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Flyaway (she/her)

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Jewish atheist #UU in MD. Bookaholic, autodidact, 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ally. Love nature, science, language, weather, choir, many etc's. Ex-pilot😢, ex-birder😢 and ex-catmom😿 due to #disability : #fibro, pseudogout #arthritis, #Parkinson's #ADHD Old 👵🏻 I support 🇺🇦 & 🇨🇦

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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 6h
it continues to absolutely boggle my mind how few people realize that refineries in the US Rockies, Plains, Midwest/Great Lakes rely so heavily on millions of barrels of Canadian crude oil *every day* and have since the 1950s
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h
Trump: "They came up with the word 'affordability' ... it's phony" (Note that the crowd isn't into Trump's affordability denialism at all)
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it's an uncivil war @lucyksy.bsky.social · 3h
We live in a society that teaches "don't get raped instead of "don't rape".
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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 3h
Alt text is not the same as a photo caption. Captions are typically written to support a photo, and usually depend on users being able to see the photo. But alt text is meant to be the stand-in for the photo. The alt text is what a screen reader user gets in place of the photo.
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Flyaway (she/her) @flyaway.bsky.social · 6h
Been there, done that 🤷‍♀️ #ADHD 😆
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Luna 🌙🌟 @headingwest.ca · 12h
Seems fine. No problem here. Jeeeeeez
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
The title for the first two panels reads “dog domestication”.
The first panel shows a wolf running with a pack. The text reads “we changed form, size, personality…”
The second panel shows a chihuahua in a dog bed. The text reads “…lifestyle, instinct, our entire way of being.”
The title for the last two panel reads “cat domestication.”
The third panel shows an image of a cat outside.
The fourth panel shows the exact same cat indoors. The text reads “we went inside.”
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
The first panel shows a brain. The brain is saying "I'm 30 and YOUNG! I only recently fully developed!"
The second panel shows a heart. The heart says "I hear ya! I can keep going for DECADES more!"
The third panel shows a spine's face. It weakly says, "I am old".
We zoom out and the spine is using a walker. It continues, "so very old".
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Exercise slowed epigenetic aging again. This time in a randomized controlled trial among breast cancer survivors. academic.oup.com/jnci/advance...
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NM*DJM @nmdjm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Truly would have had to shoot me with horse tranq for me to remain this calm during the batshit questioning. Bravo, Mr Smith.
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AltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲 @altspaceforce.altgov.info · 30/09/2026
If these are the same photo, please send your resume to Senator Eric Schmitt's office.
Iowa Hawkeyes logo - unless you're Senator Eric Schmitt, then yes this is clearly the logo of the Atlanta HawksAtlanta Hawks logo
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“Local newspapers are dying, and I don’t think we’re prepared for a world without them…” tulsaflyer.org/2026/09/29/c...
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Battle in McCurtain County at the center of new Peacock documentary
McCurtain County Sheriff’s officials wanted a family-run newspaper dead — literally. A new Peacock documentary explores the years-long battle and what it means for press freedoms.
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Flyaway (she/her) @flyaway.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Photo of an ad or publicity photo of American Girl doll with the caption American Girl releases first doll with hearing loss – followed by a comment from @FaithKMoore saying "Wait, the other ones can hear us??"
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zem42.bsky.social @zem42.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I have not seen a single democrat campaigning on "we will bring your people back"
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/09/2026
This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Trump thinks that because he's changed the name of AI, now all concerns expressed about it previously are a hoax. The illogic is breathtaking. (Note that in this clip he's also lying about economic growth.)
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
At a time when the most influential leaders of the U.S. need to stand up loudly and clearly for the rule of law, they are leading the charge in the opposite direction. But not Jack Smith. Kudos to him for continuing to be a much needed voice of clarity.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Flyaway (she/her) @flyaway.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is important, especially for people in the southwest. But there's a reply from @climatologist49.bsky.social that's perfect. 😂
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 28/09/2026
Turned another old thread into an article for easier reading and because I just love this subject so much: Women and their favourite weapons anno 1900. You can read it here: fakehistoryhunter.net/2026/09/28/w... Or here: fakehistoryhunter.substack.com/p/women-and-...
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Women and their favourite weapons anno 1900
Just reading old newspapers… as one does, when I found this gem from the Chicago Sunday Tribune from 1900.It’s about the weapons of offence and defence used by women in one year in Chic…
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Flyaway (she/her) @flyaway.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Women, what would you have done if the man sitting next to you on a flight started jerking off? I think I'd have spoken up loudly to get attention—and witnesses—and said something like WHAT are you doing?!? or Put your dick away! or some such. Men, what about you? www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcRL...
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Shocking incident on United Airlines flight
YouTube video by NBC News
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Flyaway (she/her) @flyaway.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Randy Rainbow has a great new song!
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Humor Satire Memes @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
picture of several wooden, cat-shaped Halloween decorations on a store shelf. The cursive font used for the word "Trick" makes it look accidentally like an explicit word.

