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maggy griffin

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recovering theatre kid, writer, mother of lizard

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Pope Leo XIV has been gifted a massive green orb and honestly not now massive green orb
Pope Leo by a green glass orb the size of a med-large pumpkin
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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
sorry, but torturing the omelas kid is just a smart move, polling-wise. i personally wish there wasn't a kid in the omelas hole--of course i do!--but let's not get distracted by purity tests, here.
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maggy griffin @ghostsestet.substack.com · 09/09/2026
genderbent lysistrata is something the emotionally abusive director of the worlds most obnoxious theatre troupe would describe as “topical” and “thought-provoking”
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Yo Gabapentin @yogabapentin.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
It baffles me that so many liberals accept the false premise that people got “too woke” and deserve some blame for the present right wing backlash
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Sure seems like a cascading series of contaminated food making Americans sick should be a massive scandal for the USDA and Secretary Brooke Rollins
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Anna 🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I make regular donations to a horse rescue back home in Tennessee that has been buying up as many of these horses from the BLM as they can to prevent them from going to slaughter. They then socialize them and adopt them out to good homes. 💖 horseplus.org
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Horse Plus Humane Society
Horse Plus Humane Society is America's largest animal welfare organization dedicated to rescuing, sheltering and protecting horses from slaughter.
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Indonesia has gone from aid recipient to donor. Six decades after the World Food Programme first fed families in Bali in the wake of a volcanic eruption, Indonesia has reached self-sufficiency in 8 staple foods. The world’s 4th most populous country is now a donor. buff.ly/aDKcZFP #ShareGoodNewsToo
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Indonesia’s transformation: From food aid to WFP humanitarian donor | World Food Programme
Once supported during crises, Indonesia now helps WFP tackle hunger in other countries
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
While y’all are debating this I’ve already moved on to woke 3.5
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
bringing an ice cold seltzer to my desk and placing it right next to two half-emptied, tepid cans of seltzer
two zendayas look at matt damon incredulously in The Odyssey (2026)
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The obsession with making elections a referendum on Hassan Piker reminds me of this
An Onion poll on "Who is our favorite Commedia dell'Arte character?"
Columbine 0%
Scaramouche 0%
Pulcinella 0%
Pantalone 0%
il Dottore: 0%
Don't know: 100%
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Interesting: There’s now an anonymous, moderated list of companies that stop responding after you interviewed with them
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Ghosted After a Job Interview? Report the Company
Ghosted after a job interview? Submit an anonymous report and see which companies candidates say stopped responding after interviews.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I took a hard look at the financial donors to ICE’s biggest supporters in Congress. These are people who want to significantly expand ICE’s power and have sponsored or co-sponsored legislation to do so. Here are the top 25 consumer brands bankrolling the biggest ICE supporters in Congress:
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
every time you write overly defensively you should remember that you are pursuing a strategy of writing careful sentences specifically for people who demonstrably either won't or can't read them
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Ohio Capital Journal @ohiocapitaljournal.com · 17/07/2026
With Ohio in a heat wave and an air-quality advisory, the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services and the Breathing Association are reminding Ohioans that many are eligible for emergency help. ohiocapitaljournal.com/briefs/amid-...
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Amid heat wave, energy assistance is available in Ohio • Ohio Capital Journal
Emergency assistance is available to Ohioans struggling to pay electric bills or who need fans and air conditioners.
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Brandon T. Snider @brandontsnider.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Back on my bullsh
an image that has boxes and a flow chart- GET A NEW IDEA > START A NEW PROJECT > TELL EVERYONE. the pattern repeats circularly, ignoring the box that says FINISH PROJECT
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June Martin @theworldsgreatestwriter.com · 19/06/2026
lmao poor yorick. they got his ass
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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters
All you do is take all the sex out, and use little short words, and little dumb ideas, and don't be too scary, and be sure there's a happy ending. Right? Nothing to it. Write down. Right on.

