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Rose Gold Dust Woman @stephtacularly.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Today was my family’s annual Get Rekt, Bobby! Day

A close up of a shoulder with a bright red bandaid on it.

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Rose Gold Dust Woman @stephtacularly.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The only iced coffee discourse I’m interested in:

Ken Kirby, as hot as hell Dr. Shen on The Pitt, sips his iced coffee through a straw hotly.

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Rose Gold Dust Woman @stephtacularly.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Ok, maybe it’s making more sense why these chuds like him

Screenshot from Nixon’s Wikipedia page:

In his account of the Nixon presidency, author Richard Reeves described Nixon as "a strange man of uncomfortable shyness, who functioned best alone with his thoughts". Nixon's presidency was doomed by his personality, Reeves argues:

He assumed the worst in people, and he brought out the worst in them ... He clung to the idea of being "tough". He thought that was what had brought him to the edge of greatness. But that was what betrayed him. He could not open himself to other men, and he could not open himself to greatness.

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Rose Gold Dust Woman @stephtacularly.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Fandoms truly need to get a fuckin grip stereogum.com/2503674/noah... people.com/olivia-rodri...

NEWS
Noah Kahan Asks Concertgoers Not To Shit In Their Seats
By Danielle Chelosky
4:34 PM EDT on June 27, 2026

Olivia Rodrigo Admits She's 'Smelled' Fans
Wearing Diapers at Her Shows to Keep Their Front-Row Spots
The "Drop Dead" singer mentioned the unique
"experience" in an interview with KISS FM UK to promote her new album, 'You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love'
By Jack Irvin | Updated on June 18, 2026 11:45AM EDT

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Rose Gold Dust Woman @stephtacularly.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

And they say no one under the age of 35 uses this website

A screenshot of an exchange from June 13, 2026:

@colindickey.com:
What remains one of the best life hacks I’ve ever learned: at any chain that has a phone number-based rewards system needed for discounts (CVS, Duane Reade, etc.), simply put in the local area code followed by 867-5309. There is always already an account. You will always get the discount.

@nancyjane.bsky.social:
Can anybody else verify this? Seems like a good idea.

@wildlee.bsky.social:
Yes, I can also confirm. (Highlighted) That was a phone number of a popular song in the 80s or something, so it immediately comes to mind as a default (fake) phone number for many people of that generation.

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Rose Gold Dust Woman @stephtacularly.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

There are dumbasses on school boards everyone because you don’t have to have any qualifications to run for them. And those people making decisions about your kids’ education do not think clear thoughts and your kids probably read at a higher reading level than they do.

Screenshot: "In the video with Alicia Keys are a group of African Americans wearing masks and written (sic) on some o (sic) those masks in (sic) George Floyds (sic) name," they wrote. "This curriculum may look different in another state or city but it does not fit in with the policies of NSD."

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Rose Gold Dust Woman @stephtacularly.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

The very next post on their TL “Comments on people’s physical appearance for me, but not for thee”

Rae of Sunshine 1 hour ago:

Sorry about your luck, you ugly fucking piece of shit traitor to the community.

They said this as commentary about Caitlin Jenner (who can says she “Cannot Travel After Passport Gender Changed to 'Male'”)

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Rose Gold Dust Woman @stephtacularly.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

These chuds are destructive as hell but they are all just momentary masters of a fraction of a dot in the end. Carl Sagan:

$The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.$

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Rose Gold Dust Woman @stephtacularly.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Almost all of this is wrong 😑 The USPS is operating at a loss. But there ISN’T any cushion or subsidy built into the federal budget for it. If USPS needs a financial injection it has to REQUEST financial aid from the government.

Wrong person number 1 says:

The USPS is a government service that is partially subsidized by the taxpayers as a whole and partly by the cost of postage, which is kept lower by the former. Our taxes are supposed to cover any operating costs that are not made up by direct sales as it is a GOSH DANG GOVERNMENT SERVICE

They were quote posting wrong person number 2, whom said:

The USPS IS NOT LOSING MONEY. THE USPS IS SPENDING TAX DOLLARS ALLOCATED TO IT BY THE BUDGET. THE USPS SHOULD NOT BE REQUIRED TO ZERO OUT ITS BALANCE SHEET IT IS NOT A BUSINESS IT DOES NOT HAVE SHAREHOLDERS. IF THE USPS IS OUTSPENDING ITS BUDGET IT SHOULD BE ALLOCATED MORE BUDGET.

5:41 PM • Mar 20, 2026

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Rose Gold Dust Woman @stephtacularly.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Excellent work here by whoever did the layout.

