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Laura @lkhnknz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The timing is impeccable: one of these trump propaganda ads played *right as* I scrolled and saw this story. I appreciate the timely explanation—I do not appreciate this administration’s blatant propaganda bullshit on our dime or otherwise 😡

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Cara @carakitty.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I genuinely don't know how any local politicians can think that data centers won't get them voted out. The crowd here at the Aurora city council meeting is clearly looking to take some heads if the city council doesn't act.

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Laura @lkhnknz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It’s worth noting I recently learned that Aurora City Charter, our governing document, has ZERO language around how many meetings council members are allowed to miss, attend virtually, etc and still keep their seats.

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Laura @lkhnknz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

After being called out multiple times for only attending virtually anymore (giving an air of absenteeism), Françoise Bergan cannot help herself from chiming in (interrupting a public commenter) to say “I’m here” over the loud speaker at 8:50pm

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Laura @lkhnknz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Aurora city council meeting at the one hour mark of public invited to be heard, a vote is cast and passes by mayoral tie breaker to continue and allow the remaining 47 speakers to be allowed to be heard Incredible turn out of ppl speaking out against Trident data center asking them to resubmit 📝

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Laura @lkhnknz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Update: boxed pho 🍜 zhuzhed up with egg, carrot, garden zucchini, onion, and shaved beef. 🍽️ 🌱

A white bowl of pho with chopsticks and a spoon lain across. From 12 o’clock we have hard boiled egg with sriracha heart, carrot, zucchini, onion & shaved beef hidden under spoon. The broth is a darkish brown.

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Laura @lkhnknz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Well, I guess I know what we’re eating for a while… 😅 left her on the vine a little longer than intended and she reached over 6lbs and 18 inches long, 16 inches around. THICC zucchini baby. #gardening #gardensky #zucchini

A giant zucchini on a scale that reads 6 pounds 2.6 ounces
A bundle of tomatoes flank the bottom left corner.

A giant zucchini on a scale that reads 6 pounds 2.6 ounces. A tape measure lain across the length shows that she is 18 inches long.
A bundle of tomatoes flank the top left corner.

A giant zucchini on a scale that reads 6 pounds 2.6 ounces. A tape measure lain across the widest part of the base shows that she is 16 inches around.
A bundle of tomatoes flank the top left corner.

A white woman with wet hair wearing a white Care Bears teeshirt hoists the zucchini across her shoulder like a baby.

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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Laura @lkhnknz.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Some context: “it’s the same people over and over…” who Françoise Bergman and Curtis Gardner can’t be bothered to face in person for months. Advocates demanding justice for Kylin Lewis and other citizens murdered by APD; demanding racist Chief of Police Todd Chamberlain be sacked. #AuroraPolitics

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Laura @lkhnknz.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

#cowx rainbow(s) over Northwest Aurora, CO this evening are striking. (@bianchiweather.bsky.social you’re welcome to steal these)

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George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

🧵Spotted on Market Day in Aotearoa New Zealand: A tiny puppy (King Charles Cavalier cross furry donut?) has decided that circling around and around and around his human's foot is a very good idea. His laughing human scoops him up for a squirm-cuddle. Puppy love all the way.

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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Apparently people are sharing this far and wide on social media, which I think is horrible. This could cripple ICE operations. PLEASE do not share this.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.

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Laura @lkhnknz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Gorgeous evening to meet a couple of pretty birbs (and one snek i sadly did not get a good pic of) Thank you to the educators from Rocky Mountain Wildlife Alliance for coming to the Friends of the Front Range Wildlife Refuges’ Harvest Moon Dinner.

A red tailed hawk named Kingston sits on his handlers gloved hand. He faces her and is brightly lit in a ray of sun. Another wildlife educator is in the background, centered in frame of the hawk and handler pointing directly center frame.

A great horned owl (centered at the horizon line) sits on his handler’s gloved hand. They are flanked on the right by sunflowers.

A sunset shot of the Rocky Mountains from the POV of the Rocky Mountain arsenal some miles away on the plains. The city lights blink to life in the darkening foreground.

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Laura @lkhnknz.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I am a culinary genius (I sliced and cooked pears for my breakfast sandwich).

Top down view of a small breakfast spread: smoothie is berry-red, at 3 o’clock a bowl of cooked pears with cinnamon, at six o’clock a white plate holds a breakfast sandwich cut in half, with some bacon peeling out from the sides.

