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Michele @smichele.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Sophie, my heart aches for you. I’m so sorry.

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Clayton @explorersdesign.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Public Domain Art is the lifeblood of small tabletop rpgs, but it can be a nightmare trying to find the right art and license. This week, I’ve re-uploaded my old list from 2020 (with updates) of public domain websites. That's 500,000+ public domain paintings, photos, maps, and film. Link below 🔗👇

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Michele @smichele.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

None of this is surprising! With Bryant and I, it pointed out that we read a lot and spend a crapton of money on our cats. Shocker!

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Michele @smichele.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Love this film! (See: my avatar)

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Michele @smichele.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Good times! I didn’t connect well with Hillfolk’s mechanics - maybe the token economy works better for me on a much smaller scale? The formalism that was overwhelming in a group is a lot of fun in a duo game.

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A fantastic collaborative article for the @globalvoices.org Protest in Democracy spotlight, on protest songs around the world, featuring improviser poets in Kyrgyzstan, Indigenous protest music from Australia, revolutionary songs of Nepal, a political rapper in Togo, and more

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The sound of resistance

As part of Global Voices’ September Spotlight, “Protest in Democracy,” members of our community will be sharing examples of protest music past and present from their communities in this collaborative ...

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Michele @smichele.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ours saw us through several seasons of Washington wildfires - it’s great.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

abolish the death penalty

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Michele @smichele.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Alas Penny! But she died doing what she loved: setting things on fire.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Bitch, if anyone wants to get rid of Thanksgiving it’s the people responsible for making it impossible to afford food.

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Michele @smichele.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Gaaaah, sympathies. Fingers crossed for an efficient, effective AC guy.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

There is no "platform" and no one on this site can honestly say that they know what they would do if they win the House and/or Senate starting in January. What's the immediate first order of business, for example? No voter can say. It has not been communicated to anyone.

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Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Pre-orders for Crossroads Issue 2: The Devil Has the Best Tunes are now open! Over the next few days and weeks, we will be sharing more information about our amazing contributors. We are so excited to get this issue in your hands:

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Products

Browse all products from Crossroads: Folk Horror in America.

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Michele @smichele.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Our Agnes was being particularly photogenic this morning.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 17/09/2026

“For months, families lived in fear, children were separated from their parents, and our neighbors were subjected to racial profiling and unlawful detentions. People also showed up for one another with compassion, courage, and resilience. This council will make sure we document Minnesota’s history.”

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Minnesotans Aren’t Going to Let “Operation Metro Surge” Be Forgotten

Documentation projects are capturing the brutality of the ICE crackdown and the grassroots resistance that followed.

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Michele @smichele.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Hotdish without the topping; I see no problem here!

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Mikey Slashic @mikeyslashic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

yaaaaaasssss🔥

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 15/09/2026

minnesota: we’re the first in the nation to early vote, let’s show the rest of the country that this is another way we show up and stop the onslaught of violence against our neighbors. let’s get these fascists out of power. join people this friday, 10AM at the hennepin county government center.

THEY TAKE OUR NEIGHBORS, WE TAKE THEIR POWER.
Rally+Vote 10AM
Friday the 18th
Hennepin County
Government Center
I
Voted
Minnesota is the first state to early vote. Let's show up in record numbers make the fascists afraid.
We protect our neighbors.

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Michele @smichele.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

When I was getting my Library Science masters (so 2003-2005), one big concern was that users would use Google and Wikipedia and never push further. We talked about how to verify sources, how to track references, how to evaluate. These days, I don't know. When it's layers upon layers of lies, how?

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026

The international chess Federation banned trans women from playing women's chess. CHESS. It's not about fairness. The fairness argument is intended to radicalize people into more violent forms of transphobia.

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Michele @smichele.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I’m solidly Gen X - I always assumed something big and geopolitical would take us all out. That was the assumption. 9/11 felt like the beginning of the end. When we went back to work it took over an hour to get on base, given car searches. Everything changed. Look at us now.

