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skáld @danglinghemmie.bsky.social · 8h

check out this burl

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LaurenCDeutsch @laurencdeutsch.bsky.social · 16h

The next section of the #PaulPoiret exhibit was on travel- how he drew inspiration from it, as well as how he travelled to promote his designs. In this 1919 Bretonne day dress, Poiret combines embroidery from traditional folkwear in Breton, France, and the style of Slavic

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Not JPo @notjpo.bsky.social · 10h

I really pity people without kids. They have to spend their money on dumb stuff like vacations and fun

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Magic Girl Maria @bbyyaga.bsky.social · 17h

Just gotta weave in my loosies and my socks are fixed. and you can’t doom scroll if your fixing socks

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 19h

Is the Kool Aid man a cryptid?

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Magic Girl Maria @bbyyaga.bsky.social · 20h

You may notice this is completely different colors Because the other threads were fraying too much. It’s nice being able to start over and try again. one more hole until the socks are fixed

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Magic Girl Maria @bbyyaga.bsky.social · 20h

Oh this is really good. Perfect spooky book to continue October. #TheBuffaloBuffaloHunter #StephenGrahamJones #LibraryRental #Audiobooks

Screenshot of my Libby app showing I’m only two and a half hours into this book.

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demon core vidal (halloween style. bc demons are SPOOKY) @regretagarbo.rip · 21h

how do you NOT watch housewives

i just heard a grown woman, through tears, proclaim, “i don’t KNOW anybody that sells soup!”

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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 1d

Solidarity!! Last week, Indiana University fired the director of student media & halted print on the Indiana Daily Student newspaper. Yesterday, Purdue’s student paper printed the banned edition & drove two hours to deliver it. Incredible www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/l...

Purdue student journalists deliver special 'solidarity' newspaper to IU Bloomington campus

The special edition blasted across town features columns from IDS and Exponent editors, alongside QR codes to support both student papers.

www.heraldtimesonline.com

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Magic Girl Maria @bbyyaga.bsky.social · 1d

He’s right

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"Lighter May Truly Be the Bastard's Ass" - Stupid Magazine, 2025 @lighter.bsky.social · 2d

Pictured: Columbo beaming Columbo Thoughts into your head

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SIMONE 🩷 @simonee.bsky.social · 2d

it's a columbo girl autumn after all

SIMONE 🩷 @simonee.bsky.social · Sep 1

first day of September

Columbo Girl Autumn (written in orange cursive) on an edited picture of Columbo, there is clipart of orange and yellow leaves surrounding him and he is holding a pumpkin spice latte

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Magic Girl Maria @bbyyaga.bsky.social · 2d

i keep reminding myself that the jeans are already fucked up and at least now I won’t fear for my decency putting them on. #shashiko #mending

Worn-in pair of jeans with just a general idea of problem areas mapped out in green washable marker

Shashiko applied. Really trusting the process. But excited to have reinforced jeans for winter

Inside of jeans with a red patch sewn on. Def still a work in progress

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe"

Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken. How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."

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Dr. Solomon David @solomonrdavid.bsky.social · 2d

Hang out with these baby Alligator Gars for a bit; they’re eating sea monkeys (aka brine shrimp larvae)!

#GarWeek is coming November 3-7, 2025!

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Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 2d

The thing that's very obvious to me as someone who's been having really nuanced and thoughtful conversations about sex worker rights for nearly 25 years (and definitely over half my life) is that Mamdani is educated and well-equipped enough to tap dance around the press and Cuomo on this issue

Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 2d

This is actually very smart of him because decriminalization is not legalization and indeed many sex work advocates will tell you legalization is often bad and exploitative (see: Nevada brothels)

"I want to first be clear that I am not and nor have I ever called for the legalization of prostitution."
— Zohran Mamdani, Democrat candidate for mayor
This needs context.
Despite Cuomo's accusation to the contrary, Mamdani has stressed that he has never supported legalizing prostitution. That said, as a member of the State Legislature, he has repeatedly sponsored bills that would remove criminal penalties for adults 18 or older who buy or sell sex.
His campaign has indicated that he broadly supports decriminalizing sex work, but he has not said whether he still favors decriminalization legislation that he sponsored as recently as last year, while he was running for mayor. A spokeswoman for his campaign said a Mamdani administration would focus on combating sex trafficking and invest in organizations that help victims, and would "facilitate alternative career paths" for current and former sex workers.

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Krista Koeller @kristalerista.bsky.social · 2d

I’m Krista and I study how snakes and legless lizards lost their feet.

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A long lizard with tiny arms like the tips of toothpicks

Ct scans of two lizards that have no arms but do have pectoral girdles.

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 2d

hey @govpritzker.illinois.gov are you just going to pretend this isn't happening?

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 2d

Cops led us into the street as the new “protest zone” and then beat us repeatedly.

Got hit in the face with a baton. Leaving to pick up my friends who were arrested.

Stay safe out there.

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JB stan account @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 2d

You know what's interesting? When John Brown was captured, a number of prominent abolitionists (led by Thoreau) decided to sing his virtues instead of immediately denouncing his use of violence

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Magic Girl Maria @bbyyaga.bsky.social · 2d

Ugh reading the email notification AND this at exactly the same time. I guess I’m gonna depresss myself over my lunch period I guess bc that’s a sign

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Kenny Goblins @kennylogins.bsky.social · Feb 12

kenny gesserit @KennyGesserit • 2022-06-22
When people talk about hot dogs this is all I think about
[screenshot of a photo or video still of a supermarket hot dog display with an augmented reality cgi little hot dog guy with headphones on dancing on the hot dogs, with the caption “stand in the ashes of a trillion dead souls and ask the ghosts if honor matters”]

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 4d

Blue Butterflies and Star Burst Navajo Basket, by Native American master weaver Elsie Holiday #WomensArt

Photo looking down on a circular woven basket with a cental blue and white star motif with a circular border of repeated stylised angular blue butterflies

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 4d

In 2021 Afghan women started an online campaign to protest the Taliban's female dress code by posting photos of what traditional Afghan clothes look like #AfghanWomen
#WomensArt

Photo of a small standing girl facing forwardsl in a purple dress with colourful embroidered details and an embroidered cap

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 2d

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 2d

Most of these still up! www.roseschmits.com

Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 28d

Excited to have done some nice delftware pots again

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