Mary Sue
@marysuesays.bsky.social
Angry, yelly, soccer fan and socialist living in Downtown PDX. My apartment looks like a frat house that is very into fiber arts.
She/her/dude, gender: queer, old enough to be your parent. Views are mine and not those of my employer, parent, or cat.
She/her/dude, gender: queer, old enough to be your parent. Views are mine and not those of my employer, parent, or cat.
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Mary Sue
@marysuesays.bsky.social
· Aug 26
'Cringe' is "embarrassment".
Embarrassment is "Feeling self-conscious due to some event or circumstance"
Y'all. If you feel cringe, get you some self confidence! You are too awesome to be embarrassed!
If you call someone cringe, quit being a douche and go hype someone you love!
Embarrassment is "Feeling self-conscious due to some event or circumstance"
Y'all. If you feel cringe, get you some self confidence! You are too awesome to be embarrassed!
If you call someone cringe, quit being a douche and go hype someone you love!
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the fact that dealing with rampant lying and its much worse downstream consequences involves cultivating values rather than just imposing formal frameworks or rules (legal or otherwise) is a tough pill to swallow for some. but it is indeed medicine
Pointing out that something is incorrect definitely isn't sufficient - the *culture* of "it is bad to make incorrect statements, good to promptly and clearly retract and apologize for them, and disqualifying to keep making them deliberately" is the framework needed for fact-checking to plug into.
November 28, 2025 at 3:40 PM
the fact that dealing with rampant lying and its much worse downstream consequences involves cultivating values rather than just imposing formal frameworks or rules (legal or otherwise) is a tough pill to swallow for some. but it is indeed medicine
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look at what you have done.
you. not us. you.
we're four hours in and you have funded over a thousand dollars in people getting gifts so far.
this community is incredible.
you. not us. you.
we're four hours in and you have funded over a thousand dollars in people getting gifts so far.
this community is incredible.
4hr Update:
$1100 in gifts given!!
lfggggg
$1100 in gifts given!!
lfggggg
November 28, 2025 at 7:07 PM
look at what you have done.
you. not us. you.
we're four hours in and you have funded over a thousand dollars in people getting gifts so far.
this community is incredible.
you. not us. you.
we're four hours in and you have funded over a thousand dollars in people getting gifts so far.
this community is incredible.
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We need to complete funding so this second book can be included in a February opportunity that will *further* lift human translation.
We're funding an African small press owned by a Black woman who acts on her values for solidarity and a peaceful world.
Would you help rally and close this up? 🙏🏻
We're funding an African small press owned by a Black woman who acts on her values for solidarity and a peaceful world.
Would you help rally and close this up? 🙏🏻
Support African Translation Project
African Translation Project / Need to complete funding for Shona → English translation / still needed: $2400, 52% / Amount above completes funding for translation of Zvinobvinza / isiZulu translation ...
ko-fi.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:17 PM
We need to complete funding so this second book can be included in a February opportunity that will *further* lift human translation.
We're funding an African small press owned by a Black woman who acts on her values for solidarity and a peaceful world.
Would you help rally and close this up? 🙏🏻
We're funding an African small press owned by a Black woman who acts on her values for solidarity and a peaceful world.
Would you help rally and close this up? 🙏🏻
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this is part of a discussion about using AI art in your presentation slides, but also feels like it captures where this all goes wrong.
people who don't see the visuals as communication can't respect the skill & thought of the artists whose work got fed into these models to begin with.
people who don't see the visuals as communication can't respect the skill & thought of the artists whose work got fed into these models to begin with.
Yes! Visuals are part of the communication. Treating them as ignorable decoration completely misses the point and it’s not how they’re received by an audience
November 28, 2025 at 4:43 PM
this is part of a discussion about using AI art in your presentation slides, but also feels like it captures where this all goes wrong.
people who don't see the visuals as communication can't respect the skill & thought of the artists whose work got fed into these models to begin with.
people who don't see the visuals as communication can't respect the skill & thought of the artists whose work got fed into these models to begin with.
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Rejected cover sketch
November 28, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Rejected cover sketch
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1hr update:
$400 in gifts given!!!
get those numbers up dot meme
$400 in gifts given!!!
get those numbers up dot meme
🩷 let's make some magic 🩷
last year, this community turned the most consumerist day of the year into a day defined strangers saying "I got you" to people that really need a bright spot in their life.
it's time to run it back.
last year, this community turned the most consumerist day of the year into a day defined strangers saying "I got you" to people that really need a bright spot in their life.
it's time to run it back.
