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Editor and writer for an undisclosed publication. Auguste Piccard and Frank Wilhoit stan. Pope Sixtus VI papal name advocate. He/him.

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Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · Nov 11

Pinned thread with various creative works I want to be able to find later. First, Adam the Golem, the story of the golem of Prague set to a possibly familiar tune: bsky.app/profile/toms...

Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · May 27

Adam the Golem was a calm, reflective soul
With his chiseled jaw
And his sculpted abs
And two eyes made out of coal.

Adam the Golem was a fairytale they say.
He was made of clay
But the rabbis say
That he came to life one day.

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Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · 4m

is everything the cooper union speech?

yes.

Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · 11m

is ayanna pressley not really a statewide candidate?

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 14h

A musician, Oriana Korol, was peacefully playing clarinet with her protest band outside ICE facilities in Portland, OR.

When the band started playing “Ghostbusters,” ICE thugs suddenly poured outside, slammed her into the mud, arrested her and took her to a jail 9 miles away in Vancouver, WA.

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 31m

not to repeat the obvious but: if they are doing this to one of the most famous Western activists alive, imagine what they are doing to the people whose names we will never know

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 39m

Greta is an immensely impressive human being and despite her well-intentioned downplaying of her experience what she endured was torture. www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

www.aftonbladet.se

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1h

ICE just arrested a singing giraffe in Portland.

Robby Roadsteamer @roadsteamer.bsky.social · 2h

🚨 *Breaking News* Robby Roadsteamer has been detained by ICE Portland after singing Rod Stewart with the Portland Frog! We need your help!

Please support Robby's campaign and lawyer fees at robbyroadsteamer.com link on bio 💙🦒🦒🦒

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Dr Alex Cruikshanks @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 39m

Free Comrade Baezhnev

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Natasha Bertrand @natashabertrand.bsky.social · 2h

Breaking: At least one US military strike in the Caribbean targeted Colombians on a boat leaving from Colombia, sources tell us.

The deliberate targeting of Colombians suggests the US military’s campaign is wider than previously believed www.cnn.com/2025/10/15/p...

At least one US military strike on alleged drug trafficking boat in Caribbean targeted Colombians | CNN Politics

At least one US military strike in the Caribbean over the last two months targeted Colombian nationals on a boat that had left from Colombia, according to two people briefed by the Pentagon about the ...

www.cnn.com

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Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · 1h

quality hating there

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 1h

Someone in the crowd: “Go Cubs!”

Pope Leo XIV: “Han perdido! They lost!”

Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · 1h

moms waving american flags

Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · 1h

remember if we object to our ally torturing people, our other allies might think they also can't torture people, which would be bad for some reason

Romeo Kokriatski @vagrantjourno.bsky.social · 1h

Ben Gvir personally oversaw the torture of Greta Thunberg, as reported by Aftonbladet.

www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

www.aftonbladet.se

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Romeo Kokriatski @vagrantjourno.bsky.social · 1h

Ben Gvir personally oversaw the torture of Greta Thunberg, as reported by Aftonbladet.

www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

www.aftonbladet.se

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Interfaith Alliance @interfaithalliance.org · 1h

People of faith and religious leaders all over the U.S. are fired up and ready for Saturday! ❌👑

Share this graphic if you're planning to show up for #NoKings in your community.

Find a rally near you: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

Text-based poster says 10 18 2025. Keep the faith. No kings. At the top is a crown symbol with an x going through it.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1h

Greta Thunberg: “Israeli soldiers hit, kicked, starved, and tortured me”

• They placed a flag next to me, and anytime the flag touched me, they kicked me
• Whenever I raised my head to look at Ben-Gvir, I was kicked
• She was filmed while stripped naked

Aftonbladet: tinyurl.com/a33vxatc

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 2h

ICE took someone at 25th and Hamlin this morning. Masked law enforcement who won’t identify themselves throwing people into trucks and minivans every day all over Chicagoland

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 1h

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich at a religious event in Sderot: "There will be Jewish settlement in Gaza! Because without settlement there is no security… For the glory of Israel! Because it is ours."

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Christine Binzel @christinebinzel.bsky.social · 2h

Horrific testimony by Greta Thunberg

www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

www.aftonbladet.se

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Samara @samaaraa.bsky.social · 1h

„We’re going to gas you.“
It was standard for them to say that. They held up a gas cylinder and threatened to press it against us.

Christine Binzel @christinebinzel.bsky.social · 2h

Horrific testimony by Greta Thunberg

www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

www.aftonbladet.se

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Meredith Rose @mrose.ink · 2h

There's a lot to unpack in "we call it the Hate America Rally", but the biggest one is that they are panicking

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Johnson: "We call it the Hate America Rally that will happen Saturday. Let's see who shows up for that. I bet you you'll see Hamas supporters, I bet you'll see antifa types, I bet you'll see Marxists on full display, people who don't want to stand and defend the foundational truths of this republic"

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Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 4h

At a local No Kings rally near Innsmouth, Massachusetts, *every* protester showed up in an inflatable frog costume.

They must be from a different supplier than the Portland frog's costume, though. Bystanders describe the costumes as more like fish-frogs, "batrachian," with an odd, loping gait.

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Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · 3h

and he thinks this is a sick burn and is super proud of coming up with it

Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · 3h

gotta see if target is selling bitty american flags so i can add one to my sign

Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · 3h

"HAHAHAHA peasants you will be ground in the dust!" is sure a line to take if you're trying to get reelected

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Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · 3h

wait so he's saying it again? this is his carefully workshopped gotcha line?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · 3h

i notice that you're giving trump a free pass here, why would you do that? do you work for him?

Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · 3h

this is another restatement of protected but not bound--bound but not protected, isn't it

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