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Hi @bsky.app @support.bsky.team I really liked when I joined how nearly all pictures had AltText. I liked how I could set a reminder to add it. I don't usually need it, but, I like to make it easy for others. Can the default be to need it and someone has to go into settings to turn the reminder off?
Oh ffs
DMV~> A nasty, highly contagious form of norovirus called “winter vomiting disease” is spreading.
December 9, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Oh ffs
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A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...
Redirecting
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December 8, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
I am pissed. Or sad. Annoyed. Well it is going down to 9°F where I am (≈ -13C) by the time I'll be waking up tomorrow. Last night, I got to have this in the room I'm in. (At an elderly friend's place, but they're not taking as good care of it as their parent did).
December 8, 2025 at 2:26 AM
I am pissed. Or sad. Annoyed. Well it is going down to 9°F where I am (≈ -13C) by the time I'll be waking up tomorrow. Last night, I got to have this in the room I'm in. (At an elderly friend's place, but they're not taking as good care of it as their parent did).
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"A New York City-based Republican club will honor a far-right German leader at its annual gala — just eight weeks after its statewide counterpart was disbanded over a group chat in which members praised Adolf Hitler."
Because, of course.
#RepublicanHateClub #YoungRepublicans #extemists
Because, of course.
#RepublicanHateClub #YoungRepublicans #extemists
Young Republicans chapter plans to host far-right German leader after ‘I love Hitler’ chat
The New York Young Republican Club will host Markus Frohnmaier, an AfD deputy chair, at its annual gala after calling for a ‘new civic order’ in Germany.
www.politico.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:25 AM
"A New York City-based Republican club will honor a far-right German leader at its annual gala — just eight weeks after its statewide counterpart was disbanded over a group chat in which members praised Adolf Hitler."
Because, of course.
#RepublicanHateClub #YoungRepublicans #extemists
Because, of course.
#RepublicanHateClub #YoungRepublicans #extemists
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UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene.
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
December 7, 2025 at 10:31 PM
UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene.
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
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Join us TOMORROW to celebrate the new ferry connection between Staten Island and Brooklyn:
🕤 9:30 a.m. — ribbon cutting at Staten Island’s Fast Ferry Landing Pier
🕘🥂 9:48 a.m. — ferry departs with a celebratory toast onboard
🚢 9:58 a.m. — arrival in Bay Ridge + short speaking program
🕤 9:30 a.m. — ribbon cutting at Staten Island’s Fast Ferry Landing Pier
🕘🥂 9:48 a.m. — ferry departs with a celebratory toast onboard
🚢 9:58 a.m. — arrival in Bay Ridge + short speaking program
December 8, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Join us TOMORROW to celebrate the new ferry connection between Staten Island and Brooklyn:
🕤 9:30 a.m. — ribbon cutting at Staten Island’s Fast Ferry Landing Pier
🕘🥂 9:48 a.m. — ferry departs with a celebratory toast onboard
🚢 9:58 a.m. — arrival in Bay Ridge + short speaking program
🕤 9:30 a.m. — ribbon cutting at Staten Island’s Fast Ferry Landing Pier
🕘🥂 9:48 a.m. — ferry departs with a celebratory toast onboard
🚢 9:58 a.m. — arrival in Bay Ridge + short speaking program
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard Mode: No Star Wars, Star Trek, Marvel etc.
December 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard Mode: No Star Wars, Star Trek, Marvel etc.
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Tascha didn’t just build a volunteer team of more than 100,000 people, she built a community across our city.
And there’s no one better suited to tell you how she did it than her.
thedigradio.com/podcast/thre...
And there’s no one better suited to tell you how she did it than her.
thedigradio.com/podcast/thre...
Three Million Doors w/ Tascha Van Auken
Featuring Tascha Van Auken on how Zohran’s campaign mobilized an army of 100,000 volunteers to knock three million doors. Van Auken has been an architect of NYC-DSA’s field operation and its general e...
thedigradio.com
December 7, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Tascha didn’t just build a volunteer team of more than 100,000 people, she built a community across our city.
And there’s no one better suited to tell you how she did it than her.
thedigradio.com/podcast/thre...
And there’s no one better suited to tell you how she did it than her.
thedigradio.com/podcast/thre...
