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@alexb.on.computer
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creative nonfiction writer pivoting to children’s hospital

free palestine + viva tortuguita
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zohran mamdani style text “I still have feelings for you”
November 9, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Andre Dickens @andreforatlanta.com got fewer votes than the signatures to put the stop cop city referendum on the ballot in 2023
@andreforatlanta got less votes than the stop cop city referendum petition Andre Dickens* NP 87,351 Stop Cop City ballot initiative has over 116,000 signatures
November 6, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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the moon <3
the top half of a slightly-less-than-full moon peeking out from behind a cloudy night sky over some brushy dunes and buildings
November 6, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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this, from the New York Times, sucks
In 2021, a surge in violence during the pandemic inflamed tensions so severely that residents in Buckhead, a large and wealthy enclave, tried to secede and form their own city, threatening to debilitate Atlanta's finances and deepen animosity over race and class. The city's police force suffered from sagging morale and depleted ranks. And a protest over a proposed police and fire training center - nicknamed Cop City by its critics - gained nationwide attention and prompted an aggressive crackdown by state officials that led to the fatal shooting of a demonstrator. Since then, crime rates have plummeted. The secession bid in Buckhead was thwarted by a bipartisan effort by state lawmakers. The city has fallen short of recruitment goals for the Police Department, but the agency has still gradually built up its ranks. And after the demonstrators were cleared, the public safety training center was completed, and the movement opposing it largely dissipated.
November 5, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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omg
a hand painted sign that says DOG GROOMING featuring a white lap dog with an impossibly tiny face and pink bows on its ears A hand painted elaborately styled airbrush portrait of a feminine poodle dog in a pink outfit on a shopping spree with the words “DOG APPAREL HUGE SELECTION”
November 4, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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These birds are so so adorably tiny! I think they’re snowy plovers #birdwatching #birdsky
November 3, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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my brain when I try to have fun on Halloween #longcovid
November 1, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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charming old people of bluesky
a screenshot of a shitty poem about Vincent Van Gogh with the caption “been crying at this for the past hour” vincent please don't gogh Please do not be Vincent; don't Gogh because you think you've not been loved. Since the Starry Night I met you, my smile's beamed brighter than the heavens above. screenshot of bluesky reply: “I really like it but not going to cry about it I may used up all my tears watching a segment of Americas Got Talent featuring a 12 y o girl from Pittsburgh Now I'll stop procrastinating and get to work”
October 31, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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thrift haul 🦈
shark tank top, houndstooth cardigan, brown "alligator skin" notebook cover, handmade leather wallet, shark stickers, "last splash" by the breeders cd, cd by a band called nova, black pants, strings magazine and computer arts magazine, little miss sunshine dvd
October 30, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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Thrift store DVD section has an interesting selection
DVD titled “George Bush goes to heaven” with a picture of George W Bush with angel wings and the text “It’s judgement day for George!” “George Bush goes to Heaven: Widescreen Edition” Larry Sparks is an angry Republican. Frustrated by the antics of his own political party, he vents his rage in emails, chat rooms and web logs. After being warned by Federal agents to cease his activities, Larry decides to launch a one-man campaign against the right-wing establishment--starting with a satirical community play in which George Bush must defend his political life to see if he can enter Heaven.
October 30, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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Sorry, but I’m still frustrated that all of these diverse publications with completely different voices were rolled into ONE that isn’t currently accepting freelance submissions.
Friends, babes, darlings. If you ever read Bitch, Bust, Hairpin, Jezebel, The Toast, or xoJane, if you miss that feeling of there being a place on the internet where smart, cool, feminists are thinking big thoughts and building community, @theflytrapmedia.com is the best gift you can give yourself
October 30, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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I gotta start submitting again because what the hell is this man

like half of these are folded and none of this sounds real

2017-2019 literary twitter was a mass psychosis
words in: catapult, dirt, soap ear, hippocampus, honey & lime, moonchild, dame
October 29, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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My POTS doctor, who I loved, left the university hospital system I was seeing her at to open her own clinic in New York and the pricing is actually unbelievable. Her clinic is for people with #POTS, #MCAS, #HSD. Who could afford this?

