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Hellissa Mejia @melmejia.bsky.social · 5h

I love soup and can make some good ones! I’m particularly proud of my kale and white bean concoction (no recipe, just vibes 😎).

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👻Wereman 🐺🎃 @spookarties.bsky.social · Dec 1

Robocop is a movie about a guy who gets killed on the job and they still made him go back to work

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Hellissa Mejia @melmejia.bsky.social · 1d

We are also Full-Sized Candy Bar People and it’s just the best.

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 1d

Prepping for Halloween. We never get any kids at the house (because we live out of town at the end of a long driveway) but kids show up at the church for trick or treat, so we'll be ready. And indeed we are the Full-Sized Candy Bar People because we can be, and if you can, why wouldn't you.

Boxes of candy bars, M&Ms, Skittles, and Starbursts

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 3d

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

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Hellissa Mejia @melmejia.bsky.social · 5d

No I AM! 😂

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Hellissa Mejia @melmejia.bsky.social · 6d

I met @katierizz.bsky.social and she’s the goddamn best.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 7d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Bronze Age Babies @bronzeagebabies.bsky.social · 7d

This here’s a man of the people.

Former Cubs pitcher Lee Smith on why he always walked so slowly out of the bullpen when he was called - he heard the grounds crew got time and a half of the game stretched past 4:30 pm.

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Hellissa Mejia @melmejia.bsky.social · 6d

cuz you don’t mess around with God’s America

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Hellissa Mejia @melmejia.bsky.social · 9d

I just did this the other day and got a response right away and now neither one of us will ever wonder how the other feels. Highly recommend.

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Hellissa Mejia @melmejia.bsky.social · 11d

I am so thankful for that website!

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Hellissa Mejia @melmejia.bsky.social · 11d

Oh I love that movie. About to cry just thinking about the ending. I’m definitely due for a rewatch.

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🦇Miss Hell Batkeeper🦇 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 11d

It does always amuse me when people talk about high-emotion people as being "fragile."

YOU try carrying around a hurricane inside you for 50 years, tough guy. You're the one who can't handle the sound of someone crying.

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Amanda Deibert @amandadeibert.bsky.social · 12d

Click to send a Halloween Card to a child at Children's Hospital LA. It cost you NOTHING, it takes 30 seconds and they donate $1 for every card sent between now and Halloween secure1.chla.org/site/SPageNa...

Send a Halloween card to a child in the hospital!

You can help a child in the hospital have a spook-tacular Halloween. Send a special card before the deadline.

secure1.chla.org

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 12d

“we heard tale of expanding the tent”

Photo of the three vampires from “sinners” trying to get invited into the juke joint where a party is happening

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Anthrodiva La Chatte @anthrodiva.bsky.social · 11d

On the "everyone is tired" note -- I am on record that we need to bring back all of the jobs that used to assist people, from travel agents to bank tellers to gas jockeys to secretaries....

We are tired because we have been abandoned to the predations of capitalism.

Anthrodiva La Chatte @anthrodiva.bsky.social · 11d

Look, if people can't be BOTHERED to understand their health insurance, feels a little over the top to go full Luigi over it.

Can we ask voters to take SOME responsibility for their lives? Any?

Or are we just going to go, welp everyone is tired, it's complicated, it's not their fault?

Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 11d

📣 UPDATED: Two new polls confirm: Out of the gate, Americans STRONGLY support extending the #ACA tax credits.

🚨 Meanwhile, 58% of enrollees barely knew about the looming danger as of a week ago.

acasignups.net/25/10/03/two...

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 12d

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 12d

"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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ceej @ceej.online · 14d

My goals are simple: one, create the most lethal fighting force in the world and two, make them resent me specifically

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Hellissa Mejia @melmejia.bsky.social · 13d

What a cool photo!

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Hellissa Mejia @melmejia.bsky.social · 13d

I didn’t know Steve McQueen was in The Blob!

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 14d

HALLOWEEN NAME MATCHMAKING THREAD 2025! 🎃
Having trouble coming up with a Halloween username? Ask for help in this thread and Bluesky's classically trained name artisans may generously weigh in!