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david s. pumpkins 🎃 @honkifyouareantifa.bsky.social · Jun 5

im case anyone peeks at our profile before bed.

skeletor holding a martini in in one hand while holding a toothpick with two olives on it over his eyes, making the olives appear to be his eyes, saying: I'm not interested in being polite or heterosexual.

skeletor holding a rams skull staff in one hand and puppy named relay in the other (a cute puppy with papillon like ears) while saying: I am not nice.

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meerbuschknitter.bsky.social @meerbuschknitter.bsky.social · Sep 7

I've finished and published my Crustacean Cushion pattern. As ever, I put a hidden quote on the reverse for visitors to discover. 🧶🦐 #knitting #knitsky #bskyknits #sealife #prawn #crab #seahorse

www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

Hand knit cushion with prawn, crab and sea horse motifs, lying on a chaise longue.

Front of the cushion showing the detailed motifs of prawn, crab and seahorse tangled in seaweed.

Reverse of the cushion with a quote from Gandhi: “You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”

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Lilith Ferreyra-Carroll @trasinscneach.bsky.social · 12h

Ireland has a population of 5m and we've a waiting list approaching 15 years. Why? Because their mandatory, archaic and traumatic psychiatric and psychological assessments are a deliberate bottleneck to ensure as few people as possible can access healthcare a nurse can do!

Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 17h

The ‘Transit’ gender clinic in Spain has a 3 WEEK waiting list! 😳😳😳

It covers a population of 8 million, (equivalent to the population of Scotland & Wales combined, or 1/7th of the population of England) It has a total of 43 staff, a majority of whom are part-time, working 6-7 hours per week!

Trans health waiting lists are a political choice

I’m just back from an awesome trans healthcare conference in Norway (blog on that to follow). Here I wanted to share information from a presentation by the founder of the transit trans health…

growinguptransgender.com

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Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 4h

The longer it takes to crash, the worse it's going to be. The bubble keeps getting bigger while the fundamentals keep looking worse. Everyone knows that this is unsustainable.

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 5h

The world economy has held up much better than expected this year despite the chaos triggered by Donald Trump's tariffs. But the biggest tests have yet to come

World Economy Faces Triple Risk of Tariffs, AI Bubble and Soaring Debt

The world economy has so far withstood the biggest barrage of US tariffs since the 1930s as American consumers continued to spend, companies absorbed higher costs and an AI boom fueled a new breed of animal spirits.

bloom.bg

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 7h

The replies to this thread prove that people of all walks of life find science fascinating

Josie Duffy Rice @jduffyrice.bsky.social · 8h

so no one was going to tell me that mountain lions and cougars are the same animal? as are pumas? and panthers?????????

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david s. pumpkins 🎃 @honkifyouareantifa.bsky.social · 5h

oh hey ty! great job.

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ceej @ceej.online · 8h

caught my vampire neighbor creeping through my front door. he claims my saying “for sure dude, we should definitely hang out sometime” the other night counts as an invitation, but I disagree. we’re on hold with the etiquette hotline

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 7h

we’re onto the third box of fall harvest tea & tonight it’s chocolate chip cookies. it’s week 6 & i’ve formed allegiances: i’m team lanky ginger with the nose or maybe aaron.

i yell, “you fool, there’s no time for full puff pastry—in 13 years it’s never worked!”

i deserve to be on that watchlist.

emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 28d

as a member of the radical transgender terrorist movement, i will now close my september weekend by drinking trader joe’s fall harvest tea & eating a tiny pumpkin pie with my wife as we watch the great british bake off. you know, just like [checks gop talking points] al qaeda. worse than, really.

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Hobby Drifter in Tokyo @hobbydrifter.bsky.social · 7d

White people who have spent decades thinking “Born in the USA” is patriotic and “Every Breath You Take” is a great wedding song are suddenly very concerned about not being able to understand lyrics to some songs at the Super Bowl halftime show.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 7h

Underneath all these stories is: the adults around me know about a danger and for some reason they're not saying shit to me. They are doing a dogshit awful job of keeping me safe from a danger, literally all they need to do is not suck so fucking much, just use their fucking words.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 7h

There's a genre of creepypasta that is "there is a strange tradition here that no one will explain to me, a teenager"

Adults doing strange things they refuse to explain, at all, and the teenager out of a mixture of curiosity and foolishness finds out the hard way what is going on.

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Josie Duffy Rice @jduffyrice.bsky.social · 8h

so no one was going to tell me that mountain lions and cougars are the same animal? as are pumas? and panthers?????????

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Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 8h

"i made a x" "new x or old thing?" meme from donnie darko

donnie darko: i made a new VEGETABLE

mother: new vegetable or brassica oleracea?

donnie: rassica oleracea again

(inset with a graphic showing cabbage, brussels sprouts, kohlrabi, kale, broccoli and cauliflower are all brassica oleracea)

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Rachel W. Martin @rwmartin.bsky.social · 8h

Brassica oleracea has entered the chat.

Josie Duffy Rice @jduffyrice.bsky.social · 8h

so no one was going to tell me that mountain lions and cougars are the same animal? as are pumas? and panthers?????????

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david s. pumpkins 🎃 @honkifyouareantifa.bsky.social · 8h

an extremely lovely and simply wonderful man

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 8h

If you haven’t read his interview in Jacobin, you should. It’s fantastic.

“Clothing choices are shaped on the moving tectonic plates of politics and economics as well as technology. The technology of the time influences what we can produce and how we dress but also the systems on which we build.”

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 8h

Seeing people take runs at the menswear guy is bonkers to me as a guy who wears the same hoodies he had in highschool. I leave that guy well enough alone, I don’t want any of that smoke.