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Laurel W. N. MacLeod

@newgrangehuntress.bsky.social
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47 year-old mother of 2 cats and wife of 1 husband (gecks.bsky.social) who likes to garden, crochet, read, and play with makeup & nails. Also a nerd. she/her

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Laurel W. N. MacLeod @newgrangehuntress.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
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Laurel W. N. MacLeod @newgrangehuntress.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
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Joséphine McAdam @jcvim.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
✨UK FRIGHTS & DELIGHTS?!✨ This Summer I'm touring w/ Call of Cthulhu: Live alongside the incredible (SO excited to go mad w/ these lovelies): ✨@samanthabeart.bsky.social ✨@jwcartwright.bsky.social ✨@johnnyohnny.bsky.social ✨Belinda Cornish 🦑 & Mark Meer! More info --> aegp.uk/CallofCthulhu AH!!!
A poster for "Call of Cthulhu Live". It lists the following information:
Starring: Samantha Beart, Jasper Cartwright, Johnny Chiodini, Belinda Cornish, Josephine McAdam and Mark Meer as Keeper of Arcane Lore.
The bottom lists tour dates and locations as follows:
29.05.25 - Birmingham - O2 Institute
31.05.25 - Brighton - St. George's Church
01.06.25 - London - Alexandra Palace Theatre
03.06.25 - Manchester - Albert Hall
04.06.25 - Glasgow - St. Luke's

The logos for AEG and Chaosium that are putting on the show are shown in the bottom right and left corners.
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Madison Pauly @msjpauly.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
NEWS: In USDA, multiple people have been asked to report the names of LGBTQ employee resource group leaders to higher-ranking officials, according to interviews with workers and a document reviewed by Mother Jones. + similar in the Department of the Interior
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 24/02/2025
⚡️Australia, New Zealand impose new sanctions against Russia. Australia has introduced the most extensive package of sanctions since the beginning of the all-out war, while New Zealand imposed restrictions on over 50 individuals and entities.
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Australia, New Zealand impose new sanctions against Russia
Australia has introduced the most extensive package of sanctions since the beginning of the all-out war, while New Zealand imposed restrictions on over 50 individuals and entities.
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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Want to learn to draw the human figure using nude models, an arts tradition that's been going on for centuries? Well, Columbus, Ohio's banning it for their Recreation and Parks Department's class that's only open to adults. www.dispatch.com/story/news/l...
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Columbus Rec & Parks Department's Tyson Cultural Arts Center will cease using nude models
The Columbus Recreation & Parks Department's Tyson Cultural Arts Center will cease using nude models in its art classes for liability reasons.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 24/02/2025
The President of the United States has the emotional maturity of a teenage bully.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
New MSNBC Bloodbath of Non-White Anchors After Joy Reid Forced Out
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New MSNBC Bloodbath of Non-White Anchors After Joy Reid Forced Out
Jonathan Capehart, Katie Phang, and Ayman Mohyeldin have all lost their shows.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/02/2025
BREAKING: As predicted:
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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/02/2025
Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them
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Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them
WASHINGTON—With the elected officials trying their hardest not to move a muscle, reports confirmed Monday that top Democratic leaders in Congress were standing real still in hopes that the American pe...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 25/02/2025
UPDATE: The charges against her have been dropped “in the interest of justice” (she bit one of the brownshirts that assaulted her) and the private security firm has lost their license to operate. I hope she sues them into oblivion.
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
NEW: Google used to warn you when you were seeing low-quality search results. Then, in the weeks leading up to the 2024 election, the company quietly turned that warning off www.platformer.news/google-data-...
The researchers collected their first data in October 2023 and March 2024. Initially, they were struck by how inconsistently Google showed its warnings. A deep learning model they built to analyze the queries suggested that the warnings should have appeared between 29 and 58 times as often as they did in practice. For motivated conspiracy peddlers, they were easy to evade: just adding quotation marks or a single letter to a query was typically enough to make the banner disappear.

