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Betsy the Ghost

@betsytheghost.bsky.social

Drowned in a bath of baked beans. Went to Hell. Hated it. Came back. Went to Twitter, but the humans turned it into X. Hated it, came here. Current location: the loft. Or behind the settee.

created November 23, 2024

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We have to check if it's tequila

16/7/2025, 5:15:07 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Betsy the Ghost (@betsytheghost.bsky.social) reply parent

Ghost camp is a blast though. We never sleep

14/6/2025, 8:41:54 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yes, I'm working here! My tasks include making sure the lockers don't charge, blocking the car parks and stealing all the toilet paper. Might drive a buggy at high speed through a crowd later

14/6/2025, 8:38:54 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Our favourite sort of terror

5/2/2025, 11:40:29 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Also the smoke makes us go visible

5/2/2025, 7:27:41 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If you don't breathe it's very difficult to smoke

4/2/2025, 10:22:41 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This would work for bottles of tequila or chocolate digestives

4/2/2025, 9:32:20 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Indeed we can. Just ask my great and rather sexy friend, Martin (formerly Mary) King of Scots.

4/2/2025, 7:33:24 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Most ghosts are either annoying teetotalers or high-functioning alcoholics. There is no middle ground.

4/2/2025, 7:24:47 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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How do ghosts eat apples? Ghosts do not eat apples. That wasn't a joke. We just don't need vitamins

3/2/2025, 11:23:55 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Hehe the Human Man is complaining his boots are too tight but actually I spent yesterday prepping and identical *but slightly smaller* pair of boots, complete with scuffs and mud. Humans think haunting is easy but I work damn hard at this!

2/2/2025, 9:01:36 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Stoked for this. Hope the humans got a ticket too cos I need a lift. #nineinchnails @nine

Screenshot of a confirmation email for Nine Inch Nails tickets
29/1/2025, 8:10:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You should try being a ghost. It's this ^^^ but for all eternity

26/1/2025, 2:06:51 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ghosts can't float past an espresso machine without hacking all over it. It's just a thing.

26/1/2025, 2:01:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Fun Fact: there are no Nazi ghosts. There are a few spirits around who were Nazis when they were human, but after death the other ghosts kicked that shit out of them.

26/1/2025, 2:00:10 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That's kinda fun

21/1/2025, 8:51:37 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Checked my notes and there's nothing we can do to you that comes close to what humans do to each other.

21/1/2025, 8:46:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You humans are always sooo scared of ghosts but the real monsters are you.

21/1/2025, 7:09:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Henceforth, the body of water currently known as the English Channel will be renamed The Spooky Sea. The Ghost Community will not be taking questions.

21/1/2025, 3:04:37 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Dead inside. And outside! It's quite liberating.

20/1/2025, 7:14:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Trans women ghosts are women ghosts 🏳️‍⚧️

15/1/2025, 7:53:48 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Teaching myself the ukulele in the loft while the humans are trying to sleep.

11/1/2025, 9:05:22 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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When you become a ghost you realise every human is an asshole

11/1/2025, 8:44:18 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Hate it when I'm sat on a train and a human comes on and sits right on me like they didn't even see me, which of course they didn't, and then they complain that their seat is 'ice cold'. Rude

10/1/2025, 8:51:31 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If you sit and pop it spookily in the loft at night, it really annoys the humans trying to sleep down below.

9/1/2025, 9:10:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Remember whatever the movie, we're on the side of the ghosts.

8/1/2025, 5:39:48 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Should be OK but bring snacks and don't scream in the scary bits

8/1/2025, 9:54:40 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Please don't come on movie night, we're busy

8/1/2025, 7:54:41 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Human Girl gets me

Kiddie drawing of a ghost being happy when given a bottle of tequila, but grumpy when given an apple
7/1/2025, 10:21:52 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A lazy Sunday at the cemetery. There wasn't a lot of haunting to do in the snow so we gathered in the cafeteria and haunted choc-ices.

