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@ionastone.bsky.social
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pseudonymous but safe: cats, trans*, history, anti-fascism, and other passions. She/they.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
BREAKING Professor Peter Hallward has just been arrested on the National March for Palestine for holding a banner with a factually accurate legal statement on it. “In the UK it’s a crime to say I support Palestine Action” Help end the absurdity: www.wedonotcomply.org
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ionastone.bsky.social @ionastone.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
He is so majestic and yet radiating kindness and fun; he is every possible thing you could want in a cat.
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, literally used himself as a human shield to protect students from police violence
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 05/10/2026
hey it’s a gay bar story about who to actually be mad at
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ionastone.bsky.social @ionastone.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The shininess of black cats, and their little secrets... she'll be someone's whole world soon.
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ionastone.bsky.social @ionastone.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Like all the current temporary residents, she's just so wonderful and has blossomed under your cunning care. They're so free to express themselves and know you get them.
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David Zinn @davidzinn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Suzie always empties a few pockets with her cover of Muskrat Love.
sidewalk chalk drawing of a muskrat with coins at her feet playing a cigar box banjo. She is singing, and may or may not be jinging the jango.
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ionastone.bsky.social @ionastone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
And OldCouch working hard in the background.
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Melissa NicWitch of Clan Witch @microdoodles.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#SpookyNature The Grackle of Grim.
Grim grackle, head down, staring up into the camea with one steely eye.
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ionastone.bsky.social @ionastone.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
And why is nothing but the mini-mart open? why, WHY?!
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ionastone.bsky.social @ionastone.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Thank you so much for this. There are such strange time-shifts in me as I read it, which I can't really spell out but the past feels both so near and so distant, so possible and impossible. Thank you.
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ionastone.bsky.social @ionastone.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
He has been THE BEST LITTLE GUY in such big and silly and small and snuggly ways that I think we're all feeling that with you. He's going to bring happiness wherever he goes, but he'll always be your (and our) Barnacle. He's just such a perfect kitten (and will always be a kitten, brilliant boy).
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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 30/09/2026
Youtube trying to subtitle an episode of Speaking our Language (a Gaelic language learning show from the 1990s for listeners outwith Scotland) has inevitably spectacularly wrong but also amusing results.
Caption "hello Liana give it her chef ah kobata love connacher fien cleaver" instead of "halo Catriona, ciamar a tha sibh? Tha gu math tapadh leat. Ciamar a tha sibh thein? Gle mhath"caption "market Danielle had this shot Kirsty in unicum" instead of "seo a mac Neil agus seo Kirsty a nighean agam"Caption "I guess showing the yeah console this Chuck Fionna and you nothing" instead of "Agus seo agam Domhnall, agus seo Catriona tha nighean agam"Caption "it's mission more a collage hello all right come on a high shelf" instead of "Is mise Morag Nicleoid, Halo Morag, ciamar a tha sibh?"
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
For those who need a reminder: the term “gender ideology” was coined by conservative religious and political groups to condemn abortion, same-sex relationships, trans existence, sex education, etc. Authoritarian regimes embrace it. We will only defeat these politics by refusing anti-gender rhetoric.
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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.
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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Every time someone links to this film, I have to repost it. It's one of the most significant bits of British 20th century art. Everything about it is incredible. Groundbreaking music production by Daphne Oram. Amazing camera work by Wolfgang Suschitzky (who later filmed Get Carter).-
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Why ben thei so numerous The songes about rainbowes And what ys on the othir syde? "Rainbowes are visiounes Yet onlye illusiounes, And rainbowes have no thynge to hyde."
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Gemma Clark 🧿🕯️ @gemmaclark.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
So sad to see this happening again. Here is their crowdfunder for shutters and window repairs. Let’s give them some support 🫶 www.gofundme.com/f/categoryis...
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Donate to Help Category Is Books Get Shutters!, organized by Category Is Books
For the past eight years, Category Is Books has been able to comfortably oper… Category Is Books needs your support for Help Category Is Books Get Shutters!
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 23/09/2026
Five cops in Indianapolis were just criminally charged with abusing Flock to spy on their ex-wives, their wives' ex-partners and women they met on duty. Audit was triggered by us at the @washingtonpost.com, the prosecutor said. From last month: wapo.st/4yfNHng
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ionastone.bsky.social @ionastone.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'm just really glad you have these wonderful housemates (all of them! their variety gives spice) to come home to, and esp the cuddly ones. All our best wishes.
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ionastone.bsky.social @ionastone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
That is a perfect foot, Ginny; thank you for sharing it.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
If you're a Dem who thinks you'll gain something by going anti-trans, look at Gallup's "most important problem" and Fox News' "most important issue" polling and see where trans issues rank. Whoever told you going anti-trans is a savvy or necessary move spends too much time on X and should be fired.
Gallup polling. "LGBTQ rights" moves between 0 and 1%.Fox news polling. Wokeness/transgender issues at 0%.
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Houston Chronicle @houstonchronicle.com · 20/09/2026
An ICE agent shot and wounded a person Sunday in North Austin, according to three state and local officials.
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ICE agent shoots and wounds person in North Austin, officials say
An ICE agent shot and wounded a person Sunday in North Austin, according to three state and local officials.
