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Aunt Rove

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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 11h

Euan Findlay demonstrates traditional coopering at Theakston Brewery, Masham, England, using fire and steam to soften oak staves so they can be bent and secured with iron hoops to form a watertight firkin barrel without nails or glue. IG: @euanthecooper www.instagram.com/euanthecoope...

Aunt Rove @auntrove.bsky.social · 4h

Will they ban BASF, Bayer, etc.? I'd rather they stopped emulating the nazis.

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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 11h

There is no faster way to lose the future than to turn away the people who will help build it. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

US proposes $100,000 charge for international students to do post-graduate work

Proposed rule would choke off a crucial STEM talent pipeline, policy specialists say

Aunt Rove @auntrove.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

So beautiful

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🌊🏄BlueWaveSurfer🏄🌊 @bluewavesurfer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Aunt Rove @auntrove.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Disgusting

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 05/10/2026

Spot the difference

Side-by-side comparison of three social media posts announcing the death of former Republican House Speaker Dennis Hastert at age 84. On the left, Fox News posts, “BREAKING: Dennis Hastert, longest-serving Republican House speaker, dead at 84,” above a photo of Hastert raising his hand at a microphone. In the center, CBS News posts, “Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, who represented Illinois for two decades in Congress and was later jailed for violating banking laws, has died,” above a photo of Hastert walking through the U.S. Capitol. On the right, MeidasTouch posts, “Dennis Hastert, the longest-serving Republican Speaker in history, has died at 84. Hastert admitted in federal court to sexually abusing boys he coached as a high school wrestling coach. A federal judge called him a ‘serial child molester.’ He was a registered sex offender.” The MeidasTouch post includes an image of Hastert speaking from the House floor with a C-SPAN chyron identifying him as Speaker of the House.

Aunt Rove @auntrove.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The left needs to not compromise on this, and to call it out for what it is.

Aunt Rove @auntrove.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Absolutely. No one should have these things, but these ICE folks have show their love of abuse and their amorality over and over. They want to be brutal and Trump and the Republicans and the Supreme Court have said they can do whatever they want. This is horrifying.

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Aunt Rove @auntrove.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The cruelty is the point, and the sadist ICE agents will enjoy it. Like tasers, these won't even be used in lieu of shooting people, they'll be used as the first step in interactions.

Aunt Rove @auntrove.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I think he's been checking which way the wind is blowing and decided Kegseth is the best bet to turn on in his effort to act like he has integrity. Tillis had many chances to do the right thing and didn't.

Aunt Rove @auntrove.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Some of the Hastert headlines seem rather more passive voice than they should be.

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Aunt Rove @auntrove.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I lived in Charlotte when the PTL Club was at its peak. I babysat for a family with three little kids who slept in sleeping bags, but they had PTL schlock all over the house - clearly any money went to those grifters. I wish the scandal had waylaid him into a ditch.

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Aunt Rove @auntrove.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I love it!

Aunt Rove @auntrove.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Scientists who can do every type of science and engineering and often have beakers and flasks containing a variety of brightly colored liquids even if their work wouldn't involve those.

Aunt Rove @auntrove.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

She's "not trying to be insulting". She doesn't have to try, she just is.

Aunt Rove @auntrove.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Whenever his mouth is open.

Aunt Rove @auntrove.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's hard to fathom the cruelty some people have in them. I'm sorry you faced such awful people, especially at a time you deserved kindness and support.

Aunt Rove @auntrove.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There is one item of truth - they have lost their damn minds.

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Aunt Rove @auntrove.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...

U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)

President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...

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Aunt Rove @auntrove.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Not remotely a surprise.

Aunt Rove @auntrove.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's at most one vertebra.

Aunt Rove @auntrove.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm a luddite, but it seems to me that if Musk could tell his chatbot to shade its responses to fit Musk's biases, that it's apparent that there should be skepticism about AI trustworthiness. It's stunning that the US is putting so much power in the hands of some of the dodgiest people.

Aunt Rove @auntrove.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

His priest should have a word about bearing false witness.

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RenéeLiana @reneeliana.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oh, the sweetness that this is! I needed to see that. Its been a very hard week.

Aunt Rove @auntrove.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That's what I was thinking. If they are center left, it would be because the Republicans have stretched the right so far.

Aunt Rove @auntrove.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Super Intelligence(TM)

Aunt Rove @auntrove.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

He might have done that anyway.

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Aunt Rove @auntrove.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Thank you, John Roberts, for making it US law that Republican presidents can be as corrupt and criminal as they want to be, and their power is nearly unlimited.

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Aunt Rove @auntrove.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

He definitely looks like the go-to strategist for the US military.

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Aunt Rove @auntrove.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I still don't get how the content of those texts could be seen as indicating anything other than that he was somewhere with numbered seats, or why Fani Willis's dating admission would be a big draw him.

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Aunt Rove @auntrove.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

He's also profoundly ignorant and thinks he's super intelligent, so I doubt he could appreciate the risks involved if he cared to try.

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Aunt Rove @auntrove.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Newt remembers WWII. Not sure what Elon brings to the table except class warfare and apartheid.

Aunt Rove @auntrove.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The charge wouldn't ruin his life. If his life is ruined, he would have ruined his life by doing what he chose to do.

Aunt Rove @auntrove.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If he was a prosecutor, they should look at his cases. If he translates a text saying "he's in seat 9" into a specific conspiracy and thinks it's a slam dunk, he's dodgy.

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Aunt Rove @auntrove.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjYo...

Nevermind - Emily Litella

YouTube video by daryl huff

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Aunt Rove @auntrove.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My heart breaks for this man.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

holy shit -- turns out Jack Smith went to a Hawkeyes game in Maryland but Schmitt's team is so reckless they concocted a conspiracy theory that Smith was actually in Atlanta seeing a Hawks game and colluding with Fani Willis. Klobuchar points out to Schmitt, "you have your teams wrong."

Aunt Rove @auntrove.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's why our debit isn't $50T?

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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.

Aunt Rove @auntrove.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

When Kenny Cody grows up, he's going to look like JD Vance.

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Aunt Rove @auntrove.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Trump wants to destroy purple mountain majesties.

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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Lol 😅🎶🤣

Aunt Rove @auntrove.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's awful how people like JD Vance have decided that "others" means people like yourself and not people other than yourself. It's a pretty bizarre excuse for treating other people like dirt and patting yourself on the back for it.

Aunt Rove @auntrove.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is the root of so much wrong in our world.

Aunt Rove @auntrove.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The consolidation of media under fewer and more right wing billionaires is not going to help this. Pushing kids into private schools and underfunding public schools plus the changes in higher education will also lean us even more away from the broader public having critical thinking skills. Scary.

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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Aunt Rove @auntrove.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Scary to have influential people not get it.

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Aunt Rove @auntrove.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I've wondered if there was any reason to believe that an ICE agent wouldn't take your passport and just throw it away. There would be a record of it but it might not help in time.

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Aunt Rove @auntrove.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I don't think I could eat a whole horse in one day, but then again, I'm not a man.

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