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Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

We need a meaningful children’s rights movement in this country. There is a long history of the government - all three branches - upholding “parental rights” to the detriment of children. Particularly the right to a good education and to adequate healthcare, including vaccinations.

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Jen Wang @jenwang.com · 24/08/2025

Hey, friends. You might remember that my kids' school PTA morphed into a mutual aid group after the Eaton Fire, & I'm writing in that capacity rn. Our community was already hard hit before the ICE escalation in LA, and now a dad was disappeared on Friday. www.gofundme.com/f/help-for-j...

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Donate to Help for Jesus Herrera Torres's Family, organized by Jennifer Wang

I'm writing this message on behalf of Aveson parents Jesus Herrera Torres and San… Jennifer Wang needs your support for Help for Jesus Herrera Torres's Family

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Tim Pierce @unchi.org · 25/08/2025

The submissions for the new Massachusetts seal, flag and motto are up, and my friends, they are a *trip* www.mass.gov/doc/massachu...

An image of a proposed redesign for the Massachusetts flag: it is a photo collage with a huge Dunkin Donuts at the center with the Harvard "Veritas" seal on the front of the building and a huge lobster plush doll walking out the front of it. The enormous smiling head of Governor Maura Healey rises up from behind the building, with heart-shaped sunglasses pasted over her eyes. Three bros in the lower left of the photo are raising a toast in red Solo cups, and in the lower right a (possibly drunk) young white person wearing a white T-shirt and sunglasses is waving a huge rainbow flag and wearing a rainbow boa. The word "MASSACHUSETTS" appears in the upper right in enormous pink-sprinkled letters in the Dunkin Donuts font.

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Office of Mayor Michelle Wu 吳弭 @mayorwu.boston.gov · 19/08/2025

Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations. The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.

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Laura @twonickels.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Did not bring any money walking the dog, might die of Not Being Able To Buy The Turkey Themed Coloring Book

A pile of hand drawn coloring books with different themes, made by a child

The inside of the turkey book, with one page showing a handprint turkey and the other with a bird torso and head not filled in labeled “draw a turky”

The back of the book, which says “$2, thank you”

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Terrific work as always from @pbump.com

Maps of Ohio and SC showing multiple cities on each with higher crime rates than DC

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Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

This is an AI Tax. These services are not “free”and non-users cannot avoid their costs.

In other words, unless utilities negotiate higher specialized rates, other ratepayer classes — residential, commercial and industrial — are likely paying for data center power needs.
Meanwhile, Monitoring Analytics, the independent market watchdog for the mid-Atlantic grid, produced research in June showing that 70% — or $9.3 billion - of last year's increased electricity cost was the result of data center demand.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 11/08/2025

Crime rates in all three cities have gone down, and in Baltimore at astounding levels, in part by treating crime as a public health crisis, rather than a "need more cops" crisis. popular.info/p/the-secret...

This April, Baltimore saw five homicides.

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Laura @twonickels.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Why be at work, why not be home with happy little dog??? Is the question my little dog believe she asks the most but in fact I am literally always asking

A gray dog pointing towards an old foundation full of wildflowers

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Laura @twonickels.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Big idea: an app that’s like Merlin bird ID but instead of kinds of bird it tells you by name which neighborhood dogs are barking so you can say hi back to them

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Laura @twonickels.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

How many nights should I stay in the Museum of Repressed Writers? Should I splurge on the evening brutalist architecture tour that has a warning for “strange energy and emotional gravity” or go to a town where you can wander around abandoned Soviet sanatoriums? Travel planning is my favorite hobby

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Laura @twonickels.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Everything in its place: the hummingbirds are on the bee balm, the squash is on the vine, the robins are bringing caterpillars to the nestlings in the honeysuckle, the crimebag is shoving her entire head into a brush pile to try to murder a chipmunk

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Laura @twonickels.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

The best part of those doggie dna tests is looking at your dog’s relatives

A screenshot saying that Vita shares 17% of her DNA with Sir Pork Chop Pissfingers

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Laura @twonickels.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Found these at work today, I guess a gnome must be wandering around the library in the nude

A tiny knitted red cardigan and pointy hat

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Laura @twonickels.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

"The company is yet to experiment with creating plus-size women, claiming 'the technology is not advanced enough for that'" is a real quote from this real article about pretend people

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Laura @twonickels.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

A question that’s sometimes surprisingly hard to answer: is this website selling me a dog toy or a sex toy?

