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White Rose Resistance @whiteroseresistance.org · 36m

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MariWho @mariwho.bsky.social · 23m

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MariWho @mariwho.bsky.social · 25m

You thought you had a safe person and they traumatized you, of course that's gonna have lingering effects. 🫂

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MariWho @mariwho.bsky.social · 45m

I LOVED that book it is HILARIOUS

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MariWho @mariwho.bsky.social · 1h

I hope you get there babe 🫂🫂🫂

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MariWho @mariwho.bsky.social · 1h

Please help Cyn out if you can, dental stuff is SO awful and SO expensive 😞🙏

✨️StellarCyn✨️ - OFMD, GOMENS, DR. WHO! 🍉🏴‍☠️🧡 @stellarcyn.bsky.social · 1h

Hey everyone, sharing this again and also letting yall know again that my kofi is pinned on my profile. I am so grateful to those of you who have been able to help so far. I am doing what I can locally to save money but my options are very limited so anything helps!

AJ McKay - chaos packed into skin🏴‍☠️🦄🧜‍♂️🐙🐿️ @ajmckay.bsky.social · 2d

@stellarcyn.bsky.social could use our help for some dental medical bills that are coming up! If able please donate. Shares here and other platforms are more than welcome as well!

They also have a Kofi on their page if you check out their Bluesky page - another way to help!

gofund.me/e2c2270ca

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✨️StellarCyn✨️ - OFMD, GOMENS, DR. WHO! 🍉🏴‍☠️🧡 @stellarcyn.bsky.social · 1h

Hey everyone, sharing this again and also letting yall know again that my kofi is pinned on my profile. I am so grateful to those of you who have been able to help so far. I am doing what I can locally to save money but my options are very limited so anything helps!

AJ McKay - chaos packed into skin🏴‍☠️🦄🧜‍♂️🐙🐿️ @ajmckay.bsky.social · 2d

@stellarcyn.bsky.social could use our help for some dental medical bills that are coming up! If able please donate. Shares here and other platforms are more than welcome as well!

They also have a Kofi on their page if you check out their Bluesky page - another way to help!

gofund.me/e2c2270ca

Donate to Cyn’s Dental Medical Bills, organized by AJ P

My friend Cyn is trying to raise money for a medial dental bill that is desperately needed, but unexpe… AJ P needs your support for Cyn’s Dental Medical Bills

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MariWho @mariwho.bsky.social · 1h

Ahh the 50sF, so cold at the end of summer and so warm at the end of winter

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 4h

Nearly 6 billion people live in the 101 countries that a recent study has identified as confronting a net decline in water supply — signaling enormous challenges for food production and a heightening risk of conflict and instability.

(Published July)

“Staggering” Water Loss Driven by Groundwater Mining Poses Global Threat

A new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 6h

my main takeaways from listening to the Supreme Court oral argument today are

-the writing is on the wall for the Voting Rights Act
-the Republican justices are now throwing racist spaghetti at that wall; they'll pass of whatever sticks as the opinion's rationale
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/calla...

The Conservative Justices Have So Many Ideas For How to Kill the Voting Rights Act

The Republican justices already know where they’re going. They just have to figure out which route they’re going to take to get there.

ballsandstrikes.org

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 4h

The idea that the Reconstruction Amendments were for everybody is asinine.

They’re all lives matter-ing Reconstruction.

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Dr. Briana Jackson 🏴‍☠️ @baladria.bsky.social · 4h

Back on my bullshit, i.e., I've opened PRE-ORDERS again of the Egyptian OFMD complete trading card deck! Open now through Nov. 15.

Shipping worldwide from USA. Sorry about shipping costs, but they're increasing this month through the rest of the year because of course they are 🙄 #OFMD #ShopOFMD

PRE-ORDER Egyptian OFMD Trading Card Deck - Briana Jackson's Ko-fi Shop

This is a PRE-ORDER! Preorders close November 15. This deck of 3x5-inch trading cards features 28 OFMD characters drawn in ancient Egyptian art style...

ko-fi.com

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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 6h

A group of far right assholes have showed up to protest at David Douglas high school after students allegedly pushed back at a formation of a turning point chapter. School is out & they are outnumbered by predominantly Black & Brown students roasting the fuck out of them.

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MariWho @mariwho.bsky.social · 2h

Oh God, that's so hard. Love and giant hugs to you both.

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🎃 Pumpkin Spice Mikell 🎃 @mikell.bsky.social · 5h

Free speech advocates who want the “marketplace of ideas” love to forget that I can vote with my time&energy wallet and simply decline to hang out with people whose ideas I think suck. I might even leave a bad review by saying, out loud, “hey, you suck.” This is how it should work.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 5h

you have the right to not hang out with assholes. you deserve not to hang out with assholes. you are under 0 obligation to socially interact with assholes in your free time.

it is truly terrible that our culture tricked so many people into thinking that they’re obliged to be friends with assholes!

