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Abby Follmer

@abbyrf.bsky.social
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Indoor cat enthusiast. Bird watcher. Used Book gremlin for a living. Histamine problems. Still masking. Fuck AI and ICE. (She/her)

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
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oh my god the slot machine company says i have to keep putting coins in their machine or Im Gonna Get Left Behind. thats so scary. and it has to be true because they know more about slot machines than i do

oh my god the slot machine company says if we dont give them money to build the world's biggest slot machine the chinese are gonna build it first and win all the prizes. and then there wont be any prizes anymore
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Abby Follmer @abbyrf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Was feeling overwhelmed by existence, so made some gluten/dairy free pies about it
On the left a cherry pie cooling, on the right, two pumpkin pies cooling
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
of COURSE newsom is pro pervert glasses lol like please be less predictable sir
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026
BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome
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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
huh that's weird
A few weeks ago, a purported student at Alpha School - the teacherless AI-powered private academy led by software developer Joe Liemandt - posted to X, "Today [at Alpha School] they hooked me up to a heart rate monitor, put my live pulse on a big screen, and played a pre-recorded video of my parents giving critical feedback in front of the entire class. The challenge was simple: my resting heart rate was 80 bpm, and I had to stay within 10% of that the whole time. Anything above 88 was a fail."Psychological study
In his second year at Harvard, Kaczynski participated in a study led by Harvard psychologist Henry Murray. Subjects were told they would debate personal philosophy with a fellow student and were asked to write essays detailing their personal beliefs and aspirations.
The essays were given to an anonymous individual who would confront and belittle the subject in what Murray himself called
"vehement, sweeping, and personally abusive" attacks, using the content of the essays as ammunition.(25] Kaczynski spent 200 hours as part of the study.!261[27]
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I've been reading bell hooks, and she talks about children being the most oppressed class in society. To this end, the United States has not ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child-- I wrote about this years ago www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-p...
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Why won’t the U.S. ratify the U.N.’s child rights treaty?
The non-ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child is hypocritical.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
so not only did greene county sheriff’s deputies assist ICE in stealing dozens of our neighbors, they flagrantly violated the constitution by racially profiling drivers AND tried to cover that up by violating state law requiring them to accurately report their traffic stop data to the state?
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026
NEW: Food banks across America are being overwhelmed by surging demand. Scott MacFarlane went inside to see the crisis firsthand. Here’s what he found:
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“They don’t understand the scale of the hunger!”- An unfolding crisis at the nation’s food banks
Weeks before the midterm elections, the cost crisis is hammering food pantries in red and blue states
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If you care about keeping the Academy of Natural Sciences open to the public in Philadelphia, I need you to read and share this thread. Trish Wellenbach was sent from the mayor's office to oversee the Academy of Natural sciences situation. She needs to hear from us. Here comes the action item:
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hey chat has the shortage of bread and/or potatoes ever led to a massive social upheaval, asking for a friend
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
ATTENTION BLUESKY! Annie says they are really hoping to boost the number of artists (crew, performers, creative teams, anyone) outside New York who are filling this out to get a broader sampling. If you are in the arts please take a second and fill this out!
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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
and he’d do it again
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my Name is

Harpo! Please

don't put your hands

IN my Cage! I might *rest of sign eaten*

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environmental storytelling.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We can’t allow this man to get within striking distance of a viable presidential candidacy.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
So many people got yelled at for months on here when they correctly pointed out that Gavin Newsom was a rat.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
saw this on Instagram and it so perfectly encapsulated my rage
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being so fr when I say that transmisogyny has put feminism back like 50 years

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what i thought we had distanced ourselves from was the reduction of women to vaginas and wombs and the ability to bear children. i thought we had progressed past 'dresses are for women and pants are for men. i thought we progressed past the idea that someone is less of a woman if she does not adhere strictly to beauty standards. i thought we progressed past the idea that naturally being comfortable adhering to highly feminine standards is vulgar. but i (sarcastically) guess no one could have predicted that trans-exclusive feminism would be the downfall of all the progress we've made
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 21/09/2026
“Everything is 40% more expensive because of AI” is a great line for an opposition party trying to unseat the AI-supported incumbents, if any Democratic consultants wanted to take a short break from dehumanizing trans kids to actually try winning a contested election.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 21/09/2026
Well now the problems I had looking up specific people last week makes sense. And yes that is deeply messed up. If someone is in ICE custody, they should be findable, full stop. It's already bad enough that people disappear from the system while they're being transported somewhere else.
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✪ Beware the Gray Ghost ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026
These are never suicides and the fact that they are quick to say so before anything else is telling. Black people don’t hang ourselves from trees, y’all.
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Katie Hodges-Kluck, PhD @klhkhistorian.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
**Lights Out Alert Sunday & Monday Nights** Birdcast is estimating 300-400 million birds will be in flight.
From meteorologist Eric Snitil

