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Violette in Bloom

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Real human, plant nerd, Trekkie, opinion-haver, feminist

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
MURRAY: The Trump admin falsely labeled birth control as abortion. Do you agree that an IUD is an abortifacient? OVERTON: If confirmed, I'll be fully briefed M: That's not an answer. The prospect of an FDA commissioner who doesn't know that birth control isn't an abortion is deeply alarming O: 😊
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This seems like a pretty big deal: donors made illegal contributions to Susan Collins and then were awarded lucrative contracts after her office intervened with the Navy. An FBI investigation was dropped under Trump. www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
To skirt campaign finance laws and conceal the source of the funds, Navatek planned to funnel the donation through a shell company. The CEO wanted assurance that Collins would know where
the money came from. Reed confirmed that she would, the executive said - and that Navatek would get its government contracts.
After the Corner Bakery meeting, Navatek's CEO, Martin Kao, sent an initial $150,000 to the Collins super PAC using the shell company. Two months later, he told Navatek executives that Collins committed to getting the company $32 million in naval contracts, according to an internal company email reviewed by ProPublica.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Heads up: The Russian government has been targeting Americans with covert online disinformation operations seeking to undermine public confidence the midterms — using a familiar playbook in an attempt to inject chaos into the voting season, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter.
nytimes.com
Russia Aims to Inject Chaos Into Elections, U.S. Intelligence Finds
The Kremlin is once again seeking to undermine confidence in American democracy with online influence campaigns, U.S. officials said.
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Malevolent Maelstrom @chemicalchaos.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Hey its fucking wierd more of the dems platform isnt "we will give you abortion rights back"
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Violette in Bloom @violetteinbloom.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Will Code For Pizza @markshatraw.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
AI's initial sales pitch was "we are providing capital with the final weapon in their war on labor" and that didn't seem to appeal to the labor side of the political spectrum, for some reason.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026
The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That:
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I went to an rationalist/EA Al doomer event last night with the goal of meeting someone who could calmly explain to me the argument for how they get to the conclusion that Al will kill everyone.
Because these are rationalists, I expected to find people who could lay out a serious extinction pathway, walk through the assumptions and intermediate steps, identify choke points where negative pathways could potentially be regulated, and entertain disagreement about where their assumptions might break down.
My experience was the exact opposite.
The people I spoke to seemed psychologically unable to entertain the possibility that their conclusion (that Al literally kills everyone, which was a point that many would not even budge on) might be wrong.
Their most extreme conclusion was treated as an axiom.
I had multiple people walk out of conversations with me when I questioned their inevitable extinction premise.
At one point during a panel, the moderator asked everyone in the audience who was still skeptical of Al doom to raise their hands. About half the room did. He then told all of the skeptics to leave the panel and go with one of the speakers, who would answer their questions separately. They filtered out all the skeptics, and continued the panel only with the subset who accepted their extreme position.
I genuinely felt like a heretic just for questioning whether superintelligent Al inevitably leads to the extinction of humanity, or entertaining the possibility that the future might actually turn out well.
That does not mean Al safety is fake. Obviously there are serious questions about rapidly advancing Al systems and what happens as they become much more capable. Those are exactly the conversations I went there hoping to have.
But what I encountered was an apocalyptic death cult. These people are not rational. They are deeply afraid, they reinforce that fear in one another, and they have become so emotionally committed to apocalypse
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elub, the horse with no mane @elub.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Star Trek tng
Back of captain Picard head on left with lt data facing him and the audience

Subtitles read “ the Irish unification of 2026”
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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 08/09/2026
The proto-Effin’ Birds was my Tumblr “Swear Trek”. It opened a lot of doors for me and I wouldn’t be where I am today without it. I don’t have plans to revive it (one daily comic is enough work), just wanted to thank it for getting me here on this 60th anniversary of Star Trek.
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JRho @jrho.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The most absolutely massive flex from the state fair exhibit. This quilt is made of 40 years of prize ribbons from various categories at the New Mexico State Fair won by Carol St. Clair Johnson. She also won a prize for this quilt.
Massive quilt made of prize ribbons in blue, red, yellow, and whiteCenter square of quilt made of yellow and red ribbons and yellow rosettesBlock of quilt made of blue, yellow, red, and white ribbons. Ribbons state the year. Some have the prize winning object written on in markerCarol St. Clair Johnson
born 1954; resides Albuquerque, NM

O Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years
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After unexpectedly winning her first blue ribbon for a sewn cape in 1981, Carol St. Clair Johnson developed an enduring love for the New Mexico State Fair. The quilt Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years incorporates more than six hundred of the ribbons she won at the fair every subsequent year except 2020 (when the fair was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic). Johnson earned ribbons for needlework, knitting, crochet, pies, cookies, cakes, canning, jewelry, flowers, vegetables, and potted plants. The title of the quilt is a reference to the state song, and the design places the state's Zia sun symbol at the center. The quilt earned Johnson yet another ribbon: Best in Category (miscellaneous quilt) at the 2023 New Mexico State Fair.

