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AuldDragon

@aulddragon.bsky.social
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YouTube Content Creator, fan of AD&D, history, mythology, and Lego. Connoisseur of ham. YouTube: youtube.com/aulddragon AD&D Blog: blog.aulddragon.com

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Tahni Marie @queenofgoldfish.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Ocarina time is motivating me to try and draw every night before bed! thank you for enjoying the sketches! .. But a very simplified Zelda for today! When I'm not so tired mi gonna try to figure out how to do all the little floral details on her dress.
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NPR @npr.org · 1h
Switzerland's glaciers are disappearing at a record pace. More than 5% of their ice has vanished this year alone — threatening water supplies, ecosystems and communities across Europe. n.pr/4z7IApd
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Swiss glaciers suffer another year of record ice loss
Switzerland's glaciers are disappearing at a record pace. More than 5% of their ice has vanished this year alone — threatening water supplies, ecosystems and communities across Europe.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1h
Pennsylvania reports 5th measles-associated death as outbreak continues. Cases in the state, home to the country’s largest ongoing measles outbreak, have climbed to 943 across 39 counties. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...
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Pennsylvania reports 5th measles-associated death as outbreak continues
Cases in the state, home to the country’s largest ongoing measles outbreak, have climbed to 943 across 39 counties.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1h
Justice Kavanaugh, please explain to me — and Christa Pike— how this is an “interim” decision? Justice Barrett, please explain to us how this is merely a “preliminary” ruling?
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 1h
Chuck Grassley also did not share the texts with Democratic senators before the hearing, breaking protocol.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1h
“Stunningly, the Court acquiesces.”
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Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social · 5h
Judge Questions Secrecy Around Trump Administration’s Memo on Boat Strikes The judge also ordered the Justice Department to privately show the court the contested document, which blesses the disputed killings at sea. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u... w/ Ben Weiser
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Judge Questions Secrecy Around Trump Administration’s Memo on Boat Strikes
The judge also ordered the Justice Department to privately show the court the contested document, which blesses the disputed killings at sea.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 2h
Yglesias was aiming the Democrats to end up to the right…. of Jim Justice.
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Semafor @semafor.com · 3h
Visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
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Eunice Cho @eunicehcho.bsky.social · 2h
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ICE Deleted Reviews for Deaths in Custody That Cited Shoddy Medical Care
Three-quarters of ICE’s own 2025 death reviews, briefly posted online, raised substandard and “inappropriate” care of ill detainees.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 2h
Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2h
ICYMI:
State
Date of Secession
South Carolina
December 20, 1860
Mississippi
January 9, 1861
Florida
January 10, 1861
Alabama
January 11, 1861
Georgia
January 19,1861
Louisiana
January 26, 1861
Texas
February 1, 1861
Virginia
April 17, 1861
Arkansas
May 6, 1861
North Carolina
May 20, 1861
Tennessee
June 8, 1861
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 3h
Come off it.
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Luna 🍞✨️ @lunavt.bsky.social · 3h
Loaves!!!! It's time to take to the skies!! I'm so hecking excited to finally get to play Ace Combat 8!!
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 3h
Pottery. Do pottery that can later be carbon dated to this specific period and make sure you sign your name bsky.app/profile/mtsw...
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 3h
You gotta wonder -- what really motivates a party to spend so much time fixated on whether students were born with a a penis or a vagina?
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 5h
To recap: three GOP-led states that wanted the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade in order to "send abortion back to the states" are now asking the Court to strike down abortion protections in blue states
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Tremendous Kielbasa @rsaltasaurus.bsky.social · 7h
This is incomplete reprint designed to provoke. The bill had voter ID attached to it in order to get it killed, making it so Republicans could run this exact headline.
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Tahni Marie @queenofgoldfish.bsky.social · 5h
2nd post for #DVPIt 2026 ! My name is Tahni Marie Edwards and I’m an illustrator looking for an agent! I’d love to illustrate for authors looking to portray their stories in a colorful style that plays with shapes and texture! #DVArt #WOC #POC #BVM #LGBT #illustrator 🎨 www.queenofgoldfish.com
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Flora 🏺 Ancient History Art @flaroh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Night at the Museum 🏛️🌌🏺👻
Art by flaroh illustration. Septembers illustration is a nighttime scene in the House of the Faun room at the National Archaeology Museum in Naples. The eponymous faun/satyr figurine is in the foreground, and is observed by a ghostly Roman lady with an impressive Flavian hairpiece. She looks mournful as she passes through the room of her former possessions, her gaze lingering on the bronze statuette. Behind her, the mosaics displayed on the wall are visible through her translucent body. 

