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Burlywug
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"Happiness, free, for everyone, and let nobody be forgotten!"
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Said goodbye to my wonderful crotchety old lady last year. It still hurts 🫂
A cantankerous 18yo tabby cat, hoarding croissants
January 4, 2026 at 4:18 AM
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A car swerving onto an off-ramp. The sign above reads 'vehicle "safety"' on the main road side and "confident alpha drivers" for the off-ramp. The off-ramp has been crudely edited to be covered in choppy water.
December 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Reminds me very much of one of my favorite Ursula K Le Guin quotes, from The Left Hand of Darkness:
"How does one hate a country, or love one? Tibe talks about it; I lack the trick of it. I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain plowland in the hills; but what is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving it a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply? What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing. Is it simply self-love? That's a good thing, but one mustn't make a virtue of it, or a profession... Insofar as I love life, I love the hills of the Domain of Estre, but that sort of love does not have a boundary-line of hate. And beyond that, I am ignorant, I hope." - Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness (Screenshotted from Goodreads)
December 7, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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An old shirt design from Wonkette, a soviet propaganda-style poster of Elizabeth Warren in a slinky red dress and boots flexing and high-stepping above a crowd of raised fists. Text on the right reads "WARREN FOR PROGRESS" with all "R"s flipped backwards
November 11, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Post a non-religious image you think of as holy
Pale Blue Dot: In the photograph, Earth's apparent size is less than a pixel; the planet appears as a tiny dot against the vastness of space, among bands of sunlight reflected by the camera. Commissioned by NASA and resulting from the advocacy of astronomer and author Carl Sagan, the photograph was interpreted in Sagan's 1994 book, Pale Blue Dot, as representing humanity's minuscule and ephemeral place amidst the cosmos. (Wikipedia)
November 8, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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November 5, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia's knuckle tattoos, which were spuriously claimed to represent MS13, re-photoshopped to say "S L S O" for Salt Lake Symphony Orchestra
August 27, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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An image of Odin Quincannon, head of Quincannon Meat & Power from season 1 of Preacher. The image implies he is speaking the quoted post
August 27, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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A screenshot of B Paige reposting a skeet that reads "DISRUPTION IS NOT VIOLENCE. Pass it on."
June 10, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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But you see, they're the only ones with clarity of purpose
Animated image of Saw Gerrera smiling smugly
April 25, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Post your comfort album
Cover art for the album Back To The Web by Elf Power. It consists of a 3 by 3 grid of 9 pictures total. From left to right, top to bottom: a sad man, a gorilla, a man shaded green, an old man, a closeup eye, a cartoon devil, a cartoon cyclops, a fiddler, a face mirrored to appear cyclopean
April 24, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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"1000 feet (or 57 kilometers)"
A man smoking, stressed and wide-eyed
February 19, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Dear America, you've pissed off Quebec. Do you know how badly you've got to fuck up to get the Québécois to be proudly Canadian?
February 9, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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He could never cage the world,
It's too big for anyone
And soon the dark will pass
Cover art for The Protomen's second album, "Act II - Father of Death". A man, Dr Thomas Light, holds the limp body of his love Emily Stanton, in a street against the backdrop of a stormy city. Behind are a number of vehicles including a jacketed figure on a motorcycle. On a building to the right a large screen displaying the stern face of Dr Albert Wily overlooks the scene.
February 2, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Smdh, is nothing sacred
The above post's image, cropped to highlight the bot's "Bluesky Elder" tag
January 4, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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An image of the Triforce from the Legend of Zelda series of video games
January 4, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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"Liberation Theology": An image of Pikachu cocking a pistol, with the text "We can't expect God to do all the work."
December 24, 2024 at 1:35 PM
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Feather Star
Animated image of a black-and-white striped Feather Star, a marine invertebrate related to the starfish. It is swimming by alternately flapping its dozens of feather-like legs in a rather hypnotic pattern
December 8, 2024 at 10:42 PM
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An image of Odin Quincannon, owner of Quincannon Meat & Power in the comic book series Preacher. The image is rendered in the style of a 2008-era Obama campaign poster and the text underneath reads "MEAT".
December 1, 2024 at 2:25 AM
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If you see this post a knight
The book cover for "The King of Elfland's Daughter" by Lord Dunsany. The book art depicts a sitting lady in a red dress and a standing knight in full plate armor. The lady is drawing the Knight towards her, as if for a kiss, using a piece of cloth wrapped around the knight's neck.
November 28, 2024 at 9:48 PM
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Well, guess it's the cat's shirt now. Is it too late to order a second one @roryblank.bsky.social?
A calico cat stepping onto a shirt that has been laid out on a sofa. The shirt is by Rory Blank and features a cartoon dog in a sailor costume giving the peace sign in front of a ship with the words "Total information collapse and the end of all consensus reality, the damage cannot be undone"
November 26, 2024 at 12:50 AM
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Post a non-religious picture you think of as holy
Pale Blue Dot, the spaceship Voyager 1's last photo of Earth. From Wikipedia: Seen from about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles), Earth appears as a tiny dot within deep space: the blueish-white speck almost halfway up the rightmost band of light
November 22, 2024 at 2:45 AM