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@debmacchas.bsky.social
Singer. Language lover. Sense of humor embraces the sharp and absurd. Working to be brave. Calls it by name: genocide. Ruled by a dog and the dog's cats.
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Sometimes the historical dictionary offers solace through the existence of an obsolete word that is sorely needed now. One of them is ‘respair’, recorded just once, in the 15th century. It means fresh hope, and a recovery from despair.
July 26, 2025 at 8:59 AM
July 27, 2025 at 12:23 AM
@mauricethebeast.bsky.social

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Kleenex alert. They are all heroes, including the doctor.
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July 15, 2025 at 2:32 AM
My new theme song. Keys, shoes, phone... Like the woman says, "I'm a Shakespeare comedy-tragedy." Nice light jazz.
@mauricethebeast.bsky.social
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Where'd I Put My Keys
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July 14, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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July 1, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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If you woke up scared or angry, that means you're awake

Good!

Now #StayWoke!

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Hard Times
YouTube video by Baby Huey - Topic
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June 18, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Me and @zachrabiroff.com have discovered that a gay, disabled, pill-popping Yale Drama grad likely ghostwrote many of Stan Lee's most famous comics

Marvel Comics and Disney don't want you to know about Ron Whyte

New from @flaminghydra.com below

"Face it tiger ... you just hit the jackpot!"
A Swingin’ Surprise or Two
The best-kept secret in the history of Marvel Comics was in high dudgeon by the time he sat down at his typewriter. It was a July afternoon in 1971, and Ron Whyte, a playwright and activist, was about...
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June 18, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Although Stan Lee and Steve Ditko introduced the superhero Spider-Man in a 1962 anthology comic book (Amazing Fantasy #15), the word "spiderman" predates the character.

It's recorded c. 1954 as a word for a steeplejack, a person who scales tall structures to perform maintenance or construction.
May 20, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Donald Trump can still be made Pope as long as Mike Pence has the courage.
May 9, 2025 at 8:44 PM
May 4, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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Wanna see something cool?

At the Grammy's in 1976, Ella Fitzgerald and Mel Torme explained what jazz is.

The result? The crowd losing its mind. 🔥
May 4, 2025 at 1:49 AM
16th century proverb of the day:

"There is nothing more vain than to beg a breech of a bare-arsed man"

Meaning: Don't expect more of people than they can deliver.

USE IT TODAY!
April 25, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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April 24, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I will only accept Murdoch sincerity if they divest themselves of that inherited wealth.
I don't care about handwringing and natural fibers.
April 17, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Tune in at 7:15 mark, unless you want a recap of his towering achievements.
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April 16, 2025 at 3:13 AM
@mauricethebeast.bsky.social
Satire, but not inconceivable.
April 16, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Lyda Salmonova and her husband, writer/director/actor Paul Wegener, THE GOLEM AND THE DANCING GIRL (1917)
April 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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April 6, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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Wins Bluesky for the day... for me anyway !!!
April 3, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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Apropos of nothing...
It is amazing what you'll find on the Internet these days...
This had me in stitches !!
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computers - clown core
YouTube video by ClownC0re
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March 29, 2025 at 8:46 PM