and three young light green leaves coming up in the center. A top-down shot that also includes some of the dirt around the plant and a few other plants in the background.
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Shell @spookyshell.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
It’s actually wild how quickly I go from feeling extremely necessary (these drivers go bonkers during the gridlock fr) to utterly useless (literally no one ever crosses in the last 15 minutes unless there’s a book fair or something).
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Shell @spookyshell.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
For the record, the crossing guard shift lasts half an hour and the traffic consistently clears up in the first 10 minutes. There is plenty of actual downtime in which I can responsibly post a report.
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Shell @spookyshell.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Crossing Guard Report: Why am I not surprised to see a “Let’s go Brandon” sticker on the side of the truck that decided to ignore my full-size stop sign and the literal child in the crosswalk and turn right int the intersection without so much as slowing down? Sometimes life is so on-the-nose.
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Shell @spookyshell.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Like don’t even ask me how much I’ve spent on the GOOD tea at a specialty shop. I’m completely addicted to whole leaf single-origin tea and to steeping it gong fu style when I have the energy. But none of that makes bagged Constant Comment by Bigelow go any less hard, ya know?
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