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HerTinkness @hertinkness.bsky.social · 11h

Pull the battery and make it a whole home backup, junk the rest for scrap.

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Hiding in the Burgh @hidingintheburg.bsky.social · 1d

Very glad that PIT won't play that shit either

TribLIVE @triblive.bsky.social · 1d

Airports big and small — including Pittsburgh International Airport — will not play a video with a message from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in which she blames Democrats for the federal government shutdown and its impacts on TSA operations.

Pittsburgh airport joins others in nation in not playing Noem video blaming Democrats for shutdown

Airports big and small — including Pittsburgh International Airport — will not play a video with a message from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem where she blames Democrats for the f...

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 4d

Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans

Image: A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s “Join, or Die” engraving, originally published in the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1754. Each segment of the snake has the name of a university sent Trump’s “compact”: Texas, AZ, Vanderbilt, USC, Dartmouth, UVA, Brown, Penn, MIT.

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HerTinkness @hertinkness.bsky.social · 6d

Most modern drilling operations use water or mud. They also have filtration and tanks onsite to remove a lot of suspended solids before the fluid is sent on for reuse or disposal.

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HerTinkness @hertinkness.bsky.social · 6d

And it all comes out at once.

Riley Black 🦕 🏳️‍⚧️ @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 6d

Sometimes it feels like I'm turning my brain upside down and hitting the bottom like it's a stuck ketchup bottle, thinking what I want out of it is all spent, but oh hey there's actually more than I thought in there, huh.

HerTinkness @hertinkness.bsky.social · 6d

I hate this fucking timeline.

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HerTinkness @hertinkness.bsky.social · 7d

That Pittsburgh is still here. And if that Pittsburgh shows up…

Well. We’ve been here before. She knows what to do.

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HerTinkness @hertinkness.bsky.social · 7d

But we’ve been here before. The National Guard has been deployed to Pittsburgh for civil unrest in the past. 1877, the Pennsylvania Railroad Strike. 1892, Homestead. 1902, Pressed Steel Car.

There’s a reason those guys came prepared for a riot. We haven’t forgotten.

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HerTinkness @hertinkness.bsky.social · 7d

And yeah, it was a fun day. We all got t shirts, had a nice walk downtown on a beautiful day, and then got pizza. It was a party and everyone treated it as such.

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HerTinkness @hertinkness.bsky.social · 7d

It’s been a few years since I walked in it, but there’s usually a big turnout. One of the big participants that year in particular was the carpenters union. They all had signs to carry around.

The signs were all attached to… either 1x2 or 1x3 pine boards, it’s been a while.

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HerTinkness @hertinkness.bsky.social · 7d

I’ve been thinking about this, and I think this could go one of two ways. The first is this. The second is usually on display at the Labor Day parade. 🧵

journalgirl @jg-pgh.bsky.social · 7d

if the national guard and ICE goons ever get deployed to Pittsburgh, i think we should all dress up like Mister Rogers in cardigans and Keds, or characters from his show.

imagine the optics of cowardly bullies pointing rifles at people cosplaying the kindest person & characters in history

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Sean Collier @seancollier.bsky.social · 8d

Things I say to my dog as if they will be understood:

"Peanut, the point of the walk is to walk. It's not to find the smelliest stuff in the neighborhood."

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HerTinkness @hertinkness.bsky.social · 8d

How your email finds me:

WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 8d

This is Clio. She did not study for the test today. Also does not know how to read. 12/10 (IG: paspastotoro)

a black and gray long-haired yorkiepoo sits at a desk in a university classroom. a piece of paper lays on the desk in front of her, her paws propped up on the desk as if she's bracing herself. there are students in the background hunched over and working on paper in front of them. the pup looks at the camera with a concerned side eye. she's realizing she probably should have read some of the homework before eating it.

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HerTinkness @hertinkness.bsky.social · 8d

Thanks! We’ll try this sometime!

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HerTinkness @hertinkness.bsky.social · 8d

How do you make vegan brisket?

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John Beckett @utaodruid.bsky.social · 8d

Nature is our source and our sustenance. We are a part of Nature – not the head and not the center, but one part among many. We are connected to all the other parts and all of them are connected to us. Nature is not fallen – Nature is good and holy.

www.patheos.com/blogs/johnbe...

The Divinity Of Nature

Nature is our source and our sustenance. We are a part of Nature – not the head and not the center, but one part among many. We are connected to all the other parts and all of them are connected to us...

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HerTinkness @hertinkness.bsky.social · 9d

How the fuck does this get worse every time I hear about it?

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 9d

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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HerTinkness @hertinkness.bsky.social · 9d

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Perception Check (Official Music Video) - Tom Cardy

YouTube video by Tom Cardy

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HerTinkness @hertinkness.bsky.social · 9d

I guess it’s a fitting end for the setting of that movie. A monument to excess consumption… destroyed by excess consumption.

Ben Schmitt @bencschmitt.bsky.social · 9d

Walmart plans to demolish Monroeville Mall, according to state grant bid triblive.com/business/wal...

Walmart plans to demolish Monroeville Mall, according to state grant bid

For the first time since it purchased Monroeville Mall in February, Walmart has declared its intent for the 186-acre property. The mall is expected to be demolished and replaced with retail and public...

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HerTinkness @hertinkness.bsky.social · 11d

I’m repainting my kitchen.

Again.

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HerTinkness @hertinkness.bsky.social · 11d

Huh!

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cleveland.com @cleveland.com · 14d

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources will release 2,000 fingerling sturgeon into the Cuyahoga River, hoping that in 15 to 20 years they will come back to reproduce.