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Erin Griggs @wordslingeuse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

...after the bloodlust has settled, lol. Lox gets REAL possessive of her kills, but Capers doesn't GAF about catching, just barking & chasing.

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Erin Griggs @wordslingeuse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

They are the sweetest, laziest cuddlers...until. UNTIL.

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Erin Griggs @wordslingeuse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

San Diego is a huge military town, btw. He's asking enemies of the state to target the civilian families of the American military. Those are *included* in the American citizens of L.A. and San Diego that he advocated being bombing to death by our adversary. Treasonous lunacy.

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Erin Griggs @wordslingeuse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We have beagles. We live in the suburbs of a city. They are very much city dogs. ...but Lox has murderated at least 20 backyard critters in 8 years. She is FAST and INTENT. Yesterday we chased her and a squirrel corpse around for 45 minutes. 🙄🙄🙄🤢

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Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk · 06/10/2026

Have you heard of a medieval black knight from the Arthurian world? Meet Moriaen, the protagonist from a Dutch chivalric romance by the same name, researched by Georgie Anderson, a PhD candidate from the University of Kent.

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Erin Griggs @wordslingeuse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It amuses me to imagine CT as various celebrities, but Kyle McL as Dale C as CT is *sending* me: "Diane, I'v just tried loganberry pie, and it's relevatory. I've got a new concept for a tingler: "Post-prandially Pounded in the Back 40 by The Metaphysical Conflict Between Dimensional Beings.""

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Erin Griggs @wordslingeuse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Watching the freaking animated Hobbit at my grandma's house in the 70s.

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Erin Griggs @wordslingeuse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I am a latchkey child of the 80s, amd watching Poltergeist the summer after 5th grade rendered me unable to sleep with a closet door cracked for...40 years.

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Erin Griggs @wordslingeuse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hey, we're doing Renn Faire today too! Have fun!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026

I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president

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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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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 29/09/2026

"Can a rapist’s prose elicit remorse for sexual assault? What word count best equates to appropriate jail time? In this class, we will dissect what empathy and accountability might look like so undergrads may successfully mimic them on paper in pursuit of avoiding just punishment." buff.ly/5na4oMY

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Announcing Cornell University’s Newest Writing Course: Rape Essays 101

“Can a rapist’s prose effectively elicit remorse for sexual assault? What word count best equates to appropriate jail time? In this class, we will dissect wh...

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

What gets you booted from Substack? Andrew Tate still seems to have a newsletter there while charged with: 10 counts of rape, 3 of trafficking for sexual exploitation, 3 of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, & making/distributing indecent images of a child. possessing extreme pornography.

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Erin Griggs @wordslingeuse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

As a medievalist, I say...but hwy?!

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Erin Griggs @wordslingeuse.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

But I'd rather you remind me, just in case!

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This from a man who has asked his son to monitor his on-line porn consumption.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"The price for a gallon of regular spiked 25 cents between Wednesday and Thursday in Iowa, according to AAA. In Wisconsin, it was up 23 cents. In Michigan, it was up 22 cents..." www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

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Gas prices are about to take a big jump, analysts say, with the worst still to come

The forecast of economic impacts beyond November’s midterms contrast with the Trump administration’s optimistic messaging.

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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Okay so @defector.com has had an odd glitch since the site redesign a couple of weeks back where the wrong photo and headline are often put together on the main page and I was going to ask them about fixing it but this just happened and as far as I'm concerned they have to leave it as is.

Screenshot for a Defector podcast episode with the headline "Consider the Emotional Lives of Scallops" only the accompanying photo is a white gormless stubbled red-headed UK singer of recent notoriety giving a flat smile to the camera while wearing a washed out peach top as beige as he is against a flat background. So, actually, probably a scallop anyway.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I keep seeing videos of a guy who catches crabs and lobsters, cracks all the barnacles off them, puts a shrimp in their claws and throws them back. can you imagine. abducted by aliens but they just give you a spa day and hand you two hot dogs and let you go

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Erin Griggs @wordslingeuse.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Chase that feeling, babe! ...Magic Erasers in garage.

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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Criselda Vasquez, American, The New American Gothic, 2017, oil on canvas, 72 x 48 in, private collection The artist's father, portrayed in the painting, was kidnapped by ICE on 31 March 2026

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Erin Griggs @wordslingeuse.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I am using my new front loader washer for the first time. ...it's so QUIET!!!!

