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Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social · 9h

This made me laugh way harder than it should have.

A play on the Obama "HOPE" poster, but with a frog and the word "HOP"

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petnoodle @petnoodle.bsky.social · 21h

Made me laugh. Um I mean yeah

Joe Patrice @joepatrice.bsky.social · 21h

Amazing

Tweet: @vexwerewolf
Right-wingers literally straight-up admitting "it's harder to discredit the left because the left is almost always telling the truth"
Scott Jennings @Lum 21h um, yes, that's really a problem
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The problem with left-leaning media is they're intrinsically more strict with their propaganda to only using verifiable sources so it's really hard to poke holes in their ideology and arguments in comparison to a lot of low quality rightwing content.
That makes attacking their points with fact checkers not very effective unless the fact checkers use misinformation tactics as well.
In essence people on the right have to work harder and more creatively to push their agendas as statistics and studies frustratingly arent usually on our side.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 1d

Hey author friends! Please help! I do freelance writing, and I’m trying to find my DC pro and semi-pro writer friends.

How do I find them? Are there Bluesky starter packs, meetup group, professional societies?

How do writers find each other?

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Lorie L. @ljleavy.bsky.social · 1d

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petnoodle @petnoodle.bsky.social · 1d

This is the most wonderful thing, thank you

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Outbursts Of Everett True @everetttrue.bsky.social · May 30

The Evansville Press, April 10,1916

MY CARD.
MR. GEO. PUSHEM, EFFICIENCY EXPERT.

AND STAY OUT!
I HAVE NO USE FOR THE SHARP BOYS THAT GO AROUND SHOWING EMPLOYERS HOW THEY CAN KILL OFF THEIR HELP QUICKER BY
SHIFTING TUO MEN'S WORK
ONTO ONE!!!

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petnoodle @petnoodle.bsky.social · 2d

The staff of MMWR laid off!!

Just when you think it can't get any fucking worse... well, unfortunately I didn't think that, I figure with these sadistic clowns in charge it definitely could get worse

Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 2d

They continue to eviscerate the public health machinery that has quietly kept Americans, and others around the world, safe and healthy for decades.

The staff of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the journal that reports on health trends and emerging infectious threats, was also laid off. The publication’s storied history includes a June 1981 report that five previously healthy gay men were treated for an unusual pneumonia — the first hint of the AIDS epidemic.

Roughly 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers — the so-called “disease detectives” who respond to outbreaks around the globe — received layoff notices, according to a person familiar with them. The service was spared during an earlier round of layoffs in February.

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petnoodle @petnoodle.bsky.social · 2d

Drawing #invertebrates helps me remember what they look like! So here's a sketchy sketch of an Ameletid mayfly larva for y'all
(Cropped off most of the only-comprehensible-to-me notes)

A sketch of a segmented insect with kind of an R2D2 shaped head, a long abdomen with gills along the sides, three tails, and yellow highlighting. It's labeled "Ameletidae" and has the word "spine" next to some spines and "tail" sort of near the tails

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petnoodle @petnoodle.bsky.social · 2d

We felt the same about the bullshit about DC. Like - wut

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petnoodle @petnoodle.bsky.social · 2d

Icons of the Situation: Portland Frog; Chicago Priest; our Sandwich Guy; and that guy in LA who walked through teargas with a skateboard in one hand and giving ICE the finger with the other

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Scoiattolo @offline.mountainherder.xyz · 2d

The frogs have landed in Chicago! (2025)

YOU ARE NOT

ALONE IN THIS

ABYSSAL DARKNESS.

I AM HERE, AND WE

SHALL FACE THE

CHASM AS

BROTHERS.

Here comes that fellow
"My goodness, how do you do?"

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 3d

He wants X thing so he gets X thing is not a given. And to me that's the thing to uproot from people's consciousness. Because we're less than a year in and many people seem already defeated.

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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 3d

Well didn’t take long for the most predictable thing that people have been saying Would happen if we all started uploading identity verifying documents to servers to happen to happen.

404 Media @404media.co · 3d

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

www.404media.co

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Tom Astle @tjalamont.bsky.social · 4d

A tiny moth, barely bigger than a rice grain, from the Mojave Desert. The curved "horns" are mouthparts, the labial palps. They help the moth both taste and smell - including being sensitive to changes in CO2 levels. I think they make the moth look like a mythological creature up close. 🐙🌿

A macro photo of a ghostly white moth on almost-white sand. The moth is seen from a front 3/4 angle; only the face and part of one antenna are in focus, and the back third of the body is out of frame. The moth has long, backward curving mouthparts called labial palps that look a bit like the curved horns of a mountain goat.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 4d

Michigan Avenue right now.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 4d

"we are going to murder americans without due process"
~pam bondi, US attorney general

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 4d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Jazz. @jl3001.blacksky.app · 4d

ICE at the Brookland Metro station in NE DC rn btw. Three dudes on their phones at the top of the escalator on the parking lot side.

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petnoodle @petnoodle.bsky.social · 4d

www.youtube.com/shorts/4Iu3g...

They did the Monster Slash

YouTube video by Elle Cordova

www.youtube.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4d

In a very real and practical sense, the elimination of USAID occurred because a) civil servants who followed the law were pushed out, b) unaccountable amoral people were given power, and c) SCOTUS let it all happen.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-death-...

In addition to mass firing of public servants, Musk's team executed a takeover of the Treasury payment system. David Lebryk, the civil servant who was acting Treasury Secretary, pushed back against the Musk official, Tom Krause, who demanded control over the payment system and specifically to pause USAID payments. Lebryk informed Krause that Treasury could not legally stop payments, and recommended to work through USAID instead. Krause then threatened Lebryk: “I would also recommend you consider an equal alternative liability.” By the next week Lebryk announced his retirement, and Musk announced he was shutting down the agency.

It was later revealed that the other DOGE official who had sought to take control of Treasury spending, Marko Elez, was a self-avowed racist with a record of making disparaging remarks about foreigners, including “I would not mind at all if Gaza and Israel were both wiped off the face of the Earth.” After he resigned, Musk led a successful campaign to bring Elez back into government, even as he pushed out those doing actual life-saving work.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 4d

I am so tired of our media letting weaselly little shits like Mike Johnson slide on these evasions.

Why *aren’t* you aware of blatant violations of the Constitution, Mike?! What makes you at all capable of holding this job?? Why should anyone believe a word coming out of your shitty little mouth??

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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petnoodle @petnoodle.bsky.social · 4d

Like the Berkshires being an extension of the Hudson Valley - I can see that

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petnoodle @petnoodle.bsky.social · 4d

Yep, Fairfield County CT being lumped with NYC is 100%. I've never thought that I was "from New England"; I'm from the NYC suburbs.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 5d

It’s not too late for the Bluesky admins to say - yeah, ok, a permanent ban was an overreaction. Times are tough. Let’s try again. They could do it right now.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 5d

doomscroll break

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