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Jokes, poetry, trivia, dogs, snacks. Views are my own and do not represent my jobs or dogs. plusgreg everywhere. (he/him) Profile art by Sara McHenry.

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Gregormortis @plusgreg.bsky.social · Jun 19

They should invent a time that is precedented.

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BOOOOlioraptor, PhD (spooky version) @biblioraptorphd.bsky.social · 1d

Janet saying: Fun fact: Columbus is in the Bad Place
because of all the raping, slave trade, and genocide.

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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 15h

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Gregormortis @plusgreg.bsky.social · 11h

Nice chodescope.

Gregormortis @plusgreg.bsky.social · 11h

Migas no.

Gregormortis @plusgreg.bsky.social · 19h

It is perfect getting a dog weather, Omaha.
Omaha, you will not regret getting a dog.

Nebraska Humane Society @nehumanesociety.bsky.social · 23h

Every time a dog gets adopted from NHS, it opens up space for another pup in need. Can't adopt but want to help? Consider fostering, volunteering, taking a dog on an outing, or simply just spreading the word!

Gregormortis @plusgreg.bsky.social · 19h

NON Ares then.

Gregormortis @plusgreg.bsky.social · 19h

So do the direct deposits for protesting on Saturday just show up as "PAPA SOROS" or is it something clever like "AUNTIE FAE"?

Gregormortis @plusgreg.bsky.social · 19h

The one patch of True Flesh poking out.

Detail of op photo of where they missed a patch of pale, pocked scalp with Trump's usual bronzer.

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Gregormortis @plusgreg.bsky.social · 20h

Being subjected to presidential tariff shakedowns for little treats from overseas is going to honestly move a lot of votes.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 20h

Just had to pay tariffs at the door via check only to UPS. Stupid Trump tariffs. Poor guy had to wait holding my package while I searched for my checkbook to write a check.

Gregormortis @plusgreg.bsky.social · 21h

I think it was very considerate of nature to create the Viscacha and the Quokka so we have fluffy avatars of exactly what depressive and manic episodes feel like.

Image of a Peruvian Viscacha, a rabbit like creature of endless fluffiness. Its two paws are folded down in front of its big pouch belly. It has downturned eyes that are only matched by its long drooping whiskers.

Image of a Quokka in front of a street. It holds a morsel in its forepaws. It's a brown marsupial with wildly expressive eyes, a wet brown nose, and puffy cheeks and mouth that give the impression of a smile.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 23h

Honestly, it needs to go further than this.

We need to confront the fact that democracy and wealth hoarding cannot coexist. Allowing people to amass the resources of a small state/country allows them to act as such, which is inimical to a shared society of “one person, one vote.”

John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 1d

“No Kings” is great , but we really don't get a functioning democracy back until we internalize, bone deep, the instinctive response to this and every other statement like it: “I don’t care what that rich guy thinks.”

Make it your morning affirmation. Say it ten times at the top of every hour.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 1d

Elon Musk calls for US troops to be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs: ‘It’s the only solution’

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Proud Owls ⭐⭐ @proudowlsoma.bsky.social · 23h

This is a brilliant and affecting statement of one person's commitment to inclusion.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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matthew @pahuski.com · 1d

Happy Columbo’s Day

Screenshot from Columbo. He his talking to his dog, which is sitting is the drivers seat of a car. “Okay, I’m gonna put you in charge. You take care of the car. You’re a responsible dog. When I get back, if the car’s okay, I’ll give you another cookie.”

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Gregormortis @plusgreg.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations on developing a whole new dimension of States Wrongs.

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 1d

welcome to the new era of CBS News, where brave truth-telling takes precedence over spelling Zohran Mamdani’s name correctly

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Gregormortis @plusgreg.bsky.social · 1d

It's like if a White Russian buzzball made a wish to be a guy.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 2d

This heartfelt and meaningful statement by Portland resident and author Cristina Breshears on another social media platform bears reposting here. I don't think the intent is to idealize Portland but to remind all of us what is important and why. (Posted here with permission.)

