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Aunt Ted @tedde.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Great, now they're going to be singing "where have all the ICE pigs gone?" in 20 years (because of global warming)

Two ice sculptures of piglets. One is sitting and smiling. One is standing and serious.

Aunt Ted @tedde.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

The unsigned, unexplained administrative stay to revive ICE jackboot tactics. I dont care if it's the procedural norm for administrative stays- it's normatively fucked. Fash rely on procedural formality and strategic opacity to avoid accountability, while the courts pretend temporary = harmless

Unsigned ruling from the 8th circuit court of appeals reading, "the motion for an administrative stay of the preliminary injunction issued by the district Court pending the Court's consideration of the Government's motion for a stay pending appeal is granted."

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Aunt Ted @tedde.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Because this is wild, and the schedule suggests it's not just two sensors malfunctioning at the same time twice a day for a few days

A chart labeled US EPA PM2.5 AQI , 10 minute average, from PurpleAir.com.
The is labeled vertically from 0 to 1500 on the left, and lists dates from November 20th through the 22nd along the bottom.
It tracks PM 2.5 levels from two sensors at Hitchcock Nature Center in Honey Creek, Iowa and shows steep, extreme peaks four times before listing the current PM 2.5 levels at a dangerous 62.6 microns per cubic meter. This level is at the bottom of one of the peaks, which go above 1000 microns per cubic meter.

The same chart as the previous image, with the most recent peak selected. It shows that Hitchcock Nature Center's A sensor measured PM 2.5 levels at 1155 microns per cubic meter at 7:40 AM on Friday, November 22nd, 2024.

The EPA limits PM 2.5 to 9 microns per cubic meter.

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Aunt Ted @tedde.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

The EPA's air quality standard limits PM2.5 to 9 µg/m3. WHO guidelines are 5 µg/m3 annually, not to exceed 15 µg/m3 more than 3-4 days a year. North Omaha, our historically reclined district and home to a subbitiminous coal plant, is currently at 39.26 µg/m3

The Weather Channel page for Omaha, Nebraska, listing the Air Quality Index (AQI) at 110. The primary pollutant is PM 2.5, at the full 110 AQI, which equates to 39.26 micrograms per cubic meter.

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Aunt Ted @tedde.bsky.social · 21/08/2024

This mailer is honestly the most competent campaigning I've seen in 20 years of voting A Harris Whitehouse can't get anything done with a Republican congress, and I can't deal with a christofascist homeschooler running the board of education & fucking over the kids in my neighborhood

Photo of a voter registration form, a pre-addressed, paid envelope to mail the form to my county election commission, and a letter from the Kamala Harris campaign urging me to "register to vote now"

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Aunt Ted @tedde.bsky.social · 16/08/2024

This town is so cooked

Facebook post from the City Government of Aberdeen, Washington, on Julu 1st reading, "The Aberdeen City Council would like to hear from you regarding the removal of fluoride from the city's drinking water.
Please take a short survey here on fluoride removal. The survey is open from July 1-July 31.
The City Council will make a decision in October. "

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Aunt Ted @tedde.bsky.social · 16/08/2024

The images are just of the statute, but I went to former Aberdeen City Council President Kacey Ann Morrison's FB page while trying to find more info, and dang she hates homeless people. It's kind of shocking how much contempt she holds for people struggling to get by

A. Prohibition. No person shall sit or lie down upon a public sidewalk, or upon a blanket, chair, stool or other object placed upon a public sidewalk within the city of Aberdeen Downtown Parking and Business Improvement District as defined in Chapter 10.20

B. Exceptions. The prohibition in subsection (A) of this section shall not apply to any person:

1. Sitting or lying down on a public sidewalk due to a medical emergency;

2. Who, as a result of a disability, utilizes a wheelchair, walker or similar device to move about the public sidewalk;

3. Operating or patronizing a commercial establishment conducted on the public sidewalk pursuant to a street use permit;

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Aunt Ted @tedde.bsky.social · 10/08/2024

Why, in the name of colonialism, does the Omaha city budget still open with "According to Indian legend"? Would be bad if they were describing an actual legend, but absolutely baffling when they just mean "translation" finance.cityofomaha.org/images/Finan...

Screenshot of the following text : According to Indian
legend, the name means "upstream" or "against the current".

