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Not Quite Old @notquiteold.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

A quick study in advance of this week's class. I'm giving the class a palette with just the 3 primary colors - red, blue and yellow - and they'll have to mix all the other colors themselves. So I did this pitbull with just the colors they will use.

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Espy @esp1371.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

An amazing sled dog has earned her silver harness. I know your run to the rainbow bridge was filled with love and peace and I hope the pack sings you home with joy. ❤️💔❤️ Run onward always, Rey. 💕

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mac_b52 @mac-b5.stickimporters.com · 11/10/2026

You want canonically appropriate ALT text? You get canonically appropriate ALT text. You're right. This is a lot better without the humor. But wait! Oh no! Seems I don't have to do this just because you said so! I'm so sorry! How about I continue writing the text I want and you go on and block me?

A close-up portrait of a fluffy, medium-sized dog photographed from the side, with the head turned to the left of the frame and tilted slightly upward. The dog looks up and away from the camera with a calm, attentive, serious expression. The picture is taken in low, warm evening light. The light comes from the right and from the front, so the fur on the face, chest and ears glows in shades of copper, orange and rose. The background is a blurred meadow. Tall, dry grass fills the upper two thirds of the background in pale gold and peach tones. Fresh green grass fills the lower left corner. A dark, blurred line of trees runs along the very top edge. The dog's face is long and narrow, with a pointed snout. The nose is black, glossy and slightly damp, and it sits at the far left of the picture. The muzzle is dark charcoal on top. Along the sides of the muzzle and under the chin the fur turns light gray to white. The mouth is closed, and a thin dark line shows where the lips meet. The eye on the visible side is round and deep chestnut brown, almost red-brown in this light, with a small bright reflection in it. Pale gray and cream hairs ring the eye like light eyebrows. Two pointed, upright ears stand on top of the head. The outer parts are dark brown to black. The inner edges are rimmed with long, light hairs that glow orange-pink where the sun hits them. The ear on the right of the picture is taller and closer to the camera. The ear on the left is smaller and further back. The coat is thick, long and slightly wavy. On the head and cheeks the hairs are a mix of dark brown, black and rust. The ruff around the neck and chest is lighter, with cream, beige and pale apricot hairs that curl loosely and look soft and fluffy. Toward the right of the picture and down the back, the fur is much darker, charcoal gray and black, with rust-colored tips wherever the light catches the hairs. The dog sits upright. Only the head, neck, chest and shoulder are visible.

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Certified Illinois Expert @mrillinois.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I have been inside 129 Illinois public libraries and don’t think I’ve ever seen anything like this in Sterling: three-story stacks with glass floors to let in more light, original to the 1904 Carnegie building.

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Liz Sepper @lsepper.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Sports is politics. Life is politics. The police just escorted the joy out of this game. I feel really bad for the players

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Laurie @minnesotagirl.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

We're watching the Banana Bowl. Charlie says the dude in the yellow suit and yellow bowler hat is DANGER DANGER DANGER! I had to block her view with a pillow.

Green cheek conure watching me with one eye and watching Banana Ball on TV with the other.

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The Golden Ratio @thegoldenratio4.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Daily snaps 10/9/26 youtu.be/GMeAkQaESmo (Also, friends, YouTube is struggling to process some videos lately. We are trying to figure it out, but if there is a day of missing snaps, it's not because we are ignoring you! It is ⚡️ technical difficulties⚡️)

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scarylawyerguy.bsky.social @scarylawyerguy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Trump Admin hires private equity guy at DOD. Months later, guy's former employer gets a $281 million *no bid* contract to consult for him. Pro Publica is running circles around every other news outlet when it comes to chronicling the obscene level of corruption going on right now

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10/10/2026

It’s wild Johnson thinks traveling the country & campaigning frees him of responsibility for the ass-whooping Republicans are about to get in November. Mike, we haven’t forgotten about the Big Beautiful Bill that gave billionaires a tax cut and is causing millions of Americans to lose healthcare.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

🔥 “What did HIS health care book say? Did you read it? He doesn’t have one. I actually write my ideas down… he takes money from Blue Cross Blue Shield.” Dr. @abdulelsayed.bsky.social eviscerates Mike Rogers on health care, and expertly makes the case for #MedicareForAllNOW

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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

One or more human beings are responsible for the code they wrote, and those are the people who should be held accountable. These programs are not acting “on their own”

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Pete Geller @petegeller.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I think we need a GFM, Kat! These dresses 👇 are up for auction!!! 😁

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The Shining Twins

ALT: The Shining Twins

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Chronicles of Nothing 🍁🎃👻 @nonchron.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Do introverts like AI chatbots? I mostly hate talking to people. Most people don’t understand me. Why would I want to talk to some software that understands me even less‽

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $8 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of American households is worth just $4.27 trillion. Read that back. When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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Laurie @minnesotagirl.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

You mean the battle flag that we took and continue to refuse to give back even though they keep asking? Suck it Confederates. 😂

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KDR&Bear @kdrandbear.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I’m 72 and I’m here to tell you that the Progressive Democrats are what the Democrats were before the corporate money started flowing into their campaigns! 🤦🏻‍♂️

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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I love that the bartender did that, but hate that women even have to worry about that fucked-up scenario.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

They’re live-streaming the execution of the person they think they can get away with doing that to first. It’s a test. If they can do that, they’ll expand the margins of permission.

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Espy @esp1371.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

What to make of that? The Russians and Chinese are reading our mail and likely very deep in our government. So, you know, no big deal.

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Jen @jeneye127.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I AM VERY NERVOUS ABOUT THE BASEBALL TODAY. Brewers, let’s do better than yesterday, please!!

