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for lent i'm giving up my impulse-control

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Just subscribed to the print edition of bluesky. Soon I’ll be receiving all the month’s posts in a handsome leather-bound tome

submitted 12 days ago • 72 comments

I’ve got an electrician round and every time he turns the power off and on my dishwasher starts up and blasts the Marseillaise at full volume. I am mortified

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

Gasgano and Dud Bolt merch in the Year of Our Lord 2025

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Pluto and Charon

submitted 37 days ago • 13 comments

The Tuskegee Airmen were the first African American flying unit in the U.S. military. Altogether, 992 pilots graduated from the Tuskegee Air Field courses, and they flew 1,578 missions and 15,533 sorties, destroyed 261 enemy aircraft, and won more than 850 medals.

submitted 38 days ago • 53 comments

Can't imagine the youth will be too bummed about their high energy video app being banned when they can just log onto blue sky and read sentences written by elder millennials

submitted 46 days ago • 381 comments

Behold! A new archaeology is born!

submitted 61 days ago • 3 comments

"black cats aren't photogenic" ok then explain this

submitted 70 days ago • 70 comments

I made a gingerbread panopticon

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you know who should be inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame? Sisyphus

submitted 73 days ago • 481 comments

If you stopped at a deserted rest area to use the restroom and found it filled with turtles who all silently, balefully, turned their heads to look at you, how many turtles would it take to scare you off? That number is your Uncanny Rest-Area Restroom Turtle Number.

submitted 82 days ago • 103 comments

Posted this at the old place, but thought folks on @bsky.app might like to know I finally met my "mother".

submitted 83 days ago • 3005 comments

In all honesty, I have to admit that my skepticism about artificial intelligence comes from having watched sci-fi films that were premised on a near future in which AI wiped out humanity. These were pretty obscure, I guess. One was called “The Matrix,” and another “Terminator” or something?

submitted 84 days ago • 105 comments

I love it when people complain to me directly about having too many cats in their timeline, as if I'm the bluesky cat czar and I have a giant cat content mixing board where I can adjust their personal cat levels.

submitted 85 days ago • 856 comments

my brother in Tchaikovsky, you don't need to whistle along with the orchestra, they got this

submitted 87 days ago • 2 comments

so glad we don't live in the age of flash dances anymore. The introduction to Wicked started playing in this Starbucks and I fully looked around to make sure people weren't about to start dancing before I had my first cup of coffee

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on “Wonderful Christmastime,” Sir Paul McCartney set out to make a timeless christmas classic and also to figure out what every button on his synthesizer did, and he absolutely succeeded at one of those things

submitted 90 days ago • 626 comments

Massive away win for the little fella.

submitted 94 days ago • 588 comments

Appropriate

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remember Oz the Great And Powerful which somehow managed to have Michelle Williams and Rachel Weisz and Mila Kunis in it but most of the runtime was James Franco talking to a doll? or did I dream this

submitted 95 days ago • 31 comments

I know I should quit eating Thanksgiving leftovers… But I can't quit cold turkey.

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It’s the holidays, which means I’m back home, which means it’s time for the annual pic of the Jar Jar Binks soap dispenser.

submitted 96 days ago • 9 comments

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submitted 97 days ago • 23 comments

never forgive an animal. This is the timeless lesson of Moby-Dick.

submitted 98 days ago • 3 comments

The residents of Cherry Tree Lane should really take the threat that Admiral Boom represents more seriously.

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I was emotionally unprepared for just how much brown sugar goes into (to be fair, baking two) pecan pies. Un-prepared. I am not complaining, I’m just saying. 😅

submitted 98 days ago • 1 comment

I am unable to post images. They keep coming up as polar bears in a snow storm. Alerting Star Fleet Command.

submitted 97 days ago • 610 comments

Today I'm grateful for family, friends & loved ones. Also: pie 🙏

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I have no doubt the fandom will be incredibly chill about this statement

submitted 97 days ago • 8 comments

Happy Thanksgiving friends! Don’t forget to tell everyone that turkeys are dinosaurs!

submitted 98 days ago • 8 comments

Don’t talk to me or my large son ever again

submitted 98 days ago • 4 comments