Reposted by Mel!Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 04/10/2025all arctic expeditions were at least a little gay. just my theory i mean in my head polar explorers explored each others bodies a lot. it was cold. they were often iced in for years. dont tell me stuff didnt happen 1938315
Mel! @melsupial.bsky.social · 04/10/2025Kirby was denied a treat once. What happens when this insult occurs a second time? 130
Reposted by Mel!Mark Kretzschmar @professthor.bsky.social · 02/10/2025An image from a spooky, noir, Avant-garde horror film titled Where Are My Treats? It's an incredibly rare film that originally debuted in Paris around 1956. However, it was far too scary for viewers, so it's been buried since then. 533644
Reposted by Mel!ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/10/2025Revlimid has its origin in a pill that cost patients $7.50 each. Decades later, the cancer drug costs more than $18,000 for a month’s supply — even though it still only costs about 25 cents to manufacture. Read @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social's award-winning investigation:propublica.orgThe Price of Remission: This Cancer Drug Saves Lives — but Costs a Fortune. I Wanted to Know Why.When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked ... 461224647
Reposted by Mel!Eduardo Suárez @eduardosuarez.bsky.social · 03/10/2025What a dark day for press freedom in the United States 171381522
Reposted by Mel!Reality Winner @reazlepuff.bsky.social · 03/10/2025What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy 480264216697
Reposted by Mel!Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 01/10/2025Let's be clear a what's happening here: the "censorship" and "bias" narrative is being extended to Wikipedia bc the far right knows that getting bullshit into LLMs is how to shape reality as "answer engines" replace search engines. Wikipedia is core to that fight so the grievance blitz is here. 15437651059
Reposted by Mel!Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2025The Sora AI thing is proof of something very important: The technology itself is useless without the ability to use the likenesses of real, living, unpredictable people, and the art they create. And the only way to get those likenesses or that art is to summarily steal it. 5448821022
Reposted by Mel!Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 30/09/2025OMG! Mychal did it. Anyone who first caught this wonderful human gaining an audience on TikTok knew there was something special happening. What an incredible journey and story. Promoting reading and libraries is so damn important right now, and I can't think of a better ambassador.people.comReading Rainbow Returns With New Host and Celebrity Guest StarsReading Rainbow is back after almost 20 years! The beloved children's TV program — which ran for 26 years before wrapping in 2006 — is celebrated for fostering childhood reading and literacy. 181010196
Reposted by Mel!The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/09/2025🔥 RICHARD MASSEY: “No one here in MEMPHIS asked for military occupation… this is not a war on crime, it’s a war on the working class… we know better than to sign off on our city becoming a blueprint for authoritarianism.” 7143261539
Reposted by Mel!Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2025Imagine living in a country as diverse as this one and hating it. Weird stuff. 10892178
Reposted by Mel!People’s City Council - Los Angeles @pplscitycouncil.bsky.social · 27/09/2025More workers were abducted today than pretty much any other single day over the course of the months-long federal occupation of Los Angeles. We are still under siege. There is no other choice but to organize and fight back. Look out for one another and defend your neighbors! 3474186
Reposted by Mel!Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 24/09/2025I am glad that Kimmel is back on the air but I am also unspeakably annoyed that a late night talk show has become a kind of Lexington and Concord moment of our time 4697673
Reposted by Mel!darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 24/09/2025even for an unhinged presidency this week has been pretty fuckin unhinged tbh 20899761008
Reposted by Mel!Not That Rick Scott 🇨🇦 @shadowspar.bsky.social · 24/09/2025this archetype remains undefeated 1435391076
Reposted by Mel!Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 23/09/2025Do any of the professors or journalists or teachers also get their jobs back or nah 243314818
Reposted by Mel!Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 23/09/2025More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...miamiherald.comHundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving siteAs of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald. 11943189419319
Reposted by Mel!Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 23/09/2025Oh dear. It seems Dr. Oz’s company sells Trump‘s big autism cure. What a crazy happenstance. 6057612299
