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máirín 🧚‍♀️

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🇵🇸 🏳️‍🌈 💖💜💙 figure skating. literature, film, history, art, fashion, music, disability rights. passionately curious. 🧡💚🩵 letterboxd.com/fairphantom

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 11/08/2026
“When you submit to be surveilled, what you are doing is handing over a copious amount of power. So you’d better be very, very sure you can trust the people you hand it to—and even if you do, can you trust their successors, five or ten years from now?”
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“AI-Powered” Surveillance Networks are Worse Than You Know
In New Orleans, everyone is being watched with facial recognition cameras and police drones—and your hometown might be next.
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Alissa Wilkinson @alissawilkinson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This may or may not be written by AI but it has the quality that powers similar writing, which is that halfway through the sentence it’s clear these are just thought-shaped words (It’s actually worse if it’s all human-written, to be clear)
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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
As the PR for the new show putting money in the pockets of the shitty wizard lady heats up, just remember: Everything every person has been coached by PR to say is total bullshit and we can call it that. Will tap the sign again, and will do so many more times this fall: bsky.app/profile/mory...
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EvanButScarier @324b21.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
If you saw the earthquake in Colombia and thought “how can I help?” Donate to WCK. They have boots on the ground now.
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Memento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
anyone who voted to confirm rfk jr needs to spend a day with me in the ICU while patients who aren't vaccinated against respiratory viruses struggle to breathe so they can see what they've created today
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Thomas [DARK MODE], DO @tom.medsky.social · 10/08/2026
This will literally kill people here's how... During cold and flu season, pediatric offices are at max capacity. That means an individual provider might see 30-40 patients per day. If you add in extra visits for shots, that just squeezes out slots for sick babies.
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máirín 🧚‍♀️ @mairinriybe.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Daring to dream the dream of Yuna Aoki world champion 💜
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
When people tell someone with disabilities to “just try harder”, they’re showcasing their own fear. They can’t accept that there’s illnesses from which you never recover. They can’t cope with the frailty of the human body. They need to make it a personal failing so THEY can remain in denial.
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Erica Schultz-Opinions are my own @ericaschultz42.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
So my mom is a retired registered nurse. She worked as a surgical nurse, psychiatric nurse (this, particularly prepared her for three kids in the 1970s), and, later in her career, a school nurse. 1/?
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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Every day you delay a vaccine for your child because of lies from antivaxxers is a day they may get a deadly or disabling disease that is fully preventable, and they will suffer needless pain and damage which will be your fault.
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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I have zero interest in soft-peddling or nuancing this. The antivaxxers are lying to you, and every sniffle, let alone deadly panencephalitis from measles, sterility from mumps, or cancer from HPV, is on you for prioritizing those lies over your child.
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máirín 🧚‍♀️ @mairinriybe.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
oh what i would give to be able to nap at will.
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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 07/08/2026
165°F kills salmnollea
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
"Don't stay on twitter so long you stop believing in sunscreen" sounds like an idiom people 200 years in the future will be using but won't remember what it means
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máirín 🧚‍♀️ @mairinriybe.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I just want to scream and scream and scream.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The President of the United States is going to kill people
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máirín 🧚‍♀️ @mairinriybe.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Yuna 💔💔💔 I hope her recovery goes well.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
phenomenally well-expressed
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máirín 🧚‍♀️ @mairinriybe.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I had no idea that the Succession opening sequence was inspired by the opening montage of David Fincher's The Game (1997). I watched The Game last night and I turned into the Leo pointing meme.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
teachers have been screaming about this for years, both in schools and universities, and yet our leaders are much more interested in appeasing Big Tech and their own tech FOMO than paying attention to the real risks of this tech in classrooms
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Prof. Catherine Flick @liedra.net · 09/08/2026
Good. If tech companies won't do the right thing, the only thing we have left is social shaming. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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‘I’ve definitely lost followers’: influencers face backlash over Meta ‘pervert glasses’ content
Using ‘spy glasses’ made by Facebook owner leads to floods of negative comments, say content creators
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máirín 🧚‍♀️ @mairinriybe.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
a functioning government sure would be neat.
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máirín 🧚‍♀️ @mairinriybe.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
hate to see people falling for a smear campaign.
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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
This country is cooked. Incredible to see this happening while academics are still pretending that pronouns and protests are what’s ruining education. www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
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💥 @dynamoe.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
$75 for a drawing of any cat (YOUR cat, friend's cat, imaginary cat) reading any book (YOUR book, their book, a favorite read) You get a digital illustration file you can use to make stickers, bookmarks, posters, etc. — DM for info see previously drawn reading cats: www.behance.net/gallery/2291...
cats reading books
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Trump II has profound consequences that will last a century: -destruction of administrative state & civil service -extreme wealth concentration, tech oligarchy -climate rollbacks -end of rule of law w/o pushback incentivizes future backsliding -Iran Pundits hate this because it sounds shrill
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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
As tea gowns go, this black cut velvet, dating to c1915, has more than a hint of the Morticia Adams to it, but oh so languid and sheer. Collar up or collar down it is a strictly ‘at home’ kind of piece @metmuseum.org #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
Back view of a cut black velvet tea gown with a short square train and floral motifs in the velvet. It has deep hanging sleeves. The mannequin is holding a peacock feather fanFront view of the cut black velvet tea gown showing the sheerness around the floral motifs and the drape of the long hanging sleeves. The narrow round collar has been styled to stand and frame the neck
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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
There isn’t much in the way of green round about at the moment but Dior’s 1953 gown Émeraude is as lush and verdant as it gets. The pile of the velvet softens all of the straight lines #MuseeDior #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
A rich green velvet sleeveless cocktail dress with a fitted bodice and nipped in waist with a straight below knee skirt and a sweetheart style neckline
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Shopping for health insurance is such a terrible experience: you guess what kinds of health care you’re going to need in the upcoming year, pay at least a few hundred dollars each month for insurance--and then get charged even more based on how well you guessed. We need Medicare for All.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/08/2026
El-Sayed: "To me Medicare for All is not about what it takes away, it's about what it offers: Guaranteed health insurance from cradle to grave."
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Nelle from the Leftist Cooks (She/Her) @neillyleftistcook.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
It may be easy to dismiss distressed trans folk as hyperbolic about the UK but like... "the lawsuits will keep coming" is a way that the wealthy could make *anything* happen. Any group disappeared from social life; any evil appropriated as a social justice crusade.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 09/08/2026
A great response to people who claim kids need to learn "A.i." to be job-ready: "But the tech of today looks nothing like it will in five or even two years’ time: it’s the equivalent of selling your child’s intellectual liberty in exchange for a penny-farthing bicycle."
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john.in.chicago @john-in-chicago.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I remember watching this when it aired live in September, 1976, the Muppet Show's first season. I didn't know who Rita Moreno was, only that she was amazing. She won a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program. Happy Sunday Funday! 🥵
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
or even acknowledge that the attacks on universities more generally will require long term solutions which will involve them. Maybe it doesnt poll well in their focus groups of centrists and Republicans to appear to care about education? Who knows.
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Friendly Neighborhood Mouse @missmouse.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Sorry that it’s Instagram. If you live in the DMV (DC area), important information about ICE: www.instagram.com/p/DbzS1RjDfwv/
A community alert dated August 8, 2026, from Montgomery County immigrant rights collective. 