Close up of a divided breakfast sandwich on an English muffin, stacked with egg, bacon, sliced cooked pears, and Swiss cheese. A bridge of cheese connects the two halves like delicious cliff faces.

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Vamp Lizzlepants 🧛🏻‍♀️ @lizzlepants.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

for fuck’s sake I just said a swear word I didn’t kick your baby

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Brad W @bradwrench.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This fentanyl ballot initiative is terrifying and a gift to the private prison industry. Vote no on everything coming from the Coors, Anshcutz and Walton families, aka Advance Colorado.

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Laura @lkhnknz.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Can you hear them? That’s not a breeze. Those are some busy bees are buzzing in the wild bergamot 🐝 #gardensky #bloomscrolling #pollinators

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Dr. Meredith Wills ⚾️⚾️👀 @bbl-astrophyscs.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

You wanna grow the game, MLB? Then take a stand, call out ICE’s heinous behavior, and protect your goddamn people. Fans will flock to a league with a moral compass and the courage to do the right thing. www.chron.com/news/article...

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DHS taunts detained Padres coach in fiery social media post

"NOBODY is above the law, and he will remain in ICE custody pending removal."

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Laura @lkhnknz.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

#cowx peeps: have some cloud break over i225 from around 2:30pm

Dark thunderstorm clouds in the foreground, lined in silver. Bottom edge shows the front range in a blue-grey stripe and a break in the clouds glows a peachy-yellow.

Dark thunderstorm clouds in the foreground, lined in silver; a break in the clouds glows a peachy-yellow.

The highway and a tall office building in the foreground. Dark thunderstorm clouds in the foreground, lined in silver; a break in the clouds glows a peachy-yellow.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 12/08/2026

syzygy | noun | the nearly straight-line configuration of three celestial bodies (such as the sun, moon, and earth during a solar or lunar eclipse) in a gravitational system

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 10/08/2026

'Supposably' is a word. supposably = “as may be conceived or imagined” supposedly = "allegedly"

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Laura @lkhnknz.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Beyond thrilled to get this title in the mail today! can’t wait to dive in to Victoria S. Walsh’s THE IRON HEX 📖✨

The cover of Victoria S. Walsh’s THE IRON HEX featuring the main character, a young woman with flowing red locks on a green vegetative background

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Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · 04/08/2026

public libraries ftw

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Laura @lkhnknz.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

We lost a sweet boy this week. Kevin was expressive (usually suspicion) and gentle. We’ll miss you bud.

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Laura @lkhnknz.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

“Leave him alone; let him get his nut.” -me, to the dog watching a squirrel high tail it across our fence

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

trump getting involved with world cup stuff is why i initially had the ick about paying attention to the whole thing. i ended up a bit swept up in it anyway and it's been fun to have a unifying event in the states, but then we get smacked in the face with a reminder that he ruins everything.

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Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦕 @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Some fossil horses have weird pockets on their cheeks. We thought modern horses lost them. As it turns out, the skeletal divots are still there and might tell us something about how horses became accustomed to grassland life. My latest newsletter, out free! 🧪 buttondown.com/restingdinof...

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Friday Fragments #20

What in the world is going on with this horse's face?

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Laura @lkhnknz.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Bottoms is just mad because he wasn’t prepared to get reamed

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Laura @lkhnknz.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I feel like everyone deserves to see the full seal-roll. This is what I think of when I hear “dog days of summer”

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Giant anteaters Maria & Tupi at the Buffalo Zoo, enjoying playtime, delivery dinner together (it's ants from their favorite place!) These two gentle giants are part of a Species Survival Plan (SSP) & the hope is that they'll have lots of long-faced babies. Let's talk about it. (📷: Keeper Keller)

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Laura @lkhnknz.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

📸 Views of the Denver Pride Parade 🏳️‍🌈 All but the last two were shot on a Kodak Charmera

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The Sentinel in Aurora @sentinelcolorado.com · 27/06/2026

Aurora hosts Japanese Taiko drumming champion at Havana Street Night Market Takumi Kato his children perform alongside as Peaceful Forest, playing traditional Taiko drums, including one instrument that is more than a century old. sentinelcolorado.com/metro/aurora... #AuroraCO #Kumidaiko

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Aurora hosts Japanese Taiko drumming champion at Havana Street Night Market - Sentinel Colorado

Kato's family ensemble promotes peace through music.