For nine nights now, the steady thrum of Black Hawk helicopters has circled over Portland. The sound is constant, invasive; a low mechanical beating above our homes. It’s expensive. It’s intimidating. And it’s unnecessary.

Our protests have been largely peaceful. There is no insurrection here. Yet this federalized military presence makes us feel like we are living in a war zone (the very kind of chaos this administration claims to be protecting us from).

The irony is painful: it is only this occupation that makes Portland feel unsafe.

Each hour of helicopter flight costs taxpayers between $2,000 and $4,000, depending on crew, fuel, and maintenance. Multiply that by multiple aircraft over multiple nights, and you’re looking at hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars burned into the sky.

Meanwhile, the Woodstock Food Pantry at All Saints Episcopal Church — which feeds working families, elders, and people with disabilities — has seen its federal funding slashed by 75%. How can we justify pouring public money into intimidation while cutting aid to those who simply need to eat?

This is waste, fraud, and abuse in plain sight:
* Waste of public resources on military theatrics.
* Fraud in the name of “public safety.”
* Abuse of the communities that federal agencies claim to protect.

Portland is a Sanctuary City. A sanctuary city is not a fortress. It’s a promise — a living vow that a community will protect the dignity and safety of everyone who calls it home. It means that local governments and ordinary people alike will refuse to criminalize survival. That schools, clinics, churches, and shelters will remain safe spaces no matter who you are or where you were born. But the term reaches far beyond policy. It’s an ethic of belonging; a refusal to criminalize need, difference, or desperation.

Sanctuary isn’t weakness. It’s courage. It takes moral strength to meet suffering with care instead of punishment, to believe that our neighbors’ safety is bound up in our own, to insist that safety is not achieved through force but through community, inclusion, and trust. It is living Matthew 25:40 out loud and in deed. It is an act of moral imagination and moral defiance. To hold sanctuary is to say: you belong here.

When we hold space for the most vulnerable — refugees, the unhoused, the undocumented, the disabled, the working poor, the displaced — we become something larger than a collection of individuals. We become a moral body. We do more than offer charity. We offer witness. We declare that the measure of a nation is found not in its towers or tanks, but in its tenderness.

Sanctuary cities are not lawless; they are soulful. They represent the conscience of the nation, a place where the laws of empathy still apply. To make sanctuary is to affirm that the United States is not merely a geographic territory, but a moral experiment: a republic that must constantly choose between fear and compassion, between domination and democracy.

A nation’s soul is measured not by the might of its military, but by the mercy of its people. When helicopters circle our skies in the name of order, while food pantries struggle to feed the hungry, we are forced to ask: What are we defending, and from whom? The soul of a nation survives only when we make sanctuary for one another. Not through walls or weapons, but through compassion and collective will. If we allow intimidation to replace compassion, we will have traded our conscience for control.

Please know that despite the hum of war machines overhead, the conscience of our city — whimsical, creative, stubbornly kind — can still be heard.

Portland is not the problem. Portland is the reminder. A reminder that a city can still choose to be sanctuary. That a people can still choose to be human.

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Gregormortis @plusgreg.bsky.social · 1d

K-Pop Demon Hunters took the top spot back like five days later. °__°

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 1d

Send every ICE employee to the fucking Hague.

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Gregormortis @plusgreg.bsky.social · 1d

What are the legal and emotional distinctions between a 12 year old being trafficked 500 miles away from home and a 13 year old? We'll wait.

Gregormortis @plusgreg.bsky.social · 2d

I will miss the morning Milton so much, just a sweet dollop of a guy.

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 4d

You can wear this one and hold a sign that says we're all trying to find antifa

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Gregormortis @plusgreg.bsky.social · 2d

A cup of hot fish milk with every lunch combo.

Gregormortis @plusgreg.bsky.social · 2d

So true.

Gregormortis @plusgreg.bsky.social · 2d

It heats up a lot better after the first two.