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@berated.bsky.social

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A pragmatic procrastinator who is technically tolerant, intensely interested and accidentally aware.

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We vote everyday with our wallets. Make good choices.

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Tim Onion

@bencollins.bsky.social

This is true. It is the best email I got this year.

I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation.

Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror...

I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes.

A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her.

Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard.

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Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.

November 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM

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Carl Quintanilla

@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

The “Home Goods” White House:

@governor.ca.gov

November 5, 2025 at 7:34 PM

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Jon of The North

@krauza.bsky.social

ONLY THE DEAD HAVE SEEN THE END OF WAR

PLATO

GREEK PHILOSOPHER 428-347 B.C.

October 30, 2025 at 10:12 PM

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@crk5.bsky.social

October 22, 2025 at 5:54 AM

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Alt National Park Service

@altnps.bsky.social

Wow! Love your creativity Ocean Beach (San Francisco)!

October 18, 2025 at 10:38 PM

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Acyn

@acyn.bsky.social

Mayor Johnson: There are those in this country that have decided, at the behest of this president, to declare war on Chicago and American cities across this country. They have clearly decided that they want a rematch of the Civil War. We will not submit to the authoritarianism that is coming down.

October 18, 2025 at 9:59 PM

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💙🩵☀️Jen Jen☀️🩵💙

@jenniferajones.bsky.social

Denver’s No Kings was a larger crowd than the last one. At least a mile of people for democracy.

October 18, 2025 at 8:19 PM

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Erin Reed

@erininthemorning.com

We showed out y'all.

Source unknown but its an aerial shot of the Missoula No Kings rally.

October 18, 2025 at 9:46 PM

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Acyn

@acyn.bsky.social

Abrams: The destination this nation was built on was a nation that sees all and serves all and stands for all. That's the destination. And yet we are living in a moment where ethno-fascists are in charge of the government…