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Jen @loopdilou.bsky.social · 23d

Guess I'm doing this. If you want to PayPal me directly, please DM me. Even though some things have stabilized, others have gotten worse. Need help getting through the next couple monthd.

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Donate to Help a Family Overcome Financial Hardship, organized by Jen Zink

I know things are tght for everyone, but I just need enough to cover a couple month… Jen Zink needs your support for Help a Family Overcome Financial Hardship

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 11h

Korol is a US citizen. Her family hasn’t heard from her since she was taken, public charges haven’t been released—what crime did she even commit? 2nd-Degree Woodwinding?—and there has been no explanation for her “renditioning” across state lines.

We’ve moved into a new phase of Trump lawlessness.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 11h

A musician, Oriana Korol, was peacefully playing clarinet with her protest band outside ICE facilities in Portland, OR.

When the band started playing “Ghostbusters,” ICE thugs suddenly poured outside, slammed her into the mud, arrested her and took her to a jail 9 miles away in Vancouver, WA.

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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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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Jen @loopdilou.bsky.social · 9h

I exhibit some very self-destructive behaviors including playing MK1 until my very arthritic thumb is in so much pain that I'm pretty sure it's going to be unusable for the foreseeable future 😭

Jen @loopdilou.bsky.social · 17h

🤣🤣🤣 I love gamers

Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · 19h

This is so cool. Zohran Mamdani just released the 2026 NYC Dev Roadmap and he's updating Williamsburg with not one but TWO new 20-man raids with their own endgame armor sets and weapons

Jen @loopdilou.bsky.social · 17h

That's a dirty lie but I will agree if you admit YOU'RE THE FUCKING COOLEST!

Jen @loopdilou.bsky.social · 17h

*SCREAMING INCOHERENTLY* OMGGGGGGGG!!! YOU ARE SO FUCKING COOL!

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Eden Royce @edenroyce.bsky.social · 21h

Tomorrow is the last day to snap up this bundle of signed 1st edition novels and support @thepixelproject.bsky.social in their goal of ending domestic violence against women and girls.

thepixelproject.rallyup.com/read4pixelsf...

#booksky

Signed 1st edition copies of my middle grade novels ROOT MAGIC, CONJURE ISLAND, AND THE CREEPENING OF DOGWOOD HOUSE against a red background. Two of the books have silver Walter Award Honor stickers.

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Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 1d

Frank Frazetta shirtless outside in an armchair, posing with his palette and the original art for the Fire & Ice poster. Behind him Eleanor Frazetta poses in a bikini on a Honda dirtbike.

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Matt McMuscles @mattmcmuscles.bsky.social · 23h

RIP to Drew Struzen, the greatest to ever do it. 🙌

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Jen @loopdilou.bsky.social · 21h

Getting my dad to renew his Consumer Reports subscription because Trump's demolishing government consumer protections.

Jen @loopdilou.bsky.social · 21h

Oh look! The Nazis are in fact Nazis. Who knew? 🤷‍♀️😑

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 21h

'“Can we fix the showers? Gas chambers don’t fit the Hitler aesthetic,” Joe Maligno...wrote'

'Many of the chat members already work inside government or party politics, and one serves as a state senator.'

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Jen @loopdilou.bsky.social · 21h

Worse still, it means worrying about protein fortified products. Ffs what can we eat??

Jen @loopdilou.bsky.social · 21h

Exactly. Mine (Anthony's Pea Protein) has a prop 65 warning, which CR says to completely avoid so at least I have some guidance.

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Jen @loopdilou.bsky.social · 21h

They didn't test my brand but I'm feeling VERY uncomfortable with pea protein after this report.

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Jen @loopdilou.bsky.social · 22h

Huh. Just read an old text from my dad about how he raised my sister and I to have a "command" voice and I'm not sure I agree he did that, but we definitely got it from his mom. Whatever it means, anyway.

Jen @loopdilou.bsky.social · 22h

Ok so basically stop using plant based protein completely (which is what I use ffs)

Jen @loopdilou.bsky.social · 22h

This is fucking terrifying for people like me who use it because I don't eat enough in general.

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 23h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Xy, First Minister of Furries and Autism @xylaria.vg · 22h

oh maybe this is part of why the masculinity crisis has lead (heh) to a stupidity crisis - dudebros are literally protein powdering lead straight into their bloodstream en masse.

god, god this is SO cursed.

