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Adi 🍉

@adigoesswimming.bsky.social

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In an interstellar burst 🐋 (she/they) I bake cookies to fund abortions and talk about ponies *a lot* and want to live in the sea. Received the (very real, universally coveted) PSB Award for Good Taste In Books. Still masking.

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Adi 🍉 @adigoesswimming.bsky.social · Aug 21

I made an abortion-themed mug at the request of a friend and made all proceeds benefit @reachfundct.bsky.social and SOMEONE BOUGHT ONE! REACH emailed and said they want to make the mug part of their permanent campaign so uh I think I'm a famous artist now?

GET YOURS:
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Don't Talk to Me | Bonfire

Buy Don't Talk to Me merchandise that supports The REACH Fund of Connecticut Inc. Featuring Orange Two-Tone Ceramic Mugs, professionally printed in the USA.

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Adi 🍉 @adigoesswimming.bsky.social · 3h

Yeah the face is weird, but maybe it's meant to be the skeleton face?? Ice skating is impossible for me so I'm extra impressed by it.

Adi 🍉 @adigoesswimming.bsky.social · 3h

I love a moody seascape! Stormy beach days are some of my favorite days. This is just gorgeous.

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Tisha Mark @tishamark.com · 2d

A tiny seascape for your evening!

Tisha Mark ©2025, Brief Encounters, oil on Gessobord, 4"x4"

Original is available:
tishamark.com/product/brie...

#art #painting #bsnm #TraditionalArt

Original seascape oil painting by Tisha Mark, “Brief Encounters” 4”x4” oil on Ampersand Gessobord (2025). The painting has white textured clouds in a gray-blue sky over a dark blue sea that is meeting a rocky shore. There are hints of green moss and red algae or seaweed on the rocks.

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 1d

I just feel like if you get to the point where a parade of orphans doesn't rip your soul right out of your body, it's possible you are incapable of morality.

الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 1d

Palestinian orphans in Gaza marching with photos of their dead parents

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Adi 🍉 @adigoesswimming.bsky.social · 3h

So glad I could help! It's cute, though not as good as my faves, Encanto and Moana.

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 5h

It's really great that we have a mad-king who thinks he's going to hell no matter what he does and is in charge of a humanity-ending nuclear arsenal.

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Adi 🍉 @adigoesswimming.bsky.social · 3h

OH I think it's the kid from Coco??

Movie poster for Coco which features a skeleton and a boy in a red hoodie playing guitar together with a dog

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Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 5h

“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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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 4h

Portland’s Emergency World Naked Bike Ride arrives at ICE

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 6h

Ultimately, the death of US manufacturing is about this attitude. It's easy to say "buy american or stfu" because virtue signaling is free. But it's hard to actually sustain a business because many Americans simply don't want to pay what it costs to produce things ethically in this country

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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'Gory the A'ight @gregoryaight.bsky.social · 4h

And it must be antiracist and full-throatedly antifascist (what they call "ANTIFA").

There must be reparations to Native and African American people.

Land back.

All of it.

Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 4h

I just want politicians to understand if you want the United States to still meaningfully exist in the future. That they are going to have to spend the bulk of the 2030s DeNazifying the American state and it’s going to be a generational project

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 5h

lol liars, every one. Chicago cops threatened to quit if Brandon Johnson was elected mayor. Police union leader LITERALLY threatened "blood in the streets," saying between 800 to 1,000 would walk.

Guess what never happened.

And even if they'd made good on that threat... OK??? BYE????

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 5h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 6h

the inflatable costume thing is an extremely smart tactic

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 6h

my father (a retired white engineer who has been in oklahoma for 40 years) is my weathervane for what normal people who just watch the news periodically think, and he was like “so, they want to call the guard out on a bunch of kids wearing frog suits? is that true?”, the admin is losing the PR war

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

WELKER: Are you looking at invoking the Insurrection Act?

VANCE: We have to remember we are talking about this bc crime has gotten out of control

W: Crime is down in both Chicago & Portland

V: Crime is down bc they are so overwhelmed at the local level they are not even keeping stats properly

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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 4h

Question for the hivemind: at the end during a number with a bunch of the classic princesses and their princes some character wearing jeans, a red jacket, and a frankly creepy cartoon face came out and the kids went wild, but none of my group, including the one with the 6yo, knew who he was. Help?

Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 8h

Yesterday I saw Disney on Ice: Frozen and Encanto and it was 1) Delightful and 2) Damned impressive from both an artistic and skating perspective.

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Adi 🍉 @adigoesswimming.bsky.social · 3h

I'm so curious who this was now 😅

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unpaid shirtz dot cool brand ambassador @sam.robotsfightingdinosaurs.com · 3h

Ah yes, my favorite chip flavor, simp garlic

A purple bag of lays with a giant garlic with pleading eyes and a quivering mouth

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Adi 🍉 @adigoesswimming.bsky.social · 4h

PUPDATE: snuggle buds! He was lying on me and then squirmed over to use Hex as a pillow. I don't blame him—she's VERY soft.

Sleeping puppy with his head on a tortoiseshell cat who's bigger than he is

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Second Great Bisexual Awakening @suesswassersee.bsky.social · 11h

It's illegal to take bribes because of woke 😔

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 11h

Vance is having an incredible morning on the Sunday shows doing "oh so now it's illegal to [mundane thing]?"

A real quote when Vance is asked about whether Tom Homan kept the $50,000 he got in a fast food bag: "Is it illegal to take a payment for doing services?"

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Adi 🍉 @adigoesswimming.bsky.social · 11h

I hope they can sue for all his lost potential income from owning his own truck and get the entire practice ended somehow. What a disgusting practice.

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Keri Blakinger @keribla.bsky.social · 11h

SIX YEARS after Harris County deputies took a man's life savings - $41k - saying it ~could~ potentially be used to buy drugs at some point in the future, a Texas appeals court has ordered them to return it.

Will be interested to see if the current DA tries to appeal this... ij.org/press-releas...

Texas Appeals Court Reverses Forfeiture of Innocent Americans’ Life Savings and Orders Harris County to Return the $41,680 It Seized - Institute for Justice

Today, the Texas First Court of Appeals reversed a Harris County civil-forfeiture judgment entered after a six-day jury trial and rendered judgment for Institute for Justice (IJ) […]

ij.org

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Adi 🍉 @adigoesswimming.bsky.social · 11h

We're planning on attending this year and I'm very excited! I looked into it last year after you suggested it and decided this is the year. Can't wait to meet Frogby 🥰🐸

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Adi 🍉 @adigoesswimming.bsky.social · 11h

OMG you bring the party

Adi 🍉 @adigoesswimming.bsky.social · 11h

Anyone else's TV suggest "Annie Hall in memoriam" and get real excited and then real disappointed real fast

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Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 1d

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