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Elena Gaillard

@elenagaillard.bsky.social
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Orchid enthusiast, SFF reader, fantasy writer, graphic designer, knitter, birdwatcher, wine drinker, nasty woman. She/her.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
IMPORTANT: There are 15 states that require in-person registration 28–30 days before an election, meaning this maybe your last week to register. Check your registration at Vote.gov.
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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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Cri 🕊🐝🐜📝🎭⚽😷 @crawlieswithcri.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#BlockParty
screen grab of @maya-novak bluesky account to block - it's an AI account.
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reggie seidman @ennui.org · 26/09/2026
"we need more female political leaders" *monkey's paw curls*
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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NPR @npr.org · 26/09/2026
Some states deliver meals to Medicaid patients that address their dietary needs. Evidence shows it aids recovery and saves healthcare costs, but federal budget cuts may lead some states to cancel it. n.pr/4rHem9Z
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Meal deliveries can save money and improve health. Will they survive Medicaid cuts?
Some states deliver meals to Medicaid patients that address their dietary needs. Evidence shows it aids recovery and saves healthcare costs, but federal budget cuts may lead some states to cancel it.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"RKF took money earmarked to provide health care for Black infants and spent it on his personal security detail" is a ludicrous headline. Comic book villainy.
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Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office
The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
it is genuinely obscene that prior to this point it was considered good for american democracy that nixon and reagan were never prosecuted
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
he could fake his way through everything else, and did, with a combination of racism and public apathy. but it turns out you can't go to war on your own coalition in a democracy, even one on the brink.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Obama: “Imagine if I had pulled Fox News’ credentials from the White House press corps. You’re laughing, but this is what’s happening. It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent right now would have tolerated behavior like that from me.” Clip courtesy @meidastouch.com
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
running a bit late bc I always overcommit myself but otw to the Kennedy Center protest
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A massive group of demonstrators is currently forming a human chain around the Kennedy Center following Trump’s threats against it
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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A broader question is why we run our society in such a way that guys like this make most of the big decisions about who gets to do what.
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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Not only did I meet Robert Kraft, I worked for him. His kid Jonathan asked me to “remove the black music” from my gameday playlist in ‘94 & I refused so they fired me. I was the cheerleader director at the time.  I sued them for wrongful termination and won. So yes, I know that motherfucker. 
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Scare Smith 💀 @evilgalprods.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
we’re sorry to inform you that the stuff you use to wash off bacteria has been contaminated by bacteria
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"Hid mistakes and made up data" used to be called by the cozy term "hallucination" up until it became vitally important for the IPO that AI is now evil
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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
ENJOY YOUR LABOR DAY BUCKAROOS
cover of THE PHYSICAL MANIFESTATION OF MY COWORKERS AND ME DISCUSSING OUR SALARIES EVEN THOUGH OUR BOSS TOLD US NOT TO GETS ME OFF featuring a beautiful ladybuck on the left wearing stripped down business attire she is in a modern office and on there is the physical manifestation of salary discussion lookin like a NICE BIG DOLLAR SIGN with a smiling face
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Foxfeather Zenkova @foxfeather.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Jump for joy! The new crane aviary is complete, which means lots of hoppy flapping, dancing, and exploring as the babies got to explore their new digs. They've got lots more space now to build up muscles for the long migration to come. 🪶 #wildliferehab
Juvenile sandhill cranes in grass in a large aviary enclosure, one spreading its wings upwardsJuvenile sandhill cranes standing in grass in a large aviary enclosure
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Brandy @3dogz.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Someone else said it for him. Love him. Miss him.
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Three panel comic. Panel 1: a horseshoe crab watches as a variety of prehistoric creatures swim towards an ethereal light. An ammonite calls back to the crab, “come on, horseshoe crab! We’re all evolving!” Panel 2: the horseshoe crab stays in position and replies, “nahh that’s crazy” Panel 3: the horseshoe crab is superimposed in front of a future premonition: a rather miserable-looking human slouched in the glow of a desktop computer. The horshoe crab swims away and says, “good luck tho”
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
would love to hear even a single actual argument about how AI "changes the nature of humanity" not based in fanciful speculation
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Foxfeather Zenkova @foxfeather.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Does anyone else love these amazing, be-mohawked stinkturkeys as much as I do? I was lucky enough to see them in the wild and could absolutely smell them before we spotted them. Hoatzin ❤️ 🪶 tinyurl.com/v5sry3m8 #sciart
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Eric Harvey @ericdharvey.com · 07/09/2026
Nathan Fielder treated Elizabeth Holmes' brain like it was ChatGPT, which it seems to be
She believes her version of reality. Fielder, who is not taken in by any of this (his questions remain rigorous in their skepticism), at one point gives vent to his impish side by showing Elizabeth and Billy the famous Abbott and Costello routine “Who’s on First?” When it ends, he tries to get Holmes to explain what the joke is (that “Who” is the first baseman’s name, but the name sounds like a question — hence the routine’s glorious verbal slapstick). And she can’t do it; she can’t grasp the joke. It’s not just that she lacks a sense of humor (though frankly, she kind of does). It’s that she’s got the malignant narcissist’s need to have words mean only what she decrees them to mean. She can’t hear any other meaning. Hence: her device did “work,” and still does (it can run any test!). That’s why she and Billy, years after her conviction, are still pitching Theranos to other investors (as if anyone would go near her). This is a highly rarefied level of delusional thinking.
