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A Spooky Marshmallow @talkingmarshmallow.bsky.social · 3h

I Tried To Follow In Your Footsteps, But Was Too Entranced By The Place In France To Ever Move On

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 20h

Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.

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A Spooky Marshmallow @talkingmarshmallow.bsky.social · 3h

Absolute *seething* jealousy of how good that looks.

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A Spooky Marshmallow @talkingmarshmallow.bsky.social · 4h

If you'll just take a seat over here we can get the paperwork st- oh

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A Spooky Marshmallow @talkingmarshmallow.bsky.social · 20h

The article this item refers to is being lambasted for disingenuous framing, poor methodology, and biased sources. Bluesky: "Let's just put the headline as the 'trending' topic as if it were true at face value. This is a valueless action. We are very smart."

A screenshot of an item in the "Trending" box on Bluesky, reading "3. Fewer teens identify as gay or bisexual"

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A Spooky Marshmallow @talkingmarshmallow.bsky.social · 21h

And don't forget the authors of Michelle Remembers, years after the book had been factually debunked, helping spark a resurgence of the Satanic Panic in the 1980s.

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Alice Averlong 🏳️‍⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 08/10/2026

the AI industry is full of people who would automate away playing with a kitten

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A Spooky Marshmallow @talkingmarshmallow.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Remember, everyone: Not only is disability a marginalization you can acquire at any time in your life, it can also get *worse* at any time and here in the US there may be nothing at all you can do about it.

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A Spooky Marshmallow @talkingmarshmallow.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Even if I could afford the MRI, I can't afford the mandatory pre-pay for any surgery they would perform. The hospital system explicitly exempts almost every specialty from their financial assistance program, and there's pretty much no chance I can get Medicaid, especially now.

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A Spooky Marshmallow @talkingmarshmallow.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

So there's a nonzero chance I'm going to be progressively losing the use of my right leg, and there's nothing I can do about it. The hospitals don't have an MRI I fit in, so I have to have an outpatient referral. Even if I could afford the consult to get the MRI scheduled, I can't afford the MRI.

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A Spooky Marshmallow @talkingmarshmallow.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Vivid (and its primary publication, Dreamkeepers) are run by Dave Lillie, an alt-right GamerGater/MRA/MGTOW whose advertisement of the comic on Milo Y's podcast was part of the chain that led to the Proud Boys threatening to raid MFF 2019.

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AltWatcher @altwatcher.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

We should probably talk about AltNOAA🧵:

AltNOAA posts a picture of Trump saying something to White House aide Natalie Harp and pointing downwards. AltNOAA captions the photo with "On your knees, bitch!"

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A Spooky Marshmallow @talkingmarshmallow.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Your sister's a loser for sucking your cock for food stamps" -Chu Chu Lovely [...] by MAXIMUM THE HORMONE

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A Spooky Marshmallow @talkingmarshmallow.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"I QRSed a post with an example from my own life; the OP is going to be angry that I'm centering myself with such a trivial example and making a mockery of people who suffer from a serious and intrusive disorder"

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Whimsy Bunny Doodles 🐇 @whimsybunnydoodles.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

OCD awareness month

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A Spooky Marshmallow @talkingmarshmallow.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"I opened a new jar of garlic salt while there is still some in the old jar I didn't see; my stepson is going to be mad at me for ruining his spices and my partner will kick me out for wasting money"

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A Spooky Marshmallow @talkingmarshmallow.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This goes for the ones who are still masc, too! And it can't be conditional, either. You can't "them" us until you're angry and then revert to "him" exclusively.

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A Spooky Marshmallow @talkingmarshmallow.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Chronic injuries are so Celine Dion. You think they've sodded off, but if you touch them like this, or if you hold them like that...

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If you're willing to sell out trans kids for theoretical votes I have to assume you'd sell out anyone for theoretical votes, so, yes, I do think supporting sports bans means you get not a fucking thing from me.

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A Spooky Marshmallow @talkingmarshmallow.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If ye be wantin' the booty disk, ye be needin' t' verify yer age, in the proper traditional way - answerin' trivia questions about old things that only the most salty, scurvy dogs o' the sea would know about!

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A Spooky Marshmallow @talkingmarshmallow.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If you're not going to educate yourself a priori, maybe tone down on the tone policing when people who know the issues are taking about them and just, y'know, ask regular-degular questions?

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A Spooky Marshmallow @talkingmarshmallow.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I mean, you can certainly take that position, but you kind of look ridiculous coming into a thread about a Known Quantity and pulling the whole "are wet just throwing around labels" thing based on your own ignorance of the subject.

