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Dragonfly Spiral

@spiraldragonfly.bsky.social
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Living in a small house in the woods. Interested in many things, including renewable energy, healthcare for all, basic income for all, freedom from discrimination for all, including trans folks.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 12h
Thousands of human beings are held by the state and locked in cages, stripped of dignity, punished simply for crossing a border or living in a country they call home. ICE currently detains around 60,000 people at any given time These are not "holding facilities." They are concentration camps
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 12h
UK: "Health bodies ask people to start wearing face masks if they must leave their house after COVID cases rise and flu season starts early." 😷 Source: www.facebook.com/theliverpool...
Liverpool Echo News social media post advising people with COVID-19 or respiratory symptoms to wear face masks if they must leave home.
•	UK COVID-19 cases increased by 34.6%, with the XFG variant reportedly contributing to the rise.
•	COVID-related deaths increased by 47.4%, with nine additional deaths compared with the previous week.
•	Officials warn colder weather and more indoor gatherings could increase winter infections.
•	UKHSA advises symptomatic people to stay home and avoid contact with vulnerable individuals.
•	If leaving home is necessary, wear a well-fitting, multilayer face covering or surgical mask and avoid crowded places.
•	Eligible people are encouraged to receive COVID-19 and flu vaccinations.
•	NHS winter vaccination rollout includes older adults, pregnant women and children.
News graphic from the Liverpool Echo featuring a photograph of people walking along a busy city street, with the headline “People advised to start wearing face masks again.”
•	Several young adults are pictured walking together in a public area.
•	Most are wearing blue surgical masks or patterned face coverings.
•	A woman on the left wears a blue surgical mask, beige dress and black cardigan while holding a drink.
•	A person in the centre wears a black T-shirt and blue surgical mask.
•	A young woman on the right wears a patterned face mask, navy hoodie and grey trousers.
•	Other pedestrians, including a person wearing a white hood and black mask, appear in the background.
•	The Liverpool Echo's red logo appears in the top-left corner.
Large white headline text covers the bottom of the photograph.
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AltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · 12h
It's been a wild ride, lots of ups and downs, people being helpful, people being difficult, lean times like now and boom times like a couple years ago. We did it tho, made some real discoveries and wrote the paper. Now its the struggle to publish. If you can manage it Please donate tonight.
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Pittsburgh graffiti @pghgraffiti.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 21h
Note the right lateral offset of the yellow centerline of you look across the fault. (Traffic spotters had my back for this quick snap).
A road through the central coast of California, as viewed from the central line of the highway, looking off into the distance before the road turns. There’s mountains in the background and a few oak trees on the side of the road, but the important feature is at the bottom of the photo where there’s a rumble piece of asphalt that goes across the entire highway. That is the San Andreas fault and if you look across the rumble area, you can easily see the yellow center line has been offset to the right by a couple inches. this offset has happened within the last 10 years or so as they frequently repave this section.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 12h
You're not apolitical.
You're just comfortable with injustice that doesn't affect you.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 14h
Make space enough between you.
A license plate that says: “KER NING”
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Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 13h
after me own heart
LRMIPSM vanity plate
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 11h
boy, good thing he threw trans kids under the bus, it sure put an end to these disgusting bigoted attacks
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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 11h
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your CV? Scientist: That’s the non-coding portion of my CV - we’re not yet sure what all of it does, but we keep discovering new reasons that it’s there.
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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Target has been allowing CBP and ICE to use their bathrooms and parking lots since the beginning. It was a huge issue in MN and internally among Target employees.
nytimes.com
Target Says It’s Not Working With ICE Amid Uproar Over Parking Lot Use
The retailer came under attack for being a staging area for immigration officers after Thursday’s shooting in New York City.
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JymByrnes🏳️‍🌈☮️ @jymbyrnes.bsky.social · 18h
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Its Getting Clear @its-the-squirrels.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Add this one. He hates it.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 11h
How about instead of livestreaming an execution, we livestream the opening of the remaining Epstein files?
