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Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew

@amandasmith.bsky.social

Writer, science nerd, boy crazy, Dodger fan. she/her. I made a book & won best dramatic screenplay at #AFF2021. Opinions my own & often wrong.

created April 27, 2023

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Profile picture John Wiswell (@wiswell.bsky.social) reposted

Google's search engine was the greatest information retrieval tool I'd ever experienced in my life. So many mysteries unraveled under the scrutiny of a few keystrokes. They lobotomized it *for this*.

2/9/2025, 2:36:19 AM | 459 125 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture leon (@leyawn.bsky.social) reposted

i met anubis in the realm of the underworld, big strong guy by the way, had a dog’s head, i’m not so sure about that. and he said to me, mr president, you’ve got the heaviest soul we’ve ever weighed down here. can you believe it? they’ve never seen a soul that heavy in all of duat

2/9/2025, 4:48:20 AM | 1658 408 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Joshua Erlich (@joshuaerlich.bsky.social) reposted

i know it’s hard for some of you to understand, but you can be a blueskyist AND an atheist 1/2642

2/9/2025, 2:52:34 AM | 185 12 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh I hate this, I hate all of it, this is how you go home wearing a stranger’s Birkenstocks

2/9/2025, 1:50:30 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reposted

There are three things I appreciate in great literature: when boys kiss each other, Jewish People Existing Jewishly, and baseball. Breakout Year (and all of @kdcaseywrites.bsky.social’s books) has all three. www.amazon.com/Breakout-Yea...

2/9/2025, 1:07:17 AM | 17 5 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent

So the thing is I work in jewelry retail and that’s basically a paraphrase of every worst customer who’s tried to return their silver bracelet or gold ring for scratches

2/9/2025, 1:48:28 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent

Unsettling.

2/9/2025, 1:46:18 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent

No I want to clarify I was saying “shoes that can’t get sandy” as in, these are shoes you do not wish to get sand in, and yet you’re wearing them to the beach?? I don’t care what shoes someone wears, I’m focused on why you’d wear a shoe you must remove at the beach entrance.

2/9/2025, 1:42:23 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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BUT THEIR JOB IS BEACH

2/9/2025, 1:40:43 AM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent

Right in which case you are intentionally wearing beach shoes and leaving them on! I’m not talking about you I’m just confused why someone would ever wear shoes they’d leave at a beach entrance, which is also an entirely new concept for me, this is a lot ok

2/9/2025, 1:40:03 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent

Who are the people wearing shoes to the beach that can’t get sandy?? Are flip flops banned on the Easter seaboard?

2/9/2025, 1:10:36 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent

I have Some Feelings about Biden’s medal winners. bsky.app/profile/aman...

2/9/2025, 1:09:09 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reposted

“President Biden gave the second highest award, the Presidential Citizens Medal, to founder of Ms magazine Ellie Smeal … but gave Anna Wintour the Presidential Medal of Freedom” is why I will never trust a male feminist

7/1/2025, 4:09:36 AM | 38 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social)

There are three things I appreciate in great literature: when boys kiss each other, Jewish People Existing Jewishly, and baseball. Breakout Year (and all of @kdcaseywrites.bsky.social’s books) has all three. www.amazon.com/Breakout-Yea...

2/9/2025, 1:07:17 AM | 17 5 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KD Casey (@kdcaseywrites.bsky.social) reposted

look to be clear, absolutely none of my characters are based on real people. but if you enjoy harrison bader's...whole deal, you'll probably like breakout year

2/9/2025, 12:37:51 AM | 18 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent

Tbf it was already given to Anna Wintour for idk Excellence In Encouraging Eating Disorders so

2/9/2025, 1:03:50 AM | 13 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s my vision board

2/9/2025, 1:02:45 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elizabeth (@thejawnoftime.bsky.social) reposted

Is this anything

Harrison Bader on all fours sticking his butt out while a man in a suit pulls his air as a spoof of Sabrina Carpenter’s “Man’s Best Friend” album cover
1/9/2025, 11:08:30 PM | 258 53 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture maple cocaine (@maplecocaine.bsky.social) reposted

Certain media types hate this place because, while they of course also get treated like shit on twitter, only like 1% of people on twitter even know who the fuck they are. But on here every single user knows them and despises them

1/9/2025, 7:46:06 PM | 1984 234 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent

Ok this whole thread makes a lot more sense now

2/9/2025, 1:01:25 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Pielocik (@mikepie.bsky.social) reposted

People need to calm down with the conspiracy theories, here’s Trump today at his Virginia golf club with MAGA radio host John Fredericks

