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Kale A. @ameliasprout.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I roasted a child right back for telling me a filter, which has existed in graphic/video design for DECADES is AI. Do not school this OG user of Photoshop and graphic design software… I have Zip drives decades older than you.

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Kale A. @ameliasprout.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I don’t know about you but I prefer my reps to be smarter than a bunch a dude bro execs.

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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

America only accepts white refugees now. Why? Because the Trump Regime's policy comes almost entirely from false conspiracy theories. In my first guest post at The Big Picture, I walk you through the 4chan-to-Trump pipeline. thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/4chan-trum...

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The Pipeline from Fringe Conspiracy to Trump Policy

Official Trump policy is increasingly driven by once fringe right-wing conspiracy theories. How can we fight back?

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Kale A. @ameliasprout.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I love the small world that has you sharing a story by my local public radio station. And I totally agree on it being a cool way to raise awareness and clear invasives.

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NPR @npr.org · 16/06/2026

A new Pew survey finds many working parents feel they cannot give 100% at either work or home. Benefits like paid sick leave and more affordable childcare could help. n.pr/4vVJ9Rq

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Survey confirms the struggle of working parents: 'No way to be two things at once'

A new Pew survey finds many working parents feel they cannot give 100% at either work or home. Benefits like paid sick leave and more affordable childcare could help.

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Kale A. @ameliasprout.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Being a working parent changed a lot of how I worked. For the better. I found patience where I hadn’t had it before, I learned the value of rest & recovery, and I got more efficient at some things. The patience one had the most impact.

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Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

“The question is no longer what rights the constitution grants each person in America, but what rights minorities could ever have in a country dominated by far right ideologues.” Dismantle MAGA and its corruption, misogyny and racism

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Kale A. @ameliasprout.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

At day job, I do a regular “here’s what’s going on with the windows client OS” for global desktop support teams. It’s built trust, and helped improve our product. To help them pay attention, I make weird PowerPoints. Today I mashed up @thebandcake.bsky.social and Fast & Furious.

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Kale A. @ameliasprout.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Everyone is writing about the AI part, but not the part where he quotes Tolkien. Where is Colbert when you need him?

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Kale A. @ameliasprout.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Aging parents, especially boomer parents, are a trip to crazy town some days.

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Kale A. @ameliasprout.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

That is awesome. Excellent work marketing team. Have fun!

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Kale A. @ameliasprout.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

We are cleaning out my parents house. Mom passed last week and we are trying to get dad into assisted living. Found the grossest thing (other than ancient canned goods). Dried fruit stored in old cat treat containers. 🤮

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Kale A. @ameliasprout.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Losing a parent is hard, based on what I’ve heard from others. Losing a parent who protected the other abusive parent, then lied about details to make them seem like only a victim, not an enabler, which you found out only after their death, is fucked up and hard. How do you react to sympathy?

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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

I'm hoping everyone who was excited Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey used the F-word against ICE can read this piece, because he just vetoed an ordinance that would have paused evictions, after the passed city council. Important reporting by Amie Stager.

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“In the Landlords’ Pockets”: Tenants Furious As Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey Vetoes Eviction Pause - Workday Magazine

Minneapolis residents who have been raising funds for neighbors who have been unable to work due to Operation Metro Surge are urging city leaders to take action to prevent an eviction crisis.

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Kale A. @ameliasprout.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Just why? Because the new one has become part of signs of resisting authoritarian policies. Wtf people.

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Kale A. @ameliasprout.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I am not they/them, but have a fluid kid, and more they/them in my life these days, and I tend to use it more, when even if I used she but I didn’t know for sure that is what they want. And definitely use they/them more with young people on my life because I don’t know their pronouns.

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Kale A. @ameliasprout.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I only trust the local ones here at Target HQ, Minneapolis. And none of them are calling off shit.

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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Which activists,exactly? No one I know. Why on earth would I return to a store that has done nothing to earn back my business?

