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the only system i believe in is the library system. cat herder at simon & schuster; opinions my own. she/her. 🩷💜💙

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amy 🦇. @amymedeiros.bsky.social · Nov 19

i'm very attached to identifying only as a cat herder in my bio, but for the curious i am a production editor working on "serious" nonfiction at the S&S flagship imprint. and yes, i hire freelancers, including ones who work en español

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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amy 🦇. @amymedeiros.bsky.social · 18h

i like to do my grains joshua mcfadden's way instead of boiling in plain water:

a recipe from Joshua McFadden's SIX SEASONS titled "Farro."

Yield: About 2 c.

Ingredients:
EVOO
2 garlic cloves, smashed and peeled
½ tsp. chili flakes
1 c. farro
4 c. water
1 bay leaf
2 tsp. kosher salt

Method:
Heat a couple tbsp. EVOO in large skillet with lid over med. heat. Add garlic and chili flakes and toast slowly until soft, fragrant, and golden brown, ~3 mins.

Add farro and stir constantly to toast until fragrant, 3–5 mins. (or longer, as desired, for nuttier flavor)

Add water, bay leaf, and salt and bring to boil. Cover and reduce heat to simmer, 15 to 30 minutes, until farro has softened but grains haven't "exploded."

Drain and use warm. Toss with more olive oil and allow to cook if using cold.

amy 🦇. @amymedeiros.bsky.social · 18h

favorite plant-based high-protein meal: half of this recipe (gift link) with a can of drained and rinsed chickpeas added and a few tablespoons of goat cheese crumbles

cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1021...

Farro and Lentils With Jammy Onions (Published 2021)

cooking.nytimes.com

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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 22h

This is horrifying and yet explains so much www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Bryan Schott @schotthappens.com · 1d

Just so we’re clear…

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Seraph @seraphism.bsky.social · 1d

A moment to commemorate in these difficult times.

Queerazon.com @queerazon.bsky.social · 1d

On this day in queer history: Oct 14, 1977

During a live TV appearance in Iowa, anti-gay activist Anita Bryant was hit with a pie in protest of her “Save Our Children” campaign. A sweet moment of queer resistance.

#QueerHistory #LGBTQHistory #QueerResistance #AnitaBryant

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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 1d

It’s even worse. It’s reversing 400 years of Anglo-American constitutional development going back to Charles I’s personal rule when he refused to consult Parliament over spending and governance. Trump and his GOP lackeys are undoing stuff the Founders saw as fundamental to our system.

Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 1d

We are living through the most consequential shift in the constitutional government of the United States in over a hundred and fifty years and nobody seems to have even noticed yet.

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 1d

Congress no longer holds the power of the purse, the executive can just do whatever they want with federal monies

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Will BOO-rows 🖖🍞🥀 @reforest-kelley.bsky.social · 1d

A photo of three people in inflatable frog suits outside an ICE detention center in Portland, overlaid with an excerpt from 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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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

Vaccines are safe and effective.

Autism isn't caused by vaccines, and autistic people and their families deserve our support.

When you want information, ask your doctor.

It's more important than ever for all of us to speak plainly, truthfully, and directly about public health.

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 1d

AKA war supplies

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

The Portland ICE protest camp literally has a rack full of inflatable costumes for demonstrators who want to try one on...

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

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Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi @congressmanraja.bsky.social · 1d

Despite what some, including at DHS, are claiming, this video isn’t from a year ago in Chicago. It was Friday in Hoffman Estates, in my district, a street I’ve walked myself. It appears to show a child being violently detained by ICE. It’s real, and I’m demanding accountability.

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 1d

It is so easy to not be a sex pest, it is actually so much work to be a sex pest, and yet

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 1d

tom buchanan should have said this to jay gatsby

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ceej @ceej.online · Oct 27

had a paranormal experience at the haunted prison. a conjuring visit

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

The Portland ICE protest camp literally has a rack full of inflatable costumes for demonstrators who want to try one on...

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d

I am lit! UC Santa Cruz.

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2024-2025 UCSC General Catalog / Courses / LIT - Literature / Upper-Division / LIT 123C
Literature
LIT 123C History of the Essay: From Seneca to Solnit
Chronologically charts the essay's arc from the age of antiquity to the contemporary period. Considers how the genre has changed through time with attention to its form, language, and content.
Credits 5
General Education Code PR-C

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly, if granola is gonna have that many calories, just stop making it

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Miss Riss @missriss.bsky.social · 1d

Lemon Reacher is certainly a look

Don Lemon @donlemonofficial.bsky.social · 4d

I'm LIVE on Twitch: twitch.tv/donlemon

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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 1d

i cannot get over how quickly this is happening. the decline of the other two branches/ascent of the lawless executive is outpacing actual democratic decline, which is usually what precipitates executive consolidation. but in our case, the other two branches are collaborators

Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 1d

We are living through the most consequential shift in the constitutional government of the United States in over a hundred and fifty years and nobody seems to have even noticed yet.

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 1d

Congress no longer holds the power of the purse, the executive can just do whatever they want with federal monies

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Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 1d

“We’re not in politics. We’re just some guys in Virginia making good whisky. But unfortunately, we’re the victims.”

Idk man, maybe you don’t get to “not be in politics” when one side is blowing up international relationships you depend on www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/b...

Canada’s boycott America movement is hurting innocent bystanders | CNN Business

Virginia Distillery CEO Gareth Moore was bullish on his company’s American single malt whisky sales north of the border when 2025 kicked off.

www.cnn.com

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Skellyton 💀🦇 @infinitefinite.bsky.social · 1d

doing hot girl shit*

*standing in my kitchen in my underwear in the dark, eating peanut butter out of the jar with a spoon

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A Whole Damn Town! @im.a.whole.damn.town · 1d

Twin Peaks: Maddy Ferguson.

Maddy Ferguson. Twin Peaks S01E05 - The One-Armed Man.

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 1d

Next time an institution tells you how seriously it takes research misconduct, ask them if it's *this* seriously. www.bmj.com/content/297/...

In 1916 the BMJ published an article about the work done by James Shearer, an American physician working in the British Army as a sergeant (because he had no British qualification). He had described a
"delineator" which was better than x rays for portraying gunshot wounds. This caused a sensation and a lot of interest — but on investigation the work was found to have been invented. The BMJ published a retraction, but Shearer was tried by court martial and sentenced to death by firing squad.

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jordan @jordantyranny.bsky.social · 1d

FINDS THEM AND KILLS THEM

"Finds Them and Kills Them (Osh-Tisch) looked like a man, but wore women's clothing and had the heart of a woman.... she was brave and good."
― Pretty Shield

Her strength as a warrior is what earned her the name Osh-Tisch, which translates to “finds them and kills them."

Who is Osh-Tisch?
Osh-Tisch was a Apsáalooke Badé, a role within the Crow Nation that defied traditional gender norms, embodying both masculine and feminine qualities. Before colonization, Badé were deeply respected for their unique spiritual gifts, artistry, and contributions to community life.
As a Badé, Osh-Tisch carried responsibilities tied to culture, ceremony, and social balance. Their life shows how many of our nations embraced gender diversity long before Western colonial powers imposed rigid binaries.

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