And something kinda cool is that, iirc, there's a word "xoxo" (chō-chō) that means "pu$$y". Which can also be creamy. 👀
Wow, it's a baked and then fried croissant stuffed with a Catalan custard similar to creme brûlée.
December 7, 2025 at 8:45 PM
And something kinda cool is that, iirc, there's a word "xoxo" (chō-chō) that means "pu$$y". Which can also be creamy. 👀
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I'm just a bumpkin at an under-funded teaching college who spent 16 years in a book doing this thing Wurman et al suddenly discovered. Silly me.
Since I traced migration & citizenship from the colonial period through 1888, yeah, pretty clear the 14th Amendment is intended to repudiate Dred Scott.
Since I traced migration & citizenship from the colonial period through 1888, yeah, pretty clear the 14th Amendment is intended to repudiate Dred Scott.
bad actors like wurman are why i think it is important to place the birthright clause in the full context of section 1 and section 1 in the context of both dred scott and the two decades of antislavery and abolitionist agitation and political thinking that proceeded it
The evidence is the text. All you have to do is read the Constitution.
December 7, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I'm just a bumpkin at an under-funded teaching college who spent 16 years in a book doing this thing Wurman et al suddenly discovered. Silly me.
Since I traced migration & citizenship from the colonial period through 1888, yeah, pretty clear the 14th Amendment is intended to repudiate Dred Scott.
Since I traced migration & citizenship from the colonial period through 1888, yeah, pretty clear the 14th Amendment is intended to repudiate Dred Scott.
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Stop selling your houses to corporations.
December 7, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Stop selling your houses to corporations.
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It only took four of us making a two-minute public comment about the library at the city council meeting for the councilors to restore the funding the mayor’s office had cut.
I really can't emphasize enough that if you care about local politics, all you gotta do is show up. Just a regular schmegular person showing up. Literally just show up consistently in person and within a remarkably short amount of time, you will have a shocking amount of influence.
December 6, 2025 at 5:08 PM
It only took four of us making a two-minute public comment about the library at the city council meeting for the councilors to restore the funding the mayor’s office had cut.
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Abusers have been making their partners miss court dates or refused to hire lawyers to deal with paper work for decades. And what that then does it put partner into ‘illegal’ status- and then it turns into if the person gets caught up in any court issue-
December 7, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Abusers have been making their partners miss court dates or refused to hire lawyers to deal with paper work for decades. And what that then does it put partner into ‘illegal’ status- and then it turns into if the person gets caught up in any court issue-
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How abusive partners have been using the immigration policy crisis to their advantage esp since 911. Men have been pretending to be cops/border patrol for decades. Partners have been ‘holding’ documents in safes that partner has no access to for decades.
December 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM
How abusive partners have been using the immigration policy crisis to their advantage esp since 911. Men have been pretending to be cops/border patrol for decades. Partners have been ‘holding’ documents in safes that partner has no access to for decades.
And Sunday Civics is re-aired at 5 pm, Sunday, on @urbanviewradio.bsky.social
This morning at 9am tune in @urbanviewradio.bsky.social channel 126 for a NEW Porch Light episode of #SundayCivics. @ljoywilliams.bsky.social discusses commitment to the future. Not the wish or hope, but what the requirements are for us to receive what we desire and is deserved. player.siriusxm.com
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December 7, 2025 at 6:54 PM
And Sunday Civics is re-aired at 5 pm, Sunday, on @urbanviewradio.bsky.social
Seen along a dirt road. A New England dirt road, it is true, but, rural nonetheless.
December 7, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Seen along a dirt road. A New England dirt road, it is true, but, rural nonetheless.
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The abortion fund @yellowfund.bsky.social recently announced it would halt funding and support for callers with appointments at any Planned Parenthood affiliate—not just PPSE—due to the allegations. Yellowhammer said it was already working with indie clinics most as that was better for patients
December 7, 2025 at 4:08 PM
The abortion fund @yellowfund.bsky.social recently announced it would halt funding and support for callers with appointments at any Planned Parenthood affiliate—not just PPSE—due to the allegations. Yellowhammer said it was already working with indie clinics most as that was better for patients
Well, he got approved SO DAMN EASILY
He and his enablers all knew that they could go full steam ahead. There wasn't going to be any resistance. And, there hasn't been.
