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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 6h

there's more than a hint of 'noble savage' in the way people outside the trades talk about those jobs and especially those workers. there's a reason people leave those jobs for less physically demanding ones if the option becomes available! enough salt-of-the-earth rhapsodizing!

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Yes That Eleri @eleritmlh.bsky.social · 5h

#Spacetober #SpaceArt Day 2 Red Planet Diptych, 24x24 total, acrylic on stretched canvas. www.elerimakesstuff.com/products/red...

Two canvas panels that make one picture. In the middle is a large red planet over a nebula in blues and white.

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Yes That Eleri @eleritmlh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I may not be able to match every prompt, but I can post daily pictures of my #spaceart for #SpacetoberChallenge

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Yes That Eleri @eleritmlh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You know, if someone wants to get me a commission portrait of Tweedle Dum for my birthday, I wouldn't protest.

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Universal Movement For America @universal4usa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Reason for Unconditional, Universal #BasicIncome number 785389023746523497924 Means testing the disabled leaves them at risk for abuse, or forces them into poverty to get needed services.

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Yes That Eleri @eleritmlh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

ADUs need to be legal in all suburban areas. If you can zone for apartments, you can zone for ADUs. ESPECIALLY if you restrict airbnb type rentals.

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Yes That Eleri @eleritmlh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

That looks like the dumbest movie to ever take itself seriously o.o

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A man replied to this saying in earnest that women need to get organized and fight for our rights and men will follow. We did that. We do that. We mobilized the largest single day protest in global history on every continent and yet I have fewer rights than my mom did at my age.

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aslynn is just a ghoul 👻 @aslynnromano.com · 09/11/2024

Additional scripts for cis het white men who want to be better allies: “What a weird thing to say” “Do you hear yourself right now?” “You shouldn’t say shit like that to people” “I won’t let you talk to them that way” “That’s a disgusting opinion to have” “Shut the fuck up, dude”

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Yes That Eleri @eleritmlh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think I'm leaning towards a milk frog. They're awfully cute. Although they do get BIG. If we were still near the Hellmouth House in Oregon, I'd just go snag a little PNW Tree Frog off of a window.

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I would like to see more men talking about how to and peer pressuring each other into calling out misogyny and rape culture. Going against social norms is hard, and it helps to share tips and support.

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ℝ𝕖𝕓𝕖𝕝𝕓𝕝𝕦𝕖 @rebelb1ue.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

You know what’s more dangerous than a trans athlete? 7 Frat boys at Cornell University.

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Yes That Eleri @eleritmlh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I finally moved all my random writing stuff to Ao3. archiveofourown.org/users/Storyt...

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Rasheed Abueideh - Now crowdfunding Dreams on a Pillow 🍉 @rasheedabueideh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Wishlist store.steampowered.com/app/4438850/...

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Yes That Eleri @eleritmlh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Starting to research a bioactive frog setup. Slightly annoyed that non of the enclosures I currently have out of use are good for that. (They're all horiz fish tanks, or vertical small screen)

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Yes That Eleri @eleritmlh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

3Racha and Hanpop makes math nominally more tolerable. Barely

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Yes That Eleri @eleritmlh.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I would have an easier time getting into LITERALLY ANY OTHER COLLEGE in the state of WA than UW. *sigh* I have gotten through almost 54 years without needing functional notation and quadratic formulas, I hate that I have to deal with them now, just to be 'good enough' for school.

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Yes That Eleri @eleritmlh.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Moved the This & That Hangul shirt over to Threadless so it could have more colours 🙂 elerimakesstuff.threadless.com/designs/this... #StrayKids #Stay

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/03/2026

And so this is my reminder that we should expand the court. Not just because we need to get people who care about the actual constitution on the court after Trump appointed some of the most heinous losers to ever get JDs to the bench. Because we actually need more people.

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Yes That Eleri @eleritmlh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"The threat of trans kids" is bullshit, and needs to be purged from Dem thinking.

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Pez is Minnesotan @pezyes.lol · 22/09/2026

The fact that this is recognized by someone who understands how serious that is, and yet many of us were told we still had to keep working and coming in to our jobs, even if our only access was through targeted systems... Fuck.

