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Basic Witch

@judaroo.bsky.social
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Collector of crafts, reader, history nerd, lover of RPGs both tabletop and video game. Regrettably straight but happily married. Cis, but staunch ally. She/her 📚☕️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 17h
Yeah this is just antisemitism masquerading as liberatory politics and it's really gross
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Basic Witch @judaroo.bsky.social · 14h
Kids in high school would try to tell other gullible kids that they could get high by smoking a catalpa seed pod thing.
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𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐤𝐨 & 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧 @quietblkgrl.blacksky.app · 14h
I knew we were in a recession when Burger King stopped dropping the free onion ring in your bag with the fries 😭
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Basic Witch @judaroo.bsky.social · 14h
I don't know what you're going through but I'm sure it sucks and I'm sorry it's happening. When I go through shit, sometimes all I want is someone to go "yeah, that sucks" and nod sympathetically. ❤️
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 20h
Nothing to worry about all good
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It's Abby. Yep @itsabbyyep.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
I love that now owning a Cybertruck is a recognized sign of bad decision-making. Like you paid $80,000 to get bangs
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𝚁𝚘𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚍 𝙼𝚌𝓢𝓹𝓸𝓸𝓴𝔂 @forcemanure.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Shining "All work and no play" meme with the lyrics for the Black Eyed Peas MY HUMPS
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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I promise you, there are Democrats in congress right now who still believe it is possible to go back to before Trump. It is not. Republicans are spending Trump’s term as Vought intended. They are intentionally breaking government in as many places as they can to make going back impossible.
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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is an important statement people, and especially elected Dems need to really understand. The current Republican project is one of destruction, by design. Yes, they have other goals, in RFK’s case he’s objectively pro-disease, but their primary metric of success is breaking government.
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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
we fucking loved it, even when there was basically nothing on it, and let me tell you something else: we loved it because of human connection, human diversity, human creativity. WE DON'T NEED A SINGLE THING ANY OF THESE COMEMIERDAS HAVE MADE AND TRIED TO SELL US IN ORDER TO HAVE A GREAT INTERNET.
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G @gpatrick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sums up my feelings. 
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Erin Maye Quade @erinmayequade.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For the last four years, I have said that Spencer Cox is the most dangerous aspiring Republican presidential candidate: he is an extremist who hides behind a calm demeanor. The exact pivot I think Republicans will want to make in 2 years. An example of extremism www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/u...
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A Gender War Explodes in Utah Over the Courts, Abortion and Representation (Gift Article)
When Republicans tried to repeal a law that voters passed banning gerrymandering, they found an opposition that flew in the face of Utah women’s “tradwives” imagery.
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Purple fairy Sprite @spritepurplefairy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Mary Kenney @marykgames.com · 05/10/2026
Old journalism adage: any headline that ends with a question mark, the answer is nope
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Basic Witch @judaroo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I am excited for the work on my new house to be done. 🥴
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Basic Witch @judaroo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I swore years ago I wouldn't renovate a house or be a landlord, and yet, somehow, I am now committed to both. Stupid DC condo market.
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Basic Witch @judaroo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We've had it rough, man
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
these are our pianos, not theirs! I know this stuff can feel secondary with all of the immediate pain this admin causes, but in the face of such personalism, it also feels important to assert the democratic principle that these cultural inheritances don't belong to the president, they belong to us
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🦝🦝🗑️ @2raccoons1trashcan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
October 1
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Headless Horseman
Alt: Headless Horseman
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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Here are some nice mushrooms
A family of translucent Mycena mushrooms rise from the side of a mossy log in a darkening fall forest. All photos by me
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Basic Witch @judaroo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Close enough to October. Soft gel press ons I painted and stamped last night.
A pale hand with shiny iridescent green nails that have black spiderweb patterns stamped on.
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Basic Witch @judaroo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Caitie, I am house poor stop influencing me 😆
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 27/09/2026
NEW: A Texas woman died after being denied an abortion and her family sued the state and her doctors for violating her right to life. They say the ban should be struck down. It's one of several cases challenging abortion laws under state constitutional rights to life and liberty @autonomynews.co
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New Lawsuits Argue That Pregnant People Also Have a Right to Life
Lawyers are fighting abortion bans in state court by establishing that pregnant people have a right to life and liberty—or at least self-defense.
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The idea that people want AI oversight to happen "all of a sudden" ignores years of research, warnings, and policy efforts. The delay hasn’t been a lack of awareness; it’s been because of years of industry lobbying against regulation, political resistance, and inaction.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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FᎪᎢ ᏩᎪNᎠᎪᏞF @sofarrsogud.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Apparently it's not appropriate to laugh and shout THAT KID GOT BEACH SLAPPED when you see a child get knocked over by a wave
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Basic Witch @judaroo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Get your Covid and flu boosters, folks. I caught something last week before I could, and it has walloped me.
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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 24/09/2026
*extremely tired voice*AI agents don't "go rogue". They are not sentient; they don't have agency. They work within guardrails set by humans. If the humans are so shit at building secure sandboxes for the agents to work within, that's on the humans. Stop using this framing.
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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So, Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean. The whole project cost the artist $860,000. Since 2020, the boat has saved more than 3,800 people. londondaily.com/banksy-funds...
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Banksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean - London Daily
Exclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities
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Kim Masters @kimmasters.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Literal Nazis. As was so screamingly obvious from the 2016 jump.
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Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is not deporting people. Literally. Legally. There is a deportation process and this isn't it. This is rendition. This is disappearing people.
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Feeding America @feedingamerica.org · 19/09/2026
Per NPR: over 4M people have lost SNAP food assistance since last summer. Nationally, participation is down 11%, and bigger changes hit in October. There's no replacement for SNAP: for every meal we provide, SNAP provides nine. Get the facts: feedingamerica.org/snapfacts
A pile of red apples with green highlights surrounds a tear-out newspaper headline. The headline reads, "Over 4 million people are no longer receiving food aid amid sweeping changes to SNAP," accompanied by the NPR logo. The Feeding America logo is at the bottom.
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Basic Witch @judaroo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I love a good medieval meme deep cut
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Yuna @yunao08.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Says the candidate who voted yes to all of his mass deportation bills that “have gone too far”
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🚨An alarm is being sounded for the American public. Sitting federal judges go on the record with the NYT. On threats to democracy by DOJ/administration actions. Includes 90 minute interview with conservative Judge Patrick Schiltz. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/u...
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Trump’s Minnesota Surge Threatened Democracy, Judge Warns (Gift Article)
In a rare interview, Patrick Schiltz, who served as the federal court’s chief judge last winter, called the administration’s actions “a grave threat to the rule of law.”
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 17/09/2026
I hope we can all see how the marketing rhetoric tech companies use gets adopted by the press in a way that anthropomorphizes software and creates a distance between the creators' incompetence and lack of ethics and the real world impact, yeah?
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OpenAI says it found more instances of AI models acting deceptively | CNN Business
OpenAI found additional incidents of AI models acting deceptively and taking unsanctioned actions during training, the company announced Wednesday. It’s also introducing a new process for the company ...
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 17/09/2026
it is not "acting out" it is doing exactly what it's being programmed to do, and the failures come because it's being overseen by incompetent people with no ethics
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'Be Transparent Only If Asked': OpenAI Models Acted Out in Six Newly Disclosed Ways
The stories were published as part of OpenAI's new effort to disclose more such incidents.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026
The ultimate you had one job
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Bemused to find myself in a world in which the raunchy gravel-throated comedian Ron White is better-versed on the facts and more skilled at political communication than any of the talking heads paid to inform the American public.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 16/09/2026
Here are the nine most important words in the entire post
Over the last decade, Democrats have criticized McConnell’s approach to shoring up conservative judicial nominees. But Durbin, who is retiring at the end of the year, said that his party shouldn’t engage in retaliation if Democrats win the majority in the midterm election.
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Big Sag ♐️Traveling Menace @neau.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026
Bruh
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Hand soap recalled for potential contamination of antibiotic-resistant bacteria
Six hand soaps distributed across 15 states have been recalled over possible bacterial contamination. See the brands, lot codes and affected products.
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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I finally sat down and wrote an email to the Talarico campaign. Doing nothing felt untenable. I encourage other decent Texans to communicate their disappointment. If this can help you get started, feel free to use anything that works for you
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info@JamesTalarico.com

