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Theryl

@theryl.bsky.social
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Some old guy from the burbs

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
about 50% of Bluesky is the 5% of people who are about 3000% more engaged with politics than the average person having daily slapfights over the future behaviour of ppl who decide who theyre going to vote for depending on the last colour they saw and won't remember who they chose 5 min later
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The Taylor Farms Cyclospora outbreak was, and IS, still a huge mess. Both due to the sheer size of the outbreak, and because of TF did a historically bad job handling the PR around it. But it's also really the only out-of-the-ordinary outbreak we've had so far this year. (So far. Ha. Hahaha)
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton and Patti LaBelle playing their acrylics. Two icons.
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Stephanie Porras @periodeye.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
This is a triggering image of a museum display in the natural history museum in DC about life before smartphones. Me and a fellow 40+ person were laughing at how we are now LITERAL MUSEUM PIECES. MY teen was like did you have a clear phone? An address book? A book of maps. Yes, yes I did. 🫠🫠🫠
An image of a boom box, a cd wallet, a travel atlas, business cards, dictionarjes a pay phone and various things people used before cellphones
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ashley (ravens 2-1) 🌹 @clearlyashley.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
trans rights frankly is a top 5, potentially top 3 issue for me despite not being trans and not having any trans family being bigoted against trans folks not only hurts my trans friends and every trans person but is so predictive of further bigotry
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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The creator of Roger Rabbit (who is 85 years old by the way) is a good sort Crossposted with @openvibe.social
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I've had to unfriend a few fans lately, all for the same reason. They made ridiculing, unkind, and in some cases outright cruel comments about pictures I posted of young women cosplaying Jessica. 
More than a person, Jessica is a state of mind. To play Jessica, you need self -confidence, a sense of humor, and a Jessican -attitude-. There is no such thing as a Jessica cosplayer being too short, too flat chested, too heavy, too thin, too unattractive, too black, too Asian, or even too male!!! All Jessica, any Jessica, every Jessica is good Jessica. 
I'm not giving any warnings or second chances. A single disparaging comment on a Jessica cosplayer, and I'm throwing you out of the rainbow colored Toontown Tent.
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Ostrich and 12.5k others @justostrich.com · 14/07/2026
I'm sorry, if you can't look at Biden's economic policy in a vacuum and say "this was good and it pissed off the rich and that's why Elon spent 44 billion dollars on Twitter and specifically drove Gaza as a wedge issue and FUCKING BRIBED PEOPLE TO VOTE FOR TRUMP" you're completely owned by Capital.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
“I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.” ~ James Baldwin
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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Just after the battle of Gettysburg, Lt. Frank Haskell of Wisconsin set down his memories of the fight as he had witnessed it from his perspective as a division commander’s aide de camp. I like to revisit it every year because of the way Haskell uses his words to paint a vivid picture for the reader
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Happy BAYONETS!! Day to all who celebrate.
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Bayonets Gettysburg
Alt: Bayonets Gettysburg
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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Happy “liberal arts professor helps save the Union” day to all who celebrate
Charge of the 20th Maine at Little Round Top
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N U L L I S M @nu11ism.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
― 𝗚 𝗜 𝗩 𝗘 𝗔 𝗪 𝗔 𝗬 ! Just because Midnight hype, hope everyone is hype! Like + Repost + Follow―for a chance to win a portrait! Ends March 31st! #giveaway #artwork #art #oc
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 28/02/2026
If you voted for Trump, this is on you. If you voted third party, this is on you. If you chose not to vote at all, this is on you. Your reasons are irrelevant.
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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
From Frederick Douglass's 1867 "Composite Nation" speech, a defense of Chinese migration to the United States at a time when anti-Chinese sentiment was intensifying. teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...
If we would reach a degree of civilization higher and grander than any yet attained, we should welcome to our ample continent all the nations, kindreds, tongues and peoples, and as fast as they learn our language and comprehend the duties of citizenship, we should incorporate them into the American body politic. The outspread wings of the American eagle are broad enough to shelter all who are likely to come.
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RAYGUN @raygunsite.com · 26/01/2026
From the mind of @bdsa83.bsky.social to a shirt. Online now, in stores soon. Raising money for a local group in MSP that wishes to remain anonymous. www.raygunsite.com/collections/... #raygun #RebelLoonAlliance Stickers, etc, to follow!
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 24/01/2026
I have lost all patience with self-proclaimed cynics desperate to pretend that their quisling cowardice in the face of evil is wisdom.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Common Sense, published 250 years ago today.
Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance; and the world they act in differs so materially from the world at large, that they have but little opportunity of knowing its true interests, and when they succeed to the government are frequently the most ignorant and unfit of any throughout the dominions.
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
The many monarchs of Europe, the slaver's Confederacy, the Kaiser, the Nazis, the Italian fascists, Imperial Japan and many more all assumed that because liberals value peace and human life, that they were weak and feckless and easily beaten. Go look for them now.
