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Fiery Lights

@fierylights.bsky.social
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Introverted awkwardness at all times Starting a new acct from scratch, like homemade cookies. pfp- a cute little gray kitten asleep on its back with front paws clasped together. Banner says “Dreamer” in cursive lights

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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 09/10/2026
In case you missed it last night: we are seeing reports all over the country of immigration surges and state violence. If you need whistles for your community, we will send you 100-3000 3d printed for free, and we will love doing it. 3dwhistles.com
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Fiery Lights @fierylights.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It’s such a joy to be jump scared in the mornings by the neighbor’s loud ass mustang.
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Fiery Lights @fierylights.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It’s a giant mystery as to why women are postponing or choosing to not have children at all.
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Fiery Lights @fierylights.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I SURRRRRVIVED WEDNESDAY!!! WOOHOOOO!!! - my 8 year old child
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/10/2026
Regulators have linked Mark McAfee’s raw dairy farm to more than a dozen recalls and outbreaks that left hundreds of people ill. “I’ve put a couple kids in the hospital,” McAfee said. “But here’s the thing: I’m a pioneer.” (Published June)
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He Profits Off Raw Milk That’s Making People Sick. The Government Isn’t Stopping Him.
With Raw Farm, the largest raw-milk dairy in the country, Mark McAfee has capitalized on a once-fringe product that’s been thrust into the mainstream in recent years and backed by Health Secretary Rob...
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Fiery Lights @fierylights.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
tyranny /tr'э-nē/
noun
1. Unjust or oppressive governmental power.
2. A government in which a single ruler is vested with absolute power.
"people liberated from a brutal tyranny."
3. The office, authority, or jurisdiction of an absolute ruler.
"Pisistratus held the tyranny of Athens."
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Olivia C. caught baby elephant "Matope" at the Dallas Zoo having the time of his life. His name means "muddy water" in Swahili. A classic case of nominative determinism: a water-loving elephant named Muddy Waters. Matope reminds you to hydrate. Mother Mlilo is there to make SURE you do. ❤️🫂🐘
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026
Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Ballpoint pen and colored pencil. 

At the top of the piece we see the delicately drawn branches and leaves of an apple tree. Just beneath the tree limbs, a bat is flying with one of the green apples in its mouth. This is when the morphing begins, reader. A sequence of 13 drawings show the bat morphing into a teeny witch (with completion of the morph around drawing #9). The morphing creates a spiral leading us to the center of the page where the little witch is running towards her basket filled with apples. It’s likely she’ll re-morph into a bat again and the morphing pattern will continue.
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Fiery Lights @fierylights.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I agree. I was born and raised in one of those rural areas. They absolutely can choose differently.
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Fiery Lights @fierylights.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Because they “work hard” and deserve it. The truth is we need each other, we should want to support each other. But the GOP has found a way to tap a bottomless pit of fear in rural voters to motivate them into voting for the slimiest people imaginable.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️
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Fiery Lights @fierylights.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It’s people in the larger cities that help support the rural areas. Whether they are farmers/ranchers or receiving social welfare benefits (or both) they would not make it without tax payer funding, which a majority comes from the big ole’ cities. They seem to not understand this.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/10/2026
Pervert glasses will supercharge the banal and destructive post-9/11 surveillance, sure - but more than that, they will be combined with facial recognition to dox and shame anyone and everyone who makes a public mistake.
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Fiery Lights @fierylights.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The pushiness to adopt AI feels an awful lot like a lack of respect for people’s boundaries and it’s off-putting. People will push back when boundaries are crossed. No means no in all sense of the word.
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Fiery Lights @fierylights.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I clearly remember the release of the first iPhone. Steve showed the world the cool new touch screen phone and people flocked to the stores, standing in line for hours. No one was pressured, it was cool tech. AI obviously isn’t living up to the hype or people would be all over it.
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow
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Fiery Lights @fierylights.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Me after sitting at the kids craft table stocked with an abundance of pipe cleaners
Beautiful model fated with wearing what appears to be a web of giant fluffy beige pipe cleaners. They wrap around their head and neck, jut out from the shoulders, come together in a point in front of the chest and hips then trail away down the legs
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
with all respect: i'm losing touch with what AI does because i have no interest in it and it's not my business. nobody worries about me losing touch with developments in particle physics or artificial bull insemination. it's not my fault the richest guys on earth want me to make their toy my life
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Fiery Lights @fierylights.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Hey siri, play Bad News by Zach Bryan
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Coach Jerry (referee 🔵) @gopher33j.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I have my great great great grandfathers diary in my possession - he drew this in 1845. There were no photos so he drew what he saw. I am sharing Henry T Whinfield’s art for the first time ever to the world. This is a world debut.
Drawing of a windmill
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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I might be a little less distrustful of AI if the dudes promoting it, supporting it, insisting on it, and advocating for it weren’t the worst fucking people on the planet.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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Fiery Lights @fierylights.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In my mind, as someone who has worked in mental health, SI means suicidal ideation. So, “SI is going to win” is not any better
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Fiery Lights @fierylights.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Love that for them. I love the fact they have to spend every day thinking about how to make him happy so they don’t get kicked out of the cult and cut off from the billionaire money making machine
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Fiery Lights @fierylights.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
No no no no no
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Fiery Lights @fierylights.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It would be nice to celebrate this as a win but I will keep my enthusiasm in check for now
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Fiery Lights @fierylights.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
By the WH press pool not covering events, I wonder if they are hoping it will help Rs in the midterms since his crazy isn’t on full display. They’re probably tired of him falling asleep on the tv too
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Fiery Lights @fierylights.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I think it’s hypocritical if people criticizing Sheeran are still watching professional football, attending games, buying merch or any other way are supporting football franchises and their billionaire owners who support this current administration.
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Fiery Lights @fierylights.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I would greatly appreciate a social media site free from engagement farming and bots
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Just keep trying your best, Steve.
Two otters sit on grass under a star-filled night sky in a black-and-white pen-and-ink style illustration.

