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Amanda Weaver @amandaweavernovels.com · 5h

I know it’s just a building but this makes me feel sick. I have so much rage and absolutely nowhere to put it.

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 5h

NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.

Photograph of ongoing demolition of the East Wing of the White House.

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 1d

Take it from us -- an organization that closely studies all the horrific ways people can die from common household items -- have the jelly donut.

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MariaCecilia @meaniemary.bsky.social · 2d

Son2, home for the weekend, wanted to watch something "not depressing" so I put on #Shrinking . DH declined to watch and went to bed. Our peals of laughter made him come back out to say "I know it can't be THAT funny, you're just messing with me!" Which seemed very #Shrinking

an older man in a grey sweater says woof

ALT: an older man in a grey sweater says woof

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MariaCecilia @meaniemary.bsky.social · 3d

Middleaged Carrie Fisher giving Yabba the Hutt the finger

Sigourney Weaver in a black-and-white photo, dressed in a three piece suit with her dark hair slicked back.

Michelle Obama, giving epic side-eye at the Trump installation.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 3d

the whole article could have just been ten pages of “Brilliant Things Eleanor O’Brien Said,” and some gold was left on the cutting room floor, but this is such a banger of a closer and it’s so very much the theme of today

"I want people to know that what's happening in Portland - the creativity, the irreverence, the refusal to be intimidated - that's replicable," she says. "Every city has artists. Every community has weirdos. We just need to find each other and start creating the alternative story. The revolution doesn't have to look like a protest.
Make it weird. When they tell you to cover up, shut up, and comply, the most radical thing you can do is be visible, speak truth, and take up space. With joy. Tap into your creativity. Art isn't a luxury in times like these - it's survival."

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Tal B. Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 3d

it is far better to be in a country with a mass visible protest movement than one without it

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 3d

No Kings. Yes Kittens.

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MariaCecilia @meaniemary.bsky.social · 3d

How I feel when people who identify as Christians criticise someone for sympathizing with the poor and oppressed:

Sunday school type picture of Jesus with the caption "I have nothing to do with this"

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4d

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe"

Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken. How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 3d

[Exit King.]

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MariaCecilia @meaniemary.bsky.social · 3d

I don't think any amount of "red meat diet" will help the manly men who one day complain about the emotionality of women, then turn around and send a bunch of passive-aggressive e-mails when mildly criticised. I'm over using giraffe language to calm their feelings, I need rhinoceros language 🙄

two rhinos are running through a dry grassy field in the wild .

Alt: two rhinos are thundering through a dry grassy field in the wild

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MariaCecilia @meaniemary.bsky.social · 3d

Dinosaur skeletons are in the eye of the beholder?

Kat Mask Replica @katmctee.bsky.social · 3d

Fascinating piece!

Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 4d

It's also notable that an art-focused auction house is framing dinosaur mounts as within its wheelhouse, given that "modern art" is not the worst descriptor for skeletal reconstructions of extinct animals. I wrote about this a while back!

MariaCecilia @meaniemary.bsky.social · 3d

Let me add some of my favourite images on my phone as additional food for thought:

A collection of images of women wearing different types of armour, including among others Cate Blanchett, Kristen Stewart, Miranda Otto, Milla Jojovich, Gwendoline Christie, Mia Wasikowska

A black and white picture of Debbie Reynolds wearing knightly armour gripping a sword hilt

Image of a girl in an archery contest, possibly in Mongolia (?) doing a handstand on elevated crutches while shooting her bow with her feet

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Girls Running From Houses @girlfleeshouse.bsky.social · 3d

The crime the girl commits is not to boast of her skills.

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MariaCecilia @meaniemary.bsky.social · 3d

Polls show that the political divide between women and men grows: women vote more for the parties on the left/green side and men for conservative parties. Now, a survey shows that choking during sex is increasing, and causes brain damage in women. Are conservative men trying to make women dumber? 😶

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 10d

Aren't country lanes brilliant?

www.tom-cox.com/once-upon-a-...

A country lane on the edge of the Quantocks.

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 10d

1200+ reported/documented rapes by ice agents over 7 years from obama to first year of trump btw

Too Swift for Human Rights: The Catastrophic Cost of Eliminating Government Oversight over Immigration Enforcement | Women's Refugee Commission

The Women’s Refugee Commission is gravely concerned about the administration’s decision to terminate vital oversight over human rights standards in detention, precisely as it seeks to dramatically inc...

www.womensrefugeecommission.org

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 10d

I see the UK has now made the plot of Some Like It Hot illegal.

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MariaCecilia @meaniemary.bsky.social · 10d

Second breakfast?

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 10d

Georgia O'Keeffe, Lake George Reflection, 1921 #WomensArt

Painting of a hilly landscape reflected in still water in colours of purple green and blue

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From Superheroes @fromsuperheroes.com · 16d

Johnny Storm's A Brewing

Via TextsFromSuperheroes.com

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 16d

"State Terror: A brief guide for Americans"
Revisiting a piece I wrote in April 2025
"In the history of state terror, the escape from law into coercion takes three forms... the leader principle; the state of exception; and the zone of statelessness."
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror

State Terror

A brief guide for Americans

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Stephanie Leary @sleary.bsky.social · 16d

Thinking about the way (white) fans of The Murderbot Diaries missed the fact that it’s a slave narrative until @marthawells.com started saying, “IT’S A SLAVE NARRATIVE” in interviews.

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 16d

We Have at least 70? years of science fiction exploring this proposition and all reaching the same conclusions as Josie.

Which I only bring up because everyone involved in this AI thing is a science fiction fan, but not one who understands what they read.

🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 16d

It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends

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MariaCecilia @meaniemary.bsky.social · 16d

With these types of comments I never know, is it a bot seeking beef, or a person who genuinely doesn't understand how social media works? 😂 Dear sir, I wasn't talking to you, please block me and move on.

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MariaCecilia @meaniemary.bsky.social · 16d

And sing songs.

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