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i'm no fun during authoritarian slides

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flower face @elsehere.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
You can stand under my ☔
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flower face @elsehere.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Waiting for the government to issue us goatees as part of its Axis aesthetic
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a man with a beard wearing a blue shirt
Alt: Evil Spock with his goatee
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Leonard Nimoy was more than a colleague—he was a friend, an ally, and my political soulmate. Leonard played a half-human, half-Vulcan officer—a being caught between two worlds. Yet in his own life, he was perhaps the most profoundly human person I have ever known.
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flower face @elsehere.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Gift link - How the Cleveland Orchestra Stays at the Top of Classical Music www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/a...
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How the Cleveland Orchestra Stays at the Top of Classical Music
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flower face @elsehere.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Unlike today's Republicans, the Whigs of Tyler's day didn't receive their opinions from the president. How Trump is to his party as a magnet is to iron filings I'm not sure I'll ever understand.
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flower face @elsehere.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
When President Tyler took over for the deceased President Harrison and issued one too many vetoes, Tyler's cabinet resigned and his party expelled him *while he was in office*. Then they tried to impeach him.
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flower face @elsehere.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Same! My grandmas died in recent years and they were already done with Trump. I'm glad they and most of the Greatest Generation aren't around to see their work destroyed.
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flower face @elsehere.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
I'm at the library and told them their fireplace is beeping. "Yeah it just does that, we don't know why" 🤭
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flower face @elsehere.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Can't wait to be in the symphony at the end of the universe
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flower face @elsehere.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
How is Dhalgren always everywhere
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flower face @elsehere.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
📏🌃🍵🕔 of the 👻
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flower face @elsehere.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
As long as you don't use it with those tiny hands you have
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flower face @elsehere.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
They're going to hand over Greenland. Europe has limited its support for a war in its backyard driven by a foe that is many times less powerful than the US. No one is going to stop Trump from simply dumping troops into Greenland and occupying it until everyone signs the paperwork. I want to be wrong
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flower face @elsehere.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
You are fond of tiny tech
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flower face @elsehere.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Sat in the snow at lunch. Nothing like a good bum freeze to restore the spirit.
A snowy forest scene beside a creek
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flower face @elsehere.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
I literally couldn't get out of my street this morning, which hurt my pride as someone who's been defeating snow in small cars her whole life. But I thought better of treating the street like a runway and vaulting over the plow-dump at the end.
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flower face @elsehere.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
😂🥰
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flower face @elsehere.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
A news station in Michigan apparently got frustrated with viewers asking for their towns to be labeled on their weather maps and responded thus
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flower face @elsehere.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
And the microwave will smell horrid forever!
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flower face @elsehere.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Throw one at my face next time we see each other please! I don't know what to do either 🫂
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flower face @elsehere.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Trump is literally doing Hitler's two pursuits - rounding up "unwanted" people and bringing foreign lands under his control - and no one seems to be framing it this way. I don't think there's room anymore to overreact to what Trump is doing. We are at maximum danger. We are underreacting.
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flower face @elsehere.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Microwaved fish Microwave popcorn (for some of us) Smelly cheese. If she's really committed she can microwave that too, make an impromptu grilled cheese
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flower face @elsehere.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Courier, like the 70s are making a comeback 🤞🏻
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flower face @elsehere.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
I hate my podcast app. Recommendations? Android 🤖
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flower face @elsehere.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
It's forcing me to sign in, which I don't want to. Any mention of F/F? Because that's another answer. And there can still be elements of a subjugated segment of the population in M/M - reminiscent of misogyny.
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flower face @elsehere.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Yay happy anniversary! Burn off the calories by dancing in ±celebration
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flower face @elsehere.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Awesome!
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flower face @elsehere.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
We are just in wackadoodle times. Powell notifies public Trump is punishing him for not setting interest rates as Trump desired... How do you stop an authoritarian slide? Please don't say "Democrats"...
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flower face @elsehere.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
All the flute players growing up are girls whereas what seems like a majority of the pros are men. It drives me INSANE
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flower face @elsehere.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Mine is riddled with personal kvetching I'm not sure I want others to read. But I started adding keywords when I talk about certain subjects so it's searchable, if only for me.
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flower face @elsehere.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Reading the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich - where the author occasionally says "In my notes that night I wrote..." - makes me think we should all be keeping journals and storing them in a way they can't easily be burned or deleted.
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flower face @elsehere.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Nowhere are my opinions more controversial than in the Charmed subreddit
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flower face @elsehere.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
You could sell tickets to that!
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flower face @elsehere.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
😂 what if a holodeck can record everything that happens... That would be kind of fun for eg an asynchronous birthday. But imagine the politicians...
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flower face @elsehere.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
I don't but will forward if I see any!
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flower face @elsehere.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Maybe someday absolutely everyone will be enlightened out of such behavior... I used to think so (hundreds/thousand of years from now) but am no longer so sure. I don't even want to think of how people will misuse holodecks 😱😱😱
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flower face @elsehere.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Easily could be - never thought about that either. I'm guessing we've been wrestling with the worst people exploiting everything they can for millennia. It's an attribute of the species (or life?). Doesn't make it okay, just something we always have to be working around.
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flower face @elsehere.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Yes I read it. Regarding technology, gen AI IS a huge step forward in some ways, and then there's the question of what it's a precursor to.
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flower face @elsehere.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
I agree those are all problems. It doesn't interfere with my fascination with the science. After all I majored in physics, and the human use of those principles didn't stop me there either
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flower face @elsehere.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
😂
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flower face @elsehere.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
It amuses me that a new technology has turned all these early adapters, tech aficionados, and sci-fi fans (🫵🏻) I know into Luddites. I wonder if this happened when the internet came about.
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flower face @elsehere.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
If I were in school right now, I would be studying what genAI shows us about language and what the ethics are of working with machines. I know AI is unpopular but to me it is a fascinating science. Fix the environmental issues and I would be experimenting with it all day.
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flower face @elsehere.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
😂
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flower face @elsehere.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
I thought that said $400 million bathroom and believed it
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flower face @elsehere.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Reddit, the bathroom of the internet (not quite the toilet), marks the video NSFW. Bluesky journalists and news sources share it plain.
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flower face @elsehere.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
This should be marked NSFW. No regard here for the end of someone's life or the triggering of others. Unfollowed.
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flower face @elsehere.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Me with mine
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a woman in a pink shirt is standing next to a man in a wheelchair at a desk .
Alt: A woman in a pink shirt tries to get Ron Swanson's attention by walking around a circular desk as he rotates in his chair
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flower face @elsehere.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Found the full clip - Harrowing language within, coincidence of word choice: "It was still too early to make any certain prediction of the solution that will be made" bklyn.newspapers.com/image/686198...
Newspaper article from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, April 26, 1932, titled Catholic Party May Join Nazis To Rule Prussia, subheading Centrists Believe Hitler Will Moderate Views if Given Responsibility. The short article describes the debate within the Catholic Centrist party in Prussia at the time about whether to partner with the Nazis as a means of reining in their growing power. The article goes on to give headcounts for the parties and share the prediction that the Nazis will moderate when they have more responsibility and when their election promises prove to be too difficult to implement.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.
A 35 year old letter to the editor, written by a very ballsy 15 year old, about the Rodney King verdict.
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flower face @elsehere.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Sometimes I fantasize about working for ICE as a covert baffle. Get that guy? Whoops! I fell into a vat of mayonnaise and took the entire tactical unit with me.
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