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@whetstone.bsky.social

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I live in Colorado, have mad fits of creativity followed by periods of somnolence, and am charmed by snakes. She/her, or whatever. Signal: whetstone.54

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🪦 @whetstone.bsky.social · Nov 14

solidarity that doesn’t include disabled and vulnerable people is not, in fact, solidarity

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🪦 @whetstone.bsky.social · 3h

I just drove a loop through the Four Corners and I’m pretty sure I went right past that place in Northern NM.

🪦 @whetstone.bsky.social · 7h

this may be the most landscapey landscape jasper i’ve ever seen

WingsNDNSilver @wingsndnsilver.bsky.social · 7h

Today's featured work is a cuff bracelet called "Wildlands Medicine": wingssilverwork.com/wildlands-me....

Sterling silver; landscape jasper.

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🪦 @whetstone.bsky.social · 8h

weird al and weird alf

🪦 @whetstone.bsky.social · 8h

if i didn’t already know a bunch of newbies had just arrived i‘m pretty sure this image with no other context would nevertheless have clued me in

Sage Divinorum 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · 9h

thats right

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12h

When this regime is over and buried, I don't want to hear about oh it's not worth the money or it's too petty to worry about. The order to bulldoze this illegal and unconstitutional monstrosity should be signed on Day 1.

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 15h

Exclusive: More than three dozen organizations and individuals are expected to attend a dinner with Trump on Wednesday after opening their checkbooks to support a $250 million White House ballroom.

Trump Invites Ballroom Donors to Glitzy White House Dinner

The dinner is set to include representatives from Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Meta Platforms, Alphabet’s Google, Amazon and Palantir Technologies.

on.wsj.com

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · Nov 9

this will save lives

a dialog box called "Send reply?". the text reads: 14 other users made the same joke. The two buttons are "Send" and "Do Better," with "Do Better" as the default button.

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 10h

It’s apple picking season so I am required to share this incorrect but humorous review of Stayman Winesap apples with you

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · Apr 24

Me: Stayman Winesap apples are so good, can’t wait to pick them again in the fall 🍎 💕

Apple Rankings:

Wrap a damp tee ball in an old t-shirt and you will begin to experience the masochistic horror that is the Stayman Winesap Apple. Each jaw-breaking bite is taken on the chin like a punch from Apollo Creed, and then followed by an interesting wine-like flavor that is most likely comprised of 40% tooth blood. The semi-tart wallop bellowing forth from this tank-fruit is absorbed by a hardened cloth-like skin that drapes down your neck like a swallowed roll of used medical gauze. Discovered in Leavenworth County, Kansas in 1866 by Dr. Joseph Stayman as a seedling of the Winesap Apple, for some reason the apple world (helmed by the Stark Bros.) quickly deemed this new cultivar as worthy of national attention. It must be assumed that anything outside of the murder fields of Gettysburg was welcome in this troublesome post Civil War era.

🏅 #5 RANKED CIDER APPLE

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🪦 @whetstone.bsky.social · 8h

you actually need to google “nazi twitter doxxing ring”

🪦 @whetstone.bsky.social · 8h

omg

🪦 @whetstone.bsky.social · 8h

another Nazi Twitter Meltdown is happening so it might be eternal september instead of bots, idk

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Big Demon Energy @mayawest.online · 14h

If you're on SNAP and you need help, add your links below so I can boost them.

If you're not on SNAP, please share the replies and donate if you're able.

Link's not around so we do what we can, right?

☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 14h

SNAP runs out in a couple of weeks

Cao Cao Power Hour Enthusiast @statsboyandi.bsky.social · 14h

Everyone’s talking about Milpay, but reminder that USDA is currently using excess 25 funds to pay for WIC and School Lunch. They say they have like maybe a month of that left.

Red States are going to lose their fucking minds if they can’t draw those soon.

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🪦 @whetstone.bsky.social · 8h

i keep meaning to make a brown butter fat-washed rum so i can have the hot buttered rum without the oil slick, because the taste is amazing but i prefer the mouthfeel of a toddy

absolutely love butter just not floating on a drink

🪦 @whetstone.bsky.social · 8h

I’m not sure what we need to do now to put the fear of god in our leaders, but it isn‘t matching turnout at marches. It‘s some other thing to demonstrate what they did: not simple numbers, but their commitment and the strength of their bonds with each other.

🪦 @whetstone.bsky.social · 9h

The achievements of the civil rights movement are different to comprehend in modern context. They were working with pen and paper, newspapers, and wired telephones.

To turn out so many was proof of deep commitment and tight social networks. Terrifying stuff.

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🪦 @whetstone.bsky.social · 9h

Basically both the cost to the organizers and the stakes for me are both lower to turn out my body into the streets. It’s worth doing but it doesn’t represent both deep real world social ties and the willingness to sacrifice materially to show up.

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🪦 @whetstone.bsky.social · 9h

Modern mass demonstrations are trivially easy to both organiz and attend, by comparison. The masses on the mall clearly represented the tip of a terrifying iceberg. Whereas I will march Saturday but I know about it because of social media and I can literally walk there.

🪦 @whetstone.bsky.social · 9h

It’s probably possible to quantify the achievements of the civil rights movement somehow, to get a better comparison of what kind of strength the million man march represented in modern terms, but it sure as heck isn’t a headcount.

Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 9h

Seeing people say that "by the numbers" Stancil is right about No Kings being bigger than the civil rights mvt. But no. That's not how any of this works.

It's like saying I'm a bigger organizer than Greta Thunberg because I'm taller. It's not technically true, it's just stupid.

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bonque, ben @kwstzhaderbonch.bsky.social · 3d

I should mention that I appreciate this framing from a Christian. It's a fantastic example of calling out the problem without demonizing anyone who isn't the ancient equivalent of a Musk or Pinochet.

Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 3d

Many of us grew up in the church being taught to root for Moses, Daniel, and John the Baptist in the Bible, only to grow up and have our churches question our faith for not cheering on the Pharaohs, Nebuchadnezzars, and Herods in our world today.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 9h

Happy 9 years to this, the most prescient analysis from the 2016 election.

medium.com/@cd_hooks/st...

The overriding sense I’ve had this election is that despite Trump, and despite many bad years in Congress, the center-left hasn’t fully grappled with the meaning and consequences of the wave of reaction that has gripped the country since 2009. We don’t live anymore in a country with a ruling party and a loyal opposition.

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🪦 @whetstone.bsky.social · 13h

this thread is fascinating. food for thought, although interrupting the cycle it describes sounds pretty thorny.

tempus fuck it @tempusfuckit.bsky.social · 20h

I have been thinking about the role shame plays for the radicalization of Republicans a lot lately too but in a very different way. I believe for some people, feeling shame causes them to further entrench into illiberal, authoritarian beliefs. This came from an experience at a local town hall.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 22h

"And yet Táíwò’s own position misses something fundamental about the world we now inhabit. Shame does not operate in a vacuum...today, the sturdy ground that once formed shame’s foundation has collapsed."

Helpful response by @eric-reinhart.com in @newrepublic.com

newrepublic.com/article/2015...

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 19h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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🪦 @whetstone.bsky.social · 15h

that flag is an obscenity

my uncle who fought in WWII would be apoplectic

🪦 @whetstone.bsky.social · 15h

to a nation starved for good news.... a light in the darkness, a balm on the wound, and god willing, onigiris for the hungry

🪦 @whetstone.bsky.social · 15h

always a huge relief when i run across things i'm Not Online Enough to get

🪦 @whetstone.bsky.social · 1d

absolutely beautifully captured iridescence

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