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 5h

we have spent the last decade witnessing a national epidemic of “it should be illegal to not hang out with me just because I’m a mean asshole” behavior

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 5h

These. Were. Men. In. Their. 30s.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"

We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.

www.motherjones.com

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Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 5h

If your wrists hurt when editing long texts (like fiction) and swapping between a keyboard and mouse is causing extra pain, I've whipped together a keyboard only editing system I'm calling Glyph:

tobiasbuckell.com/introducing-...

a keyboard with certain parts bolded with navigation mapped to IJKL keys and other editing functions on the home row for the left hand

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onion person @junlper.beer · 9h

if this isn’t the prime example of it, but it proves i think definitively that the purchase of twitter was an ideological move by musk, and not a financial one. he wants the nazi dox squads on there because it helps the cause elon musk believes in

Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 11h

Long story short, an actual Nazi doxxing ring. Enough people reported them that they went away for like 12 hours and then Elon personally brought them back. The site is dead. If you’re still on there, go lock your account right now

chris @knightscrest.bsky.social · 11h

what even happened on the other site this time

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Josh Kovensky @joshkovensky.bsky.social · 10h

NSPM-7 watch: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said yesterday that Charlie Kirk's death was a "domestic 9/11" and that he's undertaking a commensurate response at home. Treasury is "compiling lists" and looking at funding streams, he said.

talkingpointsmemo.com/news/big-tal...

Big Talk: Treasury Secretary Declares New War on Terror Against the Left

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Tuesday that his department is in...

talkingpointsmemo.com

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Mim @mimwalksandreads.bsky.social · 14h

Pliocene by @rascalhartley.bsky.social (unfortunatelyobsessed @AO3) is a fandom classic, I was thrilled to discover it had a podfic! Several hours of joy, some top-notch writing/storytelling, early days @kninjaknitter.bsky.social, and so. much. love.

#ofmdpodfic #ofmdfic #ofmd #temp

this is a picture of where the sea meets the sand meets the sky (which is reflected in the wet wet wet sand). i had the misguided sense of trying to walk there only to immediately DROWN in quicksand! i kid you not, it was fucking terrifying. got out maybe after 5 minutes of struggling, soaking wet to my thighs, spent the next 2 hours blow drying my jeans. if you got this far in the description, let me know - i've got a picture of the jeans :)

rose hip that grows in the dunes is completely edible. back when i was little, the city's grandmas would collect it and make rose hip jam. they would also forage wildrose petals for the same purpose. not anymore - well, maybe someone does it, but i haven't seen a single old lady picking those red berries in a while

rust-colored patches on the face of the sand cliff are sea buckthorn, also ripe for the picking. oh, to be stranded on this beach...

curiously, this amber dates back to much earlier times than Pliocene. Or maybe the real treasure was our day spent together? (i was on my own, for the record, with only Lindie's voice and unfortunatelyobsessed's story for company :)

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Riley @rileyisokay.bsky.social · 11h

This weekend I had the ABSOLUTE and WILD pleasure of showing this video to someone for the very first time. I felt like I was showing fire to a caveman or something

👻 YSUBoOooOooOo 👻 @bassoonysu.bsky.social · 5d

As is always correct and in accordance with all the laws of the internet, I just watched Tom Holland's epic Lip Sync Battle performance, and now I am sharing it with all of you so you can do the same.

Lip Sync Battle - Tom Holland

YouTube video by Comedy Central Latinoamérica

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 12h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 10h

That’s stylishly phrased. Read If On A Winter’s Night … or Invisible Cities.

You’ll see.

Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 14h

Remembering Italo Calvino on his birthday 🎂
📷 Ulf Andersen, 1984

"Architect of scrupulously imagined, apparently fantastic, insidiously plausible words, Calvino occupies a literary space somewhere east of Jorge Luis Borges & west of Vladimir Nabokov."
- Michael Wood

Three-quarter portrait of the author in a three-piece suit

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 13h

A Bronx family lived without utilities for over 6 weeks after they were shut off without explanation.

The landlord, despite receiving severe violation notices, didn't fix the problem.

HPD couldn’t turn the utilities back on, so it issued the family a vacate order.

These Bronx Tenants Lived Six Weeks Without Water and Power. The City’s Fix? A Vacate Order

The plight of the Ramos family reveals the weaknesses in the City's system to protect tenants from unlivable conditions—and from being put out on the street.

hellgatenyc.com

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NPR @npr.org · 16h

A Supreme Court case over Louisiana's congressional map could determine the future of Voting Rights Act protections against racial discrimination and allow Republicans to draw 19 more House seats. n.pr/4oaEZ4N

A Supreme Court ruling on voting rights could boost Republicans' redistricting efforts

A Supreme Court case over Louisiana's congressional map could determine the future of Voting Rights Act protections against racial discrimination and allow Republicans to draw 19 more House seats.

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