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Ess Dub

@swilkes.bsky.social
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“I would prefer not to.” Oddities, commentary, notions, plants. Seattle, but I like other places, too.

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Ess Dub @swilkes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is my answer to all these handwringing articles about adult children cutting off their parents. It used to be that if you grew up in a shitty family (in the US at least), you could move to another town and just never see or speak to them again. Happened all the time, everywhere.
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Ess Dub @swilkes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The music video for “Thriller.” I was 7, and it had not until that point occurred to me to be scared or anxious about living across the street from a cemetery, which I had been since birth.
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Ess Dub @swilkes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If AI is decreed by rabbinical councils worldwide to be a golem, that might eliminate some confusion about all of this. But it won’t solve the problem that the analogues to the rabbi of Prague for AI are untrustworthy creeeps.
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Ess Dub @swilkes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Re: grocery shopping: This continues to be true.
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Ess Dub @swilkes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As a freak who actually enjoys grocery shopping, and whose first payroll job as a teen was at a grocery store, and as a woman who does a couple of stereotypical “women’s work” things at home including aforementioned shopping…I have a LOT of thoughts on AI turning its focus to this sector
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Ess Dub @swilkes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is my answer to all these handwringing articles about adult children cutting off their parents. It used to be that if you grew up in a shitty family (in the US at least), you could move to another town and just never see or speak to them again. Happened all the time, everywhere.
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Ess Dub @swilkes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Universities are more afraid of lawsuits by the families of rapists than of being known as places where women are raped. Let’s switch that up. And let’s make rapists afraid. Add these names to your general knowledge along with Brock Turner’s.
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Ess Dub @swilkes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I’ve watched more than 1 episode of 40 of these, and have watched 19 all the way through. It includes British shows, and I think I have more objections to their placements here than the US ones. Feels low on Canadian contributions.
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Ess Dub @swilkes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Today I won a free mushroom foraging class at a neighborhood farm festival raffle. So sometime soon I’m either gonna make delicious meals from locally foraged fungi, or die horribly. 🍄‍🟫
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Ess Dub @swilkes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I’m going with Terrorist Hack [of nukes and/or grid] vs. It’s Incredibly Hard to Exterminate Humanity in the final, with It’s Incredibly Hard for the win. AI will never kill us *all.* Unfortunately there is a ton of room for a wide range of atrocities in between.
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Ess Dub @swilkes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Enumclaw was an op????
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Ess Dub @swilkes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Reading up on the Patel hearing today, I wonder: is bestiality really a lot more common in this country than I thought..or is it a lot, A LOT, more common *within the sub-set of Americans who aspire to be feds*??? 🤔
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💥 @dynamoe.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
I need work, preferably in the San Francisco Bay area. I'm an experienced graphic designer/art director. I can draw fairly competently. I write better than average and have written 2 professionally published books. Good storyteller, know some celebrity gossip. Not stupid I could break rocks, too.
hire me Dyna Moe. nobodyssweetheart.com
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Ess Dub @swilkes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Herbie, noooooo!
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Ess Dub @swilkes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Reading more novels, trying to grow more zucchini (weirdly failing at that—isn’t it supposed to be too easy?), drinking less, knitting, paper crafts.
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jdm @jdm0079.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
People asking me if I’m going to watch the new Harry Potter series has given me several opportunities to say, no, the only Harry Potter thing I’ll watch is “Wizard People, Dear Reader,” and then I get to tell people about that instead.
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Tim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Live report from the Minnesota State Fair, located in the heart of American democracy, where there’s an ICE Out adaptation of Picasso’s Guernica made entirely from crops
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Ess Dub @swilkes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Having just learned that Tim Curry included a straight-toned anecdote in his memoir about having an affair with Miss Piggy, I’m now ambivalent about this issue.
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Ess Dub @swilkes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Meta/Facebook is rape culture in corporate form. “Move fast and break things” and “ask for forgiveness, not permission” as tech industry mottos are closely related. It all needs to end. Nuke your Facebook and Instagram accounts. Don’t let your loved ones buy Meta pervert glasses. Divest.
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Ess Dub @swilkes.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Quick, someone put Liza Minnelli in bubble wrap.
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Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedy.northsky.social · 20/08/2026
Mid Century Modern tableware and where I think it would stand on trans issues, a thread
A Mid Century Modern ad for tableware, quirky hanging laps, weird wood paneled kitchen bar, oh yeah it's MCM as hell up in here (kinda love it)
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Ess Dub @swilkes.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This is me. I doubled my hourly pay at age 20 from $6/hr store clerk to $12/hr temp secretary by taking a typing speed test at a temp agency. I’ve taken dips in total income, but my hr rate has never dropped below $12 since then. Adding degrees to my CV helped me get interviews, but not pay bumps.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Whatever else was wrong with the United States, we truly did have a higher education system that was the envy of the world. Now we’re lighting it on fire because some people are bored and racist.
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Ess Dub @swilkes.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I’d sit between B. & E. and engage E. in conversation, giving B. a few hours’ break from his incessant emotional labor.
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Ess Dub @swilkes.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I once bought a zine at SPX about the Dvorak keyboard and tried to teach myself to touch type in Dvorak. I almost got there, but never outran my Qwerty typing speed. So yes, I am open to “diverse ideas,” tyvm.
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Ess Dub @swilkes.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I don’t have a lot of followers, so I might not wait for likes. I’ll start with # 1: “Democracy” by Joan Didion. It is a perfect political drama, simultaneously a family soap opera and a Vietnam War espionage thriller.
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Ess Dub @swilkes.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
So cool to see a song by @themountaingoats.bsky.social go Gold. Congrats! 👏👏👏
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Ess Dub @swilkes.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Mr. McGregor from Beatrix Potter’s Peter Rabbit books. Those little bunny bastards ate Mr. McGregor’s vegetables that were either his family’s sustenance or their livelihood. Fuck those 🐇🐇🐇!
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Ess Dub @swilkes.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I got The Ferry. #GoMariners
A serving of Ivar’s fish and chips in a container shaped like a Washington state ferry boat. In the background: a baseball game. The Mariners are losing lol.
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Ess Dub @swilkes.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I worry about how the internet will react when Jimothy meets his inevitable city raccoon fate.
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Ess Dub @swilkes.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Gravity’s Rainbow, although I’d prefer a version by Shane Carruth or Rian Johnson.
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Ess Dub @swilkes.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Myer Mocha. not bad!
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Ess Dub @swilkes.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Snood releases new edition of the Puzzle option.
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Ess Dub @swilkes.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
oh shit this is me.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
when someone shows you their nazi tattoo, believe them
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Ess Dub @swilkes.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Fuckin…WELP. 🤬 Heads need to roll for this, not just the nazi tat rapist fuckface. All the Dems who “vetted” him.
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No Escalators @noescalators.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Mexico vs. England is the most lopsided cuisine matchup you could make
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Ess Dub @swilkes.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
as my MA thesis advisor (RIP Leo Ribuffo) said to me, “Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social is the gift that keeps on giving.”
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Ess Dub @swilkes.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
In cat years, he’s had more PMs than the Queen.
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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Lynda Barry did not squeeze your heart and simultaneously explain the point of all art with the barest of line drawings so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."
HOW TO LOOK AT ART by Lynda Barry

