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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 1h

Forgive me if some of you have long ago sorted this out for yourselves. But I just realized that the problem with getting roasted by kids isn’t that they are so good at it — which, okay, some of them are — it’s that the adult is totally hamstrung! You cannot curse them out or break their spirit!

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1h

yeah man, trans reporters, whom the ny times derogatorily calls "trans activists" so that normies won't listen to them, have been reporting on ADF activity in the UK since 2018.

bigotry in journalism makes you late to the story.

Max Colbert @mc00.bsky.social · 3h

Really important NYT investigation finds that the ADF has been working with Reform, 'courting the party since at least 2024' and that the British arm 'orchestrated Mr Farage’s appearance in Congress, reaching out to ask if he would like to give evidence on censorship'
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.

www.nytimes.com

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Jack - Oi, Shiny! @oishinythings.bsky.social · 1h

Whoever dresses Måneskin.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1h

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

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Jack - Oi, Shiny! @oishinythings.bsky.social · 1h

I really burned out my hands while I was trying to get that last bit of stock pre-shop-shutdown. I tried to give myself a break in between but I'm still feeling it now. And it's frustrating me because I know the answer is "go slowly", but the bills do not take "recovery" as payment.

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saraofwhimsy @saraofwhimsy.bsky.social · 1h

Last day for this sale! Get your Halloween friends! #bsnm

saraofwhimsy @saraofwhimsy.bsky.social · 3d

Halloween sale!

Get 20% off the Halloween collection in the shop! That means crows, some gremlins, ghosties of all sorts, and even some griffins!

Also, little bonus ghosts will be added to the first ten orders! Discount appears in cart - through 10/13. #bsnm 🧶
whimsystation.com/collections/...

A decorative box with a ghost on the top surrounded by purple flowers, a pumpkin, and swirls. The bottom has more swirls of clay, tiny ghosts, and stars

Three hand painted pendants with silhouettes of trees and little figures in witch hats walking between them

A hand holding a shimmery polymer clay crow brushed with blue chameleon powder with rhinestone accents

Pumpkin is an adorable polymer clay griffin that is sitting in a pumpkin! Made with green, purple, orange, and sparkly black, Pumpkin has about 161 glowing feathers - each one cut and textured by hand.

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Jack - Oi, Shiny! @oishinythings.bsky.social · 1h

The BBC really are scum. "Hostages" vs "Detainees", and all the "Who are the hostages?" articles.

For years I've been against the BBC, and the left just has hysterics about "But the right are against the BBC, if you ask any questions you must be a Nazi! Do not question your government masters!"

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Jack - Oi, Shiny! @oishinythings.bsky.social · 2h

It's like we people were joking "Oh dear, they shot the Hot Priest, that doesn't look good!" and some people wanted to litigate over the problems with religion. I'm not religious, but anything that gets Grandma going "Well that's not right!" and telling her friends at bingo that ICE is bad...

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Jack - Oi, Shiny! @oishinythings.bsky.social · 4h

Lovely work though.

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Anna Howard @earthandsand.bsky.social · 19h

These Christmas tree ornaments are painted to look like stained glass windows! I have suns, moons, and rainbow variations. Completely handmade and hand painted.
earthandsandbyanna.etsy.com/listing/4374...
#art #Christmasdecor #handmade #bsnm #MHHSBD

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Jack - Oi, Shiny! @oishinythings.bsky.social · 4h

(If people like all the others, grand, good for them! But it was such a funny demonstration of how most customers *didn't*.)

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Jack - Oi, Shiny! @oishinythings.bsky.social · 4h

Last time I bought jeans there was a huge swathe of shelving untouched, and then all of us crowding round one bit at the end with the plain, straight legged, actually denim and not elastic nonsense, *jeans*.

