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Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 16h

At a local No Kings rally near Innsmouth, Massachusetts, *every* protester showed up in an inflatable frog costume.

They must be from a different supplier than the Portland frog's costume, though. Bystanders describe the costumes as more like fish-frogs, "batrachian," with an odd, loping gait.

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PlasticGeek @plasticgeek.bsky.social · 11h

Flightless my ass

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Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 11h

I'm also delighted to see that the AHA has awarded its Tikkun Olam Prize for promoting public historical literacy to @jamellebouie.net

American Historical Association @historians.org · 14h

The AHA is pleased to announce the winners of its 2025 prizes, which honor exceptional books, distinguished teaching and mentoring in the classroom, public history, and other historical projects. Congratulations to the 2025 awardees! #AHAPerspectives🗃️

American Historical Association Announces 2025 Prize Winners – AHA

The American Historical Association is pleased to announce the winners of its 2025 prizes.

www.historians.org

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beanie-halloweenie @blobulouscat.bsky.social · 13h

on top of how many missing

Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 13h

I was just notified of yet another death in ICE custody — 20 people have died in their custody since Trump came into office.

ICE is detaining people, mostly in private, for-profit prisons that put profit over health. There must be accountability and oversight.

beanie-halloweenie @blobulouscat.bsky.social · 15h

IT WAS VERY GINGER-HEAVY SHIRL 😭😭😭

beanie-halloweenie @blobulouscat.bsky.social · 15h

we need a supercut of all the things mike doesn’t know and hasn’t heard

screenshot of a video clip of johnson blathering about his extreme innocence in the matter of the epstein birthday book

johnson blathering of his lack of knowledge regarding the shutdown

beanie-halloweenie @blobulouscat.bsky.social · 15h

see, this is why i need that eye-nose-throat dr, my tea shooting out my nose like this is a problem

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beanie-halloweenie @blobulouscat.bsky.social · 15h

ACCURACY ABOVE ALL

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beanie-halloweenie @blobulouscat.bsky.social · 15h

we need to fund you a trip to MoA for research

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beanie-halloweenie @blobulouscat.bsky.social · 16h

tbf we’re also shaming her hard for use of the term ‘exiled’ when she first makes such horrendous decisions and is then rewarded with a book deal and a high profile job

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 19h

/3 But a huge plurality, at least, of the modern GOP is of the opinion that noticing bigoted trash is more un-American and destructive than BEING bigoted trash: that dehumanizing fellow Americans based on immutable characteristics is morally superior to criticizing anyone for doing that.

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beanie-halloweenie @blobulouscat.bsky.social · 17h

@bookshop.org supports LOCAL bookshops! millions of dollars so far have gone to make sure small local shops are more secure and able to stock what their patrons want to read, and authors benefit as well meaning MOAR BOOKS FOR US

Randulo @randulo.com · 1d

Another choice worth checking into if you buy e-books but boycott Amazon like we do.

#books #reading

Bookshop.org enters the e-book arena, giving indie stores a new way to compete with Amazon

www.salon.com

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LukeBMTB @lukebmtb.bsky.social · 23h

"You boy! Could you summon medical assistance?"

Scrooge leaning out of a window meme image

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · May 7

Absolutely thrilled to share the cover to next year's short story collection coming out from @tordotcom.bsky.social! I'm obsessed with it!

Comes out March 24, 2026, but you can pre-order it now wherever you like getting your books! Here's Macmillan's link.

us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

On a gradient background that goes from blush-pink at the top to a muddy green at the bottom, a book cover. Super-imposed on a pastoral, oil-painting style image depicting a forested foreground and a hilly background beneath a soft champagne sky, is superimposed a 3-dimensional rhomboid-shape, the facets of which play with space. One facet shows a pale cloudy sky, and from it, a brown hare emerges chasing the hind legs and bushy tail of a wolf, the rest of which vanishes out of the rhomboid frame. The rhomboid's other facets -- which create the kind of infinity loop of an Escher painting -- are either blush-pink or covered in the greenery from the background. Above the rhomboid is the title, and the subtitle "Stories"; below it are the words New York Times Bestselling & Award-winning Author Amal El-Mohtar. My name and the word "Stories" are in the same blush-pink as the rhomboid's facets.

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Aubrey Hirsch @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social · 1d

Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math

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beanie-halloweenie @blobulouscat.bsky.social · 1d

cc: @governor.pa.gov

Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 4d

And this:
92% of the growth in the entire country this year has been data centers. And some of that is "circular deals" that dont involve actual money

fortune.com/2025/10/07/d...

Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025, Harvard economist says | Fortune

Is a U.S. without data centers a country without GDP growth?

fortune.com

beanie-halloweenie @blobulouscat.bsky.social · 1d

the master race, every. damn. time.

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beanie-halloweenie @blobulouscat.bsky.social · 1d

uuuuuggghhh, nooooo

glad no one was hurt

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 1d

if pep boys said that now the pep boys could call you up and talk sexy to you you wouldn't think that pep boys was doing really well, as a company

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Mark Hill @mehill.bsky.social · 1d

Feels like we're on the precipice of the most awkward data breach imaginable.

The Verge @theverge.com · 1d

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

buff.ly

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beanie-halloweenie @blobulouscat.bsky.social · 1d

why is it never the correct obit, dammit

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beanie-halloweenie @blobulouscat.bsky.social · 1d

‘racism sucks!’
‘HOW DARE YOU ATTACK ME!’

always showing their entire unwashed asses stepping up to claim personal harm from a broad statement

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beanie-halloweenie @blobulouscat.bsky.social · 1d

happily it includes philly as of now

Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 2d

Growing list of airport authorities who are refusing to play the Kristi Noem video for travelers that blames Democrats for the shutdown:

Portland International Airport
Seattle–Tacoma International Airport
Buffalo Niagara International Airport
Niagara Falls International Airport

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M-AAAH!!!-tty 👻 @mattythemouse.bsky.social · 2d

Andy's right. We do want to make these events look safe and farcical... Because that's what they are.

The administration is trying to move paramilitary forces into our cities on the pretense that violence and crime is out of control, and we're out there meeting them with fucking frog costumes.

Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 7d

I love when Andy Ngo does one of his David Attenborough-style posts about Antifa and highlights some kid who took a bong rip and waddled into the protest dressed like a giant muppet.

My favorite flavor of his commentary by far.

Andy Ngo wants to draw your attention to Barney the dinosaur

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