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@virgotex.bsky.social
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Very texan (can't help it), nicely rounded weirdo $3💵. She/her/y'all. Driving around, photography, wildlife, music, history. Not a horse type texan, the shrimpboat kind. I belong to many families. Also dumb crap, to an embarrassing extent.

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virgotex @virgotex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🎶just keeps being flood season🎶 youtu.be/UpNVPdSogrc?...
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Sylvan Esso - Flood Season (Official Visualizer)
YouTube video by Sylvan Esso
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virgotex @virgotex.bsky.social · 3h
started poking around, doing research, etc a few days ago wondering if I should get a smaller "point and shoot" camera with one lens, fits in my pocket, etc. One I just looked at cost just below half what my full-frame camera does, which is definitely a "me problem"
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SteveP 🇨🇦 @stevecantsmell.bsky.social · 7h
#EcksteinsMonthOfMusic 🎼 #MusicChallenge 🎶 Day 30 - Gold! Linda Ronstadt, Dolly Parton, and Emmylou Harris - After the Gold Rush www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEE9...
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Linda Ronstadt, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris - After the Gold Rush (Official Music Video) | TRIO
YouTube video by Linda Ronstadt
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Loglady Marmalade (Coleen) @coldbean.bsky.social · 19h
Every single day
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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 4h
#ancientbluesky #archaeology
aljazeera.com
Palestinian archaeologists race against time to save Gaza’s heritage
A Palestinian team rescued Gaza's artefacts. The question now is where to store them.
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virgotex @virgotex.bsky.social · 3h
There is stuff on social media/in the news that I just keep driving past for a variety of reasons. Jimothy is one of those things. I know almost nothing about him.He appears to have met whatever challenges he faces. He's around after months, he's not mixed up much with humans. I just keep driving.
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Jennifer 🦋🐶☕️🦋 @jenelliot.bsky.social · 18h
#NOMORE
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 17h
Time for this classic again.
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AshfromEnfield @ashfromenfield.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oh come on … sing it with me 😉😘
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virgotex @virgotex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🎶just keeps being flood season🎶 youtu.be/UpNVPdSogrc?...
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Sylvan Esso - Flood Season (Official Visualizer)
YouTube video by Sylvan Esso
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Matt McMuscles @mattmcmuscles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We actually don't hate this administration enough
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Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
(I’m still mad about that list)
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Ange | Author A. M. Shilling @gunsmile.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
LONG LIVE THE BLOG!!!
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Grumpy @grumpyyetamusin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
RNZ have wiped Susie Ferguson from their list of presenters... Click this and get this
Search engine result for link to Susie Ferguson at RNZLink leads to 404 Not Found where Ferguson's bio should be
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Kathy McCarty @kmtberry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
EVERYONE
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virgotex @virgotex.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
honest to god didn't realize rove was still alive
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virgotex @virgotex.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
sounds about right for Corpus
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virgotex @virgotex.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
hallelujah, I AM INDEED registered to vote, TX SOS be damned. Note, this had nothing to do w/the DPS shitshow. If you like me, aren't showing up on the often-previously used SOS page, I recommend calling your county elections office, speaking to a human.
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virgotex @virgotex.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
previous w/all obvious due to grandpa Dylan
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virgotex @virgotex.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🎶When you’re confused by absence of poblanos in produce aisle & you take a second to remember what HEB you're even in 🎶you just went in to get vaxxed no plan to shop it's My HEB no matter where but they freaking all have poblanos! you lock eyes w/produce guy... Poblanos? Up front, right behind ya🎶
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virgotex @virgotex.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
How can I not!
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virgotex @virgotex.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
4. 4. 4. 4! vaccinations at one time! #heb
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Count von Count Counts Four on Sesame Street
ALT: Count von Count Counts Four on Sesame Street
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virgotex @virgotex.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Me, sitting alone in my car just now, chewing ice. "Oh, this is that good Whataburger ice!" #lifesrichpageant
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Mike Primavera @primawesome.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If you don't know what depression is like, imaging having a really annoying backseat driver who also occasionally tries to grab the wheel and kill you both.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
You gotta love Paris 😂💙👇
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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If you adopted a feral cat to the inside and he keeps meowing maybe he just really wants to smoke real cigarettes. You don’t know what he was up to before
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Knuckles 🐹 @knck1es.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Omg the Canucks are leading a hockey game in 2026
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Cartoon Girl Faints Dramatically
Alt: Cartoon Girl Faints Dramatically
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Chris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A familiar story for anyone who follows @volts.wtf. “The Chronicle spoke to more than half a dozen grid experts…to try to understand why Texas’s notoriously unreliable grid had a remarkably reliable summer. The answer was unanimous: solar panels and batteries.”
houstonchronicle.com
Texas shattered energy demand records this summer. Here's why the grid held up.
Texas repeatedly broke electricity demand records this summer, but ERCOT avoided emergencies as booming solar and battery capacity helped keep the grid stable.
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I think Steve may be functioning on a level beyond our understanding.
Short description: A close-up of Steve the otter gazing forward against a stylized purple radial background in a meme-style portrait.  
