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Memento (Spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 15h

Tim Onion is doing better vaccine messaging than our own CDC

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 17h

If you're wondering whether or not to get a flu shot, I didn't get one in time, and I just had a fever dream where I was in the Drew Carey Show because several days ago I was on the Wikipedia page for the Drew Carey Show. You don't have to do this to yourself.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 17h

If you're wondering whether or not to get a flu shot, I didn't get one in time, and I just had a fever dream where I was in the Drew Carey Show because several days ago I was on the Wikipedia page for the Drew Carey Show. You don't have to do this to yourself.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 16h

gene kelly is antifa

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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 18h

i feel like i need to share this oldie but a goodie today

A tumblr post that reads "WHo would have believed that the perfect wikipedia photo caption could have been improved upon?" Two identical images are then side by side. The first caption is "Piper Kerr, a member of the Scottis National Antarctix Expedition, plays the bagpipes for an indifferent penguin, March 1904". The Caption for the image on the left reads, "Piper Kerr (right), a member of the Scottis National Antarctix Expedition, plays the bagpipes for an indifferent penguin, March 1904"

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Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 18h

You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't

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The Onion @theonion.com · 18h

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 1d

For those who don’t intimately understand how news works and why Bari Weiss’s unearned elevation to head of CBS News matters, I’d recommend watching this in entirety. Also, will forever point out irony of how an admitted DEI hire thinks her hire was meritorious while Black people’s aren’t.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

Holy shit go off John Oliver youtu.be/gieTx_P6INQ?...

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

I am once again wishing that the left were as organized and well-funded as the right makes out.

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Shannon O’Mac @shannonomac.bsky.social · 1d

Can confirm, Lesbian Space Princess is an absurd delight.

NewFest is a great queer film festival to check out online this week.

Shannon O’Mac @shannonomac.bsky.social · 1d

Everything is 😵‍💫 so I’m eating and ice cream sundae, baking cookies, and watching Lesbian Space Princess. newfest.org/events/lesbi...

LESBIAN SPACE PRINCESS - NewFest

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

Paul Simon, born today in 1941.

“It’s a cliché,” he said, “but music really IS the closest we come to a universal language. It crosses borders as effortlessly as a cloud.”

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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 1d

I have known many cats and I've worshiped them all as the ancient pact requires, but if I'm being honest, my favorites were always the ones where we had to constantly say "She's not mean, that's just her face"

Tammi, yeah, that one. 2.1 @tammi.bsky.social · 1d

I found a 19th century Cat Villain!

A huge chonk of a fluffy cat sitting on a table near an open fire. The cat is cream and grey and appears to be shaped like a barrel in a fur coat. They are scowling fiercely with their moustache and bewhiskered ears apparently flowing back into the cold wind. There's a definite vibe that this villainous cat twirls their moustache as they evict orphans into the aforementioned blizzard and think Scrooge was an easy-going lightweight. They are magnificent.

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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 1d

Two frames from The Good Place:

“Fun fact: Columbus is in the Bad Place
because of all the raping, slave trade, and genocide.”

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Shannon O’Mac @shannonomac.bsky.social · 1d

Can confirm, Lesbian Space Princess is an absurd delight.

NewFest is a great queer film festival to check out online this week.

Shannon O’Mac @shannonomac.bsky.social · 1d

Everything is 😵‍💫 so I’m eating and ice cream sundae, baking cookies, and watching Lesbian Space Princess. newfest.org/events/lesbi...

LESBIAN SPACE PRINCESS - NewFest

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Ruth Ann Crystal @drruth.bsky.social · 1d

✨Please share! My newsletter is out.✨

📉US COVID cases go down, Europe's go up
💉COVID booster protects > prior infection or vaccines
👧100s of kids quarantined for Measles
😓CDC layoffs and reinstatements
🔥Menopause inflammaging reversed with HRT

& much more buff.ly/q54ZQkX

#medsky #pedsky 🛟😷🧪

Picture of the US. South is blue which means low levels of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater. The rest of the US is yellow which means Medium levels of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater.

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Shannon O’Mac @shannonomac.bsky.social · 1d

Everything is 😵‍💫 so I’m eating and ice cream sundae, baking cookies, and watching Lesbian Space Princess. newfest.org/events/lesbi...

LESBIAN SPACE PRINCESS - NewFest

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Shannon O’Mac @shannonomac.bsky.social · 1d

Yes.

Shannon O’Mac @shannonomac.bsky.social · 1d

New Halloween costume just dropped.

Shannon O’Mac @shannonomac.bsky.social · 1d

“Buying an inflatable pink rainbow unicorn costume is anti-fascist,” is a sentence I just said. 🦄

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Shannon O’Mac @shannonomac.bsky.social · 1d

“Buying an inflatable pink rainbow unicorn costume is anti-fascist,” is a sentence I just said. 🦄

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Shannon O’Mac @shannonomac.bsky.social · 1d

White gay tech fascism is the worst. 😵‍💫

Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 1d

Need a crossover theoryish book on white gay tech fascism. Thiel, Rabois, Helberg, etc.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

People are spontaneously posting up near any laborers or street vendors they spot. Just saw a rapid responder guarding a man working on a building exterior. Many things are terrible today but lord, this stuff matters.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

There are a tremendous number of ICE watchers out in Rogers Park this afternoon after some early morning abductions.

People are guarding churches and patrolling alleyways. Ran into Alderperson Hadden. First timers tell us they're primed and ready to use their whistles.

Know your rights flyer in Spanish on street pole

Alderperson Maria Hadden on street corner

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d

It would be interesting for someone to run for US president on the platform of firing every one hired to work for ICE over the past 4 years. Firing all of them on day 1.

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Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio @rlmartstudio.bsky.social · 2d

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

A photograph from the 1988 ACT UP demonstration outside the FDA. Many people are participating in a die-in on the front steps, holding mock tombstones with messages like "RIP - killed by the FDA" and "Dead from lack of drugs." A line of police officers (some with classic 80s mustaches) wearing riot helmets stands between them and the building; one cop wearing white gloves is walking through the demonstrators. Affixed to the 2nd story windows of the building is a series of posters and a large blank banner reading Silence = Death.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

Listen to the response to this and look how easy it is to say it.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 1d

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Shannon O’Mac @shannonomac.bsky.social · 1d

Yup.

BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 1d

The thing that is most devastating to me about the ongoing evisceration of the public health infrastructure in the U.S right is how little awareness of what's going on the majority of people in the general public have and the impact this will have on their health and safety.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

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Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

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