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I live in Colorado, have mad fits of creativity followed by periods of somnolence, and am charmed by snakes. She/her, or whatever.
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@whetstone.bsky.social
· Nov 14
solidarity that doesn’t include disabled and vulnerable people is not, in fact, solidarity
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"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.
November 30, 2025 at 1:10 AM
"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
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I love whenever articles like this are all “SEE THE UNREASONABLE ANGRY DEMANDS OF THIS SJW TEACHER” and the teacher’s comment are always “please actually cite sources and try not to call your classmates demonic”
November 29, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I love whenever articles like this are all “SEE THE UNREASONABLE ANGRY DEMANDS OF THIS SJW TEACHER” and the teacher’s comment are always “please actually cite sources and try not to call your classmates demonic”
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Average folks kettled ICE
ICE still FROZEN at Centre St & Howard in lower Manhattan right now as calls continue circulating for people to join.
NYPD arriving with barricades.
NYPD arriving with barricades.
November 29, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Average folks kettled ICE
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Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,—
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.
November 29, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,—
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.
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caving to a weak president with a 60% disapproval rating implies you AGREE with him
Fuck, Northwestern just caved. Reading the deal now. ( www.northwestern.edu/president/do... )
www.northwestern.edu
November 29, 2025 at 12:32 AM
caving to a weak president with a 60% disapproval rating implies you AGREE with him
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Mass pardons are coming. There will be no accountability without treating those as null and void. And that means a future administration taking an official position that Trump is not the legitimate president right now because he is disqualified by the 14th Amendment. The two things are inextricable.
November 28, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Mass pardons are coming. There will be no accountability without treating those as null and void. And that means a future administration taking an official position that Trump is not the legitimate president right now because he is disqualified by the 14th Amendment. The two things are inextricable.
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There's a labeler for the Harpers Letter: bsky.app/profile/harp...
November 29, 2025 at 12:03 AM
There's a labeler for the Harpers Letter: bsky.app/profile/harp...
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Visiting the ruins of the first Shaker settlement in America, as one does
November 28, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Visiting the ruins of the first Shaker settlement in America, as one does
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Strong message from Congressman Moulton:
“Mark my words: It may take some time, but Americans will be prosecuted for this, either as a war crime or outright murder.”
“Mark my words: It may take some time, but Americans will be prosecuted for this, either as a war crime or outright murder.”
November 28, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Strong message from Congressman Moulton:
“Mark my words: It may take some time, but Americans will be prosecuted for this, either as a war crime or outright murder.”
“Mark my words: It may take some time, but Americans will be prosecuted for this, either as a war crime or outright murder.”
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... if we really want people to be held accountable this time, we will be fighting against the media, against billionaires, against big business, against the consultant class, against D leadership, against practically the entire apparatus of US politics. The architecture is *built for impunity*.
November 28, 2025 at 7:06 PM
... if we really want people to be held accountable this time, we will be fighting against the media, against billionaires, against big business, against the consultant class, against D leadership, against practically the entire apparatus of US politics. The architecture is *built for impunity*.
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Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
I'd never heard of Dr. Mary Edwards Walker! What conviction. What a life.
Mary Edwards Walker - Wikipedia
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November 28, 2025 at 5:12 PM
I'd never heard of Dr. Mary Edwards Walker! What conviction. What a life.
Holy shit? This is amazing!
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have made a HUGE breakthrough towards a UNIVERSAL antiviral. By targeting sugar molecules found on the surface of many viruses that SHARE structural similarities, they identified FOUR compounds that successfully BLOCKED infections from SEVEN different viruses.
November 28, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Holy shit? This is amazing!
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i mean what are these "western values" these guys are so hopped up about? they are directly antagonistic to western europe. they don't believe in civil liberties. they reject democracy. and don't get me started on christianity, they hate their white neighbors almost as much as the brown ones
November 27, 2025 at 8:34 PM
i mean what are these "western values" these guys are so hopped up about? they are directly antagonistic to western europe. they don't believe in civil liberties. they reject democracy. and don't get me started on christianity, they hate their white neighbors almost as much as the brown ones
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for all they scream about "importing the third world" it's the most idiotic, base tribal clannishness they aspire too as well. fuck rule of law, fuck the law, fuck rules, fuck neutral institutions, fuck universalism, fuck meritocracy.
i mean what are these "western values" these guys are so hopped up about? they are directly antagonistic to western europe. they don't believe in civil liberties. they reject democracy. and don't get me started on christianity, they hate their white neighbors almost as much as the brown ones
November 27, 2025 at 8:43 PM
for all they scream about "importing the third world" it's the most idiotic, base tribal clannishness they aspire too as well. fuck rule of law, fuck the law, fuck rules, fuck neutral institutions, fuck universalism, fuck meritocracy.
Introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild:
Octopus
Marmot
Tanuki
Owl
Orca
Octopus
Marmot
Tanuki
Owl
Orca
Introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild:
Bear
Elk
Loon
Fox
Moray eel (got to pet- someone I dove with had been feeding it, just off Key Largo)
Bear
Elk
Loon
Fox
Moray eel (got to pet- someone I dove with had been feeding it, just off Key Largo)
Introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild
Bobcat
Spruce grouse
Coyote
Whitetail Deer
Porcupine
Bobcat
Spruce grouse
Coyote
Whitetail Deer
Porcupine
November 28, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild:
Octopus
Marmot
Tanuki
Owl
Orca
Octopus
Marmot
Tanuki
Owl
Orca
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They did it again! NYC subway Thanksgiving 2025, via @scootercaster.com!
November 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
They did it again! NYC subway Thanksgiving 2025, via @scootercaster.com!
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"folx" appeals to the sickos-yes.jpg part of my brain that also enjoys censoring the wrong word of compound obscenities, i.e. cocks*cker, m*therfucker, but I realize this is socially unacceptable and I'm trying to quit
November 26, 2025 at 10:38 PM
"folx" appeals to the sickos-yes.jpg part of my brain that also enjoys censoring the wrong word of compound obscenities, i.e. cocks*cker, m*therfucker, but I realize this is socially unacceptable and I'm trying to quit
Sharing because a) good baking tip! and b) I’m grateful for all the little kindnesses social media enables. People can be, and so often are, pretty great.
Forgot to buy bread. If I start baking now, will it have risen enough by 10:30 to bake? Or should I just try doing it in the morning?
…morning, I think. Dinner won’t be till late afternoon.
…morning, I think. Dinner won’t be till late afternoon.
November 27, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Sharing because a) good baking tip! and b) I’m grateful for all the little kindnesses social media enables. People can be, and so often are, pretty great.
New go-to recipe in my never-ending contention between my love for cilantro and its unstoppable death wish:
Buy a bunch for whatever recipe calls for a bit, and turn the rest into cilantro pesto. Toasted pumpkin seeds, pecorino, serranos (with seeds), lime (juice + zest), salt, neutral oil.
Buy a bunch for whatever recipe calls for a bit, and turn the rest into cilantro pesto. Toasted pumpkin seeds, pecorino, serranos (with seeds), lime (juice + zest), salt, neutral oil.
November 26, 2025 at 9:53 PM
New go-to recipe in my never-ending contention between my love for cilantro and its unstoppable death wish:
Buy a bunch for whatever recipe calls for a bit, and turn the rest into cilantro pesto. Toasted pumpkin seeds, pecorino, serranos (with seeds), lime (juice + zest), salt, neutral oil.
Buy a bunch for whatever recipe calls for a bit, and turn the rest into cilantro pesto. Toasted pumpkin seeds, pecorino, serranos (with seeds), lime (juice + zest), salt, neutral oil.
all the people posting victim-blamey shit about how those national guard troops "should have refused to deploy" need to have their social media keys taken away
true, they absolutely should not have been there, but them being there isn't their fault. the buck stops at the resolute desk. foh.
true, they absolutely should not have been there, but them being there isn't their fault. the buck stops at the resolute desk. foh.
November 26, 2025 at 9:30 PM
all the people posting victim-blamey shit about how those national guard troops "should have refused to deploy" need to have their social media keys taken away
true, they absolutely should not have been there, but them being there isn't their fault. the buck stops at the resolute desk. foh.
true, they absolutely should not have been there, but them being there isn't their fault. the buck stops at the resolute desk. foh.
@greene.haus I think she didn't mention the name on purpose so I don't want to ask in her mentions, but would you mind telling me which scholar Roxane is talking about?
November 26, 2025 at 8:12 PM
@greene.haus I think she didn't mention the name on purpose so I don't want to ask in her mentions, but would you mind telling me which scholar Roxane is talking about?
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the decline and fall of the american republic in two headlines
November 26, 2025 at 4:52 PM
the decline and fall of the american republic in two headlines
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The problem with ICE is not that it's targeting people who aren't criminals. The problem with ICE is that it's an unaccountable secret deportation police. It cannot be reformed under a better president. It can be made less terrible, but the instrument of repression remains for the next tyrant.
November 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The problem with ICE is not that it's targeting people who aren't criminals. The problem with ICE is that it's an unaccountable secret deportation police. It cannot be reformed under a better president. It can be made less terrible, but the instrument of repression remains for the next tyrant.
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💥The HOTTEST new publishing trend is:
Spending an entire afternoon in the kitchen stirring a big pot of onions
Here's a recipe to help YOU keep your finger on the pulse 😎
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Here's a recipe to help YOU keep your finger on the pulse 😎
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November 26, 2025 at 4:50 PM
💥The HOTTEST new publishing trend is:
Spending an entire afternoon in the kitchen stirring a big pot of onions
Here's a recipe to help YOU keep your finger on the pulse 😎
Spending an entire afternoon in the kitchen stirring a big pot of onions
Here's a recipe to help YOU keep your finger on the pulse 😎