**Lights Out Alert Sunday & Monday Nights**

"Heads up birders, I would not be surprised if the biggest bird migration night of the year happens over the next 2 nights. Birdcast is estimating 300-400 million birds will be in flight. That is a lot, but the pattern could not be better for migratory birds. A massive area of high pressure will turn the low level winds from the northeast to the southwest across most of the US. The last time we had anything similar to this in the fall was early October last year when a record 1.25 billion birds were in flight. I doubt we get to that level, but I suspect the number will top 500 million especially Monday night which looks to be the bigger of the two nights. You can help by turning off those outdoor lights on big migration nights, and the next 2 nights is about as big as it gets."
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 21/09/2026
you think it's a coincidence that the most evil and corrupt people alive want you to believe that trans people are the real problem?
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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The thing is, cis people who like to yell at us on social media when we say things like "wow that candidate said some transphobic shit" is that we know it seems like it will be easier to make us shut up than to change your candidate's mind. But you really need to stop and think for a minute.
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lawngnomesorceress @lawngnomesorceress.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
this is a fucking bellwether. i cannot emphasize enough just how how deeply entwined the crafting and fiber arts communities were with hp fandom, and if over 50% of the reddit crafting forum has voted it out? it's fucking over, that shit is officially running on fumes now.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The man ICE shot in Austin today is named Wilber Rafael Garces Perez. Per his lawyer, she and Perez’s family were run off of hospital property where he’s being treated and won’t even confirm he’s there because he’s “in ICE custody.” Actual criminals.
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Federal immigration agent shoots and injures man in Austin, Texas
The person shot is in serious but stable condition, Austin Mayor Kirk Watson said in a press conference.
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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A few weekends ago I went to Miami and attended 9 open houses in extremely high-risk flood areas to see what agents are telling prospective buyers about them. Here is my journey
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The open houses at the edge of disaster
What are buyers being told about climate risk in Miami? I posed as one to find out.
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Tamreen @scriptor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
we really can't be living in a Mediterranean siesta climate while they expect us to have Little Ice Age Protestant work ethic
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Mitch McConnell disappeared for three months & kept his full salary. Disabled people are forced to prove they’re “still disabled” just to remain in legislated poverty. Folks on SNAP must re-apply and prove they’re “still poor”. Republican Senators don’t even have to prove they’re alive.
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Shelby Magid @shelbyjmag.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is a smart change. I was just in a gas station outside Kyiv and got ushered out after the employees turned the lights off and urged everyone to move quickly. All while apologizing for rushing us.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
FINANCIAL WOES CAUSED BY THE PRESIDENT HIMSELF!!!
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
‘ed sheeran nuked from orbit by ms rachel,’ i mutter to myself, descending deeper into impenetrable madness
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I have a cousin who was constantly putting me on game with ways that I could get out of my J-O-B and not do all that “smart shit cuz.” I finally explained to them that I LIKE all the smart shit, did in fact choose to do it for a living, and I am very good at it. They never really believed me.
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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is just a spectacular unintentional self-own
Dude on Threads: If you hate on ai, you better be pretty damn good at whatever you're doing
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Abby Follmer @abbyrf.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Flu and COVID shots: acquired! The ladies at CVS didn't even ask if I had qualifying health issues for the COVID one
Selfie of me with my sleeve pushed up so that you can see the baindaid on my arm
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/09/2026
we tracked months of rent payments to an estimated 13,000 families. the expected cost of rehousing those families, had they entered eviction, would be north of $218 million dollars. keeping them housed cost around $38-40 million
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 10/09/2026
Fuck James Talarico. Fuck these wishy washy Dems who think throwing my community under the bus gets them votes. Fuck a "big tent" party that includes these assholes. Fuck every single neolib saying I need to grin and bear it and get in line, my rights will come later. fuck you fuck you fuck you.
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âpihtawikosisân @apihtawikosisan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Maybe I picked a bad time to quit my job and strike out on my own - I have no health insurance, and no sick days. Luckily I was able to push back my obligations and not lose my project funding, but I have no income right now. If any sugar settlers want to chip in: www.paypal.com/paypalme/api...
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Pay Chelsea Vowel using PayPal.Me
Go to paypal.me/apihtawikosisan and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.
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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Screencap of Iron Man where Obadiah Stane yells "Tony Stark was able to do this in a CAVE! With a box of SCRAPS!" implying my anger that JIM HENSON WAS ABLE TO DO THIS IN A STUDIO! WITH A BOX OF FELT!
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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 06/09/2026
I’m going to need everyone who’s reporting on AI psychosis and how it’s making people, especially men, come up with theories of everything to please talk with the scientists who have been getting multiple emails from “theory of everything” guys for decades
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
god this is a knife through the heart to read the brutality of ICE is obvious, but i'm also speechless about the students heartless enough to bully someone for being targeted by a genocidal state
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I feel like I’m going to throw up
Screen shot of an Instagram post that says the academy of natural sciences is closing its museum after nearly two centuries
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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The five month count is up for the new kakapo chicks so officially the population count has gone up from 235 to 325!! 90 new birds!! :D :D :D :D
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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I can't believe I had to sign an open letter about this, but Mark Ruffalo IS NOT antisemitic. Nor is speaking out against a genocidal country. Nor is protesting corporate greed. variety.com/2026/film/ne...
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Mark Ruffalo Defended by Hannah Einbinder, Joel Coen and More Than 170 Jewish Figures After Paramount Accuses Him of Using ‘Antisemitic Tropes’ — Read the Open Letter (EXCLUSIVE)
Joel Coen and Todd Haynes are among more than 170 Jewish figures who have signed a letter in support of Mark Ruffalo amid antisemitism claims.
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Holy shiiiiiiit if you know anyone in North Carolina who may even know anyone who knows anyone who's been to an event by these people, get them to go get the rabies post-exposure prophylaxis shots RIGHT THE FUCK NOW, DO NOT WAIT, YOU CANNOT TREAT IT AFTER SYMPTOMS START
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Punished Cat Guy (extra punished Cenobite version) @majima.club · 29/08/2026
Next week’s op-ed title:
Immortan Joe, an obese, aged man with long yellowing gray hair and sunken eyes wearing a breathing mask with a skeletal grin as he drives a car as if possessed. Captioned quote reads: “do not, my friends, become addicted to water. It will take hold of you and you will resent its absence” Immortan Joe
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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Jennifer Nelson’s entry to this year’s Minnesota State Fair crop art
A localized version of Guernica with a loon at the center and a person holding an ICE OUT sign 

