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Escape From Flatland @escapefromflatland.bsky.social · 14h

Every day, a new reason not to talk to my parents.

Escape From Flatland @escapefromflatland.bsky.social · 2d

Another day, another reason I am too angry to talk to my mother who voted for this shit.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 2d

ICE officers reportedly shot a 25-year-old named Carlos Jimenez.

He was shot after getting out of his car to tell the agents, who had pulled over a vehicle, that children would soon be gathering in that spot for the school bus.

Report: ICE shot a US citizen trying to help kids

According to his lawyer, immigration officers shot Carlos Jimenez after he warned them that children would soon gather for the bus where they had pulled over a vehicle.

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Terry Conroy @tjconroy.bsky.social · 3d

Coyote Creek/Black Lake, NM
#MountainMonday #newmexico #landscape #autumn #EastCoastKin #BlueSkyArtShow

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Rock @rjrock.bsky.social · 3d

“High Country Quiet”

Snow settles into the folds of Summit County—mountains and clouds mirroring each other in still, deliberate rhythm.

#EastCoastKin #Photography #LandscapePhotography #MountainMonday #ClassicMono #Nikon #Colorado

A black-and-white landscape photograph of Summit County, Colorado, viewed from an elevated vantage. Snow-dusted mountains roll across the frame, their slopes dark with evergreens and shaded valleys. In the mid-distance, frozen lakes and meadows form pale ribbons between the ridges. Above, layered clouds sweep across the sky in broad, textured bands, echoing the land’s contours.
The image carries a sense of restrained grandeur—neither storm nor calm, but the poised silence that lives between them, where winter breathes softly over the high country.

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Escape From Flatland @escapefromflatland.bsky.social · 3d

I thought I felt someone watching me sleep last night.

An aluminum ladder rests against the side of the building, outside my third story bedroom window.

Escape From Flatland @escapefromflatland.bsky.social · 4d

He first checked on the usual suspects.

Squirt, a black and white tuxedo cat with a black mustache, looks guilty for some reason.

Escape From Flatland @escapefromflatland.bsky.social · 4d

Finally getting my #DVD collection organized. I hauled these to multiple army bases across the US and Iraq when I was a combat medic under #DADT. Oh hey @margaretcho.bsky.social

Seriously, you don't know how much this show meant to a gay teen in rural Iowa. Thank you.

So many college memories that included lines from these discs.

Escape From Flatland @escapefromflatland.bsky.social · 4d

Seriously though, this was great to be able to play with the whole schedule and change specific days with a visual itinerary.

Escape From Flatland @escapefromflatland.bsky.social · 4d

I love finding cactus on my adventures. There's some growing on White Butte, the summit of North Dakota.

Escape From Flatland @escapefromflatland.bsky.social · 5d

If its a southern route, it might follow the Amtrak line.

Escape From Flatland @escapefromflatland.bsky.social · 5d

This was the family ritual, growing up in the 80s. Tally it up. Check the inside of the Snickers wrappers to spell out a word to mail in for a prize.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 5d

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

My 11-year-old sitting with her pile of Halloween candy, sorting it into a bar graph

Escape From Flatland @escapefromflatland.bsky.social · 6d

I am using AI to build out my schedule for the next 3 weeks..add office hours, add daily outdoor time, add travel times, add meal times, add study blocks within library hours, and blocks for sleep...830pm bedtimes? Aww man!
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence

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Escape From Flatland @escapefromflatland.bsky.social · 6d

a close up of a fish 's face with a black eye

Alt: a close up of a blobish's face

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Escape From Flatland @escapefromflatland.bsky.social · 6d

The puffball mushrooms were the size of grapefruits last weekend. 25.OCT.2025
#MoreInTheAlt

Calvatia gigantea, the giant puffball mushroom. Found along the edges of a grassy trail through a wooded area, where fallen leaves are protected from the wind, these mushrooms are an off-white color, currently the size of grapefruits. I have seen some that were almost the size of beach ball.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 6d

Swear her in. Release the Epstein Files.

Ettingermentum writes: “Actually what on earth is in those files bro.”
The image from Courier Newsroom headline reads: “Rep-elect Adelita Grijalva is now the longest Rep-elect in history to not be sworn in. Mike Johnson still refuses to swear in Rep-elect Grijalva over fear of releasing the Epstein files.”
The picture shows Grijalva in a red jacket beside Speaker Mike Johnson.

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Escape From Flatland @escapefromflatland.bsky.social · 7d

Are we sure Bezos's parrot, WaPo can still be trusted?

Escape From Flatland @escapefromflatland.bsky.social · 7d

New York state courts aren't MAGA

Escape From Flatland @escapefromflatland.bsky.social · 7d

What's wrong with psilocybin? It's the best thing I've ever had to treat ptsd. Better than the VA putting me on drugs that didn't let me sleep.

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Cat Vs Cat @cat-v-cat.bsky.social · 7d

"Hold still, stinky human!"
🖤🤍🖤-Squirt

Squirt, a black and white tuxedo cat with a black mustache, licks his human's head.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 7d

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.

This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

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Escape From Flatland @escapefromflatland.bsky.social · 8d

Is there an article that isnt reddit? That site hurts my eyes, reminds me of my dialup days

Escape From Flatland @escapefromflatland.bsky.social · 8d

“When one has been angry for a very long time, one gets used to it. And it becomes comfortable, like old leather. And finally, it becomes so familiar that one can’t remember feeling any other way.” - Captain Picard.

Escape From Flatland @escapefromflatland.bsky.social · 9d

a woman in a black turtleneck sweater is holding a knife and says `` i know '' .

Alt: I have a thing for ferry boats.

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Escape From Flatland @escapefromflatland.bsky.social · 10d

CNN has kissed the ring.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10d

“.. staffers were taken aback the next morning, when Thompson suggested during the daily network editorial call that it should ease up on covering Trump’s East Wing demolition ..”

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