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Gadfly | 🏳️‍🌈 | 🧡🤍🩷 |🐓&🐶 Lover| Proud Parent of 6 adults, Grandparent of 4 | Ridiculously in Love Since 2001 💖 | Online Community Geek & Social Media Manager by Day, Unfiltered Weirdness by Night. (ok, day too, but here it is all me) 📚💙

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PBS @pbs.org · 07/08/2025
An update from us here at PBS 💙
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Coko @coko.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
For identification purposes. Please share.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Until we pass a nationwide ban on gerrymandering (which we need), Democrats should gerrymander every state to the fullest extent. 52-0 in CA, 17-0 in IL, and so on. No more unilateral disarmament. Time to get serious about fighting back.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Yes, we know Illinois and Maryland are Dem gerrymanders. And WI, PA, NC, OH, FL, TX, UT are Republican gerrymanders. The Democrats support a nationwide ban on gerrymanders. Do any Republicans?
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Doesn’t appear to be a trans person or liberal…again.
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WHO @who.int · 06/08/2025
Access to safe abortion protects the health of women and girls. As with all other health services, women and girls should be able to access safe and respectful abortion care, when they need it, without fear of harm, punishment or recrimination. #HealthForAll
Illustration of a woman standing in a lit doorway, casting a long shadow down a dark hallway. Text on the image reads: 'Restricting access to safe abortion drives women and girls to unsafe procedures.'
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Male privilege in an article about public toilets
Man suggesting you flush a toilet and leave the stall for 30 seconds before returning and using the toilet.
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Have you never wondered why your world is so small?” They want to keep you sick and stupid. Because the sick and stupid are easier to control than the healthy and enlightened.”” — Blood Circus by Camila Victoire a.co/6qYS1HR
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
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Elizabeth DeLoria II: THE GHOST DIMENSION @yourdadloves.me · 30/07/2025
Bluntly? In the eyes of payment processors and anti porn lobby groups, if you make NSFW content at all -- even if you're strictly an artist or strictly a writer or a gamedev -- you are a sex worker in their eyes. You're in the same boat as us. Please remember this next time we ask for solidarity.
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
This doesn’t even talk about the rich people bones aka teeth much apple.news/ApY71JwWxRnm...
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51 Horrifying Photos From The American Healthcare System That Feel Genuinely Dystopian — BuzzFeed
People are out here risking their lives by refusing ambulance rides because they can't afford them.
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
As someone who grew up going to the Smithsonian at least weekly, this feels like an enormous betrayal www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
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Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit in American history museum
A temporary placard, on display since 2021, described the president's historic impeachments. Officials said the exhibit was restored to an earlier version following a review of legacy content.
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
What is a fake feminist? I keep seeing a woman described as a fake feminist and I’m not sure what that means.
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
This woman at this bar said “I go to bed by 10 every night but I know haw to stay up for a good time and I love that.
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
I chortled. I’m a southerner. How could I not? #BookQuotes 📚🦋
“I left here nine years ago, had Adam’s baby and never told him.” She paused and drew in a breath. “Now I’m back and I’ve brought home his child. What would you call it?” “Fine Southern drama.””

— A Dad for Billie by Susan Mallery
https://a.co/ennXSwe
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
I’m thinking the second sentence can’t be true.
“Problems belong to all people. Solutions belong only to the chosen few.”

— The President's Shadow: A Shadow Thriller by James Patterson, Richard DiLallo
https://a.co/7GNkdzM
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
The thing about the Hillary and Obama wrote the Epstein files is beyond comprehension since Bill Clinton is widely thought to be on it. If Hillary was going to throw Bill under the bus, that wouldn’t be the way
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Just finished "My Friends: A Novel" by Fredrik Backman and it was well worth reading
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Mom life
“One time I asked her why she was so obsessed with what I was thinking, and she got angry and yelled: ‘Because I want to know what’s happening inside you! Because you happened to me! You happen to me every second I’m alive!’ ””

— My Friends: A Novel by Fredrik Backman
https://a.co/iptqE6I
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
“Being a parent is so strange, all our children’s pain belongs to us, but so does their joy.” — My Friends: A Novel by Fredrik Backman a.co/5ckDPNd
“Being a parent is so strange, all our children’s pain belongs to us, but so does their joy.”

