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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 7h

I might be a little less distrustful of AI if the dudes promoting it, supporting it, insisting on it, and advocating for it weren’t the worst fucking people on the planet.

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Brian Kelly @spilth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Do I know anybody in #Poland? I'm trying to get some #Polish language graphic novels of the post-apocalyptic genre. #comics #graphicnovels #postapocalyptic

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A Thread Of Hope @athreadofhope.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

If you are in north #Alabama or know someone who is, PLEASE follow these two accounts: @kramerforalabama.bsky.social and @amandaforalabama.bsky.social are local women #Democratic candidates running to unseat long-time GOP paycheck-collecting MAGA seat-warmers Robert #Aderholt and Steve Livingston.

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Katie Kramer for Alabama State Senate District 8 @kramerforalabama.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Our neighbor Katie Kramer is a 7-time nat'l champion swimmer who has lead large-scale public safety and aquatics programs across Alabama, managed multi-million-dollar operations & overseen public facilities for underserved communities, and serves as VP of Operations at a metal manufacturing plant...

Photo of Katie Kramer, a caucasian woman in her forties with long, auburn hair, wearing a blue shirt and black blazer and slacks, seated and looking off into the distance, no doubt fondly dreaming of unseating one Republican from our state senate so she can actually serve the people of Dekalb County, Jackson County and the eastern portion of Madison county, Alabama.

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Amanda for Alabama HQ @amandaforalabama.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

On November 3rd, we can write the next great chapter in AL-04’s history—together. Join our fight to retire a 30-year-incumbent by chipping in $15 or volunteering at amandaforalabama.com

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Brian Kelly @spilth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The GeoJSON Previewer and Web Archive Previewer I worked on for NYU is now in version 14 of Invenio RDM: inveniordm.docs.cern.ch/releases/v14... #python #flask #geojson #inveniordm #gis

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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Not only did I meet Robert Kraft, I worked for him. His kid Jonathan asked me to “remove the black music” from my gameday playlist in ‘94 & I refused so they fired me. I was the cheerleader director at the time. I sued them for wrongful termination and won. So yes, I know that motherfucker.

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Coming Up Violets 🎨commissions open🖌️ @comingupviolets.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

SUPER happy to announce that we will have a new line of herbal products at the shop starting this weekend! Welcome Danyale Brown of embraceorganics.org, a Metro-Atlanta-Based Farm Stand and Apothecary inspired by a long love of plants and people! #Herbalist #SmallBusiness #ShopLocal #Alabama

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Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 14/09/2026

btw Kanye did a song Heil Hitler and no one stepped in to oppose his tour(s), which is ongoing. In fact, Kanye is scheduled to perform at one of the stadiums Macklemore has been stopped from being at.

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Coming Up Violets 🎨commissions open🖌️ @comingupviolets.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Each year on 9/11, the podcast What Was That Like? talks to 9/11 survivors and releases a heartfelt and important commemorative episode. I wasn’t a “survivor,” just a helpless 19-year-old witness, but host Scott asked me to record my story for the Listener Story at the end of the episode.

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A Thread Of Hope @athreadofhope.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We're gearing up here in NE Alabama for a guns-blazing, full-court agitprop press from now until the midterm elections. Here are a few of the stickers we are printing out on label sheets to give to local youth (and Millenials LOL) to stick up around town, give to friends, etc. #NoFascistUSA #BlueDot

A photo of some of the stickers and posters we've printed out so far - more to come! They're all black and white except where I've colored words in red with markers, and they're printed on quarter- or half-page size labels except for one which is smaller.
1. Says, "Biblical marriage was the sale of women. and anyone who believes in it should be regarded as a threat to society."
2. Titled, "Conservative or Liberal, Right or Left... Elon Musk is not on your side! Tech Billionaires are working to dismantle democracy" but below that are too many words to put in alt text. It goes on to outline everything Musk had done and how to contact electeds to complain about it.
3. "How sad it must be, believing that scientists, scholars, historians, economists, and journalists have devoted their entire lives to deceiving you, while a reality TV star with decades of fraud and exhaustively documented lying is your only beacon of truth and honesty."
4. Two headlines, one on top of the other, with a small blurb from the article under each headline. The first headline is "Rubio says Maduro is 'under indictment for pushing drugs in the united states." and the second headline is, "Trump pardons cocaine kingpin who ruled Honduras," showing that it definitely was NOT about the drugs.
4. A smaller sticker meant to be stuck together with number 3, this one says, "Believe it or not, it is illegal and immoral to attack and invade a foreign nation in order to steal their natural resources!"
5. "Trump is not giving you a $5000 Trump dividend.
They’re not giving you $9,000 to stay home with your kids.
They didn't give you the DOGE check. OR the tariff refund. OR $2 gas. OR cheaper groceries. OR a healthcare plan. OR 600% off your meds. At some point, you’ve chosen
to be gullible." which is a slight re-wording (mostly for space) of a social media post made by Kammy Johnston.

