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𝚛 𝚘 𝚡 𝚒 🦄 ❤️ 🏴‍☠️ @roximonoxide.bsky.social · 1d

quick role call: we're making a little photo collection of show stuff anyone can browse and use for reference

if you, or someone you know, have some official show memorabilia from the auction or otherwise hmu with some pics? pretty pls? 🥹🙏

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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 10h

A group of far right assholes have showed up to protest at David Douglas high school after students allegedly pushed back at a formation of a turning point chapter. School is out & they are outnumbered by predominantly Black & Brown students roasting the fuck out of them.

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Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 9h

Today I learned that John Wilkes Booth was there when John Brown, his moral superior in a thousand ways, was hanged. Booth joined a local militia so he could be there to witness Brown hang, and gloat over it.

A bit over five years later, Booth was shot before he could be hanged for killing Lincoln.

A black and white photo of militia members guarding John Brown's execution (so no one could rescue Brown). A circle drawn on the photo indicates which one is John Wilkes Booth.

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maniagnosis @maniagnosis.bsky.social · 9h

Does it say anything about me that I know the exact cartoon this comes from, although I can't recall the title? But including the punchline at the end?

🧟‍♂️Out Of Context International Dubs🧟‍♂️ @outofcontxtdubs.bsky.social · 1d

Show: Looney Tunes
Language: Portuguese
Country: Brazil
Version: CineCastro

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sexy ludovician @beardynoise.bsky.social · 14h

Star Trek episode where T Pain plays T'pain, a Vulcan who is auto-tuned. The plot isnt about him or anything but he's there, talking about ~SpAaAAiital anomaLIEEEsss~.

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Bruce Shark @bruceshark.bsky.social · 17h

IMMA SANDPAPERESQUE

Sarah Primate @langurlover.bsky.social · 17h

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Scanning electron microscopy provides an ultra-magnified peek at shark skin

Have you ever wondered what makes shark skin so tough and sleek? It's dermal denticles—tiny, tooth-like structures that cover a shark's skin. Made of the same material as teeth and shaped like small s...

phys.org

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AndaliteBandit @andalitebandit.bsky.social · 16h

That is gorgeous!!

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AndaliteBandit @andalitebandit.bsky.social · 1d

I love that this is the song from Fievel: An American Tail

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AndaliteBandit @andalitebandit.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sure I messed up the details somehow, you're probably right! 😂

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AndaliteBandit @andalitebandit.bsky.social · 1d

What a cool idea!

Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 2d

We’re BACK BABY.

At Bad Art for Good, we’re gonna get together and make some art to make things better.

How can art make things better? Creating makes us feel good! Art moves people! And we need a LOT of people to move right now!

RSVP luma.com/w8v2xk5i

A possum in a beret with a paintbrush screams in front of a canvas with a possum in a pile of leaves. The words say bad art for good an art + community event and the possum is saying “make the world better with art!” And free beer snacks and art supplies, and Indy hall November 10th 6:30

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AndaliteBandit @andalitebandit.bsky.social · 1d

I heard when this happened, gay bars would sell a drink they called an Anita Bryant. It was a modified screwdriver: ordering an Anita Bryant got you a plain, nonalcoholic glass of orange juice with the proceeds of the drink donated to an LGBT charity!

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AndaliteBandit @andalitebandit.bsky.social · 2d

I am absolutely being a downer on main and will probably lose a few more followers.

But I genuinely don't know what's left to do. I'm so tired. So, so tired, and tired of being ignored or thrown away, and we do not have to be here. This was all preventable.

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AndaliteBandit @andalitebandit.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, I'm angry and very bitter. This has never been abstract to me. I've got nothing left to give and at a certain point, if my country is determined that I'm an enemy for trying to prevent it from being its worst self, I have to ask why I'm trying to fix something that doesn't want to be better.

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AndaliteBandit @andalitebandit.bsky.social · 2d

We do not have to be here. All of this was preventable.

If I couldn't rely on you to do the bare minimum, if you ignored or scorned the warnings for years, why would I put my fate in your hands? You have us fighting on the hardest setting and I'm already spent from trying to persuade you.

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AndaliteBandit @andalitebandit.bsky.social · 2d

My thing is, some of us put up long, hard fights *for years* trying to keep things from getting to this point. The people now telling us to unite in solidarity with them didn't listen, didn't act, didn't make plans and contingencies, didn't learn, and some of us were spent *before Inauguration Day*.

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Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 2d

You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't

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AndaliteBandit @andalitebandit.bsky.social · 2d

Tax forms, limited supply
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No more eclipse glasses

(Where my librarians at?)

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 6d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

AndaliteBandit @andalitebandit.bsky.social · 2d

...pardon me, *Baylus C Brooks and *parish records.

www.smithsonianmag.com/history/thre...

Three Centuries After His Beheading, a Kinder, Gentler Blackbeard Emerges

Recent discoveries cast a different light on the most famous—and most feared—pirate of the early 18th century

www.smithsonianmag.com

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AndaliteBandit @andalitebandit.bsky.social · 2d

I'll grab you the link. The historian is Baylis C Brooks and he found a paper trail from the parrish records in Jamaica of a family of Thatches from Bristol with a father and son both named Edward, the younger of which was going to inherit the plantation, but gave it up and joined the Navy instead!

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AndaliteBandit @andalitebandit.bsky.social · 2d

This was going to be my serious answer! 😉 📻 📺

Caliban Darklock @darklock.com · 2d

Guglielmo Marconi

Without him there is no wireless anything

Give that ten seconds thought and realise how very, very different your life would be then. No radio. No television. No cell phone. No wireless internet. No wireless MOUSE. The world would be simply unrecognisable.

Photo of Guglielmo Marconi next to his invention, the radio telegraph

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AndaliteBandit @andalitebandit.bsky.social · 2d

Your celebrity gossip is about who Taylor Swift is feuding with this week.

Mine is about how a historian thinks he figured out the historical Blackbeard's real identity and it's that he was a sugar planter from Jamaica, hinting why he and Stede Bonnet might have hit it off.

We are not the same.

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AndaliteBandit @andalitebandit.bsky.social · 2d

But I've been lamenting how we used to hold up a healthier, pro-social masculinity vs the type being idealized now. It's no longer Atticus Finch or a Lone Ranger who protects and defends a community. Now it's abusive "alpha males" or juvenile man-babies.

AndaliteBandit @andalitebandit.bsky.social · 2d

This. This right here. Probably because so much of the current manosphere-to-alt-right pipeline was engineered by Steve Bannon to funnel teenage boys playing videogames from Gamergate and incel forums into the Proud Boys and DOGE employees.

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sam @wisconsam.bsky.social · 2d

I do think it's underdiscussed just how much climate denial today is performative white masculinity

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2d

a lot of people want to read Trump and team's fossil fuel obsession as being about *money* but while there is of course a corruption element, it's primarily pure culture war stuff. even many of the big fossil fuel companies want to get into renewables because it's so obviously the future.

Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 2d

Coal production and employment in Wyoming has steadily been declining, much like the rest of the industry in the US.

Coal is a dead industry.

(Chart from here: www.uwyo.edu/cbea/wyoming... )

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AndaliteBandit @andalitebandit.bsky.social · 2d

If the goal is to teach them that unbridled experimenting with emergent technology by rich egoists accountable to no one is a recipe for wide-spread disaster, it's sure a prescient reading assignment!