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cathy de bourgh

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Moonlighting in the looming of the aftermath.

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kwisatz haderade (#FreeSkylar) @booksandbows.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
complaining that it isn’t fair to punish all fever fans is silly, sorry! fans are collectively punished all the time. teams have been punished in-game for fan behavior!!!! remember when the flyers got penalties bc philly fans threw shit on the ice? mexico getting fined for the homophobic chant?
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cathy de bourgh @cathydebourgh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
For the cool down at the gym this morning, they played a slowed down version of Fade Into You. I just love that somebody heard the Mazzy Star version and thought “this is good but it rocks too hard”
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison.
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WRMS Traffic & Weather Reporter on the 2’s @carnegro.blacksky.app · 13/09/2026
I missed FAMU honoring Dolly Parton at Miami Friday night.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
when you work at the BPAF but you’re beginning to realize there’s not going to be a successful IPO
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I don't want to have to think about AI at all.
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Ben Siemon @benjaminjs.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
You can tell we're a country of idiots by how easily we're convinced to debate the 1% of trans people who want the right to live their lives authentically and safely and don't negatively impact our lives instead of the billionaires who spend every day making our lives genuinely tangibly worse.
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Chinook salmon have recolonised 88% of their historic range on the Klamath River, with more than 13,000 fish passing the old Iron Gate Dam site in 2025, up from 7,700 the year before. Two years after the dams’ removal, it’s going better than anyone predicted. buff.ly/pToC9gB #ShareGoodNewsToo
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Rewilding the upper Klamath River Basin: rapid recolonization of Chinook salmon following the world’s largest dam removal - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Rewilding the upper Klamath River Basin: rapid recolonization of Chinook salmon following the world’s largest dam removal
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 10/09/2026
Come on, you madcap, I’ll to the alehouse with you presently; where, for one shot of five pence, thou shalt have five thousand welcomes.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I am a single-issue voter, and that issue is "are you actively repeating the inflammatory, unscientific, inaccurate, or hateful language the GOP uses to make normal shit sound scary, thereby reinforcing the idea that it IS scary even as you attempt to distinguish yourself from the GOP in other ways"
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Birds Are Dinosaurs @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
You have to admire this guy's dedication to keeping it tight, despite being marooned on a desolate planet for 15 years. Ceti Alpha V didn't have food or water, but that didn't stop Khan from waxing his chest every day so that he could hunt Kirk 'round perdition's flames, tits out for revenge
Khan from Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan. He's wearing some kind of space barbarian outfit that is technically a kind of shirt but it doesn't cover his chest at all. You can see both nipples. But if I were his age and looked in great shape, I'd rock it too.
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observerbs.bsky.social @observerbs.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Transphobes in disarray.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
so are we gonna get a bunch of political analysis thumbsucker pieces about the cautionary tale of a promising youngish politico who torpedoed his career by latching on to the biological gender extremists who are attempting to drag the Democratic Party into hugely unpopular political waters or nah
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cathy de bourgh @cathydebourgh.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I decided to listen to all of Dolly’s albums in order, starting from the beginning, and it’s a treat. On her second album (Just Because I’m a Woman, 1968), 6 years before “I Will Always Love You,” she released a song called “I’ll Oilwells Love You.” It’s about marrying an oil tycoon for his money.
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cathy de bourgh @cathydebourgh.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I think everyone is going to be really impressed with the eclipse photographs I took on my phone
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cathy de bourgh @cathydebourgh.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
If you haven’t read Tim Curry’s memoir, I can’t recommend the audiobook highly enough. A fucking delight.
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cathy de bourgh @cathydebourgh.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Today my dad reminded me that he and my mom saw Dolly Parton and Porter Wagoner play a show in a vacant grocery store in New Orleans in 1969 or 1970. IMAGINE
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Leena 🌵 @leena.reuben.games · 26/08/2026
imagine getting the gift of boobs directly from dolly parton
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Mark Jones @markjonesmotion.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Fun fact: Dolly Parton spent decades quietly funding band uniforms and instruments at Black high schools across the South - never once putting her name on it. No headlines, no fanfare — just help, given because it was needed. Wonderful Heart ♥️ RIP Dolly ❤️
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Timmy Jackpots, The $13,250 Diamond Dazzler @tbone.malware-virus.biz · 26/08/2026
my wife has a friend who sent Dolly Parton a painting she made & a letter explaining how much Dolly's music meant to her while she was transitioning. Dolly responded to it personally & paid for her top surgery. Sounds like an urban legend but it's real. I think we're going to more stories like this.