Speech bubble from Steve (left): “WHAT IF IT’S NOT OKAY?”  
Speech bubble from the other otter (right): “WHAT IF IT IS?”
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Fiery Lights @fierylights.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The truth is that Dems shouldn’t be aligning themselves with Rs on anything. They are completely untrustworthy and have proven they stand for nothing but trampling over others to enrich themselves. Like, be serious right now. Either you’re on the side of the people or you fucking aren’t.
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
when ai leaves u behind
7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2: 
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4: 
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6: 
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy. 
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”
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Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Trump's move to ban outlets he doesn't like from reporting inside the White House comes amid a wave of bad news less than 2 months before the midterms: *Record diesel prices, $4+ gas, ~7% mortgages, higher interest rates, high fertilizer prices, ~$7 beef. *Terrible polling for Rs, Trump *Etc Etc Etc
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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
no i don't want to join your cult
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Fiery Lights @fierylights.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
that provides some explanation for the Talarico campaign’s recent questionable decisions
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Fiery Lights @fierylights.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Agreed. It’s difficult to get excited when elections have been in a chokehold for so long. I’ll keep voting but keep my optimism in check
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Fiery Lights @fierylights.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It’s a masterpiece
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Fiery Lights @fierylights.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I think it’s hypocritical if people criticizing Sheeran are still watching professional football, attending games, buying merch or any other way are supporting football franchises and their billionaire owners who support this current administration.
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It’s insane that people in Congress are paid over $174K a year in taxpayer dollars whilst making millions of dollars from insider trading whilst getting 18 vacations a year as Americans all over the country struggle to pay for rent, gas and groceries.
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Fiery Lights @fierylights.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Fiery Lights @fierylights.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Why are we paying them?
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
wednesday has a lot of work to do
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Fiery Lights @fierylights.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
French’s wiki paints a telling portrait of his bigotry. They have no shame and no low is too low for them
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Fiery Lights @fierylights.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
that’s it really
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Fiery Lights @fierylights.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
He was on Conan’s podcast recently and his concern for what is happening in this administration was loud and clear. I don’t think he would be happy about the comparison
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Fiery Lights @fierylights.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It’s influencer aesthetic
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