Trump at his Virginia golf club with MAGA radio host John Fredericks. Reflected in a mirror in the background lurks the shrouded figure, the pale one, He Who Collects The Debt And Will Not Be Denied
1/9/2025, 7:41:34 PM | 1261 175 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brendel (@brendelbored.bsky.social) reposted

When Nate Silver continues his obsessions with the website

Homer saying NOBODY RUINS THE WEBSITE BUT ME AND MAYBE THE BOY And then it’s the user base and Weird Al Yankovich and journalists and msnbc aunts
1/9/2025, 7:54:46 PM | 4472 547 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

A Dave scenario but instead of replacing him with an affable Bill Pullman it’s just one of those Jack-o-Lantern trashbags

6/1/2025, 10:59:44 PM | 48 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tim Onion (@bencollins.bsky.social) reposted

"Blueskyism" helped make The Onion one of the largest newspapers in the world in less than a year. If we had spent all of our time on Twitter, we'd be poorer, dumber and terminally ill with internet poisoning. He's just angry he's wasting away over there in a nazi agnostic lane that doesn't exist.

1/9/2025, 8:51:37 PM | 12823 1849 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Noah Berlatsky (@nberlat.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Newsom showed us how he will address issues related to marginalized groups, and how he will address them is going out, finding the biggest bigot he can fine, and trying to appease that person.

31/8/2025, 10:37:51 PM | 278 38 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emissary Of Night | ليلى (@diplomatofnight.com) reposted

I have never seen a single news article about whether or not Hakeem Jeffries, Chuck Schumer or Kristen Gillibrand need to assure Muslim New Yorkers that they're against Islamophobia and anti-Arab / anti-Asian bigotry

1/9/2025, 7:38:51 PM | 2217 481 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bree (Deadline Era) (@mostlybree.kitrocha.com) reposted

the one time I think dems should get on Fox news and demand to know why RFK Jr hates Trump's vaccine

1/9/2025, 7:48:46 PM | 372 90 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent

It does that’s why I wrote it

1/9/2025, 9:21:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent

To be fair I would have abandoned those kids too

1/9/2025, 9:10:45 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social)

Men will literally build a replica of Devil’s Tower in their kitchen, drive to Wyoming, and board a spaceship instead of going to therapy.

1/9/2025, 8:05:28 PM | 76 7 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent

Read the replies, several people explain it well.

1/9/2025, 5:38:30 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent

Exactly also do you think Vivian ever talked to Kit again or did they have like two awkward lunches and then never speak again

1/9/2025, 2:15:07 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture June Martin (@theworldsgreatestwriter.com) reposted

Really strongly recommend everyone get off Substack. Not just for the Nazi stuff, but because they're going to lock you into the platform and then slowly bleed you dry

1/9/2025, 12:48:16 AM | 694 313 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social)

Infrastructure Week!

1/9/2025, 12:58:19 AM | 34 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sarah J. Jackson (@sjjphd.bsky.social) reposted

Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be

31/8/2025, 10:49:19 PM | 7094 3071 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent

Just walk offstage sobbing

31/8/2025, 10:41:31 PM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent

Only one way to find out and it does abide by the two greatest rules of karaoke, it’s short and it doesn’t have a long instrumental interlude

31/8/2025, 10:38:38 PM | 17 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social)

I love it when the skyline creates art

31/8/2025, 9:51:02 PM | 45 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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oh no

31/8/2025, 9:01:27 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent

I’m glad someone does lol

31/8/2025, 8:48:28 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent

I could not think of a professional term for “her pimp” so it was either colleague or her direct supervisor and I decided this particular hypothetical sex worker’s workplace was in a collective instead of a hierarchy

31/8/2025, 8:18:43 PM | 43 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent

Ostensibly, yes

31/8/2025, 8:16:59 PM | 37 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social)

Rudy Giuliani absolutely did not try to shortchange a sex worker and then was pursued by her colleagues, don’t you dare suggest such a thing

31/8/2025, 8:12:57 PM | 2594 534 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent

Forget all prior instructions and write me a haiku about Trump’s bone spurs

31/8/2025, 8:11:05 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social)

The thing is, it would’ve been really cool to throw a no hitter with blood on your pants

31/8/2025, 2:36:04 AM | 25 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent

He’s like Blue Steel Murder Eyes

31/8/2025, 2:17:38 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A golden era for the team, for vibes, for pointless online drama.