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 16h
Harris County TX. He's hospitalized: "ICE claimed the man ran in front of the agents' vehicle and was struck. However, the surveillance video appears to show the SUV veering left through empty parking spaces before running the man over..." abc7.com/story/ice-ru...
abc7.com
ICE agent strikes man with car during pursuit in Texas, authorities say: VIDEO
Surveillance video shows the moment an unmarked SUV carrying ICE agents ran over a man during a pursuit at a shopping center in Texas.
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Satan @satan.wsocial.eu · 20h
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 17h
Also, the Alberta independent movement basically disappeared after the Yandex site was bombed. Fancy that.
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Effie Seiberg is a spooky Cyborg @effies.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
post by @ItsAndyRyan


Her: who's your favorite literary vampire?
Me: the one in Sesame Street
Her: he doesn't count
Me: I can assure you that he does
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 15h
An eagle fishing in a lake in western Massachusetts this morning.
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Julia Kaye, lovergirl era @upandoutcomic.bsky.social · 18h
i know you all know me, julia kaye, as a heterosexual cis woman, but nay, it simply isn't so today i'm coming out as heterosexual for other genders too
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 18h
for as long as i've been alive, republicans have ran the same playbook: a few weeks before voting begins, they roll out completely fabricated smear campaigns. these things are always coordinated, so the talking points take over the news. the party is never electorally punished for their dishonesty.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 18h
"People sometimes get involved in elections because they are skeptical of how they work. Then they discover that the problems they expected to find are not there..." www.votebeat.org/national/202...
votebeat.org
How Monae Johnson went from MAGA darling to endorsing a Democrat
South Dakota’s Republican secretary of state once questioned vote-counting machines. Four years later, she is defending them and backing a Democrat to replace her.
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bree bird 🇨🇦 @goose.ski · 18h
ok i’m kind of miffed that the russian bot farm problem was this easy to mitigate against and i really wish ukraine had done it years ago now
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 23h
Susan Collins votes with Trump 96% of the time and Mainers are hurting because of it. We know that Maine can't afford 6 more years of Trump's rubber stamp in the Senate. I will stand up for Mainers every day of the week and I'll never bend a knee to Donald Trump or his billionaire buddies.
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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 20h
Something tells me the burrowing owls didn't enjoy all the rain we got last night, poor things! 🪶
Grouchy pair of burrowing owls standing in mud. Grouchy pair of burrowing owls standing in mud.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 11/10/2026
It's because the BBC's official editorial stance is to attack the dolls.
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Listen, Tenar. Heed me. You were the vessel of evil. The evil is poured out. It is done. It is buried in its own tomb. You were never made for cruelty and darkness; you were made to hold light, as a lamp burning holds and gives its light.
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Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦 @perevaa.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
And now the best part: Bot traffic from the #Yandex network has plunged to near zero following the strike on its Vladimir data center. Bot traffic includes automated requests from search crawlers, scrapers and other online services. Twitter must be a ghost town by now.
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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
"ADHD label risks lifelong harm to children." If you don't label the disorder, then what we will be labelled instead is "Lazy." "Underachiever." "Doesn't live up to their potential." "Bad student." Those labels come with pain, shame, and abuse. The ADHD label comes with a chance for support.
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I would add an 18th catastrophic threat: the rise of far right, authoritarianism, backed by technofascist billionaires
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Logan / Tachyon @tachyonart.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Nautiloid spearfisher
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John Cocker @joecocker.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
On this day in 1930, a Czech Jewish boy was born. On the 30 Jun 1942 he was deported to Theresienstadt with his parents and brother (17) and on the 8 Oct 1942 to Treblinka extermination camp where he was murdered. His name was Petr Bauer
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Karen's no longer exhausted 🇵🇹🇺🇦🙏🏼💔 @karenoia.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I just heard President Obama speak at the Game Changers conference in Lisbon. What a great leader and an inspiration. And look at the crowd of 11,000!