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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
right-wing media is always hand-wringing about who is convincing young people to be anti-policing, like someone taught me a class on it or paid me or something as if watching police pour liquid all over trash cans full of every belonging my neighbors had wasn't enough to make me form an opinion
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
this genuinely is not true. the Constitution says surprisingly little about the Supreme Court and its powers. almost all of the Supreme Court's powers were granted by the Supreme Court to the Supreme Court.
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Hakeem Jeffries Prioritize Fighting Trump Over Internal Politics as Much as an Actual Fucking Separatist Party Challenge.
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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The Parti Québecois, a party whose hold raison-d'être is separatism, recently said they were putting all separation talk on the backburner for the remainder of Trump's term. Do you know how insane that is? Trump healed 200 years of Franco-Anglo tensions purely by being a giant asshole.
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
What do you do when you've launched a moral panic about transgender athletes in the WNBA, but there has never been an active trans player in the league? Simple: you start a conspiracy theory about every single woman on the court.
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There Are No Trans Women in the WNBA, so Right-Wingers Are Making Some Up
As culture warriors continue to stoke the flames of a gender panic in professional sports, wild conspiracy theories are coming into play.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
a million pieces/segments sneering at hasan piker and the co-chair of the DSA, meanwhile a republican congressional candidate in upstate new york named peter oberacker is the grandson of an actual nazi germany soldier and his former staffer was part of the 'i love hitler' young GOP group chat
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/08/2026
Annie Andrews: "What she [Darline Graham] said there was that her healthcare plan is, 'you should work hard until you die' ... I believe Darline's parents deserved better."
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Danielle Ryan (Lestat Era) @danirat.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I think another lesson to take from the loss of both Dolly and Tim Curry is that neither of them took themselves seriously but they took the work dead serious that's the most important thing pour all of yourself into the craft but have fun and don't get an ego.
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Liz @stayathomecommie.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
RIP to two of the best to ever do it
dolly parton in the 80s in black lingerie with red trim with garters and stockings dolly parton again in red lingerie with a garter belt and stockings tim curry in rocky horror picture show in a sparkly garter belt and lingerie too tim curry posing with a black jacket and his stockinged legs extended to show off black stilettos
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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
(1/2) Since I haven't seen anyone else mention this one... It was an open secret that Dolly Parton secretly funded a massive number of southern high school bands, most especially predominantly Black high schools. A marching band member in her youth, Dolly never forgot the joy that playing snare drum
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Mr. Tyler CroOoOoOoOok @mrtylercrook.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
My favorite Dolly Parton meme.
A twitter interaction where someone posted a photo of Dolly Parton looking hot as hell in black and red lingerie. Someone else replies to the photo with "Well then wha the hell did Jolene look like???"
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 25/08/2026
"I don't get mad at them for calling me a dumb blonde because I know I'm not really dumb... and I also know I ain't a real blonde"
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 25/08/2026
if you're in line to donate money to the Imagination Library, please stay in line
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 25/08/2026
It’s the power fantasy of being able to help people.
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 25/08/2026
One of the all time great tweets.
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 26/08/2026
So I’m gathering up my weird nature facts for the Hugo ceremony—I am the toastmaster, and this is gonna be EDUCATIONAL—and I found one that was actually a little more unsettling than I wanted. You all prepared?
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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.
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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Republicans have spent the last year trying to defund Dolly Parton
article about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Indianaarticle about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Kentuckyarticle about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Missouriiarticle about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Washington
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 26/08/2026
oh you're upset by 'Clanker'? ok how about "AI humping dipshit", is that better?
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canyon.mid @canyondotmid.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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Kelsey Reichmann @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
NYT report finds that BLM is selling thousands of wild horses to buyers that send them to slaughter plants. The admin is using a legal loophole that strips mustangs of protections www.nytimes.com/2026/08/20/u...
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Under Trump, Protected Wild Horses Are Going to Slaughter
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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Jonathan Dresner @jondresner.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
There are no good-faith anti-trans arguments, because it's patriarchy all the way down.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
They are probably impressed because those wealthy circles are also full of the most vapid and boring people alive. Anyway, the point is that these men are too fixated on looks and profession. That can be bought later. The non-negotiables for these dudes should be intelligence and creativity.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
These dudes want a trophy partner who will help them with social climbing. They are going about it the wrong way though. After all, Mamdani married a cartoonist.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This has put a damper on my desire to be a matchmaker. Because rich men do not want matchmakers. They want madams. But they also do not want to be open and honest about the desire for a transaction over a loving relationship.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Remember their names folks! 2027 is four months away.
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