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wellreadpanda.bsky.social @wellreadpanda.bsky.social · 14h

This is VERY exciting!!

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wellreadpanda.bsky.social @wellreadpanda.bsky.social · 17h

Wowwwww

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wellreadpanda.bsky.social @wellreadpanda.bsky.social · 17h

Belly side of a yellow crocheted Automeris Io moth, showing the underside of its wings, photographed on leaves.

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wellreadpanda.bsky.social @wellreadpanda.bsky.social · 17h

A couple more angles:

Crocheted yellow Automeris Io moth with wings spread, photographed on leaves.

wellreadpanda.bsky.social @wellreadpanda.bsky.social · 17h

I crocheted this Automeris Io moth from the incredible pattern by Zoe Buchanan! It's probably the most complicated pattern I've ever executed.

Crocheted yellow Automeris Io moth photographed on leaves

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wellreadpanda.bsky.social @wellreadpanda.bsky.social · 17h

Here's an Automeris Io moth I crocheted, following the incredible pattern from Zoe Buchanan. In one picture, it's on the target of a MothBox from @dinalab.bsky.social !

Head-on view of a crocheted yellow Automeris Io moth on leaves.

Crocheted Automeris Io moth on leaves, seen from the back with its forewings spread.

Crocheted Automeris Io moth on the target of a MothBox!

Belly side of a crocheted Automeris Io moth, showing the underside of its wings.

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wellreadpanda.bsky.social @wellreadpanda.bsky.social · 17h

Lovely! The face is beautiful.

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Laura Rodríguez Presa @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social · 18h

ICE killed their father. Now they’re in foster care.

Silverio Villegas, a single father, was fatally shot by fed agents after he allegedly tried to flee a traffic stop in Franklin Park.

His family spoke to the Tribune of their grieve and their fight.

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/12/s...

Family of Chicago-area man killed by ICE seeks to reunite with his children who are now in foster care in Idaho

The state of Idaho took custody of the children a few weeks after Silverio Villegas Gonzalez was killed by ICE agents in Franklin Park on Sept. 12.

www.chicagotribune.com

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 1d

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 4d

Can’t wait till one of these knocks on my door for tweeting about a late night talk show host or whatever

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wellreadpanda.bsky.social @wellreadpanda.bsky.social · 4d

Tapir time! Good morning from the best snoot in the biz.

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 4d

Laughter is medicine. G’night all

Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 4d

🎵 They did the Monster Slash 😭 @ellecordova.bsky.social

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 4d

Which is true? Either Trump’s Labor Department actually believes that immigration enforcement is threatening food security, or they are pretending the threat is real in order to crush wages for farm workers.

prospect.org/politics/tru...

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

prospect.org

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Indivisible Oregon @indivisible-oregon.bsky.social · 6d

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Peter Thal Larsen @petertl.bsky.social · 6d

This photo from Portland by @reuters.com's Carlos Barria 👌

A demonstrator dressed in an inflatable frog costume stands infront of law enforcement officers during a protest outside of the ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) headquarters in south Portland, Oregon, U.S., October 3, 2025. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

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Ben Passmore @benpassmore.bsky.social · 6d

today is the day my book Black Arms To Hold You Up officially comes out. about 5-7 years of hard ass work finally in the world. i’m mfing terrified 😂

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wellreadpanda.bsky.social @wellreadpanda.bsky.social · 6d

Beautiful!

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Crucial Comix @crucialcomix.bsky.social · 6d

New class: Raising and Drawing Our Kids Through Chaos is for anyone with young kids in their life who wants to make comics about navigating this difficult political era. www.crucialcomix.com/product/rais...

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Digital Naturalism Laboratories @dinalab.bsky.social · 7d

You can even catch me and @wellreadpanda.bsky.social talking about #opensource #sloths

Screencap of Livestream with a guy feeding sloths and there's a comment that says I'm going to make my own sloths

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 8d

so is this the fight against "left-wing terrorism"?

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 8d

An 84-year-old said she sustained a concussion and was hit with a projectile after she and her husband, a Vietnam vet, were knocked down by federal officers.

Federal agents knock down elderly couple during Portland protest

An 84-year-old said she sustained a concussion and was hit with a projectile after she and her husband, a Vietnam vet, were knocked down by federal officers.

www.oregonlive.com

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 10d

In this era of hyper-partisanship, shockingly the FDA did…. a normal bureaucratic thing. Which is what it should do.

FDA approved a generic version of mifepristone, an abortion med.

FDA quietly approved a generic abortion pill ahead of shutdown

The FDA quietly approved a generic form of mifepristone, one of the two medications used in most U.S. abortions, on Tuesday.

www.yahoo.com

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 12d

"Help reshelve the books with pics of naked women in them that middle school boys have left strewn around Powell’s."

Ways the National Guard Can Actually Help “War-Ravaged” Portland

“President Trump’s declaration on Saturday that he had authorized the use of federal forces to ‘protect war-ravaged’ Portland, Ore., prompted bewil...

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wellreadpanda.bsky.social @wellreadpanda.bsky.social · 12d

That's the one we called Swabby, because we tried to get a saliva sample with a swab from a different sloth, but Swabby was SUPER interested in the swab.