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disaster researcher, financial sector business resiliency manager | keeper of two orange tabbies | 6th generation in my town | anything can become a three month rabbit hole research project https://www.zazzle.com/store/megsmerch

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Megs @megshensley.bsky.social · Dec 11

Hi everybody!

I'm Meghan, a disaster researcher working in business resiliency for a large financial firm. Outside of work, I'm active in my community (6th generation in the town), sew and tailor things, and chill with my orange tabbies. I'll research almost anything and make a presentation on it.

A white woman wearing a red dress stands next to the Ohio flag.

A selfie of a white woman with brown hair and glasses wearing a grey floral top.

A selfie of a white woman with brown hair wearing a white top stands in front of a brick wall with a sign reading "Delaware County Historical Society, Nash House."

A photo of two orange tabbies cuddling on a chair and looking at the camera.

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Hell-Raea-ser 🦋✨🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @raea.meangirls.online · 4h

remote work is like birth control or UBI atp where there’s overwhelming research consensus they improve quality of life for people they apply to, yet access is impeded or blocked by the ruling class because the thought of marginalized ppl having rich full lives makes steam come out their ears

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 4h

2. Rolling Stone is owned by a large media conglomerate, which is ending remote work across its brands.

My home is Portland, Oregon, ~1,000 miles from the nearest office, so this marks the end of the line for me at RS.

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Tapani Hopkins @tapani-hopkins.bsky.social · 4h

Sometimes I'm rather relieved most people mostly haven't heard of my field of expertise.

Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 7d

Use only water or fresh air on tear gas or pepper spray.

No milk, vinegar, antacids, urine, etc. and especially not in eye.

Thank me later,

An actual expert

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 5h

Ten years ago today.

Tweet that reads: 'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 5h

First day of rail extension, and naturally there's a service flail with a track out of service.

It's being handled poorly by Japanese standards, amazingly by English standards, and the fact that it's being handled at all puts it miles beyond any other American system.

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Papahrf @papahrf.bsky.social · 6h

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Megs @megshensley.bsky.social · 6h

It is a good one. I agree with @hcrichardson.bsky.social saying Dems need to standardize their messaging to affordability. Everything else is captured in that and everyone knows what affordable means for them.

Lady Carolyn Young of Glencoe @cateconnevslayla.bsky.social · 6h

I listen to @thebulwark.com podcast every day - I do love @timmiller.bsky.social - but the one today with @hcrichardson.bsky.social is particularly good. Check it out.

Megs @megshensley.bsky.social · 6h

"It's a tool. Everyone needs to know how to use it!"

No. There are so many tools out there for a variety of things. Not everyone needs them. If it's a tool that I find I need, I'll learn to use it then. I don't need it now, so why learn now? I'm not going to use it.

Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 19h

I was at my old high school today, for the first time in over twenty years, to talk to the teachers about how their curriculum can better support students. AI came up, and so many teachers were saying "Well it's a tool, they have to know how to use it, it's the future so we have to accept it!"

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 19h

i told her that she can't go wrong teaching her kids to read and write and think, and that she doesn't have to use any of this garbage if it's not helping her teach kids how to do those important things. one of my old english teachers was fist pumping in the back row but not sure it really landed.

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Julie McGalliard @mcjulie.bsky.social · 6h

My best guess is that they’re hoping to inspire some kind of stochastic terrorism from their side, which can be spun into the kind of “riot” footage they like

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d

i have to be honest, gang, i have some questions about this republican strategy of telling everyone to tune in and pay attention to what’s likely to be one of the largest days of political protest in american history directed at the republican party

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Johnson: "We call it the Hate America Rally that will happen Saturday. Let's see who shows up for that. I bet you you'll see Hamas supporters, I bet you'll see antifa types, I bet you'll see Marxists on full display, people who don't want to stand and defend the foundational truths of this republic"

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Darin Self @darinself.com · 6h

This is what they are. Its not "we disagree with what they want" its "Opposition to us means they hate America"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Daines on No Kings: "This is a 'We Hate America' rally"

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 8h

Churches showing an AI Charlie Kirk telling congregants, through an artificial voice, not to let evil win is a new level of instrumentalizing the dead.

When Trump goes, I think we’re going to see the same thing. Visions and AI slop will abound. Prophecies and messages from beyond the grave.

Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 9h

I wrote about how MAGA is being shaped by a politics of immortality, how Charlie Kirk’s martyrdom reflects this, and what it could mean for the future of Trumpism. Read at @liberalcurrents.com

www.liberalcurrents.com/the-last-ene...