#RFKJr #Health #PublicHealth
He and his enablers all knew that they could go full steam ahead. There wasn't going to be any resistance. And, there hasn't been.
#RFKJr #Health #PublicHealth
I think the *speed* at which RFK Jr and his Great Barrington Declaration/anti-vaxx/Brownstone wrecking crew have been dismantling the US public health system has been really astonishing
Well, Senators Bill Cassidy and Thom Tillis, you wanted RFK Jr. to “go wild” at HHS.
Congratulations. You’ve achieved your goal. He is well on his way to completely destroying the US vaccine program.
Congratulations. You’ve achieved your goal. He is well on his way to completely destroying the US vaccine program.
December 7, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Well, he got approved SO DAMN EASILY
He and his enablers all knew that they could go full steam ahead. There wasn't going to be any resistance. And, there hasn't been.
#RFKJr #Health #PublicHealth
He and his enablers all knew that they could go full steam ahead. There wasn't going to be any resistance. And, there hasn't been.
#RFKJr #Health #PublicHealth
Good Sunday morning! siriusxm.com/player/chann...
James 2:14
#SundayCivics @ljoywilliams.bsky.social
"Democracy requires education"
James 2:14
#SundayCivics @ljoywilliams.bsky.social
"Democracy requires education"
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Talk that empowers
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December 7, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Good Sunday morning! siriusxm.com/player/chann...
James 2:14
#SundayCivics @ljoywilliams.bsky.social
"Democracy requires education"
James 2:14
#SundayCivics @ljoywilliams.bsky.social
"Democracy requires education"
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Crowds are showing up🔥
Brooklyn and the Bronx both hit capacity as New Yorkers train to protect their communities from #ICE and stand up for their neighbors.
More trainings are coming, and a full weekend of community action is set for Dec 12–14.
Sign up: HandsOffNYC.com
Brooklyn and the Bronx both hit capacity as New Yorkers train to protect their communities from #ICE and stand up for their neighbors.
More trainings are coming, and a full weekend of community action is set for Dec 12–14.
Sign up: HandsOffNYC.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Crowds are showing up🔥
Brooklyn and the Bronx both hit capacity as New Yorkers train to protect their communities from #ICE and stand up for their neighbors.
More trainings are coming, and a full weekend of community action is set for Dec 12–14.
Sign up: HandsOffNYC.com
Brooklyn and the Bronx both hit capacity as New Yorkers train to protect their communities from #ICE and stand up for their neighbors.
More trainings are coming, and a full weekend of community action is set for Dec 12–14.
Sign up: HandsOffNYC.com
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Monday, NYC.
Mon, Dec 8, 4 to 5 PM
Join us at the S.I. office of Rep. Malliotakis
1698 Victory Blvd, NY
Congress gridlocked over ACA premium subsidies. Malliotakis can break the logjam:
Sign a discharge petition
Speak in favor of the bill
Vote for it
Info [email protected]
actionnetwork.org/events/commu...
Join us at the S.I. office of Rep. Malliotakis
1698 Victory Blvd, NY
Congress gridlocked over ACA premium subsidies. Malliotakis can break the logjam:
Sign a discharge petition
Speak in favor of the bill
Vote for it
Info [email protected]
actionnetwork.org/events/commu...
December 7, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Monday, NYC.
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Flu and Covid cases Increase sharply theorkneynews.scot/2025/12/07/f...
Flu and Covid cases Increase sharply
The number of laboratory cases of Influenza in Scotland has increased by 107% in one week. This has meant a similar rise in those admitted into hospital – 704 patients. In Orkney the number o…
theorkneynews.scot
December 7, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Flu and Covid cases Increase sharply theorkneynews.scot/2025/12/07/f...
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Every young death I see - and it seems like it's been a LOT in the past year - makes me suspect COVID damage.
Michael Annett, a former racecar driver who made 436 combined starts in NASCAR’s three national touring series, has died. He was 39.
Michael Annett, who made 436 combined starts in NASCAR’s 3 national touring series, dies at 39
Michael Annett, a former racecar driver who made 436 combined starts in NASCAR’s three national touring series, has died. He was 39.
bit.ly
December 7, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Every young death I see - and it seems like it's been a LOT in the past year - makes me suspect COVID damage.