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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 18h

Honour the veterans and punch a fascist!

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Aoife Rowan 🏳️‍⚧️ @mckechnie.info · 1d

unionized devs

Best Indie Games @clemmygames.bsky.social · 1d

???

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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 1d

Thought this was quite lovely.
Always good to remind yourself that not everything is awful right now.
youtu.be/Qp7K6pEWEuk?...

What happens when you set a river free? | BBC News

YouTube video by BBC News

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 1d

A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.

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Mel G @a4rdvark.bsky.social · 2d

That makes it even funnier and sweeter, honestly

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Mel G @a4rdvark.bsky.social · 2d

At partner's instance I have finally watched Crazy Rich Asians. Super fun, but I still can't believe nothing terrible happened to Bernard.

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Mel G @a4rdvark.bsky.social · 3d

Or a big one that flips the genre of the thing.

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 4d

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

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Mel G @a4rdvark.bsky.social · 5d

Hm... If the game is played in ways regular golfers don't like, by people they don't like (women, poors, etc) I assume they'll create rules to force conformity/exclusion.

UNLESS Trolf or Skibidiball or whatever blows up. Big enough trend and establishments will eventually eat eachother to cash in.

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 5d

BlueSky is automatically hiding posts with cuss words in them.
You may want to adjust your settings:

I said abolish and I fucking meant it @astridoverthere.bsky.social · 5d

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.

Here's how to turn it off.

First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

Screenshot of the top of a Bsky feed, with a red circle around the hamburger menu in the top left.

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Mel G @a4rdvark.bsky.social · 5d

I mean, the unfunny answer is probably that farmers butcher any livestock they don't want to keep feeding over the winter and stock up their meat stores for the coming lean months.

(But in the case of Finland I would also believe something way more metal.)

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 5d

Meanings of the word for November in various languages

▪️ Leaf fall (Czech)
▪️ Freezing moon (Ojibwe)
▪️ Dark period month (Inari Sami)
▪️ Wind slender (Navajo)
▪️ Month of goats (ChiShona)
▪️ Month of slaughter (Welsh)
▪️ Time of drumming (Yup'ik)
▪️ Arrival of the scorpion (Thai)
▪️ Death month (Finnish)

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Mel G @a4rdvark.bsky.social · 6d

eeewww

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madeline odent @oldenoughtosay.com · 6d

came across this with no context but you know what, sure okay

The Museum of English Rural Life @themerl.bsky.social · 6d

in short:

if you're looking for love, get your nuts out by the fire.

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Mel G @a4rdvark.bsky.social · 7d

On Friday I updated my Slack info at work to spoopy silliness.

I was going to change it back today, but I think it might get funnier the longer I leave it.

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Mel G @a4rdvark.bsky.social · 7d

Girls dont want Global Issues Discourse. Girls want details about minor physical complaints and low-stakes personal drama.

Mel G @a4rdvark.bsky.social · 7d

Someone I worked with kept using the phrase "if wishes were roses."

I knew they meant "if you could have whatever you wanted..." but
didnt get what the metaphor was.

Eventually someone looked it up. Turns out they had misheard the line "if wishes were horses beggars would ride."

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Adam Farrer @adamjfarrer.bsky.social · 7d

Someone in a Teams meeting just said “It’s the old chicken and the egg question isn’t it? Why did they cross the road?” then realised what they’d said and turned their camera off.

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Mel G @a4rdvark.bsky.social · 7d

I loved the atmosphere in the first one, the music and environmental design is fantastic

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Skipping Stone Foundation @skippingstone.ca · 8d

Step Up for Trans Folks! Join us for food & fun at Fluevog Shoes in both Edmonton & Calgary.

Thursday, November 13 | 3pm to 7pm
207 8 Ave SW, Calgary
10344 Whyte Ave NW, Edmonton

Folks are welcome to just pop in and have a good time with us!
50% of any purchase goes directly to Skipping Stone

Step up for Trans Folks. Food and fun. 50% of any purchase goes directly to Skipping Stone! Two Locations, One Day! Thursday, Nov 13th 3pm to 7pm, 207 8 Ave SW, Calgary,10344 Whyte Ave, Edmonton.

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 8d

This is, in every possible sense, me.
thedailytism.com/audhd-womans...

AuDHD woman’s driving lesson looming on horizon like macabre spectre of death

An AuDHD woman was forced to reckon with the transience of existence this morning when she remembered halfway through brushing her teeth that she has a driving lesson in three days, it has been rumour...

thedailytism.com

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Mel G @a4rdvark.bsky.social · 9d

Brilliant! I love it. I clearly need to keep an eye out for something more delightful than my current rinkydink ikea number.

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Mel G @a4rdvark.bsky.social · 9d

I, too, feel the hollow ache of loss. Weary to my core from many weeks of triumphant highs, anguishing failures, and dogged striving.

(Finished my lastest play-through of Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild last night.)

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Tommy Siegel @tommysiegel.bsky.social · 11d

as a bird artist, in honor of tonight’s game i have attempted to draw the gorgeous blue jay as accurately as possible. as always please let me know if you have any constructive criticism

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Mel G @a4rdvark.bsky.social · 10d

Is the use of justified text alignment ever truly justified?

I dont like it. It feels like the reader's flow and rhythm is being interrfered with to please the whims of someone judgeing page layout by the tidiness of the blocks and not how they support the meaning of their contents.

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