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Yes That Eleri @eleritmlh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Unless they are part of a year-round display, holiday decorations should stay within 30-35 days before and after the holiday.

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 22/09/2026

It's great to see economist @justinwolfers.bsky.social making the case that AI has given new urgency to the case for universal basic income, calling it "a payment society is owed rather than a form of redistribution." ALL of us trained those AI models. It's OUR work and OUR data being fed to them.

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Yes That Eleri @eleritmlh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

HUMMINGBIRDS HAVE EYELASHES!?!?!!?

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Mjkwho @mjkwho.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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Universal Movement For America @universal4usa.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

unconditional, universal #BasicIncome creates personal investment in society.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

saw this on Instagram and it so perfectly encapsulated my rage

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being so fr when I say that transmisogyny has put feminism back like 50 years

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what i thought we had distanced ourselves from was the reduction of women to vaginas and wombs and the ability to bear children. i thought we had progressed past 'dresses are for women and pants are for men. i thought we progressed past the idea that someone is less of a woman if she does not adhere strictly to beauty standards. i thought we progressed past the idea that naturally being comfortable adhering to highly feminine standards is vulgar. but i (sarcastically) guess no one could have predicted that trans-exclusive feminism would be the downfall of all the progress we've made

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Yes That Eleri @eleritmlh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Stupid FB showing me pics of my Tweedle Dum. I miss him so much.

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Yes That Eleri @eleritmlh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

#KaiserWA insurance would like people to Not Be Fat- but they don't actually pay for any medical weight loss treatment.

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Yes That Eleri @eleritmlh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Trying to reach all my PNW peeps who might be interested in celebrating my annual womb emancipation day with me- give me a holler!

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If you are so extraordinarily stupid that you fall for a standard Republican trans panic ruse, I cannot trust you to represent me in office. This is like media literacy 101. Your colleagues are going to run circles around you. Dupe you into anything. I'd be safer running and representing myself.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This aired just the once in 1998 on the live SNL show for which McKay wrote it. It was effectively banned as it never aired again. I wonder why. MEDIA-OPOLY

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026

ngl I was stunned by this article's cite to a study showing that 5.4 million children & teens in the US have family caregiving responsibilities @jessicacalarco.com has done lotsa interesting work on how the US uses women in lieu of a social safety net but I had no idea how much labor falls on..kids

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Yes That Eleri @eleritmlh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

So, so much blood. And screaming at the pages, hysterical laughter, weeping, WTFing, and many other reactions common to reading a Really Great Series. Go forth and READ!

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Yes That Eleri @eleritmlh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The cicadas in Seoul were on an effing *timer*, I swear. It was so precision on/off that at first I thought it was some sort of mechanical pest deterrent sound. And then about a week later the *males* started up. Those buggers could be heard through cement walls.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 21/09/2026

They dragged this man out of the hospital with a bullet still in his body. The tribunals are swiftly becoming the tedious centrist position.

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 20/09/2026

Not really sure where a bunch of liberals got the idea that they can’t win without throwing trans people in the garbage, but they’re stupid and cruel and wrong. If you want a human sacrifice so damned bad put gavin newsom in the wicker man

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Primary out the transphobes. There is time to do this. We do not talk anout this because we hate democracy or are complicit in keeping MAGA alive. We talk about this so we get THE BEST candidate not what we're stuck with.

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Yes That Eleri @eleritmlh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is the Christaliban at work.

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Yes That Eleri @eleritmlh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

What should I do for my birthday?

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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

@aoc.bsky.social just put out a great statement on AI. Refreshing to see a major politician on the left nail this. "Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity. But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves." 🎯

Charles,

Last weekend, Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, one of the largest Al companies in the world, publicly asked his industry to slow down Al development.

Shortly after, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAl, followed suit. Then Elon Musk.

This all came days after an Anthropic researcher quit, citing his belief that this technology could wipe out humanity and that Al companies are "gambling with our lives."

For years, people have warned that generative Al could slip out of our direct control.

Those safety concerns must be taken seriously.

And this is why I have advocated for strict safety standards on how Al is built and deployed, public oversight over this technology, and using existing laws to hold these companies accountable when they cause harm.

