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🐸🏳️‍🌈 Twitter-ex-pat, art, music, travel (sigh) politics...such as they currently are. 🐸 🐸Oh and that thing called the Constitution. Gird yer loins ya'll. This is gonna be a bumpy fight. 🏳️‍🌈 (NO DMs.)🐸

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 3h
It appears a nerve has been struck
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 5h
Fruit basket. Just being there. By Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, born on this day, in Milan, in 1571.
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LPDOak, CA @lpdoak.bsky.social · 14h
That's gonna be one crowded rink. www.sfgate.com/local/articl...
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San Francisco's largest ice skating rink to descend on Fisherman's Wharf
Tickets will go on sale October 1.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 15h
I think it's pretty neat that one of the legit breakout indie success stories this year is a game about painstakingly designing and sewing opulent ballgowns store.steampowered.com/app/4019220/...
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Dressmaker on Steam
Become a dressmaker! Choose fabric, cut out patterns, and sew them all together to satisfy (or sabotage!) townsfolk in this cozy crafting game inspired by real dressmaking.
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 15h
literally the only impact it would have on my life would be to spare me the aggravation of all the slop I run across.
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Hemant Mehta @friendlyatheist.com · 16h
The Air Force is ordering service members to update their religious affiliation using Pete Hegseth’s shortened, Christian-heavy list. If they refuse, their records will be "automatically realigned" by the military. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/pete-hegse...
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Pete Hegseth gutted the military’s list of official religions. Now Air Force members must choose.
Service members must choose from a less inclusive list—or let the military choose for them
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🇨🇦 l.faraday 🇨🇦 @mizati.bsky.social · 16h
I’m not sure how much it will change, but I am sure if you continue the slide into totalitarianism it will be permanent.
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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 16h
Z. P. Nikolaki (Turkish/American, 1879-1945) Woman with Leaves, 1912 Oil on board 24 × 18 in (61 × 45.7 cm) Private collection #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
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TR Dark23 @trdark23.bsky.social · 17h
"Romance" novel cover. "Lick My Shitter
Like An Apple Fritter," by Darline Sweetwater
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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 17h
As night follows day
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Papa Woof und Krampus und Bleaken @papawoof.bsky.social · 17h
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JoeMyGod @joemygod.bsky.social · 17h
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US Cyber Command Sees Five Suicides In Five Weeks - Joe.My.God.
The Baltimore Banner reports: Five people whose work supported missions at U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency at Fort George G. Meade died by suicide within a month of each other this...
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 22h
Remembering CARAVAGGIO — born 455yrs ago today — an extraordinary talent who not only had a formative influence on the Baroque painters but also filmmakers including Martin Scorsese. ‘The Incredulity Of Saint Thomas’ (c. 1601-1602)
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LPDOak, CA @lpdoak.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Japanese Tea Garden, Golden Gate Park, SF. G'nite.
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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
American Visionary artist Eugene Von Bruenchenhein Everything he produced bears evidence of his great energy and imagination. But the paintings completed during 1954-1963 are extraordinary. Untitled, 1959 #EugeneVonBruenchenhein #VisionaryArt
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Désespérer @decervelage.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
'You' - from Roy Harper's 1980 album, 'The Unknown Soldier', with Kate Bush on vocals and David Gilmour on guitar. youtube.com/watch?v=6TWP...
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'You' - Roy Harper, Kate Bush & David Gilmour
YouTube video by Stace_Odyssey
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Mike Rogers is a corporate sellout who moves back to Michigan every few years to run for office to take another swing at the revolving door of corporate politics.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
When I say we desperately need a Democratic doctor in the US Senate I mean it.
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Humor Satire Memes @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A two-panel meme featuring characters from the animated show Archer. In the top panel, Mallory Archer speaks in front of a bookshelf with text reading: "Look, I don't want to sound racist, but...". In the bottom panel, Lana Kane responds with text reading: "But you're going to power through it."
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LPDOak, CA @lpdoak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What strategy? Election obstruction, voter purges....desperation? Can anyone say what the GOP policy agenda is other than whatever Dear Leader says goes?
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LPDOak, CA @lpdoak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
His polling is butting up against the 20s. I almost wonder if he'll be at 28% come Nov. www.rawstory.com/trump-maga-f...
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Trump's most obsessed groupies turn after 'dagger in heart' betrayal: 'A fraud and liar'
Some of Donald Trump's most devoted foot soldiers are starting to feel like they were sold a bill of goods — and now they are furious, according to a report.The Front Row Joes — the roving band of sup...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
While you are getting up and going to start the work week, members of the Trump Admin are planning their next lavish taxpayer funded parties, trips and personal vanity projects while searching for new ways to turn their govt appointment into another grift to enrich themselves.