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TrashkittenDeluxe @trashkitten83.at.app.wafrn.net · 25/08/2026
Simultaneously a demonstration of Dolly Parton and Joss Whedon's characters, one positive, one negative
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Mike Barthel @mikebarthelauthor.com · 25/08/2026
She also could tell a fuckin story
When the 1974 recording of the song reached number one on the country charts, Elvis Presley indicated that he wanted to record the song.
Parton was interested until Presley's manager, Colonel Tom Parker, told her that it was standard procedure for the songwriter to sign over half of the publishing rights to any song Elvis recorded.
[28] Parton refused. She recalls:
I said, 'I'm really sorry,' and I cried all night. I mean, it was like the worst thing. You know, it's like, Oh, my God... Elvis Presley.' And other people were saying, 'You're nuts. It's Elvis Presley!'...I said, 'I can't do that.
Something in my heart says, 'Don't do that. And I just didn't do it... He would have killed it. But anyway, so he didn't. Then when Whitney [Houston's version] came out, I made enough money to buy Graceland. 29]
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cathy de bourgh @cathydebourgh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Was anyone better at being famous than Dolly? Just absolutely the most public person possible, we all felt close to her, and yet her private life was completely private. The best to ever do it
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026
[Exit Queen.]
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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
every billionaire & tech mogul, they all want to be adored & celebrated without doing the things Dolly did with a fraction of the power & money. What she had, she gave away. I'm sure she was comfortable (& that's good!). But she just relentlessly helped. It's not that difficult. Love. Care. Help. 💚🌸
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The saddest girl to ever hold a martini @lifeisterrible.bsky.social · 01/04/2024
DOLLY PARTON PET PEEVES
1. NOBODY NOTICES
I'VE GOT
GREAT ASS
TOO
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(spo)okie 🎃 @okie.gay · 25/08/2026
Texas’s drag ban was found to be unconstitutional this morning and one of the plaintiffs who brought the suit was an Austin-based drag queen who often impersonates Dolly Dolly was named in the final judgement itself and after hearing about the lawsuit, she sent that drag queen a signed guitar
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cathy de bourgh @cathydebourgh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
What are we going to do without Dolly though. For real.
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#1 Lifelong Houston Cougs Fan Brandi 😾 @itsthebrandi.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
How did someone this bad at communicating even convince someone to fuck them and produce a child?
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cathy de bourgh @cathydebourgh.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
But expressly NOT for me to have the parental right to access gender affirming care for my daughter. We all have the right to do what they want to do, which is to be abusive.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
i wouldn’t want del toro to do it INSTEAD of swayze so my solution is they make a new dirty dancing every couple-few years with a new guy as the dancing instructor like it’s james bond
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cathy de bourgh @cathydebourgh.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I plan to say to drive my kid insane by meeting every minor inconvenience with “OUR AGE OF BRONZE IS COMING TO AN END”
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Odysseus mentioning that he’s in the Bronze Age made me think of a caveman saying “Man it is extremely Paleolithic around here lately”
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Your Evil Twin, Skippy 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ @twinskippy.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Golden State Valkyries forward Gabby Williams: “There’s a lot of discourse around trans athletes and what they can compete in. I would welcome a trans athlete on my team or against my team. Anytime. I don’t think it’s a problem in the world, it’s just another way to kind of attack trans people.”
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cathy de bourgh @cathydebourgh.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Library levy 71.7% yes IN THE FIRST DROP !!!
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
The Campaign to Force Genital Exams on Girl Athletes Soon Washington State could require sex-verification tests for those playing sports in schools.