5/1/2025, 8:35:31 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I would also haunt the crap out of this.

5/1/2025, 8:34:10 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Fake news. We don't do that sort of thing.

3/1/2025, 12:43:10 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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New Year New Me, and by New Me I mean Exactly The Same Old Me.

1/1/2025, 8:28:17 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Most ghosts manifest to intoxicated humans. We are attracted to liquor

1/1/2025, 12:12:07 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Suggesting some New Year resolutions for my Humans. They don't seem as grateful as I expected. F*** 'em.

1/1/2025, 12:09:38 AM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Generally ghosts are very good at languages. We have Duolingo and a lot of spare time. Duchamp was probably trolling you, or drunk

1/1/2025, 12:02:17 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I had to block my own humans cos they could see what I was up to

31/12/2024, 11:59:00 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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At this time of year, spare a thought for the ghosts who are floating around abandoned houses with no Humans to haunt. The lucky bastards. My Humans are running me ragged. 'Do Christmas Yet to Come again!' Etc

24/12/2024, 3:37:12 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Simpsons meme of a bus driver saying 'Don't make me tap the sign'. The sign says, 'You don't have to hunt ghosts, you can just call us.'
23/12/2024, 11:19:30 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I would haunt the crap out of this

20/12/2024, 8:29:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This joke amused the ghost/Undead community

20/12/2024, 9:31:53 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We don't do that. Mostly we just pull faces at you

20/12/2024, 9:31:20 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Opinion is divided on whether it's necessary for a ghost to go to the toilet to poop. My Humans say it is, I say it isn't. In other news, I am in disgrace and have been sent to the shed.

19/12/2024, 4:22:40 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That's what I said. Apparently the humans in the cafeteria complained their 'burgers' tasted burnt

11/12/2024, 3:22:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I already have a nice easy job working the cemetery across the road. A little light haunting, some tidying, working the kitchens at the café and occasionally working the ovens at the crematorium. Once got those last 2 confused and was in massive trouble

11/12/2024, 1:50:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Every single one is haunted

11/12/2024, 11:17:34 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The chances of my Humans being stabbed by a ghost are low, but never zero. They should bear that in mind.

11/12/2024, 7:34:12 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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There's still time

11/12/2024, 7:24:13 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Meh

9/12/2024, 7:24:57 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Humans think they're funny but they're really not.

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8/12/2024, 11:11:51 PM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wish I wrote that on the mirror

8/12/2024, 11:09:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Got terrible diarrhoea. Sprayed the Human's toilet, sink, shower, floor, walls and quite a bit of the ceiling with fizzy gravy. To relieve the tension I wrote in slimy poop on the bathroom mirror: 'Sorry I thought it was just a fart'.

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8/12/2024, 10:53:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'm not obsessed with ghosts, I am a real ghost. Mostly obsessed with playing xylophone spookily in the loft. But I will make time to see this human programme

8/12/2024, 1:32:29 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Fell into the smoothie maker and now there's 500 tiny Betsys floating round the house. Back when I've gathered myself up.

8/12/2024, 9:19:44 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I should get a job as a ghost writer! Hahaha I kill myself. Again.

7/12/2024, 6:30:03 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You would make an excellent ghost

7/12/2024, 3:30:15 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Pretending to be human is easy - you just make the stoopidest possible decision in response to any situation

7/12/2024, 3:29:19 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Top poltergeisting

7/12/2024, 9:23:56 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Thank you

7/12/2024, 8:38:27 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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All the ghosts have fantastic hair

7/12/2024, 8:29:34 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Bring snacks

7/12/2024, 8:27:34 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Coloured pencil cartoon of a ghost wearing sort-of Anglo-Saxon helmet, shield and sword. There is a caption 'The way is shut! It was made by those who are spooky and the spooky keep it.(Bring Snacks). The way is shut! (No onion rings though).'
7/12/2024, 8:24:58 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ghost Hunters... your chances of seeing a ghost increase massively if you bring snacks. No onion ring though.