In the first panel, a dog-headed woman, a mother, looks at a painting in the "Madonna with Baby Jesus" vein. A small blobby child is standing next to her.

Mother: IM NOT SURE HOW TO LOOK AT ART.
Child: WHATS SPOSTA HAPPEN?

In the second panel the dog-headed mother holds up her hands (paws?) trying to explain to the child.

Mother: SOMETHING BIG. A REVELATION.
SUDDENLY YOU JUST UNDERSTAND.

In the third panel dog-headed mother goes back to looking at the painting. The child holds up their arms to be lifted.

Mother: NOT SURE HOW TO MAKE IT HAPPEN
Child: HOW BOUT LIFT ME UP SO I CAN SEE BETTER

In the last panel, the dog-headed mother is holding the child, their position mirrored by the Madonna and baby Jesus in the painting.
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Ess Dub @swilkes.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Turn the Reflecting Pool into a tilapia farm.
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Mike McMahan @mikemcmahan.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Not my best work, but felt like this was what's on the menu for Bsky today.
Rodger Rabbit shoe being dipped into the green waters of DC.
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Ess Dub @swilkes.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Good news, but also irritating that FIFA can “allow” us to wave the 🏳️‍🌈 in our own damn stadium. Anyway, Friday in Seattle’s gonna be bonkers. Hopefully in a good way.
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Ess Dub @swilkes.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
My usual Saturday itinerary.
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Ess Dub @swilkes.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
The Last Plane to Jakarta forums ca. 2004-2007, hosted by @themountaingoats.bsky.social and @lalitree.bsky.social hands down.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 16/06/2026
A lot of high-minded theories about what's animating the Trump administration to do the things it does and what that might mean for the near future. But I think "how would the Bluth family from Arrested Development deal with this" is probably a pretty predictive rubric
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Ess Dub @swilkes.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
#ThigsIranGotInTheMOU Mandatory tahdig on rice in all federal US government buildings’ cafeterias. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorche...
en.wikipedia.org
Scorched rice - Wikipedia
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Ess Dub @swilkes.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Let’s do this right. Bluesky should only be accessed by people between the ages of 30 and 60.
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season of the bitch @m01r4.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
it’s stealth resegregation and a way to spend money earmarked for special education on kids who aren’t high-need
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Ess Dub @swilkes.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Holy shit fling this guy into the sun. Fuck every democrat who defended this demon since the nazi tattoo story came out, fuck anybody who still does, fuck all the podcast bros, fuck Maine, fuck America.
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