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godspeed. how old are they?

my Cassie ate some blanket fluff when she was about 18 months old and had to have part of her intestines removed :/

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HELLO CLIA uh this is my paranoia as a small dog owner but best get rid of the fluff before she can eat it

Amelia Sandrine Reisinger 🏳️‍⚧️ @ameliasandrine.com · 11/10/2026

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Bradie Tennell skated her Breakfast at Tiffany’s exhibition program at tonight’s PSCHS gala.

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that footwork...that spin! thank you for sharing!

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

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Quick story. My op-ed on how corporations that kept their DEI programs performed just as well financially was accepted & factchecked at TIME Magazine. Just needed "pro forma review by the legal department." Suddenly the piece is spiked Why? Benioff owns TIME and wants to ingratiate himself to Trump

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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

That's why my bosses at SFGATE just rolled out an app that lets you read everything we write there, ad free, for just a few bucks a month. This is how we beat Google. It's also how good people keep their jobs. Please consider subscribing. www.sfgate.com/news/article...

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SFGATE launches 'Friends of SFGATE,' complete with ad-free app

You asked, we listened.

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verb animal @hexacoral.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

importantly, like the KJ charles blog post on plagiarism suggests, mostly these people delude themselves into thinking everyone really kinda cheats like this, or there's no difference between what they do and really writing it all yourself, and they experience themselves as fully sincere

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verb animal @hexacoral.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

a couple years ago i had quite romantic feelings towards fandom as a whole and i thought there was no way that more than a handful of weirdos would plagiarise in fanfic because almost all the "returns" to posting it are social, which cheating would seem to undermine. now i think i am more sober

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tpwrtrdmn @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Anine is one of the people who worked to expose the research misconduct against trans people at Oslo University Hospital. Yesterday, she was told she is no longer on their waitlist to receive gender-affirming care. This is so obviously retaliatory, it's hard to put into words!

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

New open-access paper: Direct File showed that govt could build its own user-centered platform without relying on contractors. But the product was killed after a DOGE lead spoke with the private tax preparation industry lobbying against a private option. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The ability of governments to build and sustain public interest capacity partly depends upon the position of private interests, and the ability and willingness of a government to resist private interest opposition.
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) built a digital tax reporting service, Direct File, that created significant public value for users.
Direct File depended upon the creation of internal capacity: a government digital service team that could build digital platforms, rather than procuring a product from private vendors. Government control of the process allowed agile development and iterative improvement that would have been impossible under a traditional outsourcing model.
Long-standing opposition to Direct File by the private tax preparation industry, combined with Trump-era downsizing by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led to the elimination of the tool.

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eminemerald fennell @fireh9lly.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I don't know how to say it without sounding like a dick but most people simply don't think like we do, regardless of politics or values. This is why, if the Harry Potter series is a success, under NO circumstances should anyone take it as the public's referendum on if they want trans genocide or not

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The Humanist Report @humanistreport.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Democrats will never learn.

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Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Very important news: there's a new litter of cheetah cubs livestreaming. Right now they're at the "furry sausage" stage.

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Cheetah Cub Cam

The Cheetah Cub Cam streams live from the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Virginia.

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damn, that's such a great photo and sentiment. what reductive garbage ://

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yeah same, I'd rather watch Samo perform any day, but one simply cannot argue with the power of that much delulu

Shawn Gilmore @gipperfish.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

it's possible, but studies of moves from state to state in the US indicate that tax is not a significant factor in where people live. an awful lot of rich people choose to live in the US's two highest state/local tax regions (NYC and California), because they are fun places to be rich in

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Comics & Rhetoric, Week 7: work on questions about the ethics of nonfiction comics, centering the late-summer online debate about Tillie Walden's comic Charity & Sylvia (2026) and Rachel Hope Cleves's prose history Charity & Sylvia (2015). #comicsteaching

Comics & Rhetoric Week 7: Week 7
Monday, Oct 5 - Friday, Oct 9
The Ethics of Nonfiction Comics
Please complete everything listed under “prepare before class” ahead of each class meeting and bring your sketchbook and drawing implements of choice to class every time we meet.