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Kathy Zurcher @kazurcher.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

@jeneye127.bsky.social Thanks to you I participated in Going Crackers today! Four hours solid of work, but delicious results. 💜

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Not Quite Old @notquiteold.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Line & Wash class tonight. An ink drawing overlaid with a watercolor wash. Such beautiful paintings!

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LadyCat311🇺🇲 @coffeecat311.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

IA TUREK for IOWA! I'm Josh Turek. I’m a Democratic state legislator who won a deep red seat, four-time Paralympian, and two-time gold medalist in wheelchair basketball I’m officially the Democratic nominee for Iowa’s open U.S. Senate seat. 😝No to Ashley Hinson! turek4iowa.com/platform/

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Pushing for Change | Josh Turek's Platform

Josh Turek is running for U.S. Senate to give Iowans the representation they deserve. Learn more about his campaign here!

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

He was totally impressive. You can tell when someone loves their state: he was ready with statistics and proposals to improve things both immediately and long-term. Whip smart and nice as well. And seemingly unbothered by the bonkers attacks on him.

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Turek @joshturek4iowa.bsky.social is the real deal. Iowans, make sure your friends vote!

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Not Quite Old @notquiteold.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Mom said (not in her inside voice) “What is WRONG with you?” Well, Nothing. I’m perfect. But perhaps I didn’t have a great trainer. Perhaps I wasn’t raised right. Perhaps my mom is a terrible disciplinarian.

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CorrinaLeeB 🇨🇦 @corrina.sheshed.rocks · 03/10/2026

Meet Josh Turek — Iowa’s Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate.🇺🇸 An Iowa State Representative and two-time Paralympic gold medalist, Turek is campaigning on lowering costs, affordable health care and supporting Iowa farmers and small businesses. #JoshTurek #Iowa #SheShed #VivaHerAlliance

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Not Quite Old @notquiteold.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#3rdplace. This week's them for #blueskyartshow - your place that is not your home or work. For me, a quiet beach. #watercolor

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Because my Chicago White Sox are playing the Cleveland Guardians in the playoffs, I was subjected to a dishonest anti-trans TV ad that Republicans are running in Ohio to distract from their vandalism of the economy. There are no limits to what Republicans will do for money and power.

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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 03/10/2026

For more than 160 uninterrupted years, federal law has prohibited troops wherever an election is held. The Insurrection Act’s grant of authority to the president does not supersede Section 592’s prohibition on armed people at the polls, writes @lorenvoss.bsky.social and @nkorpett.bsky.social.

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The Insurrection Act Is No Exception to the Troops-at-Polls Ban

Congress restricted military deployments to election sites, even when a broader deployment authority might otherwise apply.

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Dr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"The Earth is not dying, it is being killed, and those who are killing it have names and addresses" - Utah Phillips

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

THIS is why an independent prosecutor is essential in the Cornell case. How could the Tompkins County DA's Office refuse to consider additional evidence before deciding not to pursue criminal charges?? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/n...

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D.A. in Cornell Rape Inquiry Declined to Review Additional Evidence

Records show that campus police officers informed Tompkins County prosecutors that they had conducted additional interviews beyond taking a statement from the woman who said she was raped.

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Jen Coleslaw @jencoleslaw.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ok I am home from the work thing. There was cheese.

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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Huge crowd to see James Talarico in deep-red Lubbock, Texas. This county hasn’t voted for a Democrat in 50 years.

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Jordan Wood @jordanwood.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A donor told the man running Susan Collins' super PAC he'd illegally route his money through a shell company. The reply: "Very smart." The donor is in federal prison. The man who wrote that runs her super PAC today.

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Jen Coleslaw @jencoleslaw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There are a few things I am solidly Gen-X about, though, like follow up note to say you are still interested in the job after the interview and giving me any info that you forgot to tell me, or I forgot to ask, and being on time to an interview, not being high. But everything else is whatever.

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Jen Coleslaw @jencoleslaw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you show up with your iced coffee in a disposable cup and straw you're not getting the job. But if whatever it is you are drinking--water, juice, gatorade, iced coffee--is in a reusable cup or bottle covered in stickers from the last 10 years? You might be getting that job.

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Jen Coleslaw @jencoleslaw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Kai, I suspect we're about the same age, and for the last 20+ years I've been hiring and firing people in the (environmental) non profit world. If you show up with a Deer Park water to an interview with an organization that works on reducing single use/plastic pollution, you're not getting the job.

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Jen Coleslaw @jencoleslaw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It has begun.

A front yard, in the suburbs, with three distinct (ish) inflatable yard decorations. One is a fox on a stump with a hedgehog holding a mushroom. The middle one is three pumpkins that are shaped like corgi heads, the third is a black cat wearing a witchy hat, on top of a complaining ghost, who is sitting on a jack o lantern that looks super high.

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Jen Coleslaw @jencoleslaw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

ok I'm late with October's rabbit graphic but hopefully, you all are set with your rabbits for tonight/tomorrow!

An AI slop of a graphic of three rabbits wearing jack-o-lanterns, in a creepy wood, howling at a full moon which is also a jack-o-lantern. The text says: Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit, and at the bottom there's a Noah Kahan Lyric from Oribiter: "I'm an astronaut, you're the mooooooooooooon"

So, to recap: we say Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit as the first thing out of our mouths any time after midnight on October 1 for good luck all month. And we are reminded that sometimes our rabbits help someone else, across the globe and we hope someday that their rabbits will help us.

Here's what I do, I wake up almost every single night, around 2 am, and I say my rabbits then. I go back to sleep. Then when I wake up for real around 6:30, I say them again, but a little louder.

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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Gepotidacin demonstrates quick symptom relief for urinary tract infections More than half the women in the small, single-arm trial experienced symptom relief in 24 hours. Read more: bit.ly/4ysJtsu