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JennrasaurusHex @jennc.bsky.social · 1d

Ok, but can we focus on the real danger? Tylenol and circumcision!

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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RPGnet 🦌✨ @rpg.net · 1d

Love Warhammer 40k but have nowhere to put your thoughts? Want to talk to someone about your favorite game? Check out rpg.net's Warhammer 40k general thread to talk to people like you! forum.rpg.net/index.php?th...

forum.rpg.net

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Zeta Jane @zetamakesthings.bsky.social · 1d

Starting a new project before I've even unpacked my suitcase yet? It's more likely than you might think

A picture of an old beat-up suitcase with a pile of skirt panels on it made of embroidered white organza, pink brocade, and white cotton

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Foxes In Love @foxes-in-love.bsky.social · 12h

A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue is sitting at his hobby desk with paint jars, paper, unpainted miniatures and other painting paraphernalia set around himself.
Blue: I'm going to paint some miniatures.
Green, unseen in the background: Okay!

Picking up a miniature, Blue goes deep into focus, gently brushing the figurine with a paint brush, making a soft, quiet little "shup" sound every time.

Looking up from his work, Blue turns to listen as Green interrupts his work to say something.
Green: I like the little sound that your brush makes when you paint.

Blue lowers the miniature, looking at it with a frown.
Blue: Well now I'm too self-conscious about that to finish this.
Green: Aw.

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Polenth Blake @polenth.bsky.social · 2h

It sounded like a banshee screaming outside. Not a fox. Possibly a car. I'm sure everything is fine.

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Zeta Jane @zetamakesthings.bsky.social · 2h

My very reasonably sized skirt pockets and I are feeling called out

A photo of my hand atop the skirt pocket I made a while ago for scale. This was an in-progress photo of the construction process, so the pocket wasn't actually in the skirt here but I stitched it together and added it later. All this is to say Big Skirt means Big Pocket

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Wendy Rouse @wendylrouse.bsky.social · 33m

“Some people might say it's really important for LGBTQ+ kids to see themselves in the past,” said Rouse. “I think it's even more important for non-LGBTQ+ kids to see that LGBTQ+ people have always existed.”

lettersandsciencemag.ucdavis.edu/lgbtq-histor...
#sschat #EduSky #edchat 🗃️ 🏳️‍🌈

Teaching LGBTQ+ History from the Ground Up

In 2012, the California legislature mandated a more complete representation of everyone who contributed to the state’s and nation’s histories. The UC Davis California History-Social Science Project (C...

lettersandsciencemag.ucdavis.edu

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h

would love to know where vought got the authority to shutdown a government agency established by statute

Reuters @reuters.com · 6h

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

reut.rs

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 22m

I write this for a few reasons.

1) Accountability on something specific.

2) To model to swaths of Jewish leadership that *it's possible* to take accountability for genocide complicity.

3) To talk about repentance & repair work post-genocide.

It all still matters. It doesn't stop mattering now.

Gaza's Annihilation Can Never Be Forgiven

Revisiting On Repentance and Repair

www.lifeisasacredtext.com

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Achronal Art @achronalart.bsky.social · 9m

It’s mazing how much some enjoyable physical activity can help your spirits.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · Jul 4

Please believe me when I tell you:

Double the fuck down on your spiritual practice now.

You are going to need it.

And no, that doesn't have to be a prayer-god thing.

The thing that sustains and nourishes you.

That makes you more alive to yourself, the world, others.

More present.

More:

fortify inside

why spiritual practice matters during the rising authoritarian tide

www.lifeisasacredtext.com

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The Alternate Historian @althistorian.bsky.social · 23m

They'll lie in public, but don't feel comfortable yet lying in court.

Laura Rodríguez Presa @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social · 1h

DHS claims a “high-ranking Latin Kings member” from Chicago, solicited the murder of top Border Patrol chief.

But at his indictment, there was no mention of gang ties. His lawyers & family say DHS’s narrative of Juan Espinoza Martinez, is false.

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/15/c...