The palette is a vibrant mix of blues contrasted with bright orange line art
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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 5h
“Putin has gone even crazier,” a senior Ukrainian official told The Economist. “He ordered attacks on everything civilian. They want people to be afraid of going to the supermarket.” www.economist.com/europe/2026/...
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Putin’s new bombardment of Kyiv has a terrible logic
A Russian terror campaign aims to cripple the capital even before winter hits
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 5h
the only thing worse than a dumbass is an unrepentant one
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
there literally is no system that is abuse proof, so at a certain point you’re just against the abstract concept of authority or power in general. I think about this when it comes to ALPRs for traffic enforcement. Like if you want to have laws at all, you have to give someone power.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 5h
Schmitt Kennedy hearing meme with Kennedy holding the Lemon, it's Wednesday meme on the sign
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 8h
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Tahni Marie @queenofgoldfish.bsky.social · 7h
Hello #DVPIt 2026 ! My name is Tahni Marie Edwards and I’m an illustrator looking for an agent! I’d love to illustrate for authors looking to portray their stories in a colorful style that plays with shapes and texture! #DVArt #WOC #POC #BVM #LGBT #illustrator 🎨 www.queenofgoldfish.com
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 12h
Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.
From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water.  I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there?  God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"
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Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 8h
Teaching Swift today, and will always share this on “Modest Proposal” day.
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Subscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio) @kleinman.bsky.social · 14h
SEN. ERIC SCHMITT: Do these texts not prove that a shrimp fried this rice?
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 8h
We at Bluesky are the Bene Gesserit of social media, silently guiding The Discourse, which is how my poor kid who doesn't follow me on anything thought they could relax and scroll Instagram but was unjustly forced to see a Threads post with my Bluesky post. 😂
Picture of Threads feed:

Trending: Jack Smith gkates123 14h Funniest part to me is Jack Smith using 110% of his lawyer brain. He avoids making the connection himself; he doesn't even say "Hawkeyes," he just says "Iowa." He knows it's better to let everyone figure it out on their own. He also knows from Klobuchar's grin that she'll dunk it for him. -- Max Kennerly 