If you do all that, you might even write Jonathan Livingston Seagull and make twenty billion dollars and have every adult in America reading your book.

But you won't have every kid in America reading your book. They will look at it, and they will see straight through it, with their clear, cold, beady little eyes, and they will put it down, and they will go away. Kids will devour vast amounts of garbage (and it is good for them) but they are not like adults: they have not yet learned to eat plastic.
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Mexico’s overwintering monarch population grew 64% this winter, with butterflies covering their largest area of forest since 2018. The recovery remains fragile, but suggests there’s been a positive impact from conservation efforts in the butterflies’ core habitat. buff.ly/XoPKQ9d #ShareGoodNewsToo
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Mexico’s monarch butterfly population jumps 64%, offering hope for at-risk species
The insects covered its largest area since 2018, despite threats from habitat loss, climate crisis and pesticides
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Osita Nwanevu @ositanwanevu.com · 24/01/2026
This random online comment from 2018 remains one of the last half-century's most important works of political commentary. crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:

There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time.

For millenia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been. Today, we still have the king’s friends even where there is no king (dictator, etc.). Another way to look at this is that the king is a faction, rather than an individual.

As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly, it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. All such is axiomatically dishonest and undeserving of serious scrutiny. Today, the accelerating de-education of humanity has reached a point where the market for pseudophilosophy is vanishing; it is, as The Kids Say These Days, tl;dr . All that is left is the core proposition itself — backed up, no longer by misdirection and sophistry, but by violence.
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Stephen Granade @granades.com · 13/01/2026
“Why one small American town won’t stop stoning its residents to death,” an AO3 fic in which Isaac Chotiner interviews the guy who runs the lottery in Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”, is astounding. archiveofourown.org/works/73396436
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Why one small American town won’t stop stoning its residents to death - Charlotte_Stant - The Lottery - Shirley Jackson [Archive of Our Own]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 09/01/2026
my teacher friend asked, if people have more to give, to help meet the goal on this rent relief fund they have set up for families unable to live home due to their status. if we did $2k in 20 minutes we can do $24k by the end of the day, right? please amplify!
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Rent Relief for South Minneapolis Families Impacted by Federal Immigration Operations
¡El pueblo unido jamás será vencido!
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Jeff Tischauser @jtischauser.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
I-94 and Wilson, Chicago, IL
Someone spray painted Renee Good and abolish ICE on a wall by the highway. I-94 and Wilson.
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Jene O'Ween @luckymud.myatproto.social · 09/01/2026
Here is a great thread of other fundraisers, Nationwide, for families whose loved ones have been killed by ICE!
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John Burroughs @jburroughs.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
lithub.com/renee-nicole...
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Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem.
Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
To be clear that ICE statement shows this admin believes it can kill anyone it decides to label “domestic terrorist”
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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/01/2026
“abolish ICE” was always the correct position
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Jonathan Lemire @jonlemire.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
NEW: www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
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Laurasaurus @laurasaurus.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
I’m howling.
Recently, Clifford "Buzz" Grambo decided to upgrade his electric scooter. The old one he had purchased online only reached 16 mph and wasn't cutting it anymore. He needed to go faster to keep up with the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement cars he chases around Baltimore. So, Grambo bought a Segway MAX G3, which features a 2,000-watt motor and can get up to 28 mph.
"The first time I caught up to them, I could tell that they already knew who I was," he told me when we first spoke on the phone in late October. "They had seen me before, so they thought they were just going to speed away. I was like, ha-ha bitches, I got a new scooter!"
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 05/11/2025
I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
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maggy griffin @ghostsestet.substack.com · 24/10/2025
i’ve been drafting and brainstorming in notebooks recently, which has actually been very helpful in just getting stuff on the page and not editing as i write 🙂 unfortunately, this surge in productivity has coincided with me becoming very snobby about ink and paper. my finances…… 🥲
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/09/2025
NEW: Ohio Chaplain Freed From Jail as DHS Drops Deportation Case “This is beyond my dreams,” Ayman Soliman told ProPublica in a call just after his release. In a case marked by errors and inconsistencies, DHS had accused the children’s hospital chaplain of providing material support to terrorists.
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Ohio Chaplain Freed From Jail as DHS Drops Deportation Case
“This is beyond my dreams,” Ayman Soliman told ProPublica on his release from an Ohio jail. In a case marked by errors and inconsistencies, DHS had accused the children’s hospital chaplain of providin...
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 03/07/2025
If you want to stop funding everything Amazon does and stands for, you’ve come to the right place. We’re Bookshop.org, an ethical alternative for buying books online. Every single purchase financially supports independent bookstores, allowing them to continue serving their communities.
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The Booksmith @booksmith.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
we ship everywhere! booksmith.com xoxo
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
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Riley Gaines: NYC is so screwed

