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Maya @mayak46.bsky.social · 7h

My daughter and I have never seen eye to eye on her. I was surprised when she didn't like this latest album. I have never been a fan to put it mildly. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/m...

Taylor Swift Is Our Biggest Cinematic Universe. But the Magic Is Fading.

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Maya @mayak46.bsky.social · 14h

When I was a kid, nobody knew what this was. 😂. ktla.com/news/califor...

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Maya @mayak46.bsky.social · 18h

Currently everything is chaotic and disheartening to say the least. Nostalgia (whatever era one calls childhood home) is comfortable. Returning to one's literary womb if you will, when life felt safe. Is that good? I don't think so but safe is something collectively we ( well most ) don't feel.

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Maya @mayak46.bsky.social · 1d

This was my favorite Ace song. youtu.be/DXeeY9D9u94?...

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Maya @mayak46.bsky.social · 2d

My sister sent me this. You're welcome

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dannyderaney on Instagram: "What do you get when you take Donny and Marie, Kris Kristofferson, C-3PO, R2-D2, Chewbacca and another Paul Lynde contract obligati…"

What do you get when you take Donny and Marie, Kris Kristofferson, C-3PO, R2-D2, Chewbacca and another Paul Lynde contract obligation? Why yes, you get the 1977 Donny and Marie Star Wars Special. Just like disco, everybody wanted in on the money making machine and culture phenomenon that Star Wars had become. Fortunately, unlike disco, the over saturation did not kill the franchise. #funny #funnyvideos #comedy #nostalgia #maythe4thbewithyou #starwars

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 4d

Wild that anyone bothers to celebrate Columbus when they could just pick anyone at random who’s ever made a wrong turn.

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AmyAlexCA @amyalexca.bsky.social · 4d

Somehow the Incompetent Goons atop US Dept. of Labor let this devastating report see daylight: “[The report] noted that Americans are not willing to step into farm work and lack the skills to fill agricultural jobs that undocumented immigrants are abandoning.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Trump administration says immigration enforcement threatens higher food prices

U.S. farmers face labor shortages and potential food price hikes due to Trump’s immigration policy, the administration acknowledged in a Federal Registry document.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 10d

Thinking about that white, wannabe-"momfluencer" who made up a story about a Hispanic couple circling her like vultures, whispering about how beautiful her kids were, and following her to the parking lot to execute a kidnapping attempt.

Like.

You know that's how people have gotten lynched, right.

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 15d

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report

Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...

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AmyAlexCA @amyalexca.bsky.social · 15d

QR Codes have proliferated in the past decade or so BUT I avoid them: a CyberSec expert I collaborated w in DC walked me through how/why they are porous—and easily deployed in Scams. See this fresh example: Fake parking tickets outfitted with QR Codes. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

Scammers are leaving fake parking tickets on cars in Oakland

A new scam is preying on drivers in Oakland, where fake parking citations have been slipped onto windshields, tricking some residents into paying bogus fines.

www.sfchronicle.com

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Maya @mayak46.bsky.social · 16d

Yeesh. So much for "restore trust"

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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛🧟‍♀️👻 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 16d

The first Peanuts strip by Charles M. Schulz was published on October 2, 1950.

Four black and white panels of a boy and girl sitting on steps. 1st panel: Charlie Brown is approaching and the boy says “Well! Here comes ol’ Charlie Brown!” 2nd panel: As Charlie Brown passes, he says “Good ol’ Charlie Brown…yes, sir!” 3rd panel: “Good ol’ Charlie Brown…” 4th panel: Once Charlie is gone, “How I hate him!”

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 16d

as in life

Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 16d

Bluesky feed is like

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16d

We’ll take the people of Memphis over wannabe fascists & hate mongers like Stephen Miller seven days a week. Twice on Sunday. 🇺🇸

📸 via @indivisnashville.bsky.social

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The Harpy Sorceress is ready for spooky season @thehappysorceress.bsky.social · 19d

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Jordan! @jordanjamboree.bsky.social · 19d

Wife brought her 100 year old film camera to that pirates game from a few weeks ago and she got this shot that's just perfect

A black and white photo of a baseball game, you can see that it is mid pitch with a pirate at bat

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Maya @mayak46.bsky.social · 16d

I'm watching true crime on YouTube. Walking all over the city. I've done the 4 stairway walks from city guides and doing more the city is sponsoring this month. Been going to live music. And focusing on local politics. That's how I am coping.

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Maya @mayak46.bsky.social · 16d

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16d

what does an "unconstitutional DEI principle" mean in the context of a tunnel project? what, a black person is going to use it?

City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 16d

OMB Director Russell Voight says that US DOT will announce that the federal government is "pausing" funding for both Gateway and the Second Avenue Subway because of "unconstitutional DEI principles" -- x.com/russvought/s...

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Naima Cochrane @stillnaima.bsky.social · 16d

These posts from @andr3wsky.bsky.social on threads (I checked to see if he also posted here but he didn't) were actually hard to read, because Black folks have said this *so* often and been argued *down* about it, reading someone say it as a 💡 feels damn near insulting. But maybe ppl will listen

"As a white leftist, I need you all to know that for a good number of white leftists, the idea of suffering is purely academic. They know, even if they don’t acknowledge it, that their privilege insulates them from harm. This allows them to treat the suffering of others like a thought experiment.

Why are they so obsessed with finding the “perfect candidate”? Simply because they can be. They will not be the ones to suffer if an imperfect one loses. So whether *others suffer becomes a game to them"

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ACLU @aclu.org · 16d

BREAKING: We're suing ICE for refusing to comply with our FOIA request for information about the agency's plans for expanding immigration detention in the D.C. region.

We have a right to know how our taxpayer dollars are being used to fund ICE's abusive detention machine.

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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 16d

Pokémon Pikachu Plush - 8-Inch Soft Plush is $10.47 on Amazon buff.ly/6XXqAKF #ad

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16d

Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."

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Dr. Carol Tilley 🏳️‍🌈 @anuncivilphd.bsky.social · 16d

And here are the initial signatories (I hope to see a lot more names added here soon):

Committee for the First Amendment

www.committeeforthefirstamendment.com

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MSNBC @msnbc.com · 16d

Jane Goodall, renowned chimpanzee researcher and animal advocate, dies at 91

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 16d

A bus of Bronx middle schoolers pulled up to the Capitol this morning for a long-planned field trip just a few hours after the government shut down.

All Capitol tours were cancelled as the guides can’t work in shutdown.

So I escorted them in myself and gave them a personal tour. They were great!

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