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Catherine Berry @isomeme.bsky.social · 8h

And if I were a queen, failure to use the subjunctive mood appropriately would be a capital crime.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "The irony was that they called it the No Kings Rally, but if President Trump was a king, the government would be open. If President Trump was a king, he would've closed the nationals parks and the National Mall so they couldn't of had the rally out here."

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Catherine Berry @isomeme.bsky.social · 14h

Trump is a symptom. A healthy society would not have elected him. Nor would a healthy society tolerate and enable his abuses of power. If Trump dies tomorrow, we will still be in deep trouble as a society.

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Anne 🩵🩷🤍 [נעמי יעל] @tranniehathaway.bsky.social · 14h

Birds do it,
Bees do it,
Even educated fleas do it,
Let's do it, let's [ACTIONABLE THREAT REMOVED]

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Catherine Berry @isomeme.bsky.social · 14h

😁!!

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Catherine Berry @isomeme.bsky.social · 16h

It's not that knees fail more often than anything else. It's just that when they *do* fail, it's especially awful.

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Catherine Berry @isomeme.bsky.social · 1d

"A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit."

That may or may not be a Greek proverb. Either way, it's both true and crucially important. The future is counting on us to be strong and brave *right now*.

Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 2d

The revolution isn't a superhero coming to save us. It's a critical mass of human beings deciding to save each other.

Every day brings us closer. We might not get to see it. But SOMEONE will.

And that's enough for me.

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Sarah O’Connell @sarahoconnellshow.com · 1d

Just saw someone refer to posting on Bluesky as skeeting. Surely blooping is better? Kate blooped, Amy reblooped it, and now everyone has been blooping all day about it!

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Catherine Berry @isomeme.bsky.social · 1d

"A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit."

That may or may not be a Greek proverb. Either way, it's both true and crucially important. The future is counting on us to be strong and brave *right now*.

Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 2d

The revolution isn't a superhero coming to save us. It's a critical mass of human beings deciding to save each other.

Every day brings us closer. We might not get to see it. But SOMEONE will.

And that's enough for me.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 1d

Yes, we need an arms embargo on Israel asap. But we also need to stop selling weapons PERIOD, especially to genocidal regimes. Fuck the MIC.

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Catherine Berry @isomeme.bsky.social · 1d

As we were walking up the steps on our first visit to the British Museum, my friend turned to me and said "Proposed slogan: We looted the world and passed on the savings to you!"

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Catherine Berry @isomeme.bsky.social · 1d

That's exactly what the ladder wants you to think.

Catherine Berry @isomeme.bsky.social · 1d

And/or volume of spinach. 🙂

Catherine Berry @isomeme.bsky.social · 1d

Cool!! Some time in the late 1990s I wrote the world's most primitive gematria tool, "Achad". If you visit, you'll see it hasn't been changed since. 🙂 But it continues to get steady traffic, so apparently people still think it's useful.

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Achad - gematria engine

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Catherine Berry @isomeme.bsky.social · 1d

Yet somehow they did it with arrows and spears. And in the midst of the story, this makes perfect sense emotionally. In the end that is what matters. 3/3

Catherine Berry @isomeme.bsky.social · 1d

For example, if you think too hard about Eärendil and his crew killing the dragon Ancalagon during the War of Wrath, with the dragon's body crushing three large mountains as it fell, it makes no sense at all. A dragon that enormous wouldn't even notice if it was rammed by Vingilot at full speed. 2/3

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Catherine Berry @isomeme.bsky.social · 1d

That's one of my favorite Tolkien channels. He truly did get it. Tolkien treated magic and other fears like the Norse sagas did -- not surprising, given his academic specialty. Quantitative analysis isn't the point; it's about the flow of the narrative. 1/3

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'Gory the A'ight @gregoryaight.bsky.social · 1d

No, for real.

This young lady is great.

So happy for her.

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Sabrina Carpenter donates proceeds from ‘Short n’ Sweet’ tour to Transgender Law Center, fans praise her powerful act of support

Sabrina Carpenter has chosen the Transgender Law Center as a beneficiary of her Sabrina Carpenter Fund during the second leg of her Short n’ Sweet tour. The move highlights her growing role as both ar...

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Catherine Berry @isomeme.bsky.social · 1d

Habit?

Catherine Berry @isomeme.bsky.social · 1d

Is there a Nobel Transient and Deceptive Peace Prize?

Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 2d

Congrats to every useful idiot who praised Trump for what was never actually a peace deal.

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Israel strikes Gaza and orders halt to aid after accusing Hamas of violating ceasefire | CNN

Israel carried out several strikes on Gaza and ordered a halt to humanitarian aid after accusing Hamas of violating a US-brokered ceasefire in the first major test of the truce.

www.cnn.com

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Catherine Berry @isomeme.bsky.social · 1d

Yep! In both cases, it seems miraculous that a big unwieldy pile shrinks so much without losing anything essential. Both feel like a magic trick every time.

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Catherine Berry @isomeme.bsky.social · 1d

I'm curious whether any of my fellow programmer-cooks understood this analogy.

Catherine Berry @isomeme.bsky.social · 3d

Today in Thoughts Never Thunk Before: "Migrating code from Java to Kotlin is a lot like cooking spinach."

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Catherine Berry @isomeme.bsky.social · 3d

Today in Thoughts Never Thunk Before: "Migrating code from Java to Kotlin is a lot like cooking spinach."

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Catherine Berry @isomeme.bsky.social · 4d

See, to me that's just a big gift box filled with accounts I can block.

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Catherine Berry @isomeme.bsky.social · 4d

Or just one if you're Aztec and read it as chicnahui ozomatli. 🙃

Catherine Berry @isomeme.bsky.social · 5d

The end of a very rainy day in #LosAngeles. #Photography

An orange and grey sunset with dark, ragged clouds. A utility pole is silhouetted in the foreground.

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