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curdie
@curdie.bsky.social
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brontëpunk - a fine fellow - the inciting incident - Skyrim is a cozy game — em dash — blind/visually impaired - ND - panromantic asexual old theydy

I don’t get out much so I read a lot

good at sorting, bad at hashtags
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curdie.bsky.social
Y’allllllllllllllll GREEN LINE!!!!!!!
A photograph of a bikepath with a painted green line extending into the distance. There is grass to the sides of the path and a few trees are just coming into leaf.
April 17, 2025 at 3:10 PM
curdie.bsky.social
this was a really good prompt for a dark spring morning. Here’s what I’ve got in reply
Image is a snip of a poem by the poster: prayer the old women come to - the serious sea plumbed obsidian fat with weather makes a rectangle of late afternoon - they narrow rheumy eyes raise taffeta hands chant deep changes - bodily they move together belling wool coats bare feet blue with cold a mirror wave sun prinked the old women cry out and throw him to the surf the old women come to the sea with wings with wings with wings
April 11, 2025 at 1:39 PM
curdie.bsky.social
Alt text matters! knowing you’re including someone otherwise left out is worth the extra minute

breathe & have fun with it - it’s not a graded assignment <3

just tell us what you see

I’ve heard #alttextme helps if you’re unable to write your own

#blind #visually-impaired #accessibility
Photograph a gray cat white collar paws sprung rhythm caught on a mantelpiece absolutely not allowed to her left clutter tiny books pastel hardcover spin of spiderwebs she hunts something not visible in view a wooden placard: “no admittance except on party business” open door in background to a small room butter bright light
April 11, 2025 at 1:24 PM
curdie.bsky.social
I am eleventy-fishsticks years #old and my shoes still eat my #socks #pedestrian
Feet in black shoes with laces showing under hem of yellow rain coat. One foot - the left - had the sock pulled down into the shoe.
March 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
curdie.bsky.social
@schumer.senate.gov
A picture on the left shows the queen from season 1 episode 1 of the BBC comedy Blackadder, a white woman in a puffy salmon-colored medieval hat with veil, waking up her son, Edmund Blackadder. A picture on the left shows Edmund Blackadder, a white man with a stereotypically medieval haircut still in bed in a white nightshirt and green tights. Text on the left image reads “everybody” and text on the right image reads “Schumer”
March 21, 2025 at 1:10 PM
curdie.bsky.social
#poetry #bearing-witness #rage
A screenshot of a poem by J Schwarz March, Ides Time spins like a dime And we wonder if we’re done with springs If the eye of each storm will thread Itself on the strand of the longest July On record; We ask if it’s too late. Some of us go to the small river And stare at the shit and needles in the moss And don’t know what to do so we gaze Numb as seeds. We could look hard Into the sun. We could go north. The gray fungal sky, the asphalt, We could walk through it like cats. And yet something green Says stay. We all in our separate heads wakeful Petals of sleep dried crisp at the edges Beg miracles, deus exes, a falling anvil We hang wondering Could I get away with it? —J Schwarz
March 15, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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-_- @deonandan.bsky.social killed comments on skeet: “If progressives want to win back young men, then they must talk to them and address their needs, instead of constant scolding. All the finger wagging just drives them to Rogan, Peterson, and the Tate brothers. And they DO talk to young men.” 1/2
Reskeet from Raywat Deonandan @deonandan.bsky.social who turned off comments and quote posts: “If progressives want to win back young men, then they must talk to them and address their needs, instead of constant scolding. All the finger wagging just drives them to Rogan, Peterson, and the Tate brothers. And they DO talk to young men.”
March 9, 2025 at 2:51 PM
curdie.bsky.social
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social what is wrong with you? where is your backbone? To quote pretty much everyone to the left of Stacy’s Mom, DO SOMETHING!!

You — and these ten numbnuts — need to take a page from @algreen.house.gov instead of censuring him ffs
March 8, 2025 at 5:17 PM
curdie.bsky.social
lmfao fuck off you worked for Gingrich, yeah?
A picture of Ralph Wiggum captioned “I’m a Democrat!!”
March 1, 2025 at 4:25 AM
curdie.bsky.social
Ohhh what a face & those little paws! <3