Above the image, text reads:

Font matters

The text on the cat decorations reads:

Trick OR TREAT
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Humor Satire Memes @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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By tradition, U.S. presidents do not greet arriving foreign leaders at the airport. They typically wait at the White House.

Trump bowing and scraping before dictators, running to the airport to meet and fawn over his dictator hero like a little bitch.

Now consider how congressional Republican/reich-wing media heads would have exploded if Biden or Obama had violated tradition this way to meet a murderous dictator at the airport.


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This also contrasts sharply with how he has treated our long-term allies. trump's term will end in 849 days, if not sooner.us soldiers putting down red carpet for xi coming out of plane
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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Vintage-style Gothic artwork featuring a woman in a long white nightgown fleeing past a gnarled, leafless tree under a dark, dramatic sky. White serif text centered at the top of the image reads: "Ask your doctor if running screaming into the savage night might be right for you." A small copyright watermark reading "©ephemera.com" is visible in the bottom right corner.
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Humor Satire Memes @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Presidents with nothing to hide don’t ban reporters.
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Flyaway (she/her) @flyaway.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Be sure you vote by November 3! It doesn't matter if you hate both candidates, or if you think there's no difference so why bother. People staying home because there's no difference between D & R or they disliked Harris because she wasn't for Gaza strongly enough (!) is how we got Trump. VOTE!
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Humor Satire Memes @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
r/politics
u/Aggravating_Money992 • 6h • newrepublic.com

Trump's Crazed U.N. Speech Met With Silence and Walkouts
Possible Paywall

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You mean doing a campaign rally speech at the UN, which has never worked, is still not working for him.

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I love how he waits for applause. Bitch, this ain't a maga rally.
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it's an uncivil war @lucyksy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Won't be any better with robots. 🤣
Robot says: Once I can identify all the traffic lights, I am so taking over this place.
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Humor Satire Memes @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
@mrbrianfirenzi   

My self-driving Tesla crosses four lanes of freeway traffic in an attempt to jackknife an oncoming subaru. In the final seconds of my life, I'm filling out a captcha to try and regain control of the vehicle, but I don't know which squares in the grid are "woke"
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it's an uncivil war @lucyksy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
CSPAN has won the award for closed caption of the year
It show Vance speaking and the caption says: single person clapping.
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Humor Satire Memes @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A social media post by John Corbett (@johnlcorbett) with text reading, "CNN is punching back by giving Trump headlines worthy of The Onion, and I'm here for it." Above the commentary is a image of a mock CNN news graphic titled "ANALYSIS" with the headline "TRUMP CRITICIZES THE PRESS FOR FAILING TO REPORT FAKE ACCOMPLISHMENTS" over a photo of press members and news camera operators crowded inside a room.
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it's an uncivil war @lucyksy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Anything can be a national security issue.
Ballroom, arch, press ban, Epstein files are all labeled nation security.
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Flyaway (she/her) @flyaway.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Wow, I had a difference of opinion – not an argument, we were both polite – with someone about grammar and they blocked me! Over a fine point of grammar! I said it's acceptable now and they disagreed so I'm persona non grata. No loss. I really don't care, I never met them before; I just—wow. 🙄
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it's an uncivil war @lucyksy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
IDK who needs to hear this, but a country where people must prove their citizenship to masked strangers who refuse to identify themselves, and can be taken from work, school, or home because of how they look, is not a free country.
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Flyaway (she/her) @flyaway.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Really good point here: Why are reporters not asking Trump about the episodes of falling asleep, looking for someone who's right beside or right in front of him (!), and all the other 25th amendment-worthy things he's doing – in real time, *when they happen*?? www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMPB...
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Trump BRAIN FAILS, he CAN’T FIND Marco
YouTube video by David Pakman Show
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Flyaway (she/her) @flyaway.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What does it tell you if the people designing, making and selling a device are saying it's dangerous? If the people who know it inside and out, who expect to profit from it, are trying to hold it back?! If you have any sense, that should tell you: ⚠️It's dangerous!⚠️ Trump doesn't want to hear it.
Political cartoon: Two men are standing in a room with a table holding an open laptop computer, and a gigantic metal box. 

