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Gambrel Buttons📚📖💙📎

@gambrelbuttons.bsky.social

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Writing, photography, I like good music, funny stuff, poetry, and random epiphanies. Follow me on Medium, there’s a link down there somewhere 👇

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Gambrel Buttons📚📖💙📎 @gambrelbuttons.bsky.social · 9h

My newest short story is now on Medium. The Spirit of Delilah.
#shortfiction
#shortstory
#fictionwriting
#writingcommunity
#Medium
#readforfree
#shortreads

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The Spirit of Delilah

The Spirit of Delilah Amanda caught her reflection in the microwave door and wanted to cry. The box dye from Food Lion had turned her hair the color of radioactive pond scum. She was thirty-two and …

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Quintessa Knight @quietblkgrl.blacksky.app · 15h

Graduated with honors from the Kelly Clarkson University of Covering Songs

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1d

Wannabe dictators always try to silence their critics. We can’t let that happen: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

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ℝ𝕖𝕓𝕖𝕝𝔹𝕝𝕦𝕖 🌊 @rebelb1ue.bsky.social · 9h

Long live power to the people

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Gambrel Buttons📚📖💙📎 @gambrelbuttons.bsky.social · 9h

My newest short story is now on Medium. The Spirit of Delilah.
#shortfiction
#shortstory
#fictionwriting
#writingcommunity
#Medium
#readforfree
#shortreads

medium.com/@GButtons/th...

The Spirit of Delilah

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 16h

My 10 year-old daughter asked me something no parent should ever hear:

"Will I get shot if I go to the No Kings Rally?"

I write this not as a partisan, but as a parent — for everyone trying to raise kids who believe in decency, truth, and democracy.

PLS READ & SHARE👇

What Our Kids Are Learning Watching Trump

A father’s reflection on fear, truth, and the lessons our children are absorbing from the loudest voice in America.

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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 20h

#NoKings

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Gambrel Buttons📚📖💙📎 @gambrelbuttons.bsky.social · 1d

Ace Freely of KISS has passed away.

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That Photo Guy @thatphotoguy.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s to the lovely people of #Bluesky, the ones that support people, interact with them, compliment them. What a fantastic ’family’ we are. We may be in different countries, but we have one thing in common, we all see the same moon.

Here’s our very own satellite - Our Moon.

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Gambrel Buttons📚📖💙📎 @gambrelbuttons.bsky.social · 2d

Definitely a big drop in engagement lately. Seeing the same posts over and over again.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 3d

I will cut adrift—I will sit on pavements and drink coffee—I will dream; I will take my mind out of its iron cage and let it swim—this fine October.

- Virginia Woolf
#Womensart

Monochrome photograph featuring a white woman sitting sideways on a patterned armchair dressed in a dark jacket and skirt and with her hand raised to her face

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Gambrel Buttons📚📖💙📎 @gambrelbuttons.bsky.social · 3d

Did I get shadow banned? Can anyone see me?

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 3d

The ICE GOONS attempted to murder a baby by hurling a gas canister at it.

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Blue Wave @votebiue.bsky.social · 4d

Even the animals aren’t safe….

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onewickedwonka.bsky.social @onewickedwonka.bsky.social · 6d

🎩 #America 🚨

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 6d

“No, Speaker Johnson — the No Kings rally on October 18 is not a hate America rally. In fact, it’s quite the contrary: It’s a love America rally.” #NoKings

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Jay @pescado70.bsky.social · 7d

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Gambrel Buttons📚📖💙📎 @gambrelbuttons.bsky.social · 8d

snoopy is holding a cup of coffee in front of a field of sunflowers and says " good morning happy friday "

ALT: snoopy is holding a cup of coffee in front of a field of sunflowers and says " good morning happy friday "

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SpudWebKam O_G_ @jagarvaken.bsky.social · 8d

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Tye Dye Terrapin @tyedyedterrapin.bsky.social · 8d

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Tori Foote @toriatheisttori.bsky.social · 8d

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Gambrel Buttons📚📖💙📎 @gambrelbuttons.bsky.social · 8d

Tsunami warning. I saw the quakes on my weather app two 7.2 and two 5.9 aftershocks.

Philippines earthquake: tsunami warning for coasts including Indonesia after 7.6 quake hits Mindanao – live updates

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Pat @pat112.bsky.social · 8d

US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport
he was moving to Europe after receiving death threats.

Getting into the US is a problem and now getting out is too

#Cdnpoli #Uspoli

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US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport

Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was cancelled

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 8d

Saying someone is a "member of antifa" is like saying someone is a "member of socialism" or something. it makes zero sense. But they can't use the ideological form of the word because it makes it too clear what the ideology actually is and it would include our grandpas

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Furious Floridian @lmh82.bsky.social · 9d

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