Zoomed in on the cooy on the website that reads “twice the length, twice the pleasure”

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Laura @twonickels.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

We hosted the Poop Museum, a library program exploring the science of poop and got this iconic response

A note in a child’s handwriting saying “thank you for all the poop stuff”

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Congresswoman Gwen Moore @repgwenmoore.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Found in House Republican conference: 219 able-bodied adults who refuse to work.

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Laura @twonickels.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Called 311 to report a dead bunny at a park this morning and the very alarmed-sounding operator said he was transferring me to 911 and by the time I realized what was happening a police detective was asking me to describe the body

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Laura @twonickels.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Extremely regret that I didn’t get video of my dog going in the ocean for the first time, taking a nice drink, and learning about salt water

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Laura @twonickels.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Salem does blood donation different

A blood donation poster hosted by the Red Cross that says “vampires unite, do it for the humans”

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Laura @twonickels.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Ok so this very intense guy comes up to me at the library, leans over the desk and very meaningfully says “I HAVE THE CODE” and then just stares at me as if I will obviously know how to respond

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Leo Barasi @leobarasi.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

“Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it.”

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Tom Clark @tomsclark.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

The Supreme Court is out of control. To allow the president, without any explanation, to unilaterally dismantle agencies created by an Act of Congress is to endow the president with sovereignty. There is no justification, because they haven’t given one. Our country is in big trouble.

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Laura @twonickels.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Yes sure it is impressive that my friend grew our dinner, but I did at least grow the decor

A woman watering her community garden plot

A woman smiling behind a bunch of yellow and purple flowers

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Laura @twonickels.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

I want a fancy watch but instead of telling me how many steps I walked it tells me what bird I’m hearing right now

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Enrique Bedlam @enriquebedlam.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

It's funny that LEO's can arrest a reputed crime boss with underlings ready to murder from one of the 5 families bold and bare faced. But bringing in Abuelita Guadalupe who sells tortillas outside of church on Sunday is just way too risky.

The FBI arresting an alleged mob boss of the Bonanno Crime Family with their faces open for the world to see.

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Laura @twonickels.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Shoutout to the leaf cutter bees for making my sweetspire all architectural, native plants are for the native pollinators!

A small shrub with ovals cut into the leaves

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Eric Smith @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Whoa it’s Amazon Prime Day! Yeah I’m into PRIME. P - Purchasing R - Right from I - Indie bookstores who M - Make our communities E - Even better places to live Shop indie, shop local.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Every time I see conservative fearmongering about how dangerous the NYC subway is, I feel the need to defend it. I grew up in Ohio. It’s cars that are dangerous. It’s car accidents that are terrifyingly common. I’m not being dramatic when I say the subway is one of the best parts of my life now.

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Laura @twonickels.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Every once in a while if I’m having a rough day I sit and think about the fact that in just a few months my heat-hating little rescue dog from Alabama, who I’m almost certain is part husky, will get to see snow for the first time

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Laura @twonickels.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Had my first library interaction where I told a parent the book their kid wanted was checked out and asked if they’d like similar recommendations and got back “oh no it’s fine, I just asked chapgpt what they would like”

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

If any of these are your reps, please take 5 min today and call. Scripts and numbers at 5calls.org. Kill this absolute travesty of a bill.

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Constantine @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

I once met a man named Jacob. He was in his seventies, a small man, stooped and bent, who looked much older than he was. He was kind and gracious, and was used to people being put off by his posture and size. His story of how he ended up like that is informative. 1/

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Laura @twonickels.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Time to find out where all these crimes and all these ears came from

A grey and white dog next to a dog dna test box

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Ending Medicaid in order to build concentration camps. I feel, as always, there should be some kind of nonstop barrage of ads across America, every Democrat on every platform saying something like “Republicans want to end Medicaid in words to build concentration camps.”

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 29/06/2025

Every cut that the government makes to social services is effectively a tax on women. Because they're the ones who will be expected to fill in the gaps.

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Laura @twonickels.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Dentist told me my molar was so long that doing a root canal on it was like drilling for oil, so that’s fun

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Laura @twonickels.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Working on an index to measure heat waves based on how much the candles in my third floor condo need viagra

A close up of a candle drooping in it’s candlestick

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Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

If you need a reminder of what we're fighting for, here are a bunch of authors reading short excerpts of letters sent to them by grateful readers. Recommend having tissues handy.

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Laura @twonickels.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Love to get home from a long day’s work to enjoy the comforts of home

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