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Carol Mitchell

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pet-rescue driver, retired primary care doc

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 15h
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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Politics and Health 🗳️ 🩺 @politicshealth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
So fuc*ing infuriating and sad. The CDC used to be the crown jewel of the world's scientific firmament. Other countries came to us for help fighting deadly diseases. Its disease detectives learned what caused illness and helped change practices to prevent them. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...
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‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)
The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/09/2026
Hey!!! Here's a new @crikey.com.au piece - on why the bullshitty AI doom hype frenzy perfectly represents the tech industry's cutlist climate denialism and their unhealthy methane addiction. Plus the media's total failure to grasp the real risks at play. www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/22/a...
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Scott Weese @scottweese.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Cat owners...here's a survey about hairballs and grooming from Dr. Samantha Taylor. Direct link here: www.surveymonkey.com/r/The_Fur_Re... Some more details: www.wormsandgermsblog.com/2026/09/arti...
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The Fur Report 2026
Take this survey powered by surveymonkey.com. Create your own surveys for free.
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 17/09/2026
NEW: We spent months investigating a little-known media startup called Brown Brothers Media, which buys legit news sites and turns them into AI-powered zombie content farms What blew my mind was its traffic -- it appears to be getting more readers than NPR or CBS News futurism.com/artificial-i...
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How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month
Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.
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dave wagner @davewagner.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
a brooklyn bodega cat was stolen on Sep 10. residents promptly built a tip network and organized people to check leads day and night. he was successfully recovered today. democrats have spent billions trying to figure out how to make people care this much about anything. should've tried cats.
White cat with gray-black patches on its head, back, and tail lounging on a small cardboard scratcher shaped like a couch.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
One of the most haunting 9/11 stories I know of involved Prof. Eqbal Ahmad, my Hampshire College mentor in the 80s. He met bin Laden in Afghanistan in 1986 and tried to warn us in this 1998 talk (at the 1:23 mark). Tragically, Eqbal died during surgery a few months later, but HE WARNED US in 1998!!🤯
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Eqbal Ahmad Terrorism Ours vs. Theirs 12, 1998
YouTube video by Mona Ringel
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Tommy Tomlinson @tommytomlinson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
So here's a quote from @pablo.show that applies to not only his Clippers investigation but the best of what journalism can be: www.nytimes.com/athletic/756...
"I think that we have the ability to do something that the rest of our culture is yearning for, which is make people who are too rich to care about anything resembling the public interest worry that maybe they need to tell us the truth."
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/09/2026
What if post-Trump America is even *worse*? 1/
A nuclear mushroom cloud wearing a giant Trump wig. A decaying American flag fills the sky behind it.
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Melanie Mallon @melmall.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I've seen people share the Metro Surge resistance art, so I'm going to focus on some other crop art that caught my attention yesterday.
Seed art by Meredith Keller of Pac-Man with ears of corn and pronto pup specials and Minnesota State Fair 2026 in the upper left corner, all in a bright yellow frame.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Y'all... the Band of the Coldstream Guards performed "9 to 5" in front of Buckingham Palace in honor of Dolly Parton.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026
[Exit Queen.]
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Project 2025 says to kill wild horses and Trump is doing just that.
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Under Trump, Protected Wild Horses Are Going to Slaughter (Gift Article)
A legal loophole allows the government to sell mustangs on the cheap, stripping them of protections and clearing their path to destruction.
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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Most people are mostly good, #874 in a series
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
As a conservation professional, I am regularly frustrated by the actions of the well-intentioned but uninformed people who are supposedly "on my side." I tried to explain in a new blog post featuring an analogy that I hope lands. www.southernfriedscience.com/the-locksmit...
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The locksmith and the conservation scientist
Why well-intentioned but uninformed guessing cannot and will not solve conservation problems, and what we should do instead. Picture this scene: you’re walking down the street, and you see your nei…
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Carol Mitchell @caroljmitchell.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The eclipse didn't pass over me today, but I like to think that this was my colander 2 years ago.
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Victoria Rose Richards @aerialembroidery.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)
An embroidery hoop containing a sewn landscape from above. It shows a forest on the right, a line of fire and charred ground with smoke on the left. The smoke is felted wool.
