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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Why do you take no responsibility for that behavior turning off the voters it is now your job to retain? Why do you not spend your time finding other people treating a vulnerable group like that and convincing them to fucking stop?

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Halloween Holly Smith @hesmith.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I looked at the electricity cost to charge an EV at my home and I’m guessing my next vehicle will be a hybrid, not an EV. I can’t imagine how high the cost would be for people who live in places that don’t cap rates like my utility does.

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Halloween Holly Smith @hesmith.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I haven’t seen that movie in 30 years and immediately knew what you were referencing.

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Halloween Holly Smith @hesmith.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Every time I hear of some Dem candidate calling for bans on gender-affirming care for minors, I immediately want them to lose because there’s no way someone that gullible should become a governor or senator.

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 14/09/2026

I am so fucking tired of the daily ‘should trans people be allowed to exist’ argument. The vast majority of society dgaf about us until democrats and republicans alike decided to turn us into their niche culture war issue after people like Jesse Singal and JKR decided we needed to be eradicated.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14/09/2026

I just saw someone admonishing someone trans to shut up about trans rights because there are concentration camps in the US, and you know who I see overwhelmingly and disproportionately on the front lines standing up against concentration camps? Trans people.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The one reason why you should make me your Senator for all 50 states:

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Halloween Holly Smith @hesmith.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

One of my favorite pieces of lore is that they found the Unabomber by recognizing something he’d said in his published manifesto. “You can’t eat your cake and have it too.” His SIL recognized it because he’d always insisted that was the correct way. He was right though. It was the right way.

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Halloween Holly Smith @hesmith.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Oh, that’s a good one. Perhaps a little coarse sand in there as well.

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Halloween Holly Smith @hesmith.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Reminds me of what the English did to Ireland and Scotland, or what the US and Canada did to American tribes. Trying to erase culture tends to backfire, and I hope it does for this administration too. Wherever they go, I hope one of their socks is a little too wet and they don’t know why.

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Halloween Holly Smith @hesmith.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

That may be the fullest, most robust set of whiskers I’ve ever seen.

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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

SPECIAL REPORT Last month, Alpha School invited people to follow student social media accounts "if curious about life in our high schools." I accepted their offer. What I've found shocks me. Forget the AI and ask instead: Is Alpha Schools a cult? Follow along for a summary of my findings.

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SPECIAL REPORT: My So-Called Alpha School

What is it like to be a student in Alpha School’s high school boot camp?

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Halloween Holly Smith @hesmith.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

UT here, so maybe I really need to find a way to make meaningful space for it.

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Halloween Holly Smith @hesmith.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Do you like your freeze-dryer? I keep wanting to get one to maximize local produce (especially from our backyard garden) but it’s hard to justify the cost and space.

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Jacob S. Rugh @jakerugh.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

No USA metro has swung blue more over the past 20 years than Provo-Orem-Lehi (Utah County UT): D +34 2020-2024: Every State House District trended left of the USA. Every one. Now the @utcountydems.bsky.social chair @darinself.com has recruited a historic 13 candidates in 15 Utah HD races.

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Halloween Holly Smith @hesmith.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Tried and failed to overturn fair maps. Utah’s congressional districts are all new and feature one district that leans heavily Dem. GOP Supermajority in the state legislature voted to pack the Utah supreme court, since it was the court that stopped them.

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Halloween Holly Smith @hesmith.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This was one of my pre-Covid panic purchases and I still haven’t run out. Super inexpensive and pretty much always available.

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Halloween Holly Smith @hesmith.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Utah has had mail-in voting as the default for more than a decade. As such, there are far fewer in-person polling places. That infrastructure doesn’t just pop out of nowhere.

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Halloween Holly Smith @hesmith.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I have/have had cats who really like the smell of my hair after using Arctic Fox dye.

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Halloween Holly Smith @hesmith.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

‘I know you hate GenAI, but…’ followed by the most tortured logic ever, in my personal experience.

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Halloween Holly Smith @hesmith.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

As horrible as it’s been to go through, it does feel a little like that scene in The Two Towers when Gandalf says “The Ents are going to wake up and find that they are strong.” Good on you all for standing firm against the terrifying ridiculousness of this administration.

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Halloween Holly Smith @hesmith.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

She could even just have sat in her moldering castle with her bigoted viewpoints and still been a beloved children’s author, but she had to be the center of attention. I’m convinced that her vocal anti-trans bigotry started as a desperate ploy to retain relevance and backfired.

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Halloween Holly Smith @hesmith.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

When I was a kid, a girl in my town was hit by a car going ~45 mph. But because she was wearing a helmet, she was back to school a couple months later instead of dead.

