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Beca Leckman
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merriam-webster.com
Autocorrect has become our worst enema.
November 19, 2025 at 10:04 PM
mzbeca.bsky.social
Best thread of the week!
riotgrlerin.bsky.social RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 17d
florence pew: thread
Florence Pugh wearing an olive green dress with brown hair. Pews of the same color.
November 15, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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burritojustice.bsky.social
quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric
October 1, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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muellershewrote.com
I need you to understand that if you heard a song you liked in the 80s, you couldn’t Shazam it. You couldn’t Google the lyrics. You had to sing it to the guy at Tower Records.
August 16, 2025 at 11:07 PM
mzbeca.bsky.social
August 1, 2025 at 5:16 PM
mzbeca.bsky.social
As a keeper of bees, I fully support the Free Bees initiative! 👍
petersterne.com Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · Jul 16
Right-wing columnist Charles Gasparino complains that Zohran Mamdani wants to hand out "free bees"
Tweet from Charles Gasparino: I keep hearing that young people are propelling Mamdani because the city is so unaffordable. The real question is whether young people should want to start their career here particularly by living in Manhattan. There are much more affordable places w good paying jobs, decent living standards and low crime. Mamdani handing out free bees will just make the place less affordable and Miami and Dallas more appealing
July 16, 2025 at 5:08 PM
mzbeca.bsky.social
What actor's expression in a movie will stay with you for the rest of your life?
June 24, 2025 at 5:26 AM
mzbeca.bsky.social
The average American has three friends.
The Plastics
May 2, 2025 at 3:07 AM
mzbeca.bsky.social
Yes, this.
marisakabas.bsky.social Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Apr 27
i haven't seen sinners yet but just seeing people collectively derive joy and entertainment from something wholly original and creative and coming together to experience it together is good for the human spirit
April 27, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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chuckwendig.bsky.social
Wrote a thing. Maybe it's a thing you wanna read, I dunno. We'll see. *lays it gently at your feet*
What It Feels Like, Right Now
When I was in college in North Carolina, I flew home to Pennsylvania for the holidays. My mother and father were going through a divorce at that point (a divorce that should’ve happened many …
terribleminds.com
April 9, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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goldengateblond.bsky.social
as a california native I feel qualified to say this may be the most california headline ever
from the san francisco chronicle: Prison Overhaul California to spend $239 million turning San Quentin into a Scandinavian-style rehab center with a farmer's market and podcast studio
March 31, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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mosaisms.bsky.social
Politics affects everyone.
March 22, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social
Much as I like Pride & Prejudice I find it impossible to deny that this is the greatest review of it of all time.
Just a bunch of people going to each other's houses.
January 2, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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kumail.bsky.social
I love this time of year because people will post something super dramatic and vague like “Nooooooo” and I can’t tell if it’s about football or *gestures outside window* all of this.
January 27, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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brenttoderian.bsky.social
Remember this picture, & others like it, every time you hear someone in your city say "we're not Amsterdam."

This was #Amsterdam in the 1970s.

Many of the cities we admire made better choices regarding cars in the past. and are still making better choices today.

Better choices instead of excuses.
Amsterdam street filled with cars in gridlock in the ‘70s.
January 3, 2025 at 7:58 AM
mzbeca.bsky.social
Winning headline:
January 18, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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priscillapage.bsky.social
was mostly keeping it together until I read Kyle MacLachlan's tribute to David Lynch
"Forty-two years ago, for reasons beyond my comprehension, David Lynch plucked me out of obscurity to star in his first and last big budget movie. He clearly saw something in me that even I didn’t recognize. I owe my entire career, and life really, to his vision. What I saw in him was an enigmatic and intuitive man with a creative ocean bursting forth inside of him. He was in touch with something the rest of us wish we could get to. Our friendship blossomed on Blue Velvet and then Twin Peaks and I always found him to be the most authentically alive person I’d ever met. David was in tune with the universe and his own imagination on a level that seemed to be the best version of human. He was not interested in answers because he understood that questions are the drive that make us who we are. They are our breath. While the world has lost a remarkable artist, I’ve lost a dear friend who imagined a future for me and allowed me to travel in worlds I could never have conceived on my own. I can see him now, standing up to greet me in his backyard, with a warm smile and big hug and that Great Plains honk of a voice. We’d talk coffee, the joy of the unexpected, the beauty of the world, and laugh. His love for me and mine for him came out of the cosmic fate of two people who saw the best things about themselves in each other. I will miss him more than the limits of my language can tell and my heart can bear. My world is that much fuller because I knew him and that much emptier now that he’s gone. David, I remain forever changed, and forever your Kale. Thank you for everything."
January 16, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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everywhereist.bsky.social
9 years later, I'm still thinking about this:
screencap of a tweet from 2016 that reads "I'm not saying that David Bowie was holding the fabric of the universe together, but *gestures broadly at everything*" from Katie Loewy
January 1, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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kathbarbadoro.bsky.social
sesame street isn't supposed to make money. the post office isn't supposed to make money. not everything is supposed to MAKE MONEY
December 16, 2024 at 4:16 PM
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jasonkoebler.bsky.social
"we find that only a small portion of product reviews on the web uses affiliate marketing, but the majority of all search results do"