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Scott Weese @scottweese.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Are there any risks to/from pets with the ongoing Cyclospora outbreak in people? TLDR: No. Full explanation: www.wormsandgermsblog.com/2026/07/arti...
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Ongoing Cyclospora outbreak in humans: are there any dog/cat issues to consider?
Cyclospora has been in the news a lot lately because of a large, ongoing outbreak in the US. Total case counts aren’t clear (and official numbers are
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
If you have time this weekend, please check out the doc (~30 min.) my team & I released this week on Musk’s push into Greater Memphis with xAI and its noisy, methane gas burning turbines, data centers, broken promises & impacts on majority Black communities next door. www.cnbc.com/2026/07/16/e...
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Elon Musk's Memphis AI empire is the epicenter of the data center backlash
Data center-related policy proposals, protests and litigation are underway across the country citing Colossus and Memphis as a cautionary tale.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
“teenage geniuses and their billionaire backers aren’t going to save us, and they’re going to take us on a wild and expensive ride along the way,” says @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social about the Ocean Cleanup. My latest for @therevelator.org therevelator.org/why-ocean-cl... 🧪🦑🌎
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Why The Ocean Cleanup Hasn’t Solved the Plastic Pollution Crisis • The Revelator
Global problems are rarely solved by one person or invention. The Ocean Cleanup didn’t work, for the reasons experts said it wouldn’t. What can we learn from this?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/07/2026
"By voting to confirm him, Republicans are putting their stamp of approval on a DOJ that investigates the president’s enemies & treats every Q of law as a question of loyalty. It’s a grotesque perversion of the legal system, & it’s beyond anything Roy Cohn could have imagined." — @lizdye.bsky.social
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Todd Blanche is Roy Cohn ... but worse
Republicans own the orgy of corruption that will follow their vote to confirm him.
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Maureen Barr @barrlab.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Posted my comments opposing OMBs proposed rule. It was so easy, using this great letter writing tool of @faseborg.bsky.social www.faseb.org/science-poli... Did you submit yours yet? The deadline is soon - July 13. This is essential to save science and research in the US.
I write in my personal capacity as a research-active faculty member, not on behalf of my institution. I am a distinguished professor at a leading state R1 university. I am also a Senior Principal Investigator whose research laboratory is NIH. I submit these comments in strong opposition to OMB's proposed rule revising 2 C.F.R. Part 200 (Docket OMB-2026-0034). I am requesting that OMB withdraw this rule entirely because of the devasting consequences it will have on biomedical research, human health, the economy, and the nation.

The proposed pre-issuance review requirement (§ 200.205) eliminates that independence by giving political appointees – who may have no experience or training in the biomedical research field - veto power over peer-reviewed funding decisions. As a Senior PI / Lab director whose research is supported by NIH, I am deeply concerned that the best science will not be funded, instead politicians will decide not based on merit and research quality, but rather ideology. Peer-review is critical for gold-standard science.

This proposed discretionary termination provision (§ 200.340) jeopardizes the future and well-being of the researchers in my laboratory, my department, my university, my state, and the United States.  My research program has been continuously funded by the NIH for over two decades. My laboratory is like a small business – with NIH funding, I employ eight full-time personnel. These scientists are at all stages of their careers – newly minted bachelors who are working as research technicians or graduate students; postdoctoral researchers who are completing additional training in order to go onto careers in academia, biotech, industry, governments; senior scientists who have devoted their entire careers to biomedical research and training the next generation of scientists, physicians, dentists, teachers, etc. 

The proposed international collaboration restrictions (§§ 200.202(e), 200.220) will isolate US scientists and lead to the demise…
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Maureen Barr @barrlab.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
341,699 comments as of yesterday. Today is the deadline. Your voice impacts the future of US research & science. Please submit a comment if you haven't already.
OMB - Docket with 341,699 comments
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
well this report from Kennedy Center whistleblowers is wild
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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 07/07/2026
‘Polarization’ has become the master concept for diagnosing our current democratic crisis. But this is not polarization. It is the radicalization of the political right. By misdiagnosing it, we risk becoming complicit in the crisis. 🧵 Just out in Perspectives on Politics doi.org/10.1017/S153...
