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ElderKat-NoStarterFeedsPls

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PLEASE do NOT add me to StarterFeeds, TY. VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We have fully become - as a country - the “Ugly Americans” we have been called for decades…

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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 23h
Truth 👇
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ElderKat-NoStarterFeedsPls @elderkat.bsky.social · 18h
Hmmm… I’d say “natural selection” working overtime. Wonder if he has been to the dentist lately.
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ElderKat-NoStarterFeedsPls @elderkat.bsky.social · 22h
This. This overall defunding of science and research is (next to the immigrant purge) THE MOST STUPID OF STUPID ACTIONS by this clown-car administration. So much for American innovation…
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IbanezForever @ibanezforever.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Henry Shevlin, a philosopher and AI ethicist at Google DeepMind, suggested that the AP was being hypocritical because it anthropomorphized none other than Optimus Prime" in a MOVIE REVIEW. This is so far beyond stupid I don't have words for it.
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Immune amnesia resulting from measles is often overlooked. “People get measles, and then afterwards they will have recurrent ear infections or pneumonia, but they don’t tie it back to measles. They think, ‘Oh, this is just bad luck that I happen to have this ear infection or that I got pneumonia.’”
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Measles outbreaks could leave thousands vulnerable to infectious diseases for years
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 18/08/2025
If you want to believe it, check it twice ::clap clap:: If you want to believe it, check it twice ::clap clap:: Doesn’t matter if it’s awful Doesn’t matter if it’s nice If it confirms your bias, check it twice! ::clap clap::
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Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
NextEra’s Proposed Acquisition of Dominion Energy Must Benefit Virginians — Not Just Shareholders; Virginians Need Stronger Protections and Clear Proof of Benefits Before Any Merger Decision bluevirginia.us/2026/09/next... h/t @bridge2blue.bsky.social
bluevirginia.us
NextEra's Proposed Acquisition of Dominion Energy Must Benefit Virginians - Not Just Shareholders - Blue Virginia
By Michelle Moore NextEra Energy is seeking to acquire Dominion Energy in a $66.8 billion deal that would create the world’s largest regulated utility monopoly–and a utility with unprecedented control...
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ElderKat-NoStarterFeedsPls @elderkat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is a whole new level of bullsh*t Stupid! How is it that we have people running the effing country, but have zero knowledge of HOW INSURANCE ACTUALLY WORKS?
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Plant Powered A-ron🌱🌎💙🌊 @plantpowered1971.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
THIS MIGHT BE THA MOST ACCURATE MEME I HAVE EVER SEEN!!
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David Brin @davidbrin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The voter purge begins. Tell anyone in a red state to check their own and friends' registrations WEEKLY until after the election. www.reuters.com/world/suprem...
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Supreme Court restores Trump's mass voter verification system
The US Supreme Court revived on Friday an expanded immigration database that President Donald Trump's administration said aims to combat voting by noncitizens but critics contend could disenfranchise ...
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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
You know, when I can’t afford something & my credit is maxed out, I just don’t get to have it. So weird. Maybe they should hold a bake sale. That’s how we fund unimportant stuff like education.
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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 21/09/2026
Early voting has started in some states! Vote as early as you can. In person, if you can. Be as obnoxious as possible about spreading this message. Get everyone you know to the polls. Be That Friend but for voting.
vote.gov
Register to vote in your state | Vote.gov
Find the information you need to make registration and voting easy. Official voter registration website of the United States government.
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ElderKat-NoStarterFeedsPls @elderkat.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Dammit!
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ElderKat-NoStarterFeedsPls @elderkat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Cowardly Brown-nosers
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davidwindhorst.bsky.social @davidwindhorst.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Please, LionsgateUK, give this film based on one of our favorite things from the last decade a simultaneous US release. The "Ghosts" crew appears to have taken the series in an entirely original direction: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLKG...
youtube.com
Ghosts: The Possession of Button House - Official Trailer
YouTube video by LionsgateFilmsUK
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WeeJockPooPongMcPlop 🇦🇺 @flexybear66.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This is brilliant !!
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Feathered Stone @stonefeathers.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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ElderKat-NoStarterFeedsPls @elderkat.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
SO glad I dumped that societal pigsty* a few years ago. *apologies to actual pigs
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Evan May @gianttourtiere.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Happy Labour Day. Solidarity. (art by @rlmartstudio.bsky.social)
A pro-labour poster, with text at top 'The Labor Movement! The folks that brought you ...'  Underneath are stylized drawings of people of various ages, genders, and ethnicities holding signs reading 'overtime pay', 'living wage laws', 'parental leave', 'civil rights', 'domestic partner benefits', social security, child labour laws, paid vacations, pension benefits, OSHA, grievance procedures, workplace power, health benefits, workers comp, minimum wage, farm labor rights, unemployment insurance, the weekend.