Text in image:  
“they cannot outsmart you  
if you are not smart”  
In the bottom right corner: “In Ötter News”
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Elegant Sledgehammer FREE LINK @tinyteerex.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This fuckhead - Janine Turner, tbc - can lick my ass and gargle hair. The amount of damage and trauma late-Dx'd folks can experience (& can cause) through not knowing or understanding what they're going through is immense. The rates of suicides and imprisonment for un-Tx'd folks are significant.
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virgotex @virgotex.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Good for the soul. What beautiful young New Yorkers.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 26/09/2026
A historic milestone for New York’s youngest learners: Universal 2-K is here. Our two-year-olds are ready to learn, explore and build a strong foundation from day one. This is what it looks like when we invest in our kids.
curbed.com
The Look Book Goes to the First Day of Preschool
The city’s universal-2K program launched September 10 as an inaugural class of 2-year-olds joined Friends of Crown Heights Educational Center.
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virgotex @virgotex.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
friend just contacted me to share she'd just finished a 99 mile bike ride from TX to Little Rock, AR. I've been sipping a hazy IPA and procrastinating going out to my mailbox
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virgotex @virgotex.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
pro tip & reminder to self: do not engage with/reanimate the long ago/ former/crisis counselor.
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Kylo Ren in The Force Awakens
ALT: Kylo Ren in The Force Awakens
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🎉 Gidgetwidget @gidgetwidget.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
all events have been canceled along the Delaware & Maryland coastline. fun stuff. hope the beaches aren't damaged too badly but I suspect there will need to be sand restoration & repair work after this beastly Nor'Easter is done.
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Diane Patterson @dianepatterson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The hellscape that is Mamdanistan
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virgotex @virgotex.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Whatta time to be alive
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virgotex @virgotex.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
No steam yet, a delightful 73° right now...but it's coming. I had such a crush on this video. youtu.be/3HufrsUMIBA?...
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The Go-Betweens - Head Full Of Steam HD
YouTube video by Beggars Banquet Records
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Tim Goodacre - Writer @timgoodacre.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Rewatching Person of Interest with the wonderful Michael Emerson. 15 years ago this was a fun SF show with a govt supercomputer that could detect pre-crime, built by a super-wealthy geek. Now it's still a fun show, but less comfortable.
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Neckties of Noir @neckties-of-noir.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#musicsky #filmsky #tvsky #BOTD Tell her I'll be waiting In the usual place With the tired and weary And there's no escape
This photograph shows English singer and songwriter Bryan Ferry, captured by photographer Peter Ashworth in May 1985. He is the lead singer and songwriter for Roxy Music. 
“Tell her I'll be waiting
In the usual place
With the tired and weary
And there's no escape” 
Is the beginning of the lyrics of his song, 
SLAVE TO LOVE. 

It is a color photo, but in blue tinted light. It is a close-up of Bryan Ferry: looking down at his shoulders as he looks up at you. His left hand is up by his face and holding a lit cigarette. 
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virgotex @virgotex.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Discussing a gang rape, bewildered man, approximately 70 years old, cries out "what the heck has happened in last 50 years?" Y'all remember, right? 50 years ago, 1976...back before sexual assault even existed? shorturl.at/XsHQE
Although a great percentage of the population in the United States is unaware of the full extent of the crime of rape, police authorities know the crime is definitely increasing. In the four-year period ending in 1976, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) [1] reported a 21% increase (Fig. 1). In the last reported year, 1976, there was an estimated total of 56 730 forcible rapes. This was a 1% increase over 1975. Stated more succinctly, in 1976, of every 100 000 females in this country, 52 were rape victims; one rape was occurring every 9 min. In 1974, the rate was one rape every 10 min and in 1972, it was one every 11 min.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
So much of schools "responding to rape" is preventing the legal system from doing so. This is a report on seven adults who committed serious felonies for which there is a legal system to remind them and their pals that they are felonies.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 25/09/2026
‘This Here Is Probably Our Bestselling Love Seat,’ Says Man Who Would Have Been Powerful, Revered Warrior 4,000 Years Ago theonion.com/this-here-is-probably-…
‘This Here Is Probably Our Bestselling Love Seat,’ Says Man Who Would Have Been Powerful, Revered Warrior 4,000 Years Ago
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Papa Woof und Krampus und Bleaken @papawoof.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Rocky Horror Picture Show was released on September 25, (1975) 51 years ago today.
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virgotex @virgotex.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
motherfucker, not registered to vote anymore. I sure as hell was the last time I checked.
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virgotex @virgotex.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I missed the iced coffee debate and I'm just fine with that. No recaps please.
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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Some beautiful stuff in here about the human-bird connection. From Atwood’s late partner Graeme Gibson who had dementia: “I no longer know their names, but then, they don’t know my name either.” #birds
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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Advice for my younger friends: if you want to encourage yourself to stay healthy and functional, to exercise and eat well... ...pick a couple of motherfuckers you really want to outlive.
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virgotex @virgotex.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
FYI the *official* Dolly-branded Community Coffee "Cup of Ambition" isn't on sale until 9/29. If you aren't picky, there are about 5000 others of various colors and sizes on Etsy
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virgotex @virgotex.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
RTing, good stuff
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