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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
i hope this is how you find out about dick cheney
grim reaper claw machine meme
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Meg Mulrooney @megmulrooney.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
I would not be me without libraries. An inspiring and devastating read—with helpful action ideas.
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
What a great resource. Spread the word.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
"all lectures, assignments, feedback, and grades will be made by me without AI, nor will any of your intellectual property be fed to tools that train AI. Ideas are social, so let’s make them together. " against-a-i.com/syllabus-lan...
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Syllabus Language - AGAINST AI
(looking for persuasion rather than edicts? here's one template)
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Nick Kapur @nickkapur.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back! Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary. Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest! #MundaneHalloween
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Louise Simonsen @louistonehill.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
One of those really cool bits of news: women teaching women how to build flood-safe huts out of local materials - and making them pretty works of art, too!!
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The 82-year-old female architect working to flood-proof Pakistan
Yasmeen Lari is making bamboo houses for people living on the front lines of climate change.
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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
We're a rogue state.
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Nick Kapur @nickkapur.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
"Person who can't open one of those plastic bags at the supermarket" x.com/dailyportalz...
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 02/11/2025
In which a straight woman highlights a bunch of known anti trans activists and claims there's a divide in the queer community. It's pure propaganda and gaslighting.
Alt text: Screenshot of a Wall Street Journal article headline titled “The Growing Divide in the Rainbow Coalition.” The subheadline reads, “More gay people are speaking out against the gender ideology of trans and queer activists.” The article is categorized under “U.S.” and written by Pamela Paul, published on October 31, 2025, at 7:00 p.m. ET.
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attyrsc.bsky.social @attyrsc.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
As someone that grew up receiving SNAP at various times and also struggled as a young adult to consistently follow through on the cumbersome process of establishing benefits while working three jobs and attending college, I can attest to our broken system. www.thehandbasket.co/p/snap-benef...
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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 02/11/2025
Status report, "Recipe Experiments (Sudtirolese)" dep't: Another run at *grosti da patac* (deep-fried potato pancakes) from Val Gardena, with better imagery this time. Descriprive post comes later, as something definitive is about to happen to these before they lose their lovely delicate crunch.
Grosti da patac (Sudtirolese fried potato pancakes) with a glass of rose: magnified 1xGrosti da patac (magnified x2)Grosti da patac (magnified x3)
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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 02/11/2025
Very important thread on what’s going on in the U of California system.
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Ryann Shannon @ryannshannon.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
First ep of season 2 of fionna and cake is out today ! Honored to have had the opportunity to continue directing on this season, and work with a bunch of insanely inspiring artists to make something really cool! Hope you tune in and enjoy!
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Friends at the Table @friends-table.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Good morning! An impromptu stream will be beginning at 11am ET as @notquitereal.bsky.social plays the extremely intricate-looking medieval city builder, Farthest Frontier twitch.tv/friendsatthetable
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
If your car dies, you die in real life
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Mr. Hands is making SuccuDeck 😈🃏 @mrhands31.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
This is good news, but also typical for adult gamedev: There is a policy, but you can't know what it is
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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
This is incredible. It's exactly what you think an AI game would be, a kind of Call of BattleMedal FightSoldierSiege IP grey goo that can only seemingly be an on-rails affair where you can only move forward and the only possible interaction is a QTE, and the whole thing is still melting down.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
The New York Times publishes a handy guide to which federal forces are terrorizing us at any moment. This is America, 2025.
“Making Sense of the Federal Forces on the Streets,” with photos of how they’re uniformed and equipped
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Thei wante us talkinge alone on our phones to a demon thei created, and not goinge places and being wyth each othir yn art and joy and communitye. Thei want cinemas to shut downe, and broadwaye to go darke. Thei want wryteres to stop writinge. Thei want to sell us hell and have us pay for it.
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Mallorie Malcontent ✨ @sweetbeanscomix.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
One of the most unattractive traits a person can have is being a chickenshit who can’t say their peace.
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Mallorie Malcontent ✨ @sweetbeanscomix.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
You gotta get over your aversion to conflict. It’s not healthy. Avoiding it is disrespectful to yourself and the people you have a problem with. And it’s part of the whole obey authority mindset that is instilled in us.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 24/10/2025
(1/3) 🥦🥖🧀🍗 Today on #NationalFoodDay, many Americans are worried about their next meal. States are warning that Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits may not be issued in November if the shutdown continues.
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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 24/10/2025
as a note, food banks need money, not canned goods
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kitty @arsenikitty.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
just saw someone ride their motorcycle past me wearing boat shoes... portland do be portlanding
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Posted to her Instagram account on 9/21/2025 Jane Goodall Institute 🇨🇦
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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 02/10/2025
“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.” ― Jane Goodall 💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats. Version of original on left, updated on right:
Thank you for your email. There is a temporary shutdown of the U.S. government due to a lapse in appropriations. I will respond to your message as soon as possible after the temporary shutdown ends. Please visit ED.gov for the latest information on the
Department's operational status.
Thank you.Thank you for contacting me. On September 19, 2025, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 5371, a clean continuing resolution. Unfortunately, Democrat Senators are blocking passage of H.R. 5371 in the Senate which has led to a lapse in appropriations. Due to the lapse in appropriations I am currently in furlough status. I will respond to emails once government functions resume.
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Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...