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Micah @rincewind.run · 11/03/2026

I have never met anyone who is more adept at tracking every last cent they have than people who live or have lived in poverty it is a skill developed out of necessity and it never leaves you

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Tony Almquist @tony-almquist.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

by @hcrichardson.bsky.social “Eisenhower recognized that economically dispossessed people were natural targets for political and religious extremists. They could easily be manipulated to back any cause—that promised to resurrect a world in which they had enjoyed prosperity and cultural significance”

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March 10, 2026

Today, administration officials gave a classified briefing to the Senate Armed Services Committee about the war in Iran.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

The shoe thing is low on the "important global matters" scale, but HIGH on the "I'll take things a deranged Roman emperor would do for $500, Alex" chart.

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Minnesota Reformer @minnesotareformer.com · 11/03/2026

For the first time, the Minnesota Disability Law Center set out to document seclusion rooms, photographing more than 80. The 50 school districts maintain 194 registered seclusion rooms across 100 school buildings across Minnesota, according to the records. minnesotareformer.com/2026/03/11/r...

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Report: 50 Minnesota school districts still using 'seclusion' rooms • Minnesota Reformer

This practice is banned or extremely limited in 21 states.

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Kale A. @ameliasprout.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

I have never seen it, but I think that needs to change. The more shenanigans at work, the more chances I watch weird movies and share my reviews with the causes of shenanigans.

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Kale A. @ameliasprout.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

It just doesn’t seem right. But then again Milli Vanilli has a greatest hits album too, so anything is possible.

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Kale A. @ameliasprout.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

My mother-in-law took in kids for daycare and later worked as a teacher’s aid, and still paid some utilities & food after the kids were out of the house, plus birthday & Christmas. She paid gas because heating was higher in winter when she had a paycheck. And they didn’t have central air for years

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Kale A. @ameliasprout.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Generally, I do pretty good. But some days are just rough. I did go home, make a dinner I love, and play video games.

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Kale A. @ameliasprout.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

It ls apparent from a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie.

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Kale A. @ameliasprout.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Oh yeah, it’s a horrible song, and I never liked him, but it made me laugh. I just have it setup to play whatever and it likely picked it based on my playing a bunch of 80’s/90’s hip hop.

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Kale A. @ameliasprout.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Ok, it got better than this being followed by The Cure & Massive Attack, I got @themountaingoats.bsky.social Foreign Object. Today is whole mood. I do love how music makes life better. Even classical… looking at you Chalemet…

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Kale A. @ameliasprout.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Sit and fume, even autocorrect hates me today.

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Kale A. @ameliasprout.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

I was having a horrible day at work (still am actually) and this comes on my station on Apple Music. It’s very hard to sit and fine while listening to Vanilla Ice sing “Go ninja, go ninja, go..” Also, I named mg headphone Beet Red…

A pop up a vanilla ice album cover (mediocre white rapper from the 80’s/90’s) with sunglasses on his forehead… the song is Ninja Rap. My headphones are named Beet Red.

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Mr. Juice Box @toxicjuicebox.com · 04/03/2026

Good morning! Yes, this is he

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Kale A. @ameliasprout.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Sometime I should lay out the fun that is enforcing French language laws in Canada, laws clearly written by people with no technical skills.

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Kale A. @ameliasprout.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

This administration clearly hates all women. I should be shocked, but I’m not.

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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

War is hell, but there is a special eternal hell reserved for people who would double tap a girls’ school, and it is our job to have scrupulously fair trials and then usher the people responsible for it there

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Kale A. @ameliasprout.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

I work with a number of Persian immigrants in Canada, and they were the only ones who said anything and it was “I guess I’m not traveling home any time soon.”

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Kale A. @ameliasprout.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Thank you for this, I’d been in a musical rut, and this is helping me get through a block with some scripting.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Well I don’t love that

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Kieran Meadows @kieranbluesky.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

In the past, sometimes presidents have said it’s just a military operation or limited airstrikes to skirt Congress. Trump has unilaterally launched major combat operations, declaring war with the goal of regime change. A major violation of the U.S. Constitution, also illegal under international law