Kid's text to me:
Ahhh why am I seeing this on my feed
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neuse river hag @neuseriverhag.bsky.social · 11h
We very badly need to marginalize these people and treat it the same as following Hanania or being a Tucker fan, and we equally as badly need to have a position on owners of the tech that spreads this shit (social media) bribing the pedophile president so they wouldn't be held accountable for it.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 8h
This is basically the National Design people who think government should look like Apple products. Not that services should work as well as Apple products - which would be hard - but that visually they should be appealing.
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 11h
Not a great sign when your 12-person private fundraiser includes someone who hates you enough to leak damaging audio
The audio of Mr. Paxton was shared with The Times by an attendee who recorded him speaking at a private fund-raiser in Washington attended by roughly a dozen people. The person, who opposes Mr. Paxton’s campaign and provided the recording to The Times, was granted anonymity because Mr. Paxton’s remarks were private.
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Tom Aznable @tomaznable.bsky.social · 18h
Now that I have a Superstation I've been plunging into all these great arcade games I've never even heard of. Case in point, I PROMISE you won't be prepared for this shmup's title reveal
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Great moments in Scottish engineering history: James Watt tries to work out how his phone attaches to his selfie stick.
Statue of James Watt. In his right hand he holds a telescopic stick with a frame at the top; in his left he holds a flat object about the size of a large smartphone. He is scowling at the possibly-not-a-smartphone as if he is tempted to yeet it into the sea. On that basis, it probably _is_ a phone.
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(ややみはち) @ppm8.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 17h
Jesus Christ Cornell
What use was it to bring the writer and activist Chanel Miller to campus in the spring just for fraternity brothers to scroll, bored, on their phones as she movingly shared her experience as Emily Doe, the victim of Brock Turner? As I wrote at the time, I was floored and dismayed as I sat in the audience with one of my brilliant undergraduates; we heard Miller’s shattering account of being sexually assaulted by Turner behind a dumpster at Stanford University after a fraternity party. Her talk was riveting, and there was so much to learn from it. And yet many of the male students who hailed predominantly from fraternities — 15 percent of each chapter was required to be in attendance — were so tuned out that Miller commented ruefully: “You know, this has been my hardest gig, because they didn’t turn down the house lights. I’m not sure how you professors do it, because it’s so hard looking out at this sea of mildly disgruntled faces. I mean, I’m sure you’re all very moved, but …,” Miller smiled. The implication being, it didn’t seem like it, from her angle.
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Too Lazy to Fail @toolazytofail.bsky.social · 13h
Did you know that Heavy Dew is just Mountain Dew but with deuterium instead of hydrogen?
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 12h
As ARWW add in the thread, AF Post has been boosted by Elon, the AZ GOP, and other X obsessives (the same foul waters as those keeping Michael Tracey afloat, though he apparently failed here). And Ali Alexander, of course, was a leading Stop the Steal organizer.
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
fucking really
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Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students
The Education Department announced Monday it has formally rescinded the Biden-era Title IX interpretation that gave sex-based discrimination protections to students on the basis of sexual orientati…
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 12h
The mortality reviews that ICE published late last week show that medical neglect is widespread in Trump's concentration camps — something immigrants, advocates and attorneys have said for years, and which ICE routinely denies. New from me in @prospect.org.
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Disturbing Pictures of Neglect in ICE Mortality Reviews - The American Prospect
The federal government released dozens of mortality reviews of immigrants who died in detention in recent years. They show a uniform pattern of medical neglect.
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 18h
A small but essential improvement on federal impeachment is widely used in the states: if a lower house impeaches you, you are *suspended from office* until & unless the upper house acquits you. That's what happened w Paxton. It's the obvious way to handle credible allegations of official misconduct
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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 21h
When you have no concept of how people engage with music
nicksaraev ~
@nicksaraev
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I am not joking when I say this.
Spotify, Apple Music, and streaming in general is over.
Al music is now very, very good. You just don't know yet because all Al music circulating today is from ~2-3 generations ago.
Suno v6 pro et al has solved infinite personalized music.
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 19h
In many red states, it's simply a question of whether you can get Trump's endorsement. So we wind up with idiots like Eric Schmitt, Tuberville and Darline Graham, if she wins I mean, Georgia Republicans nominated Herschel Walker because Trump told them to, for G-d's sake. And he almost beat Ossoff
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AuldDragon @aulddragon.bsky.social · 20h
It can't close the Pandora's Box this unleashes on a victim, but it should *absolutely* be criminal to doxx a victim like this.
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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 20h
it’s weird how every rented apartment just comes with one of these now.
a tabby in a bathtub. you can just see her eyes and ears.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23h
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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Mullin is lying. These were not identified as "high-risk" nations, and it was not "tougher vetting" that cut entries. The absolute number of denials is LOWER now than under Biden. They just aren't even processing applications, and you owe every American sponsor an answer.
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you’ve never spoken with a bestselling author who is insane [JACK SMITH]: No [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of you with Naomi Wolf! [SMITH]: That is Naomi Klein sir
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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Yup, absolutely. I think it’s wrong to treat the Iran War as simply one bad error that happened to the Trump Admin rather than the entirely logical consequence of the way it operates. If it wasn’t Iran, it would almost certainly have been something else
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