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beck_it @beckit.bsky.social · Oct 21

bringin this over here because the chain reaction this set off on my island was so beautiful

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heathcliff, but frog

@hopcliff.heathcliff.cat

this reads like a shitpost but i am living it

file named "Dark City (Director's Cut) (1998).moflex"

1.06 GB

March 25, 2025 at 10:13 PM

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Mike Ginn

@shutupmikeginn.bsky.social

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

March 8, 2025 at 12:13 AM

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poondonkus

@poondonkus.bsky.social

What song do you think this 2002 J-Drama about a poor family who owns a ramen shop used for its ending theme?

Make a guess, then click play. You'll be wrong.

March 8, 2025 at 2:01 AM

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Parker Molloy

@parkermolloy.com

Whenever anti-trans panic gets whipped up, more of these stories happen.

Shoshana 🏳️‍⚧️ @shoshana.bsky.social · Mar 7

Walmart called the police on a cis-woman using the women's bathroom.

Even after proving she's a woman, "one deputy continued to question her appearance, insisting she 'looked like a man.'"

😡 😡 😡

Cis woman confronted by police officers in Arizona Walmart restroom for looking too masculine speaks out (exclusive)

“The only men in the women’s restroom were the cops,” Kalaya Morton said.

www.advocate.com

March 8, 2025 at 2:44 AM

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vineyille

@vineyille.bsky.social

What are you gonna do, shoot me in the face with a crossbow at a New Jersey pet store?

Headline that reads “Woman shot in face with crossbow at New Jersey pet store” in front of a storefront named BIRDS BY JOE 2

March 8, 2025 at 2:12 AM

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@oddoblivion.bsky.social

help me

March 3, 2025 at 2:13 AM

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@oddoblivion.bsky.social

March 3, 2025 at 10:07 PM

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Josh Sawyer

@jesawyer.bsky.social

donating my imaginary child’s college fund to the DNC so dems can not clap at Trump’s speeches prior to unilaterally approving a literal demon into a cabinet position

molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · Mar 5

fuck off!!!!!!!!!!!

March 5, 2025 at 3:09 AM

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Topher Florence

@topherflorence.bsky.social

tried to start a commune on myst island but fell apart over basic things like taking out garbage, doing dishes, who resets the puzzles at night, which brother to give the pages to, who gets to sleep in the spaceship, etc

March 5, 2025 at 1:33 PM

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Ben Jenkins

@bencjenkins.bsky.social

Flawless.

March 6, 2025 at 6:19 AM

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depths of wikipedia

@depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social

52 years ago today

The Great Michigan Pizza Funeral was the ceremonial disposal of 29,188 frozen cheese-and-mushroom pizzas in Ossineke, Michigan, on March 5, 1973.[1][2] The manufacturer, Ilario "Mario" Fabbrini,[3] had been ordered to recall the pizzas by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) after initial tests suggested the presence of botulism-causing bacteria in a batch of canned mushrooms.

Ilario Fabbrini, owner of the frozen pizza manufacturer, watches the pizza burial.

March 6, 2025 at 12:38 AM

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nattie winters

@utilitylimb.bsky.social

also worth reading the transcript of the first time hiv/aids was ever acknowledged by the reagan admin, via then-press secretary larry speakes

Lester Kinsolving: Does the president have any reaction to the announcement by the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta that AIDS is now an epidemic in over 600 cases?
Larry Speakes: AIDS? I haven’t got anything on it.
Lester Kinsolving: Over a third of them have died. It’s known as “gay plague.” [Press pool laughter.] No, it is. It’s a pretty serious thing. One in every three people that get this have died. And I wonder if the president was aware of this.

Larry Speakes: I don’t have it. [Press pool laughter.] Do you?
Lester Kinsolving: You don’t have it? Well, I’m relieved to hear that, Larry! [Press pool laughter.]
Larry Speakes: Do you?
Lester Kinsolving: No, I don’t.
Larry Speakes: You didn’t answer my question. How do you know? [Press pool laughter.]
Lester Kinsolving: Does the president — in other words, the White House — look on this as a great joke?
Larry Speakes: No, I don’t know anything about it, Lester.

March 6, 2025 at 12:26 AM

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Adriana Guatame-García

@adrianaguatame.bsky.social

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience.
No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent.
And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted.
... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.

March 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM

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Kathryn Reynolds 📚🎨

@cozykathryn.bsky.social

Reminder to punish the company, not the creatives who are stuck on their platforms.

Quote from @artificerind.bsky.social

Orange text over a dark gray background reads: strike at the company not the people. Support your favorite creatives on Ko-fi and Patreon during the strike. Blue boxes with white text signs it read, streamers, indies, authors

March 6, 2025 at 6:12 PM

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jamie loftus

@jamieloftus.bsky.social

with all due respect i dont have a lot of patience for this sticker, lol. on my first tv job i got into the same argument with my head writer about why elon was a piece of shit many times, cited why, and was just ignored. because the mf liked his tesla. do your research