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Ell Ohh Arr Ee @troppypop.bsky.social · 15h

You receive a letter from The White House: "Yaoi is male-centered."

Ell Ohh Arr Ee @troppypop.bsky.social · 16h

Yeeeeeah. I would, too, in your position. The response will be telling. That's such a huge pet peeve for me, like, YOU DID THIS! Why am I emotionally or professionally responsible?

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Ell Ohh Arr Ee @troppypop.bsky.social · 16h

For sure!! This email would drive me nuts, too! If it's any consolation, it happened to me, recently. The root cause was a recruiter misreading my resume and then canceling. There was no room for me to argue that I was definitely qualified and no remorse for the error being theirs. Inhuman behavior.

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Ell Ohh Arr Ee @troppypop.bsky.social · 16h

I am so sorry! The lack of explanation sure makes it ripe for catastrophizing, but yea, it's 100% some inconsiderate bs coldness from the company that had nothing to do with you.

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Ell Ohh Arr Ee @troppypop.bsky.social · 18h

The more I look at this, the more I see

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Ell Ohh Arr Ee @troppypop.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Caveat: Common sense regulation doesn't even have to happen for this reaction to be true. The stock market is propped up on emotions alone, including fear, bitterness, and entitlement. 🤑

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Ell Ohh Arr Ee @troppypop.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It will crash, and it doesn't really require an active conspiracy. Rich people will just go "ruh roh, I bet there's gonna be more common sense regulation now and our unimaginable wealth will build at a slower pace, we hate that" and act accordingly.

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Ell Ohh Arr Ee @troppypop.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Had our concrete porch demolished and repoured today. Now begins 48 hours of 1. Making sure the neighborhood tweens do not damage or vandalize them and 2. Silencing my own CONSTANT invasive thoughts telling me to do the same.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.

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Ell Ohh Arr Ee @troppypop.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The story "The Raft" from Creepshow 2. My mom loved Stephen King and was way too liberal about enjoying his work around me. The blob's ability to come up between the raft boards filled me with a very specific despair-tinged fear.

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Ell Ohh Arr Ee @troppypop.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I once again am unsure why Handmade Puppet Dreams doesn't have a presence On Here, but Team Justine just finished another 48-Hour Puppet Film project! "WKET" will be streaming October 25.

A 3D printed alien puppet sits behind a Mini Brands DJ booth

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Ell Ohh Arr Ee @troppypop.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I talk a big game about how I miss living in Lincoln Square, but the Lincoln Square I loved living in is gone. There is only 50,000 person Apple Fest, now.

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Ell Ohh Arr Ee @troppypop.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"Have lunch with someone who literally wants to kill you!" Guys like this who STILL think it's all just some fun thought exercise cannot be redeemed.

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Ell Ohh Arr Ee @troppypop.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If voting didn't matter, they wouldn't be fighting so hard to stop it. If organizing didn't matter, they wouldn't be fighting so hard to stop it. If art didn't matter, they wouldn't be fighting so hard to stop it. ...Keep going. Apply the sentiment where you need it.

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Ell Ohh Arr Ee @troppypop.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I think that is a misunderstanding, too, because it implies people are loving and paying for AI art in droves, when really, it's largely being treated with suspicion and distaste.

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Ell Ohh Arr Ee @troppypop.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There was a period in my life where I carried a mini booklet copy of The Constitution in my purse just so I could whip it out and make mouthy dudes show their work or shut up. It was one of my cringiest eras, and also I really think I need to become That Bitch again.

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Ell Ohh Arr Ee @troppypop.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Anyone who says that never appreciated art, to begin with. Art is process, not product.

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Abundant Housing Illinois @abundanthousingil.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A new round of ChiBlockBuilder applications for City-owned lots opens October 1st. A total of 477 parcels are available for private purchase and designated for commercial, residential and mixed-use construction, as well as side yards, open space and urban agriculture.

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Building Blocks, One Lot at a Time

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Ell Ohh Arr Ee @troppypop.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm a huge Severance fan, hosted some panels on it at Dragon Con. S2 suffers, for me, because the show is already too aware of its success and fandom. It's getting too big/weird, I fear another Lost... but S2 also has one of my favorite scenes in television ever. It's all true at once.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)

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Ell Ohh Arr Ee @troppypop.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Better not, a company is bringing me a mini dumpster tomorrow and it is meant to be filled with rotten wood and shingles, NOT RAIN

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Ell Ohh Arr Ee @troppypop.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Not that it's your responsibility, but I'd love for your company to give them honest feedback. "It was not a close or difficult decision, in your case. You have vibecoded your way into actual brain rot, you do not understand the job. Continue your search at your own peril."

