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Swistle Thistle

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Swistle Thistle @swistle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
HE CAN HAVE MY OXYGEN, I DON'T NEED IT
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Swistle Thistle @swistle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
MY HEART
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Swistle Thistle @swistle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
KATRINA. What is happening to this baby?? Why won't they FIX IT. FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT
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Swistle Thistle @swistle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Waking up, getting coffee, scrolling Bluesky---and see HOSPITAL AND BABY I thought there'd be a good gif, but I am not finding a good gif. Maybe the one of Sheldon breathing into a paper bag.
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.
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Swistle Thistle @swistle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I was SO SCARED of ET, and he was SO WIDELY CONSIDERED TO BE ADORABLE. Many classmates had ET t-shirts and ET lunch boxes!
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Swistle Thistle @swistle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The reviews on those pants were really good, so they might just not be right on my body type!
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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
henstomper

oh my god the slot machine company says i have to keep putting coins in their machine or Im Gonna Get Left Behind. thats so scary. and it has to be true because they know more about slot machines than i do

oh my god the slot machine company says if we dont give them money to build the world's biggest slot machine the chinese are gonna build it first and win all the prizes. and then there wont be any prizes anymore
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Swistle Thistle @swistle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I have a new rule, and it's that if I find myself scrolling endlessly on Bluesky or Facebook, I have to instead write some postcards for Postcards To Voters. I don't know if it will do any good, but it does more good than endlessly scrolling Bluesky or Facebook. postcardstovoters.org
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Postcards To Voters
Join People Across The United States Writing Postcards To Voters
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Swistle Thistle @swistle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I was like GIRL what are you TALKING about---and then got a notification and it was a new follower named Julie with an OF profile. OIC
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Swistle Thistle @swistle.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Absolute Clothing Failure: www.swistle.com/2026/10/03/a...
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Absolute Clothing Failure
I need a mildly dressy outfit for an upcoming restaurant situation, and I hate clothes-shopping. I was shopping online at Old Navy for other things (I need longer sweatpants—the ones I’…
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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
i don't know the best time to opine about the possibility of rehabilitation and restorative justice and so on but the worst time is 5 minutes after one of your favs is outed doing something terrible
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
with all respect: i'm losing touch with what AI does because i have no interest in it and it's not my business. nobody worries about me losing touch with developments in particle physics or artificial bull insemination. it's not my fault the richest guys on earth want me to make their toy my life
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Mad Auntie Kristy @auntiekristy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Semi regular reminder that Jesus didn't tell women what to wear he told men to gouge their eyeballs out.
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The next day I hear about what happened later, the wild experiences, strengthened bonds or odd opportunities all of which I would have loved to have been part of! But I left, bc for me, leaving was the smart choice, the safe one. But saying why I left makes the men roll their eyes; nothing happened!
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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Swistle Thistle @swistle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Books: Fitz and the Fool Trilogy; Spindle's End; Those Beyond the Wall; Vigil; The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion www.swistle.com/2026/10/01/b...
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Books: Fitz and the Fool Trilogy; Spindle’s End; Those Beyond the Wall; Vigil; The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion
It has continued to feel odd, and I have continued to feel resentful about, going to a library not my own. It’s a smaller library, but it’s a member of the same grouping of libraries th…
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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Swistle Thistle @swistle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hi! My comment was only on the topic of whether there is a difference between the lifespan of an outdoor cat (feral/stray, no owner, no care) and that of an indoor-outdoor cat (all indoor amenities/access provided, regular veterinary care, etc.).
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Swistle Thistle @swistle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ours all opted to go inside and lounge.
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Swistle Thistle @swistle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
But you can see there must be a difference in lifespan between a feral/stray cat, who has no owner and no shelter and no veterinary care; and a cat who has an owner, and full access to the indoors, and full veterinary care. Imagine a cat who can shiver in the snow OR who can go inside and lounge.
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Swistle Thistle @swistle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We got it from our vet; I'm sorry to say it was not in writing. But we had three indoor-outdoor cats ourselves (exactly like Adonis's living circumstances but with an optional cat-flap to the outdoors), and they all lived to 16. We now live on too busy a street so our cats are indoor-only.
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Swistle Thistle @swistle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I am only giving the information that there is a third category between "outdoor cat" (feral/stray) and "indoor cat."
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Swistle Thistle @swistle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This made me laugh until I coughed. Yes.
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Swistle Thistle @swistle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Plenty of arguments against doing indoor/outdoor (birds, etc.) but it IS a different category, and usually involves VOLUNTARY outdoor access, plus regular vet visits, food/water indoors, litter box indoors, etc.! A very different category than the hunched-miserably-in-the-snow category!
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Swistle Thistle @swistle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Wait wait! There is a third category! It sounds like "outdoor cat" means "feral cat"---i.e., outdoor ONLY, no owner. The third category is indoor/outdoor cat, which is a cat that lives in a house but has ACCESS to the outdoors when they wish! Last I checked, that average lifespan was 13-14 years.
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Swistle Thistle @swistle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I am beginning to think that, however valuable such a program is in theory (kids who need a faster pace SHOULD THEORETICALLY be supported) it does nothing but harm to the actual and ongoing psychology of the person.