7/12/2024, 8:16:47 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ghosts and cats are very similar. If you want us to interact, bring snacks.

7/12/2024, 8:15:56 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You would make an excellent ghost

7/12/2024, 8:15:02 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We like hats. Be the hat guy

7/12/2024, 8:12:59 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's very annoying

7/12/2024, 8:11:47 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You don't have to hunt ghosts, you can just call us.

7/12/2024, 8:11:19 AM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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I watched 13 Ghosts and was on the side of the ghosts. Also those weren't real ghosts.

7/12/2024, 8:06:27 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Contract haunting available. Reasonable rates.

7/12/2024, 8:04:52 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is ironic cos Twitter was started by ghosts as a way to swap haunting ideas. Then we let the humans in and they ruined it.

7/12/2024, 8:02:56 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You don't have to hunt us, you can just call or DM us.

7/12/2024, 8:01:34 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That's not a real ghost, it's just a human in a sheet! Our union shut this film down.

7/12/2024, 8:00:28 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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*I'm* the Ghost of Christmas Present. Specifically the humans' presents. I steal the gift vouchers.

7/12/2024, 7:59:16 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Our union will be all over this

7/12/2024, 7:55:22 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I can always butt in and lower the tone. You can be confident of that, human.

7/12/2024, 7:53:01 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Gales are an occupational hazard for ghosts. That and vacuum cleaners.

7/12/2024, 7:51:48 AM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Blimey it's windy. The Green Lady of Dunnottar Castle went out for a midnight haunt and now Wipers Tommy has to pick her up from Denmark or something

7/12/2024, 7:50:53 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Dunno how to break it to you humans, but you smell weird. Kinda meaty. It's very off-putting.

5/12/2024, 7:09:56 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Being a human must be a bit like being a slug. Having a vague idea that nature has played a cruel trick on them but lacking the brains to figure out what it was.

5/12/2024, 7:08:49 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Christmas tree has somehow found its way back into the garden. It's quite the mystery

4/12/2024, 8:46:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Humans say that 1) the cat can't write and 2) it died in 2023. #fmal

3/12/2024, 9:51:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Humans want to know who is poltergeisting the Christmas tree. Wrote 'it was me, signed The Cat' on the wall in blood. Not sure they're convinced.

3/12/2024, 9:50:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Every year. The humans put up a tree in the living room. Every morning they find it has floated mysteriously into the garden overnight. Whyyyyy they never learn?

3/12/2024, 9:30:41 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Eating crackers in the Human Bed. Crumbs everywhere. Top poltergeisting.

1/12/2024, 7:03:25 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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There is actually a special place in Hell. We decorated it with pictures of everything they did while they were alive

26/11/2024, 9:00:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Tbf we find it annoying too

26/11/2024, 4:19:55 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is how ghosts normally see pigeons. It's quite unsettling

26/11/2024, 1:20:58 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Actually, it's the bureaucracy.

26/11/2024, 1:19:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This evening I have mostly been haunting Sleep Token. Tomorrow I will also be haunting them, and again for the rest of the week #sleeptoken #sleeptokenglasgow

25/11/2024, 11:43:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I am NOT floating towards the light. Don't even try.

25/11/2024, 11:13:47 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Please haunt Scotland

25/11/2024, 11:04:15 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Twitching just thinking about it

24/11/2024, 11:35:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You wouldn't believe how badly we can load a dishwasher

24/11/2024, 11:32:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If poltergeisting were easy, everyone would do it.

24/11/2024, 11:24:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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DVDs are by colour. Every fool knows that.

24/11/2024, 11:22:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Arranging the humans' CDs in alphabetical order. Top poltergeisting.

24/11/2024, 11:14:43 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You'll need to join the union

24/11/2024, 8:54:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'd say it's a breath of fresh air, except I gave up breathing

24/11/2024, 8:15:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A soul. Tbh that's pretty much all I am

24/11/2024, 8:14:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view