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Ell Ohh Arr Ee @troppypop.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We love a queen who cites psychological phenomena and multiverse theory before accepting she just got something wrong. So young, so wise.

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Ell Ohh Arr Ee @troppypop.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Now that I've had some sleep... yes! The good news I hinted at last night is that my poems are being published. Two works have been chosen by a small poetry journal for emerging writers. I will share more shortly. It is very warming to be recognized for art I've created for its own sake.

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Ell Ohh Arr Ee @troppypop.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Received some good news tonight, a stated goal achieved, a tiny dream come true... and there are so many horrific things going on in this country tonight alone that I can't even feel my win. I don't know how we can all keep living like this.

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Ell Ohh Arr Ee @troppypop.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Man, you have dug into, like, a deeper depth of thing. "Built different," to me, means I can imagine the impact a behavior will have on my mortal body. THIS is incomprehensible, never fathomed.

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Ell Ohh Arr Ee @troppypop.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Millennials who go to concerts on weeknights are built different.

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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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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

VOLITION - Subdue the regret. Dust yourself off, proceed. You'll get it in the next life, where you don't make mistakes. Do what you can with this one, while you're alive.

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Ell Ohh Arr Ee @troppypop.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You will be hearing from my attorney about the emotional damage.

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Ell Ohh Arr Ee @troppypop.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I heard one about eye injections today that made me dizzy! Improves vision, may cause extreme pressure, retinal detachment, blindness.

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Ell Ohh Arr Ee @troppypop.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Honestly, calling me a vampire is so flattering. I don't care if I look young or not, but I do want to seem like a pale and elegant creature of the night (struggling to survive in the agonous sun at the farmers' market.)

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Ell Ohh Arr Ee @troppypop.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

(at the farmer's market) Vendor: "How do y'all know each other?" Friend: "We met on an Internet message board." Me: "Decades and decades ago, though. Thirty years?" Vendor: "So... y'all were online before you were 5? Or, y'all vampires?"

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Ell Ohh Arr Ee @troppypop.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I've always wondered where those men come from who are hyper-concerned with gold diggers even though they don't have any gold. I think this is the origin story??

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Ell Ohh Arr Ee @troppypop.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

None of those say "human man" to me quite like Throh does. Machop is nude and has a lizard mouth. Hitmonchan is CLOSE, but still has those big head spikes. ...Ain't no way I'm mistaking Hitmonlee for a human, though, ever.

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Ell Ohh Arr Ee @troppypop.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Re-installing Pokémon Go has introduced me to generations of newer Pokémon that I hadn't seen. I love how many bugs and birds they have added, because that's what you'd see in real life neighborhoods! ...but then, there's Throh. This is just a man. I have captured a man in a ball.

The Pokémon Throh, a red humanoid creature in a grapple pose wearing a martial arts gi.

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Ell Ohh Arr Ee @troppypop.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

When I was in business school, a finance classmate asked, as if he were the first to think of it, "What stops a person from budgeting excess funds for 'unplanned expenses,' knowing they will not occur, then pocketing the money?" The long suffering professor sighed, "Laws, hopefully!!"

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Rugby Respecter @whatmcgives.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

S-tier meme just dropped

Chicago Pope saying "Great things happen in Chicago."

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 26-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION people in Sweden found NO EVIDENCE to support a causal link between acetaminophen (the API in Tylenol) use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, OR intellectual disability in children.

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Ell Ohh Arr Ee @troppypop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

An arborist has informed us that the tree we inherited with our house is irreversibly dying. I have more emotions about this than I expected. The neglect of previous owners reaches new heights every day, damn!

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is exactly what I’m afraid of. That as soon as we get Trump out of office, all the Democrats are gonna be like “we need to get back to the job of running the country.” No. I want trials and prison sentences. I want disgorgements of wealth. I want exile.

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pausa de hateration @thatguywasfly.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In the US we live under fascism which means "degenerate" is a dog-whistle used in the service of genocidal bigotry, while AT THE SAME TIME we're watching online gambling being aggressively marketing everywhere and particularly to children. But that's never what they mean by degeneracy.

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Ell Ohh Arr Ee @troppypop.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It isn't AI. It's a meme and OP did not get the joke. The company is Strike Gently, and they absolutely are trolling based on the Old Texts.

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Ell Ohh Arr Ee @troppypop.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It isn't AI. It's a meme and OP did not get the joke. The company is Strike Gently, they are cool, not criminals, spend away.

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Ell Ohh Arr Ee @troppypop.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It isn't AI. It's a meme, and OP did not get the joke. The company is Strike Gently, and they make lots of handcrafted odd stuff that is lovely.

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