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Swistle Thistle @swistle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Current news about some asshole with good standardized test scores as a child reminds me of my ongoing hypothesis that you cannot stop someone who participated in the childhood gifted & talented program from telling you that they were involved. No, not even if you frame it like this, like a trap.
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Swistle Thistle @swistle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
(The midterms would feel extremely important---except that I no longer feel that getting those seats to Democrats will mean anything gets done. I keep seeing the CURRENTLY SEATED DEMOCRATS doing nothing. So.)
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Swistle Thistle @swistle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I am writing Postcards to Voters again. I don't know if it helps. It does help ME a little. postcardstovoters.org
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Postcards To Voters
Join People Across The United States Writing Postcards To Voters
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 24/09/2026
"While Charlie Brown did once again accelerate toward the ball, miss it entirely as Lucy pulled it away, flip backward through the air, and land violently with a disquieting crunch, we do not believe that now is the time for a dramatic change in kicking strategy." buff.ly/X2RjqP5
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“Charlie Brown Must Stay the Course”: A Football Kick Autopsy Report by the Democratic Party
“While Charlie Brown did once again accelerate toward the ball, miss the ball entirely as Lucy pulled it away, flip backward through the air, and land violen...
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Swistle Thistle @swistle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Sick Cats: www.swistle.com/2026/09/25/s...
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Sick Cats
Did you know, if you have a lot of cats who share litter boxes, and you need to bring in a sample from the litter box for the vet, and you’d really like that sample to be from The Specific Ca…
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Swistle Thistle @swistle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
There are few political fundraising hooks less compelling to me than "The other side is outspending us."
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli
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Swistle Thistle @swistle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's SUCH a bad idea. It used to be that when I called, they knew ME and THE KIDS, and I would be talking to a NURSE I KNEW, who had learned to calibrate how worried I must be in order to call. Now I get people who HAVE NO MEDICAL EXPERIENCE AT ALL, AND CAN'T PUT ME THROUGH TO ANYONE WHO DOES
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Swistle Thistle @swistle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
HATE this, and this is how our doctors' office is now
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Swistle Thistle @swistle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Reducing Heating Oil and Electricity Bills: www.swistle.com/2026/09/23/r...
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Reducing Heating Oil and Electricity Bills
I learned something new on NPR, and it is that “diesel” and “heating oil” are THE SAME THING. Our house is heated with heating oil. That means that when the news talks about…
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
the footage of the president speaking at a news conference and you can't hear him because it's the press he banned who bring the sound equipment is too on the damn nose because guess what we wouldn't have if people hadn't kept insisting on handing this asshole a microphone over & over & over again
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Swistle Thistle @swistle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Spongebob: I Don't Need It... I NEED IT!
ALT: Spongebob: I Don't Need It... I NEED IT!
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Swistle Thistle @swistle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Fam, can we see these outfits when you are in a normal human position
Two clothing models pose in extremely unnatural seated positions. A woman is sitting on the very tiniest corner of a chair, with one leg bent back and the other leg stretched out straight in the opposite direction; her hand is grasping the chair corner between her legs, and her other arm is on the back of the chair, and her spine is slouched down, out, and toward the hand grasping the corner of the chair. She looks incredibly uncomfortable, but the clothes look great and flattering. A male model is leaning sideways against the back of the chair, with one arm bent so that his fist is against his temple. One leg is bent sideways and back, with the outer ankle resting against the floor and the foot completely sideways. The other leg is crooked in a more natural way, with the foot flat on the floor; his hand dangles in front of his crotch awkwardly. He looks incredibly unnatural, but the clothes look terrific.
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Swistle Thistle @swistle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Furthermore, the model often is shown in, for example, huge floppy sunhat, huge sunglasses, and pointy red slingback heels. My friend, how does this outfit look and feel in the frozen-foods aisle of the grocery store?
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Want a hard copy? Donate $50 or more at kapow.works/donate by October 1 and we’ll mail one right to your door!
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Swistle Thistle @swistle.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I can for sure try big wide baggy pants and a lil top and a flowy overshirt, and it will 100% not look like that on me unless I stand in a weird bent-back posture with one leg angled out and one arm angled up---and I can tell that's the case, because that's the ONLY way the model stands.
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Swistle Thistle @swistle.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I have now watched a lot of these "it's not your body, it's the clothes" reels, and what I have learned is that it is 100% an artificial angling of the model's body toward the camera to create an illusion. I'd like to see the models stand with the same posture for both the Cute and Uncute clothes.
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Swistle Thistle @swistle.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I think I could go the entire rest of my life without ever being told again to "buckle up" before reading a thread on the internet.
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Swistle Thistle @swistle.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Albums From the Distant Past: www.swistle.com/2026/09/18/a...
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Albums From the Distant Past
On the 8-hour drive back to campus, I had Edward go through his classes and tell me about each one. He said he was saving the best for last. I was not expecting the best, in the first semester of h…
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 16/09/2026
Happy Baby Safety Month.
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The bride will wear white, the groom will wear white, and the Russian oligarch nobody knows will wear camouflage in case someone tries to take a picture of him and ProPublica finds out. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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Pay No Attention to the Russian Oligarch at My Wedding Weekend
He’s just a dear friend we know nothing about!
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Kass G. @anarkass.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Also worth noting that like, three people requesting something at a library will get a library to buy it. And it doesn't take many holds to make it "we should buy more copies."
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