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Mia @miavee.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
TERFs are trying to bully a beloved London public swimming space into throwing out their longstanding traditions/policies in order to force trans people out of using the space. Please consider voicing your support for inclusivity here hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is/en-GB/propos...
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Public Consultation on Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds | Commonplace
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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
It’s August 1968 and DeForest Kelley is having a right go at the makers of Star Trek in the pages of America’s massive-selling TV Guide.
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Nell 🕊 @merakinell.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
#swordtember 26, harpy 🪶
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Every time the subject of Jimmy Fallon’s spinelessness comes up, I think of this passage from Tina Fey’s Bossypants
66 Amy Poehler was new to SNL and we were all crowded into the seventeenth-floor writers' room, waiting for the Wednesday night read-through to start.
[...] Amy was in the middle of some such nonsense with Seth Meyers across the table, and she did something vulgar as a joke. I can't remember what it was exactly, except it was dirty and loud and
"unladylike"
Jimmy Fallon [...] turned to her and in a faux-squeamish voice said, "Stop that!
It's not cute! I don't like it." Amy dropped what she was doing, went black in the eyes for a second, and wheeled around on him. "I don't fucking care if you like it." Jimmy was visibly startled. Amy went right back to enjoying her ridiculous bit.
With that exchange, a cosmic shift took place. Amy made it clear that she wasn't there to be cute. She wasn't there to play wives and girlfriends in the boys' scenes.
She was there to do what she wanted to do and she did not fucking care if you like it.

Tina Fey, Bossypants
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martyfive @martyfive.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
day 22: swan #swordtember
drawing of a completely white sword with a white swan stuck in a motion of almost spreading its wings while wrapping its neck around the blade above the sword guard. there’s a gem placed on the back of the swan, it’s as red as the swan’s beak.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
1 October 1912 | A Polish woman, Janina Kałanczyńska, was born in Łomża. In #Auschwitz from 13 November 1942. No. 24451 She was evacuated to KL Ravensbrück and liberated there. --- Women at Auschwitz Lesson: lekcja.auschwitz.org/2022_kobiety_en Podcast: youtu.be/ijTxtbNlJO8
A mugshot registration photograph from Auschwitz. A woman wearing a striped uniform photographed in three positions (profile and front with a bare head and a photo with a slightly turned head with a headscarf on). The prisoner number is visible on a marking board on the left.
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AltStateGov @altstategov.altgov.info · 01/10/2025
maga themselves defunding law enforcement
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Gastronauts @gastronauts.dropout.tv · 01/10/2025
A truly vibes-based challenge... @pftompkins.bsky.social
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 01/10/2025
what about deradicalizing israelis, the majority of whom see palestinians as subhuman? who insist there are no innocents in gaza? who block aid convoys? who attack palestinian villages? who learn in their schools that palestinians are a fictional people while looking at maps with no green line?
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André Lima Araújo @andrelimaaraujo.com · 01/10/2025
Reminder: these are real screen tones. That means applying the darker tone, from which they had to painstakingly cut every pill, then apply the lighter tone on one pill at a time (most of them with slightly different shapes), and finally gently scratching them individually to get the glow effect.
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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
These people are identity thieves, plain and simple. They’re literally objectifying women.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
feels like we're living through some kind of cultural gas leak
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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 01/10/2025
we should stop letting the police departments in supposedly progressive cities use poor communities as policy labs for dangerous technology designed to incarcerate as many of those people as possible
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Giant Robot FM @giantrobotfm.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Sept. 30 Oct. 1
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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Incidentally, earlier this year Microsoft announced it was investing $80 billion in AI. EIGHTY BILLION DOLLARS. They gobbled up half the games industry in a disastrous acquisition spree that never should've been allowed to happen, then saw something shinier and immediately fumbled the gaming bag.
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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Check the drink special at tonight’s Wits with @pftompkins.bsky.social.
Emu Attack as signature cocktail
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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 01/10/2025
Fugitive Slave Law hours
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Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Shutdown update: there are currently two Continuing Resolutions under discussion: 1) The GOP version represents the current status quo 2) The Democratic version represents the pre "Big Ugly Bill" status quo 3) Neither of them contains provisions around trans healthcare
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Kickstarter United @kickstarterunited.org · 29/09/2025
Kickstarter United has voted to STRIKE! We are fighting for a 32 hour work week, livable wage for all workers, and protections against AI. Our Seattle members are organizing a rally alongside OPEIU 8. Join us on Thursday in Cal Anderson Park! forms.gle/udwphKvnZDVG...
Kickstarter United Seattle Strike Rally
Our union has voted to STRIKE! We are fighting for a 32 hour work, livable wage for all workers, and protections against AI. Join us! Thursday, 10/2 @ 6
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AAAAHH-lex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 30/09/2025
finally, a playground that understands colour theory
a playground a hill covered in that green rubber mat ground stuff, and two rainbow slides. at the bottom of the slides, they used red rubber instead of green and it is shaped like giant splats. if you don’t already know it please look up the tumblr hospital colour theory post.
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Ethan Stark-Miller @estarkmiller.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
EXCLU: @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social will announce today he is cancelling a televised town hall with WABC News planned for Sept. 25 in the wake of the network suspending comedian Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show last week. www.amny.com/news/mamdani...
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EXCLUSIVE | Mamdani to pull planned ABC town hall event after network suspended Jimmy Kimmel’s show | amNewYork
Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani will announce Monday that he is cancelling a televised town hall with WABC News planned for Sept. 25 in the wake of
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