November 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
1hr update:
$400 in gifts given!!!
get those numbers up dot meme
$400 in gifts given!!!
get those numbers up dot meme
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Many years ago, I was feeling stressed by the state of the world and I started a Holiday Fairies thing where people sent me their wishlists and I publicized them to try to get everyone gifts for the holidays.
@shelflove.bsky.social skillfully took it over and made it An Actual Thing!
Like SRSLY!
@shelflove.bsky.social skillfully took it over and made it An Actual Thing!
Like SRSLY!
Holiday Fairies
Romancelandia holiday fairies is a mutual aid effort for the romance novel reader community.
shelflovepodcast.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Many years ago, I was feeling stressed by the state of the world and I started a Holiday Fairies thing where people sent me their wishlists and I publicized them to try to get everyone gifts for the holidays.
@shelflove.bsky.social skillfully took it over and made it An Actual Thing!
Like SRSLY!
@shelflove.bsky.social skillfully took it over and made it An Actual Thing!
Like SRSLY!
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Hong Kong fire and Grenfell are just alike. Fire spreading through unsafe building materials installed due to penny-pinching, killing dozens. One difference: before the HK fire is even out three executives at contractors have been arrested, eight years after Grenfell no-one has been arrested.
November 27, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Hong Kong fire and Grenfell are just alike. Fire spreading through unsafe building materials installed due to penny-pinching, killing dozens. One difference: before the HK fire is even out three executives at contractors have been arrested, eight years after Grenfell no-one has been arrested.
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[blind date]
WOMAN: When I saw your photo I assumed you would be the man *holding* the fish.
FISH: [flipping and flopping about on the table] Can we talk about this later.
WOMAN: When I saw your photo I assumed you would be the man *holding* the fish.
FISH: [flipping and flopping about on the table] Can we talk about this later.
November 27, 2025 at 10:47 AM
[blind date]
WOMAN: When I saw your photo I assumed you would be the man *holding* the fish.
FISH: [flipping and flopping about on the table] Can we talk about this later.
WOMAN: When I saw your photo I assumed you would be the man *holding* the fish.
FISH: [flipping and flopping about on the table] Can we talk about this later.
November 28, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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before the rest of the fun kicks off, as is tradition, the secret menu is now public through the weekend
time for you to see the unhinged shit that mostly comes from you guys asking us to put your deranged idea on a shirt
you people are so weird
artbymox.shop/collections/...
time for you to see the unhinged shit that mostly comes from you guys asking us to put your deranged idea on a shirt
you people are so weird
artbymox.shop/collections/...
the secret menu | artbymox
The official the secret menu collection for artbymox. Shop products like: 001 of 001, smellyphant tee, and more.
artbymox.shop
November 28, 2025 at 2:05 PM
before the rest of the fun kicks off, as is tradition, the secret menu is now public through the weekend
time for you to see the unhinged shit that mostly comes from you guys asking us to put your deranged idea on a shirt
you people are so weird
artbymox.shop/collections/...
time for you to see the unhinged shit that mostly comes from you guys asking us to put your deranged idea on a shirt
you people are so weird
artbymox.shop/collections/...
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You can save a ton on Christmas gifts by remaining in the corn maze
November 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
You can save a ton on Christmas gifts by remaining in the corn maze
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if you are new to the community, or would like to anonymously donate to the gift-giving pot, you can check it out here:
FREE FRIDAY | artbymox
time to do some good.
artbymox.shop
November 28, 2025 at 3:03 PM
if you are new to the community, or would like to anonymously donate to the gift-giving pot, you can check it out here:
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🩷 let's make some magic 🩷
last year, this community turned the most consumerist day of the year into a day defined strangers saying "I got you" to people that really need a bright spot in their life.
it's time to run it back.
last year, this community turned the most consumerist day of the year into a day defined strangers saying "I got you" to people that really need a bright spot in their life.
it's time to run it back.
November 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
🩷 let's make some magic 🩷
last year, this community turned the most consumerist day of the year into a day defined strangers saying "I got you" to people that really need a bright spot in their life.
it's time to run it back.
last year, this community turned the most consumerist day of the year into a day defined strangers saying "I got you" to people that really need a bright spot in their life.
it's time to run it back.