Disappointment

I hope I am just one of many communications you receive expressing extreme disappointment with the campaign's position regarding transgender children.

Just as it is unacceptable for the government to insert itself between women and their doctors, it is equally unacceptable for the government to insert itself between children and their doctors and parents. Supporting a bill to ban gender related surgery in children ignores the fact that this is not government's place.And coming out for exceptions to transgender children participating in sports is equally unforgivable. There are no safety issues with transgender children playing that aren't also there with cisgender children. Same with fairness issues. Accepting the premise that transgender children aren't just regular children is ceding ground to the fascists who wish to remove all trans 0 people from daily life. I am so deeply disappointed in Mr Talarico and the entire campaign for allowing this framing to stand unchallenged and for the stand he has taken against the transgender community.

You may still get my vote in November, but you will not get my labor in the very hard ground game that needs to be fought. I simply can't fight for a candidate that won't fight for all of us.

Sincerely,

Lisa Seger Waller, TX
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Basic Witch @judaroo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Incredible
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Ive been saying for a while now, that the fear and disgust of disability and aging and death is driving the technofascists' apocalyptical thinking, in addition to their extreme eugenicist thinking. They truly believe they and they alone deserve to survive and thrive in this world.
Thiel’s philosophical assumptions might sound bizarre to outsiders, but they appear to be widely shared among the tech elite. “A.I. and its capabilities represent something analogous to the Second Coming,” Jeremy Nixon, a founder of an A.I. hub called A.G.I. House, said in May. The technology, some tech titans believe, will allow humans — at least some humans — to escape the bounds of earth and even perhaps the inevitability of death. It represents liberation from hopelessness and decay.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Keep this in mind whenever CBS News/60 Minutes get scoops. This administration now sees CBS as a friendly outlet, but with a more mainstream audience than Fox, so they're now in line for these exclusives, even if Hegseth has to cajole and browbeat his own pilots to get them to cooperate. 1/
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and political appointees in his department pushed for the two crew members of an F-15 who were shot down over Iran in April to participate in Sunday's highly publicized "60 Minutes" report about the ensuing rescue operation, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. Both airmen initially expressed reservations about doing the interview, with one even raising concerns about the prospect of being potentially ordered to take part in the segment, while military officials were also wary of revealing classified details of the rescue effort, according to three of the sources. Political appointees in Hegseth's office were adamant that both crew members sit for interviews, two of the sources said.
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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It drives me marginally insane that people are finally paying attention to the safety and it’s still not the *right* safety. Yes, it would suck if all our bank accounts get hacked. But I’m concerned about centrifuges and the grid and the water systems
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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Wow, WSJ op-ed telling people to skip AI investment
Wall Street, do your part. Both OpenAI and Anthropic are expected to launch trillion-dollar IPOs this autumn or winter. Don't take the business, advise all clients against it.
These companies don't need more capital and power, not now, not yet.
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