We are receiving reports that ice continues to operate in the parking lot of the Korean Korner shopping center on Veirs Mill Road in Silver Spring. Today marks the fourth day this week that ice activity has been reported at the location.

Korean Korner shopping center, 12207 Veirs Mill Rd., Silver Spring

According to community reports ice agents have been driving through the parking lot and targeting people in the area. 

vehicles reportedly being used by ice include vehicles with no license plates 

at least one vehicle with an Arkansas plate and one with an Ohio license plate 

if you or someone you know may be at risk of immigration enforcement we strongly recommend avoiding the shopping center and surrounding parking lots in the coming days 

please share this alert with your family friends and community. If you witness suspected ice activity do not put yourself at risk document only if it’s safe to do so and call the DMV rapid response hotline.
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The Met: Costume Institute @metcostume.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Pumps botfrens.com/collections/223/conten…
Gift of Mrs. Stewart Waller, 1950
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Ross Sayers @rosssayers.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
[James Stewart as Odysseus] now listen here, Agamemnon, I'm going home, y'see. You keep your fancy armour, I'm getting off this crummy ol' beach. [Spotting the Cyclops] now here's a curious fella, he's only got one peeper
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AnythingGOEs - Figure Skating @anythinggoe.com · 06/08/2026
The full results of the Anything GOEs Awards 2025/26 including voting percentage are now available on our website! anythinggoe.com/awardsresult...
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I remember being dismissively assured it wasn’t true, that this crank zillionaire is funding basically unlimited vexatious litigation
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Should any female patient or member of staff require funding to fight this assault on their legal rights, apply to jkrwf.org
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BREAKING >> Staff at an NHS trust received an email on Wednesday telling them there would be "no immediate changes" to its policies following new statutory EHRC guidance on single-sex spaces....
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 09/08/2026
if they're drinking nounwine it's fantasy. if they're snorting a verb it's sci fi
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
She had not realized how very different people were, how differently they saw life. She felt as if she had looked up and suddenly seen a whole new planet hanging huge and populous right outside the window.
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máirín 🧚‍♀️ @mairinriybe.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I have many conflicting thoughts and feelings about The Florida Project.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
its true that what sophie cunningham said unequivocally sucked. it’s also true that i had never heard of her before the past week or so. it’s become pathetically easy to rocket to relevance by being anti-trans. is there a way to acknowledge the harm while also depriving it oxygen? i don’t know.
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Patrick Fenelon @patrickfenelon.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Yes. I am calling for a purity test. Nothing will matter if we nominate someone who won't: • Attempt aggressive institutional reform (SCOTUS, DC statehood, ICE, etc.) • Hold the criminals of this administration accountable • Rebuild and expand the social democratic institutions Trump tore down
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Matt Hodler @mhodler.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
A thing to remember about Riley Gaines is that she ignored several credible sexual assault allegations against her own swimming coach at UK, Lars Jorgensen, who she wrote glowingly about in her biography. She had a chance to actually protect women in sports (her own teammates) and she didn’t.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/08/2026
this is such a vile political stunt to pull congratulations to sophie cunningham and everyone who has decided to turn the wnba into the latest GOP political football, I hope she gets drummed out of the league
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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
The thing about Sophie Cunningham and every other reactionary female athlete who gets heated about the possibility of trans women in sports is that all they’re really going to accomplish is helping misogynist pig men make their sports into a joke
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Erik Gregersen @ctgriffes.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
As an adaptation of Homer’s epic, the Honda Odyssey is a complete disaster. With its roomy cabin and rear entertainment system for the kids, the minivan foregrounds concerns that only arose with the American nuclear family and say nothing about the brutality that underlay the Bronze Age.
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