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Melanie

@grammar-girl.bsky.social

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Purveyor of sprachgefül in assorted venues


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haus of hawktuah 's avatar haus of hawktuah @hausofholes.bsky.social
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seasonal affective disorder but for summer and instead of depression I get pissed off

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maura quint's avatar maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social
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you know how when people get alzheimers they can sometimes connect again with a piece of music they know very well? my kids are going to have to play me aughts indie rock and I'm already mortified.

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Talia Lavin's avatar Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social
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the rest of our lives, ladies & gents

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Sage 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar Sage 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social
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reposting with alt text

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I'm Maxxxine-maxxing. I'm Ti pilled. 's avatar I'm Maxxxine-maxxing. I'm Ti pilled. @crabitha.slutmo.de
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Ok some nerd did the math

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K. A. “Kick Åss” Pillë's avatar K. A. “Kick Åss” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social
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Your move, Hemingway

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Helena Fitzgerald 's avatar Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social
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“Everything I have learned about an artist and the relation of biography to their work has been against my will.” brandon taylor on alice munro and “art monster” discourse is devastatingly good and offers incredible clarity on a whole lot of recent (and less recent) stuff

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Chris Cantwell's avatar Chris Cantwell @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social
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My kids went to Fort Greene Park today and I have since learned the oldest was lifting the middle kid up to opening of the sealed memorial door marking the burial of 11,500 revolutionary war dead saying CAN YOU SEE THE BONES

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Dia Lacina's avatar Dia Lacina @dialacina.bsky.social
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YOU GUYS WE HAVE TO STOP GLOBAL WARMING SO THE ECHIDNAS CAN DREAM

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Robin Marty 's avatar Robin Marty @robinmarty.bsky.social
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OARS has been operating since 2019 on volunteers & a very VERY small amount of movement grants. It navigates more people every day that ANY single fund, clinic or entity, yet no one thinks this is worth giving money to support. It is the ONLY way someone can find assistance anonymously. FUND IT!

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Hahaha, I had a YA novel recently with an epigraph attributed to Homer that turned out, with some googling, to be from the movie Troy (2004). She opted to cut three epi rather than attempt to secure permissions.

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Elisabeth Van Every's avatar Elisabeth Van Every @e-van-every.bsky.social
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This is going to continue happening as everything gets hotter. Seattle had problems similar to this during the 2021 heat dome. Climate change is an *infrastructure problem* along with all the other types of problems.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow's avatar Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social
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this illustration is a real rorschach test

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Anya Taylor-Ham's avatar Anya Taylor-Ham @griph.bsky.social
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young woman in the back of the express bus flying over shitty flatbush streets using an eye curler, seven days good luck

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chris xu's avatar chris xu @chrysaora.bsky.social
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oh you’re a couple? so which one of you is quiet sand and which one of you is angry sand with broken shells?

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Melanie's avatar Melanie @grammar-girl.bsky.social
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Not fact-checking exactly, but things like confirming the names and geography of real-world places. Also in Bury Your Gays I had a query about the height of a specific monster in relation to the height of an airplane ceiling, lol.

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For the first couple years at my current employer, I was the production editor for an e-original romance imprint, and during that time I referred to myself on Twitter-that-was as a smutmonger.

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Zamira Rahim's avatar Zamira Rahim @zamirarahim.bsky.social
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'Sometimes things don't go, after all, from bad to worse' Thinking a lot about this poem today.

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Phillip Anderson's avatar Phillip Anderson @phillipanderson.bsky.social
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Look how fun shutting down fascists is. I want this for us, too

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Pwnallthethings's avatar Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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Unironically put this post on ads in swing states

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Jonny Morris's avatar Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social
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"And the cause of liberal democracy in Europe, which did NOT die..."

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Paul Tobin's avatar Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social
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Look, I'm willing to try anything at this point.

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Joseph Fink's avatar Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social
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When the going gets tough, I get going (home) (too tough out there)

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waltydunlop's avatar waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social
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People often ask me - "have you got that picture of Cary Grant in uniform with a puppy poking out of the pocket?" Yes, they do. They rush up to me in the streets, it's true. Well, yes. Yes, I do. And here it is.

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it truly is a shame that the New York City charter requires that the mayor be "thee largeft heap of fhite within thirty Miles" but the law's the law

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Dave Levitan's avatar Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social
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If you turn Paris upside down it becomes one of the alien ships from Independence Day

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Melanie's avatar Melanie @grammar-girl.bsky.social
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I had been a huge fan of Neil Gaimon for 15ish years when I attended a reading in my late early 30s. I remember thinking "Huh, he gets older but his fangirls stay the same age," and now I know why that creeped me out so much I never read another book of his.

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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just watched 74 people speaking at least a dozen different languages become american citizens in a ceremony at monticello, where the speakers were themselves children of immigrants. inspiring stuff and a vivid illustration of what reactionaries want to snuff out

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crises come in different flavors but they do keep coming

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Judith Butlerian Jihad's avatar Judith Butlerian Jihad @xanindigo.bsky.social
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every time i read the news in 2024

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Chris Petkus's avatar Chris Petkus @carolinesays.bsky.social
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“American Flag, 1977,” by Robert Mappelthorpe.

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Melanie's avatar Melanie @grammar-girl.bsky.social
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Night Watch is such a perfect example of this!!

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Kingfisher & Wombat's avatar Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com
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Please note this very fine bee.

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Ian Boudreau's avatar Ian Boudreau @iboudreau.bsky.social
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It's quite simple. We just need to find a very powerful wizard

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Helena Fitzgerald 's avatar Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social
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once again: the worst thing you can find out about a celebrity you wanted to fuck when you were in college is that you could have

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Melanie's avatar Melanie @grammar-girl.bsky.social
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Fully support this BUT you may need some strategic visible hair situation to avoid everyone assuming you have cancer.

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kilgore trout's avatar kilgore trout @kilgoretrout.bsky.social
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gonna start a support group for the “look I dunno man I’m exhausted let’s just do whatever it takes” demographic

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