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Wendy Böht-Khamsin @wendybohtkhamsin.bsky.social · 46m

Someone who dislikes cheese-eating surrender-monkeys? Or someone of his ilk?

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 1d

When the Birmingham, Alabama, march is packed, you know something is up in America!

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Bob Lynn @boblynn.bsky.social · 1h

Sophia Brahe: The Invisible Astronomer Whose Eyes Mapped the Cosmos Newton Explained
voxmeditantis.com/2025/10/19/s...

#WomenInSTEM #STEM #Astronomy #Genealogy #Horticulture

Sophia Brahe: The Invisible Astronomer Whose Eyes Mapped the Cosmos Newton Explained

Sophia Brahe’s astronomical observations achieved unprecedented accuracy, enabling Kepler’s laws and Newton’s gravitational theory. Yet her contributions vanished behind her broth…

voxmeditantis.com

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Wendy Böht-Khamsin @wendybohtkhamsin.bsky.social · 4h

We're pinheads now,
We are not whole.
We're pinheads all:
Trumpo Homo

Are we not men?
We are Trumpo!
Are we not men?
T-R-ump-O!

Are we not ICE?
We are Trumpo!

#NoKings #Devo #spuds #potatoes

Wendy Böht-Khamsin @wendybohtkhamsin.bsky.social · 10h

A withered willow,
Bonsaied by a boat mooring,
Falls into the stream.

#DailyHaikuPrompt: Withered

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Wendy Böht-Khamsin @wendybohtkhamsin.bsky.social · 10h

The Orange Monarch
Is a butterfly.
In mating,
The male pursues the female,
And forces her to the ground.

#NoKings

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Meridith Bolster @meribolst.bsky.social · 1d

Stephen Miller got into politics because his arms were too weak to strangle prostitutes.

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Wendy Böht-Khamsin @wendybohtkhamsin.bsky.social · 20h

Steward? Delete and repost.

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Ellen Clair Lamb @eclamb.bsky.social · 1d

This is what democracy looks like. #nokings

A white-haired woman squints into the camera as American patriots gather behind her on the Virginia side of Memorial Bridge.

The intersection of Virginia and Constitution Avenues in Washington, DC. More than a metaphor.

A sign that reads, “This cardboard was funded by me.”

A sign that says “Have you seen my co-equal branch?” above a milk carton with a MISSING alert for the US Congress.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 21h

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Wendy Böht-Khamsin @wendybohtkhamsin.bsky.social · 21h

I fucking love
The moving
Im
ages
Of protesting
Inflatable
Frogs.
But also
I want to see them
Queuing up
For the toilets,
And squishing themselves
Into cubicles,
Or pissing
In yellowed MAGA hats.

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Wendy Böht-Khamsin @wendybohtkhamsin.bsky.social · 22h

Thank you. So many people just showing up to demonstrate that they get the reference. This is the correct comment.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Do you know what a group of frogs is called?

AN ARMY

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Wendy Böht-Khamsin @wendybohtkhamsin.bsky.social · 1d

As well as blocking the new Govt accounts in your main account, everyone could:
1. Set up a sockpuppet account.
2. Follow the Govt accts in the SP acct.
3. FLOOD THE ZONE tomorrow from the SP acct with posts describing your "brawls with ICE agents", showing screenshots from The Muppet Movie etc.

Wendy Böht-Khamsin @wendybohtkhamsin.bsky.social · 1d

You say "No, you don't want to", but I think I do! Clint Howard (Ron's brother) as a Satanist computer hacker? Sign me up!

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jane-g.bsky.social @jane-g.bsky.social · 1d

My shirt for tomorrow

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Wendy Böht-Khamsin @wendybohtkhamsin.bsky.social · 1d

No Kings
Translated
From American
Into English
For some reads
"No Tyrants".
You do you.
For me it's still
No Kings.

#NoKings

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Wendy Böht-Khamsin @wendybohtkhamsin.bsky.social · 1d

At the top of the hill,
I stepped off the bicycle,
Thinking it would stop with me,
But it rolled back down,
The way it had come.
It waits there,
Where we had been
Together, before.
How did I get here?

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Wendy Böht-Khamsin @wendybohtkhamsin.bsky.social · 1d

"I scorn to change my state with kings." 👌

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Wendy Böht-Khamsin @wendybohtkhamsin.bsky.social · 1d

Psilocybin dawn.
Grass at sunset, melting moon.
Between? Trippin' balls.

#DailyHaikuPrompt Mushrooms Grass

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Wendy Böht-Khamsin @wendybohtkhamsin.bsky.social · 2d

A caterpillar wakes,
Gets out of bed,
Stretches,
Licks the side of its paw,
Wipes its ear, realises:
I am a cat.

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Wendy Böht-Khamsin @wendybohtkhamsin.bsky.social · 2d

The autumn sun
Hides
Behind a thick grey sheet
Of cloud.
It casts
Not the palest
𝘚𝘩𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘸
Of the bedsheet
On my washing line.
It's still damp at six pm.
Autumn:
The season
Of damp dogs,
Damp people,
Damp thoughts.

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Wendy Böht-Khamsin @wendybohtkhamsin.bsky.social · 2d

"Give it an hour."
The hour becomes a day;
The booze, a snowball.

Wendy Böht-Khamsin @wendybohtkhamsin.bsky.social · 2d

"Punctured bicycle
On a hillside desolate"?
Tyres, not bikes, puncture.

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Wendy Böht-Khamsin @wendybohtkhamsin.bsky.social · 2d

When I turn over a
New Leaf
I always find a
Large lithium-ion battery pack.

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