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Dr. Omega 🦞 @theomegageek.bsky.social · 13h

12 hour flight, 2.5 hour layover, 1.5 hour flight, overnight stay, 4 hour bus, 40 minute bus, then home.

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 16h

Young Democrats: hey maybe don’t kidnap my international friends

Young Republicans:

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 1d

RIP Drew Struzan
A master.

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Viga @viga.bsky.social · 13h

One of my favorite artists of all time Drew Struzan died.

It's really hard to choose a favorite poster of his work. I love so many! I think I'll choose the one for "The Thing".

I just like the rushed story of it and the ref being him posing in winter gear.

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · Oct 15

I'm an Alberta based artist who has a thing for storms & space.

I do commissions & have originals & 50 different canvas & paper prints available earthskyart.ca/shop

#art #painting

Painting of a badlands valley with winding river at the bottom & swirling blue clouds on an orange background sky

Painting of a mother ship storm cloud lit from below with swirling clouds above over a butte.

Painting of a nebula that looks like a hand with orange yellow clouds and lots of stars on a blue black field

Painting of a spiral galaxy with swirls of blue white and red orange arms with clusters of stars and a area of stars in the center

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Dr. Omega 🦞 @theomegageek.bsky.social · 14h

I preordered it and have been on vacation, currently in the airport for 36 hrs of travel home. So hyped to sit down and play.

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Gareth L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 1d

Word of mouth is important to a book's success. So, if you'd like to see the authors who wrote your favourite stories commissioned to write more, please keep talking about all the #books you love.

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conrad 🙂 @shitpost.expert · 1d

the most annoying people on here are going to force me to mute wholesome words like "taco" and "elmo" because they're afraid to say the names of their enemies

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rubot @rubot.ie · 1d

i don't think the "AI Bubble" is going to "burst". I think these lads are so powerful now that they have created their own reality, that we live in. Essentially a matrix. And even if material conditions have half of us unemployed or an apple costs 100 quid, the show will never reflect a crisis.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

They won't be named or interviewed either. They will be referred to as prisoners, not hostages, despite many of them being detained for no reason and having no charges levelled against them. All because their kidnapper was a brutal, authoritarian regime.

valloween @trickycrayon.bsky.social · 1d

We are over 10 minutes now on coverage of the hostages being reunited with their families.

There was honestly a less than 30-second spot showing some of the buses coming in with Palestinians.

1700 people were held with no charges or convictions.

No happy videos of reunification there.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 1d

I'm fortunate, i don't have this problem and my GP does do all this for me but making my recent T appointment the receptionist went away twice for ages and all I could think was 'oh shit'.

Thankfully, it was nothing, but that fear is always there even when you're one of the 'lucky' ones.

Carrie plays guitaaargh 👻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @carriem.co.uk · 1d

Going to get my NHS HRT renewal today. To do that I'll walk past my GP surgery, get on a train to glasgow, walk through the city centre, meet a pharmacist, get a train back, walk past my GP again, wait for the prescription to come by post, then take it to the pharmacy next to my GP.

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Dr. Omega 🦞 @theomegageek.bsky.social · 1d

She was there too 😆

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DerryJournal @derryjournal.com · 1d

46% of 16-year-olds reporting probable mental illness: Professor O’Neill

Professor Siobhán O’Neill has highlighted stark levels of poor mental health among young people with almost half of sixteen year olds now reporting probable mental illness.

www.derryjournal.com

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Dr. Omega 🦞 @theomegageek.bsky.social · 1d

I met James Gunn in the early 2010s at a Troma film festival and he was a really chill, nice guy.

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Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · 2d

You should care about trans rights just generally, because trans people are people, they have always been here and they always will be.

BUT if you MUST put a cis spin on it, this is where transphobia gets you. It's either bodily autonomy for all of us or none of us.

Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 2d

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

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Stéphanie says… 🏴‍☠️☕️🍰 @stephaniejane.bsky.social · 1d

And Rowling, and every anti trans group and Gender Critical ‘feminist’, will cheer them on!

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

"The group has represented clients in the United States who are opposed to abortion, gay and transgender rights and contraception coverage in health care."

Every anti-abortion group is also anti-trans. Period. Support their latter work and you support their former. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.

www.nytimes.com

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Kathy O'Donnell @kathyodonnell.bsky.social · 1d

If it is correct that Bridget Phillipson is sitting on the new, post Supreme Court ruling EHRC guidance on trans rights (and I think it v. plausible) so as not to lose deputy leadership votes of pro-LGBT+ MPs, then not only is that sickeningly cynical, but guidance must be off-the-scale extreme.

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Hermetic Opus @hermeticopus.bsky.social · 2d

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Spooky Leia🇵🇷🏳‍⚧ @madamephosphorus.bsky.social · 1d

Vetoing HRT stockpiling is so fucking ghoulish.

If trans people make it the next 4 years en masse, it will be from our own strength, not because of the Democrats.

"You can change your name, but you can't stockpile on life saving care!" Kiss my ass.

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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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 1d

‘96% of healthcare professionals said the model helps to reduce children’s anxiety, and 46% reported a lesser need to use sedation after the children played with the set.‘

‘Lego doesn’t sell the sets and instead has donated more than 10,000 of the kits to hospitals around the world.’

Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 1d

How Lego MRI scanner sets are reducing anxiety in children undergoing medical treatment www.cnbc.com/2025/10/13/l...

How Lego MRI scanner sets are reducing anxiety in children undergoing medical treatment

Lego's MRI scanner play sets, which launched in 2023, are significantly reducing anxiety and the use of sedation in children, according to new research.

www.cnbc.com

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 1d

It is tacky for really famous people to be in TV commercials for products. Their gambling debts/boat repairs are not my problem, those roles should belong to actors like the Time To Make The Donuts guy and the actress who said "who are you calling a cootie queen you lint licker" in that Orbit ad.

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 1d

Somewhere someone very British is needlessly agitated but also incredibly horny while also holding a slice of toast… and they will never ever know why…

Anyways: Y’all Cum Beans! ❤️👍🏾

Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 1d

What’s wrong with vegan sausages?

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 1d

On the centenary of Thatcher's birth, there have been predictable calls for a memorial to her memory. But Britain's 2300 food banks serve that purpose already.

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 1d

We must stop RFK

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

How many scripts are floating around Hollywood right now with "criminals posing as ICE" as the basic premise?

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 1d

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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