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kate b.ooOooO 👻 @katebitz.bsky.social · 6h

im also upgrading the entire stadium to covered seating and slashing ticket prices. there would be a grant program for supporters group projects. this is a perfect money pit, i would never be a billionaire again.

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kate b.ooOooO 👻 @katebitz.bsky.social · 6h

purchase and switch the spokane zephyr from usl to nwsl.

doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 1d

lets say a wizard has cursed you with a lot of money. you are going to become permanently brain damaged simply by being in possession of so much money. the only way out of it is to spend a lot of money on something ridiculous and not at all useful

what would you buy to break the curse?

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kate b.ooOooO 👻 @katebitz.bsky.social · 16h

really, really glad I got to see the Black Messiah tour. and gutted that D’Angelo is gone.

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ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 16h

NEW: Houston city leaders at a press conference this morning assailed Gov. Greg Abbott's mandate to remove rainbow crosswalks, though County Attorney Christian Menefee stopped short of saying a lawsuit was coming, saying only that he's "definitely looking at it."

www.chron.com/culture/arti...

‘Overreach at its worst’: Houston leaders rally for rainbow crosswalks

"That is not the spirit of freedom we celebrate here in Texas."

www.chron.com

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kate b.ooOooO 👻 @katebitz.bsky.social · 16h

this from @pareene.bsky.social continues to unfortunately be one of the most prescient pieces written in the last decade www.splinter.com/charlottesvi...

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kate b.ooOooO 👻 @katebitz.bsky.social · 1d

honestly, ok, let me have several conversations with meta bot about how i only buy 100% cotton shirts and see if that does something for my shopping search results

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audie verde @audieverde.bsky.social · 1d

I have been watching the devastating videos from friends and colleagues. Some folks are still missing in cold waters. The few news and info sources for locals are also the same ones being cut by federal funding. People should know this is happening

KTOO Public Media @ktoopublicmedia.bsky.social · 1d

The U.S. Coast Guard commander for Western Alaska compared the devastation in Southwest Alaska villages over the weekend to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

(From @alaskapublic.org)

Officials say storm 'completely devastated' Western Alaska communities

A Coast Guard commander recounts scenes of Alaskans swimming in floodwaters in the middle of the night, in search of debris to hold onto.

www.ktoo.org

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 1d

"You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you."

- Miss Major, 2023 💔

One of the things I hear with some younger trans people I know is they feel, "I'm gonna get this surgery, and I'm gonna learn that way of speaking, and I'm gonna be done." You're never done. If you're a straight, cisgender person, you're never done. Things are always happening that have the potential to change you. So all I am today is not who I'm gonna be tomorrow, because of the things that happened to me today and later tonight. People forget that. "Oh, after I transition, I'm gonna be through." Well, good luck with that. 'Cause if you're through, then it's time to leave, you know, and I don't wanna go anywhere yet.
I'm in my seventies. Why didn't I stop? Number one is community. My gurls. I've had moments of thinking about stopping, but I didn't. I made sure I would step back, reju- venate myself, and then got back out there, and that's how you make a way. Our stories are not all the same, but the destination is: to get some place where we have some peace and harmony, and we can be at ease with ourselves and the people around us. You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you.

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kate b.ooOooO 👻 @katebitz.bsky.social · 1d

your job is only ever as real as conditions around you make it. either every job is real, or every job is fake, and anyone whose family has worked in ag in living memory knows that “farmer” is not an exception to that.

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kate b.ooOooO 👻 @katebitz.bsky.social · 1d

50 years ago it was 1975, meaning that old-timey manly farmer had about 4 good years left being a paper millionaire before record farm bankruptcies most likely wiped his entire operation out

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

it's incredibly telling that Sam Altman reaches for "farmer, but not a modern farmer, an old-timey manly farmer" as someone holding the archetypal Real Job, instead of, say, "underpaid, almost certainly female modern childcare worker."

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

don't worry, Sam Altman is confident that his efforts to eliminate vast numbers of jobs will all just sort of work out for the unemployed, eventually, possibly after they starve to death, which is technically a form of having it work out

futurism.com/artificial-i...

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Jesse Mermell @jessemermell.bsky.social · 2d

He is 13. A 7th grader w/ a pending asylum case. Being held more than 500 miles from home & housed w/ adults. He called his mom crying, & reported that he’s sleeping on concrete w/ an aluminum blanket.

