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In a dressing room blessed by the power of @jael.bsky.social
Dressing room graffiti reading “ekko fucking astral 2k24”
November 22, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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the roblox ceo finds the problem of predators using his program to find kids "interesting"
Baszucki: I don’t want to comment on it. We do see the chat logs of those. And we can see interesting and, many times, ways of people trying to — I’d say, many times people who are fairly sophisticated, and I’m not going to say all of them, many times kids who are over 13, who actually in any other app are not running in a filtered situation, unfortunately, figuring out how to jump to some other platform where they can communicate unfiltered, where they can share images, all of it. It’s one of the primary things we’re doing is trying to keep people on our platform. It’s an interesting industry situation. I would say, we’re not waiting for the rest of the industry.
November 21, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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thank GOD
screenshot of an alert from dropbox: "Emojies in filenames are finally here!" and a smiley face with a party hat, streamers, etc
November 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Three blocks from my house. Hell yes Durham North Carolina
Sign on telephone pole. Text “the only out of towners not welcome here is ICE”
November 20, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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here's most of one from when I was getting distance. (I have dual Achilles tendinitis and have been off my runs for months, which is very hard for me. Trying to do the gym. Miss the trail so bad.) Two songs are missing at the end. "I Feel Sanctified" by the Commodores and "The Charade" by D'Angelo.
screenshot of an Apple Music playlist called "Saturday run!"
November 19, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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A photograph of a flyer reading “get ice out of Durham.” Number to call is 336-543-0353
November 19, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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tfw masculine rosary
November 17, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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when the full Olivia Nuzzi book streets Bluesky is going to collectively experience something akin to the ecstasies of the Bacchae
Like all men but more so, he was a hunter. In a literal sense, he used not a bullet but a bird. It was not about a chase but about a puzzle of logic and skill that amounted to a test of his self-mastery. He was the mouse and the architect of his maze. The giver of his own pleasure and torment. He desired. He desired desiring. He desired being desired. He desired desire itself. I understood this just as I came to understand the range of his kinks and complexes and how they fit within what I thought I understood of his soul.
November 17, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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excerpt from my forthcoming volume, "Seventy-one Haiku for the Worm that is Not a Worm"
up all night thinking the worm that is not a worm busy as all hell
November 17, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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it's on

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THE MOUNTAIN GOATS with special guest Craig Finn. Image of a fishing boat on the water with a small hilly island behind it. Tour dates listed. Those dates are at https://laylo.com/mountaingoats/m/2026EUUK
November 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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I was texting my wife that I was having a little bit of a hard time out on my errands so I was going to treat myself to a bbq sides plate and this is what spell correct suggested when it didn’t understand “treat myself”
iPhone suggesting “to kill myself” when its voice-to-text didn’t understand “treat myself”
November 8, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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seriously omg this guy
At the meeting Wednesday, Roberts said Heritage was “wordsmithing and workshopping” language over how to distance itself from Carlson, though Roberts said he would remain a personal friend. He called Fuentes an “evil person” but one who “has an audience of several million people, and at least some of that audience might be open to be converted” to mainstream conservatism. Fuentes did not respond to a request for comment.
November 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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heritage foundation sounds like a great place to work and I hear there's openings
A staff meeting Wednesday — Roberts’s latest attempt to quell a week of resignations and condemnations over his defense of Carlson — was marked with calls for him to resign and squabbles over whether Christian employees would be forced to participate in Jewish rituals.
November 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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its alternate wincon is considerably less peaceful! (however I didn't swing and waited for the next turn for the staircase to do its thing. they played boardwipes & white sun's twilight on me twice, I am so so justified)
magic the gathering arena partial boardstate. two ghostly dancers and twenty 3/1 flyers you can do the math on this one.
November 6, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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when this works it is maybe the most irritating deck I have ever built
a magic the gathering arena boardstate in which I have won via the enchantment "Promising Stairs," whose text states that, at the beginning of my turn, I surveil once, and then, if I control eight unlocked rooms, I win the game.
November 5, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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at this point it’s kind of a behavioral tic
November 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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I cannot do any photo editing, at all, but.
the cover of U2's "wide awake in america" live EP (Island Records, 1985) with a red "O" covering the "a" in "awake" so it says "wide awoke" &c. image of a long-haired man, blurry, holding a microphone in a shower of light.
November 5, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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Sandwich at the Gates of Dawn / Incense and Salad Cream
November 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Onion and Mustard Suite, Third Movement
November 4, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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they hate it when I destroy their last land for the third time
screenshot of a magic the gathering arena boardstate in which the opponent has resigned prior to the destruction of their sole land for the third time in one game. on my side of the board, monastery swiftspear, charming scoundrel, waking the trolls, and jaya fiery negotiator. contrary to the claims of my enemies this deck build says nothing about my character it's only a game, also, wow, you have no land.
November 1, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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I know, the ex-Iowan vibe is so real. I bet ten minutes walking down Duff in a t-shirt would correct it some though
screenshot of the weather in Ames, Iowa on 11/1/25, showing that it is too cold. 36F. Wind 11 mph.
November 1, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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This is my emotional support joke and I will make it with any book, film, TV series, or fictional format whose title will allow it
“I know, it’s the craziest thing,” Karen said to the clerk, smiling for the camera — soon she’s be licensed to drive in Vermont. “But in the end it was all just a house of leaves
October 30, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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I have to say that the Cousin It costume wins the Durham march today
A hominid covered from head to toe in long brown hair, with a hat on their head.
October 18, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Portland is showing the way. Hail Portland
FOX 12 Oregon facebook post screenshot. Headline reads "Latest Updates: 2 more arrested near Portland ICE facility Saturday." Picture shows people outsid the ICE facility in blow-up costumes, L-R: Squidward, Mr. Potato Head, not sure but it's a diapered person in a trucker hat, Garfield, again not sure, banana, lobster
October 12, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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I’m about to see Alan Howarth play live
Photo of a man (Alan Howarth) on a stage in front of a screen. Keyboards to his right.
October 10, 2025 at 11:10 PM