A screenshot from the article. Two sentences at the top read, “After about 90 minutes, the adults adjourned for the night. No teens spoke.”

Immediately underneath that is a picture of five older white men sitting around table as another older white man is standing and speaking into a microphone.

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Rose Gold Dust Woman @stephtacularly.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Mended an armpit on a jacket that tore/frayed and now I feel unstoppable???

A close up of a hole in the armpit of a maroon faux-satin jacket.

A close up of the mended hole, with matching fabric underneath and a whipstitch all around the edge.

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Rose Gold Dust Woman @stephtacularly.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

The Scouts are also weird for bending over backward to preserve their relationship with the US military tbh

From the article: “The Scouts told Hegseth in January that after hearing his suggestions, they had come up with a plan for him to review, which included discontinuing their Citizenship in Society merit badge and introducing a Military Service merit badge, waiving registration fees for military personnel and holding a ceremony to rededicate themselves to leadership, duty to God, duty to country and service, besides dissolving their DEI board committee.”

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Rose Gold Dust Woman @stephtacularly.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

I see there’s USPS discourse happening again & I just want to make sure everyone understands that no tax payer money goes to USPS. It is required by the Constitution, but it is also required to be completely self-funding. So it doesn’t need to make a profit, but it sure as shit needs to break even.

From Wikipedia:

A section titled Funding and privatization proposals:

First paragraph:

Since the Postal Reorganization Act came into effect in 1971, the USPS has been mandated to be self-financing and rely solely on revenue from stamps and package deliveries to support itself.
In 1982, postal stamps were changed to be categorized as products rather than a form of taxation, and since then, the Postal Service has no longer received taxpayer funding.

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Rose Gold Dust Woman @stephtacularly.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

This sounds less like educating kids and more like training a generation of good compliant worker-consumers.

Another parent, who withdrew their son from Alpha Brownsville, says guides offered to buy him something from Amazon if he retook a standardized test and improved his score. But the parent says their son felt shame when he wasn't completing enough lessons in his apps.
"He went from a really happy kid, where school completely changed him that first year," the parent says, "to just a work machine who would do whatever it took."

A picture of toys, games, and prizes with price tags on them and the caption:

Students can purchase prizes using Alphas, the school's in-house currency, which they earn through work.

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Rose Gold Dust Woman @stephtacularly.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

I gave an low but audible gasp when I got to the end of this graf

“Courtney Wallace took home the day’s only prize, reserved not for the fastest runner but for the first to quit. She dropped after just one lap and received a $25 gift certificate to a running store with locations in Columbia and Sykesville, set to expire a little more than four hours after the race start.”

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Rose Gold Dust Woman @stephtacularly.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

AI imagery labeler says yes bsky.app/profile/aimo...

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Rose Gold Dust Woman @stephtacularly.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Stop gatekeeping a little social media site, man. Seriously - why care??

A tweet from
Michael Hobbes
@RottenInDenmark
•••
I think we'll look back on the last decade as a time when social media gave previously marginalized groups the ability to speak directly to elites and, as a result, elites lost their minds.
2:20 AM • Apr 27, 2022

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Rose Gold Dust Woman @stephtacularly.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Oh, apparently her readers suck, too. And the out-sized influence of Amazon sucks. GenAI still sucks, though. The whole situation just sucks.

Screenshot of the same Verge article:

As Mark McGurl writes in Everything and Less, his recent book on how Amazon is shaping fiction, the Kindle platform transformed the author-reader relationship into one of service provider and customer, and the customer is always right. Above all else, authors must write fast.

Lepp, who writes under the pen name Leanne Leeds in the “paranormal cozy mystery” subgenre, allots herself precisely 49 days to write and self-edit a book. This pace, she said, is just on the cusp of being unsustainably slow. She once surveyed her mailing list to ask how long readers would wait between books before abandoning her for another writer. The average was four months. Writer’s block is a luxury she can’t afford, which is why as soon as she heard about an artificial intelligence tool designed to break through it, she started beseeching its developers on Twitter for access to the beta test.

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Rose Gold Dust Woman @stephtacularly.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

I made these for my more judgmental family members to suck on 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Two Easter eggs nestled in their carton. One is rainbow striped with big thick bands of each color. The other is striped in multiple thin bands of blue, pink, and white overlapping each other.

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Rose Gold Dust Woman @stephtacularly.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Good article! This stuck out to me, tho. Like, sure, comms can be improved sometimes. But we also need teach and drive home the point that if you’re having a problem you can, you know, look online or call your reps for help.