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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 1h

avoiding eye contact with the groceries and maybe they'll put themselves away

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Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 3h

Chasing down a detail from a 1984 bill, I really wanted to ask a question of Helen Dewar, a journalist who had covered it, but she died in 2006.

Reading her entry in the Dictionary of Virginia Biography, I now want to ask this badass *all* the questions.

old.lva.virginia.gov/public/dvb/b...

Helen Dewar (7 August 1936-4 November 2006), journalist, was born in Stockton, California, and was the daughter of Herbert D. Dewar, an attorney and walnut farmer, and Gertrude Howland Dewar. She graduated from Stanford University in 1957 with a major in political science and experience reporting for the student newspaper, the Stanford Daily, of which she became editor. Dewar was a public affairs intern in 1958 at the Coro Foundation (later CORO Northern California), in San Francisco, where she learned to disregard personal emotions or biases in her reporting and focus on complex economic and human relationships. Her mentors at the foundation suggested that she employ her talents and abilities in Washington, D.C., and in 1958 she accepted a position at the Washington Post.
The staff of the Women's Section of the newspaper assigned Dewar menial tasks, and she resigned after one week to take a job covering local and state government for the Northern Virginia Sun, in Arlington County. There she had the opportunity to report on one of the most contentious issues of the day, desegregation of the public schools. In an era when many women still wore white gloves and hats to work, and unmarried women in journalism such as Dewar seldom delved into the soiled underside of Virginia politics and southern gentility, she boldly reported on the actions of officials who refused to comply with court-ordered desegregation of public schools.

In the 1990s after congressional leaders tried to ban members of the news media from loitering in the halls outside the Senate chamber, she developed what became known as the Dewar walk. Meandering along, she avoided being removed from her stakeout post and was able to interview senators and others and to get the last and sometimes best quotations before her deadlines.

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Kellaweena 🎃 @kellalena.bsky.social · 14d

“RE-PR-SENT-A-TIVE!!!”

An actor, (Drew Barrymore) from the movie Scream is yelling into the phone “representative!”

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Norm @ogskydog.com · 2d

stop being an asshole and sit with me in the pumpkin patch, charlie brown

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Julia👻BOOlia @juliagoolia9.bsky.social · 1h

This does feel like the result of being able to congregate and worsen thru online forums and the perception that conversing on them is non-public behavior in a way that wasn’t as rampant or possible in the early internet/pre-internet days.

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CrazyMyra @outonthemoors.bsky.social · 3h

Roast your chicken in the heat of battle

Medieval manuscript image of a man in full armour, with what looks like a squirrel on his helmet, riding a big, long-tailed dog of some sort. His right arm is cocked and ready to throw a spear (it looks more like a rotisserie spit) with plucked chicken impaled on it.

The illustration is of a "fox-crested knight riding a cat (allegory of gluttony)", from the Etymachia, a document made in Germany in 1420 and now housed in the Wellcome Library, London, as part of the "Wellcome Apocalypse".

(From @wellcomecollection on Insta)

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 5h

Normal Delaware place names

Google Map closeup showing the mouth of the Murderkill River by Bowers Beach in Bowers, Delaware. Running alongside the river is Murderkill Ave.

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Matthew Williams @mattheww1991.bsky.social · 12h

Hey, they've got to learn about Water Conserpation Methoos sometime.

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Mags @magsthepirate.bsky.social · 8h

The delicious irony of a (badly made) poster on water scarcity made by the water guzzling death machine. If someone wrote that, I'd say it was too on the nose.

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 12h

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

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Kansas Reflector @kansasreflector.com · 8h

Opinion by Mark McCormick: Gossip haunted Kansas man’s final days after Missouri officials made false claims | #ksleg kansasreflector.com/2025/10/15/g...

Gossip haunted Kansas man's final days after Missouri officials made false claims • Kansas Reflector

Missouri officials falsely accused Denton Loudermill Jr. in a fatal 2024 shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade. Gossip haunted his last days.

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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 3d

Inside the house, the potential serial killer, box open on the table, tries to distract himself from the voices incessantly clamoring in his head. He knows that he’s just one last tiny push away from madness.

Outside in the driveway, a cat stares at his stolen treasure, laughing quietly to himself.

A single puzzle piece sits on the ground.

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Papa Woof und Krampus und Bleaken @papawoof.bsky.social · 8h

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Kayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 6d

Needing multiple streams of income to stay afloat is a societal failure not a personal one. You should be able to afford a comfortable lifestyle with one job. You are not lazy.

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Natasha Bertrand @natashabertrand.bsky.social · 8h

NEW: How the Pentagon sidelined lawyers while testing the legal limits of military action
New details here about how the Army’s top uniformed lawyer was fired just weeks after raising concerns about the use of the military domestically and mass firings of DoD employees www.cnn.com/2025/10/15/p...