www.404media.co/happy-affili...
Happy Affiliate Marketing Day to All Who Celebrate
Black Friday: A good encapsulation of why the internet is the way it is.
www.404media.co
November 29, 2024 at 4:30 PM
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leahmcelrath.bsky.social
Anyway…

Here’s a visualization of all the curse words being used on Bluesky in real time.

Each word is a cute fluffy little profane cloud.

It’s oddly soothing.

H/t @bagpuss.org
#SwearSky
swearsky.bagpuss.org
SwearSky
Bluesky profanity, as it happens
swearsky.bagpuss.org
November 22, 2024 at 12:23 AM
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marioprime.bsky.social
it absolutely rules to keep seeing the worst people on the internet come on to this site to post “well well well i’m really going to TRIGGER some people here huh,” and them me just hitting one button and never thinking about them again lmao
November 17, 2024 at 3:31 AM
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iamspacegirl.bsky.social
me *driving past the apocalypse*: Horses
October 21, 2024 at 6:27 PM
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sadvil.bsky.social
2012: “join Twitter? just so I can learn what some moron had for lunch?”

2024: “I’ve joined Bluesky to follow the ‘Good Lunch’ Feed. People post their lunch and others reply good lunch when it’s a good lunch”
November 12, 2024 at 5:29 AM
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angryblacklady.blacksky.app
Threads is good for something—Barbie memes
It is a screenshot of a Threads post from someone named technicallyron and it reads “I took one star reviews of Barbie from furious men on Letterboxd and put them on the posters because it makes the film seem ever cooler.” And then the image is one of the Barbie posters with Barbie and Ken sitting in her car; she’s smiling at the camera, white sunglasses on her head; Ken is gazing at her vacantly yet lovingly; the word Barbie is splashed across the top in pink and white, and underneath in white all caps letters it says “THEY WON’T BE HAPPY UNTIL WE ARE ALL GAY” It is a screenshot of a Threads post from someone named technicallyron and it reads “I took one star reviews of Barbie from furious men on Letterboxd and put them on the posters because it makes the film seem ever cooler.” And then the image is one of the Barbie posters with Barbie and Ken sitting in her car; she’s smiling at the camera, white sunglasses on her head; Ken is gazing at her vacantly yet lovingly; the word Barbie is splashed across the top in pink and white, and underneath in white all caps letters it says “AN ALIENATING AND PERVERSE FILM” It is a screenshot of a Threads post from someone named technicallyron and it reads “I took one star reviews of Barbie from furious men on Letterboxd and put them on the posters because it makes the film seem ever cooler.” And then the image is one of the Barbie posters with Barbie and Ken sitting in her car; she’s smiling at the camera, white sunglasses on her head; Ken is gazing at her vacantly yet lovingly; the word Barbie is splashed across the top in pink and white, and underneath in white all caps letters it says “A PINK ACID TRIP THAT FEELS LIKE BEING SLAPPED BY LOTS OF CONFUSINGLY ATTRACTIVE PEOPLE” It is a screenshot of a Threads post from someone named technicallyron and it reads “I took one star reviews of Barbie from furious men on Letterboxd and put them on the posters because it makes the film seem ever cooler.” And then the image is one of the Barbie posters with Barbie and Ken sitting in her car; she’s smiling at the camera, white sunglasses on her head; Ken is gazing at her vacantly yet lovingly; the word Barbie is splashed across the top in pink and white, and underneath in white all caps letters it says “THE FEMINIST AGENDA WILL KILL US ALL”
July 24, 2023 at 6:46 PM