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ionastone.bsky.social @ionastone.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The documentarian Ken Burns long ago and far away in a much, much inferior incarnation.
photo of Ken Burns as a child; white boy with brown hair in button-up short-sleeve shirt over white t-shirt and sitting on black chair
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ionastone.bsky.social @ionastone.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Or a "social contagion".
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The Onion @theonion.com · 18/09/2026
Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming theonion.com/trans-teen-hatches-nef…
Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
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ionastone.bsky.social @ionastone.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I yelped! This is wonderful.
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Anthropology.net @anthropology.net · 16/09/2026
More than 2 million Indigenous people likely lived in Australia in 1788, over seven times the figure used for a century, and numbers fell by over 90 percent by 1861. #Archaeology #IndigenousAustralia #PopulationGenetics www.anthropology.net/p/australia-...
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Australia Was Home to 2.2 Million Indigenous People in 1788
DNA, radiocarbon dates and climate models put 1788 Aboriginal Australia at over seven times the old estimate, with excess deaths near 2 million by 1861.
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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In 1965, an American scholar bought her first stolen god from two boys outside a Kathmandu temple. Grains of rice were still stuck to it — offerings from worshippers. She paid less than $2 and wrote in her diary: "I don't think the temple will miss it at all." 🧵 www.himalmag.com/mary-slusser...
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Mary Slusser’s secret loot of Nepal’s sacred art and heritage
A US scholar made her name as an expert on Nepal’s cultural heritage – while illicitly buying sacred artefacts and smuggling them out to the United States
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ionastone.bsky.social @ionastone.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
You and she were both so smart in reading each other!
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ionastone.bsky.social @ionastone.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
They have your back, tho perhaps troubling if you were to meet them down a dark alley.
three geese, one walking toward you, one looking ahead, one behind, one to the side
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PZ Spiders @pzmyers.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Q: What's the large muscular organ in a woman's chest called? A: The heart? Q: I'm sorry, Bob. It's the SPLEEN. The spleen. freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2...
Hideously bad AI illustration
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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 11/09/2026
“My God! Vikings! And they mean business!”
“My God! Vikings! And they mean business!”
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Exeunt Magazine @exeuntmagazine.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
In 2021, local residents successfully prevented a Home Office raid on Kenmure Street in Glasgow. How will These Are Our Neighbours - a new play by Katharine Williams - tell that story with just three actors? Maddy Costa finds out
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Staging a protest
In 2021, local residents prevented a Home Office raid on Kenmure Street in Glasgow. But how will These Are Our Neighbours tell that story with just three actors?
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ionastone.bsky.social @ionastone.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
You intrigue me strangely (as someone who's not watched the show but for whom various HoLords crises are bread and butter. Cheers for sorting out my weekend.
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ionastone.bsky.social @ionastone.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Early days with OldCouch for babyGonze.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The creepy weird billionaire dork who funds a worldwide white supremacist movement, runs a CSAM website and destroyed our government thinks that there must be some kind of grand (((Jewish-funded))) conspiracy to make people hate him. Sure, man. Sure.
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ionastone.bsky.social @ionastone.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
So many times you share these beautiful baby pics, I am impressed by how quickly you figured out that you were safe and adored. You seemed to know right away that you were home and in a place where you could make amazing pictures, esp. the color composition. In short: demon child.
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ionastone.bsky.social @ionastone.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Superb moment of trust and superb cat design! (Mr T, who is a beautiful black kitten child, has a secret little bikini patch of white too.)
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ionastone.bsky.social @ionastone.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The man who beat two female protesters with his cane at the Reform conference has been identified as Stephen Cooling - it’s actually there on his conference tag - former UKIP candidate for Erdington and now member of Reform’s Sutton Coldfield branch. Presumably West Mids Police have enough info now
Snarling man with cane in Reform shirt, showing conference badge
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ionastone.bsky.social @ionastone.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A person related to my life now has a couple of your books without any volition on their part too, as I've shared them forward after I enjoyed them thanks to your (Tom's) posts. My cat is not always great on sharing but he approved this action.
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 04/09/2026
"The administrators deciding on these closures and cuts often say that they rely upon 'data points' and metrics, although they choose which metrics… Such supposedly data-driven decisionmaking often leaves aside the fact that Humanities departments tend to be revenue positive."
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Religion, Humanities, and the Public Good
The right wing's assault on Religion and Humanities programs is an assault on our ability to understand the world, from Hindutva abroad to Christian Nationalism at home.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
ICE and CBP are full of rapists and child predators. A new report details it in horrific detail.
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The Sex Criminals and Child Abusers of ICE and CBP
Rape. Domestic violence. Epstein friendship. It's all tolerated by our valiant homeland-security apparatus. PLUS: COINTELPRO 2026
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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
UW-Madison professor engages in multiple sexual relationships with students, disparages another over their sexual orientation and appearance, creates hostile environment, and department leadership covers it all up. And in true “pass the trash” fashion, moves on to ASU once forced to resign.
captimes.com
UW-Madison students, records detail investigation of professor
Dietram Scheufele resigned after investigators determined he had sexual relationships with two students and engaged in unwelcome sexual conduct with one.
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