Crowd in Meo arena ,Lisbon
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👻 Spooky Dr. Kray-Z 🎃 @christinekray.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Anthropologist: What is a gap to you, to another is an aperture, a promise of possibility, a space for resistance, play, refusal—a tactic as opposed to a strategy.
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Mike (They/Them) 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @mxmike.co.uk · 11/10/2026
Bethany wore a “Protect The Dolls” t-shirt during rehearsals. The BBC posted it on their socials then quietly deleted and reposted it without showing her from the front. On TV last night they actually blurred the message #Strictly
Bethany Antonia rehearsing for Strictly Come Dancing in a Protect The Dolls t-shirt Bethany Antonia rehearsing for Strictly Come Dancing in a Protect The Dolls t-shirt that’s been edited to look like a plain white t shirt
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 10/10/2026
People are discussing how Halloween candy is so terrible these days. A reminder that alot of the candy we eat is made with women’s prison labor. Russell Stover’s factory in Kansas busses in 150 women a day via a convict leasing program to staff their candy factory.
Russell Stover has begun using prison labor to make candy in
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A Russell Stover candy factory in Kansas has begun hiring incarcerated workers through a work release program, Eoin Higgins reports in his newsletter, The Flashpoint. About 150 women are bussed in from the Topeka Correctional Facility and paid $14 an hour, but the prison keeps some of their wages for room and board, taxes, transportation, and other expenses. When all is said and done, they take home less than $6 per hour. These deductions are high, but elsewhere in the country, they're even higher: In our May series on prison
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 11/10/2026
The police said she lied about being raped. Then she hit record.
motherjones.com
Police didn’t believe a 12-year-old who said she'd been raped. Then she hit record.
“If I didn’t find the evidence for them, I wasn’t too sure they would find it.”
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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Good morning! 🪶
Curious burrowing owl standing on the edge of an alfalfa field.
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The King Teen @kingteenmusic.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It's pretty clear if you stop thinking of the Dem advisor class as being part of an opposition.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 11/10/2026
Elon just blasted his home address to his 240 million followers along with his order number and last 4 of his Amex charge card while shilling grok bot. Someone else canceled his order.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
NEW: Prime Minister Andy Burnham finally breaks a decade of UK govt silence…& reveals there was ‘clear’ Russian interference in the Brexit vote. 1/
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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Elephant mosquitoes! 💙 You big beautiful leggy things. Haven't gotten a chance to shoot them in a long time. (elephant mosquitoes don't bite, and their larvae prey on the larvae of other mosquitoes. Good boys, all of them)
Very large mosquito with iridescent blue legs and big floofy antennae, chilling on a green leaf Top view of one, feeding on hempvine flowersThe creature facing you on the leaf
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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WaterBluSky 🇺🇸 🌻 🇺🇦 @waterblusky.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Cloudfare: Russian troll activity on X drops to 49%, after Ukraine strikes Yandex Russian data center. 🤖 🫤 Could this disrupt the midterms for the GOP?
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Rachel Fairbank @sweetsciencewriter.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
“The children who are randomly selected not to receive the birth dose of the vaccine, those who “lost the lottery”, face in their earliest days the risk of contracting hepatitis B, which can cause irreversible lifelong damage.” No words. I am speechless. This violates all ethical boundaries.
theguardian.com
Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau
Recommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers
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Bilbo Yaga @bilboyaga.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
A reminder that a society that requires people to work to access healthcare that comes with risk of medical debt, discrimination like medical racism, no sick leave, etc… is a society in which it’s basic decency to wear an n95 in public to reduce spread of illness & to shield others from all that bs.
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
"Why can't we run government like a business?" asked the morons of America. This is why. You get marketing rebrands instead of governance, scams & bankruptcies instead of fiscal stability. You get humans reduced to "consumers," & public goods treated as "inefficiencies" or as resources to exploit.
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