Allison
@rooflizard.bsky.social
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Allison
@rooflizard.bsky.social
· Jul 2
Today's photo on my parents' Instagram is just so good, like it is insane that my dad can do this
www.instagram.com/p/DLnFyC3ODZ...
www.instagram.com/p/DLnFyC3ODZ...
In Fairbanks two years ago, I talked to a lifelong Alaskan who was talking about what brings people to Alaska, and why they don't always stay: "people run away from their problems to here, only find out they WERE the problem the whole time, and now they're cold too"
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 3:52 AM
In Fairbanks two years ago, I talked to a lifelong Alaskan who was talking about what brings people to Alaska, and why they don't always stay: "people run away from their problems to here, only find out they WERE the problem the whole time, and now they're cold too"
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“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 3:05 AM
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
Have tried starting three audiobooks in the past week and none are hitting and I am positively jonesing for that good "can't wait to be read my story some more" feeling 😔
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Have tried starting three audiobooks in the past week and none are hitting and I am positively jonesing for that good "can't wait to be read my story some more" feeling 😔
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it is also a story about a man who refuses to ask for directions
Wasn’t the Odyssey a romance novel about some mopey widow refusing to get remarried??
November 10, 2025 at 9:55 PM
it is also a story about a man who refuses to ask for directions
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humbly proposing that vape pens are quietly one of the most evil inventions in the past 25 years and that everyone involved should be tried at the hague
November 10, 2025 at 5:47 AM
humbly proposing that vape pens are quietly one of the most evil inventions in the past 25 years and that everyone involved should be tried at the hague
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Can't believe we're doing four interlacing movies about The Beatles, which will inevitably be generic musician biopics, when we could do the same for The Highwaymen and it would be the most fascinating movie experience since Lord of the Rings.
November 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Can't believe we're doing four interlacing movies about The Beatles, which will inevitably be generic musician biopics, when we could do the same for The Highwaymen and it would be the most fascinating movie experience since Lord of the Rings.
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![Penis Satan was an unauthorized statue erected on September 9, 2014, in Vancouver, Canada.[1] It was a life-size representation of a red devil with a large erect penis, making the sign of the horns hand gesture](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cyyd366g3hrxp5rynixm2mm3/bafkreihbmzu75pwmial4ce4momilqg7gsy7xn6s673xjxvxbe6kwgyqgm4@jpeg)
I'm pissed off tonight so I made a donation to my local food bank just now, and it did make me feel a tiny bit better, recommended
November 10, 2025 at 1:50 AM
I'm pissed off tonight so I made a donation to my local food bank just now, and it did make me feel a tiny bit better, recommended
I just did this!
If you’ve made your Senate calls, time to start calling Dem Congressional representatives (both D.C. & local numbers) and telling them not to accept anything the Senate sends down that doesn’t include ACA subsidies.
Personal stories help. Tell them how much caving will cost YOUR family.
Personal stories help. Tell them how much caving will cost YOUR family.
November 10, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I just did this!
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My theory about Joyce Carol Oates is that all her bad posts are her charging up like Godzilla's spines until she lets loose with a radioactive blast that leaves the world's richest Nazi a pile of ash
November 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
My theory about Joyce Carol Oates is that all her bad posts are her charging up like Godzilla's spines until she lets loose with a radioactive blast that leaves the world's richest Nazi a pile of ash
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It's me, the person who went "WOO" every time Martha Wells mentioned Stargate: Atlantis at this Texas Book Festival panel
November 8, 2025 at 6:51 PM
It's me, the person who went "WOO" every time Martha Wells mentioned Stargate: Atlantis at this Texas Book Festival panel
Georgia Fry loves to make herself a little blanket nest
November 8, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Georgia Fry loves to make herself a little blanket nest
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Ok I had to go find the clip bc this is the energy I will be bringing when anyone ever asks me if I use this ugly nonsense
x: www.instagram.com/reel/DQun5Qr...
x: www.instagram.com/reel/DQun5Qr...
November 8, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Ok I had to go find the clip bc this is the energy I will be bringing when anyone ever asks me if I use this ugly nonsense
x: www.instagram.com/reel/DQun5Qr...
x: www.instagram.com/reel/DQun5Qr...
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knowing you served the public well when it hits is one of the greatest feelings I know and you should always leap at the opportunity if you get it because they’re a lot rarer than they should be.
November 8, 2025 at 1:55 AM
knowing you served the public well when it hits is one of the greatest feelings I know and you should always leap at the opportunity if you get it because they’re a lot rarer than they should be.
From the bar bathroom
November 8, 2025 at 3:23 AM
From the bar bathroom
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Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix.
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix.
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
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i love this for everyone their mom has interacted with since the 90s
My mum just said to me "You should be hung like a horse". When I challenged her over saying such a thing, it transpires she thought it was a punishment horses got. Turns out she's been incorrectly using the phrase since the 90s in various settings
November 7, 2025 at 7:38 PM
i love this for everyone their mom has interacted with since the 90s
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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul
November 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul
Flatland Calvary covered this when I saw them a couple months ago and when I tell you the vibes at a show have rarely gotten that hype, 10/10 experience
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Going to that place in Zion in the Matrix where everyone is dancing and politely asking them to play Toby Keith’s “Shoud’ve Been a Cowboy”
November 7, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Flatland Calvary covered this when I saw them a couple months ago and when I tell you the vibes at a show have rarely gotten that hype, 10/10 experience
@deltaann.bsky.social
@deltaann.bsky.social
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ryan is right. people HATE hearing this. but it is just a matter of simple incentives. if you want a more representative legislature — and if you want a legislature more resistant to corruption — then you need to jack up the salaries. serving as mayor of NYC should net you a cool 500K *at least*
people hate hearing this but it's 100% true, creating a huge pay gap between political leaders, their staffs, and other elites is a recipe for corruption. of course the flip side of that is taxes on the rich should be jacked way the hell up
The Mayor of New York only makes $260k. I bet there are police that make more than that in NY with overtime.
We need to pay elected leaders more money and stop pretending it's some sort of calling. They're managing hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and millions of people's lives.
We need to pay elected leaders more money and stop pretending it's some sort of calling. They're managing hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and millions of people's lives.
November 7, 2025 at 3:42 PM
ryan is right. people HATE hearing this. but it is just a matter of simple incentives. if you want a more representative legislature — and if you want a legislature more resistant to corruption — then you need to jack up the salaries. serving as mayor of NYC should net you a cool 500K *at least*
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This great record was released 50 years ago today.
November 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM
This great record was released 50 years ago today.
Ugh this sucks -- I'd missed this post but it's changing my plans about which panels I'm going to 😕
Because of travel chaos, the Texas Book Festival, one of the best things that happens every year in this city, is having to keep a running list of author cancellations on all of its social media so that can people can plan accordingly. ☹️
November 7, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Ugh this sucks -- I'd missed this post but it's changing my plans about which panels I'm going to 😕
My husband is out there, we just have to meet
Passed a dude jogging shirtless in booty shorts and a cowboy hat, which he tipped at me.
November 7, 2025 at 1:45 PM
My husband is out there, we just have to meet