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An-ghoul-a Colter 🎃 @angelacolter.bsky.social · 16h

I know a Great Dane mix when I see one.

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An-ghoul-a Colter 🎃 @angelacolter.bsky.social · 1d

What kind of authoritarian regime are you if you can't even get Newsmax to lick your boots?

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

UPDATE: Only OANN signed Secretary of War (on Journalism) Hegseth’s new rules for the media.

Essentially signing a propaganda confession

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An-ghoul-a Colter 🎃 @angelacolter.bsky.social · 2d

As of now, USAA has provided over $248,000,000 in no-interest loans to about 67,000 members through our Government Shutdown Program.

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An-ghoul-a Colter 🎃 @angelacolter.bsky.social · 2d

You gonna post a source for that or nah?

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An-ghoul-a Colter 🎃 @angelacolter.bsky.social · 3d

You had one job

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

An-ghoul-a Colter 🎃 @angelacolter.bsky.social · 3d

I am now a one-issue voter, and that one issue is retribution.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 3d

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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An-ghoul-a Colter 🎃 @angelacolter.bsky.social · 3d

We used A.I. personas.

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 4d

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

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 4d

"The chancellor approved it"

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An-ghoul-a Colter 🎃 @angelacolter.bsky.social · 3d

True

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An-ghoul-a Colter 🎃 @angelacolter.bsky.social · 3d

This number just keeps going up.

An alert in the USAA app says, “As of now, USAA has provided over $219 million in no-interest loans to about 59,000 members through our Government Shutdown Program.”

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An-ghoul-a Colter 🎃 @angelacolter.bsky.social · 3d

To be fair, “be as annoying as possible” is sometimes a pretty effective theory of change.

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An-ghoul-a Colter 🎃 @angelacolter.bsky.social · 5d

It's like a swarm of locusts has passed through.

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An-ghoul-a Colter 🎃 @angelacolter.bsky.social · 5d

LOL “the advertised price”

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An-ghoul-a Colter 🎃 @angelacolter.bsky.social · 5d

But why, tho?

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An-ghoul-a Colter 🎃 @angelacolter.bsky.social · 5d

Decided to use up all the overripe bananas in the freezer to make banana muffins for the college freshman while he’s home for Fall break and wondering if I made enough.

Three dozen banana muffins cooling on a wire rack

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An-ghoul-a Colter 🎃 @angelacolter.bsky.social · 5d

Eventually the weekly five bullet points comes for us all.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 5d

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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An-ghoul-a Colter 🎃 @angelacolter.bsky.social · 6d

My favorite Idles lyric, from “Never Fight a Man with a Perm”:

I said I've got a penchant for smokes and kicking douches in the mouth /
Sadly for you, my last cigarette's gone out

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An-ghoul-a Colter 🎃 @angelacolter.bsky.social · 6d

Am I to understand that the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services does not understand the distinction between a placenta and an amniotic sac?

Cool, cool, cool.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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An-ghoul-a Colter 🎃 @angelacolter.bsky.social · 6d

It really is that simple.

Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 6d

This week’s newsletter is about eating and who you choose to do it with.

“If you had dinner with a trans friend on Tuesday, and dinner with fascists on Thursday, your trans friend had dinner with a fascist on Tuesday.“

buttondown.com/monteiro/arc...

How to eat with others

This is the last painting I did at my old studio. I left it behind. You can support my shenanigans for a mere $2/mo. This week’s question comes to us from...

buttondown.com

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An-ghoul-a Colter 🎃 @angelacolter.bsky.social · 6d

Get on this, Philly!

Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 6d

Wanna do something to make a small part of the shit salad we're being tossed in a little better?

Help me pack up native seeds into nice little envelopes that we'll distribute in Philly this winter/spring!

November 19th, at @indyhall.org!
RSVP here: luma.com/hvqyrx9v

Poster by @theavocadojam.com!

a skull has a butterfly on their forehead and is holding a little chunk of dirt with a seedling popping out of it, with the philly skyline in the distance. The top right has the title Native Plant prep Party! with the tagline "Help pack native seed packets for free distribution!" hosted by Skype a Scientist, Nov 19th 6:30pm Indy Hall Clubhouse

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An-ghoul-a Colter 🎃 @angelacolter.bsky.social · 7d

These guys are such dicks.

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An-ghoul-a Colter 🎃 @angelacolter.bsky.social · 7d

Just a relaxing day at home trying to get some work done.

Two large dogs wrestling each other with their teeth bared.

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An-ghoul-a Colter 🎃 @angelacolter.bsky.social · 7d

I know, right?

An-ghoul-a Colter 🎃 @angelacolter.bsky.social · 7d

Good.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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An-ghoul-a Colter 🎃 @angelacolter.bsky.social · 7d

It's "estimated that the deferred resignation program alone cost the government $14.8 billion."

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An-ghoul-a Colter 🎃 @angelacolter.bsky.social · 7d

"'We have a real, acute shortage of people who have what I would call very cutting-edge, modern tech skills,' said Scott Kupor, director of the government’s personnel agency."

LOL. LMFAO even. www.nextgov.com/people/2025/...

How Trump’s OPM director wants to attract tech talent after months of workforce cuts

OPM Director Scott Kupor wants to bring on new feds with cutting edge skills, but the government’s recent flood of layoffs and resignations could complicate that effort. With a government shutdown ong...

www.nextgov.com

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