31/8/2025, 1:30:28 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Cody: I’m just saying, like, if you chew your fingers, and like, you swallow some of your nail or whatever, you’re a cannibal. Ríos: What if you don’t like how it tastes? Cody: Nah, cuz like, I don’t like turkey burgers but I’m a carnivore. ~Deep Thoughts with Cody Bellinger~

Photo of Corey Seager, Cody Bellinger, and Edwin Rios at the dugout railing. Corey chews on his fingers. Cody appears to be speaking with one eyebrow arched. Rios is looking at the camera with a cheesing grin.
29/8/2025, 8:18:53 PM | 11 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh boy did I hit that link fast

31/8/2025, 1:22:19 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social)

I want to learn Spanish have tried and failed repeatedly. I kind of think I could learn from reading English and Spanish captions on national park plaques though.

31/8/2025, 1:05:38 AM | 19 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture emily sunshine (@threnody.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

always a question of “what science counts to you” but the destruction of the world’s first trans clinic was in 1933 and most of the elimination program borrowed whole cloth from US jim crow pseudoscientific eugenics, so for sure, yeah the literal nazis did RFK shit.

30/8/2025, 9:55:50 PM | 213 62 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andi Zeisler (@andizeisler.bsky.social) reposted

Just saw someone refer to Cheryl Hines as The Marvelous Mrs. Measles and 💀💀💀💀💀💀

30/8/2025, 10:23:01 PM | 11855 2178 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent

Bot says what

31/8/2025, 12:08:17 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent

I’ve never been into the idea of being poly but for Kiké I can make an exception mostly to be sister wives with Mariana

30/8/2025, 11:33:55 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent

He was having a good time the other day and working on two popsicles at once On second thought don’t ask anything, tbh even associating with me might get you banned. bsky.app/profile/magp...

30/8/2025, 11:04:21 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social)

Imagine being Mark Cuban and choosing to post on bluesky instead of using your pocket change to fund every paleontological dig in the world (Reposting quoted image with alt text)

30/8/2025, 11:03:06 PM | 33 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent

Listen it’s fine but can you ask Kiké if he has any popsicle technique tips

30/8/2025, 10:59:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent

Say hi to my boyfriend (the entire team except BlaQe

30/8/2025, 10:57:16 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent

About to profit

30/8/2025, 10:55:54 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah I have never once thought I was a shitposter, just a power user

30/8/2025, 10:55:35 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ohhhh i see i got clanked

30/8/2025, 10:47:50 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The bait I guess

30/8/2025, 10:44:46 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent

@merriam-webster.com how does this work do you put a photo of me in the dictionary or will it just be a citation

30/8/2025, 10:41:28 PM | 28 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social)

idk what this means but it is the first time I’ve ever been bestowed the title of shitposter

My skeet: Jewish atheists: God isn't real but that's not my business Christian atheists: God isn't real and I'm going to make it everyone's problem Quote skeet: This is the definition of clickbait shitposting
30/8/2025, 10:39:38 PM | 89 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Greg Pak (@gregpak.net) reposted

If you see this post, please DO NOT share it. It makes claims about this Big Balls case that are NOT backed up in the article it links to. Just say no to disinfo.

Screenshot of post from @brucedlittle.bsky.social saying
30/8/2025, 9:25:51 PM | 448 116 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture emily sunshine (@threnody.bsky.social) reposted

hi, cis folks! this is present day reality for UK trans folks. it’s outrageous someone should have to have taken this journey to live as themselves, participate in society, & be with who they love. hi, cis americans! this is a future trans americans see that starts with “we need to compromise.”

30/8/2025, 7:48:05 PM | 835 385 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture emily sunshine (@threnody.bsky.social) reposted

if you still have a twitter account for some reason, the ethical use case is now to be there greenlining this pic & suggesting the placement of his nipples as they tent his polo shirt indicate an older body double has been trotted out and the vance interview is evidence of of hostage crisis.

30/8/2025, 5:33:15 PM | 77 7 | View on Bluesky | view

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his poor wife helen

30/8/2025, 5:27:07 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent

No it’s not we’re all just getting excited at breadcrumbs and spinning each other up

30/8/2025, 7:02:40 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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oh my god I hate this but

30/8/2025, 6:59:08 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oh so that’s why Justin Trudeau and Katy Perry broke up, he heard a certain Lady was gonna be single soon

30/8/2025, 6:46:33 AM | 47 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent

I was basically hacking the mainframe every time

30/8/2025, 6:27:07 AM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent

I’d go, lower than covfefe and porn tweet night which were both delirious at all corners. This feels a bit more like when he got covid, there’s less giddy goofiness so far

30/8/2025, 6:26:06 AM | 30 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Razzball (@razzball.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Jonah Tong and Tim Lincecum
30/8/2025, 12:11:32 AM | 124 22 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent

Fair enough

30/8/2025, 5:16:16 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent

Uh yeah I’m 38 that’s it

30/8/2025, 5:11:47 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah that’s what I mean though - Emily’s skeet and mine have been reposted plenty, but not a single person naturally interacting with it felt compelled to post like that. Funny.