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Carol Mitchell @caroljmitchell.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Love this:
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Today we celebrate the PDFing of "Declaration FINAL v3 USE THIS ONE - SIGNED.docx" (Jefferson's draft was heavily edited by the Committee, then again by Congress, and he was big mad about it.)
📂 Version 1.0 — June 20, 1776
File Name: Declaration_Draft_TJ_DO_NOT_EDIT.docx
Author: t_jefferson_33
Commit Message: "Initial copy-paste from my Mason_VA_Rights_Notes.txt and VA_Constitution_V2.docx scratchpads. Confine your review to grammar and typos, and do not redline, only leave comments."
Tracked Changes & Notes:
Line 14: "We hold these truths to be sacred & undeniable..."
Comment from t_jefferson_33: "Certified banger."
📂 Version 1.1 — June 24, 1776
File Name: Declaration_Draft_TJ_comments_JA_BF.docx
Editors: b_franklin_GrittyOG and JA_redsoxfan (obo Committee, w/ Sherman and Livingston)
Commit Message: "First pass by the Committee of Five. Modest style changes."
Tracked Changes & Notes:
47 revisions (redlined), three full new paragraphs
Deleted: "sacred & undeniable" * Inserted: "self-evident"
Comment from b_franklin_GrittyOG: "250 years from now, people will think you wrote that banger. You’re welcome."
📂 Version 2.0 — June 28, 1776
File Name: Declaration_Committee_Review_FINAL.docx
Author: t_jefferson_33
Commit Message: "Incorporated Ben and John's very minor edits of my excellent first draft into a clean copy. Ready for the Continental Congress to approve verbatim."
📂 Version 2.1 to 2.8 — July 2 – July 4, 1776
File Name: Declaration_CONGRESS_REVISED2_redline_NEW_v4_approved..docx
Editors: Continental_Congress Group Chat (50+ active users)
Commit Message: "Line-by-line review by committee. Light trimming, a mere 20% of the original text. Optimizing for colonial unity."
Tracked Changes & Notes:
❌ CRITICAL DELETION: 300 word imprudent diatribe against KG III for transatlantic slave trade (“waging cruel war against human nature”).
Comment from dunkin_delegate: “Jefferson wrote that? He always struck me as a smug hypocrite. #IYKYK”
Comment from SC_delegation_delegate: "I thought we agreed this issue was off the table for now. It can be amicably settled later."
❌ DELETION: Large sections complaining about the ordinary British public being "deaf to the voice of justice."
Comment from NY_delegation_hub: "Guys, let's keep the finger pointed strictly at King George. If we trash the British citizens, we ruin any chance of future trade partnerships or alliances. Keep it professional."
➕ INSERTION: Added "appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world" and "with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence" to the closing paragraph.
Comment from Middlesex_Conservative: "Marketing requested more religious claptrap to ensure maximum buy-in from the zealots."
System Notification: User t_jefferson_33 reacted 👎(39 instances).
📂 Version 3.0 (Production) — July 4, 1776 (Late Morning)
File Name: Declaration_of_Independence_FINAL_v3_USE_THIS_ONE_SIGNED.docx
Editors: john_hancock_big_font
Commit Message: "Approved. Shipped to the printers. John Hancock didn't realize his zoom level was at 200% when he signed. Committee unable to find the one intern who can resize images, shipping anyway."
System Notification: User t_jefferson_33 has left the chat.
The draft of the Declaration was revised first by Adams and Franklin, and then by the full committee. A total of 47 alterations, including the insertion of three complete paragraphs, were made to the text before it was presented to Congress on June 28. After voting for independence on July 2, Congress continued to refine the document, making 39 additional revisions to the committee draft before its final adoption on the morning of July 4.

The draft shows the multiplicity of corrections, additions and deletions that were made at each step. Although most of the alterations are in Jefferson's handwriting (Jefferson later indicated which changes he believed were made by Adams and Franklin), he felt slighted by the way Congress rewrote the manuscript. In a consoling letter of July 21, 1776, the state's senior delegate, Richard Henry Lee, wrote to Jefferson that he wished that "the manuscript had not been mangled as it is." In an 1823 letter to Madison, Jefferson wrote that, at the time, "during the debate, I was sitting by Dr. Franklin and he observed that I was writhing a little under the acrimonious criticisms" of Congress. In fact, as Congress neared completion of the document by altering nearly all of his last paragraph, Jefferson could only write in the margin "a different phraseology inserted." Jefferson remained bitter about the changes made to the Declaration of Independence right up to his death. His autobiography was a major effort to set the record straight on its writing.