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Musicians, Singers & Songwriters @mssband.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

There was a nice little breeze in the park last night to cool us off during our acoustic jam!

A group of women and women with guitars, ukuleles and mandolins sitting and standing in park with music stands and iPads.

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Heather Anne Campbell @heathercampbell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

(Unfolding iPhone duo) time to unlock my potential (snapping open mechanical keyboard) on my mini computer (hanging three batteries over my shoulder) ‘cause we’re at peak design (AirPlay enabled) and nothing will stop me (slamming apple vision over my eyes) from productivity (my car crashes)

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Coming Up Violets 🎨commissions open🖌️ @comingupviolets.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I shut down my #Patreon mostly because their customer service is so awful I just do not want to do business with those people anymore, and they have held onto my last payout over a year. Is anyone else having a problem like this? They just keep telling me to re-enter my banking information...

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

[cop that just spent his entire six hour shift using flock cameras to stalk the 17 year old high school junior he saw pumping gas next to him this morning]: alright mark have a great labor day, stay safe brotha

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A Thread Of Hope @athreadofhope.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Let’s all celebrate and protect these teachers. They’re standing up for transgender youth, let’s not forget to stand up for them! #TransRightsAreHumanRights #AThreadOfHope #ThankYouTeachers #Maryland

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Coming Up Violets 🎨commissions open🖌️ @comingupviolets.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Here are the items we have available (minus one)! Complete description of each item is in alt text. And a huge thank you to DissentPins for helping me be a loud and proud retailer of progressive, left-leaning, anti-fascist swag, way out here in Trump Store country! #MAGAIsACult #ShopLocal #Alabama

1. 1.75 inch wide enamel pin. Pale blue word bubble that says, "MIND YOUR OWN GENDER,"
2. An enamel pin featuring the Transgender flag and the LGBTQ+ flag crossed,
3. A round enamel pin with a black swastika with the "no" symbol over it
4. 1.5-inch tall enamel pin in the shape of a black shield that says "NO SECRET POLICE,"
5. 9.75-inch wide bumper sticker: stylized black & white faces of Musk, Vance, & Trump, with a big red bar across all of their faces that says "FRAUD WASTE ABUSE" in white letters,
6. Small enamel pin of a scroll that says "Due Process for All People",
7. 1.75-inch tall enamel pin showing a stack of books on fire and the words, "I'm with the banned" with "banned" spelled b-a-n-n-e-d,
8. Ruth Bader Ginsburg "XL Dissent Collar Necklace," silver & black dissent collar is nearly 3 inches wide;
9. Rainbow arc post earrings.
10. 3 by 3" wide "No One's Treading On You, Sweetie" sticker with yellow background and goofy snake.
11. Keychain with enamel charm in the shape of the transgender- and POC- inclusive Pride flag;
12. Keychain with ballot box enamel charm which reads, "COUNT EVERY VOTE";
13. 2" wide sticker of donald trump pointing and the words, "I did that by bombing Iranian kids."
14. FIRE I.C.E. bumper sticker;
15. NO WAR IS HOLY bumper sticker, printed in red on white background.
16. 6.5" wide sticker with image of the Statue of Liberty's crown with the words "ICE GO HOME" printed across the headpiece,
17. 4.375-inch wide "Fast, Faster, Fascist" sticker, black background with a Porsche next to 'fast,' a Ferrari next to 'faster,' and a Cybertruck next to 'fascist'.
18. "Hands off Social Security" bumper sticker, printed on a background that looks like an elongated Social Security Card;
19. 4.5-inch wide sticker in the shape of a running track with the lanes painted in the Transgender flag colors and inside, the words "I RUN WITH TRANS ATHLETES";
20. Sticker version of the "I'm with the banned" (as in, banned books) pin, 2.9 inches wide.

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Coming Up Violets 🎨commissions open🖌️ @comingupviolets.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The #DissentPins items are all up in the shop and on the website now, to a great reception! I'm excited! ...and worried I already may need to order more soon since my dad & his friends have already come & snagged 1 of several of the things I ordered 2 of (a good problem to have!) #NoFascistUSA

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Brian Kelly @spilth.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

If you follow me & you'd like to support a small blue dot in a big red state, please considering purchasing something from my partner's small, progressive art shop: comingupviolets.square.site There are hand-painted ornaments, cute little knitted creatures, wood carvings, jewelry, photos, postcards

Small wooden oval with a cute ghost holding a pumpkin trick or treat candy holder painted on it. Floating around it are various pieces of halloween candy.