Here’s another Pip just Pippin’
A gray and white cat sleeping in a crescent on her back on a red and white quilt with her favorite black oven mitt under her butt.
February 16, 2025 at 3:11 PM
curdie.bsky.social
From the Data Mines
A yellow post it on a water fountain reading “Out of Order” and then in smaller letters beneath, “there’s no water in hell!”
February 8, 2025 at 6:04 PM
curdie.bsky.social
will the dems - lapdogs and cowards - be so proud of themselves in a month or a year when the rest of us are drowning because we’re excluded from their common ground?
#resist #🏳️‍⚧️ #🏳️‍🌈
A cartoon image of a little fire sitting at a round table with a mug in front of it while surround by yellow dogs with black ears.
January 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM
curdie.bsky.social
YESSSSSSSS
A light blue background with the word *rampage* in the center in black typeface
January 20, 2025 at 12:20 AM
curdie.bsky.social
anyone else with a cat that prefers to wedge herself between the back of the chair and your butt? Any time I leave the space, there she be
A black and white cat is nestled between a pale green chair back with a red and white blanket over it and someone’s backside.
January 19, 2025 at 6:58 PM
curdie.bsky.social
lmfaooo Gaetz’s statement - DJT couldn’t be the “most successful President in history” even if we had a tardis and went back and unpresidented all the other Presidents TWICE.

At least he’s dropped out
Full text in screencap from twitter: Matt Gaetz @mattgaetz I had excellent meetings with Senators yesterday. I appreciate their thoughtful feedback - and the incredible support of so many. While the momentum was strong, it is clear that my confirmation was unfairly becoming a distraction to the critical work of the Trump/Vance Transition. There is no time to waste on a needlessly protracted Washington scuffle, thus I'll be withdrawing my name from consideration to serve as Attorney General. Trump's DOJ must be in place and ready on Day 1. I remain fully committed to see that Donald J. Trump is the most successful President in history. I will forever be honored that President Trump nominated me to lead the Department of Justice and I'm certain he will Save America.
November 21, 2024 at 11:38 PM
curdie.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
💙📚
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge

Day 5
Book cover: The Sopranos by Alan Warner. Cover shows image of four white teenagers in the back window of a bus. They’re drinking and wearing disheveled school uniforms. One is putting out her tongue, one is waving. The bus is black and has a cream-colored panel below the window with red letter spelling out the title.
November 19, 2024 at 7:23 AM
curdie.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
💙📚
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge

Day 4
Book cover of The Brothers Lionheart by Astrid Lindgren. Image shows two boys one older with yellow hair and one younger with tousled brown hair sitting on an arched stone bridge. Their faces are in profile as they look at one another. The younger holds a fishing rod. They have blue open necked shirts, white breeches, and brown shoes. Trees arch overhead.
November 18, 2024 at 3:44 AM
curdie.bsky.social
Adding my illegally blind voice to the call: please use alt-text! Millions of new users = we are suddenly deluged with images we can’t see/see clearly.

Keep in mind that text-to-speech on older devices won’t …to-speech the text in photos or art.

Also here is Mopsa, a very good cat.
Image shows a cat sleeping very hard on a patterned scarf. She has long fur around her ears and a very triangular nose.
November 17, 2024 at 3:09 PM
curdie.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
💙📚
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge

Day 3
Book cover A Little Dark Thorn by Ruth M. Arthur. Cover art is line drawing of dark haired protagonist sitting in grass with a small house and a goat in the background.
November 17, 2024 at 6:26 AM
curdie.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
💙📚
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge

Day 2
Book cover for Untwine by Edwidge Danticat. Sky blue with artwork of two hearts with roots coming out their tops along the bottom of the image and tree branches with blossoms along the top of the image.
November 15, 2024 at 2:25 PM
curdie.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
💙📚
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge

Day 1
Book cover of Pioneer Girl by Bich Minh Nguyen with a line drawing of a child in a red dress with trees and a house in background that is reminiscent of old children’s book illustrations
November 14, 2024 at 2:03 PM
curdie.bsky.social
Who’s a cranky bee H today? It’s meeeeeeeee!
Tippy winter tree leaning on other trees seen through dirty train window.
November 21, 2023 at 3:08 PM
curdie.bsky.social
Barbie font spelling Bartleby on blue background.
September 29, 2023 at 5:46 PM
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Cat personalities in this house of cats. Here are Rory, Bish, Pip, and Mopsa as the March sisters.
Funny face calico cat with “Meg” written in lavender in bottom left corner Black and white kitty carrying blue brush handle. Jo written in pale yellow in bottom left corner. Gray and white kitty in cat tree. Beth is written in corner in light blue. Adorable kitten cream with mushroom colored points lying on yellow and white striped coverlet. Amy written in red on bottom right corner.
September 27, 2023 at 3:04 PM
curdie.bsky.social
uh prolix prolix
Victorian-feeling illustration of a cat in a jacket and tie with a furled umbrella under their arm and little bowler hat in one paw.
September 17, 2023 at 5:23 PM