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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

interior design where you're just randomly pressing buttons for yellow gold, white marble, and crystal chandelier to remind everyone you're very rich

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 3d

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

My 11-year-old sitting with her pile of Halloween candy, sorting it into a bar graph

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 5d

TOAD WILL NOW PLAY THE PIANO VERY WELL.

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Ennui Doofen @ennuidoofen.bsky.social · 5d

the face i make when i have a great idea, before i realize the inevitable repercussions

A close up wide angle of a black and white Pyr/Karakachan mix who looks very excited with her mouth and eyes wide open. Her tongue is sticking out

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 8d

"For every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There's no way we can meet that gap. There's no way we can replace every single one of those meals. It is not sustainable for food banks to fill this gap. We were not built to do this."

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 8d

Pretty weird that the Republican Party talks a lot about protecting Christians from unseen forces and how our country is based on Christian values, but when there are hungry people to feed and sick people who need health care, Jesus Christ is suddenly a radical commie.

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 8d

SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live.

Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:

* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled

* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages

Marc Lobliner post on X: "Why the hell are we giving food stamps to 40 million people?

Does anyone work anymore?"

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 8d

Food insecurity is ALWAYS a political choice. Famine is ALWAYS manmade. People go hungry because of other people’s decisions. We have more than enough food for everyone, and enormous amounts of it are wasted—literally thrown in the garbage—on purpose.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 8d

@thecomplexrebel (on Threads)
Good morning to everyone but the people who think cutting SNAP saves money. Every $1 in SNAP creates up to $1.80 in local economic activity. When families can't buy groceries, your grocery store loses customers, your town loses jobs, and your economy LOSES. SNAP feeds everyone.

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 8d

Not only is it going to be a hunger crisis, it's going to be a farm crisis. All those gallons of milk bought from dairy farmers, all the produce, all the on sale ground beef and packs of chicken that are paid for by SNAP are subsidies to farmers who don't qualify for commodities subsidies.

Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 8d

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 8d

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

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R Beda @rbeda.bsky.social · 14d

Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright;
the band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light, and somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout;
but there is no joy in Mudville mighty Casey has struck out.

#mariners

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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 17d

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.

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Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino.

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Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers.

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Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 17d

No kid should ever have to protest or advocate for their friends’ basic humanity.

But they’re standing up at No Kings anyway.

A little boy holds a handmade sign with hearts glued to it. It reads, “leave my friends ALONE Donald Trump”. He’s bravely protesting at the No Kings Evanston protest.

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R Beda @rbeda.bsky.social · 28d

Glenn’s deep-dives into things like typography are unmatched. His books are great gifts for rabbit-hole lovers 😁

Glenn Fleishman @glennf.com · 28d

Consider *Six Centuries of Type & Printing*, a beautiful, compact volume, great for typophiles and others interested in design and printing? sixcent.info Available signed; ships worldwide. Audiobook and ebook versions and bundles are available.

Hand holding open book in front of slightly out of focus bookshelves. The left and right book pages have illustrations at the top: Dance of Death (left); Common Press (right)

Decorated endpapers of book showing type and printing artifacts in black at an angle printed on top of a sharp red paper.

Pivotal type casting machine (Barth caster) in line-art form tinted green. The machine has a variety of gears and adjustments to rapidly produce the same piece of type.

Cover of Six Centuries of Type & Printing: green cloth in 8 by 5 inch format, with brass-colored foil stamping for a border around the title and "by Glenn Fleishman"

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · Oct 5

Hanging out at a bar with my favorite people (Willie, the dog, and @rbeda.bsky.social, the spouse) watching the M’s. First run in the post season since 2001!

Willie hanging out at Harry’s bar looking for some pizza.

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R Beda @rbeda.bsky.social · Oct 5

Late to the Event but dear god you have my sympathy and glad it got sorted.

R Beda @rbeda.bsky.social · Oct 1

Thank you @atg.wa.gov for continuing to do the right thing and standing up for life-saving medical care.

Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · Oct 1

On Friday 18 blue state attorneys general BLASTED the Federal Trade Commission, telling it to back off trans youth healthcare and warning of an insidious attempt to reshape the regulation of medicine in the US.

And nobody covered it.

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

State AGs Defend Trans Americans in Stunning Rebuke to Trump’s FTC — Assigned

Eighteen state Attorneys General unite to stand up in defense of trans Americans, in opposition to a Federal Trade Commission investigation into trans healthcare.

www.assignedmedia.org

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · Sep 30

I’m really grateful for Pritzker. But that he’s so good at this also makes clear just how badly most other Democrats are failing to meet the moment.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · Sep 30

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it?

If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say?

Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · Sep 29

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · Sep 17

The buff-tip moth (Phalera bucephala) has mastered a very particular kind of camouflage.

When they close their wings up, they resemble a broken twig.

Native to large parts of Europe, there's regional pattern variation that reflects the local tree species. This one best resembles birch twigs?

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · Sep 17

Trans rights are human rights.

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · Sep 17

Roses are red
Sweetly sings the lark

Telegraph headline: Aggressive goats, with taste for human urine, are airlifted out of park. Image shows mountain goats in slings dangling from a helicopter over trees

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R Beda @rbeda.bsky.social · Sep 11

@repkimschrier.bsky.social Really disappointed in my fellow physician Dr. Kim Schrier for voting to approve the inclusion of Nancy Mace’s sports ban for trans women in the military defense bill HR3838. As a physician and a democrat, she should do better for trans military people.

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · Sep 5

It's just a sports ban.
It's just a bathroom ban.
It's just a healthcare for kids ban.
It's just a military service ban.
It's just a federal jobs ban.
It's just a university housing ban.
It's just a passport & visa ban.
It's just one Constitutional right.
It's just your status as free citizens.

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