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Amanda🍁🦫 @realamandalive.com · 4h

Caution: Happy Fun Ball may suddenly accelerate to dangerous speeds.

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Amanda🍁🦫 @realamandalive.com · 7h

I love that she's not a troublemaker, she's not a fellow student, she's an AGITATOR

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Ham @johnnydewdew.bsky.social · 8h

The face I make when lightning strikes twice

Close up screen grab of the image from the above post (a poster for Titanic 2). The image is zoomed in on the smoke stack of the ship which looks like it has googly eyes and a worried expression.

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Amanda🍁🦫 @realamandalive.com · 7h

a group of people playing instruments on a stage with marshall amps in the background

Alt: A very small model of stonehenge is lowered on a stage, while a group of people playing instruments on a stage with marshall amps in the background

media.tenor.com

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Amanda🍁🦫 @realamandalive.com · 1d

Every different camp you help in Borderlands 4 is like a different kind of discord server.

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Amanda🍁🦫 @realamandalive.com · 1d

I know job hunting right now *feels* impossible, but it isn't. It's difficult but not impossible.

Telling yourself that a problem is impossible to solve as an excuse to just not try at all is self-sabotage, friends.

Anyway, back to writing my little cover letters.

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Amanda🍁🦫 @realamandalive.com · 1d

Epomaker RT100 and a Logitech G203 - both wired! I have been using them both for almost a year and have been really enjoying them both! Affordable and do what they say on the tin!

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Joshua "The Crypt" Keep(er) @jekeep.bsky.social · 1d

Is it really democracy when the people don't get what they voted for in any real, material sense?

Fair Vote Canada 🗳️🍁 @fairvote.ca · 1d

Newfoundland and Labrador’s election shows the problem again. A party can win a majority of seats without majority support.

Proportional representation would make every vote count equally and ensure real majority rule.

Two pie charts compare votes and seats in Newfoundland and Labrador’s election. The left chart shows the popular vote: PCs 44.5%, Liberals 43.7%, NDP 8.4%, Independents 3.9%. The right chart shows seat share: PCs 52.5%, Liberals 37.5%, NDP 5%, Independents 5%. The graphic highlights how first past the post gave the PCs a majority of seats despite not having majority voter support, with a message calling for proportional representation.

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Amanda🍁🦫 @realamandalive.com · 1d

I remember when there was a campaign promise to institute proportional representation... I guess doing what voters want is vewy hawd because of (checks notes) not wanting to.

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Amanda🍁🦫 @realamandalive.com · 1d

Among other things, yes haha

Amanda🍁🦫 @realamandalive.com · 1d

I think he breaks the sound barrier at some point!

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Amanda🍁🦫 @realamandalive.com · 1d

A CBC podcast about Murdoch Mysteries hosted by Jason Mewes? Right on!

Inside Murdoch Mysteries with Jason Mewes: with guest stars Yannick Bisson and Countess Luann

YouTube video by CBC

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Amanda🍁🦫 @realamandalive.com · 2d

Tarkies!!!!!

TARKIES 2025 - Coming November 13th! - Escape from Tarkov Game Award Show

YouTube video by Pestily

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Amanda🍁🦫 @realamandalive.com · 3d

It's Millers Crossing/Goodfellas double feature weather!

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🜲 James @jamesskeets.blacksky.app · 20d

Through her creative platform, Saint Heron, Solange has launched The Saint Heron Library, a digital archive dedicated to making rare and out-of-print works by Black authors, poets, and artists accessible to all.

🔗 library.saintheron.com

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 3d

who the hell is columpus

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Amanda🍁🦫 @realamandalive.com · 3d

Anchorman 3 would just be the whole gang serving in dangerously powerful positions.

Brick is president.

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Harlem Toots @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 3d

Not only is he calling out chumps but you can literally trace many of the threads in our modern reactionary moment to many of the currents shot through in the writing by the authors listed here. It’s also a heads up.

Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 3d

Du Bois basically did a version of this in his bibliography in Black Reconstruction

BIB L I OGRAPH Y
STAN DARD - A N TI-NEGRO
(These authors believe the Negro to be sub-human and congenitally un-
fitted for citizenship and the suffrage.)
Burgess, John W., Reconstruction and the Constitution, 1 866-1 876.
Coulter, E. Merton, Civil War and Reconstruction in Kentucky.
Davis, William W ., The Civil War and Reconstruction in Florida.
Dunning, William A., Reconstruction, Political and Economic .
Eckenrode, F. Hamilton, Political History of Virginia During Reconstruc·
tion.
Fertig, James Walter, The Secession and Reconstruction of Tennessee.
Ficklen, John R., History of Reconstruction in Louisiana.
Fleming, Walter F., Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama.
--, Documentary History of Reconstruction, 1 906, 1907.
Hamilton, Joseph G. de R., Reconstruction in North Carolina.
Hollis, John Porter, The Early Period of Reconstruction in South Carolina.
Lonn, Ella, Reconstruction in Louisiana after 1 868 .
Ramsdell, Charles W., Reconstruction in Texas .
Rhodes, James F., History of United States from the Compromise of 1 850.
Scott, Eben G., Reconstruction During the Civil War.
Staples, Thomas S ., Reconstruction in Arkansas .
Studies in Southern History and Politics . Inscribed to William Archibald
Dunning.
Carpet-Baggers in the United States Senate. By C. Mildred Thompson.
The Literary Movement for Secession. By Ulrich B. Phillips.
Negro Suffrage in the South. By W. Roy Smith.
Some Phases of Educational History in the South Since 1 865. By Wil-
liam K. Boyd.
Southern Legislation in Respect to Freedmen, 1 865- 1 866. By J. G. de
Roulhac Hamilton.
The Federal Enforcement Acts . By William Watson Davis.
The New South, Economic and Social . By Holland Thompson.
Grant's Southern Policy. By Edwin C. Woolley.
Taylor, Richard, Destruction and Reconstruction.
Thompson, Clara M., Reconstruction in Georgia, Economic, Social, Po-
litical, l 805-1 872.
Wooley, Edwin C., The Reconstruction of Georgia.

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Amanda🍁🦫 @realamandalive.com · 3d

GTFO clouds! I'm trying to look at the night sky and experience awe at the vastness of the fucking universe.

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Amanda🍁🦫 @realamandalive.com · 3d

Job Title: Living Sacrifice to Neofeudalism

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Amanda🍁🦫 @realamandalive.com · 3d

Hmmm okay, I think this is the play: get lucky and stay lucky forever and then it will all work out! No worries!

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Amanda🍁🦫 @realamandalive.com · 3d

It's unsurprising to me that executives have trouble assessing the value of human empathy.

I've been trying to finish a UX course on and off between other jobs, and the overlap between core UX principles and what I studied in undergrad (social sciences) is astounding. No wonder the MBAs hate it.

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Amanda🍁🦫 @realamandalive.com · 3d

I am planning to start job hunting again soon and it feels insurmountably difficult. Genuinely like playing the lottery, except every lottery ticket requires an essay about why you deserve to purchase the ticket.

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Amanda🍁🦫 @realamandalive.com · 3d

What if I just moved into the library?

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Shira Ovide @shiraovide.bsky.social · 8d

Sigh. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Amazon Caught Peddling AI Slop Version of Cory Doctorow That's So Ironic That We Have to Go Outside and Stare at the Sky for a Bit

The renowned tech critic's book "Enshittification" hasn't even been out for a full day, and Amazon is already selling AI-generated knockoffs.

futurism.com

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