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Up the Down Staircase

@vianegativa.bsky.social
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I’m on the run to wherever you are. 52. Surly CIS gay male. TTRPG Gaymer. TCG Gaymer. Trapped somewhere between the shadows of being an adult and deciding who I want to be when I grow up. Chicago IL - Sober - Gay - Poly- Wannabe writer - Wannabe poet

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Up the Down Staircase @vianegativa.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Cory Booker and Chuck Schumer are useless until you realize they are probably the Republican’s Joy Division and, as machine Democrats, don’t care as long as they profit with the other politicians. Despicable. Yes, Cory, Trump is enshrining insider trading. What are you doing? NOTHING.
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Up the Down Staircase @vianegativa.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
If your Recovery practices allow you to hurt marginalized communities, ethnicities, or sexualities because you believe your literature is holy writ, then you are not in recovery. You are a zealot.
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Up the Down Staircase @vianegativa.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
You see, children, this is what we call a “win” in packaging. lol.
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Up the Down Staircase @vianegativa.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Strong Guy from X-Factor in 2018 could get it.
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Up the Down Staircase @vianegativa.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I guffawed
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Up the Down Staircase @vianegativa.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
The Notorious Lady G grabbing the spotlight one final time…
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
For those who have forgotten the past 40 years: Tax cuts for the rich ...don’t trickle down Boosting military spending ...doesn’t bring peace Slashing regulations ...doesn’t create jobs Folks, we’ve seen this all before.
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Up the Down Staircase @vianegativa.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
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Up the Down Staircase @vianegativa.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Time to blast that fucking gravel pit outta my left kidney. Spent the morning telling folks I love ‘em, but if I croak I expect every one of you to attend my Viking Explosion Burial. Ponchos will be provided, floss will not be.
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Up the Down Staircase @vianegativa.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
This is the most unapologetically queer and clever and chaotic shows on screens right now. Relentlessly self-aware and does not hold fucking hands. Go watch it.
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Up the Down Staircase @vianegativa.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Look at how snatched that chassis is! She’s giving Piranhacon!!!!
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Up the Down Staircase @vianegativa.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
In a move surprising absolutely no one, Netflix continues to assassinate quality shows over re-running foreign media it picked up on the cheap.
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Netflix Cancels the Duffer Brothers Series ‘The Boroughs’ After One Season
'Stranger Things' creators Matt and Ross Duffer are headed to Paramount.
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Up the Down Staircase @vianegativa.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
White Pomelo & Green Bamboo Pepsi is absolutely delicious. I do wish they’d market foreign flavors here more.
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Up the Down Staircase @vianegativa.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Oh yes, let’s do ramp me off Prozac while doubling my intake of Effexor. I won’t feel like a chupacabra trying to shed his human form, no, not at all.
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Up the Down Staircase @vianegativa.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Watching the Working Upper Class use AI to feverishly automate themselves out of relevance and employment is my new favorite TV show.
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Up the Down Staircase @vianegativa.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
This movie was absolutely fantastic. I can only highly recommend it.
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Up the Down Staircase @vianegativa.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Come see the alien vistas of Chicago. Breathtaking, impossible, Chicago
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Sin Archbishop of Sloth Kendo D. Smith @kendomakesfilms.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
👁️👁️
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Zara Alfonso Illustration @zaraalfonso.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Blue & Gold 🖤 #art #painting
“Blue & Gold” is a portrait painted by the artist Zara Alfonso. A portrait of a young black woman looking peacefully towards the viewer. Her skin is adorned with gold circuitry forming a wearable technology, she has gold eye makeup and a round gold stud piercing in her nose and below her bottom lip. She wears a blue tunic with golden patterns that match the circuitry she wears.
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Filth Wizard @tinyweasel.eurosky.social · 12/04/2026
They never should have repealed Glass-Steagal
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arc83.bsky.social @arc83.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Ss86 Soundwave
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Thought Punks 🎲 TTRPGs + Punk 👩‍🎤 @thoughtpunks.com · 11/04/2026
Behold: Phage Keeper! phage.thoughtpunks.com Run walls to heal them. Keep the beasts in. Survive. 80s arcade action, 90s grimdark storyline, 00s web frame. Taste the #retro flavor of this #IndieGame (but not not Max's Meta-Goo without an R&D prescription). Platform: Desktop browser, keyboard.
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Phage Keeper
CLASSIFIED: OUTPOST 13. A bio-ethereal exploration into arcade survival. Can you keep the cage intact?
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
The amazing, letter-perfect performance of NASA this week is a ferocious rebuke to the right-wing fools who constantly tell us that for-profit businesses always do a job better than the government.
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Joey McAllister @joeymcallister.com · 11/04/2026
The correct level of enthusiasm.
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Jason Cordova @jasoncordova.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
We’re currently working on our Secret Stretch Goal, a Brindlewood Bay crossover mystery called Estate of Affairs! The Murder Mavens investigate a murder mystery; the Latchkeys are behind the scenes of the filming of that episode of Brindlewood Bay! www.kickstarter.com/projects/gau...
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Update 17: Secret Stretch Goal #1: Brindlewood Bay Crossover Mystery · Public Access Analog Horror Mystery TTRPG
