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Hotsie🎀Tozzi

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Maker of soft things. Hard as hell. I love you.

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Hotsie🎀Tozzi @hotsietozzi.bsky.social · Oct 22

Got kicked out of the liberry again cuz a couple people complained about my therapy goose Insane Willie.

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Snopes @snopes.com · 42m

✅ Yes, a 2002 photo shows 22-year-old Chauntae Davies, an accuser of Jeffrey Epstein, giving former President Bill Clinton a shoulder massage:

Is This a Real Photo of Epstein Accuser Chauntae Davies Giving Bill Clinton a Shoulder Massage?

Davies was allegedly only 22 at the time.

www.snopes.com

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 2d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Phantom Deeks 🫶 @deeks549.bsky.social · 4d

Not everyone gets it. I actually prefer it that way

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 3d

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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Corduroy Cheddar @corduroycheddar.bsky.social · 8d

This cat

Portrait (1986) by Theo Daamen of Dutch poet Gerrit Komrij with a particurarly disgruntled cat

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Hotsie🎀Tozzi @hotsietozzi.bsky.social · 8d

A completed vintage latch hook rug kit from 1980. The motif is Santa Claus’ head on a solid green background

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Grant Tanaka @granttanaka.bsky.social · Feb 3

can’t believe I have to say this again, but if you find me unconscious beneath a freeway overpass, please leave me alone, that’s MY time

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 9d

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a new mRNA vaccine that has been shown to suppress abnormal blood vessel growth in the retina, offering hope to MILLIONS of patients with age-related vision loss. The vaccine triggered strong antibody responses that REDUCED retinal damage by UP TO 85%.

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competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 11d

wizard frog is insane

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 11d

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have made a HUGE breakthrough towards a UNIVERSAL antiviral. By targeting sugar molecules found on the surface of many viruses that SHARE structural similarities, they identified FOUR compounds that successfully BLOCKED infections from SEVEN different viruses.

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Hotsie🎀Tozzi @hotsietozzi.bsky.social · 13d

¡GORGEOUS!

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Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 13d

Today’s fashion tip is to un-earnest your outrage.

#MJMfashionGuide

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Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 14d

Thank you, Jane Goodall, for showing us a way.

Jane Goodall, with binoculars, in forest.

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welcometoyourdoom.bsky.social @welcometoyourdoom.bsky.social · 14d

#october #spoopy

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 19d

A point that needs to be made explicitly: Jimmy Kimmel faced down Donald Trump and won. Period.

“Trump can talk tough, puff out his chest and act like he’s an unstoppable force. But he’s not. Money talks. The masses talk, and they matter.”

My column:

www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

Kimmel won, proving the people have power. And they're not on Trump's side. | Opinion

Regarding Jimmy Kimmel's brief suspension, I haven't seen enough people stating the obvious: The comedian won. Bigly. Donald Trump lost. Also bigly.

www.usatoday.com