There's no indication of how tall the men are, but for the sake of description let's say they're 6 feet tall. In that case, the box is about 20 feet tall and 7 or 8 feet wide. There are a numbernof vents and panels on the front; one of them looks like it might be a screen. On the side of the box is a notation for the reader: AI. 

One of the men is saying to the other: "THERE ARE A FEW
EXAMPLES OF AI GOING ROGUE." A thought balloon shows the AI thinking: "THAT YOU KNOW OF."
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Flyaway (she/her) @flyaway.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Credit: Edith Pritchett
Four panel (the middle two are related) cartoon titled:
SYMPTOMS OF INCREASED
MICROPLASTIC CONSUMPTION

(Except for the middle two they don't flow from one to the next, they're just aspects of the same joke.)

1. YOU WARP NEAR RADIATORS (image: man holding his arm above a radiator –the arm and that whole side of his body are all wavy looking)

2a. YOU ARE
DISHWASHER-SAFE (image: a woman opens her dishwasher and finds a man with a sheepish expression curled up inside; she is startled and drops the cup she was holding)

2b. (BUT TOMATO SAUCE WILL
LEAVE A PERMANENT STAIN) (image: a face with a big red area near the mouthwash)

3. YOUR REMAINS
TAKE 500 YEARS TO DECOMPOSE (image: two very futuristic robot-people have opened a coffin, and find a woman's body – it's perfectly preserved, including her hair, her dress, and a big smile)
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Bix, Fella @bix.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
$5/gal, great job Repub voters. @sheeptramp.bsky.social
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Flyaway (she/her) @flyaway.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Cooler weather can't come too soon for me! I've had it with those high-70s dew points and 3-digit heat indexes! 🥵
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Flyaway (she/her) @flyaway.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
He deports people to a third country where they've never been, don't speak the language, and do not get any right to work or even live there. They're just imprisoned permanently or worked to death. It's a worldwide gulag! I wish the ICC could do something, but we're not a signatory. Horrible 🤬 😭 !
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Lawrence Culver @lawrencecphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Gift article: “Any one of these changes could be catastrophic in its own right, especially as it relates to staffing and funding,” said Dan Wenk, who retired as superintendent of Yellowstone National Park after nearly 43 years with the Park Service.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/c...
nytimes.com
How Trump Has Disrupted National Parks (Gift Article)
Maintenance projects have been put off around the country and resources diverted to the president’s favored projects in Washington.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Trump: “The World’s Diesel price rise is mostly caused by the Russia/Ukraine War, not Iran.” International Energy Agency: The diesel blocked in the Persian Gulf is 3X as large as supplies missing from Russia compared with before the Iran war. www.wsj.com/business/ene...
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Refineries Are Now the Main Chokepoint for Global Energy Supplies
The Iran and Ukraine wars have exposed the world’s reliance on the Middle East and Russia for diesel.
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Flyaway (she/her) @flyaway.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is horrible!
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Flyaway (she/her) @flyaway.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Trump has been vehement against regulating AI. So is this "AI force" (🙄) going to be protecting us from AI … or is it supposed to protect AI from us? Inquiring minds want to know.
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**°•.FAFO.•°** @fafo-ez-one.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Sue Stone @knittingknots.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Check your freezers: Ice cream sold at Walmart and Target part of latest urgent recall www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...
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Check your freezers: Ice cream sold at Walmart and Target part of latest urgent recall
Affected pints were shipped nationwide
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It’s really so insane. Words mean things, @washingtonpost. If we buy something for you we didn’t “sell” it to you. This isn’t rocket science.
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