Portrait of Andrea González-Ramírez
By Andrea González-Ramírez, a senior writer for The Cut who covers systems of power. Those physicals, Maria explains, are usually perfunctory: “Like, Are you walking normally? Are you lightheaded? I have never had to take any clothes off. I’ve never felt uncomfortable or violated.” If IL26-638 were to pass and Maria were still in school, she says she would likely drop out of her team. (We’re withholding Maria’s real name to protect her privacy.) “I honestly don’t know if I would be able to do these tests,” she adds. “It would also make me question, If I do it, are all my teammates going to too? Or would I just play with the three or four girls who are willing to or have access to do it?”
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jaz @jazzyspraxis.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Someone was SNATCHED the NEXT DAY from the Seattle Center! They went back to clean up after a mass shooting and got kidnapped to be sent to a concentration camp!!!
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Bill Hanstock @sundownmotel.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
the wnba alienating their core audience for the sake of people who wouldn’t watch a wnba game to save their child’s life is a bold gambit, to be sure
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Same with gender-affirming care for kids. Good-faith concern would be, "gee we should be making sure kids are appropriately assessed before receiving care and don't end up regretting it," realizing the numbers are tiny, kids are assessed and regret rates are miniscule and then dropping it.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Good-faith concern on this issue would be going, "hmm, professional sports leagues should probably have some standards in place to ensure trans competitors aren't getting an unfair advantage," googling for 5 minutes, realizing every sports league already has those standards and dropping it.
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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 24/07/2026
and I wake in the morning and I step outside and I take a deep breath and I get real high and I scream at the top of my lungs
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Lefty Cheat Sheet @electioncheatsheet.org · 22/07/2026
We really care about making leftycheatsheet.org easy and even fun to use! If you have suggestions for making it more user-friendly, please let us know. For example, one user suggested adding in Seattle Times as a reference/anti-endorsement source (😂), so that’s been done now. 🥳
The Library Levy detail card
Urbanist, Stranger, MLK Labor, PVG endorsing Yes vote

Seattle Times alone endorsing No vote

Even the King County Republicans avoided this issue
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Marie Vibbert @reasie.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
No science fiction could have prepared us for just how stupid the end of the world can be. "The environment was on the brink of collapse, and so, rather than deal with that, we burned what fuel we had left getting computers to scam each other for money."
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Share the Cities Collective @sharethecities.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Seattle Voters: A few of our volunteers have created a website to help you learn more about candidates, if you follow us, you know we have some strong opinions, please follow LeftyCheatSheet @electioncheatsheet.bsky.social
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
To me, any Democrat who runs for President and doesn't begin by promising to fire everyone at ICE on week 1, cannot be taken seriously about anything else.
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Maine's Black Lawyer @lutherevers.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
When I see leftist people cheering shit like this, I always ask what they plan to do to encourage socialization among teens. We've destroyed most in-person hang out spaces and most of those that remain are openly hostile to teens. They never have any idea It's just "internet bad. Make go away."
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cathy de bourgh @cathydebourgh.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Sorry to anyone who needs the elevators to work. The Seattle Times says you should be happy with access to the children’s room on Level 1. Access to floors 2-10 is a luxury we do not deserve.
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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Called it
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Mara Gay @maragay.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The cautious centrists and center-left politicians who have dominated the Democratic Party for so long have failed. Voters see this, which is why the uprising within the Democratic Party is unlikely to be contained. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/o...
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Opinion | The Democratic Establishment Is Finally Getting the Reckoning It Deserves (Gift Article)
The Democratic Party needs shaking up.
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Sports Media LGBT+ @sportsmedialgbt.com · 14/07/2026
✍️ Megan Rapinoe, writing for Marie Claire “No girl deserves to be discriminated against. That’s why all girls, including trans girls, should be able to play with their classmates in the sports they love… girls who don’t fit someone else’s expectation of femininity, will face further harassment.”
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Anti-Trans Legislation Isn't About "Protecting Girls"—It's About Distracting Us From What Matters
"If we really cared about safety and fairness in sports, we’d be breaking down barriers facing girls at every level," writes Megan Rapinoe.
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