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Rowena, Forest Horror @rowena42.bsky.social · 9h

Totally innocent!!

Xiran Jay Zhao @xiranjayzhao.bsky.social · 9h

A statement. Please read.

It has come to my attention that some very troubling allegations have been made against me. It is my intention for this statement to bring some clarity to the situation.

My whereabouts from 9:30AM to 9:37AM CET on October 19th, 2025 are perfectly accounted for. I was with my friend Lune at the Musée de la Révolution française in Vizille, Southern France. It is a 3-hour train ride away from Paris, which is in Northern France. It is not physically possible for me to have crossed the country and back within the span of minutes. I would provide time-stamped photographic evidence of this, but I was so overcome with emotion that I neglected to take any. Sometimes what matters most in life is living in the moment.

Some have pointed out that my bookcase in my previous Reel looks different from my usual bookcase. There is a perfectly reasonable explanation for this that I am declining to reveal for privacy reasons. I am not in hiding. I am not in possession of priceless jewels I am now struggling to think of how to sell without alerting French authorities. My actions online are not an attempt to distract from any crimes.

My personal animosity for Mr. Napoleon Bonaparte aside, I would never think to partake in any act of blatant, brilliantly planned and expertly executed theft of his family jewels. I would not know what to do with them. I would be hoping someone in the comments would tell me what to do with them. But I am not asking that because I do not have them.

- XJZ 💔

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Tim Karr @timkarr.bsky.social · 1d

Ha!, @tomtomorrow.bsky.social.

We're on opposite ends of the same photo

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Eric LaRocca @ericlarocca.bsky.social · 1d

Turned in a draft of my September 2026 novel and my editor told me the book might be “too obscene to publish” 😇

Charli XCX looking iconic in the Criterion closet

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Rowena, Forest Horror @rowena42.bsky.social · 2d

omg that is amazing!

Rowena, Forest Horror @rowena42.bsky.social · 2d

There is no excuse and I apologize. I sent you a message.

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Foxes In Love @foxes-in-love.bsky.social · 2d

A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue and Green are walking. Blue listens intently as Green goes on talking as he talks, leading the way.
Green: Once we get home, I'll read a book, weave two baskets, re-arrange the pantry, learn esperanto-

Blue interrupts Green, who turns to listen.
Blue: That's quite a list. Are you sure you're being completely realistic?

Green takes a momentary pause from being cartoonish, being now depicted as a painstakingly detailed and shaded painting of a fox, with fur texture, whiskers and all.
Extremely realistic Green: Of course.

Returning back to normal, Green keeps walking. Blue follows, looking at Green with suspicion.
Blue: How long did it take you to draw that gag?
Green: A lot longer than I am willing to admit.

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Debbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com · 4d

Pls consider ordering a book from your local indie bookshop *NOW* before holiday season to give store time to order title if they don't have it? This helps:

(1) support indie bkshops, (2) support human creators, (3) gets you ahead re: busy shopping time.

Psst: maybe one of my books? 🙏🏽💛 #KidLit

a cartoon of a woman hugging a book standing in front of a store that says support indie bookshops

Alt: Illustration of smiling person hugging a book. In the background is a friendly-looking bookstore with lighted windows, text on wall reads "Support Indie Bookshops."

media.tenor.com

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 3d

The reason I know God is real is because @clairewillett.bsky.social went to town on the news that the pope is banning Opus Dei (most Catholics I know think they are weird nasty creeps and have long thought that!!) Anyway, Claire’s analysis has me like

a man standing in front of a ice cream truck

ALT: a man standing in front of a ice cream truck

media.tenor.com

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 3d

Swearing in isn’t some ceremony. You aren’t a member of Congress until it happens. He knows that.

No phones, no staff, nothing.

I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Johnson: "Grijalva should be working for her constituents right now. I don't know what she's doing. I keep seeing their political stunt videos. She should be in her office. She should be working or in the district for her constituents" (Grijalva is not in fact a Rep. b/c Johnson refuses to seat her)

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 4d

Jordy created a website where visitors can contribute $35 to “provide an inflatable costume for a True American.™”

He initially hoped to collect enough to buy a couple dozen suits.

But as he put it -- “This whole thing has blown up a lot.”

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 4d

welcome to Bluesky, where you may lay your dump truck down

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 4d

Greetings, new Bluesky followers.

Here is what you can expect from me

Old Tom
Bombadil is a merry fellow, Bright blue his bralette is, and his boots are yellow.

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Lar deSouza @lartist.bsky.social · 4d

From the Larchives. Bats are Hallowe'en butterflies :)

cartoon: bats are Hallowe'en butterflies

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Parker @jeffparker.bsky.social · 4d

for Portlanders marching this Saturday who want the best tactical gear without feeding Amazon, our local party supply house The Lippman Company has plenty of inflatable costumes

Racks of Inflatable costumes like T-Rex, Sasquatch and Pokemons and such, photo grabbed from the Portland Reddit

outside The Lippman Co. with employees holding up rainbow flag balloons- there's no form more graceful than The Arch, no object more whimsical than The Balloon

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 4d

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 5d

If possible, do not bring your real phone. Write at least one phone number on your body in sweat-proof sharpie in case you get kettled and need to call someone.

Wear a mask, if you're going to be crowded in with people.

Wear the most common and nondescript clothing you can.

the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 5d

Please be conscious if you protest this weekend that there are feds at the protest. They look like you and they sound like you, not like Steve Buscemi in that one clip with the skateboard. Thinking you can spot them is self delusion. Nobody you haven’t met needs to know your last name.

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Rowena, Forest Horror @rowena42.bsky.social · 5d

Nothing fucks up your day like missing that dose.

Dr. Sheila 🦇-is🎃n 🧛🏻‍♀️ @drsaddison.bsky.social · 6d

Me, sobbing because everything is scary and someday my cats will die and music is beautiful and sad and I can't take my socks off and my head is hot: "What is WRONG with me????"

12 hours later, spotting the full Sunday pillbox just as the Effexor withdrawal spins start: "Oh."

Never fails.

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Brittlestar @brittlestar.com · 5d

I know it’s early but…
Wondering what to buy for the Secret Santa swap at the Antifa Christmas Party?

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 6d

a saga:

Shadow of a shadow of a @shadowofashadowofa.bsky.social · 6d

The silo was dead quiet when I got there. No wind. No bugs. The kind of stillness that makes your skin itch because it feels like the Earth’s holding its breath.

I parked the cruiser and stepped out. Called it in—nothing unusual so far.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 7d

someone on the Internet who really wants to convince you to shine lasers at manned aircraft as a protest tactic “because they did it in Chile in 2019” is either:

1. a fascist fed, or,

2. so terminally stupid that they have become functionally indistinguishable from one

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 8d

Because boy, howdy, nobody knows ritual and symbolism like the Catholic Church, and having it turned squarely back on the Very Bad Catholics who have been the public standard-bearers of wielding it for evil for so long is really good to see.

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 9d

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 9d

With a hearty promise to return, he walked off like the end of a Chaplin movie.

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 9d

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 10d

There’s something happening here
What it is ain’t exactly clear
There’s a frog with a cape over there
Tellin me, I got to beware

You better stop, children
What’s that sound?
Everybody look, they’re croaking now

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 10d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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