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JJ DeBenedictis
@jjdebenedictis.bsky.social
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I draw. I write fantasy. I once blew up a snowman using liquid nitrogen. You know, the usual. (She/her)
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Two photos side-by-side. On the left, a boy is yelling into a bored-looking girl's ear in a club. On the right, a girl is yelling into a bored-looking boy's ear at a festival. The caption on the images reads, "Do you think our soul-mates are out there somewhere?"
November 7, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Aw, yeah, Canada and Alaska. Aurorae in the house!

**looks out the window at the drizzle**
**sighs heavily**
The NOAA forcast for the likelihood of aurora for 2025-11-06, showing virtually all of Canada and Alaska in a bright red zone, indicating the strongest chance of seeing aurora this evening.
November 6, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Heh heh heh heh heh

So Cuomo would have lost even if Sliwa had dropped out and magically given all his voters to Cuomo.

Heh heh heh heh heh
A screencapture of the New York Times' mayoral election results, with 86% of the votes in. Zohran Mamdani is declared the presumed winner in a banner above the results. The detailed results are: Zohran Mamdani, 50.5% of the votes, Andrew Cuomo 41.4% of the votes, Curtis Sliwa 7.2% of the votes.
November 5, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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"JD Vance is married to an Indian woman. He has mixed-race children. If he won't even defend them -- his own family -- from white supremacist jokes and Hitler worship, what makes you think he gives a damn about you?"
Tweet about a MSNBC interview done by Jennifer Welch, where she says (about the chat-group of 30-ish year old young Republicans making wildly racist jokes and praising Hilter), "JD Vance is married to an Indian woman. He has mixed-race children. If he won't even defend them -- his own family -- from white supremacist jokes and Hitler worship, what makes you think he gives a damn about you?"
November 1, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Thank you to the crows for being appropriately goth for Halloween.

Don't know what they were finding there in the leaf litter, but I hope it was as tasty to them as Halloween candy is to us.
A grey, rain-damp sidewalk under trees, with fall leaves strewn across it and the grass to either side. In the grass, there are also about thirty crows picking through the leaves. A grey, rain-damp sidewalk and grassy verg, with fall leaves strewn across both. In the grass, there are about twenty crows picking through the leaves.
November 1, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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Okay, I got rained on but it was totally worth it.
SUN-SHOWER!!
A photo of a city of skyscrapers, shining in the sunlight, with dark storm clouds behind them and a rainbow glowing against the dark clouds to the left of the skyscrapers.
October 28, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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When it's Halloween Week but you still have to go to work.
Two photos of two dogs. The dog on the right is wearing a costume; It has on a witch's hat with a cobweb design in silver, a scraggly long-haired wig, and a long pointy plastic witch's nose. The second dog, in the first photo is giving the costumed-dog a wide-eyed look of alarm. In the second photo, the first dog is looking directly at the camera, still alarmed, as if to say, "Are you seeing this too?"
October 27, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Someone in the comments is playing the same game of costume-roulette as you are:
A post from mAndrewCarlisle, saying: "Uh-oh. Sexy cat having diarrhea"
October 25, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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If you wanted to see the jaunty li'l dude:
A set of four mushrooms growing in the grass beside a lamp post. They all have bright red caps with white "warts" on them.
October 25, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Looks like it, right? But I am no kind of expert on IDing plants.
A set of four mushrooms growing in the grass beside a lamp post. They all have red caps with white speckles on them.
October 25, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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To be fair, I doubt anyone has actually asked the wingnuts what they think about this, and if they did, I suspect the wingnuts would be/are pretty appalled too.

Quietly so, because they don't know how to deal with their side doing something they honestly don't like, but still not okay with it.
A post saying, "People who screamed 'our history!' when we took down statues of disgraced slavers and traitors are curiously silent about an entire WING of the White House being illegally razed."
October 23, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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Define "Perfect Ending"?
The final scene of the movie Citizen X, where Andrei Chikatilo (Russia's worst serial killer, who was executed for his crimes) is looking down at a drain on the floor with an expression of anxiety as the Russian army officer standing behind him raises a handgun to the back of his head.
October 19, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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This seems like a good person to block. All their replies are attempts to suck the life out of anyone who got joy from the protest.