— My Friends: A Novel by Fredrik Backman
https://a.co/5ckDPNd
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hey there, benji. @benjaminfaye.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Amazon Prime days feel like a good time to remind you that it’s easy to have good ethics when you don’t live in a food desert. It’s easy to be righteous when you have another choice. It’s easy to be an activist online where no one sees everything. Trust, I’m not pro-Amazon. I’m anti-hypocrisy.
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
“I’m not sure I’m ready to give up on Florida just yet—even though some days I feel like it’s given up on me.” Time and Time Again by Chatham Greenfield
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Burnt Bleghk 🎃 @brentalfloss.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
our country rn
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Japanese American National Museum @jamuseum.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
We know too well the devastating consequences of such action—families torn apart, livelihoods destroyed, and multigenerational trauma inflicted on a community for decades. #AlligatorAlcatraz #NeverAgainIsNow
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Every time I see a “New painkiller could bring relief to millions without addiction risk” headlines—I think of the early OxyContin stories
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
We’ve been calling this security cam regular a fox for a year… until last night it jumped and we got a better look. Taller. Built different. Not the same as our front yard fox. So now we’re asking… what is it?
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
You know, when one of my kids was small, she thought the Holy Land Experience used day laborers for the Live Daily Crucifixions and we laughed at her naivety. Now with the rise of the current climate, I wonder if she was right.
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Chez Andre @avezina.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Fucking lunatics, fuck you all who voted for Republicans.
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
How do you take your coffee?
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
i am simply asking the press to cover the government sending masked thugs to rip people from their crying children and shipping them to a foreign concentration camp with the same ferocity they cover a trans kid playing jv tennis in sheboygan
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
““Don’t let anyone treat you like a regular fruit snack. You are a Gusher.””

— The Three Lives of Cate Kay: Reese's Book Club: A Novel by Kate Fagan
https://a.co/5nFpOU1
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ProfKFH @profkfh.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting
Colorful quilt of a nighttime scene with  Harriet Tubman in an orange jacket and purple dress carrying a rifle. She is leading other figures who walk behind her.
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Some days the poison feels faster.
“It’s like being slowly poisoned, to know something’s unjust and not be able to do anything to correct it.””

— The Hellion's Waltz: Feminine Pursuits by Olivia Waite
https://a.co/5zDzJsK
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James Hughes @dystopian-fashion.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
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Liz (or Lizzie) Kim 김혜성 💫 @lizzielizliz.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Margaret Cho margaretcho.bsky.social, tells her story of her dad being deported when she was a baby. Her father took her back to Korea with him away from her mother. The trauma of family separation goes deeper than most people realize. Thank you Margaret for sharing your touching story with us. 💙
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Families will need to move if they can and to be sure, most can not. So, now they are in the position where SCOTUS thinks a ~75% probability of suicidal ideation because of lack of health care is A-ok. This policy kills children.
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Democrats need not apply?
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Did anyone get the birthday boy one of those inflatable tank pool toys?
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
The head of the department of homeland security announced that she planned to use military force to take over a democratically elected government in the state of California and we are arguing about whether a California Senator properly identified himself at the door.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 12/06/2025
IMPORTANT: Before the fascist attack on Senator Alex Padilla, Kristi Noem said that her gestapo in California were staying to "liberate the city socialist and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country." Don't let that slide by.
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
This is not something I’d ever expected a White House comms director to say in print or in public.
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Nope. If I need just short of a notarized permission slip to allow my partner to pick up my kids from school—lying feds should need far more paperwork
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
This is not how the first amendment works.
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
“I was tired of it. Just once I wanted to be able to do something as simple as meet with an accountant and not have it require a monumental act of courage. Just once I wanted to be a normal person, without having to worry about a reaction to my very existence.”

— You're Not from Around Here, Are You?: A Lesbian in Small-Town America (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiog) by Louise A. Blum
https://a.co/fF6Vqh3
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Negan @rogernegan.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
This
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
So, if 47 deports Leon because he is here illegally—does that mean he faces penalties for accepting campaign donations from a foreign national?
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