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Meredith McClaren

@iniquitousfish.bsky.social

A small black and white comic. The comic shows me in four stages.

At the beginning I am lurched over in my office chair, prepared to work hard. A speech bubble says: 'Okay. Time to lock in and-.' My cat's head is peeking up from around my lap.

In the second part, my cat has started to crawl into my space. I look down at her, but am still distractedly saying: 'Time to lock-'

In the third part my cat is starting to make herself comfortable on my chest, where she likes to be. I am succumbing, looking off in the distance saying: 'To-'

By the fourth section, I have fully surrendered. She is sleeping on chest. It's all over.

November 12, 2025 at 7:58 PM

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Davis Bickford

@davis.social

The perfect Magic card doesn’t exi—

A photo of my hand holding a Magic card with a pug barking at her own reflection in a cracked mirror.

Ancient Grudge

Instant

Destroy target artifact.

Flashback

Flavor text:
Shelby locked eyes with the ferocious creature as the glass began to crack. With one more lunge, she would break through and confront her nemesis at last.

December 13, 2025 at 7:56 PM

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Dr. SkySkull

@drskyskull.bsky.social

This is delightful

Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 21d

Will Arnett was on Conan and told a story about how Conan dealt with the death of his parents by accusing Jason Bateman of killing them. It’s so funny.

December 9, 2025 at 7:23 PM

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Ian

@mplsnightmayor.bsky.social

The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)

A golden retriever holding an octopus in its mouth, so it looks like tentacles

December 9, 2025 at 2:27 AM

Modern Viking

@venerabledm.bsky.social

If I NEVER hear another word from Synema, it could not be too soon. Jesus. Guh.

November 23, 2025 at 9:17 PM

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Aaron Rupar

@atrupar.com

Fox chyron reads "ANTI-ICE PROTESTS ROCK CHARLOTTE" while in the background on their liveshot you can see people in frog and dinosaur costumes

November 19, 2025 at 2:32 AM

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Ana Marie Cox

@anamariecox.bsky.social

THIS COUNTS FOR TOM HOLLAND RULE PURPOSES.

Must watch. Must re-post.

www.youtube.com/watch?embeds...

November 19, 2025 at 1:17 AM

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Prisonculture

@prisonculture.bsky.social

Shutting it down for the night with this post from a comrade in Chicago:
🎶"I wish I could give you this feeling. I wish I could give you this feeling."🎶

$Yesterday we had a meeting on the block. We had to. The state of the government and its affect on the community was the topic. We discussed the best way to proceed in all of the uncertainty. The other day there was no SNAP in November. Then it was half. Then it was none again. Then it was half again. Then 65%. Then 35% in the exact same day. So you can see what I mean when I say, uncertainty. The hokey pokey of this administration had us wondering should we keep doing dinner everyday and lean in, or stop because people are getting a percentage (I think? ) of their SNAP benefits? Now, preparing meals outside on a street corner in the summer is hard. But, outdoors in a Chicago fall/ winter is brutal. We've done pop ups before in the winter but never everyday... BUT, knowing how difficult it could be and will be, every single volunteer who cooks and shows up to serve everyday STILL voted that we can't stop. The kids need us. Even with a fraction of the benefits. Even with the indecisiveness of the government. Even in the cold, wet, ick, that is sure to come. Even without funding. They all voted to still show up. And then people in the neighborhood started dropping whatever they had in their pockets on the table. Because we're all in this together. 🎶"I wish I could give you this feeling. I wish I could give you this feeling."🎶$

November 9, 2025 at 4:25 AM

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Shockratees

@thatshockratees.bsky.social

I am 64 years old and FOR MOST OF MY LIFE two things were true:

- fascists were trying to take over the USA

- we were beating them

Those creeps are beatable. We beat them for decades. In the 30s they tried a form of MAGA and US beat them. The 50s? McCarthy purges. US beat them.

Do. Not. Doom.

November 2, 2025 at 11:18 PM

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Jess Nevins

@jessnevins.bsky.social

Hmph! If Shohei Ohtani is such a good athlete let him race Secretariat.

October 28, 2025 at 10:44 PM

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Lissi🐉🧵Pendragon's Roost🪡

@lissidragon.bsky.social

🍵 If you’d like a little plush keepsake of your own beloved kitty, I’d love to make one for you. ko-fi.com/c/dc50eea352

"Your Kitty Here" Plush

Commission available on Ko-fi.com

ko-fi.com

October 18, 2025 at 9:30 PM

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Chris Levesque

@levesque-chris.bsky.social

Ukraine is still fighting.

