Emma

Emma

@emmalabizarre.bsky.social

no, I’m from New Jersey- I only work in outer space. (she/they) (librarian for nerds, scrappy comic relief on Jeopardy season 39)

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people are panicking weirdly about the malfoid thing, or freaking out about the wrong bits of it. all of you have been on the internet for over a decade. neither genderbent fanart, nor an internet-wide paroxysm of horniness should be weird to you. the far right latching onto it... that is bizarre.

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And lo! Kathye appearid and we hung out Sharing draughtes from the bottel so sharpe and so cleane Glaunsinge eyne Holdinge hondes Twynne heigh-maintenaunce machynes Ich am goinge to make it Thrugh thys yeare Yif it slaye me Ich am goinge to make it Thrugh thys yeare Yif it slaye me #mountaingoats

Oh dear I have reached the midpoint of my grandparent grief period (Grampa death 7/28, Gramma death 9/13, gramma death 11/8, Grampa death 12/7) and this is a messy point I never remember.

I was lucky enough to know all four of them into my adult years, and even choose my college because I could see them on weekends. My Grampas died in December 2015 and July 2016, and I lost my Grammas in November 2022 and September 2023. The world is worse for them not being in it.

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Your first instinct is gonna be to blame this on the It's Always Sunny gang but you're forgetting that Melissa Schemmenti's throwing a Halloween party on Saturday and she knows a guy who can stock her seafood tower.

Six men stole 3,000 pounds of frozen snow crab from a tractor-trailer while the driver was asleep in the front of the truck in Southwest Philadelphia Tuesday morning.

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for those of you unfamiliar, the most powerful social unit in Cincinnati is your high school class, which outranks friends, family, even lovers

Kirsten Bladh@kerstanley.bsky.social

Over 2,000 alumni from Vivek’s all-boys catholic high school in Cincinnati have signed and circulated a petition demanding that he pull the ad and issue a public apology for “ignoring the moral responsibilities” of his Jesuit education. I think he’s pretty cooked.

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Over 2,000 alumni from Vivek’s all-boys catholic high school in Cincinnati have signed and circulated a petition demanding that he pull the ad and issue a public apology for “ignoring the moral responsibilities” of his Jesuit education. I think he’s pretty cooked.

Micah@rincewind.run

chat I don’t think doubling down on this ad is working out real well for vivek

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the NBA is full of the biggest and most athletic men imaginable, to the point that almost everyone in the league who is only 6 feet tall has to be an absolute freak of nature who can jump out of the gym just to survive now imagine how freakish you have to be to have a 14 year career at 5’3”

Shams Charania Tweets@shamsbot.bsky.social

The Charlotte Hornets on Feb. 11 are retiring the No. 1 jersey of Muggsy Bogues, the shortest player in NBA history at 5-foot-3. Bogues spent 10 of his 14 NBA seasons in Charlotte (1988-1998) and is the franchise leader in assists, steals and minutes.

Liberating this meditation on “poasting”from the replies 🤣 . I am much much less of one than I was in my late 20s. 2010-2016, my dark glory days

Emma@emmalabizarre.bsky.social

I also think of it as separating posting on social media as an action, and posting as a vocation (poasting). Love of the game and all that. Posting through all emotions or situations

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the washington free beacon is trying to october surprise abdul by revealing his comms chief used to post bangers

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Put the fucking Hawks game in the afternoon you losers

Alexa Philippou@alexaphilippou.bsky.social

BREAKING: Game 6 of the WNBA Finals will be held Thursday at 12:30pm ET at Atlanta’s State Farm Arena, sources told ESPN’s Ramona Shelburne. It will be a double-header with the Atlanta Hawks’ game, which will be moved to 8pm.

He was so talented, to have the sweetie Pavel Chekov and the devil Alfred Bester in the same career. Second star to the right and straight on until morning. 💔

Jesse Thorn@jessethorn.bsky.social

My pal Danielle Koenig shared that her father Walter Koenig passed away last night at age 90. A performer whose kindness and warmth shone through the screen. He will be well remembered.

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As I've said before, it's only once I became a professor that I realized the entmoot, a meeting that goes on for three days and three nights, was a professor's joke about faculty meetings.

Kieran Healy@kjhealy.co

The Lord of the Rings is essentially a series of faculty meetings broken up by several long walks in the countryside.

One! I could use Bill Clinton whom I met briefly once, but I would much rather use Rush Holt, my long time NJ congressman whose campaign I interned for twice as a teenager. Rush is a much better guy. My favorite memory is updating his computer while he did phone interviews.

Sky Marchini@sky.skymarchini.net

To flip some discourse script for a bit: what’s y’all’s Obama number (ie degrees of separation with the former president)? Mine is 3

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found out that my mother in law decided she was aggressively pro trans rights literally by going, I don't know anything about this but everyone who is against trans rights is also against free school lunch, the issue I know and care a lot about, so this must be the correct way to feel about this

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A billionaire wanted a Trump pardon. His family gave Trump’s former lawyer a $50 million job while she still worked at DOJ. Weeks later, he got his pardon. Wait. Is that legal? My write-up in the link in the comments.

I read a great in depth piece from NJ dot com about Porta Potty companies, and I agree with the comment of one of them that it would make a great show. I would watch the hell out of that.

Allison Hantschel@allisonhantschel.com

There are so many heroes we know next to nothing about. There are so many people fighting and pushing and making things better. I want to spend more time with them in my head instead of being told to giggle at some fucking criminal because cRiNgE Hum0r or something.

In every single dang government picture of me 🤣 I swear I am less unhinged than I look

Solomon@solomonrmissouri.com

People with green eyes be like “👁️👁️”

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ok but this is actually an appropriate way to honor Bacchus and i think the ancients would have agreed

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Replying to @rincewind.run

this is true Ben Franklin would be utterly delighted by the advances in pornography

Alex@saintsopossums.bsky.social

I would distract angry ghost ben franklin by telling him about the concept of onlyfans

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No, Freedom Summer volunteers didn't take selfies or post tweets -- because that technology hadn't been invented yet. But when they were getting trained in Ohio before going down, they were *all over* the media of their day. Here's a paragraph on it (since cut from my book for space constraints)

Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social

"The Jews who went to Mississippi didn't take selfies and post tweets." Okay, but honestly, if tweets had been a thing in 1961, many of them probably would have done.

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many people somehow do not realize that cattle can and will fuck you up (whether you are a bear or a human), especially if they think you’re trying to mess with their calves.

Ausarchosaur@ausarchosaur.bsky.social

This reminds me of that scene in Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron with the puma attack. Except this was a whole herd of cattle bullying one bear when it tried to go after a calf. (Photos by Wayne Ray)

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i personally don't believe you have to smile to look stylish. for instance: IG charlie_the_griffon

Kevin Vognar@somnule.bsky.social

why are all these people so sad about their beautiful sweaters though