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joyce’s monster 🎃 @joycelaurie.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

if you are a gay icon STAY INSIDE!!! it’s DANGEROUS OUT HERE!!!!!

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Someone on Reddit asked why “9 to 5” was the phrasing, when everyone we know works much longer hours and always has. The answer was less about hours and more about symbolism, feminism, and the fight for equality. I miss Dolly.

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Danielle Ryan (Lestat Era) @danirat.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I think another lesson to take from the loss of both Dolly and Tim Curry is that neither of them took themselves seriously but they took the work dead serious that's the most important thing pour all of yourself into the craft but have fun and don't get an ego.

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Halloween Holly Smith @hesmith.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

We had a late frost and the peach crop for my whole region was almost completely destroyed. I bought a box of donut peaches to support a local farmer and they were wonderful but $$$.

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Halloween Holly Smith @hesmith.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I grew up in a town that was sparsely developed with a lot of small farms. Few streetlights. It blows my kids away that what I saw at night is much closer to this image than the view from my parents’ house now. (Same house, much more developed street)

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

sometimes you get two bags of chips out of the vending machine I guess

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Halloween Holly Smith @hesmith.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

The will is probably the stickiest part, for sure. It’s easy for politicians and institution heads to throw up their hands and say nothing can be done when they aren’t the ones dying. (See: Americans vastly in favor of gun control, but not the government)

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Halloween Holly Smith @hesmith.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Yes, despite what for many was crushing poverty and life surrounded by 600+km of wilderness on all sides. I don’t think Americans say it can be done to take the piss. I think it’s more to instill hope in a livable, sustainable future where thousands of people don’t have to die every heat wave.

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Halloween Holly Smith @hesmith.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

There’s something about this I don’t understand. Where I live, summers are typically hotter and winters colder than most of Europe. The homes built in the 19th/early 20th Century here had no aircon at first, but have been retrofit to have it for decades now. Why is that not an option in Europe?

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Halloween Holly Smith @hesmith.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

There’s that scene in Downton Abbey where Lady Mary criticizes Charles Blake for not being sympathetic to the wealthy landowners floundering after WWI. She says he has to understand what they’re used to, and he says no, they have to understand it’s time to get used to something else.

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Halloween Holly Smith @hesmith.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I live very close to a bed of toxic dust covered by a very thin layer of water that is decreasing nearly every year. The idea that the toxic dust could kill a million or so people downwind is moving even the most stodgy of Republicans to act. How many dead people does it take for Europe to act?

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Halloween Holly Smith @hesmith.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

The problem is, as you say, that too many people think they shouldn’t have had to. The US has its own issues with nostalgia killing people, but at least we can acknowledge that it is an issue.

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Halloween Holly Smith @hesmith.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

But also the arguments against lack of infrastructure are painfully thin. Most homes in the UK are 50-100 years old. Nearly every home in my region (Utah) of that vintage has AC, and most from the 19th century as well. It’s not livable otherwise.

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Oh, hey, more research on thermal mass. In most places, it’s somewhere between useless and counterproductive for energy efficiency. If you’re in a place with big DAILY temp swings (Say, a desert with 95° days & 50°nights), thermal mass IS your friend because you use the thermal mass as a buffer.

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Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 19/06/2026

Here’s a new, super-interactive essay I wrote about making interactions really great for repeated use, motor memory, and so on. I just… love this kind of stuff? I don’t know. My hope is that you’ll fall in love with this, too. *a big screen very, very recommended* aresluna.org/show-your-ha...

aresluna.org

Show your hands honor for the strange power they bring you

On designing finger-friendly interactions

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SKELLYTON @pizzalawyer420.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Tomorrow is a union holiday AND I'm seeing friends tonight, currently sitting at my desk trying to focus like

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Halloween Holly Smith @hesmith.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

The lengths manufacturers go to make it seem like nothing has changed…

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Personasama @persona.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Sucks that this 64 year old Rocky & Bullwinkle joke still hits now

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

found a little buddy and brought her to a nice flower shrub, but why are her wings so mangled? :( #invertebrate

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Halloween Holly Smith @hesmith.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I think the treatment was probably similar, with the unfortunate caveat that so many were drafted instead of choosing to serve. Plus all the societal factors that made disability and mental illness more marginalizing then than they are now.

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Halloween Holly Smith @hesmith.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

The title case for virtually all text seems odd too.

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Halloween Holly Smith @hesmith.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Besides the other suggestions, swiss meringue buttercream is delicious and freezes well, for the next time you make a cake.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/02/2026

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

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