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[To the tune of Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison]
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Walking down the street
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵House with chicken feet
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Walking down the street
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵House with chicken feet
🎵Baba Yaga
November 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
[To the tune of Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison]
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Walking down the street
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵House with chicken feet
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Walking down the street
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵House with chicken feet
🎵Baba Yaga
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At risk of flogging a dead horse: this whole letter is a reminder that the creative process is an end in and of itself, and vital to self-actualisation. You can’t experience BECOMING, as he puts it, by outsourcing it to ChatGPT.
In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
November 11, 2025 at 10:44 AM
At risk of flogging a dead horse: this whole letter is a reminder that the creative process is an end in and of itself, and vital to self-actualisation. You can’t experience BECOMING, as he puts it, by outsourcing it to ChatGPT.
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I am so flabbergasted & tearful & grateful & JUST REALLY EMOTIONAL over everything that’s happened around this so-special pup since this saga started on…good god, how was it only Wednesday morning?
That it has meant as much to so many of you fills me up to the brim.
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That it has meant as much to so many of you fills me up to the brim.
www.patreon.com/posts/142111...
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October 28, 2025 at 1:22 AM
I am so flabbergasted & tearful & grateful & JUST REALLY EMOTIONAL over everything that’s happened around this so-special pup since this saga started on…good god, how was it only Wednesday morning?
That it has meant as much to so many of you fills me up to the brim.
www.patreon.com/posts/142111...
That it has meant as much to so many of you fills me up to the brim.
www.patreon.com/posts/142111...
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I did not know it was possible for this many people to exist in one place in Evanston
#NoKings rally & protest in Fountain Square, Evanston, IL. October 18, 2025. Was it amazing, beautiful, inspiring? Yes. Indivisible Illinois!
October 18, 2025 at 9:37 PM
I did not know it was possible for this many people to exist in one place in Evanston
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Was just at a neighborhood school at dismissal. Hundreds of people with whistles surrounding the school and stationed down every block making sure ICE doesn’t snatch anyone. The same is happening at all the schools around here. I love my neighborhood and I love Chicago.
October 10, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Was just at a neighborhood school at dismissal. Hundreds of people with whistles surrounding the school and stationed down every block making sure ICE doesn’t snatch anyone. The same is happening at all the schools around here. I love my neighborhood and I love Chicago.
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saw this post on Insta from my friend Laramie, a queer horror writer (excerpt from SACRAMENT by Clive Barker), then opened bluesky to see Talia’s post, and I am feeling both things so deeply. you are fucking magic. we are magic. we are a hydra. chop off a head, ten grow back. I get queerer every day
September 16, 2025 at 8:02 AM
saw this post on Insta from my friend Laramie, a queer horror writer (excerpt from SACRAMENT by Clive Barker), then opened bluesky to see Talia’s post, and I am feeling both things so deeply. you are fucking magic. we are magic. we are a hydra. chop off a head, ten grow back. I get queerer every day
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Oh, I have good news.
![[ID: Text-intensive Twitter thread from the Shapeshifters chest binders Twitter account in reply to a post by artist and author Ursula Vernon. Vernon says, A non-zero number of you apparently did not know that The Last Unicorn was a book before it was a movie. It is by Peter S. Beagle. It is made of spun glass and fairytales and iron knives and there are individual lines that I would give my lungs to have written. Shapechangers replies, I saw him every year at NYCC for several years straight, bought something at his table, asked him to sign it, and we spoke. He remembered me from year to year, no small feat at that con. He remembered which stories he'd told me. One year I came back with a different gender on. He squinted at me a bit and said thoughtfully, "I've seen you before in this place." All I had to say was, "last year you told me the story about the inoshishi." And his face cleared, and he leaned in with a grin and told me about a German guitarist who he traveled with, twice. Who transitioned between the first and second time, so he'd gotten to meet this person all over again on the second round. It was a wonderfully kind way to let me know that everything was fine. I was fresh out of the closet and I needed that, and maybe he could see it. The Last Unicorn is the best book in the world and I will defend it and its author til I die. the end. /end ID]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kazs6skhkhitmtlhxwq2g264/bafkreigxvcrmm3rvnlyvqvekioqbrypd2l7z4vbzsgvjkncpmfr5fx72h4@jpeg)
January 2, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Oh, I have good news.
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Hey Firefox users.
August 29, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Hey Firefox users.
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They're openly calling to lock up every trans person by force. We need every ally to speak out forcefully against this because trans folks cannot do this on our own.
August 28, 2025 at 5:05 PM
They're openly calling to lock up every trans person by force. We need every ally to speak out forcefully against this because trans folks cannot do this on our own.
