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Peace 🕊️ @peacebird.bsky.social · Jul 19

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Peace 🕊️ @peacebird.bsky.social · 9m

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Here’s a story about my Uncle Joe, who survived the camps, and at the age of 102 travels to speak about his experiences so that others will better understand the holocaust

101-year-old Holocaust survivor encourages everyone to ‘be a proud Jew’

More than 600 people gathered at Arizona State University’s Student Pavilion in Tempe on Sunday, Feb. 18, to hear firsthand from 101-year-old Holocaust survivor Joseph “Joe” Alexander. During World Wa...

www.jewishaz.com

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Pestilence @pestilence4all.bsky.social · 14m

Some days the utter ignorance/stupidity of our fellow humans cannot be overlooked.

Text reads —

Let us lament for what could have been, A world of reason, a place to begin.
But here we stand, in mournful sighs, For ignorance reigns while knowledge dies.

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Deborah Lynn @mrsdeborahlynn.bsky.social · 1h

www.reuters.com/business/fin...
Woman who says she was abused by the late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein sued Bank of America and the Bank of New York Mellon on Wednesday, alleging the banks knowingly provided financial services that enabled his sex trafficking operation for years.

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Elizabeth Alice Croydon @misslizzy.bsky.social · 2h

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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 2h

Tonight on my SiriusXM show from 6 to 9PMET on channel 127:

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Peace 🕊️ @peacebird.bsky.social · 2h

Thank you so much Charlie 💙

A small black kitten wearing a witch’s hat tied on with an orange and black ribbon

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Charlie @nudog71.bsky.social · 2h

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Peace 🕊️ @peacebird.bsky.social · 3h

www.hopkinsmedicine.org/about/histor...

Who Was Johns Hopkins?

The establishment of Johns Hopkins Medicine started with one man's quest to build an inclusive hospital for everyone.

www.hopkinsmedicine.org

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Trey @tsauro.bsky.social · 3h

Randomly reading up on Johns Hopkins, philanthropist who founded the famous university and hospital. Just an amazing person. If only our current crop of billionaires could be like he was the world would be a better place.

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Peace 🕊️ @peacebird.bsky.social · 3h

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Lynn: Let's storm the Bastille @auberon.bsky.social · 4h

Good afternoon, Bluesky

Was not a fan of the chemically induced stress test. It was an anxiety riddled fuckery that ended in the shakes

Anyway, passed all of the perioperative tests, so I am so far a "go" for surgery on the 28th

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Wmassgal @wmassgal.bsky.social · 3h

My clematis just started blooming again! Crazy!

Purple clematis now reblooming in October in Massachusetts

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Ellie chats & rants @loopyleanne.bsky.social · 5h

BlueSky having a mare right now

Unless all the server issues are just me?!

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Peace 🕊️ @peacebird.bsky.social · 5h

Not just you

It’s hiccuping wildly

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Mo @mo-wilk.bsky.social · 7h

This checks out

I used to think adulthood was one crisis after another. I was wrong. Multiple crises. Concurrently. All at once. All the time. Forever.

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Lynn: Let's storm the Bastille @auberon.bsky.social · 7h

Sitting at the courtyard of Carnegie Museum of Art while awaiting my next perioperative appointment.

Tiny Fancy is pacing the Impressionism exhibit while I chill a bit

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 9h

There is a river.

It flows in the direction of progress. Unnatural forces try to build a dam to block the river and reverse the flow.

Not only is this a mighty task, but its construction upsets the world, bringing more rain.

The river expands, until the dam runs out of materials.

The dam breaks.

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Santaclause1941 @santaclause1941.bsky.social · 10h

BTW, I will be at the No Kings rally in my state on the 18th, I'll be the guy in the wheelchair. What will you be doing? Join us, if you can.

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Peace 🕊️ @peacebird.bsky.social · 10h

G’morning SwampyBones ☕️💀

a robot with a mohawk has a cup of coffee next to it

Alt: a robot with a face made of coffee beans that flashes GM has a cup of coffee next to it

media.tenor.com

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SwampyBones💀 @ruh-roh.bsky.social · 10h

☕ c h e e r s 🤖

a cartoon drawing of a robot with the words happy hump day

Alt: a cartoon drawing of a robot having coffee,with the words happy hump day!

media.tenor.com

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Peace 🕊️ @peacebird.bsky.social · 10h

My local airport refused as well

Spokane International Airport won't play DHS secretary's video blaming Democrats for shutdown

WASHINGTON – Spokane International Airport will not display a video in which the Department of Homeland Security chief blames Democrats in Congress for the government shutdown, a spokesman for the air...

www.spokesman.com

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Pestilence @pestilence4all.bsky.social · 11h

Just in case you’re looking for the Overton Window. I found it.

A photo of a wooden-framed window with broken glass laying on the ground surrounded by other debris.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 11h

The secret power of a people’s movement is that it’s random.

It’s neighbors protecting immigrants from ICE. It’s millions canceling Disney+. It’s a man throwing a sandwich. It’s inflatable frogs dancing.

Dictators struggle to fight a movement, because they can’t do what they want most—control us.

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Pestilence @pestilence4all.bsky.social · 21h

An Aurora a Night — 2
“Pillars over Burnt Lake”

#Photography #Auroraborealis
#Minnesota #BWCA

A photograph showing pillars of green and pink light radiating down from the sky over the silhouettes of dark trees.

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Pestilence @pestilence4all.bsky.social · 22h

Whatever you do, don’t share this 1949 graph comparing polio cases and ice cream purchases by month in the US with the current HHS Secretary. He might get some crazy idea that ice cream causes polio.
Welp — removing ice cream was recommended as part of an anti-polio diet. 🤦‍♂️

A screenshot of a line graph showing the trends of polio cases and ice cream sales month-by-month throughout 1949. While the lines show similar trends this is a mere association. People tend to buy more ice cream as temperatures rise throughout spring and summer, which coincides with transmission increases of polio due in part to flies that can transmit poliovirus buy coming contact with virus-containing feces or sewage and transporting it to food. Just don’t think about it …🤢

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