Below is a quote: 'Power concedes nothing without a demand.  It never did and it never will' - Frederick Douglass.
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Bobbie Philipsborn @bobbielovesmickey.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
There are 174 million registered voters in America. The FBI found five non-citizens who tried to vote. That is .0000029% of all registered voters. Don’t let them con anyone that this is a real issue.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Help the Internet Archive, which is saving a lot of the data being purged/censored by the Trump Administration (and so much more).....
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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The federal law that makes this illegal basically says “it’s illegal” and nothing else. Congress should amend it to say that any U.S. currency featuring living people isn’t legal tender.
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Plant Powered A-ron🌱🌎💙🌊 @plantpowered1971.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Oops...thats right!
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
These people had protected status. They lived here legally. They worked, they paid taxes. They made lives. Raised families. Now we’ve dehumanized them. Ripped away that protection and told them to get out. This is a stain on the soul of this Nation.
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Katherine Addison/Sarah Monette @pennyvixen.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
WHAT ABOUT THOSE EPSTEIN FILES?
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Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Two excellent graphics by @bridge2blue.bsky.social! bluevirginia.us/2026/08/wedn...
Graphic by Bridge2Blue of Trump manipulating his "puppets" Rob Wittman, Jen Kiggans, Ben Cline, John McGuire and Morgan GriffithBridge2Blue graphic: "Trump Is Squeezing Virginia Farmers From Both Sides"
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A tetanus-diphtheria vaccine that doesn’t need a fridge has passed its first human trial. UK scientists reformulated a licensed shot using trehalose, the sugar that lets desert plants survive without water, keeping it stable for up to two years at 30°C. Gavi buff.ly/1kNIUHB #ShareGoodNewsToo
gavi.org
Fridge-free vaccine passes first human trial, raising hopes for the hardest-to-reach
Unreliable electricity makes it hard to keep vaccines at the right temperature – this development could change that.
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ElderKat-NoStarterFeedsPls @elderkat.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
We still needed Dolly, but she sure crammed a whole lotta GOOD into the time she had. Rest well sweet lady.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
In a country so deeply divided, isn't it nice to have something we can ALL agree on? #ReleaseTheFiles-BeginTheTrials ⚖️
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
This made me return to the extraordinary video comparing burn speeds in a room with all natural-materials furnishings versus a petroleum-products room. The petro-room practically explodes in a few minutes, while the natural room slowly slowly burns w/out the black smoke. Thanks, OPEC.
fsri.org
Natural and Synthetic Home furnishing-Impact on Home fire
Evaluate the impact of natural and synthetic home furnishing on time to flashover in a residential fire, and which one burns faster?
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KrysMc @krismcd.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I hope other Senators join mine in beating this drum loudly and constantly from now to November (and, of course, 2028)
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
In the Renaissance people theorized, since the Aeneid is great, if you wrote poems made only of words & phrases from the Aeneid rearranged they should be great too, since a great source regurgitated should yield greatness. They produced NOTHING we still read. Thinking about that a lot lately.
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Hey, guys, when the librarians get pissed about the destruction of books, it’s time to put those listening ears on. Because we are very comfortable with the idea that books are tools that can be retired. What’s happening right now is not that.
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Joe Roberts 🔥💙🔥🐸 @robbyjoe.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
He didn’t change. They did.
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
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ElderKat-NoStarterFeedsPls @elderkat.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Accurate observation! This one is playing to the tiny percentage who find this funny.
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Shecky @shecky.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Thread that *needs* to be read. (Link is to the final entry, to avoid thread-breaking, so click through, scroll all the way up and then read the whole thing.)
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ElderKat-NoStarterFeedsPls @elderkat.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
There is also a certain type of person who cuts through the bull- of an argument and illuminates the fallacies & doubletalk. I always knew the current “both sides” arguments were unbalanced, but could not put in words how. This thread by @juliusgoat.bsky.social does it beautifully. (Thank you!)
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Katherine Addison/Sarah Monette @pennyvixen.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
PUT HARRIET TUBMAN ON THE $20. I'M TIRED OF LOOKING AT ANDREW GENOCIDE JACKSON. END TRUMP'S STUPID ILLEGAL WAR LEAVE HEAD START ALONE (EXCEPT FOR MORE $) REGULATE AI TAX THE RICH & FUND SOCSEC (EPSTEIN)
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ElderKat-NoStarterFeedsPls @elderkat.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This dude is evidently a callous monster who should not be allowed anywhere near children - or any positions in government.
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ElderKat-NoStarterFeedsPls @elderkat.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
"Clean the moon, you dead eyed haddock-faced bitch." 5 ⭐!!
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Senator Tim Kaine @kaine.senate.gov · 05/08/2026
Last year’s Republican budget megabill is devastating rural Virginia. Twelve clinics and hospital services have closed since it passed all in rural communities that can least afford to lose care. This is what happens when your rural health care is gutted to fund tax cuts for billionaires.
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ElderKat-NoStarterFeedsPls @elderkat.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
TIRED of political party games. Elect those who will actually GOVERN*! *versus: corruptly line own pockets; uncritically help out cronies; & automatically favor the billionaires ABOVE the needs of the 'ordinary' people who ACTUALLY DO ALL THE WORK.
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Shecky @shecky.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
*leans in to microphone* CAN'T GIVE UP WHAT I REFUSED TO TOUCH, SPANKY
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 03/08/2026
🚨Don't fall for it. Todd Blanche didn't rewrite Trump's controversial IRS deal. He released a late-night DOJ memo designed to help secure the votes for his confirmation. We read the fine print. Here's what it actually says. 👇
meidasnews.com
Todd Blanche's Midnight Confirmation Gambit Doesn't Actually Rewrite Trump's Deal
And the "concerned" senators and much of the media are falling for it.
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ElderKat-NoStarterFeedsPls @elderkat.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
On our walk today, my Dear Hubby & I were discussing the dismissal news & these related developing stories have had zero surprises for us. No special insight was required.
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ElderKat-NoStarterFeedsPls @elderkat.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Good for Africa. The world is and has been moving on to renewable energies and we (US) will be left behind - floundering and ill. So tired of this short sighted Greed Before Facts policy we are enduring...
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ElderKat-NoStarterFeedsPls @elderkat.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Why is BlueSky HELP so useless? 1. I am logged in & using Help - which has nothing relating to my actual question. 1a. I use the request at page bottom to enter id/pwd - it tells me those do not match? 1b. So Help is only for certain users? Aaargh!
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