Reposted by Mel!Andrea Chalupa @andreachalupa.com · 20/09/2025Suzy Welch points out Gen Z feels burnt out and hopeless over the future. Her husband Jack Welch, who ruthlessly destroyed GE for quick profit, becoming an icon of "greed is good" corporate mass destruction, had a lot to do with that. This woman is shameless. www.yahoo.com/news/article...yahoo.comSuzy Welch says Gen Z and millennials are burnt out because older generations worked just as hard, but they ‘had hope’"We believed that if you worked hard, you were rewarded for it," Welch said. "This is the disconnect." 74411
Reposted by Mel!Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.com · 17/09/2025This story is not getting the attention it deserves in fact it should be so shocking that it took over the CK story at this point. However, you would be hard pressed to find more than a couple people who even know what happened 111387869
Reposted by Mel!🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 18/09/2025People legit yelled at me for 24 hours when I said it's extremely dumb to RSVP to a protest. Why hand your name over to a group organizing a protest/rally? Do you *want* to have to talk to the FBI? Treat anyone encouraging you to RSVP to a protest as a fed. End of.politico.comDeputy AG Todd Blanche says ‘organized’ Trump protesters could be investigatedBlanche spoke as DOJ sought to walk back Attorney General Pam Bondi’s comments about "hate speech," which landed her in hot water with conservatives. 14739471349
Reposted by Mel!Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 18/09/2025I couldn't get tickets to the world premiere of Frankenstein in Imax. They sold out in milliseconds. My only choice was to get there 40 minutes early and wait in the standby line. Guillermo del Toro walked by, saw me waiting, and had his team give me one of his personal guest tickets. 312667244
Reposted by Mel!Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 17/09/2025I had some thoughts about people saying that "debate me bro" trolling is somehow the height of democratic discourse. 361369344
Reposted by Mel!Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 16/09/2025Just going to remind you that if the police or any other law enforcement show up you should ABSOLUTELY say I INVOKE MY RIGHTS TO SILENCE AND COUNSEL AND WILL NOT ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS WITHOUT MY ATTORNEY PRESENT i.e., then say nothing else except repeatedly demanding a lawyer. 5736761227
Reposted by Mel!🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 17/09/202526% doesn't even make sense. Practical Magic is a great movie *waves knife around* 1725318
Reposted by Mel!Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 17/09/2025SIX people who helped organize the Ferguson protests were all murdered or died under mysterious circumstances Do not let the white folks fool you into putting your name on ANYTHING ahead of ANY protest www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...rollingstone.comMysterious Deaths Leave Ferguson Activists 'On Pins and Needles'Six men with connections to the protests following the shooting of Michael Brown have been found dead over the past four and a half years. 8968559
Reposted by Mel!Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 17/09/2025Imagine in 2025, after all the times Black women warned literally everyone about everything that’s happening right now, announcing that Black women commentators are just very paranoid When we have been right???????? This whole time????? About pretty much everything????????????! 7860731062
Reposted by Mel!Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 14/09/2025Last year: Austin Peay State University learns prof is Nazi who went to Charlottesville rally. Admin drags heels, pays him $56k severance to leave This week: APSU prof posts screenshot of headline - Charlie Kirk Says Gun Deaths ‘Unfortunately’ Worth it to Keep 2nd Amendment- & is immediately fired 5837681481
Reposted by Mel!Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 13/09/2025the best way I saw it phrases was an Instagram post that said “his life might have been saved by the policies he opposed.” the left doesn’t want ANYONE being shot in public because they were radicalized online! Charlie was eaten by his own leopards! it’s awful and also only his party wants this!! 240851
Mel! @melsupial.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Just a reminder that we owe the dead nothing other than honesty 001
Reposted by Mel!Beth Howard @june-6-bug.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Right. Black people, women, immigrants, Muslims, LGBTQ+ people of any sort but especially trans people, survivors of school shootings, city dwellers . . . . Apparently none of us are "Real Americans" 0263
Reposted by Mel!wwxwashere.bsky.social @wwxwashere.bsky.social · 10/09/2025✨timeline cleanse✨ quote this with your favorite tumblr post 951635256
Reposted by Mel!🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Anywho I’m boosting because I calculated this as my year goal and can’t figure how to push to Patreon sooo amid ya can help this month is CRITICAL 02250
