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Ilsa @solarcycle25.bsky.social · 8h

Ilsa @solarcycle25.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, I started with clear packing tape but it didn’t hold well so then upgraded to duct tape but I think reinforced packing tape would work best.

Ilsa @solarcycle25.bsky.social · 1d

Any problems I am experiencing are 💯% user error, you know how it goes. The bit makes beautiful cuts.

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Ilsa @solarcycle25.bsky.social · 1d

My sign!

Awesome black cat kicking a crown “Nope since 1776”

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Ilsa @solarcycle25.bsky.social · 3d

My outfit for #NoKings

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Ilsa @solarcycle25.bsky.social · 4d

So glad I’m a Tylenol baby or I wouldn’t have the patience 🤣

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Ilsa @solarcycle25.bsky.social · 4d

Half an hour to set up this one cut. It’d better be worth it. Almost wish I had bench dogs, but nah.

Woodpecker’s FOLDING MITER V-GROOVE BIT

Meticulously set up woodworking cut with a Woodpecker’s FOLDING MITER V-GROOVE BIT

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 6d

Horrifically creepy and emblematic of this rape-coded administration, but also a govt employee staying at the fuckin ritz on a business trip shows you how much the DC world has changed since the DOJ muffin scandal of 2011.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 6d

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 6d

Paul Ingrassia, Trump’s nominee to lead the office investigating Jack Smith, has recently been investigated for harassing a colleague, Politico reports.

“Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him..”

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POLITICO
By DANIEL LIPPMAN
10/09/2025 08:22 PM EDT
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In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn't have a hotel room.
Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 6d

They didn’t just NOT give Trump the Nobel Peace Prize, they wrote a citation that reads like an anti-Trump rallying cry.

(He’s gonna extra-tariff Norway now, isn’t he?)

Reuters @reuters.com · 6d

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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Ilsa @solarcycle25.bsky.social · 7d

www.thenerdreich.com/panicked-cur...

Panicked Curtis Yarvin—JD Vance's guru—plans to flee USA

‘I feel that I personally have to start thinking realistically about how to flee the country.’

www.thenerdreich.com

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Ilsa @solarcycle25.bsky.social · 14d

I’m going to 3D print one. I love my 3D printer for making jigs.

My porch skirt? 3D jig!

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Ilsa @solarcycle25.bsky.social · 14d

I have those! I’m a router junkie.

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 14d

I did not expect this kind of fire from Eliot Cohen, but he has Hegseth absolutely pegged www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

There is a certain kind of Army officer who, after the excitement of company command, finds his career stalled, and who perhaps leaves the service as a major in the National Guard filled with bitterness and resentment. He may then dream of one day being in a position to make all the superior officers who failed to appreciate his leadership qualities, his insight, his sheer fitness stand to attention and hear him lay down the law about what it is to be an officer, and threaten to fire those who do not meet his standards. In this respect, and this respect only, on that stage Pete Hegseth was living the dream.

In all other respects, however, he was ridiculous...

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Ilsa @solarcycle25.bsky.social · 14d

Omg the tape right?

I have to make some (temporary but accurately sized) newel posts and I think this will be perfect for making them all one piece.

a little girl is making a funny face while wearing a blue shirt with a leopard print .

ALT: a little girl is making a funny face while wearing a blue shirt with a leopard print .

media.tenor.com

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Ilsa @solarcycle25.bsky.social · 14d

I ordered it. 🥹

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Ilsa @solarcycle25.bsky.social · 15d

👀👀👀

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The Onion @theonion.com · 15d

Stress-Free Eric Adams Spends Day Bribing Pigeons In Central Park

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Ilsa @solarcycle25.bsky.social · 17d

Not allowed to discuss it. And yes, they know the name of the accused.

I’ve served on a grand jury and the prosecutor got his indictments 100% of the time and rarely had dissenting votes.

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