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Not brave but in my "fuck it" era. Love early bedtimes, Michael Westen, and a good breeze. Self-loathing gremlin She/her 😷 Pfp: inflatable robot Baymax asks Hiro to point to the face that matches his pain level

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kw @icedteakw.bsky.social · Jul 4

If you need it today

(I need it today)
(Feel free to add to this)

Teaching can be a liberatory practice
Parenting can be a liberatory practice
Joy can be a liberatory practice
Listening can be a liberatory practice
Reading can be a liberatory practice

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kw @icedteakw.bsky.social · 6h

Thanks, buddy. Right back at ya.

kw @icedteakw.bsky.social · 6h

Makes perfect sense

kw @icedteakw.bsky.social · 7h

Just me and the boob light here folding laundry to kill time

Selfie
White woman with brown hair pulled into a bun
There is a circular boob shaped overhead light on casting terrible bright light over everything

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kw @icedteakw.bsky.social · 8h

Agreed!

kw @icedteakw.bsky.social · 8h

*an idea

kw @icedteakw.bsky.social · 8h

I'm glad people are doing absurdity but before the frog there was the woman in the t-Rex costume in LA shouting at the national guard: this is how ridiculous you look
She was making a public mockery of those specific people, not just and idea of violence but those literal troops on the ground.

talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 9h

as charming and whimsical as some will view this, it bears noting that absurdity—not militancy or might—are what people have chosen to repeat from the portland standoffs against ICE.

why is that?

what purpose does this serve?

a mini 🧵:

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

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Medias 🇨🇦 @mediasca.skyfleet.blue · 8h

Quebec judge fines man $5,000 for improper use of artificial intelligence in court

Quebec judge fines man $5,000 for improper use of artificial intelligence in court - Montreal | Globalnews.ca

Jean Laprade was ordered to pay the fine after he was found to have cited expert quotes and jurisprudence that don't exist.

globalnews.ca

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lasagnahogtober @lasagnahog.bsky.social · 8h

This Alice is home with me and I'm sitting here gently weeping, thankful for art that moves me and friendships that buoy me!

🌱✨Amelia✨🌱 @theartfulldodger.bsky.social · Aug 17

Alice

An open book with a drawing of a woman struggling in an ocean
She has long blond hair and closed weeping eye
White embroidered thread makes the ripples around her
And in the right corner it says
'I wish i hadn't cried so much' a quote from Alice in Wonderland

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kw @icedteakw.bsky.social · 1d

You always bring up the best, most buried shows in my memory

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Ahorrible Assassin Ace 🏴‍☠️ @assassin-ace.wtf · 1d

May 5 2023

I snapped very suddenly into place after years of self doubt, deep introspection and a lot of ugly crying, realizing I was agender/asexual and left my ridiculous body and became something more powerful than the gods themselves could ever conceive

with pink hair

and a union contract

Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · Sep 26

✨Quoteskeet this with an event that changed your life for forever✨

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kw @icedteakw.bsky.social · 1d

I went to write my dad's phone number on something a couple months ago & almost wrote the phone number for our old place 25+ years ago.
The thing is, the number of digits were selected to be relatively easy to remember. But we also had paper address books.

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
2? Questions
I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Panic! At The Airport (ft. Punished Cat Guy) @majima.club · 1d

If this happened I’d buy stock in Scotchgard

andy vs. @im-all-id.me · 1d

If Pedro Pascal played Gomez Addams they'd have to replace all the seats in the theater

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KJZZ Phoenix @kjzz.org · 1d

Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport joined a handful of other airports across the country that have refused to display a video from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem blaming Democrats for the government shutdown.

Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport won't play 'political' message blaming Democrats for shutdown

www.kjzz.org

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kw @icedteakw.bsky.social · 1d

Like why would you choose the standards of people who think it's okay to torture others and not the standards of the people who said "the fuck is this?"

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kw @icedteakw.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, judge people by the standards of their time
Judge them by the standards of those who hated those fuckers from jump

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Jess-Icabod Zellers @stellagarp.bsky.social · 1d

A reputable publisher should publish my memoir 💀

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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

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kw @icedteakw.bsky.social · 1d

I’m having the leftovers for lunch and I want to give yesterday’s me a big hug

kw @icedteakw.bsky.social · 2d

Someone remind me to make zucchini and carrot pancakes later

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kw @icedteakw.bsky.social · 1d

I considered it but went with a whole quilt on top of the comforter. And a warm cat always sleeping on me like a hot water bottle.

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Jess-Icabod Zellers @stellagarp.bsky.social · 1d

*haggard voice* writers, I am begging you, stop saying nod. Do a little ctrl+F for nod and if's more than five or six in your book? That is too much nodding.

and whatever you do, please no decisive nodding. Don't let your character give a decisive nod. You are better than that.

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kw @icedteakw.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, judge people by the standards of their time
Judge them by the standards of those who hated those fuckers from jump

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · Oct 9

Because I still find people who don't know how the story ends:

Christopher Columbus was returned to Spain in chains in 1500 AD, convicted of barbaric torture of colonists, but released 6 weeks later by order of King Ferdinand II.

Neither he nor his brothers ever governed a Spanish holding again.

Christopher Columbus awaits sentencing in jail.

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🌈Dr. Franken Frizzle 🎃 @swilua.bsky.social · 1d

He was considered horrific BY THE PEOPLE WHO STARTED THE SPANISH INQUISITION

Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 1d

You don't have to judge Columbus by the standards of today. His tenure as governor of Hispaniola was so horrific that he was dragged back to Spain in chains to answer for his many crimes.

Plus he never set foot on any land that would ever be a part of the United States of America.

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thinkingbayonet.bsky.social @thinkingbayonet.bsky.social · 1d

I now realize that for my entire adult life, I've had a very narrow conception of what "supporting and defending the Constitution" means. Standing on business when armed agents of the State are knocking on your door is way more important, by a country mile, than anything I did overseas

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry.

The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”

Federal immigration operations target San Diego neighborhoods, sparking community resistance

Federal immigration agents conducted operations in Logan Heights and Southeast San Diego on Friday, with community members capturing footage of the enforcement actions.

www.10news.com

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kw @icedteakw.bsky.social · 1d

Reader, I did not regret this

kw @icedteakw.bsky.social · 2d

put an extra blanket on the bed, which I will undoubtedly regret at 2 am
But it’s cooold
And I am “put on a sweater, don’t turn up the heat” years old

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kw @icedteakw.bsky.social · 2d

These leaves will be clogging the storm drains in a couple weeks but they are incredible against the blue evening sky

Evening walk
A blue cloudless sky
Leaves revealing their reddish colors on the top part of a tree

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