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Texty the Bard @textualdeviance.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Wait. What? ANOTHER one? This one is from my other god squaddie aunt--the first one's little sister. I can't....

Yet another card depicting Noah's Ark with Christmas decoration. This time also with a reindeer shooting out of the top deck with stars coming out of its ass.

Texty the Bard @textualdeviance.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Among the zillions of things I'm sorting through/getting rid of in prep for our imminent move is a bunch of old cards. Including this doozy from my god squaddie aunt. I just... How does this make any sense at all?

The front of a holiday card featuring a Noah's Ark theme that also--bizarrely--includes Santa and a wreath. Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the Flood in the Old Testament? No Christmas then, right? And thousands of years before St. Nicholas?

Hilarious.

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Texty the Bard @textualdeviance.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I think it might be a little too late for prescriptions to help, buddy.

A hearse at a CVS drive-thru pharmacy window.

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Texty the Bard @textualdeviance.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

RS with your home river. Depending on where "home" was at various times of my life: Truckee, Willamette, Rogue, and Cedar. Honorable mention: the Columbia River Gorge, which is one of the most stunning places on the planet and a whole post in itself.

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Texty the Bard @textualdeviance.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

What the absolute fuck is this? The best I can do at following this logic is that we have to punish Democrats for being less than perfect because otherwise the whole party will be less than perfect, too? And in the meantime, Republicans banning GAC is going to help Trans folks how, exactly ?

Post from a complete dipshit arguing that Republicans are "demonstrably better for trans people than rule by center-left transphobes."

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Texty the Bard @textualdeviance.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

We've had this photo above our downstairs toilet for 25+ years. It will be given the same place of honor in our new house.

A black and white 1950s photo of a llama sticking its head out of a car on New York street. The llama looks curious but confused.

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Texty the Bard @textualdeviance.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

All the cool kids are doing it, so am sheep. Mostly accurate. Born and raised in Reno. Moved to the PNW in 1990. My dad had a TX/OK accent courtesy his fam though he was raised in AZ. Mom sounded upper Midwest courtesy her mom, but was raised in SoCal and then Southern Oregon.

An image from a page called MyDialect. It's a map of the US with colors for different regions. My results place me in California and Southern Oregon.

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Texty the Bard @textualdeviance.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Without downloading any new pics, where are you at mentally?

A photo of some old grade-school work of my son's

Section heading: Check Your progress
Question 1: Are you on track to reach your goal? How do you know?
My kid's answer (in 4th-grade scrawl): No i don't have a goal

Question 2: Do you have any roadblocks? If yes, what are they?
My kid's answer: Yes not haveing a goal

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Texty the Bard @textualdeviance.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I mean, I DO call myself the Social Justice Bard. But also one with a very neurospicy brain, so perseverence? Yeah. Not so much. Only when I have a bug up my ass about something, usually someone being Wrong on the Internet.

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Texty the Bard @textualdeviance.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

What I'm seeing is that we all have a thing for that cute one with the classic baby-dyke haircut. So many of the guys just screamed "obnoxious cishet douche" that I just didn't pick many of them at all. I went for the ones who were smiling and looked friendly or nerdy, though.

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Texty the Bard @textualdeviance.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

At least these two are being honest about their support for terrorism.

Screenshot of a reply from Wombatkidd: "I won't condemn Hamas for the same reason I don't condemn the Ira. Cry about it genocider."

Screenshot of a reply from hughjimmerson: Terrorism isn't real, it's a fake term that the dictatorship of the bourgeois made up as a weapon against armed resistance by marginalized communities. Does the boot taste good, loser?"

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Texty the Bard @textualdeviance.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

We're just getting started on packing up to move to a new house, after 17 years (and two kids and multiple cats) in this one. This has meant finding odd things we completely forgot we owned. Exhibit A: Evidence of our religious upbringing! These were hidden on a shelf behind a bunch of YA fantasy.

A shelf with a row of religious books, primarily LDS stuff.

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Texty the Bard @textualdeviance.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Same here. Was on a fairly raging course of it in early 2013 to fix a frozen shoulder. It fixed the shoulder! Aaand I also spent an entire Sunday afternoon making half a dozen different meals to portion out into freezer containers. I imagine this is what m*th does to non-ADHD people.

My prednisone-fueled cooking frenzy. Cherry pie, apple cobbler and turnovers, cheeseburger pie, quiche, savory bread pudding, shepherd's pie and lasagna.

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Texty the Bard @textualdeviance.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam or Alice In Chains.

The cover for They Might be Giants' 1990 album Flood.

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Texty the Bard @textualdeviance.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Not media, per se, but the last time I went through Small World, the color scheme of the final room really felt like it was supposed to represent an afterlife where kids of all cultures finally got to play together.

A photo from the end of the It's a Small World ride at Disney. The color scheme of the scene is white, yellow and pale blue, and feels eerie.

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Texty the Bard @textualdeviance.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Posting this so I can refer back when some jackwagon accuses me of being a fascist just because I think the DSA is a ratfucking op. I'm a progressive, and I actually want progressive policy to be implemented. Which means I vote for Democrats instead of abstaining or wasting my vote on 3rd parties.