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Michele @smichele.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

On the way back to our apartments, my friend asked to stop by a store to get a little flag for her balcony. We did that, said our farewells, and then I watched TV for three solid days. We didn’t go back to work for a week.

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Michele @smichele.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I walked through the nearly-empty exhibits with no idea what to do, peering into trash cans and empty spaces as if something might actually be lurking there. We were sent home soon after. My closest work friends and I went to a nearby taco place to have a drink. The TV was on. No one spoke.

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Michele @smichele.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

On 9/11, I was working in a federal museum adjoining a military base. The news swept through the staff in a series of shocked whispers, and then all of us were dispatched to walk around the museum and look for anything out of place or suspicious. I remember feeling completely divorced from my body.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"When the powerful want you to forget a conspiracy, what they want you to forget most are the victims. The victims are why the crime matters. To be human is to care about other people. To seek justice is to honor another's humanity." -- THEY KNEW (2022)

THEY KNEW Sarah Kendzior book exerpt on importance of honoring the victms of a conspiracy. i have *actual* vision impairment and therefore cannot use the tiny non-expndable box for "vision-impaired people" because i can't fucking see the text. if you wanna add alt text go ahead. apolgies for typos

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Bryant Durrell @innocence.com · 10/09/2026

This Greg Hurwitz mook has written two produced screenplays. The first one made a booming $4.5 million and the second one was direct to Netflix with a 24% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. To be fair he’s successful as a novelist. But as a screenwriter? Dude, sit down and shut up.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

As the GOP midterm convention kicks off today, don't forget that nearly all Republicans stood by and supported Trump's: -Big Ugly Bill -Iran War -ICE abductions & National Guard deployments -Inflationary tariffs -Blatant corruption His unpopularity is theirs too.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Why do you appreciate unions? I’ll start: Weekends off Paid vacations Work breaks Sick leave Paid holidays No child labor Safer working conditions Health care and retirement benefits

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Alice @nolas-socks.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Every one of those brave and inspiring people you hear about on the news was exhausted and terrified the whole time. They were sad and angry and wanted to crawl into a hole and not come out. They wished they could have stayed in bed. Then they did it anyway. But they did it scared and sad and tired.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

we have immigrant concentration camps, diarrhea lettuce, zillion dollar gas, suicidal soldiers, measles resurgence, national park land sold to the highest bidder and teachers crowdfunding school supplies, but the real problems facing our country are a muslim senate candidate and an influencer

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Bryant Durrell @innocence.com · 31/08/2026

Whoever wrote the text for the America 250 Ferris Wheel has a sense of humor. We’re in the James Garfield gondola and the pre-recorded spiel gives Garfield’s major accomplishment as reforming the civil service and doing away with political appointees.

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Upside Downie @adownie.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Flu season is almost upon us. Stay safe, folks

An image depicting handshake alternatives and the resulting germ
Transfer reductions:

High Five: 50% less bacteria transferred

Fist Bump: 78% less transferred

Sweep the Leg (martial arts takedown move): 100% less transferred.

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Michele @smichele.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Our first movie at @trylon.org is “Las Mujeres Panteras” — luchadoras vs. satanic wrestlers, both in and out of the ring. @innocence.com and I are so happy to finally be here. www.trylon.org/film/las-muj...

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Las Mujeres Panteras

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Michele @smichele.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

We’re about to see Colony, and the people in front of us (which includes two young children in a gory zombie movie but that is not MN’s fault) brought blankets. I envy them. Brrrrr.

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Michele @smichele.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

First week of St. Paul, Minnesota observations: - humidity means I am in my Big Hair era. Like Bonnie Tyler levels. - the air conditioning is *aggressive.* - coming from Seattle, the lack of geographic barriers here is wild. This area explores the studio space.

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Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 28/08/2026

My Texas folks, please check your voter registration (yet again), because Texas just purged over a million voters. [looks tired]

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Tim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Live report from the Minnesota State Fair, located in the heart of American democracy, where there’s an ICE Out adaptation of Picasso’s Guernica made entirely from crops

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

in a world of JK Rowlings be a Dolly Parton

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