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Carol Mitchell @caroljmitchell.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Did you hear about the DC July 4 fireworks show? It promises 850,000 fireworks in 40 minutes. That's 354 per second. You'll miss up to 142 of them every time you blink. For your edutainment, I proudly present the nerdiest thing you will read about this dangerously absurd / absurdly dangerous event.
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Three Hundred Fifty-Four Fireworks per Second — Chad M. Topaz
Organizers promise 850,000 fireworks in roughly 40 minutes over the National Mall this Saturday. I did what a mathematician does with a big number: I divided. It did not make the show look better.
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Bill Kuchman @billkuchman.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
"The Park Service, in a separate document, similarly said that people should ‘wear an n95 mask when outdoors’ and ‘remain indoors as much as possible during and after the show.’” The guidance is to remain indoors ... during the fireworks. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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Fireworks on Mall likely to cause hazardous air pollution, documents show
Internal modeling shows the July 4th fireworks display will cause hazardous pollution around the Mall and “very unhealthy conditions across central D.C.”
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Niall Harbison @niallharbison.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Every single day I fed her on the streets of Thailand little Snickers would bring me a little gift. It got her a home in America. You can probably guess what she is up to over there now!
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Carol Mitchell @caroljmitchell.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Perfect:
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Carol Mitchell @caroljmitchell.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
an essential🧵:
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
On behalf of parents of special needs children everywhere, I would like to invite Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to go fuck himself.
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Carol Mitchell @caroljmitchell.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
🧵 Really interesting thread for the science-minded:
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
They tried to hide but I got em anyway
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Scott Weese @scottweese.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
With the (unsurprising) finding of New World screwworm in a dog in New Mexico, there's more attention being paid to antiparasitic drug options for dogs/cats. Good news: we have a variety of products. 1/n
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New World Screwworm prevention and treatment options in dogs and cats
While completely expected given the steady march of New World screwworm (NWS) from Central America into Texas, the recent finding of an infected dog in
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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
I recommend anyone who doesn't understand the backlash to datacenters go spend 24 hours standing outside of xAI's facility in Memphis. No earplugs. No masks. Just you and the air that Elon provides. Also remember: He said they would build a water treatment facility but they aren't.
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xAI Colossus Data Center Memphis Tennessee 05/13/2025
YouTube video by Oilfield Witness
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Carol Mitchell @caroljmitchell.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Essential 🧵 and linked post - "The dynamics of hatred and cruelty are often banal. Fascists work to make them seem more exciting and interesting. That can seduce even those who hate or oppose fascists."
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Musk says he turned Nazi because his daughter transitioned. this seems like a supervillain origin story which makes Musk look bad. but it's a lie. it's just a way to blame Vivian Wilson, his daughter, for her own abuse.
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Bunsen, Beaker, Bernoulli, & Brix @bunsenbernerbmd.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Did Brix get the sound right? 🎥 Brix meows for the camera.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 20/05/2026
I'm not a plumber. But I'm pretty sure that's not how sinks work.
US Department of Education Facebook post saying SKILLS THAT PAY OFF, showing an AI image of a White man and a brown-skinned woman wearing blue coveralls and tool belts. He's pointing off into the distance and she's working on a sink that has way too many exposed copper pipes in all the wrong places
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Hungary’s parliament sings “Ode to Joy” — the anthem of Europe — after Péter Magyar is sworn in as prime minister. Hungary is once again a proud member of the European Union.
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Carol Mitchell @caroljmitchell.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
One pet, two pets, or more - this is the shirt you need! 🐶🐱❤️
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Adam Macqueen @adammacqueen.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
SHAFT
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
thanks for literally nothing
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Jeff Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
It's not hyperbole in the least to say Musk purchased a six-month shadow presidency for $280 million and used the power of that shadow presidency to 1. Steal the government’s data, 2. Permanently damage the state’s ability to regulate his businesses, and 3, kill non-white people.
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