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 23h

two of the products we tested — Huel's Black Edition meal replacement powder and Naked Nutrition's vegan mass gainer — had enough lead that our experts caution against using them at all

a single serving of these protein powders contained between 1,200 and 1,600% of CR’s level of concern for lead

Two plant-based protein powders contained enough lead that our experts advise against consuming them. Naked Nutrition’s Mass Gainer powder contained 7.7 micrograms of lead per serving, which is roughly 1,570 percent of CR’s level of concern for the heavy metal. One serving of Huel’s Black Edition powder contained 6.3 micrograms of lead, or about 1,290 percent of CR’s daily lead limit.

Two other powders contained lead between 400 and 600 percent of CR’s level of concern: Garden of Life’s Sport Organic Plant-Based Protein and Momentous’ 100% Plant Protein. Consumers should limit these to once a week, Akinleye says. (See company responses below.)

The only non-plant-based protein powder with lead detected at over 200 percent of CR’s level of concern was MuscleMeds’ Carnivor Mass powder. Six additional plant-based powders, five dairy-based powders and shakes, and one beef powder contained lead above CR’s level of concern.

We also found measurable levels of cadmium and inorganic arsenic in some products. One serving of Huel’s Black Edition plant-based protein powder contained 9.2 micrograms of cadmium, more than double the level that public health authorities and CR’s experts say may be harmful to have daily, which is 4.1 micrograms.

Another plant-based option, Vega’s Premium Sport powder, had enough cadmium that one serving would also put you just over that level. In one dairy-based product, Optimum Nutrition’s Serious Mass whey protein powder, we also detected 8.5 micrograms per serving of inorganic arsenic, which is twice the limit of what our scientists say is safe to consume daily.

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Jennie Kermode @jenniekermode.bsky.social · 22h

I was very pleased to hear from Soad today. I had feared that she and little Omar were dead, but they're not, just stuck in a place with very little internet. They still really need help, if you're able to donate. tinyurl.com/ycxdtddx @mommunism.bsky.social @lexialex.bsky.social @fairshare.help 🍉

A Palestinian woman cradles her exhausted young son.

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P. Djéli Clark | The Disgruntled Haradrim @pdjeliclark.bsky.social · 22h

“What’s today?” cried Scrooge, calling downward to a boy in Sunday clothes.

“Today?” replied the boy. “Why, it’s Paperback Book Release Day sir!”

RING SHOUT paperback w/foreword by author| Tor Nightfire | 10•14•25

Out Today! #Bookrelease #horror

“Adam in the garden…”

Book cover: blood red background with black arms raised and hands outstretched from the bottom in front of white klansman hood with screaming mouths for eyes above words in black, RING SHOUT.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 23h

Trump is destroying U.S. cybersecurity defenses after the Chinese just successfully conducted one of the biggest and most successful hacks on U.S. telecom infrastructure in history

Trumpism is indistinguishable from a foreign attack

worse, because of hollow faith and patriotism rhetoric

Eric Geller @ericjgeller.com · 23h

The Trump admin is laying off nearly 200 CISA employees & forcing dozens more to take new jobs at other agencies (sometimes across the country) or quit.

Morale & productivity are sinking at the already-depleted agency, further jeopardizing US cybersecurity.

My story w/ new details: bit.ly/3KLoptn

Layoffs, reassignments further deplete CISA

Some CISA staffers have been pushed out, while others are being told to move across the country for jobs outside their skill sets.

www.cybersecuritydive.com

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 22h

Every book is *someone's* favorite. And that is a glorious thing.

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most life-affirming literary opinion.

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Darren Hughes @longpauses.bsky.social · 1d

I've taken a new, more aggressive approach to blocking on social media. Health, wellness, finance, self-help influencer? Blocked. Person I would find annoying if they were seated near me at dinner? Blocked. Everyone associated with that Riyadh comedy show? Blocked. Marie Kondo but the internet.

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Jen @loopdilou.bsky.social · 22h

Just a reminder that you can and should print your cell phone photos and make physical photo albums. It's worth it.

Jen @loopdilou.bsky.social · 23h

Lol thread!!!

Sexy Henry Kissinger Costume @mightygodking.com · 1d

reading how foxes are self-selecting now, on an evolutionary basis, for "sociable with humans" and then seeing a flood of "this fox decided to be fwiends with me" videos and it's like foxes finally decided that that one particular group of wolves had the right idea when they decided to become dogs