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Brian Kelly @spilth.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Describe your music taste in 3 artists, no genres 🎧 1. Genesis 2. Jellyfish 3. Superdrag

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Coming Up Violets 🎨commissions open🖌️ @comingupviolets.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

We're pleased to announce that we'll be carrying items from DissentPins! Here are 20 items that'll be available in our shop very soon! www.comingupviolets.com and Moon Lake Campus, 5866 E. River Road, Mentone Alabama! #ShopLocal #SmallBusiness #StopTrump #BlueDot #Stickers #Pins #Keychains #Gifts

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Brian Kelly @spilth.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Alternative rock, anti-macho, standard model, therapeutic touch, information appliance

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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

We've been in the ripping-the-copper-wiring-out-of-the-walls era of society for awhile now. There's no attempts to make anything better. There's no attempts to make anything people want. It's just syphoning gas out of cars and burying people in gambling debt from rigged betting markets.

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Coming Up Violets 🎨commissions open🖌️ @comingupviolets.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

This is one reason I feel compelled to keep my shop open. Here in deep Red Alabama, we are very visibly & vocally anti-fascism and anti-MAGA. People come into the shop every weekend and THANK me for being loud about it. But I can’t afford to keep it up forever if it doesn’t break even. I don’t 1/2

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Coming Up Violets 🎨commissions open🖌️ @comingupviolets.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

At last! The No Kings fundraiser* cups are available individually on our website! *(the artist will donate 50% of profits to Jon Ossoff's campaign in #Georgia) One has been sold (2nd from left in the front row), but the other 10 are available for shipping or pickup! #JonOssoff #Handmade #Pottery

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No Kings Cups | Coming Up Violets

Talented Georgia Ceramic Artist Sam Cordle brings us these handmade, glazed ceramic cups as a fundraiser for Democratic & progressive causes. Until early November, 50% of all profits will be dona...

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

News outlets that covered the US-Saudi nuclear deal without mentioning that Jared Kushner, Trump’s top foreign policy advisor, is getting paid by the Saudi government: WSJ NYT AP Reuters CNN NBC ABC CBS The Guardian Semafor Washington Post Fox News New York Post BBC Newsweek MS NOW

On Wednesday, the Trump administration signed a 30-year nuclear agreement with Saudi Arabia that paves the way for the kingdom to enrich its own uranium.

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Brian Kelly @spilth.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Anybody out there a fan of the old Spycraft CCG? It's something I owned like 20 years ago and have recently gotten very interested in. If you'd like to play via Tabletop Simulator, I've got instructions for playing it here: spilth.org/spycraft-ccg/ #spycraft #aeg #ccg #tcg #boardgames #spycraftccg

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Brian Kelly - Spycraft CCG

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

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A Thread Of Hope @athreadofhope.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Not good news that this woman was shot, but very good news that the dumpster fire of an “ICE Contractor” was arrested & charged. They are NOT untouchable. #ICEOut #ChingaLaMigra #NoFascistUSA #AThreadOfHope

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Coming Up Violets 🎨commissions open🖌️ @comingupviolets.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Fantastic local Georgia-based #pottery artist Sam Cordle brings us these #NoKings cups! They're priced at $86.47 each, with half of all profits going to Jon Ossoff's campaign (@ossoff.senate.gov) until November 3. (more in Alt Text...) @samcordleceramics.bsky.social #Georgia #Handmade #NoFascistUSA

(after that he will choose a new cause to donate half of the money to)
The photo is of 11 small ceramic "No Kings" cups (basically slightly smaller than mugs and without a handle). Each is unique and slightly different colors - some are tan, some are blue and brown, some are brown and almost white, some are more orange, some are green inside - but every cup has a red crown on it with a big blue X across it.

Available at the Coming Up Violets! shop at 5866 E. River Road, Mentone, Alabama 35984 OR at the SHOP tab on our website: http://www.comingupviolets.com

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Brian Kelly @spilth.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I wrote a blog post where I talk about some of the tools I've been using to create components for a board game prototype: spilth.org/blog/2026-07... #boardgames #boardgamegeek #screentop #tabletopSimulator #squib #aliens

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Brian Kelly - Designing a Board Game

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Coming Up Violets 🎨commissions open🖌️ @comingupviolets.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Working on an 80th #BirthdayCard for my partner’s mom & I like to look over the past cards I’ve made to get inspired. For $20 I can send someone a #handmade card from you worth putting in a scrapbook or hanging up in a little frame, if they were so inclined! Here are some #BirthdayCards! #Watercolor

Birthday card with a metallic gold border, and a washy grey background. It says “Happy 80th birthday Jim!” in metallic gold hand drawn lettering, alternating lines with over-the-top fancy looking three dimensional lettering filled in in a washy turquoise colour. The letters TH in “80th” are written on a small white scroll shaded to look a bit three-dimensional.