The Last Enemy Is Death: Prophetic Visions, AI Slop, and How the Politics of Immortality Could Shape Our Future

How mystics and transhumanists force the dead to speak on behalf of their politics.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Megs @megshensley.bsky.social · 7h

When you make farm laborers afraid to show up to work, nothing gets picked, and it will disrupt the food supply. Everything this administration is doing will create a situation where more farmers can't sell their goods. And it will have hugely detrimental effects on everyone.

D @wildfirediva.bsky.social · 8h

The U.S. Labor Department is warning of a potential food crisis linked to President Trump’s immigration raids – and one family-owned farm is caught in the middle.

Read more: abcnews.link/dCH0Trk

Family farm in Idaho faces worker shortage as Trump administration immigration raids escalate

The U.S. Labor Department is warning of a potential food crisis linked to the Trump administration’s immigration raids due to a resulting worker shortage.

abcnews.link

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🧛‍♀️🎃~Bindi~🎃🧛‍♀️ @bindiatthebeach.bsky.social · 17h

This.

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19thnews @19thnews.org · 8h

The bipartisan movement against female genital mutilation and cutting is being co-opted by anti-trans activists, hindering urgent laws from being passed.

Anti-trans policies aren't preventing genital mutilation — they're disrupting efforts to stop it

The bipartisan movement against female genital mutilation and cutting is being co-opted by anti-trans activists, hindering urgent laws from being passed.

19thnews.org

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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.bsky.social · 8h

Pyewacket is also big on spitting right now. So feerce!

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Brian Cuban @bcuban.bsky.social · 8h

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 8h

Everything is bad, but apples are good. Well, okay, not this apple. This apple was also bad. Shit. Anyway! New review! THE BLACK GILLIFLOWER AWAITS JUDGMENT.

Apple Review #16: Black Gilliflower

I just had a fruit fly in my coffee and that is bullshit, but one supposes that is the price I pay for eating apples in my office like a freak. Anyway, I just ate an apple that tastes, emotionally,…

terribleminds.com

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James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 8h

I too don't want anyone taking medical advice from RFK, but guess who voted to confirm him as the person people should take medical advice from.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Thune: "If I were a woman I'd be talking to my doctor and not taking advice from RFK"

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 8h

The “guardrails” didn’t really hold in Trump’s first term. He broke through many, and accelerated abuses in 2020.

Beat impeachment, removed inspectors general, and after losing reelection attempted a coup. Failing to recognize that as guardrails crumbling, not holding, was one cause of complacency.

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13h

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

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T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel (Retired)" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 8h

lol yikes

"...the team describes how it performed a broad scan of IP traffic on 39 GEO satellites across 25 distinct longitudes and found that half of the signals they picked up contained cleartext [not encrypted] IP traffic."

Including military data 🙃

www.theregister.com/2025/10/14/u...

Study reveals satellites comms spilling unencrypted data

Updated: University team picks up voice calls, texts, and corporate data from orbit with off-the-shelf kit

www.theregister.com

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doug @goodkid-saadcity.bsky.social · Jul 24

welcome to bluesky. we have rules here:

1) park that car
2) drop that phone
3) sleep on the floor
4) dream about me

amy brown @amybrown.xyz · Jul 24

welcome to bluesky. we have rules

1. don't pick up the phone. you know he's only calling 'cause he's drunk and alone
2. don't let him in. you'll have to kick him out again
3. don't be his friend. you're only gonna wake up in his bed in the morning

and if you're under him, you aint getting over him

doug @goodkid-saadcity.bsky.social · Jul 24

welcome to bluesky. we have rules here:

1) you're like a dream come true
2) just wanna be with you
3) girl it's plain to see that you're the only one for me

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 8h

Last year, I detailed 8 guardrails Trump crashed through in his first term—including executive branch internal checks, Congressional oversight, and norms against encouraging political violence—identified the legal system as the 9th (he beat that too), leaving a second election as the 10th and final.

The Institutions of American Democracy are Hanging by a Thread

Trump has brought the United States further down the path of democratic backsliding than many realize. The election is the only barrier left.

www.arcdigital.media

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 8h

If you want to look at Twitter and don’t want to log in, you can use Nitter:

nitter.net

nitter.net

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 8h

“Women are cringe” —a reflexive bigotry that a kind of shocking number of people have mistaken for a politics.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8h

UPDATE: Remember how we told you @GovBillLee was lying about all the arrests in MEMPHIS being “violent crimes”

@fox13memphis checked. We were right. “VAST MAJORITY non-violent”. Bill was lying 👇🏽

(Now do those “45 missing kids” they rescued 🤔)

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