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Texty the Bard @textualdeviance.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Hey, so remember how I've talked about growing up in the sovcit cult? Digging through a bunch of storage boxes and found a few old newspapers from that crowd. The whole Zionist thing? Yeah. The left really needs to understand who they're making common cause with.

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Texty the Bard @textualdeviance.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Getting ready for a big move later this summer. Found this box in the garage. #GenX

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Texty the Bard @textualdeviance.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Post 4 female characters you love and pass it on. (Holding me to only four is criminal, dangit. I could *easily* list 30.)

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Texty the Bard @textualdeviance.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

This is a cat check point. Relinquish your most recent cat picture on your phone.

A naughty shorthair ginger cat is atop a bed pillow, with sheets half covering her. All we see is her back legs, tail and face. She looks as if she's made herselt a cave to hide in, and she's rather annoyed at having been discovered.

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Texty the Bard @textualdeviance.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

On a writing retreat for the first time in ~5 years. Project for this is working on the sequel to Tesserae, which has been half-written for ages. To that end, I'm building a continuity doc, which of course requires a re-read of Tesserae itself. LOOK WHAT I FOUND. This was pubbed in 2015, FFS.

A screenshot of a passage from my book Tesserae:

Jay frowned and crossed his arms in front of his chest. "Are we going to need more government or military involvement on this? I know the army still has the site locked down for now while we finish the investigation, but I'm surprised they haven't been more involved."
Leung made a sour face. "It's mostly politics, really. The government actually used to have a dedicated alien-invasion protocol, but that got dissolved back in the '20s, along with a bunch of other agencies that were deemed a waste of money. The contingent of anti-Federalists running Congress right now is doing everything they can to kill all remaining national public services and either shove them off to the states or privatize them entirely. As far as they're concerned, Homeland's only purpose is to keep terrorists out—not aliens—and the military exists only to guard our foreign economic interests. Some of them have even been suggesting that this whole thing is a false flag—a way to convince other representatives to vote against their latest privatization bill."

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Texty the Bard @textualdeviance.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Depends on how you feel about anything touching your eyelids. If you don't mind it, these are cheap and work very well. They have a little under-eye pillow thing on the back to keep it from feeling like your eyes are being smushed.

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Texty the Bard @textualdeviance.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

"NYC and Seattle are totally like the rest of the country. If we can elect socialist mayors there, we can easily elect them everywhere!" This is your brain on class reductionism.

Screenshot of a chart from Gallup showing historical trends for positive views of capitalism and socialism. Unsurprising to anyone who's ever paid attention, 54% of Americans like capitalism and only 39% like socialism. The numbers have declined and increased, respectively, over the last 15 years, but not by much.

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Texty the Bard @textualdeviance.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Also considered this one, but couldn't find a gif. And seeing as how I'm an OT3 shipper, I could have easily come up with a dozen more, but that would have made people go looking for my AO3 account and, well....

A behind the scenes photo from the shooting of the finale for the series Blindspot. It features characters Patterson, Rich and Boston showing off matching wedding rings.

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Texty the Bard @textualdeviance.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

You're not in the US, though. Which is why I'm muting this now. You clearly don't understand how our government actually works here because you're not directly involved with it.

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Texty the Bard @textualdeviance.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

This is why. Even if there was an across-the-board drop, it was still largest there.

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Texty the Bard @textualdeviance.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Arguing with an anti-abortion dipshit on FB and found this on her profile. Fucking hilarious.

Screenshot of a FB post from Aug. 6, 2024 with a meme showing Trump and Harris next to displays of gas prices, with the caption, "Let's be clear. These are your choices this November." The prices on the Trump section are dubiously low and probably haven't actually been that low since the Clinton admin. The prices on the Harris section are about what they are now. Heh.

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Texty the Bard @textualdeviance.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Sorry, but the math just doesn't work. This is a list of the R seats that expire this year. Note how many of them are in deep, deep red states like Oklahoma and Mississippi. We might be able to get to a simple majority, but 2/3? No.

Republicans
Armstrong, Alan (R-OK)
Capito, Shelley Moore (R-WV)
Cassidy, Bill (R-LA)
Collins, Susan M. (R-ME)
Cornyn, John (R-TX)
Cotton, Tom (R-AR)
Daines, Steve (R-MT)
Ernst, Joni (R-IA)
Graham, Lindsey (R-SC)
Hagerty, Bill (R-TN)
Hyde-Smith, Cindy (R-MS)
Lummis, Cynthia M. (R-WY)
Marshall, Roger (R-KS)
McConnell, Mitch (R-KY)
Ricketts, Pete (R-NE)
Risch, James E. (R-ID)
Rounds, Mike (R-SD)
Sullivan, Dan (R-AK)
Tillis, Thom (R-NC)
Tuberville, Tommy (R-AL)

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Texty the Bard @textualdeviance.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only.