But I want to draw your attention to another reality: Right now, the U.S. economy and our financial futures are riding on Silicon Valley's bet that Al will soon be immensely profitable and pay off. And that bet isn't looking good.

The formula for a profitable business isn't complicated: make more money than you spend. But the biggest Al companies aren't doing that. They are spending hundreds of billions per year on data centers, chips, and other costs while their ability to make revenues that exceed their already-immense sunk costs are unclear. Experts estimate that these Al companies will require another $600 billion of debt just to finance

themselves in 2026 alone. That is more than the entire budgets of the U.S. Departments of Justice, Transportation, & Education combined.
Meanwhile, despite almost every single one of these companies not turning a profit & having sunk billions of investor dollars in development of data centers & other infrastructure, Al companies are also on a spending spree of hundreds of millions of dollars in lobbying & dark money in our elections.
It would be one thing if we were discussing a few private companies with a poor business model. But last year, virtually all stock market gains - 80% - rested entirely on just a handful of Al companies.
That tells us two things:
1. Nearly the entire U.S. economy outside the Al industry is relatively stagnating and faring poorly & the gains from these few companies are disguising it; &
2. Millions of people's retirements - including their pensions, 401ks, & investments - are potentially exposed to this risk.
That's why these Al companies' dubious financial positions matter to working people.
These companies argue that debt is necessary. They'll tell you that building transformative technologies requires upfront capital, & that massive borrowing today will pay off in generating unprecedented prosperity tomorrow.
But this is not the typical debt that startups take on while they build out a company. We are talking about billions going on trillions of dollars leveraged with no indication that these companies will be able to recoup these funds profitably. And they are increasingly looking to the government as their source of cash.
In an effort to hide their debt, tech companies have been relying on "circular financing" where tech giants like Google, Amazon, & Microsoft give billions to Al startups like OpenAl & Anthropic, only for those startups to hand that money right back to buy Al processing power.
In other words, these Al companies are luring in new investors by making it look like their financials are healthier than they really are.

What's even worse is that retirement & pension funds are key to supporting this illusion.
When the Al companies issue bonds to raise more money, your pension funds & retirement accounts are some of the biggest buyers. When Musk's Al business went public, it became part of index funds where millions of Americans invest our savings. Many Americans don't even know that their retirement investments are tied up in these companies at all.
From Big Tech's perspective, that's a feature, not a bug. By tying our futures to their reckless gambling, Al billionaires are trying to make themselves too big to fail. They think they can take such dangerous risks because we will bail them out if things go wrong.
Sound familiar? This scene is dangerously reminiscent of the rampant speculation, corruption, & broken incentives leading up to the 2008 financial crisis that plunged millions of working class Americans into financial chaos that we never fully recovered from.
It is no accident that these warnings from Altman & Amodei come months-if not weeks-before these companies were meant to go public.
When companies go public, they have to be more transparent about how they are doing financially. And after a waiting period, they typically have to let private investors-like their own employees-sell their shares.
The New York Times recently confirmed that OpenAl has postponed going public for this very reason. They are in no rush for the truth about their finances to come out.
But the moment these oligarchs began to seek our public tax dollars & public contracts while exposing their companies to public pension funds & investments, they opened themselves to public accountability & scrutiny.
Silicon Valley billionaires have rigged the game & are attempting to shift their financial risk to working people: If they're right about Al's potential, they reap the profits. If they're wrong & the bubble bursts, they are setting up the American people to pick up the tab.
Heads, they win; tails, we lose.

We can stop this, and we shouldn't play their game. Together we can address both the economic and safety threats of unrestricted Al development and prevent financial chaos and stabilize market risk.

We must make it clear now that should the Al bubble pop, Congress should not bail out Big Tech.

And across our federal agencies, we have the authorities and tools to hold Al companies and their leaders accountable for releasing dangerous, unvetted, and defective products. We must not wait.

Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity.

But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves.

It's time we hold them accountable.

Thank you for reading.

In solidarity,

Alexandria

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AltStateGov @altstategov.altgov.info · 20/09/2026

This thread contains voting & election information for all 50 states and D.C. Links lead to the state's main elections web page and where and/or how to vote. Please take time to ensure you are registered to vote and know how and where you can vote.

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