We’ve just unlocked our $450K stretch goal, Gathering Dust, and so now it’s time to reveal our first Secret Stretch Goal! If we can raise more money than Brindlewood Bay did during its Kickstarter campaign, we’ll make a crossover mystery that can be played with both Brindlewood Bay and Public Access. The mystery is called Estate of Affairs. The Brindlewood Bay version is a classic murder mystery involving the death of a wealthy cattle baron in New Mexico… and the greedy heirs trying to lay claim to his estate. The Murder Mavens are in New Mexico on holiday when the local sheriff, aware of their reputation back in New England, ropes them into the case. The Public Access version of the mystery is a Lost Transmission about the filming of that episode of Brindlewood Bay. What starts as a normal day on location for a small group of production assistants turns into a nightmare of ancient pacts and blood sacrifice. The mystery will be presented so that Side Characters, Locations, and Clues account for both the Brindlewood Bay version and the Public Access version. And there might even be a circumstance that causes them to literally crossover with one another…In order to beat Brindlewood Bay, we have to raise $477,518 USD. If unlocked, this stretch goal will be a digital download.
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Thought Punks 🎲 TTRPGs + Punk 👩‍🎤 @thoughtpunks.com · 11/04/2026
Forever is for the few, the rare, the damned. Do you hear its song? The taste of sour dreams and forgotten memories? Come home. The night missed you. www.drivethrurpg.com... #Vampires #Vampire #TTRPG
Black and red background. Heavily shadowed woman in foreground, just one eye visible with a band of red paint across it. Styled text in foreground: Vermillion Vespers by Rev Casey. Thought Punks.
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Up the Down Staircase @vianegativa.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
New insult for MAGA nerds: “May your Digimon digivolve into a Ring Doorbell Camera, you fascist piece of shit.”
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Up the Down Staircase @vianegativa.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Right. I’m absolute shit at socializing at parties these days, but I’m trying to relearn being “fun” without being drunk or high AF. Please stand by. 🤪
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Up the Down Staircase @vianegativa.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Final bi-weekly Champions game tonight and it ended on a fair note. I’m glad that I essentially got to play Bert Kreischer x Dial “H” for Hero as an empathetically intelligent jackass. I already miss playing with some of my buddies at the table.
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Up the Down Staircase @vianegativa.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Time to start sucking at the many things I’d like to master.
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Up the Down Staircase @vianegativa.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
I saw Mike Doughty (former lead singer of Soul Coughing) do an all-acoustic set of his early solo work and cover songs from Soul Coughing. Utterly sublime. My soul left my body at some point— I only came back when I realized I was crying at his rendition of “Your Misfortune.” Fucking transcendent.
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Jordan @gm-jordan.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Ok. Well my brain is broken now.
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Thought Punks 🎲 TTRPGs + Punk 👩‍🎤 @thoughtpunks.com · 28/03/2026
you know you want more moody vampire nonsense
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MÖRK BORG @morkborg.com · 28/03/2026
All Knights Are Bastards
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Up the Down Staircase @vianegativa.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
“I was a boy and I was good But there are witches in these woods” — The Woods, San Fermin
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Up the Down Staircase @vianegativa.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
You know, today’s streamers would have cancelled Star Trek: the Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Star Trek: Voyager after season 1 - 2. Star Fleet Academy was, of course, robbed.
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Up the Down Staircase @vianegativa.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
I’m looking to re-create my TTRPG collection a third time (please don’t ask why) with either only the minitiest, most beloved, or most played games by me while keeping an inventoried list of what I actually have for once. Wish me luck.
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Up the Down Staircase @vianegativa.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Dearest Magic Stans: I am trying to create a magic deck about a shitty strip mall. I believe Mardu works best (White for Confirmity, Black for ambition & greed, Red for impulsive spending), but I need a commander of pair of commanders that really say “late stage capitalism.” Any thoughts?
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Up the Down Staircase @vianegativa.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
I’m not a fan of such naked manipulation of our elections by AIPAC. Call me naive, but I voted for Abughazaleh.
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Up the Down Staircase @vianegativa.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Marvel Comics Loves Monsterfuckers— In the following essay I will elaborate on how Marvel Comics is making Ultimate Sabertooth your new Zaddy Monsterfucker Icon…
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
So they’re going to cripple healthcare for the poor in Minnesota to make an example of the state. The warning is “don’t resist.”
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Up the Down Staircase @vianegativa.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
I am ferociously uninspired at the moment regarding M:tG, running RPGs, socialization, or relationships. I need some way to revitalize creatively.
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Richard Paris @rwparis2.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Face reveal. Wrong answers only.
Max Headroom
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RAPIDPUNCHES 🍉🫒🕊️ @rapidpunches.itch.io · 09/01/2026
Inspiration :) #sharks #art
A shark at a desk with a picture of a starfish on the laptop for reference, as they doodle a starfish on a piece of paper.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/02/2026
Elizabeth Warren: "This one is to me not even open or arguable. How would the US government keep money that the Supreme Court said it did not legally collect from American businesses, that it did not legally take away from American families that ultimately paid this?"
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AAAAHH-lex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 24/02/2026
a mundane curse #comic
cartoon drawing of someone trying to clean their glasses on their shirt. she holds it to the light. still dirty. frowning. “no”

“may your enemies’ glasses be always smudged, and their shirts the wrong type of fabric ♥️”
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Ncs_artist @artistncs.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Rem has to eat his sketti... or else
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Up the Down Staircase @vianegativa.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Me too, buddy. Me too…
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