a table containing an overview of the week's assignments and due dates
Date Prepare Before Class In-Class Activities
Mon
Oct 5
Tillie Walden, Charity & Sylvia (2026), excerptsDownload excerpts
Charity & Sylvia website
part 2Links to an external site.
part 3Links to an external site.
about pageLinks to an external site.
discuss adaptation choices and documentation in Walden's Charity & Sylvia
style and amplification exercise
Wed
Oct 7
Rachel Hope Cleves, Charity & Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America (2015), excerpts (.pdf)Download excerpts (.pdf) [read at least chs. 13-14 and look at images, notes]
Social media discourse about Walden and Cleves:
Cleves' open letterLinks to an external site. re: Walden's Charity & Sylvia (29 June 2016)
Samantha Puc, "Professor Rachel Hope Cleves wants Walden’s CHARITY & SYLVIA licensed as an adaptationLinks to an external site." (30 June 2026)
"A Statement from the Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont HistoryLinks to an external site." (July 2026)
thene, "Charity and Sylvia: the extraordinary claims of Rachel Hope ClevesLinks to an external site." (13 August 2026)
discuss Cleves' claims about Walden's "adaptation"
discuss assumptions about citation and disclosure
Fri
Oct 9
Lynda Barry, Making Comics, p. 171-197
introduce Argument Comic assignment
Barry exercise and discussion
Due: Source Annotation Comic (due by Oct 9: preferably hand in your final version and submit other materials to Canvas--all due by 11:59pm)
Due: Source Annotation Reflection (due by Oct 9, 11:59pm)

Rachel Hope Cleves's Charity & Sylvia (2015)

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100% Sibyl is the highlight of G!G!

👀 Guards! Guards! is fun but Men at Arms is considerably better and i have no regrets about reading it before i read G!G!. just fyi.

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she's winning by being 100% delulu i love to see it

Art & Nature @capecodfairytales.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

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#Poetry #Painting #TheLostSpells Enter the wild with care, my love And speak the things you see - Jackie Morris 🎨 Eugen Gorean

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roscone @roscone.com · 09/10/2026

The same thing happened in Massachusetts. The millionaire's tax isn't scaring people away, in fact, we bring in more than expected from that tax every single year.

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Jess Kali 🏳️‍⚧️ @jessicakali.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I've been saying this for a minute. If your candidate might be harmed by trans people not voting for them, then why aren't you calling your candidate?

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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 09/10/2026

You know the xkcd strip about how all modern internet architecture is eventually built on something a hobbyist maintains for free? Someone went out and found them all. sheets.works/data-viz/hol...

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I am in Cap Haitien interviewing people deported from the United States. I have been doing this kind of work for almost a decade and it literally does not get more dire than this. People have lost everything they built in the U.S. and are terrified and have no place to go or way to live.

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Emphasizing: people I am speaking to are strong and have tremendous spirit. But they have been devastated. They mostly entered the U.S. legally, worked for several years, were detained (frequently illegally), arbitrarily deprived or denied status, treated brutally, and dropped here with nothing.

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like I guess it's not 100% impossible for a human to be naturally that thin but irl there is a noticeable difference between her and her (already very thin) twin sister, who is performing more consistently than Yujae so far this season

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 09/10/2026

going to state the obvious even if it's impolite: Yujae has huge potential but most likely needs eating disorder treatment before she can show it. i came to this conclusion irl at Cranberry. i think this may be a factor in how she can do a gorgeous 3A then 3T straight into a wall.

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I hope Mamdani clarifies whether NYPD support for this action was at his direction or if the NYPD acted on its own; if the latter, why do they have that latitude and what is being done to reign in a rogue agency?

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she's such a star augh

pudding ➡️ ADVX 2026 @puddraws.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

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i finished my lace roundel! now to do the bit to go in the centre #crafts

A torchon lace roundel in blue and white cotton.

Detail shot with my hand for scale. The whole thing is about 30cm in diameter.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 09/10/2026

This ICE agent’s entire Instagram feed, “shooter.914,” is guns, watches, energy drinks, and alcohol.

A shooter.914 post showing a blue handgun and Reign energy drink

The console of a car with an energy drink and handgun in the cup holders.

In the foreground, shooter.914’s wrist with a fancy watch in it. Background: Two assault rifles and a Monster energy drink

A screenshot of his whole account showing more of the same

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she's SO much fun i adore her