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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.bsky.social · 5h

“Whomst”

Pyewacket, a tiny 5 week old black kitten, is nearly nose to nose with Sushi, an adult brown tabby and white cat, as they share space on a fluffy white blanket

Jackie Schilling @jeschilling.bsky.social · 21h

This piece pretty much restated my childhood anxiety mantra nearly word for word. (Am I really saved? How do I know for sure? What if I have just been faking the whole time?)

A friend of mine once asked me what the overall “vibe” of evangelicism is, and I told her “fear and anxiety.”

Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 1d

What's on your minds?

As is seasonally appropriate, I've been thinking about death.

B/c I can't help myself I've also been thinking about Christianity's fucked up relationship to death, and the toxic dynamics of hardline faith.

The latest Bugbear Dispatch:

www.bugbeardispatch.com/some-thought...

Some Thoughts about Fear, Death, and Christianity

In his Society without God (NYU Press, 2008), sociologist Phil Zuckerman documented the many ways in which the Scandinavian countries--some of the least religious on earth--put highly religious countr...

www.bugbeardispatch.com

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Jackie Schilling @jeschilling.bsky.social · 2d

Yes! I’ve been yelling about this (to my poor roommate) for a while. Companies that are losing money (which I’m not sure there’s true evidence for in the W) are still required to pay their employees. Whether or not the league is making or losing money is not the players’ problem to solve.

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 4d

Relatedly, I recall a lot of "the joy of canceling plans" jokes and memes from the 2010s and now folks are talking about a loneliness epidemic, and, well...

Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 4d

People will scoff at virtue signaling and then wonder why today’s billionaires don’t build museums, libraries, hospitals, and universities like Gilded Age ones did.

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Jackie Schilling @jeschilling.bsky.social · 3d

Since there’s so few obligations in athletic band, they basically gave us cash per diem and let us do what we wanted. We just had to be back at the hotel on time for the games. In Boston, I did the whole Liberty Trail with my friends, and took a day trip to Salem.

Jackie Schilling @jeschilling.bsky.social · 3d

Also, not gonna lie, travel is more fun in the athletic band. I got free 5 day trips to Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, Boston, and New Orleans the year the men went to the Final Four.

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Jackie Schilling @jeschilling.bsky.social · 4d

She can do athletic band, and they do the spring game! Also, many people learn to play a brass instrument and then make the band. I was a clarinet player all through high school!

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 5d

how disgusting and unnecessary. begging men to be normal just once.

WIRED @wired.com · 5d

Some sports gamblers are trying to predict WNBA players’ performance—and the outcomes of games—based on the athletes’ periods. One betting content creator has dubbed it “blood money." www.wired.com/story/men-ar...

Men Are Betting on WNBA Players' Menstrual Cycles

Some sports gamblers are trying to predict WNBA players’ performance—and the outcomes of games—based on the athletes’ periods. One betting content creator has dubbed it “blood money."

www.wired.com

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 6d

They want to create the (false) perception that autism is preventable and curable, because that allows them to: 1) cut accommodations, services, and support for autistic kids and their families, and 2) blame mothers for autism in ways that make (1) seem justified.

bsky.app/profile/jess...

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 22d

Whether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.

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busy ☝️☝️☝️⛈️ @busyxb.bsky.social · 12d

"This is the culmination of a fight that’s been happening for decades. It’s the most consequential labor fight in the history of women’s basketball..."
Nobody runs an ISO better than @aghaubner.bsky.social these days. Get into it!
www.nocapspacewbb.com/p/napheesa-c... via @nocapspacewbb.com

Napheesa Collier, Cathy Engelbert and the Battle For the Future of Women’s Basketball

The heavyweight labor clash between the WNBA and its players was always expected to come. But this battle has gone far beyond dollars and cents and into territory that could alter the league forever.

www.nocapspacewbb.com

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 12d

I regret to inform you that in addition to the collapse of Reconstruction and the Red Scare we all need to bone up on how Woodrow Wilson cracked down on journalists and dissenters. We've got you covered, with this piece by Adam Hochschild www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

America’s top censor—so far

Woodrow Wilson’s postmaster put papers out of business and jailed journalists. The tools he used still exist.

www.motherjones.com

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Jackie Schilling @jeschilling.bsky.social · 12d

Yikes! I wonder what the outcome was of that!

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Jackie Schilling @jeschilling.bsky.social · 14d

Note for anyone who wants to avoid my mistakes: don’t tell your trainer that you feel like your core strength is sub-par because then they will give you many core exercises and you will cry.

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Andrew G. Haubner @aghaubner.bsky.social · 15d

This isn’t a denial that she said what she said lmfao

Maggie Hendricks @maggiehendricks.bsky.social · 15d

Cathy Engelbert's statement in response to Napheesa Collier:

“I have the utmost respect for Napheesa Collier and for all the players in the WNBA. Together we have all worked tirelessly to transform this league. My focus remains on ensuring a bright future for the players and the WNBA, including collaborating on how we continue to elevate the game. I am disheartened by how Napheesa characterized our conversations and league leadership, but even when our perspectives differ, my commitment to the players and to this work will not waver.”

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Jackie Schilling @jeschilling.bsky.social · 16d

Listening to Florence + the Machine this morning and it was a good choice

Jackie Schilling @jeschilling.bsky.social · 19d

I just gave Carter the first dose of a round of steroids (to help with asthma and inflammation). She is extremely sure that I just tried to kill her. (Photo is not from tonight, she is currently hiding from me).

A dilute calico cat rests her chin on her paw and squints her eyes

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I Nied to drink your blood! 🧛 @nied.bsky.social · 20d

A lot of folks view their vote as a little gift they give to a politician who catches their fancy, rather than an act of collective action on behalf of the less fortunate. You are not giving out a rose on The Bachelor, you're acting in solidarity with millions of other people.

Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 20d

"we don't owe anybody our vote"

you don't owe *politicians* your support, but you have moral obligations to other people that entail trying to avoid their death or oppression

Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 21d

new episode! - i'm against abstention threats*, but is trying to wrangle the online left a fool's errand?

with @lastpositivist.bsky.social

www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/message

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Jackie Schilling @jeschilling.bsky.social · 22d

I am so shocked by Sandy’s firing, and I also have Thoughts and Opinions but I have to leave for physical therapy, dang it.

Jackie Schilling @jeschilling.bsky.social · 22d

Whoa! I didn’t expect that at all!

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Christopher McKnight Nichols @cmcknichols.bsky.social · 23d

On the chilling of speech in higher education across Ohio by legislative fiat. We are all beginning to feel it, but just listen to the student voices www.salon.com/2025/09/22/g...