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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 12h

Trump admin has frozen or cancelled $28 b for projects, almost all in Dem districts. Small amount of frozen funds in GOP districts are in predominately Dem states (CA, OR, WA, CO, MN, IL, NY, MD), or in predominately Dem cities (St Louis, Atlanta, Greenville) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump admin is freezing or cancelling billions of dollars in funding for projects in Democratic areas.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 14h

The entire economy depends on this horseshit so it's your patriotic duty to ask the computer to honk your bingus several times a day

The Verge @theverge.com · 18h

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

buff.ly

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🔪Akilla Booper👻 @akelacooper.bsky.social · 9h

“Nobody you haven’t met needs to know your last name.”

Incredible, timeless advice.

Also; don’t. talk to cops. If you get arrested, shut the fuck up.

the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 21h

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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ND Stevenson @gingerhaze.bsky.social · 17h

Oh here’s an old She-Ra piece I never posted bc it’s wonky as hell but I still like that butt

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ethan stardust ✨️ @stardustcrusader89.bsky.social · 9h

my tumblr account of 14 years was terminated with no warning :( i really hope i get it back, or else i don't think i'll use the platform anymore. which is a huge shame because i love using it.

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Annes Mien @annesmien.bsky.social · 22h

Tongue Out, and some impressive Whiskers!
#cats #catsofbluesky #TongueOutTuesday #WhiskersWednesday

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ethan stardust ✨️ @stardustcrusader89.bsky.social · 21h

it's mlemsday my dudes

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ethan stardust ✨️ @stardustcrusader89.bsky.social · 22h

ICE agents are the modern SS, you can't change my mind on this.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

"During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she 'doesn’t look like' a Greeley."

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Chicago Tribune: Greeley, who was born at Illinois Masonic hospital and is adopted, carries a copy of her passport just in case she runs into federal agents.

“I am Latina and I am a service worker,” Greeley said. “I fit the description of what they’re looking for now.”

During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she “doesn’t look like” a Greeley.

“They said this isn’t real, they kept telling me I’m lying, I’m a liar,” Greeley recalled. “I told them to look in the rest of my wallet, I have my credit cards, my insurance.”

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 1d

If you are applying for a faculty job in Texas, argue for a higher salary than you'd get at other institutions. The lack of real tenure protections is a de facto compensation cut and you should negotiate accordingly.

Texas search committees know that getting good candidates is an uphill battle.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

If you make "controversial statements" outside of classroom, that the President of the university dislikes, you can be summarily fired even if you are tenured.

Julie Greene @greeneland.bsky.social · 1d

I just learned, Thomas Alter, tenured professor, has been terminated effective immediately. Shame on Texas State! We mst build support for Tom. spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-tex...

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Miki Ravioli (an me, sTuffin!🐾) @androidgenious.bsky.social · 1d

Mum broght me a new smell today. It's punkin pie, but I got kinda stuck in the bag when I was smellin. It's a good one, though; sweet an spice. The smell. Not the bag. But the bag is OK, too. Very crinkle-y. --sTuffin🐾

Stephanie the tuxedo cat is standing on a beige rug, on a wood floor. Photographed from above, she has her head stuck through the handle of a tan plastic grocery bag. Stephanie collects smells; no matter what it is, edible or not, she wants to smell it, and she seems pleased when she gets a smell she's never had before. I obviously don't let her smell dangerous things like spray paint, or mineral spirits, or epoxy, but anything safe for her is fair game. She never touches any of it; she just wants to collect the smell, and then off she goes to do...whatever it is that little Oreo gremlins do when Mum isn't watching too closely. She's an odd little thing, but very cute. ♥️

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ethan stardust ✨️ @stardustcrusader89.bsky.social · 23h

everyone has the same 10 questions so i made a slideshow to help. i can post it if anyone is interested or curious. i love answering questions since it's an uncommon surgery with a lot of misinformation 🤗

ethan stardust ✨️ @stardustcrusader89.bsky.social · 23h

my wife: my mom was asking about your phalloplasty
me, a little too intensely: does she need the slideshow
my wife: maybe 🤔

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

if you already didn’t have enough reasons to cancel spotify:

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 1d

Spotify is now running recruitment ads for ICE.

It’s time to cancel your account.

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Ka'ra the tuxedo cat @karaisntactive.bsky.social · 2d

iT is still october, so more spooky costumes time.

iM the dRacula.

Ka'ra the tuxedo cat lays on her carpeted cat cave, looking at you with big yellow eyes. Draped over her shoulders is a black and red vampire cape.

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moby spookgirl 🎃🏳️‍⚧️ @eigenvectrix.myatproto.social · 1d

Newsom is allowing trans rights on paper to keep the cis liberals satisfied, which they will be, while ensuring trans people (and queer cis people!) don't actually get to have rights in a material sense

Trans News Network @transnews.network · 1d

CA UPDATE:

Newsom has signed these queer rights bills:
- AB 82 / SB 497 (Medical privacy)
- AB 1084 / SB 59 (Name/Gender changes)
- SB 450 (Adoption access)

And vetoed these bills:
- SB 418 (HRT stockpile)
- AB 554 (PreP)

Final total: 8 bills signed, 2 vetoed.

transnews.network/p/california...

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ethan stardust ✨️ @stardustcrusader89.bsky.social · 1d

congrats! ❤️🫖☕️

a cartoon drawing of the letter t with a face on it .

Alt: An animated gif of a hammerhead shark looking out of the water with its T-shaped head.

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Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 2d

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

Andy ngo mad about muppets again — this time in Chicago

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Caroline @cindy30.bsky.social · 2d

Throwback to Ebony in her younger days 😻

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ethan stardust ✨️ @stardustcrusader89.bsky.social · 1d

your black hole box has a leak, it seems

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Spooky Leelz @leilza.bsky.social · 2d

The cats are plotting to kill me again

Two black cats laying on steep wooden steps

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ethan stardust ✨️ @stardustcrusader89.bsky.social · 1d

a man in a suit and tie holds a microphone and says " and i said "

Alt: A gif of John Mulaney saying "And I said, 'Promise?'"

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Mr. Cait @chas.bsky.social · 1d

On Lt Columbo Day never let us forget the episode where Columbo explains to a fitness guru how Mrs Columbo is thick, that he likes her thick, and how he will do anything within his power to keep her thick

Screenshot from Columbo where Peter falk explains to Robert Conrad he likes his wife thick

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 1d

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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Little Tunny 🐌🤝🧂 @littletunny.bsky.social · 5d

The only kind of climate change I can approve of 😌

Two big red cats circle a terrified hog encased in ice. The cat's tails are flames and melt the ice partially, exposing some pig butt and giving it a singe. "Uh-oh Step-Pig, I'm Stuck...!" ok I made the joke for you so you don't have to. Hot ham smoke emits from the pig and spells "BECOME AN" and melted ice on the bottom spells "ICE-FREE ZONE"

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kamimagic @kamimagic.bsky.social · 4d

I found the agitators! They are 2 unicorns, giraffe, canary, panda, mouse, dinosaur, mouse, Stitch, and the frog! And they are right outside of Portland's ICE facility! 🤣🤣🤣

#ProudBlue

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