Colonialist, racist bullshit

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Aunt Ted @tedde.bsky.social · 09/08/2024

There's a framework called "he spectrum of allies" The idea is that you can reliably move people one step in your direction. In this case, you get people who are actively working against you to passively disapprove, passive to neutral, and so on. These shifts eventually rob opps of their base

White background with black, handwritten text labeled "spectrum of allies". It's a semicircle divided into 5 wedges: active opposition, passive opposition, neutral, passive allies, and active allies. There are arrows moving each wedge one position from the opposition side to the support side.

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Aunt Ted @tedde.bsky.social · 08/08/2024

Went to google scholar, and it seems mixed. Some studies indicate PTSD is more likely to develop and more pronounced in narcissists, some indicate that it can have a moderating affect, and some indicate that vulnerable narcissism makes PTSD more likely but grandiose narcissism does not.

Conclusion: The findings underscore the role of intra-personal resources in the immediate psychological aftermath of war by highlighting the increased risk associated with narcissistic personality features. Theoretical and clinical implications of the findings are discussed.

Over half of the sample endorsed symptoms that were above the cutoff for a clinical concern for PTSD, and PTSD symptoms were significantly associated with symptoms of both vulnerable narcissism and grandiose narcissism.

Narcissism was found to moderate the relationship between PTG and PTSD symptoms. For individuals scoring low in narcissism there is no to negative correlation between PTG and PTSD symptoms. In contrast, for individuals high in narcissism there is a positive correlation between these two variables. The moderating effect of narcissism was found to operate through self-deception processes. Self-deception was related to PTG in individuals scoring high on narcissism and not in low-scoring individuals.

When dimensions of narcissism features were examined as separate predictors of PTSD, vulnerable but not grandiose narcissism features was found to have a significant effect.

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Aunt Ted @tedde.bsky.social · 07/08/2024

but maybe also they don't want to change Title 8 and instead rely on a vibes based policy?

"Not all policy changes require formal rulemaking, however, as internal guidance
documents are generally exempt under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA)."

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Aunt Ted @tedde.bsky.social · 07/08/2024

We need to dig up some dirt on this guy quickly because between the records and the maps and the support of queer kids and the general vibe, I'm going to spend the next three months waiting for Lucy to take away the football. He's unreal

A tweet from Governor Tim Walz that says, "Electric Fetus for the win. Shop local for your vinyl." with a photo of 4 albums from Steve Winwood, Genesis, Warren Zevon, and the Moody Blues

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Aunt Ted @tedde.bsky.social · 07/08/2024

I'm just glad we got Walz in before whatever the fuck this is

An image of Ted Kaczynski, the unabomber,
overlaid with an article titled "Introducing AIbraham Lincoln: The World's First Artificial Intelligence Presidential Candidate"

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Aunt Ted @tedde.bsky.social · 06/08/2024

Kellogg's is closing closing the plant in Omaha and terminating 500 union jobs (the one that senate candidate Dan Osborn led the strike for) www.wowt.com/2024/08/06/k...

Image of a lone striker in a raincoat holding a sign in torrential rain during the successful 2021 BCTGM strike of the Omaha Kellogg's plant

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Aunt Ted @tedde.bsky.social · 03/08/2024

She looks genuinely concerned?

A tweet from JK Rowling (gross) with a photo of Algerian boxer Imane Khelif patting her Italian opponent, who forfeited because she "felt a strong pain in [her] nose", on the back and looking at her the way you look at a friend having a breakdown that you're not equipped to help them through. The Italian boxer isn't bleeding or red or bruised. She doesn't show any signs of physical damage, only emotional distress.
Rowling's text reads, "Could any picture sum up our new men’s rights movement better? The smirk of a male who’s knows he’s protected by a misogynist sporting establishment enjoying the distress of a woman he’s just punched in the head, and whose life’s ambition he’s just shattered. #Paris20204"

Immaterial, but I boxed for years as a female lightweight/super featherweight. I've never seen anybody forfeit who looked this clean or unsweaty without a major medical issue. It would be weird to see at some amateur competition in West Texas, but at the Olympics is jarring.