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Jim Logan @spatchcock.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
"If there’s any fact we know about history, it’s that everybody’s been moving everywhere and having sex with everybody, forever." — Paul Spickard, professor of history, UC Santa Barbara
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
/3 I am no longer inclined to spend time tinkering with the machinery of bigotry. It would be trivially easy to explain under a rules-based system how SCOTUS could come out one way on race in admissions and another in race in detentions. But it's still not worth the effort or the implied respect.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 05/09/2025
LITERAL GOLD. Thank you for making this, @colbertlateshow.bsky.social.
Oregon trail graphic saying, "You have died of Florida"
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Rockytech @rockytech.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says "Can I help you find something?" "I'm looking for the obituaries." "The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade." "Not the one I'm looking for."
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Rev. Poppy Haze 𓅋 @poppyhaze.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
every “ancient tradition” was invented between 1848-1870 and every “modern perversion” is so ancient as to predate writing
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Adam Bunch @adambunch.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
The Toronto Circus Riot broke out on this day 170 years ago — sparked by a brawl between angry clowns and firefighters at a Victorian brothel. Here's my annual thread about one of the strangest stories in Canadian history...
A collage of four Victorian circus performers standing in front of a circus tent, with flames rising up in the foreground.
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Devin Fitzgerald, bibliothot @devinfitz.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
There is nothing more terrifying and unmooring to a conservative than the affirmation of unconditional love. Love is not scripted or scored. It is jazz and improv and the grass that grows in sidewalk cracks. Unplanned and always living. Solidarity my hearts✊
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 07/04/2025
Reminder: All People Had To Do Was Fill In A Little Oval Next To The Smart Black Lady’s Name.
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Anna Hughes 🍁 @annaghughes.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake
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Hopey_70 @hopey70.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
The root of the Biden hate from Democrats and Leftists. People need to be honest.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/04/2025
i am tired of being told i must coddle these people. no! they are willfully ignorant! and their standard bearer, RFK, is a monstrous narcissist who is indifferent to death and suffering.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Kind, decent, and compassionate, Pope Francis was badly out of step with contemporary western culture.
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...ou faire un vers! 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @oufaireunvers.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
It's increasingly hard to escape the conclusion that 77 million voted to get rid of democracy in the United States because our country was achieving greater equality and equity, and they didn't want that.
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Leia BlueSkywalker @blueskye2025.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Those book fairs were lit 😍
Sign “I’ve spent my whole adult like chasing the high of a achilastic book fair”
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JA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com · 29/03/2025
When people say 'politics is too divisive now,' what they really mean is 'I was more comfortable when certain groups suffered quietly.'
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JB Pritzker @jbpritzker.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Donald Trump is lying to you.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 05/02/2025
Ever think about how most all the big political actors and dictators of the 20th century personally experienced the horrors of war and bloodshed? Meanwhile, we’re watching a U.S. coup carried out by men who have lived lives softer than that of your average inbred French Bulldog in a sweater.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
I think Americans, blessed with relatively stable government for a long time, assume there is someone, some adult, who will step in and make things right before the President does anything REALLY bad. There’s not.
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Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
I was going to post about this earlier — in the 1950s, “integration” was the same scapegoat for *everything* that DEI has become today. The same scapegoating was deployed even earlier for abolition, and then later for multiculturalism. Different codewords, same racism.
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
📌Three soldiers are dead tonight. Their Commander in Chief took no responsibility for it, and didn’t show a shred of empathy. He is a tiny man, a coward, completely unfit for duty, and an embarrassment to all of us who served. I spit on him.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/01/2025
i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Every safety regulation was written in blood, frequently with a body count higher than one, and it’s not political to put the blame on people who want to “move fast and break things” when they start breaking human lives.
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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 30/01/2025
Once a year, the swordmaster saw students seeking advice on other weapons. At the end of the long line of people holding axes, spears, and tools, a girl stood, her hands empty. "What is your weapon?" "Anger. Anger and spite." The swordmaster smiled. "Finally, an advanced pupil!" #CrossRepost
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Time to share my current historical obsession: Clarice Orsini de Medici’s EXTREMELY ILLEGAL HAT! A cool reflection on performing social class, and part of my release countdown to “Inventing the Renaissance” 1/?
Portrait of Clarice Orsini de Medici by Ghirlandaio (1490s). She sits in front of an arched window frame, wearing a costly red velvet fur-lined robe over a costly black gown. The picture is dominated by her tall V-shaped hat, patterned in costly brocades of black and gold, and edged and embroidered with many pearls. Her expression is calm and unsmiling as she sits shown at 3/4 view. She has the fashionably high forehead and barely-visible eyebrows of the period, and vivid dark eyes.
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Jonathan Dresner @jondresner.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Nationalism is bad history with a body count
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