Reposted by Mel!Gary Stevenson @garyseconomics.bsky.social · 03/09/2025We need to tax wealth not work. Why? Because usually no matter how hard you work, the compound interest on huge wealth grows much faster than your wages + the rich use this passive income to buy all the assets. Someone made a game to show this: therichdont.worktherichdont.workIdle — The Wealth RaceCan your hard work beat The Rich? Play and find out! 8429187
Reposted by Mel!🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Alright I’m gonna go apply more , and research more and try to not have anxiety issues . And yes do more but if we could possibly share this and have everyone give me like a dollar this would secure me for the end of this year And if you can’t BABE I TOTALLY GET IT 12943
Reposted by Mel!Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 07/09/2025lmao I’m like five hundred posts deep in this comedy thread and suddenly found my own face 543325
Reposted by Mel!LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 06/09/2025Absolutely glorious, DC! 839894
Reposted by Mel!Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 06/09/2025When I see people online, even in jest, suggest that people living in Republican-controlled states should be abandoned because of their politicians, I feel a deep heartache. New York CREATED Donald Trump and none of y’all are ever talk about it the way you disparage Alabama or Mississippi. 723547852
Reposted by Mel!ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/09/2025Ravi bought insurance thinking it would deliver on its promise of access to mental health care providers. After 21 phone calls and multiple hospitalizations, no one could find him a therapist. “I don’t want to die,” he told his mom. (Published Sept. 2024)propublica.org“I Don’t Want to Die”: Needing Mental Health Care, He Got Trapped in His Insurer’s Ghost NetworkRavi Coutinho bought a health insurance plan thinking it would deliver on its promise of access to mental health providers. But even after 21 phone calls and multiple hospitalizations, no one could fi... 17493137
Reposted by Mel!Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/09/2025I think, in light of all the rotten people out there spreading terf nonsense, today would be a good day to support trans creators. Trans folk, please add your links to this thread for books or crafts or whatever you do! 39747192291
Reposted by Mel!Marietje Schaake @marietjeschaake.bsky.social · 31/08/2025Black women lost 319,000 jobs in the public and private sectors between February and July of this year, the only major female demographic to experience significant job losses during this five-month period ↘️ www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...nytimes.com 214371
Mel! @melsupial.bsky.social · 30/08/2025A buddy cop series where a detective and crow solve crimes. Caw and Order. 000
Reposted by Mel!Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 26/08/2025We are creating a Spanish language section on The Rumpus, for original creative work written in Spanish and are looking for a volunteer editor for this section. If this could be you, please send a brief letter of interest to roxane@therumpus.net by Tuesday, September 2nd! 1411141
Reposted by Mel!ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/08/2025When an insurance company is deciding whether to pay for your medical treatment, it generates a file, which should contain all records associated with your case, including documents explaining why the claim was denied. You have a right to see this file. (Published May 2023) propublica.orgHealth Insurance Claim Denied? See What Insurers Said Behind the ScenesLearn how to request your health insurance claim file, which can include details about what your insurer is saying about you and your case. 461722746
Reposted by Mel!Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 22/08/2025In recognition of James Dobson's all too delayed death, we republished an account of his legacy -- a three part series about evangelical child abuse, a culture Dobson disseminated and propagandized. buttondown.com/theswordandt...buttondown.comMinistry of ViolenceJames Dobson is dead, leaving behind the legacy of poisoned politics he created, and countless children and adults who live with the pain of surviving the... 13669281
Reposted by Mel!Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 19/08/2025This is in the replies and it demonstrates a real issue which is if you find profundity from an AI, you’re responding to something profound a human being wrote that was vacuumed up and what ends up happening is you thank AI and not only don’t thank the person, you have no idea they were involved 3636451118
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me: hey does anyone have any readings on medieval north African trade networks
17 follower alcoholic who works at a bakery:
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