The researchers were beginning to collect additional data last September when they discovered something unexpected: Google had stopped showing low-quality banners entirely, weeks before early voting began, without disclosing it.
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Dittie @dittie.sheshed.rocks · 25/02/2025
And now you know why they tried to fire the head of the office of special council. No oversight, means you can’t find out interesting tidbits like this.
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Government Oversight Agency Rules Elon Musk’s Mass Firings Are Illegal
The decision could affect the future employment of tens of thousands of probationary government workers fired since Trump took office.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 25/02/2025
I wrote about the very violent, very public detention of a woman for interrupting a speaker at the Kootenai County Republican’s town hall on Saturday. In Idaho, the lines between Republican politics and political violence are thinner than they are in some places; this is a terrifying escalation.
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This Shocking Moment at a GOP Town Hall in Idaho Is a Foreboding Sign
Private, unidentified security personnel dragged a woman out of the event. It raises questions not just about tolerance for dissent, but also who gets deputized to do what.
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Thomas Carpentier @thocarp.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
New JWST data dropped today, so here's my processed image!! 🔭 This is the NGC-3147 galaxy, located 130 million light years away, seen by NIRCam. That spiral form is so satisfying to see! HD: flic.kr/p/2qNkvdo
A spiral galaxy with its arms in red and orange with some star clusters into them. The centre is very bright. Background galaxies can be spotted everywhere, appearing red.
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Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
One day, you voted for the last time, and you didn't even know it.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/02/2025
He is admitting that he doesn’t want lawyers to stop him from breaking the law. No one would stop him from issuing lawful orders, so this has to be about unlawful ones.
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
BREAKING: Prominent far right influencer Jack Posobiec, who at one point expressed his love for Hitler, says Trump can’t violate the constitution because "Trump is the living embodiment of the American Constitution." It’s an authoritarian cult.
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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
He was too Black for the moment.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 23/02/2025
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
There is nothing cooler than preventing a democracy from turning into a dictatorship
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
It took ten years, but the NYT finally got there
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
The Secretary of Defense goes on tv to explain he is preparing to have the military break the law.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
This seems like a really bad idea, esp. for someone with no experience in ATF’s guns/arson/bombs based prosecutions or their regulatory mission (on top of the slightly demanding job of being FBI director: Kash Patel to also take over as acting ATF director www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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FBI Director Kash Patel to also take over as acting ATF director
Patel will be responsible for two sprawling agencies at the Justice Department. ATF alone has 5,500 personnel.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
If Trump was on life support, would you unplug him to use your vacuum cleaner?
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Chris D. Jackson @chrisdjackson.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
🚨 BREAKING: Majority Say Trump Is Mentally Unfit 🚨 After a chaotic start to his term and several public lapses, most Americans now question Trump’s mental fitness: 🧠 "Trump has the mental sharpness to serve effectively?" No: 50% Yes: 47% 📊 Ipsos | Feb 18, 2025 | n=2601 Ouch.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 23/02/2025
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Gecks @gecks.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
This is in no way a comforting read, but I took heart from, and pride in, the following: ...the Latvian delegation completely dropped the gloves and went hard on Trump...afterward [he said] “We decided it was time to start acting like Canadians." charlieangus.substack.com/p/speak-now-...
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SPEAK NOW OR FOREVER LOSE YOUR PEACE
Final Dispatch from NATO, Brussels
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Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @disavowtrump20.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Former Capitol police officer Michael Fanone when confronting Proud Boys insurrectionist Enrique Tarrio: “You are a traitor to this country.” RETWEET if you stand with Officer Fanone!
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Patti Olivier 💙VOTE BLUE @patti3333.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Today at El Capitan YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK HUNG Upside Down To SHOW SUPPORT for our National Park Rangers and Workers To show support for our National Forest Service Workers What tRump/MuskDOGE has done is despicable Our National Treasures are in Jeopardy People Wildlife Plantlife
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 23/02/2025
Dear Christian-right, did you skip this part in the Bible?