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Aunt Ted @tedde.bsky.social · 03/08/2024

Yes, exactly what homeless people need

The back of a white van that says "Buddha Maitreya the reincarnation of Jesus the Christ, Helping the homeless of Omaha, the church of Shambhala Vajradhara Maitreya Sangha Jesus Crist Soul Therpay," followed by their contact information. There is a massive photo from the chest up of a discomforting white man with a light brown beard, yellow silk shirt, and some kind of catholic-adjacent red necklace that looks like a red circle with a gold rim and gold cross jutting out the top.
On the van's bumper are two stickers: "straight pride" and "there are only two genders".
The license plate numbers are crossed out of the photo, but you can see that the plates are tax exampt.
Jesus the 501(c)3 Christ indeed

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Aunt Ted @tedde.bsky.social · 31/07/2024

lol Nebraska Senator P. Ricketts has chat GPT draft his email replies

An email from Senator Pete Ricketts that begins, "Thank you for contacting my office regarding perfluoroalkyl and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).

PFAS are man-made chemicals that have been used in industry and consumer products worldwide since the 1940s. During production and use, PFAS can migrate into the soil, water, and air. Most PFAS do not break down, so they remain in the environment. Because of their widespread use and their persistence in the environment, many PFAS are found in the blood of people and animals all over the world and are present at low levels in a variety of food products and in the environment. Many scientific articles have been published about PFAS exposure and health effects. New kinds of PFAS are being developed. Some of these may have properties similar to the existing PFAS, and some may be less persistent in the environment.

While it is difficult to show that substances directly cause health conditions in humans, scientific studies have shown..."

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Aunt Ted @tedde.bsky.social · 30/07/2024

Here's the proposed North Dakota Cabon Capture & Sequestration (CCS) pipeline network map

A map of North Dakota, South Dankota, Nebraska, Minnesota, and Iowa with a network of pipelines each starting at carbon capture facilities in each of these states and joining a central pipeline from Iowa to North Dakota that ends in a carbon sequestration storage site

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Aunt Ted @tedde.bsky.social · 25/07/2024

The justices sound like the oldest people I've ever met. I looked up their photo, and they're all just middle-aged white people (in a population that's 22% nonwhite) Voices that match the age of the politics

Seven of the whitest people you've ever seen.
From left to right, standing: Date rape lacrosse player, racist soccer mom, DUI Dad, child abuse uncle. Sitting: neighbor who calls the cops when she sees a black friend go to your house, grandpa who says "colored", history teacher who gives all the football players As

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Aunt Ted @tedde.bsky.social · 13/07/2024

He grabbed his ear as he was going down. I think they nicked him

Blurry photo of Trump surrounded by secret service with blood dripping from his ear

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Aunt Ted @tedde.bsky.social · 08/04/2024

High-quality, flashy water

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Aunt Ted @tedde.bsky.social · 21/01/2024

Unhinged, out of touch, professor-brained comment. I've literally never met a homeless person who doesn't appreciate being comfy cozy. She's assuming (some) homeless people are completely feral. They're not.

“Some sleep on the floor because they’re not able to live in the space,” she said.

White text on dark grey background

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Aunt Ted @tedde.bsky.social · 20/01/2024

This is still my favorite transvestigation

From a Facebook group titled "Transvestigation: Hollyweird", a photo of Donald Trump holding a challenge coin. White text on a black background underneath reads:
Has no Adam's apple.
Has female lips.
Has female eyes.
Has female hair.
Has female hips.
Has female posture.
Has extremely small hands & feer.
Has never grew [sic] facial hair.

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Aunt Ted @tedde.bsky.social · 19/08/2023

I can't believe I went my whole life without knowing that Penn State's mascot is a child's drawing of a bear. I love him so much.

A photo of a person in a mascot costume with out-of-focus college students in the background. The mascot is called the Nittany Lion, but it looks like a back alley Build-a-Bear. The costume is a furry light brown. The hood-ends of the head drape over the shoulders of the mascot. The head itself looks like a crude drawing of a bear with four razor-sharp teeth. The sleeves of the costume are loose around the wrists, capped by gloves with white palms. The bear-lion is wearing a striped scarf to indicate he knows about clothing but makes a conscious choice not to wear any.

An image of the same bear-lion described in the previous photo doing "the pony" dance on a football field for his adoring fans. This is a full-body picture, so you can see he's wearing regular black athletic shoes. Further evidence he's aware of clothing but simply refuses to don any.

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