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Erin Griggs @wordslingeuse.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Dude, we meandered around the shaded farmer's market 😆

A blond white man with short hair and sunglasses in a melon-colored short sleeve shirt holds a drink in front of a farmer's market vendor stand.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 31/08/2026

macabre = “muh-KAHB” Worcestershire = “WOOSS-ter-sheer” omnipotent = “ahm-NI-puh-tunt” reticent = “RET-uh-sunt” epitome = “ih-PIT-uh-mee” myriad = "MEER-ee-ud" Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 31/08/2026

NEW FROM ME: On a hellish third-country removal flight last month, passengers say ICE-contracted guards got drunk, teased and beat them, tied them up, refused to let them use the lavatory. One says he witnessed an ICE agent admit to illegal chain refoulement. prospect.org/2026/08/31/w...

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‘What America Did to Me Is Wrong’: Inside One of the Largest Third-Country Removal Flights So Far - The American Prospect

On July 31, an estimated 71 detainees were expelled to various countries on a hellish flight to Africa. Many were then illegally returned to their home countries.

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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 30/08/2026

I really wish the CDC hadn't laid off all but one of its rabies staff because I bet there are going to be some clinician questions

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Erin Griggs @wordslingeuse.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Sweetie, that's homemade chai. You can totally make it spicier, or you can buy spicier chai. Also, you can make spicy cocoa pretty easily.

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

It frustrates me to no end that people attempt to pigeonhole autistics. Because of this, I wasn't diagnosed until I was 35. Enter: the hyperverbal autistic. My big vocabulary contributed to misdiagnosis and years of improper treatments. attuned-therapy.com/blog/what-is...

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What Is Hyperverbal Autism? Understanding This Unique Autistic Trait

Discover what hyperverbal autism is, how it shows up in daily life, and why it's time to embrace this expressive, passionate trait of the autistic experience.

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Erin Griggs @wordslingeuse.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

She looks just like my Parker, except Parkie has a wee grey dot on each front mitten.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

There's no forgiving this. No living it down. It's a stain on our humanity. When all this is over, the monsters who did this should be pariahs. And the soulless thugs who cheered it on while dehumanizing Haitian immigrants should be reminded of what they did every day of their lives.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

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Erin Griggs @wordslingeuse.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Please, Parker; it's August in the Midwest, and I'm sick. You'll be holding my earrings.

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Erin Griggs @wordslingeuse.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I...picked up a grocery order and realized perhaps I am a bit ragey when I yelled at the 3rd car in 10 minutes. I am currently outside in my pagoda with ice water, watching my hummingbird, trying not to get in a fight about the word y'all. 😆

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Erin Griggs @wordslingeuse.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I FEEL BETTER I AM ON SOOOOOO MANY STEROIDS!!!!!!

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Erin Griggs @wordslingeuse.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

All y'all is the formal; alla y'all is the vernacular 😆

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Erin Griggs @wordslingeuse.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Sooooo, if this y'all-using gal also uses British-isms affectionately kept from her study abroad, is my "y'all" or my "innit" performative? ...it's just because I just like neat words, ye wee gobshite.

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 28/08/2026

"For more than a year, the National Park Service has been quietly working to fulfill an unprecedented directive from Trump officials: Parcel off a corner of Yosemite National Park to give to a private developer." www.notus.org/agencies/tru...

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Trump’s Quietly Working to Give Part of Yosemite to a Private Developer

The National Park Service is under pressure to make an unprecedented deal that cedes a quarter-mile strip of the park.

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

These people had protected status. They lived here legally. They worked, they paid taxes. They made lives. Raised families. Now we’ve dehumanized them. Ripped away that protection and told them to get out. This is a stain on the soul of this Nation.

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Erin Griggs @wordslingeuse.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Welp, turns out I got pneumonia for my bday. I hit my deductible with Le Appendectomy so the 4 Rxs I got were free to me, so that's nice? Ngl, I'm eyeing my bottle of Rx cough syrup ("take at bedtime") with anticipation of NOT COUGHING MYSELF INTO PETECHIAE every 20 minutes tonight.

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Emma @emmalabizarre.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

First thought : FUCK, Tim Curry on the same day FUCK Second thought which made me crack up (as Tim and Dolly would surely have liked): “Someone go check on Miss Piggy, she just lost her frenemy and her ex lover”

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