A promo shot of the main cast of Syfy's series "Killjoys"

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Texty the Bard @textualdeviance.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I wrote this in early 2014. The rest of the book isn't about this, mostly, but as I was thinking about what changes might have happened by 2060, this is one of the things I landed on. Oof.

A screenshot of a passage from my novel "Tesserae."

"She doesn't mind about us, though. She's not that backward." Alex huffed helplessly. Accepting her son's interest in men was one of the few concessions to modern culture she had allowed.
"No, I get that. It's everything else. I wouldn't have a problem if she was just plain Catholic. Yeah, they're still twenty years behind everyone else, but they're at least getting there. I think they're even considering a female candidate for a cardinal position now or something. But your mom's thing—this Homecoming cult she's into—is just fucked up. You have to know that." He made a face.
Alex's chest tightened. "I do know it, Gabe. Honestly." Homecoming, his mother's denomination, was a rogue Catholic sect, diverging from the Vatican not long after Pope Francis had taken the office, and dedicated to reversing the increasing secularity in both the church and outside of it. Filling a gap left by increasingly insignificant conservative Protestants, the traditionalist group was starting to gain in political power, even if its membership numbers were still small overall. Every advancement in ecumenical peace and secular egalitarianism, from the

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Texty the Bard @textualdeviance.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

There's bot garbage going on. Also seeing a lot of random anti-Democrat replies from accounts that otherwise only reskeet porn. Stay alert. There's a flood of this stuff happening here.

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Texty the Bard @textualdeviance.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

I mean, come the fuck on. Accusing a Jewish candidate who literally refused AIPAC money of taking it anyway? Claiming DNC money is automatically AIPAC money? This is trollfarm garbage.

Screenshot of a bullshit post by Bargdaffy61 featuring a Track AIPAC poster claiming Daniel Biss took AIPAC money when he did no such thing.

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Texty the Bard @textualdeviance.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

More inauthentic accounts that post almost nothing but memes and anti-Democrat propaganda. Finding a LOT of these every time I see one of those Track AIPAC posts.

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Texty the Bard @textualdeviance.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

The second that dude called Planned Parenthood "establishment" I was turned off for life. Why do all these guys sound like this?

Screenshot of a classic tweet from birdsrightsactivist reading "I am feel uncomfortable when we are not about me?"

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Texty the Bard @textualdeviance.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Who keeps posting these? Oh. This is astroturf bullshit anti-Democrat propaganda, folks. They're spamming these on every post a Democrat makes and every post that mentions them.

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Texty the Bard @textualdeviance.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

This is the money quote, right here. When I bring up this sort of thing, I always get some pushback, as if I'm policing women's choices. But my point is that none of our choices are made in a vacuum.

Don’t get me wrong, I think they all look wonderful. I can see they feel powerful. I am just always suspicious of anything homogenized for women. I think because it’s harder to decipher if it’s possible to be a choice, when something is a frantically pushed demand. How do we know what is empowering? Is choosing to submit to the power of patriarchy power? Some will argue that it is, because it is a choice. BUT HOW DO WE KNOW IT IS A CHOICE WHEN AUTONOMY IS NOT AN OPTION, AND RIDICULE/INVISIBILITY IS THE PUNISHMENT FOR NOT FALLING IN LINE?!

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Texty the Bard @textualdeviance.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

My #BlueSkyMonday is the view from my neighborhood park. Lake Washington, Mercer Island and the Seattle skyline all the way in the back.

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Texty the Bard @textualdeviance.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

This is the post. There are only about 50 million foreign-born people in the US. Second-gen (natural born citizens) is about another 50 million. They want to deport all of those people.

A screenshot of a post on the DHS Insta showing a calm beach and a 1960s car. On the image, the text is "America after 100 million deportations." The caption on the post says "The peace of a nation no longer besieged by the third world."

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Texty the Bard @textualdeviance.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Bsky says otherwise. So. Trollfarm or just a dipshit?

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Texty the Bard @textualdeviance.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

WTF is this bot shit? Look, I'm enough of a realist that I come off as a doomer, but I would never imply that we shouldn't bother voting at all. That's apathy propaganda, and it's aimed squarely at the people most likely to buy into it.

Two posts from two different accounts with identical text that leans toward the pro-apathy sort of voter suppression propaganda.

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Texty the Bard @textualdeviance.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Speaking of rather shocking FB things.

Screenshot of a FB post from "Libertarian Veterans" showing a cartoonist Venn Diagram. On the left is an image of a bolstered handgun and the label, "legally carrying a firearm." On the right is an image of commonly-seen protest iconography: picket sign, bullhorn, raised fist, and the label, "legally protesting." The center where the circles overlap is labeled, "not a death sentence."

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Texty the Bard @textualdeviance.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

2016, FTR. And though it's crystal clear that sexism is a factor, it's also fascinating that a bunch of Latino men who voted for Clinton didn't vote for Harris. And it's not necessarily racism, because their numbers were more or less the same for Obama.

A screenshot of CNN's exit poll results for 2016, broken down by gender and race. Trump won white men and women, but lost every other group. Interestingly, the numbers for Latino men here are very different than the numbers for Harris.

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