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🍄✡️🔮Em Dash🔮✡️🍄

@mazeltav.bsky.social

My reaction to WAY too many things right now

Beaker the Muppet in a black room looking horrified

April 9, 2025 at 12:10 PM

🍄✡️🔮Em Dash🔮✡️🍄

@mazeltav.bsky.social

Welp this is terrifying. Just took a #DOGE data quiz created by my colleagues at @newamerica.org, and the results aren’t pretty. Shout out to @sydneysaubestre.bsky.social for bringing this tool to life. If you’re curious to take the quiz yourself: www.newamerica.org/oti/briefs/q...

Text stating: Of the 15 types of data tracked by New America’s Open Technology Institute, DOGE has likely accessed 14 of your data points.

April 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM

🍄✡️🔮Em Dash🔮✡️🍄

@mazeltav.bsky.social

The juxtaposition between Barron and Elon during the Mars colonization part of Trump’s inaugural address

Elon Musk looks gleeful next to Barron Trump who looks less than enthusiastic during Donald Trump’s inaugural address.

January 20, 2025 at 5:45 PM

🍄✡️🔮Em Dash🔮✡️🍄

@mazeltav.bsky.social

Well, well, well—would you looky here

A notification from TikTok welcoming users back to the platform.

January 19, 2025 at 9:30 PM

🍄✡️🔮Em Dash🔮✡️🍄

@mazeltav.bsky.social

Me when I used to go through hours of interview rounds and assignments for a potential job only to be met with “we’re going in a different direction 🙂.”

Thank you for the meme format, Kathy ❤️

Kathy Bates jokingly ripping her Golden Globes acceptance speech after losing.

January 6, 2025 at 12:08 PM

🍄✡️🔮Em Dash🔮✡️🍄

@mazeltav.bsky.social

My neighborhood looks like a holiday card rn ☺️

January 3, 2025 at 8:34 PM

🍄✡️🔮Em Dash🔮✡️🍄

@mazeltav.bsky.social

Without downloading any new pics, what’s your energy going into 2025?

My dog, a fluffy white goldendoodle, looking perturbed under a table.

December 28, 2024 at 6:07 PM

🍄✡️🔮Em Dash🔮✡️🍄

@mazeltav.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!

#Books #BookSky #BookChallenge

The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix

A cover of The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires, which features two peaches—one of which has bite marks from a vampire and bleeds.

December 19, 2024 at 1:06 AM

🍄✡️🔮Em Dash🔮✡️🍄

@mazeltav.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!

#Books #BookSky #BookChallenge

The Story of Technology by Daniel M. Gerstein

A cover for The Story of Technology: How We Got Here and What the Future Holds. It features the iconic imagery of humanity’s evolution transitioning from a stone tablet to a digital tablet.

December 17, 2024 at 1:03 PM

🍄✡️🔮Em Dash🔮✡️🍄

@mazeltav.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!

#Books #BookSky #BookChallenge

Likewar by Peter W. Singer and Emerson T. Brooking

The cover for Likewar, which reads: Likewar: The Weaponization of Social Media. The cover is read with a bunch of cursors crashing into one another.

December 16, 2024 at 6:51 PM

🍄✡️🔮Em Dash🔮✡️🍄

@mazeltav.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!

#Books #BookSky #BookChallenge

A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

The book’s cover with an illustration of greenery, a tea monk, a robot, the title of the book, and author.

December 14, 2024 at 4:14 PM

🍄✡️🔮Em Dash🔮✡️🍄

@mazeltav.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!

#Books #BookSky #BookChallenge

Cultish by Amanda Montell

The book cover for Cultish, which has rainbow colors and a black and white flying saucer.

December 13, 2024 at 2:12 PM

🍄✡️🔮Em Dash🔮✡️🍄

@mazeltav.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!

#Books #BookSky #BookChallenge

Need to give a shout out to a group of them: all of the books in A Series of Unfortunate Events

3 orphans stand in front of a creepy man who’s their new guardian. Series title on the cover: A Series of Unfortunate Events. Book title: The Bad Beginning.

December 12, 2024 at 1:30 PM

🍄✡️🔮Em Dash🔮✡️🍄

@mazeltav.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!

#Books #BookSky #BookChallenge

The Awakening by Kate Chopin.

A book cover for The Awakening by Kate Chopin. A woman stands in water and a quote from the book overlays the scene. “She grew daring and reckless. Overestimating her strength. She wanted to swim far out, where no woman had swum before.”

December 11, 2024 at 1:04 PM

🍄✡️🔮Em Dash🔮✡️🍄

@mazeltav.bsky.social

Photo for reference:

August 24, 2023 at 8:47 PM

🍄✡️🔮Em Dash🔮✡️🍄

@mazeltav.bsky.social

Has the Twitter…I mean “X”…app icon always had this bird-poop-like smudge in its background? Keeps making me think my screen is dirty. Which, to be fair, it always is. But still.