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Mignon Fogarty @grammargirl.bsky.social · 3h

Thanks! I learned so much about the alphabet from @dannybate.bsky.social in this chat; it was a blast. :)

Mgirl @marbygirl.bsky.social · 5h

Loved the @grammargirl.bsky.social podcast on Why Q Needs U by @dannybate.bsky.social - thanks! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...

Why Q needs U and how hieroglyphics created our alphabet, with Danny Bate

Podcast Episode · Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing · 10/16/2025 · 38m

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 3h

Rev. Kardon “said she has been shot multiple times with pepper bullets, including while she was praying with her eyes closed and hands lifted, wearing a clerical collar and stole,” Religion News Service reported👇🏽

Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 3h

“Every time we have been attacked w/pepper bullets or tear gas or pepper spray that I have been present, it has felt like it came from anger that we were there, and not from any determined safety need or protocol,” said The Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist pastor. “They are unhinged.”

Clergy Member Shot With Pepper Ball Outside ICE Facility Says He Could Hear Agents ‘Laughing’

Rev. David Black, who has since joined a lawsuit against the administration “alleging violations of the First and Fourth Amendments,” says he protests to let immigrants know “that they are not alone."

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Tonya R. Moore @tonyarmoore.com · 2h

I was still a kid when I first realized that a teacher's job is to help me learn how to think and find the answers, not hand them to me on a silver platter. Now as someone who never finished college, it kills me to see "educated" people demonstrating that they never figured that out.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4h

If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education.

We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.

Vlad 🐸 Țepeș @porcupunk.bsky.social · 17h

Wow. Just wow.

"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 22h

Peacemaker S2 continues to be extremely relevant!

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 22h

Holy shit. This is Angelo Elia, a legislative correspondent for Congressman Dave Taylor.

According to @rooster.info, during a Zoom meeting today, he had an American nazi flag displayed in the background.

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Greg GORY Andree 💀🎃 @gregandree71.bsky.social · 23h

Exactly this.

They want someone who looks like a big, scary antifa-soldier to crush. But they're forced to be ridiculed by people in inflatable frog costumes, and when they act against them, they look weak and small.

Ridicule is a powerful weapon against people who want to be powerful and feared.

frankestein 🧟‍♂️ @aefrankes.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like people who say the protestors in animal suits aren't serious truly underestimate how much fascism is dictated by what makes the top boys feel like big powerful cool men™️ and forcing them to arrest a singing giraffe is going to make at least some folks reconsider what they're supporting

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Greg GORY Andree 💀🎃 @gregandree71.bsky.social · 23h

Exactly that.

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Greg GORY Andree 💀🎃 @gregandree71.bsky.social · 1d

These people are so small. Sure, arrest the singing giraffe. So strong. So alpha.

Robby Roadsteamer @roadsteamer.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 *Breaking News* Robby Roadsteamer has been detained by ICE Portland after singing Rod Stewart with the Portland Frog! We need your help!

Please support Robby's campaign and lawyer fees at robbyroadsteamer.com link on bio 💙🦒🦒🦒

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

What could be worse than screaming at a Capitol police officer?

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ETX Gov🏴‍☠️ @etxgov.bsky.social · 1d

Every time Trump says something like this is a Democrat program that he's going to cut, Dems should immediately drop it into an ad to run ASAP on network tv.

"Trump says Dems support special Ed? Hell ya we do." -Should be the general tenor of the ad.

jillnaustin @jillnaustin.bsky.social · 1d

So, no republicans have children in special education programs? Trump says it's a democrat program.

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Greg GORY Andree 💀🎃 @gregandree71.bsky.social · 2d

Drew Struzan was my entire childhood. Such a masterful painter that made me love movies even more. He died today at 78, and I know that's a long life, but I'm still really sad about that little bit of empty space in the world.

There's a great documentary about him, Drew: The Man Behind The Poster.

drew struzan poster for Indiana Jones and the last Crusdae

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Greg GORY Andree 💀🎃 @gregandree71.bsky.social · 2d

sad to hear this. what a masterful artist.

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E.K. Johnston @ekjohnston.bsky.social · 2d

So is there an indie bookstore near the Vancouver Via station?

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The Ginger From The Black Lagoon @scottfrilot.com · 2d

I hear this DJ is KILLER!

Greg GORY Andree 💀🎃 @gregandree71.bsky.social · 2d

Broke out the Halloween decorations, and here’s a favorite: Dee Jay Voorhees.

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Greg GORY Andree 💀🎃 @gregandree71.bsky.social · 2d

lol

a man in a red suit playing a trombone with wah wah written on the bottom

ALT: a man in a red suit playing a trombone with wah wah written on the bottom

media.tenor.com

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Greg GORY Andree 💀🎃 @gregandree71.bsky.social · 2d

Aside from it being scary… It’s so disheartening

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 2d

Solidarity is the only way

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 2d

We like to pretend the endemic use of the present tense in modern fiction is a stylistic choice. But usually it's a cheap way to disguise mediocre prose, lack of structure, or both. It's like a row of showy petunias planted along a house to disguise cracks in the foundation.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 3d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 2d

A lot of writers seem to think the more mannered and self-conscious their prose, the better. They add SO much fluff. But the real power of any book comes from the precision of its observations, not the purpleness of its prose. David Foster Wallace wrote like an 8th grade boy taking an English test.

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Barry Lyga @barrylyga.com · 2d

I don't think there's any inherent superiority to any particular tense. BUT...

My problem with the proliferation of present tense usage (as someone who's pubbed something like half a dozen books in present tense) is twofold.

First of all, most writers aren't exploiting the strengths... 1/

G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 2d

We like to pretend the endemic use of the present tense in modern fiction is a stylistic choice. But usually it's a cheap way to disguise mediocre prose, lack of structure, or both. It's like a row of showy petunias planted along a house to disguise cracks in the foundation.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 3d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Greg GORY Andree 💀🎃 @gregandree71.bsky.social · 2d

Broke out the Halloween decorations, and here’s a favorite: Dee Jay Voorhees.

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Greg GORY Andree 💀🎃 @gregandree71.bsky.social · 3d

New from Scott "The Ginger from the Black Lagoon" Frilot

The Ginger From The Black Lagoon @scottfrilot.com · 3d

Hey. If ya listen to music, I made a new music. Just in time for spooky season. Wherever you stream songs.

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Greg GORY Andree 💀🎃 @gregandree71.bsky.social · 3d

24 years of teaching we've gone from respected public servants who educated kids, to ungrateful babysitters, to snowflakes propagandizing "critical race theory" to "social justice" to "woke," and forcing kids to read "pornography."

Now we're terrorists.

The clowncar to authoritarianism is real.

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Greg GORY Andree 💀🎃 @gregandree71.bsky.social · 4d

Are we, meaning me, doing Halloween names this year? Can’t go wrong with my actual name: Greg GORY Andree 🎃🎃🎃

Bsky named changed to Greg GORY Andree for Halloween

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Greg GORY Andree 💀🎃 @gregandree71.bsky.social · 3d

A guy I used to work with started antifa out of his garage, and now it’s called Amazon. They have bases everywhere, and can deliver their antifas so fast.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 5d

a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa's headquarters is SHEIN and if the company fell the whole network would fall

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