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November 26, 2025 at 10:33 PM
If you want to support our work and/or even pass this along to MacKenzie Scott (hey, you never know!), please consider making a donation. Your gift will be matched! Our goal is to raise $50K by Dec. 31. Help us get there. ⤵️ S/O Bluesky if you make a donation.
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This is genocidal logic, but it's also just deeply embarrassing magical thinking. The "facts & logic" crowd insists I can't be a woman because they've convinced themselves that would require some woo woo notion of "gender identity", but they find this fucking volksgeist nonsense totally plausible?
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 5:36 AM
This is genocidal logic, but it's also just deeply embarrassing magical thinking. The "facts & logic" crowd insists I can't be a woman because they've convinced themselves that would require some woo woo notion of "gender identity", but they find this fucking volksgeist nonsense totally plausible?
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I switched the filament for the face and I felt like pink went better for the hat, and now he’s just about perfect. Also I forgot to show y’all a really important detail the last time 🤭 #3Dprinting
November 28, 2025 at 5:04 AM
I switched the filament for the face and I felt like pink went better for the hat, and now he’s just about perfect. Also I forgot to show y’all a really important detail the last time 🤭 #3Dprinting
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“When the men did not believe Miles’ tribal ID, she pointed to a phone number for the Umatilla Tribal enrollment office on the back of the card.
“Call it,” she said.
When they didn’t, she took out her phone to call the office herself, but the agents tried unsuccessfully to take her phone...”
“Call it,” she said.
When they didn’t, she took out her phone to call the office herself, but the agents tried unsuccessfully to take her phone...”
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:12 PM
“When the men did not believe Miles’ tribal ID, she pointed to a phone number for the Umatilla Tribal enrollment office on the back of the card.
“Call it,” she said.
When they didn’t, she took out her phone to call the office herself, but the agents tried unsuccessfully to take her phone...”
“Call it,” she said.
When they didn’t, she took out her phone to call the office herself, but the agents tried unsuccessfully to take her phone...”
Anyway, new wall decor up.
November 28, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Anyway, new wall decor up.
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“We acknowledge today that we are inside the unceded one-bedroom rental of tenants who previously leased this unit until they were evicted when they couldn’t afford the skyrocketing rent.”
Central District Friendsgiving Begins with Lease Acknowledgment of Previous Tenants: tinyurl.com/bbahuzn6
November 27, 2025 at 11:07 PM
“We acknowledge today that we are inside the unceded one-bedroom rental of tenants who previously leased this unit until they were evicted when they couldn’t afford the skyrocketing rent.”
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Audience culture is the worst it's ever been, I swear to god. People forgot how to act. I'm at the theater, trying to enjoy my show, which I've paid GOOD MONEY for, and these two old assholes are in the balcony heckling the life out of the poor bear onstage. Not letting him finish a single joke.
November 26, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Audience culture is the worst it's ever been, I swear to god. People forgot how to act. I'm at the theater, trying to enjoy my show, which I've paid GOOD MONEY for, and these two old assholes are in the balcony heckling the life out of the poor bear onstage. Not letting him finish a single joke.
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My sister @briespangler.bsky.social has a new etsy shop! She's a professional illustrator and is doing pet designs
Also she's been staying with us and for unknown reasons she added two dog shirts to the store, no idea why, these dogs certainly don't look familiar to me
www.etsy.com/shop/yellows...
Also she's been staying with us and for unknown reasons she added two dog shirts to the store, no idea why, these dogs certainly don't look familiar to me
www.etsy.com/shop/yellows...
November 28, 2025 at 12:38 AM
My sister @briespangler.bsky.social has a new etsy shop! She's a professional illustrator and is doing pet designs
Also she's been staying with us and for unknown reasons she added two dog shirts to the store, no idea why, these dogs certainly don't look familiar to me
www.etsy.com/shop/yellows...
Also she's been staying with us and for unknown reasons she added two dog shirts to the store, no idea why, these dogs certainly don't look familiar to me
www.etsy.com/shop/yellows...
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I just suddenly reached my tolerance limit of Wearing A Bra, but I still have several hours til I will be in a place where I can go brafree.
Pray 4 Mary Sue.
Pray 4 Mary Sue.
November 28, 2025 at 2:59 AM
I just suddenly reached my tolerance limit of Wearing A Bra, but I still have several hours til I will be in a place where I can go brafree.
Pray 4 Mary Sue.
Pray 4 Mary Sue.