“My piece was inspired by Picasso's Guernica, a work that was his response to the Nazi's bombing of the Basque town. I thought there was a fitting parallel between these incidents about the high price paid by ordinary people when aggressive regimes try out new tactics of war, as well as a fitting juxtaposition of the darkness of living such an experience and the light we shone through it in our own resistance and care for one another. The patterns near Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s mouths are actually their last words in Morse code: ‘I’m not mad at you,’ and ‘Are you okay?’” 

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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 27/08/2026
did bluesky hear about Miss Teen Indiana’s Garfield costume
A young woman in a Garfield inspired outfit with a Garfield headdressThe young woman from the first photo is holding a lasagna that says “lasagna my love language”missinteenusa Tonight, Indiana is going Garfield!
My state costume celebrates one of Indiana's most iconic creations-Garfield, created by fellow Hoosier Jim Davis.
Born in Marion and raised in Fairmount, Davis turned an orange cat with a big personality into a character recognized and loved around the world.
But this costume represents more than a famous Hoosier.
The hand-painted comic panels on my skirt share messages inspired by my initiative, Captivating Confidence:
"Our differences are what make us beautiful."
"If we don't have love, we have nothing."
"Outer beauty attracts, but inner beauty captivates."
To me, true confidence is found in embracing what makes each of us different and recognizing that our greatest beauty comes from within. I am so excited to bring a little Hoosier humor, creativity and confidence to the Miss Teen USA stage tonight!
This one-of-a-kind costume was inspired by my vision and brought to life by Indianapolis-based costume designer, Jess West. @jesswestcostumes
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Daniel Bachman @danielbachman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The flood videos of Nepal are mind blowing. This kind of flash flood from glacial melt has been a worst case scenario event climate scientists/advocates have been talking about for a long time. We are already living in the worst case scenario effects of climate breakdown & it’s only getting hotter.
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Daniel Bachman @danielbachman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Poem composed by Kanchen Thrangu Rinpoche about glacial loss in the Himalayas due to climate breakdown. The “black hats” are the snowless peaks of the mountains. FROM: WHEN SNOW MOUNTAINS WEAR BLACK HATS - Many Roads
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FROM: WHEN SNOW MOUNTAINS WEAR BLACK HATS - Many Roads
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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours.
Miss Piggy and Dolly Parton in fancy dresses posing together photo of Tim Curry surrounded by muppets, smiling for a photo. A quote from curry is added “it didn’t go very well. It didn’t survive the shoot. She felt I wasn’t being faithful to her” it’s him discussing his ill fated affair with miss piggy
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Tim Curry was not the 80-year-old Home Alone 2 cast member we were asking for.
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 25/08/2026
if you're in line to donate money to the Imagination Library, please stay in line
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