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Sigrid Ellis @sigridellis.bsky.social · 4d

My wish for ALL of you, but especially my fellow nerodivergents. (including the socially castigated,) undiagnosed, queers (esp. nonpassing as cishet,) disabled, jobless, mentally ill, crippled, and chronically ill - to EVERYONE reading this but ESPECIALLY to y'all;

May you catch a fucking break.

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Grem, of 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐏 🔜 MCAtlanta! @gremlin.world · 5d

I will never not repost this

(Sound on for maximum effect)

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 4d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Rissa Montañez @rissavoices.bsky.social · 6d

"Why don't you just move?!"

Do YOU have the means to start over elsewhere?

Do you have a passport?

Do you have the money to pay bills for a year?

Do you have housing and guaranteed employment??

No. OKAY. That's not what this is about so please for anyone spreading this rhetoric, STOP IT.

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The Elusive Jessi B. 🧶🎲🍄📔 @ahumblebard.bsky.social · 5d

*bruh*

Kelly Welles @kellywelles.bsky.social · 6d

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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 6d

the people who told us to calm down because Roe was settled law are the same people now telling us to calm down because the military would never open fire on Americans

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J. Stryker | Memento Mori ☠️ @easterncoyote.bsky.social · 5d

I knew this would happen.

Fuck Israel.

"Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags

Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

www.theguardian.com

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The Elusive Jessi B. 🧶🎲🍄📔 @ahumblebard.bsky.social · 5d

oh get fucked, whiskey-dick

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Hegseth to the Navy: "Your diversity is not your strength"

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The Elusive Jessi B. 🧶🎲🍄📔 @ahumblebard.bsky.social · 5d

We can't keep this little creature (we're at capacity) but we got a vet appointment in the morning and if there's a clean bill of health, we should have no trouble finding this sweetie a forever home. And that, damn it, fucking *matters.*

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The Elusive Jessi B. 🧶🎲🍄📔 @ahumblebard.bsky.social · 5d

There is precious little that I can do to change the world at large, but we can help the stray kitten that appeared at our house. Even a small light matters in a dark place.

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Space Witches, Esq. @popelizbet.bsky.social · 7d

torn between "exquisitely researched well done" and "SEANAN NO"
the cdc really should have sent copies to scientists like "just in case, this is the theory she got tp that made us say 'please don't try that at home'"

Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 7d

I'm gonna get my Kellis-Amberlee after all!

Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 7d

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.

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The Elusive Jessi B. 🧶🎲🍄📔 @ahumblebard.bsky.social · 9d

the scream i scrumpt

Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 9d

WHAT YOU FAIL TO SEE MR POPE

worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 9d

really enjoying all the people trying to explain the bible to the pope today

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 10d

no but for real they can't even give a shit about a victim of gun violence for longer than a couple weeks when it was THEIR GUY and they were building a whole cult around him. if there is a hell I hope Charlie is down there losing his mind about how little anyone's talking about him anymore

subvariety sarah @scgriffith.bsky.social · 10d

the right cared about charlie kirk just long enough to convince me that I had been totally wrong and he was about to become our enduring horst wessel. then they rolled his body into a ditch and haven't mentioned him since

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The Elusive Jessi B. 🧶🎲🍄📔 @ahumblebard.bsky.social · 10d

what a dork-ass loser

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The Elusive Jessi B. 🧶🎲🍄📔 @ahumblebard.bsky.social · 11d

pardon the fuck me
"some legal experts"
do you mean *all of them?!*

JVG 骨 @jasonv.bsky.social · 11d

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism

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Corvid Spooky-Howls @parodybit.bsky.social · 11d

I thought of *several* of you when I saw this

Tumblr screenshot. Poster 1, BarbWritesStuff, Aug 26.
I have learnt today that my library refers to me as 'the specific and highly active user' and has denied some of my purchase requests because 'we can't skew the collection too much toward the taste of the specific and highly active user.
I did suggest roughly 100 vampire books for purchase last year. I think this probably has something to do with that.

One reblog from dragon-in-a-fez, Sep 20.
OP is there any particular reason the librarians would feel safer not invoking you by name

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 11d

WHAT

WHAT

Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 12d

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...

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The Elusive Jessi B. 🧶🎲🍄📔 @ahumblebard.bsky.social · 11d

Listen, it's been a rough month, *I needed this.*

Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 11d

EVERYONE STOP EVERYTHING Mychal the Librarian is hosting the Reading Rainbow revival!!!

reactormag.com/reading-rain...

Reading Rainbow Is Back, With Mychal the Librarian Hosting! - Reactor

The butterfly is back in the sky; can’t wait to fly twice as high.

reactormag.com

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The Elusive Jessi B. 🧶🎲🍄📔 @ahumblebard.bsky.social · 12d

I've said it before, but I didn't like 'The Crucible' when I had to read it in high school, and I like it WAY FUCKING LESS now that I have to live it.

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The Elusive Jessi B. 🧶🎲🍄📔 @ahumblebard.bsky.social · 12d

bitch is this your first day?!

Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 12d

HAKEEM JEFFRIES: "We hope and expect that Republicans will do the right thing"

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The Elusive Jessi B. 🧶🎲🍄📔 @ahumblebard.bsky.social · 13d

Okay. Got it out of my system, deleted, now to get some snuggles from the cat.

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The Elusive Jessi B. 🧶🎲🍄📔 @ahumblebard.bsky.social · 13d

Geography doesn't exactly seem to be his strong suit

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The Elusive Jessi B. 🧶🎲🍄📔 @ahumblebard.bsky.social · 13d

My brother was a good person who got dealt shit hands from Life, but he fucking TRIED, goddamn it, he tried *so hard* to do right by everyone. Charlie Kirk was a ragebaiting bigot who only made the world worse, and who did it with smug gleefulness. But THAT'S the fucker who gets mourned? FUCK him.

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divine beastmode @gunstreet.bsky.social · 15d

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

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The Elusive Jessi B. 🧶🎲🍄📔 @ahumblebard.bsky.social · 16d

The porn guy? The porn guy who tried to put Trump Bibles into the classrooms? That porn guy is ALSO an aspiring union-buster?

wow i'm shocked shocked i say

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 16d

BREAKING: Oklahoma Education Superintendent Ryan Walters says he is resigning. (Of course, he announced this on Fox News.)

www.koco.com/article/ryan...

Ryan Walters to resign as
Oklahoma state superintendent for private sector job
State Superintendent Ryan Walters announced Wednesday that he will resign from office and take a job in the private sector.
VEWS
Updated: 10:46 PM CDT Sep 24, 2025

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