Qt: Did Zohran Mamdani also beat you at swimming
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Dianne Sherman @dlsherman.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Tile, made in Iran in the 17th century. #Art #FlowerReport #Flowers
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NPR @npr.org · 22/06/2025
For her new album, musician Anne Harris commissioned a violin from luthier Amanda Ewing, the first such professional collaboration between two Black women to be recorded.
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A violinist, a luthier and the historic commission that brought them together
For her new album, musician Anne Harris commissioned a violin from luthier Amanda Ewing, the first such professional collaboration between two Black women to be recorded.
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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 11/06/2025
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SungWon Cho @prozdishere.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
i recorded this as an example of what all old disney songs sounded like on crummy VHS audio to me as a kid
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dr. Marcel Piss 🥜 @drpiss.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
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The Onion @theonion.com · 01/06/2025
Target Scales Back Pride Section To Single T-Shirt Saying They’d Do A Threesome With A Girl For Their Boyfriend’s Birthday
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Target Scales Back Pride Section To Single T-Shirt Saying They’d Do A Threesome With A Girl For Their Boyfriend’s Birthday
MINNEAPOLIS—Responding to conservative backlash over a large selection of offerings for the month of June, Target announced Friday that they would scale back their gay pride section to a single t-shir...
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 23/05/2025
Hey folks, I have a HUGE request from the Trevor Project and would appreciate help getting the word out. Trevor is now recruiting for it's 2025 National Youth Survey. They need people 13-24, LGBTQ+, in the United States to take it. This research is critical to LGBTQ+ rights. Take it here:
trevorredcap.trvr.org
To proceed to the survey, please check off the box and click the button below.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
This kid is 15, and so has a moral clarity and uprightness that no adult elected official would or could ever have. There aren't really and never have been two sides of this issue, but if it has to be argued as a binary thing I don't see how anything less than this could seem like the side to be on.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 14/05/2025
“So what do you think Democrats can learn from somebody who, like you, targets the most vulnerable among us?” said Newsom theonion.com/gavin-n...
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Gavin Newsom Sits Down For Podcast With Serial Killer Who Targets Homeless
SACRAMENTO, CA—Promising his podcast listeners an engaging and enlightening conversation, California Gov. Gavin Newsom reportedly sat down Tuesday with a serial killer who targets the homeless population. “So what do you think Democrats can learn from somebody who, like you, targets the most vulnerable among us?” said Newsom, who acknowledged that while he and the […]
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 11/05/2025
1. I reach a lot of readers from a big variety of political backgrounds... and one of the most common points of contention I see centers around transgender sports bans. In my latest story, I make the moderate case against such bans. Subscribe to support my journalism.
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The Moderate Case Against Transgender Sports Bans
Bans on transgender competition in sports tend to be controversial, with some even otherwise supportive people siding with such bans. I present the moderate case against doing so.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 27/04/2025
voters just want to be taken seriously and treated like adults
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wwxwashere.bsky.social @wwxwashere.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
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