Courtesy of Carol St. Clair Johnson
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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Mary Shelley: sup fuckers Barker: mr beast wrote a book Shelley: is it bad? King: to be fair, james Patterson actually wrote it Shelley: oh Shelley: is it bad?
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Violette in Bloom @violetteinbloom.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Bold to say this on the "everyone is 38" app
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The first sentence of this piece says it all: "After Indiana’s near-total abortion ban, a new study shows emergency room doctors are less likely to treat pregnant women who are bleeding." www.jconline.com/story/news/l...
jconline.com
Indiana’s abortion ban has a ‘chilling effect’ on ER pregnancy care
A study found ER doctors are more hesitant to care for pregnant patients who are bleeding.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
“Steinem, a co-founder of Ms. Magazine, was a hugely recognizable presence wherever she went. And she went everywhere: Much of her life as an advocate was spent on the road, speaking at college campuses and community centers, at rallies and marches.” RIP apnews.com/article/glor...
apnews.com
Gloria Steinem, a potent voice of US feminism and co-founder of Ms. Magazine, dies at 92
Gloria Steinem, the most visible symbol and potent voice of the U.S. women's movement in the '60s and '70s and a fierce advocate for feminist causes for the rest of her life, has died at 92.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The Supreme Court is not being obtuse. They're being evil. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...
thenation.com
The Supreme Court Is Helping Trump Rig the Midterms
Trump’s order limiting mail-in voting is patently unconstitutional—but that didn’t stop the court from giving it the green light.
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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
RIP to a legend
rob dubbin @robdubbin

MY MAN: (comes home)
ME: (nervous) how was the store
MY MAN: fine
ME: oh thank g-
MY MAN: ran into jolene
ME: oh no
MY MAN: she mentioned you left kind of an intense voicemail

