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thirty-one and nothing rhymes with thirty-one | perpetually tired grad student | she/they #GoBirds #RingTheBell #H2P
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i will venmo any reporter $600 to ask trump "when was dick cheney vice president"
I will venmo any reporter $400 to ask trump "what does SNAP stand for"
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stuff like dick cheney dying on election day reaffirms many of my personal religious beliefs
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Dick Van Dyke has OUTLIVED Dick Cheney
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man, in possession of an Assembly seat, must be in want of an Ą̴̣̫̹̙̻̰̼̼̮̺͎̓͛̐͌̂͂͛̈̀̋͘͠ͅl̴̼̭̮͔̫̳͙̘̪̭̲̙̠̣̏̐́͋̿̕͠o̶̥̘̫̯̜͓̜̲͉̱̬̗̣͗͂ͅỏ̵̡̩͍̣̻̜̪̣̗̆̍̑̈́̽̓̔̚̕͜f̵̧̛͙͇̬̻͖̝̥̹̯̬̬̠̙̂͋̀͊͌̄̊ ̶͎̊̅͆̈̓̔͗̈́̒̒̀̈͗͆͠W̵͍̺̻͙̭̯̹̠̥̔̂͊̇̇͆̈́̆͒̒̕͝i̸̡̧̲̤̱̯͉̺̗̰̥̋͌̔̑̽͑̌̍̾̊͘͠ͅf̸̞̥͔͓͇̹͓̬̫̊͊͊͛̆̔̅̀̑̐̈́̂́̓͠e̶͕̭͐̍̀̆̒̆
[the NY Post scrambling to make a last-ditch scandal:]

"umm, uhhh, his aloof wife Rama Duwaji secretly ran the campaign"
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Ask any of your favorite Black women writers from a decade ago why their bylines stopped appearing, and you’ll likely hear the same response: There is no place for us in media. In TV. In publishing or academia. For the majority of us, there’s no place but gone.
thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.

now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
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This magazine just fired all of their politics staffers
We are honored to receive the @rooseveltinstitute.org's 2025 Four Freedoms Award for Freedom of Speech and Expression, and to be among a stellar class of laureates including @wck.org, @cvt.org, and more. Details: tnvge.co/ZMIUg7v
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the last great monoculture is sports and it's worth all the care we put into it
This is a fun chart!

The green is the main bsky load balancer traffic throughput from Saturday night, and the purple is how much traffic there was 7 days before (the previous Saturday)

The spike is due to the world series - pretty incredible! ⚾
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IT'S 2013. PITT IS STRUGGLING IN A SEASON OPENER AGAINST YOUNGSTOWN STATE.

IT'S 2017. PITT IS STRUGGLING IN A SEASON OPENER AGAINST YOUNGSTOWN STATE.

IT'S 2025. PITT IS STRUGGLING IN A SEASON OPENER AGAINST YOUNGSTOWN STATE.
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I absolutely promise that no matter how much you think you know about Curtis Sliwa you will find surprises in here
Was honored to help @chana.bsky.social edit this deep dive compilation of Curtis Sliwa lore gathered over weeks. There is so much jaw-dropping material, we simply could not bear to make it shorter than 76 slides.
I’m sorry but you still don’t know enough about Curtis Sliwa
I’m sorry but you still don’t know enough about Curtis Sliwa
docs.google.com
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Wait to cross Fifth
There’s something you don’t see every day. Bus had to jam on the brakes to stop for deer crossing 5th Avenue near the Cathedral.
What happened to “let the free market decide”? 🙄 🫩
In the latest demonstration of this administration’s hostility toward the poor: The Trump Administration has not only dragged its feet in dispensing SNAP contingency funds, but they’re literally obstructing private actors from helping to promote food security when the government will not.
The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse.
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email
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moloch worshippers
The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse.
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email
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Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper

www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
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I actually now believe that the Pirates will play in a World Series in my lifetime. It will be right before a long-running, terminal illness takes me, and they will lose in a way that is somehow worse than what the Blue Jays just did
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Hello welcome to bluesky. We have every kind of anti-government radical left of center, and also, baseball
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It’s basically Deep Space Nine.
Hello welcome to bluesky. We have every kind of anti-government radical left of center, and also, baseball
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After the second extra inning they should go to alternating two-point conversions
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📷 Nick Turchiaro, Imagn Images
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it’s 1:59 am. it is the 17th inning of Game 7 of the World Series.

the clock turns to 1:00 am. it is now the 18th inning of Game 7 of the World Series.