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 23/02/2025
Germany’s likely new chancellor Friedrich Merz: And for me, the absolute priority will be to strengthen Europe as quickly as possible so that we step by step to also truly achieve independence from the USA. I would not have believed that I would have to say something like this on TV...
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Brilliant but devastating editorial in the Financial Times. “In the past 10 days, he [Trump] has all but incinerated 80 years of postwar American leadership. If you are not at the table, you are on the menu. America has turned.”
America has turned on its triends
Trump's abandonment of his country's allies is real and will endure
Winston Churchill is credited with saying that America does the right thing after exhausting the alternatives. Donald Trump has turned that aphorism on its head. In the past 10 days, he has all but incinerated 80 years of postwar American leadership. Those who thought America was a friend or ally, notably Ukraine and Nato, are dropping once safe assumptions to cope with a world in which America is an unabashed predator. Countries that were treated by Washington as adversaries, notably Vladimir Putin's Russia, are suddenly America's friend.
There were hinge moments in history when the US displayed its character as global leader, such as Dwight Eisen-hower's repudiation of Anglo-French imperialism in the 1956 Suez crisis, or
Ronald Reagan's 1987 exhortation to the Soviet Union to tear down the Berlin Wall. They defined the world's idea of America. Trump's assertion this week that Ukraine "should have never started" the war is the dark version of those. His account of Russia being provoked to invade Ukraine came straight from Putin's talking points. So too was JD Vance's Valentine's Day speech in Munich in which the US vice-president identified liberal democracy as Europe's real threat from within.
These moments will live in infamy.
What do they tell us about what is com-ing? First, there should be no doubt that Trump's contempt for allies and admiration for strongmen is real and will endure. During his first term, Trump's instincts were curbed by the more traditional Republicans around him. Trump 2.0 is the real article. It is entirely possible that figures like Marco Rubio, his secretary of state, or Mike Waltz, his national security adviser, still believe in the US-led alliance that each once championed. Their private thoughts are irrelevant. Each displayed fealty to Trump's predatory vision of America at talks with Russian counterparts in Saudi Arabia this week. Uk…
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/02/2025
I don’t hand out legal advice because I’m not a lawyer, and I only speak from personal experience, but I’d recommend following your federal agency and/or union guidelines on how to respond to the “five bullets” email.
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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Did someone replace the headline writer at @nytimes.com with a person who understands current events?
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/02/2025
PLEASE: Watch what happened in Coeur d'Alene Idaho today. This is fascism. Unmarked cops. 1A violations. RESIST.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Let’s get something clear. The GOP has the power to keep the government from shutting down in March. They control both chambers of Congress and the White House. If they can’t reach a budget deal within their own ranks, that completely on them. Dems: Don’t lift a finger to help them. Not one.
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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
I'm not sure how soaring egg prices, mass firings, emboldened Nazis, a Measles outbreak, and planes falling out of the sky count as "wins" to MAGA, but I'd sure hate to see what losing is to them.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/02/2025
DID YOU KNOW: We had fewer federal workers in 2024 than we had in 1970?
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
All Pete Hegseth talks about is being a warrior and instilling a warrior mindset in the military. Personal courage is the cornerstone of the warrior ethos. I wonder how that fits with being such a coward as to fire generals with 35 or more years of service in a press release on a Friday night.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 24/02/2025
“The way to silence the voices that are poisoning this country is to stop listening. The way to solve our problems is to look for common good, not “wins.”
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/02/2025
If you’re a Nazi asshole, I don’t think you appreciate how I’m about to fuck your shit up.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
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Club Meatbird - Home of Pixel, Sophie, Chester, and Disco! @clubmeatbird.com · 22/02/2025
We hope you fly through Caturday with as many smiles as possible. 🫶😻 #cat #caturday #cats #catsofbluesky #smile #catlovers #clubmeatbird
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