A birthday card in landscape orientation. At the top and bottom it has been made to look like the edges of an old-fashioned film strip. Using watercolour paint, in only blue, black and white, I’ve painted a night sky with a heart shaped UFO in it that has a white beam of light coming down from it behind two silhouettes in the foreground, one wearing a hood and obviously looking through binoculars, the other small smaller, female silhouette is pointing. And the distance black silhouettes of pine trees are visible, and in the sky the stars form the words “happy B day.”

Screenshot of the inside of the UFO birthday card, in a sort of futuristic looking font (but pretty wobbly) I have written “Welcome to area 49” (because my boyfriend was turning 49 years old) at the bottom there is a tiny green alien holding up a slice of cake with a burning candle on it and in tiny writing next to him it says “there’s cake.”

A birthday card in landscape orientation painting of two turkeys, a Tom and a hen, standing in some grass in front of the blue sky. At the top and bottom in white letters it says “happy birthday to you two turkeys.” This was a birthday card for my father and stepmother, whose birthdays are only two days apart.

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Brian Kelly @spilth.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I can't explain why, but one of the great lyrics ever written is: "And when the bright lights find you... Bro, come on, bro, don't tase me."

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Coming Up Violets 🎨commissions open🖌️ @comingupviolets.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Don’t use GenAI, folks. Your little memes aren’t worth poisoning entire communities.

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Coming Up Violets 🎨commissions open🖌️ @comingupviolets.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I made a lil video to show how you get to my shop/studio/gallery from highway 117, and give you a little peek inside! It's only two minutes long. (Let's not talk about my camera and Final Cut skills, okay? They need work.) #LocalArtist #SmallBusiness #ShopLocal #MentoneAlabama #LookoutMountain

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Welcome to Coming Up Violets! Shop & Studio

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Coming Up Violets 🎨commissions open🖌️ @comingupviolets.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Please enjoy this selection of photos representing the incredible variety of positions our cat Roswell can somehow sleep in.

This is a collage of nine photos of a little grey stripey cat sleeping in completely improbable and seemingly impossible positions.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/06/2026

Obama shouts out "those ordinary people in the Twin Cities who braved frigid temperatures, risked their own safety, standing shoulder to shoulder to look our for their neighbors and sometimes for strangers because they knew that was the right thing to do"

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Brian Kelly @spilth.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

After a little bit of side quest reworking how my Astro Blog is setup, I've got a post about a bunch of personal projects where my board gaming hobby collides with my software development hobby: spilth.org/blog/2026-07... #ruby #squib #react #astro #boardgamegeek #tabletopsimulator #ttrpg

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Brian Kelly - Creating Physical and Virtual Board Game Resources

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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

The NPS will launch 850,000 fireworks in the middle of the night. (Last year, they launched 7,000) That will dump perchlorates and heavy metals into the Potomac River and cause the amount of soot and smoke particles to skyrocket (pardon), at great danger to any creature that breathes.

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Heather Anne Campbell @heathercampbell.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

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Brian Kelly @spilth.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Maybe the grand scheme of AI is to stop us from connecting human to human. Soon we outsource all our creativity & critical thinking to something controlled by billionaires & soon we won't know how to rise up together anymore. (The power went out as I was writing this so I must be on to something)

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Lost Mapper @lostmapper.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I spent about 30 minutes figuring out how to manage #PostGIS database migrations using a #RubyOnRails app with activerecord-postgis-adapter and the connecting to it via #QGIS: youtube.com/live/6vr9mwK...

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PostGIS Migrations with Rails (Live Mapping Session)

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Coming Up Violets 🎨commissions open🖌️ @comingupviolets.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Finally finished this little comic I started working on shortly after the election in 2024… Does a pretty good job of expressing what my headspace has been like since this regime took power. #Panic #Worry #Comic #Drawing #Handmade

Black and white hand drawn comic, titled “ever since November”. First panel is of me brushing my teeth in the mirror with the words “what are we gonna do, what are we gonna do, what are we gonna do?” filling all the empty space around me and in the mirror. Second panel, I’m sitting down drawing this actual comic at my desk and the same words are filling the air all around me. Third panel, I am driving the car and laughing while my son talks, and the words what are we gonna do? What are we gonna do? Fil my side of the panel and go across my neck. Third panel I am crouched down digging in a garden bed with a troll in my garden in front of a squash arch and some trees and the words are all around me and going across me. The final panel takes up the entire bottom. It’s a dark bedroom, two figures are visible with their heads just barely poking out from the blankets. On the right side, the words are written in white in the air all around me and weaving themselves in between the bars of the headboard.
At the bottom it says by Amanda Grace and www.comingupviolets.com

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