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It's Minnesota State Fair time! It's time for Minnesotan folk art! Here, for example, is Saturn Devouring His Corn, in the seed art category!
August 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM
It's Minnesota State Fair time! It's time for Minnesotan folk art! Here, for example, is Saturn Devouring His Corn, in the seed art category!
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Eighty years after the Trinity nuclear test, the incomparable Kronos Quartet has released a pair of tracks reinterpreting Bob Dylan's A Hard Rain’s A‐Gonna Fall.
Here's the first.
How many of the vocalists do you recognize?
Here's the first.
How many of the vocalists do you recognize?
Kronos Quartet + The Hard Rain Collective - Hard Rain
YouTube video by Red Hot
youtu.be
August 11, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Eighty years after the Trinity nuclear test, the incomparable Kronos Quartet has released a pair of tracks reinterpreting Bob Dylan's A Hard Rain’s A‐Gonna Fall.
Here's the first.
How many of the vocalists do you recognize?
Here's the first.
How many of the vocalists do you recognize?
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I’d rather ritualistically hang myself upon the World Tree, Yggdrasil, for nine days and nights to gain profound wisdom and knowledge than ask ChatGPT anything.
i'd rather ask ursula from the little mermaid for a favour and life advice than ask chatgpt anything
July 4, 2025 at 11:51 AM
I’d rather ritualistically hang myself upon the World Tree, Yggdrasil, for nine days and nights to gain profound wisdom and knowledge than ask ChatGPT anything.
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86 fucking years old.
June 28, 2025 at 11:04 PM
86 fucking years old.
the way i'm obsessed with this
google maps broke and created some kind of unholy chicago singularity
June 29, 2025 at 5:47 PM
the way i'm obsessed with this
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Every ten minutes here is like:
- Trump doubles student debt
- Musk now has keys to your house and is in your bathroom doing plumbing drugs
- Three planes just crashed
- Trump signs EO making women illegal
- Face-melted Nazi from Indiana Jones now in charge of CIA
- Meteor not arriving fast enough
- Trump doubles student debt
- Musk now has keys to your house and is in your bathroom doing plumbing drugs
- Three planes just crashed
- Trump signs EO making women illegal
- Face-melted Nazi from Indiana Jones now in charge of CIA
- Meteor not arriving fast enough
February 19, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Every ten minutes here is like:
- Trump doubles student debt
- Musk now has keys to your house and is in your bathroom doing plumbing drugs
- Three planes just crashed
- Trump signs EO making women illegal
- Face-melted Nazi from Indiana Jones now in charge of CIA
- Meteor not arriving fast enough
- Trump doubles student debt
- Musk now has keys to your house and is in your bathroom doing plumbing drugs
- Three planes just crashed
- Trump signs EO making women illegal
- Face-melted Nazi from Indiana Jones now in charge of CIA
- Meteor not arriving fast enough
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It's Jan 6 every day, it's a Watergate burglary every night. It's a guy living in your crawlspace, stealing your mail and your meds. It's a creep taking pics of your kids at soccer practice and waving your tax returns at you when you tell him you're gonna call... someone. American horror story.
February 19, 2025 at 2:49 PM
It's Jan 6 every day, it's a Watergate burglary every night. It's a guy living in your crawlspace, stealing your mail and your meds. It's a creep taking pics of your kids at soccer practice and waving your tax returns at you when you tell him you're gonna call... someone. American horror story.
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saying "go birds" but just rooting for birds in general, hope they're having fun and not catching that flu
February 9, 2025 at 7:42 PM
saying "go birds" but just rooting for birds in general, hope they're having fun and not catching that flu
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I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.
February 1, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.
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i'm tired of being told to stop doomscrolling. i'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom on there
January 30, 2025 at 12:05 PM
i'm tired of being told to stop doomscrolling. i'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom on there
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The millennial experience is growing up with the internet, and watching it go from a free, open, democratic, and eclectic ecosystem to a wasteland of five websites controlled by billionaires, and now seeing it quickly fill up with AI-generated slop.
I want our World Wide Web back.
I want our World Wide Web back.
i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?
January 15, 2025 at 11:06 PM
The millennial experience is growing up with the internet, and watching it go from a free, open, democratic, and eclectic ecosystem to a wasteland of five websites controlled by billionaires, and now seeing it quickly fill up with AI-generated slop.
I want our World Wide Web back.
I want our World Wide Web back.
i need something that filters my feed into "good news and fun things" and "the abyss." just so i can choose which one to stare into.
December 19, 2024 at 3:09 AM
i need something that filters my feed into "good news and fun things" and "the abyss." just so i can choose which one to stare into.