(And it's genuinely possible they're part of a psy-op.)
Seymour Smoke, @bone2meetu, attempting to take a big steaming poop on someone's enthusiasm.
October 19, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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Since the quoted post looks like it may have been deleted, here's a screenshot (with the original poster's name removed to respect it if they don't want their name out there).
Emily L (laskin.bsky.social) says: "Even 10 years ago, when I was last pretty active in leftist organizing, i wanted something more real than the anarchists I met at Occupy (no shade) and I wound up working with a bunch of comfortably retired white grandmas doing some true grunt work thankless organizing." She says in reply to a person who said: "I do think it's important to note that liberal boomer pilates grandmas have *already* been showing up in pretty huge numbers to protest for a long time (and do a lot of other non-glamorous organizing) -- they're way down there on the list of demographics who need extra encouragement to get out there."
October 13, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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He's a narcissistic piece of shit, part the eleventy-billionth:
A screenshot of a tweet by Spencer Hakiman, featuring a video of Trump on Air Force One saying to the press reporters, "Fly safely. You know why I say that? Because I'm on the flight. Otherwise, I wouldn't care."
September 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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The Jane Lynch meme, where instead of saying, "I am going to create such a toxic environment...", it's saying, "I am going to air so much booing..."
September 7, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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Drop an old person you are going to turn into in the future.

(the one on the left)
Statler and Waldorf from The Muppet Show. If you aren't aware of who they were, they were the disruptive laughing hecklers watching the show from their plush private box, and they were also the only Muppets who were (occasionally, but in a funny way) mean.
September 2, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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Post a random picture or else everything will go bad in September.
An obese tiger, napping on its side in the sunshine of its Russian zoo enclosure. It's body is the shape of a mango.
August 31, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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I laughed rather hard at this set of replies:
Two posts on BlueSky, from "ElectricDonkey" and "FreeInTheForest": In reply to a post about micro-fibers in neckties migrating to men's testicles, the first post says, "And the microfibers go on to destroy both balls and brain." The post under it says, "So they're both safe, then."
August 30, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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Minnesota Vikings add two new beautiful blonde cheerleaders.

Conservatives are outraged for the usual reasons. I'm outraged they don't put them in crop tops too.
Photos of the two new cheerleaders for the Minnesota Vikings football team, who are both wearing a white jersey with purple and yellow trim and the Minnesota Vikings name emblazoned on the chest. Both are good looking young white men with very light brown hair.
August 13, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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Post one of the most haunting shots in movie history from a film made before the year 2000

(Actually the moment a split-second after this, when the character starts to cringe. Citizen X is a frickin' fantastic movie, if you've never seen it. Dark topic, though, so gauge your triggers first.)
The final shot from the movie Citizen X, where the character Andrei Chikatilo is wearing prison stripes and looking down with an anxious, beginning-to-understand expression on his face. A Russian soldier standing behind him is in the process of raising a gun to the back of Chikatilo's head.
August 13, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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I was SO happy.
Photo of an excited-looking me, wearing a medical mask, with my sleeve rolled up to show off the band-aid over my first COVID-19 vaccination. My "I'm vaccinated!" sticker is stuck to the front of my black tshirt. The Canadian flag is flying in the background above my shoulder.
August 10, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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A grey steel industrial dumpster with a black lid and small wheels. Its walls slope outward, however, giving it an angular polyhedron shape that makes it look very similar to a Cybertruck.
August 9, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Look at these absolute units.
A hand displaying some blueberries, and also a Canadian penny for scale. The largest blueberry is has a diameter roughly 50% larger than the penny. A hand displaying a very large blueberry beside a Canadian penny for scale, against the background of more very large blueberries. The displayed blueberry has a diameter roughly 50% larger than the penny does.
August 9, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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A stuffed chicken that has been turned into a lamp. The bulb is emerging from the chicken's cloaca like an egg. The chicken is labelled "You" and the bulb/egg located at the chicken's butt is labelled, "Your hot take". A white hamster is sound asleep, except it fell asleep on its hamster wheel, so that its legs are dangling loosely below the stationary hamster wheel. A photo of an opossum with a slightly needy look on its face. The caption at the top of the image reads, "Hold the fuck up". The caption at the bottom of the screen reads, "I'm the fuck up. Hold me." A photo of Willem Defoe from the film The Lighthouse, looking very judgmental. The caption reads, "Look at ye. Postin' cringe."
August 7, 2025 at 5:46 AM