Chicago man indicted for allegedly soliciting killing of Gregory Bovino, but without contention of gang involvement

A Chicago man has been indicted on charges he solicited the murder of U.S. Border Patrol field boss Gregory Bovino, but the bare-bones document makes no mention of previous allegations that he is a…

www.chicagotribune.com

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Bill Mudron @mudron.bsky.social · 28m

Asimov’s 3 Laws of Muppets:

1: A Muppet may injure a human

2: A Muppet must not obey orders given by a human

3: A Muppet must protect the existence of The Muppet Show Theatre as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws

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Achronal Art @achronalart.bsky.social · 1h

An Executive Order is not a Law
An Executive Order is not a Law
An Executive Order is not a Law

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 3h

Trump found another $20 BILLION to give to Argentina, totaling their bailout to $40 BILLION.

Yet we can’t afford to prevent millions of Americans from losing their healthcare.

Shame.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 3h

That’s $5 billion more than the entire annual USAID budget. All to one country. To rescue one friend of the president’s.

Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 3h

Trump found another $20 BILLION to give to Argentina, totaling their bailout to $40 BILLION.

Yet we can’t afford to prevent millions of Americans from losing their healthcare.

Shame.

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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 10h

My neighbors have filled the Little Free Libraries with whistles so we can warn each other about ICE. Chicago is not afraid.

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 2d

🚨 Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago answers this question brilliantly. 1/2

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Achronal Art @achronalart.bsky.social · 3h

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

last i checked these young republicans were like 25 years old. but this is a classic case of infantilization to diminish the significance of the offense. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Vance downplays group chat messages: ‘Kids do stupid things, especially young boys.’

The vice president called the texts "edgy, offensive jokes."

www.yahoo.com

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 9h

‼️ this was a striking moment, to me

Louisiana was basically like 'here come these Black people always asking for more' and Justice Jackson was like, 'that's not what the fuck they're asking for, they're saying: stop discriminating against us'

ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 9h

Louisiana: "The plaintiffs came in and said 'we want a second majority-minority district."
KBJ: "NO THEY DID NOT. They said our votes are being dilluted."
Louisiana: "That's the same thing."
KBJ: "No it's not. ... trust me on this."
:)

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Aurora Webcomic @aurorawebcomic.bsky.social · 3d

if I had a nickel for every close friend I apparently forgot to tell about the book publishing thing I'd have at least six nickels

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Overly Sarcastic Productions @overlysarcastic.bsky.social · 11h

On this episode of the Overly Sarcastic Podcast: it's a girl's night, and that means there's nothing to inhibit Red and Indigo's respective ADHDs from resonating into an unstoppable hyperfixation cascade!

(The OSPodcast is available on all podcasting platforms!)

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 6h

Swords (sabers) from the DISTINCTION (or PRESENCE) part of #Superfine: Tailoring Black Style exhibit at the Met

This part highlights Black men's in style in the military.
Other sections in thread 🧵👨🏾‍💼

If you can make it there before it closes, definitely worth it

#BlackSky #FashionHistory #ArtSky

Togba Norris @iamtogba.bsky.social · 5d

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Achronal Art @achronalart.bsky.social · 6d

This sign I made for a 2018 protest march is still relevant today.

Screen grab from a photo in The Atlantic magazine of 1 July 2018, showing photos from the many "Families Belong Together" marches of late June protesting the first Trump administration's policy of tearing immigrant families apart and incarcerating children away from their parents.

In downtown Chicago, a protester (me) holds a sign: At the top in black letters on bright yellow it says "We *are* what we *do*". Then there are side by side cartoon images. On the left in black and white four sad little girls stare at us with large dark eyes, two hugging, the smallest in a t-shirt with a daisy on it, in a black shadowy space with chain link fencing above and behind them. On the right in full color the Statue of Liberty against a clear blue sky looks straight at us sternly as her arms cradle a collection of men, women, children and babies all facing her, some of the children and babies reaching towards her. At the bottom the sign says "Which are we?"

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