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Abby Jane 🌙 🏳️‍⚧️ @abbyjane.cloverdalelane.com · 7d

I’ve decided on the double name. Abby Jane. No worries if you call me Abby. I’ll answer. But this feels like coming home to the kind of name the women before me had.

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Abby Jane 🌙 🏳️‍⚧️ @abbyjane.cloverdalelane.com · 8h

Lol @ Dodgers

Abby Jane 🌙 🏳️‍⚧️ @abbyjane.cloverdalelane.com · 8h

I don't think anyone understands how angry I am to this day that the same man invented leaded gas and CFCs. Like, fuck that guy.

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Abby Jane 🌙 🏳️‍⚧️ @abbyjane.cloverdalelane.com · 8h

"Oh by the way, this is just a side note. He's also known for 'destroying the fucking world'."

Abby Jane 🌙 🏳️‍⚧️ @abbyjane.cloverdalelane.com · 8h

Just go listen to this. @natedimeo.bsky.social, as always, hits it out of the park.

Butterflies - the memory palace

Music* Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth’s Modesty Blaise score.* First up is “Adultere bourgeoise,” a piece from Paul Misraki’s score to A Double tour.* Then we’ve got a piec...

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Abby Jane 🌙 🏳️‍⚧️ @abbyjane.cloverdalelane.com · 8h

And seriously. Fuck that guy. He caused a hole in the ozone layer. And millions, hundreds of millions of people were exposed to lead.

I hope he's burning in hell too.

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Abby Jane 🌙 🏳️‍⚧️ @abbyjane.cloverdalelane.com · 8h

What a perfect paragraph.

Thomas Midgley Jr. (1889–1944) was an American engineer and chemist who contracted polio at age 51, leaving him severely disabled. He devised an elaborate system of ropes and pulleys to help others lift him from bed. He became entangled in the ropes and died of strangulation at the age of 55. However, he is better known for two of his other inventions: the tetraethyl lead (TEL) additive to gasoline, and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs).

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Abby Jane 🌙 🏳️‍⚧️ @abbyjane.cloverdalelane.com · 8h

A couple of fingers of whiskey is on the menu.

Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 9h

Every news outlet is refusing to sign Pete Hegseth's reporting restrictions at the Pentagon, and @status.news has learned that includes his former employer, Fox News. Details and more in tonight's newsletter: www.status.news/p/pentagon-p...

The Safe Space Secretary

Pete Hegseth built his career on Fox News mocking "snowflakes." Now, Status has learned, his former employer and others are rejecting his efforts to build a safe space around the Pentagon.

www.status.news

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 17h

"The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments were expressly crafted to grant Black people equal rights as citizens in a democratic society. The Court is preparing to use those very Amendments to deny those rights instead."

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Abby Jane 🌙 🏳️‍⚧️ @abbyjane.cloverdalelane.com · 10h

Jesus.

Fragments of 2003 Cable Detail Torture in a Secret C.I.A. Prison

www.nytimes.com

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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 12h

Breaking: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, the legendary transgender activist and veteran of the Stonewall uprising who dedicated her life to the liberation of trans people, especially Black trans women, has died at 78.

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Abby Jane 🌙 🏳️‍⚧️ @abbyjane.cloverdalelane.com · 12h

True. But I think they're still pissed at the booth in Birmingham. They ain't gonna be sober for the next few weeks.

Abby Jane 🌙 🏳️‍⚧️ @abbyjane.cloverdalelane.com · 12h

Which SEC school you think will jump on this first. I think Florida or Bama.

Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 12h

After getting zero firm commitments to this point from the first nine invitees, the Trump administration is extending its proposed compact to all colleges. Expect some red-state publics to say yes.

Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT

The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in re...

www.bloomberg.com

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 22h

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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Abby Jane 🌙 🏳️‍⚧️ @abbyjane.cloverdalelane.com · 12h

It's called dummymandering.

Abby Jane 🌙 🏳️‍⚧️ @abbyjane.cloverdalelane.com · 13h

They're making a lot of districts tighter than before. Even a +5D could be catastrophic for them.

Abby Jane 🌙 🏳️‍⚧️ @abbyjane.cloverdalelane.com · 13h

I'm glad they're not listening but this is going to backfire against Republicans in the midterms. It could turn a mild setback into a wave election.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 15h

BREAKING: North Carolina Republicans announce plans to vote on a new U.S. House map as a nationwide redistricting battle unfolds.

North Carolina GOP announce plans to vote on new House map amid nationwide redistricting battle

North Carolina Republican legislative leaders say they will vote next week on redrawing the state’s U.S.

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Abby Jane 🌙 🏳️‍⚧️ @abbyjane.cloverdalelane.com · 13h

Fiona Apple "Across the Universe"

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️ @sophianyx.bsky.social · 15h

Without saying Hurt, fav Cover Song?

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Abby Jane 🌙 🏳️‍⚧️ @abbyjane.cloverdalelane.com · 13h

If there is a hell, I hope Thomas Hardy is in the deepest pits of it.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 22h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

Abby Jane 🌙 🏳️‍⚧️ @abbyjane.cloverdalelane.com · 16h

The song just grates on me like rubbing styrofoam together.

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Abby Jane 🌙 🏳️‍⚧️ @abbyjane.cloverdalelane.com · 16h

Requiem is on my list of "Never Will I Ever Watch Again". Ugh.

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Abby Jane 🌙 🏳️‍⚧️ @abbyjane.cloverdalelane.com · 16h

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you'll never watch again, and one song you can't stand

Guacamole
The Deer Hunter
Queen's "Bicycle Race"

God I hate that fucking song.

Lexi’s Chainsaw Massacre @surrealhousewife.bsky.social · 17h

"Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you'll never watch again, and one song you can't stand"

Balut
Gummo
Ordinary by Alex Warren

ᚇᚐᚏᚉᚅᚓᚄᚄ ᚋᚐᚅᚔᚃᚓᚄᚈᚓᚇ @ciara2001.bsky.social · 17h

"Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you'll never watch again, and one song you can't stand"

Pickled anything
Nosferatu (2024)
My Heart Will Go On

Abby Jane 🌙 🏳️‍⚧️ @abbyjane.cloverdalelane.com · 16h

The job rejection emails are starting to arrive. Not fun. Not fun at all.

Abby Jane 🌙 🏳️‍⚧️ @abbyjane.cloverdalelane.com · 17h

Wait, I thought we have a mental health crisis, not a gun crisis. 🤔

Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 2d

EXCLUSIVE: The Trump administration has laid off more than 100 employees at the nation's primary mental health agency.

www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Trump slashes mental health agency as shutdown drags on

Sources tell NPR that more than 100 employees have been laid off at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Agency. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had some cuts reversed late Saturday.

www.npr.org

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june 🧛‍♀️ @juneever.green · 17h

people love to conflate “men are an oppressor class” with “men are ontologically evil”

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Abby Jane 🌙 🏳️‍⚧️ @abbyjane.cloverdalelane.com · 17h

Uh @jordantyranny.bsky.social have you seen these?