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Emily Tull ASGFA @artbyemilytull.bsky.social · 5d

Announcement
The Value Of Creatures

My first solo exhibition in four years.
Hosted at Arts In Ramsgate, High Street, Ramsgate, Kent, UK. Open weekends only.
Full details on the poster.
#PortraitArt #WildlifeArt #embroidery #Ramsgate

A white bordered rectangular poster with a dusky pink inner rectangle. In the pink are three slim rectangles filled with close ups of artworks: hand embroidered starfish, two fighting tree sparrows and a fragmented self portrait.
Title - The Value Of Creatures
Emily Tull solo exhibition
November
8/9
15/16
22/23
29/30
10 - 5
Arts In Ramsgate, High Street, Ramsgate

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Jack - Oi, Shiny! @oishinythings.bsky.social · 4h

Would you notice? "I swear, I saw Barney the dinosaur slap a cop!" "I didn't see him!" "He probably went home before you got here."

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 17h

We’ve been saying this forever. The social media ban will harm kids

ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 18h

LGBTIQA+ advocates are concerned the social media ban will have a significant impact on queer youth in regional and remote areas of Australia. They say there are not enough offline, physical supports for these teens to access when the ban comes into effect.

LGBTQIA+ advocates say social media ban will 'cut off' regional queer teens

LGBTIQA+ advocates are concerned the social media ban will have a significant impact on queer youth in regional and remote areas of Australia. They say there are not enough offline, physical supports for these teens to access when the ban comes into effect.

www.abc.net.au

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Jack - Oi, Shiny! @oishinythings.bsky.social · 4h

(It sounds funny because of the example, but I know the answer is "stress" and it means I can't remember my last *restful* night of sleep, I wake up feeling like I put in a full shift.)

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Jack - Oi, Shiny! @oishinythings.bsky.social · 4h

I am tired of always having such stressful dreams.

This time my friend was trying to raise her sister from the dead after an accident at sea and accidentally brought back 5 other people too, who needed minding and acclimating and such.

How is that my problem to deal with?

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Michael Dashow @mdashow.bsky.social · Aug 19

Warning to anyone who has their art on Spreadshirt.com: They now have a feature where anyone can remix your art and it's impossible to opt out unless you just leave the site altogether.

Spreadshirt to artists: We’re taking your designs for AI pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/19/s...

Spreadshirt to artists: We’re taking your designs for AI

Spreadshirt is an online print-on-demand store. You can sell T-shirts and mugs and so on. My wife Arkady Rose is an artist as well as a musician, and had a pile of designs on Spreadshirt and Redbub…

pivot-to-ai.com

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Tanya is seeking work || 🔜 TCNA @cypheroftyr.bsky.social · 5h

Join me, @zufats.com @briggsy.bsky.social @topaztvee.bsky.social @theselenaprice.bsky.social & @deejayknight.bsky.social for Burnout: What Comes Next at 12:30pm PT on Oct. 19th in PJ Sugar at #TwitchConNA

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 14h

Comedians be like The road is canceling me 😂

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 16h

📌“The fact that I am American means, among other things, people can’t say, like they did about Francis, ‘he doesn’t understand the United States, he just doesn’t see what’s going on.’
“Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed?”

-Pope Leo in a direct rebuke of the hideous Trump

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 14h

The kraken coasters are back again! One of my favorite sets, in all of my favorite colors!

thebrokencircle.etsy...

A set of four round coasters with a kraken-adjacent creature waving his arms through some decorative seaweed. They come in pink, purple, blue, and green.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 15h

someone on the Internet who really wants to convince you to shine lasers at manned aircraft as a protest tactic “because they did it in Chile in 2019” is either:

1. a fascist fed, or,

2. so terminally stupid that they have become functionally indistinguishable from one

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Jack - Oi, Shiny! @oishinythings.bsky.social · 16h

Barbie also genuinely has a bunch of POC and disabled friends.

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Jack - Oi, Shiny! @oishinythings.bsky.social · 16h

Ooof. I had to give a friend's little brother a talk on Andrew Tate. Thankfully he was very much on fringes and easily discussed, but. The things you have to watch for.

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Aya Sakate @astralbelle.bsky.social · 1d

BTW this means my shop, sleepingseamstress.bigcartel.com is open again! And you should check it out for cute stuff!!

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