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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Beijing branch of the Grand Old Communist Party #MAGA
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ROCKY MOUNTAIN VIEWS @rockymountviews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Map of possible tracks for Hurricane Polo showing it heading up thru New Mexico and then stalling as it hits a cold front. Could caused flooding in NM, TX and SE Colorado. youtu.be/cd1NYGojGZ8
Map of possible tracks for Hurricane Polo showing it heading up thru New Mexico and then stalling as it hits a cold front.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Russia hit a private medical center in the center of #Kyiv. This is, again, a purely civilian object, in the middle of a busy business street, in the middle of the day.
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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LPDOak, CA @lpdoak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There's that rock ribbed arrogance about MAGA, that narcissism and performative attention hounding that is just part of it's DNA as a movement. This garbage, along with Trump's declining faculties is what will do it in. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
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Senior Trump staffer eviscerated for tone-deaf champagne-popping AI post
‘This is precisely the midterm messaging the GOP needs from the Deputy White House Chief of Staff,’ one commentator remarked
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LPDOak, CA @lpdoak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hate to end the day with this but... Ars doing the reporting many are ignoring. Kudos to them! arstechnica.com/health/2026/...
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Trump admin using AI to deny medical care for seniors in disastrous experiment
Vendors rolling out AI have an "incentive to deny as many claims as possible."
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LPDOak, CA @lpdoak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Before midterms? The GOP oligarchs getting in their orders before their party death knell I see. 🙄
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The light hitting your face right now spent 200,000 years escaping the Sun's core before racing here in just 8 minutes flat.
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Teufelaffe @teufelaffe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Hate to be overly conspiratorial on main, but the reason you don't see a lot of reporting on Dems doing/saying stuff like this isn't because it isn't happening, but because almost every major news media outlet is owned by conservatives.
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LPDOak, CA @lpdoak.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Torgo sauce?!?!😱
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LPDOak, CA @lpdoak.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
There's a lifestyle with these GOPers that needs to be front page headlines. So many have relocated to Florida.
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Fascinating world of ancient #glass: A Roman glass model of a #boat, dating 2nd c. AD. It was found in St. Aldegund in a 4th-century woman's grave. Six of such boats are known. We don't know their function: Were they used as women's urinals, as components of water clocks and sundials, as...🧵1/2 🏺
A translucent blue glass vessel shaped like a boat, with a curved hull, upturned ends, and small protruding feet for support. The surface has visible cracks. A soft shadow is cast beneath the object on a neutral background.
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Farran Smith Nehme 🇱🇧 @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"In the pursuit of a certain idea of verisimilitude, we’ve allowed cinema to become devoid of real, meaningful style." @coreyatad.com on the style of MILDRED PIERCE is so good: www.justatad.xyz/p/weve-lost-...
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We’ve Lost Recipes
A few words about Mildred Pierce and style
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This never gets old. Original post
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LPDOak, CA @lpdoak.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
OMG no! Hawaii, not again!
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Ralph Bakshi @ralphbakshi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
from “Eros Thanatos – ein Totentanz” series —Arminius Hasemann, 1921
Black and white art. I think it's a woodcut. a nightclub where the audience embraces each other or watches the stage where a musician in a tuxedo plays the violin. the musician has a skull head and skeletal hands. he is playing the dance of death
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
He says he’s a “responsible optimist.” Society doesn’t have to worry, because Jensen is going to work very hard, and society will get to enjoy the fruits of his labor. Dude we are not your shareholders. Run your company. Stay in your lane. You are not Atlas, holding yhr globe on your shoulders.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 25/09/2026
These are your words of the week pool equinox rotund El Niño annihilate meretricious leather lake www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/the...
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The Words of the Week - Sept. 25
Dictionary lookups from weather, colors, and Fat Bear Week
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Greg Proops @gregproops.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Happy Dolly Day🦋 #925Day
Praise DollyVote BlueHoly ToledoQueen
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“The United States seeks a more secure, more prosperous, more equitable world for all people because we know our future is bound to yours.” —President Joe Biden speaking at the UN, 2023 Remember when we had a leader who talked like a real president? www.americaamerica.news/p/this-cant-...
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This Can’t Go On for Two More Years
Swooning over China’s repressive communist dictator and belligerently acting out at the United Nations. Yes, it’s a psychiatric emergency.
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ROCKY MOUNTAIN VIEWS @rockymountviews.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Because of our varying altitudes in Colorado, Denver 7 creates a map showing where the fall colors have peaked or are still in their full glory, or yet to peak. FORECAST FOR LEAVES www.denver7.com/weather/denv...
Denver 7 weather forecaster in front of a map showing a FORECAST FOR LEAVES
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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Richard Claremont (Australian, b.1965) “Surface memory” Acrylic on board, 120 x 150 cm. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Finally, segregationists have achieved their dream of capturing the Civil Rights Division and turning it to their own ends
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
75 Candles 🎂 today for MARK HAMILL
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Perfectly put.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Placed in an orphanage for a month at 8yrs old because his parents were so poor, here's a monogrammed shirt wearing, full-blown Hollywood star TONY CURTIS at the Dorchester Hotel in London in 1957.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.
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