How is this anything other than sick & shameful? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Long Lead @longlead.com · 1d

On Thursday, a Chicago judge temporarily blocked federal agents from firing rubber bullets and other nonlethal munitions at protesters outside of an ICE processing facility. The move comes after federal agents “indiscriminately” fired on protesters.

📷: Raphael Gaillarde / Gamma-Rapho / Getty

An officer handles bean-bag rounds at the Port of Oakland protest on April 7, 2003, in Oakland, Calif. Fifty-eight people were injured when police used less-lethal munitions including wooden dowels, pellets, and tear gas canisters at the anti–Iraq War protest.

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Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: News organizations including the @washingtonpost.com, @nytimes.com, @theatlantic.com, and @cnn.com said their reporters will NOT sign the Pentagon's restrictive press policy. Outlets said that the policy infringes on their First Amendment rights. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Prominent news outlets reject Pentagon rules before signing deadline

The Washington Post and other major news outlets have refused to sign the Defense Department’s restrictive new press policy, citing First Amendment concerns.

www.washingtonpost.com

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 2d

Has your library banned Banned Books Week events/displays this year? I want to hear about it. I had thought I'd get 2-3 responses but, y'all, we're at over 20 at this point.

All anonymous. It will be used for a story in the near future. Survey closes 10/17.

docs.google.com/forms/d/1n65...

Black text on a red and black background. It reads "Has your library banned events, displays, talks, or anything else related to banned books week this year? Share your story anonymously." It includes the survey link: https://tinyurl.com/banning-bbw-25

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ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 1d

New: Did you know that George Floyd went to Jack Yates High School in Houston's Third Ward? The area's city council member is sounding the alarm that a tribute to Floyd might be removed as part of the Texas rainbow crosswalk crackdown.

www.chron.com/culture/arti...

New Texas road policy could destroy Houston's George Floyd tribute

Other roadside memorials may be impacted by the rule targeting rainbow crosswalks.

www.chron.com

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

yeah man, trans reporters, whom the ny times derogatorily calls "trans activists" so that normies won't listen to them, have been reporting on ADF activity in the UK since 2018.

bigotry in journalism makes you late to the story.

Max Colbert @mc00.bsky.social · 1d

Really important NYT investigation finds that the ADF has been working with Reform, 'courting the party since at least 2024' and that the British arm 'orchestrated Mr Farage’s appearance in Congress, reaching out to ask if he would like to give evidence on censorship'
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.

www.nytimes.com

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 1d

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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damned soul-o-man @dansolomon.com · 1d

one of the most self-destructive beliefs people in political movements often hold is that people on the other side of things could not possibly hold actual conviction or be as determined and sincere in their motives as they, The Good Guys, are

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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kate b.ooOooO 👻 @katebitz.bsky.social · 2d

if i could somehow have a kale tomato??? an eggplant bok choy? ok bring on the end of days

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kate b.ooOooO 👻 @katebitz.bsky.social · 2d

there’s a tech won’t save us episode that convinced me this is an absolutely horrible thing to do to sports fans and to sports itself. including pro athletes who now have more opportunities to make the poor decision of betting on their own games! techwontsave.us/episode/216_...

How Sports Betting Is Fueling Gambling Addiction w/ Alex Shephard - Tech Won’t Save Us

techwontsave.us

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LEFT COAST RIGHT WATCH @lcrw.bsky.social · 4d

NEW from LCRW: @azrww.bsky.social covers a Phoenix-area neo-Nazi AI slop-poster obsessed with Goyim Defense League agitprop who's facing charges for threatening a local synagogue.

COURT RECORDS: GOYIM DEFENSE LEAGUE FANBOY ARRESTED FOR THREATS ON SYNAGOGUE | Left Coast Right Watch

A Phoenix area neonazi fan of the Goyim Defense League is set for a hearing next month after being arrested for threatening to target a local synagogue

leftcoastrightwatch.org

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kate b.ooOooO 👻 @katebitz.bsky.social · 3d

frogs and masks, who knew these two things could signify so many different things within a decade

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 4d

That TikTok account has a few fake videos of reporters getting detained. They make these videos because it’s a big story in the news. Real reporters are getting arrested. And so people are making AI videos to get engagement on TikTok.

dontbeonline • 1d ago
Journalist gets detained while doing her job #ForYou, #viral, #foryoupage, #tikto... more
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 4d

CHICAGO: REBUILD is providing therapy to folks detained by ICE. Please feel free to let people know.

findmeatherapist.org

Find Me A Therapist

findmeatherapist.org

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