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elle @girlinsynthesis.bsky.social · 1h

Oh this will be delicious.

Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 2h

Percy Jackson and the Olympians season 3 correctly casts Kate McKinnon as Aphrodite:

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Kate McKinnon Joins Percy Jackson and the Olympians Season 3 Cast as Aphrodite - Reactor

The second season of the Disney+ show is set to premiere later this year.

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elle @girlinsynthesis.bsky.social · 3h

"God knows I've had some rough fuckin' years" is a line that speaks deeper than any Swift lyric ever could.

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elle @girlinsynthesis.bsky.social · 3h

Boss wants me to gather info on if it's good or bad to go digital-only.

(He also wants me to have an opinion on it, which, *sigh*.)

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elle @girlinsynthesis.bsky.social · 3h

This song has, no joke, helped keep me alive this year.

James Gunn @jamesgunn.bsky.social · 3h

Working with Foxy Shazam is a personal and professional highlight. Enjoy this music video for the song of our season, “Oh Lord.”

Watch now: youtu.be/TUTj-noIkgE

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James Gunn @jamesgunn.bsky.social · 3h

Working with Foxy Shazam is a personal and professional highlight. Enjoy this music video for the song of our season, “Oh Lord.”

Watch now: youtu.be/TUTj-noIkgE

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elle @girlinsynthesis.bsky.social · 3h

*screaming into the void with Librarian questions and I want to die*

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elle @girlinsynthesis.bsky.social · 4h

Anyone wanna help me do some research?

Physical v. digital collections; community colleges with digital-only collections; etc.?

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Faith K. Falkner @faithfalkner.com · 6h

The word "Nazi" is thrown around so much in political discourse as to become meaningless, which is why I can't underline enough that there are ACTUAL Nazis in charge of the U.S. government, and furthermore 77 million Americans voted for it against all forewarning.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 15h

I just checked and this is real. It's on Border Patrol's official Instagram (I don't see it on Facebook) and is being celebrated by Nazis on Twitter, as you can see in the screenshot.

The clip is just 13 seconds long too, so it's a very intentional thing. We've got a Nazi government.

Twitter account: Uncensored @HmanQuotes1945: Official border patrol Facebook page is posting with the banned lyrics of Michael Jackson's song.
"Jew me sue me... Kick me k*ke me."
Epic

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Eric Shmeric @ericdienstfrey.bsky.social · 1d

So Jurassic Park is about a group of rich people who don't understand that biology is far more complicated than "there are only two genders" and how this ignorance toward gender fluidity in nature causes these rich people to lose their money and die.

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 9h

Amen

Exodus 8:2-6

“But if you refuse to let them go, I will place your whole country with frogs… the frogs shall come up on you and your people and on all your officials”

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 9h

All I can add to the “we reject universal masking” discourse is that it’s not about masks. You aren’t rejecting universal masking, which never happened; you’re rejecting having to think about wearing a mask, and maybe feeling badly about thinking about masks. Can’t help you there.

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elle @girlinsynthesis.bsky.social · 1d

Yep

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elle @girlinsynthesis.bsky.social · 1d

The company that's been right-wing this whole time and was created by one of the people who now stands to benefit from propaganda ... did the thing they've been doing all along ... and we're surprised?

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

At the request of the U.S. Department of Justice, a Facebook group used by nearly 80,000 people to report sightings of federal immigration agents in the Chicago area has been taken down by the social media giant Meta, Facebook’s parent company.

Facebook suspends popular Chicago ICE-sightings group at Trump administration’s request

The group, "ICE Sighting-Chicagoland," has been increasingly used in the last five weeks of President Donald Trump’s intense deportation campaign to warn neighbors that federal agents are nearby.

trib.al

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 1d

Watching people being brutalized by the state, secure in the knowledge that I'm safe because I don't do anything wrong. And the best part? The state can't suddenly and arbitrarily redefine what "wrong" means

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elle @girlinsynthesis.bsky.social · 1d

Do the eyedrops also do your taxes and wash your dishes?

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elle @girlinsynthesis.bsky.social · 1d

Considering the other "churches" that get to exist, I oughta be able to ...

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elle @girlinsynthesis.bsky.social · 1d

We could buy a college:

www.cityfeet.com/cont/listing...

www.cityfeet.com

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elle @girlinsynthesis.bsky.social · 1d

Look at this church. I could fit so many cats in there.

www.cityfeet.com/cont/listing...

www.cityfeet.com

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elle @girlinsynthesis.bsky.social · 1d

Help, I got onto realty sites and I'm looking at old buildings/churches and wondering how hard it would really be to buy one up and convert it into communal living.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 1d

Please be conscious if you protest this weekend that there are feds at the protest. They look like you and they sound like you, not like Steve Buscemi in that one clip with the skateboard. Thinking you can spot them is self delusion. Nobody you haven’t met needs to know your last name.

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Museums Association @museumsassociation.org · 1d

News | Strikes loom at national institutions – @britishlibrary.bsky.social and Tate workers plan walkouts as industrial action continues at National Coal Mining Museum (@ncmme.bsky.social)

@pcsunion.bsky.social @unison.org.uk

Strikes loom at national institutions - Museums Association

British Library and Tate workers plan walkouts as industrial action continues at National Coal Mining Museum

www.museumsassociation.org

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elle @girlinsynthesis.bsky.social · 1d

Yup. As the news as spread that I'm getting rid of print titles, I hear folks saying, "I didn't know we had those!"

Yeah, obviously. And now you don't have them anymore.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 1d

A man who works for the people overseeing America’s nuclear stockpile has lost his security clearance after he uploaded 187,000 pornographic images to a Department of Energy (DOE) network. Included AI-generated robot porn.

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Man Stores AI-Generated Robot Porn on His Government Computer, Loses Access to Nuclear Secrets

A man who works for the people overseeing America’s nuclear stockpile has lost his security clearance after he uploaded 187,000 pornographic images to a Department of Energy (DOE) network. As part of ...

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 2d

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!

The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/

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elle @girlinsynthesis.bsky.social · 1d

Doomscrolling Bluesky

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