12:50 AM • Jul 29, 2019
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 31/01/2026
It always feels like all the wrong people die, but I think it’s because there are far more beloved people than there are bastards.
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
💥 ICE drag mom & teen daughter out of hospital room—in middle of being treated after car accident. Still wearing hospital gowns. Both victims of car collusion, with asylum case pending in good standing & valid work permit. Grace Calero 39, & Giulianna Carriel 19, from Ecuador.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Search for Spock is so fucking underrated. It's got that scene, it's got "you Klingon bastard, you've killed my son." He blows up the fucking Enterprise. "I choose the danger! Hell of a time to ask" is the best McCoy line in the whole cannon. It is a top tier Star Trek movie.
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Here’s the thing about Y2K, the ozone layer, etc. The most leftist—in the sense of *valuing labor*—thing you can do is reject the brainwashing that tells you that heroism is running into a burning building and not the slow, patient, boring, unglamorous work of *preventing* disaster.
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Violette in Bloom @violetteinbloom.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
IT WOULD COST SIGNIFICANTLY LESS WITH BETTER OUTCOMES, BUT SOME ASSHOLES WOULDN'T GET SUPER WEALTHY SO WE CAN'T HAVE IT. I AM SO ANGRY RIGHT NOW
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Violette in Bloom @violetteinbloom.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Introduce yourself as what almost killed you Hello, I'm childbirth!
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 10/08/2026
If it looks like an Amazon delivery and drives like an Amazon delivery, then it's an Amazon delivery, right? Not according to Amazon. Big companies like Amazon have built a vast network of subcontractors who deliver their packages while shielding them from accountability.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/08/2026
Q: Were you prepared for pushback you received, especially from Republicans, framing you as too extreme for Wisconsin? HONG: What's extreme is Rep. Tiffany has voted against interests of Wisconsinites over & over. What's extreme is that he's an election denier & continues to protect pedophiles
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
An ABC NEWS Verify investigation has found Facebook's parent company, Meta, is directly paying several controversial content creators including a white nationalist with Neo-Nazi links and a prominent anti-vaxxer.
abc.net.au
Facebook pays controversial creators to produce rage-bait content
An ABC NEWS Verify investigation reveals Facebook is directly funding some controversial Australian content creators including a white nationalist and an anti-vaxxer influencer.
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Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The govt has fired *all* the immigration attorneys representing detained children and given a $150 million contract to a 26-employee law firm in Texas with ONE immigration attorney. @theyoungcenter.bsky.social's Child Advocates are now the last line of defense for kids in deportation hearings.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
DOJ is now 0-20 in cases to obtain state voter files. Here is the list: Arizona California Colorado Connecticut Illinois Kentucky Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island Virginia West Virginia Wisconsin
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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak
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+ All the people who are anti-Al or want to slow Al progress, I have one question:
If Al disappeared tomorrow, could you still get through an entire workday without ChatGPT, Claude, or any other
Al tool?
Imagine Al was suddenly banned.
Would you actually be willing to give it up?
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
A caucus of violent, drunk ex-husbands controls three branches of government and both chambers of Congress.
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Erin Brockovich: When I put this map out, in the first 72 hours, the map crashed twice, and I woke up on day 3 going, oh my God, it's not one town and one data center, it's the entire country. They had no idea. These big tech groups came in and put these city council members under NDAs.
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 21/07/2026
“When I wrote that letter,” replied Darcy, “I believed myself perfectly calm and cool; but I am since convinced that it was written in a dreadful bitterness of spirit.” There are legions of guys on message boards and in people’s replies who need to have this hot-iron branded onto their asses.
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 21/07/2026
Aw, Elizabeth reveals that she knows Darcy handled the Wickham affair, so she tries to thank him on behalf of her family, to which he replies, “Much as I respect them, I believe I thought only of you.” I need to lie down.
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 21/07/2026
“I have not been in the habit of brooking disappointment.” “That will make your ladyship's situation at present more pitiable; but it will have no effect on me.” LIZZIE GET HER ASS
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 21/07/2026
“This puffed up Pomeranian bitch barges into MY house and insults MY stompingg grounds and is rude to MY mother wants me to say that I am not engaged to to her nephew. I will not be doing that.” This oppositional defiant energy! I am here for it!
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 21/07/2026
LADY CATHERINE: Do you know why I’m here? ELIZABETH: No, I don’t. LADY CATHERINE: Yes, you do. ELIZABETH: No, I don’t. LADY CATHERINE: Yes, you do. ELIZABETH: No, I don’t. LADY CATHERINE: Yes, you do. YES YOU DO!
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 21/07/2026
The detail about Bingley spending all his time at Longbourn unless a different neighbor invited him out because he can’t say no to anybody 😆😆😆 has me screaming!!! This man is a Disney princess. Jane and Bingley are two Disney princesses in love.
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 21/07/2026
I just remembered this is Darcy’s fault.
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 21/07/2026
Mrs Bennet finally gets Kitty to leave, and then she gets Elizabeth, too, but in a way so egregiously unsubtle that poor Jane is sitting there, quietly panicking, as Elizabeth heads out of the room. Bingley notices none of this because he is a hot man who has never had a problem he has recognized.
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 21/07/2026
MRS BENNET: JANE, he’s come early! Hurry up and get hot! Fuck Lizzie’s hair! We gotta get Jane hot! ELIZABETH: Now why am I in this
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 25/07/2026
Admirable clarity @science.org
The Trump administration hates academic science funding, full stop. They hate where that money goes, and they hate who it goes to. They want to keep all that money for themselves, to hand out to favored cronies who can help them get elected and to steer yet more money and more power back into their hands.

That’s it. That’s the story
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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Poe: don't look at it howard! Lovecraft: oh i'm not looking directly at an eldritch abomination Lovecraft: i wasn't born yesterday Lovecraft: i know all about this sort of thing
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Micah @rincewind.run · 23/07/2026
once again I am asking for a democratic party that actually does what republicans claim they will do
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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
When trans folks point out the cowardice of institutions complying with anti-trans bigotry, we're often hit with "but what do you expect them to do?" Well, this. Say "no." Refuse. Defy. Grow a goddamn spine.
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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
1/ Over the weekend, the FDA announced that a lettuce sample from Taylor Farms tested positive for Cyclospora. Within 24 hours, the FDA backtracked, calling the result a false positive. Taylor Farms quickly deleted its own posts about its bagged lettuce and boasted the FDA had apologized to them.
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Precious moment when World Cup winner Nico Williams looks for his family in the stands to give his gold medal to his mother. 🥹
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 16/07/2026
For your convenience, the Pride and Prejudice live-posting super-thread 📚
A drawing of Elizabeth Bennet, a lovely young woman with her long hair tied up nearly under a ribbon and wearing what is most likely a neo-classically inspired dress, looking pensive, two letters in her hand. Meanwhile Darcy, a handsome but stern-looking fellow, looks longingly at her. Also there is me, a little gremlin in big round glasses, skulking about in the background and hoping that they kiss. 

The accompanying text reads “Trung reads Pride and Prejudice for the first time, somehow.”
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I would like one plank of the 2028 Democratic platform to read: WE ARE GOING TO SEND EVERY ONE OF YOU CORRUPT MOTHERFUCKERS TO PRISON.
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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
[mysterious circle of robed figures] JK Rowling: hello children Rowling: finally my evil plan reachesss fruition Rowling: it'ss taken me yearss of careful planning but finally Rowling: finally!!! Rowling: finally we can defeat the sscourge of human rightsss
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