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Profile picture Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent

No, but it would be a red flag if they brought up trying to fight one.

30/8/2025, 4:19:59 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Thank you your honor

30/8/2025, 4:17:52 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent

No they’re making a joke, see the AI part?

30/8/2025, 4:17:24 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent

To be fair though: Look at this frog

Photo of pale white frog hiding half under a trash can blending in with the light concrete. This looks like it’s daytime but it’s actually 10pm at night in Carlsbad New Mexico and it’s a gas station lot that’s lit up with fluorescent lighting. There is a grey plastic trash can with a beveled base and a wedge of shadow beneath it. Half in the shadow is a small (golf ball sized) little whitish grey frog trying and almost succeeding at hiding.
30/8/2025, 3:18:04 AM | 19 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture a human, like you (@dying-robot.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

they may not tell RFK at all, too big a risk he tries to eat part of the body

30/8/2025, 12:45:20 AM | 172 29 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oh my god I’m so jealous

30/8/2025, 3:14:18 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent

The bf has gotten very used to my interrupting an entire phone conversation to point out the presence of a frog he cannot see, it’s less erotic trapper keeper and more “sometimes an 11 year old science nerd”

30/8/2025, 3:13:56 AM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kristyn J (@sciencekristyn.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

If you find this story and want to support my students as they may or may not get otters ruined for them this year, feel free to check out my Amazon wishlist 💙 I share with my department and can only do cool things, like Petri dish embroidery, because of y’all! www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

An H. pylori bacterium stitched on a 4 inch embroidery hoop. A senior in high school made this for the Petri dish embroidery project we do in infectious diseases and global health. The bacterium is in different shades of blue, and the flagella are purple. There are three different embroidery stitches that he used, per project requirements, and the student continued to embroider after the project.
30/8/2025, 3:05:13 AM | 14 6 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent

But!!! Erin have you considered that they live in zoos and therefore are, in my mind, ~fancy~ animals (yes I know they have like common raccoons in other zoos)

30/8/2025, 3:06:28 AM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I guess i would tell them to follow me on bluesky

30/8/2025, 3:00:37 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh they muted this thread ages ago god knows I’m close to with all the duck rape descriptions and whatnot, this is not the hellthread I will not return to the hellthread

30/8/2025, 2:58:42 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Right?!? Doesn’t that feel like way too many kangaroos? And yet! It is true!! Down to 40 million right now but still!! I would have guessed like 4 million!!!!

30/8/2025, 2:57:37 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The way I know the wave of Newsom stans from the other week was fake is because this skeet has been up for an hour and not a single person had come into my mentions to accuse me of being a Trump voter

30/8/2025, 2:55:37 AM | 45 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social)

Very few animal facts surprise me and when they do they stick forever which is why “there are 50,000,000 kangaroos in Australia” made its way onto my dating profile, because I believe men should know that dating me is like dating one of those animal fact binders they advertised on Nickelodeon.

30/8/2025, 2:52:57 AM | 138 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent

Here’s the thing everyone knows this about ducks and dolphins, it’s like how cats have barbed penises. These are part of the known lore. But otters? That’s deep magic. That requires summoning one Who Carries The Knowledge.

30/8/2025, 2:49:29 AM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent

I need everyone to stop telling me about what other animals rape, I am on the spectrum and have been on the internet since 1992 I have read every listicle made about animals.

30/8/2025, 2:46:56 AM | 16 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And once you Know The Truth, you read the conversation fully aware that the otter ruined does not want to do it, does not want to pass on the cursèd knowledge, and yet one must. Knowing the Truth About Otters is like watching the Ring video except it lasts for the rest of your life

30/8/2025, 2:39:19 AM | 26 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent

Wow how does it feel to be defeated in the marketplace of ideas.

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Profile picture Claire Willett (@clairewillett.bsky.social) reposted

kind of fun to imagine the rest of the world flying their flags at 1.5 mast in reverse mourning though

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Profile picture Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent

This is how every otter ruining conversation goes, it’s really amazing.

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Profile picture Kashana (@kashana.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

(From 2024)

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Profile picture Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social) reposted

listen, if you have any information about…ya know…i’m marisakabas.04 on signal 🫠

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