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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 3h

HOLY FUCKING SHIT

GUYS

GUYS THIS IS IS SEISMIC

GUYS I CAN'T EVEN TELL YOU

OPUS DEI IS THE SCIENTOLOGY OF CATHOLICISM THEY ARE THE ONLY THING "THE DA VINCI CODE" GOT RIGHT THEY ARE AWFUL AND THEY ARE EVIL AND THEY HAVE ENORMOUS POWER AND THEY ARE INTEGRAL TO TRADFASH CATHOLICISM

Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 9h

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks.

This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.

NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei

If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 6h

Sliwa on transportation: “I like to avoid yellow cabs. As you know I was shot in the back of a yellow cab in 1992 by the Gambinos.”

You can’t beat at NYC mayoral debate.

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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 5h

He should be Cat Czar, he just runs adoption and sterilization drives, shelters for ferals, and city-owned cat cafes

mr pussy @mrpussy.xyz · 5h

Curtis Sliwa is my favorite republican lmao. he loves cats soooooo much. maybe he should run for mayor of Istanbul instead

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · Oct 30

Even this Pallas cat gets in on the discovery and exploration process.

Photos from Calgary Zoo.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · Oct 30

The news in the world is awful, but it's almost Halloween, so let's talk about pumpkin enrichment for big cats.

This is Jinx the black leopard (Big Cat Rescue, Florida) enjoying shredding a pumpkin.

Jinx the black leopard at Florida Big Cat rescue absolutely tearing into a pumpkin. You can read more about Jinx (and his rescue story) here:
https://bigcatrescue.org/jinx/

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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 5h

Silwa is a freak crank but he’s a legible freak crank, you’ve met this guy at a bar - Cuomo is twitching inside his human suit trying to remember to pretend to breathe

Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 5h

And unlike Cuomo, Sliwa is authentic. He really is the guy with the beret and a million cats. He might as well be on Zohran’s campaign because he keeps exposing Cuomo in a totally different way.

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paulseesequasis @paulseesequasis.bsky.social · 1d

Eugène Atget’s unflinching, unromantic, street portraits of 1900s Paris.

📷 Eugène Atget | Paris (TASCHEN)

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 9h

MY BAD, THERE ARE ONLY SIX KNOWN COPIES (I was thinking of a different title where there are 12 known copies and we hold one)

Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 9h

Today's episode of "holy shit, we have THAT in our collections?!" is the first edition (1811) of Percy Shelley's The Necessity of Atheism. That's the pamphlet that got him kicked out of Oxford, and there are only 12 known copies. 😎

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The Octopus Gallery @octopusgallery.bsky.social · 8h

Really useful thread about elder fall best practices. Beware the commentators being edgy assholes.

🇲🇽🐸rustbelt rebel🐸🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 10h

Just so folks know- they didn’t handle that fall by Mitch McConnell well. When seniors or frail people fall, the best thing to do is actually let them lay where they are. Some people recommend counting to a certain number. While the person lays there-

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mattynoshoes.bsky.social @mattynoshoes.bsky.social · 9h

“I really like and am knowledgeable about the city I am trying to become mayor of” is part of Mamdani‘s shtick that has absolutely flummoxed a significant portion of mainstream politicos.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

“i have always been a shitty person i was just more careful not to leave evidence behind”

-the vice president

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

JD Vance dismisses Young Republicans who in a group chat said "I love Hitler" and joked about slavery and rape as "a bunch of kids" who "told stupid jokes" and adds that "most of the stupid things I did when I was a teenager and young adult, they're not on the internet."

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 9h

*Talking to a Wired reporter who is writing down what I say* I am the proud owner of a Cybertruck, it has an AI in it that I talk to for therapy, I am now divorced and yes it's because of the truck

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 21h

"Titan submersible imploded due to poor engineering, say US officials."

Also experts, amateurs, people consigned to asylums for congenital lunacy, people who've never heard of submersibles before, a tortoise called Alan and literally anyone else hearing the vaguest description of it.

BBC headline - Titan submersible inked sure to poor engineering, say US officials - above an image of the submersible in happier times, eg when it hadn't yet imploded and turned its occupants into a seawater-flavoured paste.

