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xiguli.bsky.social
Horse Badorties’ Number One Sad
@xiguli.bsky.social
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Artsy-craftsy. Angsty. Assonant. Obsessed with old stuff and weird stuff and kids’ books. She/her.
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A reminder to take what you’re learning now about how vulnerable people are targeted by government and remember that they remain vulnerable under ANY administration. We need real reform and legal protections.

Gift article: wapo.st/4iDFVux
Screenshot from WaPo article: “The U.S. government has never released data on how many U.S. citizens have been wrongfully detained or deported by ICE. But independent investigations have revealed that ICE has arrested, detained, deported and issued detainers — requests to local jails to hold a person in custody — for thousands of citizens since the agency’s creation in 2003.”
April 27, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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#Blueskyburger
Two clouds stacked like burger buns with a blue sky patty between.
March 28, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Idly wondering which shows’ intros get skipped least when people are binging.
Photo of a tv displaying the intro from the Muppet Show, the part near the end when all the Muppets are stacked in their colorful archways and the song is playing, “This is what we call…”
March 24, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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I made this dumb meme in 2012 but my enthusiasm remains unabated. Loving this whole thread.
March 1, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Please don't make me eat this.

Sun-Maid Raisins ad in the Saturday Evening Post, 1933
Page from The Saturday Evening Post. Illustration of a slice of raisin pie, raisin juice oozing from a browned crust. It reads, "A Man's Pie. Fresh—delicious. Buy it ready baked." There's a bunch more text talking up Sun-Maid's "plump and tender" raisins and appeal to both men and women ("for it saves home baking").
February 19, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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Well, this is a whole mood, isn't it?

"The Siren" - A 1551 printer's token reproduced in Science and Literature in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (1878) by Paul Lacroix (aka PL Jacob).
A woodcut of a pretty baroque-looking siren lady with bird feet, scaly nether flesh and tail, breasts like two halves of a firm orange, rope (?) wrapped around the shoulders, and a leonine face. She's looking into a mirror. She does not look happy.
February 18, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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I just learned about the existence of this meme, but it sure feels like a similarly deranged flavor.
Screenshot of a now-deleted tweet by Twitter user Axel_Or_Ax responding to allegations that Twitch streamer Wilbur Soot bit an ex: “Wilbur admitted to biting. Not to the abuse, 🫶 🫶 Plus, Bitting isn’t even the worst people can do. (Holocaust.) and much worse.”
February 10, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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At least we can count on
An ad from Neumann Communication Systems Limited (from a 1980 magazine) offers Explosion Proof Telephones. Features include: • Explosion-proof • Flame proof • Intrinsically safe • Rotary dial • Push button impulse selection • Touch-tone selection • Range also includes sound powered telephones and loudspeaking intercom. "Send for comprehensive catalogue."
January 27, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Deeply offended by the comma splice in this spam email.
A skinny screengrab from an outlook inbox: "Clogged bowels? Squeeze [comma] Your Buttock Like This To Poop, No Matter How Constipated You Are. No preview is available."
January 27, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Why, hello there Bluesky.

Illustration by John R. Neill in John Dough and the Cherub (1906) by L. Frank Baum
"Hello, neighbor," reads the caption. Two 19th-century men are sticking their heads out of windows on a rounded tower, smiling at one another. They are divided by a coat of arms on the outer wall.
January 27, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Yeah, you’re probably right, PNM. It’s not because of record-low temps—it’s my burner size. Sorry about that!
An email from PNM, New Mexico’s largest electricity provider. “Hi Lisa! We noticed you've been using more energy lately. Your last bill increased 38% compared to your previous bill. Using the right-sized burner for your pot can speed up your cooking and reduce energy loss by 40%.”
January 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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We all have our reasons.
List of options from a survey. - To improve my cognitive abilities and keep my mind sharp - To pass time or avoid being bored - To escape temporarily from reality - To relax and unwind - To take a quick break between tasks/chores - To deeply engage with an entertaining activity - To reward/treat myself with something self-indulgent
January 24, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Oh thanks I was looking for something new to embroider on a pillow.
Three quotations on BrainyQuote: I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm. Mike Tyson Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes! Leonardo da Vinci Destiny is not designed by mere mortals like us. It is crafted by God. Rodrigo Duterte The Mike Tyson quote is also at the top of the list with the text overlaid on an inspirational-poster-type background of mountaintops emerging from clouds.
January 24, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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How about a nice Hirschfeld.
A pen-and-ink caricature of Leonard Nimoy in “Equus” in Al Hirschfeld’s instantly recognizable style.
January 22, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Don't worry. It's not like it's a metaphor for US democracy or anything.

An illustration by JB Geyser in The Aladdin Wonder Book, 1881.
Three monstrous, one-eyed giants rise up in front of a tropical-looking shore, emerging from the ocean water. The center giant has a rock raised above his head. In the foreground, one raft of lashed-together logs has already been destroyed, the 2 men on it flailing for their lives, while another raft of 3 men struggles to escape.
January 22, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Now I understand what fancy stores at the mall are trying to be.

Sools hat shop, Paris, 1925. Photo by Therese Bonney.
January 20, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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Poster by AM Cassandre, 1926 - The 3-headed image is most associated with Sools hat shop in Paris (which I just found a photo of, so I'll post that too). This is the Spanish version.
A stylized illustration of three men's heads with hats. "Ernest" is what's being advertised, with an address in Barcelona.
January 20, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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Wouldn’t you like to be on a pea-green boat serenading your beautiful and beloved Pussy?

Owen Wood illustration inThe Owl & the Pussy-Cat & Other Nonsense (1978)
An effervescently busy double-page spread showing Owl in sumptuous pajamas singing “to a small guitar” with his slippers propped up on the ship’s rigging.
January 18, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Tonight’s random YouTube find has Tim Curry in a very jaunty bathing costume (plus Michael Palin & Stephen Moore in theirs). It’s directed by Stephen Frears & adapted from Jerome K Jerome’s novel by Tom Stoppard: Three Men in a Boat (1975). Never knew this existed!
January 17, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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If I’m honest one of the main reasons I find certain social media platforms hard to give up is that I need an outlet for showing off my books. I just thrifted this c1979 copy of Grimms’ Fairy Tales. Art is by Luděk Maňásek. I don’t NEED any more Grimm collections—but this is full of lovely illos. 💗
A devil-ish fellow with curly little horns and twisty fingernails looks out at the reader with soulful, dark eyes.
January 16, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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Comic by panchopepe. Person 1: Y de qué murió ese poeta? Person 2: Se suicidó por causas naturales. ((And what did that poet die of? S/he died by suicide of natural causes.))
November 27, 2024 at 6:22 PM
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I was just thinking of Max Headroom yesterday when I noticed this in my water filter. His cousin maybe?
Tab in water filter tank that reads MAX FILL.
November 22, 2024 at 4:33 PM
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Came upon a book of absolutely cursed Garfield images. It’s from 1999 and offers predictions about the new millennium.
Double-page spread: “In the new millennium… A dog will receive an artificial brain made of cheese. There will be no discernible difference in intelligence.” At right, Garfield lifts a fondue fork from from some unknown doofy-looking blue dog’s head, open with a hinge, and says in a thought bubble, “Makes a good fondue, though.”
November 22, 2024 at 5:59 AM
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Waiting to pick up my kid from school, reading about 70s McGuffin-esque spirituality, & watching the moonrise over Sandia Mtn. This is the world I guess.
November 12, 2024 at 10:59 PM