#chronicillness #disability #neisvoid #heds
Pricing: Complex Chronic Illness Care • 90-minute initial visit: $2,000 • 90-minute 6-week follow-up visit: $1,500 • 6-8 week follow-ups (45 minutes): $750 for as long as care is needed • Follow-ups may be spaced further apart (e.g., every 3, 6, or 12 months) depending on clinical need and shared decision-making between Dr. and the patient. • Initial follow-up with NP (once onboarded): $400 • Telehealth triage visit with RN: $150
October 27, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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trans doodlebob from the youth center I volunteer at
a painting of doodlebob from SpongeBob wielding the transgender pride flag. the background is a multicolor blur of paint
October 22, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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what kinds of incredible things am I missing in Atlanta 😭
FAYE WEBSTER'S YOYO INVITATIONAL ERIKA DE CASIER SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26 DOORS 7:00PM, SHOW 7:30PM ALL AGES TICKETS This special event will see a dozen of the world's best yoyo masters showcase their skills in a no-rules, no-limitations exhibition of their best tricks and routines. Hosted by Faye Webster and Benet you'll see mind- blowing yoyoists interspersed with solo sets from Faye herself and special guest Erika de Casier.
October 14, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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boy have I
A class action lawsuit ad asking if I’ve visited vox.com
October 14, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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obsessed with the nostalgic art on my new library card lmao
A public library card decorated with a marker-and-pen drawing of an anime-style girl in the library wearing some kind of Dino-creature costume and making a :3 face. There is a turtle in a tank in the library too. Also the library chairs looks suspiciously like among us characters
October 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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“I’m kinda older than I was when I revelled without a care — so there”
Lorde singing “Team” under stage lights the color of the Palestinian flag. Photo by sofisnotontwt on twitter
October 9, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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@jewishcurrents.bsky.social
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The conscience boat A flag reading press international vv1lder Today, the @gazafreedomflotilla's Conscience sets sail from the boot of Italy, with hopes of bringing ~70 media and medical workers across the Mediterranean to Gaza's shores amid Israel's blockade on international press and killing of doctors and journalists. I'm onboard reporting for @jewishcurrentsmag. More TK
September 30, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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my extremely cool, anti-technology aunt’s text in the family group chat after failing to share her location
The digital world has lost me.
September 25, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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i'm enjoying the game Tiny Bookshop so far, but there's a bg character in a manual wheelchair--which looks custom! it's cute and they clearly did their research to a point--who just scales the high-grade, ridged ramp of the titular Bookshop with no problem lol. takes me out of the game a bit.
a screenshot from the game Tiny Bookshop, showing the bookshop (a trailer on wheels) with a steep ramp with ridges. the bookshop is parked on a rocky seaside cliff with a lighthouse
September 17, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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Spirit Halloween currently has a better functioning transit system than most of the U.S.
front of a creepy cardboard “subway” train in spirit halloween with skulls and a haunted nun and shit me taking a selfie in the haunted cardboard train
September 14, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Fishposting again #montereybayaquarium
Leopard shark slinks upwards in a kelp forest shining with rays of light Lumpfish makes a face like D: a rockfish I think(?) orange and grey guy looking at you… A bat ray flaps near the top of the tank
September 14, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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me and the leopard shark 🦈
Alex is standing in front of the Kelp Forest tank at Monterey Bay Aquarium. A leopard shark is swimming behind her and she is wearing a Georgia Aquarium sweatshirt with a whale shark on it. she has short aqua-blue hair, glasses, and is wearing a black Kn95 mask
September 14, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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gotta say, this is a …new approach to “should I make my event masks suggested or masks required”
Masking in our spaces is optional but encouraged. We acknowledge the tension this creates, and the reality that creating a space that works for everyone is nearly impossible.
September 13, 2025 at 5:20 AM