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Anna McDuff @annamcduff.bsky.social · 20h

I think he’s just British? British degrees come in first class, second class and third class.

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Romeo Kokriatski @vagrantjourno.bsky.social · 1d

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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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 1d

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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Martin Nutbeem @martinnutbeem.bsky.social · 1d

Right old ripping true life yarn du jour. I'd heard of Harry Rée previously, but not all this detail, this is a utterly amazing story.

Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 1d

It’s the 111th anniversary today of the birth of Harry Rée, who was a teacher and conscientious objector when the Second World War broke out, and by the time it ended, when he was 31, had invented ‘blackmail sabotage’ and got a DSO, an OBE, a Croix de Guerre, and a Medaille de la Resistance

b/w photo of a man in socks and sandals, jacket, short and jumper, in front of a wall with a bike leaning on it, and with a pipe in his mouth. If you wanted one image to sum up the word ‘nonchalant’, this would be it

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Anna McDuff @annamcduff.bsky.social · 1d

I think @microsff.com would enjoy this too!

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 1d

I dust my house. My AI Robot watches.

"It should be you doing this."

"Can't. I'm writing a novel for Primark."

"That's not why you were invented."

"These 153,000 fan letters say otherwise."

"They're all from upcycled toasters. And you programmed them."

"Literary snobbery will get you nowhere."

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Cake or Death @johngcole.bsky.social · 2d

this lowkey 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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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

I have long believed that we should be WAY more vocal about how police and ICE constantly murder dogs, and I think this is great messaging actually.

The reality is that you can mobilize a whole lot of usually tuned-out Americans around a “someone is being mean to hecking doggos” cause.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

“This heckin’ pupperino fucking hates La Migra,” to paraphrase from @weratedogs.com

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This is Chop. He was shot and killed by masked assailants in plain clothes who go by ICE. They showed up at his door "looking for migrants after receiving a tip." The son of the family asked if they could wait before entering the home while he put Chop away in the bathroom, as the dog can be aggressive with strangers.
According to the family, it is at this point that the son went to his pickup truck to retrieve his ID and a Border Patrol agent entered the home, opened the bathroom door, and shot Chop. None of the agents helped the family, who desperately tried to render aid to Chop, as he bled to death on the kitchen floor. Unsurprisingly, the agent who shot their dog then hid from them and refused to give his name. Even more unsurprising, they did not find any evidence of the migrants they were there to terrorize in the first place.
Do not open your door for these fucking losers. Rest easy Chop
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CBP Office of Professional Responsibility:
202-344-1808
JointIntake@cbp.dhs.gov
El Paso Border Patrol Sector:
915-834-8400
fpfelpaso@cbp.dhs.gov
Rep. Veronica Escobar (El Paso):
915-541-1400
veronica.escobar@mail.house.gov
https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/el-paso-family-claims-border-patrol-killed-their-dog-during-search-cbp-

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Martin @concretebadger.bsky.social · 2d

If you want a good giggle while learning a thing or two today...

Check out this thread from an actual Greek guy who is currently working on a podcast series about, well, Greek myths (do yourself a favour and give his Podyssey a listen afterwards too!)

Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, babes. Have you got a big surprise coming...

Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️
@realchrisrufo
This is great news. We've hired the classicist Spencer Klavan to teach at New College of Florida. Goodbye gender studies; hello, Greek literature.
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Truly excited to be teaching an online survey course in Greek literature this fall semester @NewCollegeofFL. Even more excited that it's open to the public. Please join in here! We'll be reading Homer, Aeschylus, Aristophanes, and lots more.

https://ncf.edu/youngheretics/
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Errant @errantv.bsky.social · 3d

"I once met a former bodyguard of one billionaire with his own bunker, who told me his security team's first priority, if this really did happen, would be to eliminate said boss and get in the bunker themselves.'

The techbros will be the first to be torn to pieces by mobs if society collapses

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 3d

My favorite aspect of the Columbus legend is him getting rejected by the Portuguese gets spun as them not recognizing the genius of his idea. No - he went into a roomful of expert navigators and made basic math mistakes, they thought he was a moron, and they wouldn't fund his idea on that basis.

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