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Kolya Flower @kolyaflower.bsky.social · 6h

hard times in Toronto today

bad enough the Jays lost although at least there's a dignity in being bested by the Mariners, but the Leafs? Losing to these (my beloved) Red Wings? A second time in a row? And at home? On Thanksgiving??

Kolya Flower @kolyaflower.bsky.social · 7h

love a man with the confidence to spread in the frank frazetta pussy cloth

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Kolya Flower @kolyaflower.bsky.social · 12h

This Red Wings - Leafs game is running at 80% speed, fellas all logy from whatever Canadians eat at their Thanksgiving

Kolya Flower @kolyaflower.bsky.social · 18h

reporting ads for harry potter candles as hate speech because i hate that hp is still a thing

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone knows at least one person (normally, but not exclusively, a guy) whose gone properly mental due to net rabbit holes.

We see public figures regularly go mad and destroy themselves.

And we have, at a policy level, just decided to put our fingers in our ears and go nahnahnah

Alastair Meeks @alastairmeeks.bsky.social · 1d

Last night I heard of another friend of a friend who has been lost to a rabbit hole of online propaganda. We need to start treating this as a serious public health concern.

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Kolya Flower @kolyaflower.bsky.social · 1d

update: we played "Orinoco Flow" on repeat for immersion in The Horrors

Lesbian Death Bed: The Bed that Eats Pussy @bitterkarella.bsky.social · 28d

this book club is gonna be so lit 🔥

Kolya Flower @kolyaflower.bsky.social · 28d

as the benevolent dictatrix of a small book club, I've assigned @bitterkarella.bsky.social's Moonflow which I'm sure will be a fun and normal time for us all

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Kolya Flower @kolyaflower.bsky.social · 1d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Physician designed study, analysis

Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 1d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

New library catalogue website.

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 4d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump administration has promoted the anti-vax, anti-science movement which has now produced an epidemic www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks

At least 270 unvaccinated kids are staying home from school as measles continues to spread nationwide. "Expect more," one expert said.

www.nbcnews.com

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 2d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Kolya Flower @kolyaflower.bsky.social · 3d

ah lord, they know this man has less than 90 days remaining on his clock and are aiming to take out two vaccines with him

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d

Trump got a Covid vaccine today.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 3d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Kolya Flower @kolyaflower.bsky.social · 3d

this was the Red Wings home opener last night and I turned it off after the second period

there is probably no lesson in that for anyone

A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 3d

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

Kolya Flower @kolyaflower.bsky.social · 3d

Ramona and Genghis believe in fatness, density

A chubby tabby cat and a fat grey and white cat in a fluffy pink pet bed

Kolya Flower @kolyaflower.bsky.social · 3d

partner is off to help his trumpiest friend with a flat and I'm like, So you are telling me that this Alpha Male needs a Liberal Cuck to come change his damn tire?? such raw masculine energy, I am overcome

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 4d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 4d

Every senator who voted to confirm RFK, Jr. should get kicked in the stomach every single time he makes the news.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 5d

The question isn’t whether ICE has become secret police or its functioning legally within very bad law. Very bad law made it possible for form secret police.

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Kolya Flower @kolyaflower.bsky.social · 4d

I refuse to turn on the furnace because I just turned the AC off three days ago and the rabble are expressing their discontent with this policy direction

Long haired tabby cats lies curled up on a lap, leg crosses over knee

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 4d

When I see this, I wonder if people realize that Jim Crow racism in the American south was a type home-grown fascism. It was not (just) a superficially genteel system of social deference. Refusing to defer was often met with incredible violence designed to terrorize the entire Black community.

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 4d

listen, hospitals are just going to have to shift from a sustainable model where they provide care to an unsustainable model where they close - if they can't accept that, they should close

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

SCARBOROUGH: The Nebraska Rural Health Association says at least 6 rural hospitals would have to close bc of the big beautiful bill

FLOOD: Here's the deal: Some hospitals that are rural hospitals are going to eventually have to transition from being acute bed hospitals into being an ER model

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 4d

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

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jaythechou.bsky.social @jaythechou.bsky.social · 4d

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1669

Paddington in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 5d

“ICE needs to go into Chicago because the Chicago police are incapable of protecting the city but ICE can’t protect themselves so the Chicago police must protect them”

God I hate fascism so much

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Kolya Flower @kolyaflower.bsky.social · 5d

just show mercy to those confronted by "Hamtramck" for the first time

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