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Tricia she/her @tricialorrene.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Not sure if it will help but it can’t hurt. There is a petition going around for the Mayor of Colorado Springs about the data center they want to put on Garden of the Gods road. You can sign here: c.org/FrLPct2PSH

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Sign the Petition

Open Letter to Colorado Springs Mayor, Yemi Mobolade, about Data Center Proposal

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

holy shit????? ICE is getting rid of seven of the 11 would-be concentration camp warehouses they purchased and sec. mullin indicates new mass detention centers are not priority. huge!

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ICE Spent $700 Million on 7 Warehouses. Now It Wants to Get Rid of Them.

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Brad W @bradwrench.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

USPS debuting a new live/work model?

Postal van that appears to be hooked up to a camper, it’s just parked there and I picked the angle

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Laura @lkhnknz.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

It’s been 24 hours since a wasp got me on the pinkie knuckle and it still itches like a sunnuvagun. Aaaahhhhhhggg. How long before I have to amputate?

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Laura @lkhnknz.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Breaking: Local huntress—annoyed with cover being blown—accepts praise of obvious good looks as consolation #cat #garden #cornflower

The back of a black and white cat crouching in the cornflowers, hunting squirrels and birds in the apple tree

The front and face of a black and white cat crouching in the cornflowers, hunting squirrels and birds in the apple tree. Her golden eyes appear annoyed as white whiskers shoot off her face like stars through the void.

View from above, barely visible (center right) back of a black and white cat crouching in the cornflowers, hunting squirrels and birds in the apple tree

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Happy Pride Month. If you know a young person (age 13-26) in the US who is getting their access to queer library books restricted because of local small-minded folks, please refer them to the Books Unbanned program. More people should know about it. #pride booksunbanned.com/card

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Books Unbanned - Get a Card

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Greetings from the red Columbine

A little sweat bee pokes their head out from the tunnel
Of a red Columbine flower

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Last night, ICE purposefully targeted medic, pacifist & veteran Adam Marshall, an organizer with Eyes on ICE, while he was trying to help protestors at Delaney Hall who had been gassed three times. They slammed him to the ground and ripped off his gas mask. He was arrested and dumped 10 miles away.

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Friendly Neighborhood Mouse @missmouse.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Checked out the #86theArch vigil yesterday, which is behind the Lincoln Memorial and going through Tuesday, May 26. I can’t make it out today but organizers will be protesting Trump this morning along his motorcade route when the draft dodger dares to show his face at Arlington National Cemetery.

A large, maybe 20-foot tall replica of Trump’s proposed arch constructed with a frame covered in a white plastic tarp. At the top it says, “86 Trump’s Arch.”

A graphic in bold red and white that says, “Stop Arch Insanity,” with an illustrated comparison of Hitler’s arch and Trump’s proposed arch.

The #86theArch arch replica is in the background.

The Third Act DJ (Third Act is one of the organizers of the vigil) looks towards the camera. In front of his DJ set-up is a banner that says, “Elders Against Authoritarianism” while behind him is a banner that says, “Honor Our Vets.”

A mesh banner with neon orange letters that says, “They Fought for Democracy Will You.”

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Laura @lkhnknz.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Our current family read-aloud has been fun, funny and enlightening! Bonus, it’s a front-porch-sittin’ kind of Saturday night.

A book cover of My Life as a Whore by Tracy Beach, a biography of Madam Laura Evens

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

The day after his Late Show finale, Stephen Colbert hosts a public access show in Monroe, MI. "It's been an excruciating 23 hours since I've been off the air."

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Only In Monroe --- May 22, 2026

YouTube video by Stephen Colbert

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Laura @lkhnknz.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Happy Friday, have a fungi and front garden update 🐞 🌹 🍄 #garden #flowers #fungi #insect

Red rose blossoms after two days of rain

A lady bug on a brown stem, blending in with the red rose blooms in the background

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

NEW: The Colorado Democratic Party has formally condemned and censured Governor Jared Polis for granting clemency to Tina Peters. Polis is hereby banned from speaking or being honored at party events. 90% of CDP central committee members voted to reprimand Polis.

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