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OldHippieChick @oldhippiechick.bsky.social · 16h

Thank goodness this is AI. It's a terrible idea to bring most wild animals into your home. Rabbits can transmit diseases to both your cat and to humans.

Wild animals should stay wild. Pets should have regular checkups.

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Sasha the Furious Ghost 👻 @sashafury.blackskycomra.de · 1d

All these political leaders and capitalists who are tossing aside their obligations to slow climate change are directly implicated in the record hurricane that is right now hitting Jamaica.

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OldHippieChick @oldhippiechick.bsky.social · 22h

"The proverbial kinds of falsehoods, ‘lies, damned lies, and [carefully selected] statistics.’”

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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 1d

Of trees, tenderness, and the Moon – Japanese artist Hasui Kawase's stunning century-old woodblock prints www.themarginalian.org/2021/03/22/h...

Of Trees, Tenderness, and the Moon: Hasui Kawase’s Stunning Japanese Woodblock Prints from the 1920s-1950s

Sylvan sublimity between the heavens and the deep blue sea.

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OldHippieChick @oldhippiechick.bsky.social · 23h

Whatever the man's politics, no one in the US should be "deported" without due process and sending someone to prison in a country they have never lived in isn't deportation; it's kidnapping.

Craig E. Pemberton @craigepemberton.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 He believed Trump would “fix the country.” Instead, he was labeled a murderer, shackled, and dumped in a maximum-security prison — 8,000 miles from home. What happened to Roberto Mosquera is a nightmare no American should ignore.

ICE Barbie’s Deadly Mistake: Trump Fan Deported 8,000 Miles Away to a Prison in Africa

For most of his adult life, Roberto Mosquera called America home.He raised two daughters in South Florida, paid his taxes, ran a small plumbing business, and posted photos of Donald Trump with capt…

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OldHippieChick @oldhippiechick.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, in the Jewish family I married into, you don't have to be related by blood. If you were one of my MIL's BFF's, you're "Auntie" & your husband is "Unkie". Confused me a lot at first. My family did genealogy and had a lot of 'related but only by marriage' family discourse.

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OldHippieChick @oldhippiechick.bsky.social · 1d

Really excellent summary of Amendments 1-4.

🐦‍⬛🏴🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸Dan won't shut up about trans rights & Palestine @verboseminimalist.gay · 1d

Seriously!

That's why the first 4 amendments to the Constitution are:

-We'll say whatever the fuck we want

-We get to have fucking guns

-Stay the fuck out of our houses

-No, really, stay the FUCK out of our houses

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.”

It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.”

It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”

Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 1d

America... boy, I dunno.

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OldHippieChick @oldhippiechick.bsky.social · 1d

Most recent DHS posts I have seen are dogs whistles of one kind or another to neo-Nazis of one type or another.

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Plant Powered A-ron🌱🌎💙🌊 @plantpowered1971.bsky.social · 1d

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

"We would have cheaper groceries if we let 40 million people including children starve" is a hell of take.

A post on X (formerly Twitter) from user Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) dated October 28, 2025, at 8:38 AM. The post claims that the food stamp program artificially increases grocery prices because the federal government subsidizes groceries for 40 million people. It asserts that the rise in grocery costs matches the increase in food stamp recipients, arguing that working Americans are being “scammed twice”—through taxes and higher grocery prices. The post ends by stating that people are “paying twice so that morbidly obese people can buy Doritos,” calling it “infuriating.” The post has 510.9K views.

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laurentfranckx.bsky.social @laurentfranckx.bsky.social · Apr 3

Thucydides thought that one of the causes of the Peloponnesian War was that a new generation of young men in Sparta and Athens had never had the experience of war, and were therefore eager to try one of their own.

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻🚫👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · Apr 3

Narrator: "It did not make them rich."

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OldHippieChick @oldhippiechick.bsky.social · 1d

Projecting strength and "overwhelming" force is part of authoritarian propaganda. It's meant to make anti-fascists give up and to persuade people "who don't pay much attention to politics" sit on the sidelines.

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OldHippieChick @oldhippiechick.bsky.social · 1d

No fate but what we make

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OldHippieChick @oldhippiechick.bsky.social · 1d

The gang of lying liars who lie are at it again.

Jess Craven ❌👑 @jesscraven101.bsky.social · 1d

Mike Johnson is lying. Karoline Leavitt is lying. The Trump administration is lying. The money is there to pay for SNAP. They simply don’t want to.

Now if Argentina needs another 20B? That’s another question. Priorities, amirite?

Source: www.cbpp.org/research/foo...

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Climate Dad @climatedad.bsky.social · 2d

Yes climate breakdown means more turbulence for flyers.

It’s also on track to heat the planet by 4C+ this century, kill billions of people & collapse our civilization.

Keep on seeing the deadliest crisis our species has ever faced framed as some minor consumerist inconvenience.

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Covering Climate Now @coveringclimatenow.org · 3d

The only two places in the world free of mosquitoes are Antarctica and Iceland — that is, until now. This month, three specimens were discovered in Iceland, which is warming four times faster than any other country in the Northern Hemisphere.

Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as climate crisis warms country

Three specimens discovered in what was previously one of the few places in the world without the insects

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

I am thinking of the people of Jamaica, and the many New Yorkers with loved ones there, as Hurricane Melissa — fueled by a warming ocean — grows into the strongest storm ever to bear down upon the island.

As the Atlantic Ocean warms, climate change is fueling Hurricane Melissa's ferocity

Hurricane Melissa has rapidly intensified into a Category 5 storm due to warming oceans linked to climate change.

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OldHippieChick @oldhippiechick.bsky.social · 1d

Definitely we should look at more modern Constitutions!

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OldHippieChick @oldhippiechick.bsky.social · 2d

You know, I am starting to doubt the account of the couple that worked on that estate for years but had no idea anything was going on with the girls there. Saw them on one of the docs about Maxwell. (OK, I doubted it while I was watching.)

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The God of Cities @thegodofcities.bsky.social · 2d

Meanwhile in the
23rd Century...

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OldHippieChick @oldhippiechick.bsky.social · 2d

Later commenter noted she's been open about having a history of eating disorder.

Someone who cares about her does need to check in.

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OldHippieChick @oldhippiechick.bsky.social · 2d

Oh God. Now I feel pity.

She *does* need someone who cares about her to check in. The whole fatties thing is dangerous self-talk she's saying out loud.

This country needs healthcare including mental healthcare.

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direwolf52.bsky.social @direwolf52.bsky.social · 2d

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OldHippieChick @oldhippiechick.bsky.social · 2d

At least that's honest.

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