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A Spooky Marshmallow @talkingmarshmallow.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

100% in agreement here. "Minimizing personal use" is the "carbon footprint" of the genAI ecosystem - they're still building the data centers, they're still shoehorning their crap into everything, they're trying to make it impossible to NOT use their products.

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I agree it's impossible to avoid using anything that had AI in its construction, but disagree that minimizing individual use is the only thing we can do. We need to demand consequences for execs responsible for the negligent homicides and law-breaking, and tight regulations to mitigate harms.

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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 07/10/2026

stop fucking with Tennessee holler and alt national Park accounts for fucksake

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A Spooky Marshmallow @talkingmarshmallow.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

(archaic, rare) That's a 5-doubloon word.

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A Spooky Marshmallow @talkingmarshmallow.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"UwU no pawatics" is how actual Nazis and the alt-right stay embedded in furry spaces, though. It's why you didn't know PeaceWolf's actual acts. It's why people are still giving money to Vivid Publishing or buying pooltoys from Horseplay. Intentionally not knowing makes you less safe.

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A Spooky Marshmallow @talkingmarshmallow.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I was half-expecting you to have a response posted two minutes later that just read "yes i know about venjent"

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A Spooky Marshmallow @talkingmarshmallow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yeah, it really makes me appreciate the streamers who take the time to curate their communities, including banning emotes. I remember at least one has BTTV aliases for the Pepe and Groyper emotes that turn them into speech bubbles saying things like "Ban Me".

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A Spooky Marshmallow @talkingmarshmallow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

From what I found: 1) The solid ingredients are cooked separately, rather than being cooked in the broth, and the broth is added at the end 2) The first DDG result for "soup" doesn't include a mention of Trader Joe's as a source for ingredients. 2 may be more illuminating than 1.

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mcc @dryad.technology · 04/10/2026

Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of

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Witchy Annie 🏳️‍⚧️ 🔞 @possmom.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"JK Rowling is already a billionaire and everyone already knows about Harry Potter, what's the point of boycotting?" Nobody thinks boycotting will bankrupt her. We know she's gonna die rich. We're just asking you to show a shred of solidarity with trans folk. Absolute low bar bare minimum shit.

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A Spooky Marshmallow @talkingmarshmallow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It was so weird seeing someone start off with a good, well-reasoned critique of the trend and then swerve into "don't focus on the incel slur part of the name, that's an overreaction" and I'm sitting here like "girliepop I have *read* the 'hide your power level' playbook why are you running it"

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A Spooky Marshmallow @talkingmarshmallow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

In the case of #2, I'm certain there's a near-circular overlap with "vote for transphobe Dems" people and the ones who told us not to second guess Nancy Pelosi for backing anti-choice Dems and saying that support for abortion rights shouldn't be a litmus test for Dem candidates.

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Claudia: alt text please 😩 @lesbianspacemerc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If you say we have to vote for non-trans-supportive Dems to stop Republicans… 1. Would you say that if they supported literacy tests at the polls to "cut down on illegals voting"? 2. Would you say the same thing if they said they support bans on abortions until the woman has 9 months of therapy?

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A Spooky Marshmallow @talkingmarshmallow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Every time I see one of these takes I go check in on WhiteFire and tell her I love her.

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A Spooky Marshmallow @talkingmarshmallow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"There's a fake leg for sale on the thrift store rack If you're poor, and you're lame, go buy! The metal detector might still have charge Killer deals for bored dudes! We've got a way, got a way, got a way with business, business."

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A Spooky Marshmallow @talkingmarshmallow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"A Bug-class VTV is best described as a lawn chair with rocket boosters and a windshield. A Lepton-class VTV is just like that, without the windshield." - The introduction to Red Planet I got back in 2001.

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A Spooky Marshmallow @talkingmarshmallow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"A real victim wouldn't say or do that, so (pick one:) she's making it up / he's actually the perpetrator."

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A Spooky Marshmallow @talkingmarshmallow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's no "consider my petition wisely, lagomorph", that's for certain.

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A Spooky Marshmallow @talkingmarshmallow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Predatory loans" is putting it mildly; some of the schools were engaged in out-and-out student loan fraud.

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A Spooky Marshmallow @talkingmarshmallow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just reminded myself of my job twenty years ago. When I got hired, they made a big deal out of how there were Team Leads and Supervisors and the Manager, all of whom had been rank-and-file before. Then they got rid of Leads and made the Manager an outside-hire-only position. Shredded the ladder.

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A Spooky Marshmallow @talkingmarshmallow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Submitted a silly meme category to AGDQ. Applied to be a volunteer. Hope I get the chance to go for the first time. It'd be super cool.

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