2026-08-22 10:05 UTC
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@ireneista@adhd.irenes.space 2026-08-22 10:12
@billgoats@bitbang.social oh wow, indeed
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@joelnb@tootr.co 2026-08-22 10:24
@billgoats@bitbang.social 'I just think every time I've ever been on the ferry, I thought, I kind of want to jump in and swim across. And I've had a lot of people tell me that's not possible. So I think a lot of it was spite. ' Amazing.
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@antifuchs@weirder.earth 2026-08-22 11:29
@billgoats@bitbang.social every single sentence in this is amazing but I think my fave is “I just kept counting my strokes over and over until I reached peak insanity.” cc @ingrid@everything.happens.horse #perfectsentences
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@Jorsh@beige.party 2026-08-22 13:41
@billgoats@bitbang.social I love her.
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@Ralph@hear-me.social 2026-08-22 13:57
@billgoats@bitbang.social Melanie Buggey is now my hero. In a [social media] post you did mention there was a lot of vomiting as well while you were doing this. How did you keep going? I just swam through the stream. Otherwise, if I didn't keep swimming, I was going to be sitting in my own vomit.
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@kaybee@mastodon.online 2026-08-22 15:08
@billgoats@bitbang.social eating ice cream is its own reward...otherwise perfection
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@cynblogger@sfba.social 2026-08-22 15:29
@billgoats@bitbang.social Hilarious swimmerwoman! Thanks for posting!
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@svavar@masto.svavar.com 2026-08-22 16:10
@billgoats@bitbang.social This one really got me “And then there was a bunch of people, so that was wonderfully overstimulating, so I had to put on a smile — "Yay, I'm suffering on the inside! Too many people!" Had to pretend I was an extrovert.”
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@scripty@mas.to 2026-08-22 16:13
@billgoats@bitbang.social What a savage! 😂
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@colinburgess@mastodon.nz 2026-08-22 16:40
@billgoats@bitbang.social this woman is a national hero! She should have statues erected where she entered and exited, and memorial buoys where she vomited.
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@murodegrizeco@toad.social 2026-08-22 16:48
@billgoats@bitbang.social That is really funny.
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@asjo@illuminant.asjo.org 2026-08-22 18:57
What a legend. And not just for the swimming.
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@Yendolosch@23.social 2026-08-23 07:54
@billgoats@bitbang.social When I read > Q: Melanie, you don't feel great now, you didn't feel great when you finished, and you were feeling dread at the beginning and worried about hypothermia. Why did you do this? > > A: I guess I thrive on self-loathing ... I remembered the three kinds of fun that @BuschnicK@mastodon.gamedev.place taught me about.
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@shivers@mastodon.ie 2026-08-25 07:31
@billgoats@bitbang.social Found another article about Melanie Buggey and her swim with more delightful quotes/insights: https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/the-impossible-feat-nanaimo-woman-swims-across-strait-of-georgia-in-record-time-12688937