A single X-wing starfighter painted in yellow and blue faces off against a Star Destroyer. The text reads “Resist: Stand with Ukraine”

October 4, 2025 at 12:14 AM

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shauna

@goldengateblond.bsky.social

you may not know you need this but trust me you need this

Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · Sep 3

*DOG: “You're finally back! I missed you so much!!”

September 3, 2025 at 12:50 PM

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Ana Marie Cox

@anamariecox.bsky.social

It came up on my IG feed. You know the rule. youtu.be/jPCJIB1f7jk?...

Lip Sync Battle - Tom Holland

YouTube video by Comedy Central Latinoamérica

youtu.be

August 21, 2025 at 3:37 AM

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Mistress Matisse

@mistressmatisse.bsky.social

Certain types of comedy don’t even need language - this is hilarious

Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · Aug 14

This is a masterpiece. Simply excellent
www.instagram.com/reel/DMVGMIC...

August 14, 2025 at 6:54 PM

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darth™️

@darthbluesky.bsky.social

"will visit golf courses"
lol

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · Jul 24

Tomorrow's front page 📰

Convicted US felon to arrive in Scotland

July 25, 2025 at 5:02 AM

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL

@edsbs.bsky.social

Play “Narco” for teal dress because she’s the closer

Luther Yungblood @wado1.bsky.social · Jun 29

I wanna thank @joelanderson.bsky.social for bringing this video to my attention. I've been laughing at this all morning.
There are so many layers.
Teal dress is about nothing but action.
Polka dot dress is about smoke but has no fight game.
What team is black dress 2 on?

June 30, 2025 at 12:02 AM

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shauna

@goldengateblond.bsky.social

“hope isn’t a mood. it’s a decision.” (via confettitactics on threads: www.threads.com/@confettitac...)

I've lived under martial law before.
Not in the U.S.-in Thailand, after a coup.
And I've walked Tiananmen Square, too.
So what I'm watching in LA right now?
It hits different.
Because I've seen how authoritarianism takes hold-and how America's resistance isn't following the script.
1/7

In Thailand, I taught at a private school after the military coup.
One of my coworkers had lived through the actual lockdown in Bangkok.
He remembered hearing gunfire and realizing: they're killing people in the street.
That fear settled into daily life.
You complied. You stayed quiet. You survived.
2/7

The man who led the coup?
He became a monk-because in Thailand, becoming a monk makes you untouchable.
I was literally teaching his grandkids.
People worried if the military would come for them, too.
That's the weight of real martial law. It changes how you move through the world. 3/7

In China, I visited Tiananmen Square.
My Chinese teacher's mother was pregnant with her when she stood in that square.
That history was personal.
But it was also erased.
Because in authoritarian regimes, memory itself becomes dangerous.
What we're not allowed to remember gets rewritten. 4/7

So watching protests erupt in LA right now-protesters shutting down freeways, standing off against SWAT, refusing to move-I'm struck by what's different.
Yes, there's fear.
But there's also volume.
America isn't going quiet.
And that matters.
Because martial law requires submission.
It relies on people staying home.
It needs us to believe we're outnumbered.
But in every major U.S. city right now, people are standing up.
Not just resisting.
Refusing to disappear. 5/7

They want us to believe there's no choice.
But that's a lie authoritarianism always tells.
And America-messy, loud, imperfect America-still hasn't bought into that lie.
So yes, l'm scared.
But I also have something I didn't have in Thailand or China.
Thave hope.
Not because everything will work out on its own.
But because people are choosing to show up.
Because we're not done yet. 6/7

Hope isn't a mood.
It's a decision.
And if you're struggling to find it-borrow mine.
I've lived through a coup.
I've lived under martial law.
And I'm telling you right now:
This moment isn't over.
We're still writing the ending. 7/7

June 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM

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Daniel José Older

@djolder.bsky.social

Harrowing thread.

Jocelyn Leitzinger @jocelynl.bsky.social · Jun 2

This past semester was the most stressful of my academic career. I had 180 students and about half cheated at some point in the semester

They submit weekly reflections where the questions are opinion-based, graded only on effort, don't care about grammar

SO MANY students submitted ChatGPT essays

Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · Jun 2

I talked to 15 teachers/professors about how AI and ChatGPT is ruining their lives:

www.404media.co/teachers-are...

June 4, 2025 at 1:08 AM

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chira 🎋

@artofchira.bsky.social

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing