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Toni

@the-looney-bin.org
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Queer. Autistic. Polyam. Bleeding edge of GenX. Childless, no cats. She/her ME/CFS, Fibro, POTS A former Hoosier now in Kentucky via Pennsylvania and Colorado.

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Amanda Roos @amandaroos.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Everyone deserves to be financially stable enough to leave abusive relationships. That can be abusive romantic partnerships or abusive work environments. Universal basic income would help everyone be able to leave abusive relationships. Billionaires don't want that. Religions don't want that.
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 21h
Sometimes you just need a basket full of baby otters to make your day complete. Oh, look what I found! You can thank me later...
Short description: Four fluffy baby otters, including one named Steve, peek out of a woven wicker basket as a human hand gently steadies them.  
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ceej @ceej.online · 08/10/2026
waymos are driven by the ghosts of people who died in debt
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Toni @the-looney-bin.org · 21h
Sheesh! My grand-nephew has been read to by his father since he was days old because both his parents totally enjoy it. I am just boggled by the detachment of wanting AI to read to a child.
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Jess (a ghost) 💀 @notmoro.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
For Pete's sake, go see Rachel Parris! Another instabook here at Chez Jess. Always just *so* funny. TREAT YO SELF.
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Rachel (ish) @rachelish.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Rest in peace, Margaret Hamilton. You were great.
A small lego set with a floor and a wall with a chalkboard on it and a coat stand and a pile of books as tall as the minifigure of Margaret Hamilton, with a name plaque. The set is lying on a space-themed duvet and the full moon is above Margaret's head
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Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Oh this can just fuck off An AI-'written' complete copy of my own book is now on Amazon; same title, more-or-less the same blurb, and exactly the same impetus. Reviewers of Amazon, I urge you to absolutely dive-bomb this plagiaristic piece of shit: www.amazon.co.uk/FORGOTTEN-VI...
A hollow copy of my book with a shit AI-generated cover
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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
What a legend. That image of her with the pile of books is often what I think of when I think of the Moon landings. RIP.
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NPR @npr.org · 08/10/2026
Real-time crime-center software is a sometimes overlooked but powerful tool allowing police to aggregate immense amounts of data, significantly expanding their surveillance reach. n.pr/47GwCHc
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Flock is catching flak. Experts say other police surveillance tools are more worrisome
Real-time crime-center software is a sometimes overlooked but powerful tool allowing police to aggregate immense amounts of data, significantly expanding their surveillance reach.
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Michele Bannister @astrokiwi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"A crucial aspect of our strategy has been moving away from the traditional, and often counterproductive, expectation that scientists must personally drive technology transfer while carrying out cutting-edge research. "
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
update: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center...
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Ranking Member Raskin, Rep. Dean Demand DOJ Investigate Former Bard College President After Uncovering His Email Asking Whether Young Woman Was “for Me” or Epstein Himself, Reveal History of Sex Abuse...
Washington, D.C. (October 7, 2026)—Today, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, and Rep. Madeleine Dean demanded a federal investigation into former Bard College Presiden...
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Toni @the-looney-bin.org · 21h
Gee, wasn't NG also an instructor at Bard? Fits with the overall atmosphere, not implying any Epstein connection for him specifically. democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center...
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Ranking Member Raskin, Rep. Dean Demand DOJ Investigate Former Bard College President After Uncovering His Email Asking Whether Young Woman Was “for Me” or Epstein Himself, Reveal History of Sex Abuse Coverup at Bard
Washington, D.C. (October 7, 2026)—Today, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, and Rep. Madeleine Dean demanded a federal investigation into former Bard College President Leon Botstein after reviewing an email in which Botstein asked Jeffrey Epstein about a young woman Epstein was trafficking: “Is [Jane Doe] for me, or are you keeping her for yourself.” In a separate letter to Bard’s leadership, Ranking Member Raskin sought records concerning Epstein’s use of the college to advance his trafficking activities and allegations from more than a dozen whistleblowers about sexual misconduct at Bard, including allegations that Botstein personally engaged in misconduct and intervened in Title IX proceedings to protect offenders.
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If I ran a website that gave teens advice on how to commit suicide I would go to jail
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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
How (not) to Write about Health Equity-- an excellent satirical article published in @plosglobalpublichealth.org 🧪 An encapsulation of the feel-good, do-nothing approach to health equity; the lived experience paragraphs resonated most. Read the whole article here: journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
Praise “intersectoral and interdisciplinary collaboration” as the panacea. Everyone can collaborate: ministries, health professionals, researchers, civil society, philanthropic foundations, and commercial actors whose business models actively harm public health. Do not discuss conflicts of interest. Do not ask who has power in the room. Oppression disappears once everyone is brought to the table – provided no one asks who owns it, who paid for it, or who keeps poisoning the food.

Once the table is set, invite “lived experience” into the conversation. Invite structurally marginalised people to share their stories. Thank them for their courage. But do not let them decide what should change. Lived experience should move the room, not move resources or authority.
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...
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One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center
A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.
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Mara 👻 aBOOlish I.C.E. @mauratwit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Naturally, since she was a poet, the poetry section in the Rebel Loon Archives chapter about Renee Good is really moving. This section of a long poem by V.M. Stone really hit me
Minneapolis - world's largest small town, haha,
I know folks who played DnD with Philando Castile.
I went to a party thrown by Winston Smith.
I know Daunte Wright's teachers, I was twenty blocks away when he died, and
even on the other side someone mentioned,
"hey, I wonder
if we met that shooter the church one, y'know? some queer event maybe, ages ago, I dunno,
but the girlfriend's on my friends list, you came with me, right? Did we see? Should we have seen?"
we Forrest Gump our way through massacres now, pinging off atrocities till we are pinball smooth, slapped into action and helpless to stop.
I don't know what to do with this momentum, I'm no longer even sure that it's mine. I want out of this car,
I want everyone out of the car. it seems a little thing to pick someone up,
until you measure out the distance.
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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 23h
wait was i supposed to keep me a secret
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: ICE collected tens of millions of voter records, explored undercover investigations against voter registration groups and considered feeding election data into a system used to locate people for deportation as part of an effort to find voter fraud. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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ICE amassed millions of voter records in sweeping fraud hunt, documents reveal
It's one of the clearest pictures yet of how deeply Trump's immigration enforcement apparatus has become involved in elections.
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Gabe Moshenska @gabemoshenska.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Souls of budget airline customers trapped inside the walls of Copenhagen airport
Blue wall with white smiley faces and a sign saying “expect a miracle”
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Kentucky Lantern @kentuckylantern.com · 07/10/2026
‘We want to fight for each other:’ Unionized Shelbyville tenants describe bugs, mold in housing. From @liamniemeyer.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2026/10/07/w...
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'We want to fight for each other:' Unionized Shelbyville tenants describe bugs, mold in housing. • Kentucky Lantern
Mice, cockroaches, mold and water damage have pushed Evans and other tenants at seven different Shelbyville properties to form and launch a tenant union last month.
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Rivka @rivka-otter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Loved this. “The picture book city is a place of rough equality, where things are what they seem, and where people do things because those things are necessary for society, rather than because they further inflate a capitalist’s stock portfolio.”
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Mamdani’s “Richard Scarry Socialism” Can Make City Life Simple Again
The NYC mayor is trying to build a city that functions like a city in a children's picture book, where people aren’t caught in a web of lies and scams.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
What a hedline: @apnews.com apnews.com/article/midt...
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 07/10/2026
"We don't want to turn into a banana republic, so we won't try to rein in corporations" is the kind of thing you say if you don't know what makes a banana republic a banana republic, and instead want to be a banana republic where the bananas are data centers.
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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 06/10/2026
You're never too old to get excited about seeing a really big tree.
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Andrea Is Sick of Long Covid @andreastudiescovid.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It can still disable you. Forever. People had a hard time when restaurants closed for a few weeks. It was seemingly the worst thing that had ever happened to them. Imagine being so sick that you have to stay home for five years. And you're still sick, and there's no treatment, there's no cure. 😷
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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I want to hear more about the second of these writing sessions
Jeffrey Archer, former
Conservative politician and novelist, dies aged 86
Publisher says author died peacefully at home
'between writing sessions'
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Jessica BOOOOlin: Preorder Getting Hairy, out October 31! @olinj.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
With regards to my last reskeet, here's a list of deeply imaginative shows with magic or science that seems like magic that won't enrich a fascist bitch who uses her money to hurt people. Feel free to add to my list. 1. Warehouse 13 (I mean, who doesn't love Saul Rubinek?)
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Warehouse 13 | Official Trailer (2009)
YouTube video by Terrific TV Shows
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Katherine Addison/Sarah Monette @pennyvixen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Thank you to @kithrup.bsky.social for reminding me that the ebook of The Goblin Emperor is on sale today, across all retailers, for $2.99. I *did* know about this sale, but I had not yet even processed that today is Tuesday. So I appreciate being reminded!
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
your response to “I was raped” should not be “I was right”
4 panel comic

Panel 1:
A Purple Woman looks distraught, on the verge of breaking down. She says “that man raped me”
Orange Guy standing next to her is absent-mindedly checking his nails. He says “Wellll, I’ve always disliked him and his work.”

Panel 2:
Purple Woman begins to cry. Orange Guy adopts an incredibly smug expression and says “Guess I must just be a good judge of character”

Panel 3: 
Purple Woman dissolves into sobs. Orange  Guy notices, puts his hand on her shoulder and says “Aw”

Panel 4:
Purple Woman crumples to the floor. Orange Guy, looking bemused, asks “Are you crying because you’re jealous of how smart I am?”
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Holly @holls.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I've wanted to post about this ever since they started airing, but it's been impossible to explain without sounding like I'm lying
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Tanya D. || Writer || Narrative Designer @cypheroftyr.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
I’m available for work. Currently available for: Narrative Design Writing (video game & tabletop) Consulting (narrative/DEI/editing) Review and Executive Summary of playable builds Recruiters welcome to get in touch. linkedin.com/in/tanyacdep...
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Tanya D. || Writer || Narrative Designer @cypheroftyr.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Shoutout to Star Wars Zero Company for fantastic Black hairstyles. DAMN. #GiftedCopy #MyHawks
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️
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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A Warhammer 40K Techpriest, with a balloon that makes it look like he's saying the quoted post
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026
my friend @juddlegum.bsky.social has put together a cool new tool that allows you to photograph political mail and immediately learn who paid for it. Check it out here:
paidforby.info
Who paid for this?
Find out who really paid for political mailers and TV ads.
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Alex Awoos @alex-awoos-backup.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I feel like more people should be talking about this part
Screenshot from the article that reads, The Stud, San Francisco's oldest gay bar, was only able to have its Meta pages restored because of the bars popularity among gay tech executives with connections to Meta
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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 04/10/2026
The amount of gender in these things is off the charts. They’re dude wipes (boy) but pumpkin spice (girl) but it’s actually dumpkin spice (???). They’re XL (boy) but plant-sourced (girl).
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Once again, I ask why the New York Times & every other media outlet immediately & instinctively reports on the 🇩🇪 AfD as a “far right” or “extremist” party but does not regularly cover the 🇺🇸 Republican Party as such: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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Joe Adalian @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Also, pretty clear HBO Max is using AI to translate its show descriptions into UK English, because look what they call John Candy…
HBO
8th ANNUAL YOUNG COMEDIANS’ SHOW

1983

John Sweets introduces HBO viewers to comedy's class of
1983.
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
We had the party for the five year old and her best friend (who just had her last preschool day) brought her a framed picture. A picture she made from the pressed flowers she had collected on her walks home from their school days together
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Lisa Rowe 🏳️‍🌈 @txvoodoo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I love him
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Buried in this story that everyone’s leaving out of the conversation is that he blames Jews for creating the FDA to ban “holistic” health treatments and make everyone sick to profit off of them. It always, always, always comes back to antisemitism. It’s the core that rots everything from center out
"In 1933 when the Rothschilds FDA came along the first thing they went after was radium water... not vaxxines [sic], dirty electricity, or pesticides," he wrote in the video's caption. "Gee I wonder why... healthy people don't yield large profits."
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Miss Riss @missriss.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A speakeasy's reviews have to be hidden behind a bookcase on a different businesses yelp page or no dice
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Shonna White @shonnathewhite.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Great chance to post my all-time favorite headline
The Radium Water Worked Fine Until His Jaw Came Off
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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
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Toni @the-looney-bin.org · 04/10/2026
Louisville in a nutshell.
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Jen (they/them) says Free Link @knifeboots.xyz · 04/10/2026
LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK 🗣️🗣️🗣️
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Kirsti Miller @kirstimiller30.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I bought a six-pack of donuts when a guy next to me said, "You shouldn't eat donuts." I replied, "My grandparents parents lived to be 100." He asked, "Did they eat donuts?" I shot back, "No, they minded their own fkn business."
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