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Kasey Kagawa @punkey.org · 6h

Donnie Darko meme

Panel 1: I'm gonna fight ICE with lasers
Panel 2: Are you going to do that or are you gonna post about federal crimes on the Internet
Panel 3: Post about federal crimes on the Internet

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Alex @alexanotherone.bsky.social · 8h

You all should be aware of this book

Also, the idea that a version of Jewish gumbo cannot exist and be authentic because some versions of gumbo contain shellfish and pork is um, its a limiting world view on food

Matzoh Ball Gumbo

From the colonial era to the present, Marcie Cohen Ferris examines the expressive power of food throughout southern Jewish history. She demonstrates with del...

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roland00 / Matthew @roland00.bsky.social · 7h

get into the DESIRE shinji 🦔

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Bjorning @bjorning.bsky.social · 7h

Hornworm! I've seen this IRL, it's cool but also kinda spooky at normal scale.

Matt Friedman @friedmanlab.bsky.social · 8h

Spookiest decoration at the "Zoo Goes Boo" event at the John Ball Zoo in Grand Rapids? Giant model of parasitoid wasps hatching from cocoons affixed to their caterpillar host.

Large model of a green caterpillar, the back of which is covered by dozens of white cocoons. Wasps can be seen emerging from some of the cocoons.

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Bjorning @bjorning.bsky.social · 7h

@thou-dog.bsky.social thought you might think this is neat.

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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 8h

This is why the costumes are honestly brilliant. Ngo, who has never said a truthful thing in his entire life (remember the concrete milkshake?) now has to convince people inflatable Sesame Street and animal costumes are violent terrorists.

Sometimes you just need an image too silly to demonize.

Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 10h

“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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Teleri Dockworkers Union @yungdreyfusard.bsky.social · 3d

please stop scheduling these things on the sabbath

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 3d

Worth a friendly reminder that the next set of nation-wide No Kings protests are set for October 18th.

There's probably one in your area.

I am not generally a crowds or protests sort of person, but there's one in my town and I'll be at it on the 18th.

www.nokings.org

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 8h

you cannot actually map American racial/colonial frameworks onto anywhere that wasn't literally inaccessible to Europe and Africa for thousands of years bsky.app/profile/jaso...

Jason Frantz @jasonfrantz.bsky.social · 8h

Not to mention centuries of religion being the dominant driver of social organization, not anything resembling "race"

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Bjorning @bjorning.bsky.social · 7h

5786*

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 9h

Courtesy of colleagues at Penn

A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s 1754 engraving in the Pennsylvania Gazette, published in Philadelphia, in an effort to foster cooperation among the various colonies against the tyrant king of Britain, with the American colonies replaced by the nine universities selected for special collaboration opportunities

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Bjorning @bjorning.bsky.social · 8h

Donated!

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Mike Melton @mikemelton.bsky.social · 7d

Everybody thinks they're a photography expert now. I put my camera down for a minute and this mantis has to go and change my settings on me.

At @casabentbill.bsky.social #CostaRica

#invertebrates #mantids #insects

A brown praying mantis clings to the body of a black Panasonic camera, its front legs raised near the control dial.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 9h

Unfortunately the warnings were ”being cops” and “having tear gas”

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 9h

A federal judge ordered federal agents last week to issue two warnings before using tear gas.

Witnesses said they heard no warnings and none can be heard on videos, @chicago.suntimes.com reports

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 9h

Federal agents deployed tear gas after Albany Park residents protested to their attempts to detain a resident of the Northwest Side neighborhood, @vimiller.bsky.social reports for the @chicago.suntimes.com

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Isaac (from the Internet) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 9h

Up to and including the fact that it is just barely held together, and if you try to do anything with it it absolutely falls apart, and most of the world hates it

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Isaac (from the Internet) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 9h

Austrian schnitzel in Iraqi laffa with German coleslaw, Moroccan carrots, Yemenite zḥug, Ethiopian teḥina, Indian amba, a chopped salad with Persian cucumbers and Mexican tomatoes, Lebanese sumac onions, and Spanish fried eggplant *is* Israel.

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Paizuri Pete @miri-awa.bsky.social · 10h

old.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsi... found it! faster than I remember too! don't fucking do this.

Guy points laser at helicopter, gets tracked by the FBI, and then gets arrested by the cops, all in the span of five minutes.

Posted in r/Damnthatsinteresting by u/waitingforthesun92 • 86,031 points and 2,543 comments

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 10h

I am very tired of this, but a quick review.

In America, it is legal for you to own your bullshit laser, no matter how it got into the county.

How you use your bullshit laser matters. Most jurisdictions escalate to felony for lighting up any law enforcement. Doing to them in the sky is ++Felony.

Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 11h

This is such an astoundingly bad idea that I kinda think it’s a false flag or an op of some sort

Merits aside, it is insanely easy to be caught if you do this and the punishment for doing this is much more severe than you’d guess.

(@faineg.bsky.social often writes on stuff like this)

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Bjorning @bjorning.bsky.social · 9h

Fundamentally, anybody eating (nearly) anything they want to is valid, which is part of why all this is nonsense. No country or ethnicity really *owns* any kind of food or even cuisine - different things are just more or less common and popular in various times, places, and communities.

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Bjorning @bjorning.bsky.social · 9h

Huh, that's not a belief I'd ever heard of previously. Interesting.

Bjorning @bjorning.bsky.social · 10h

Of course they can! But to address the "stealing cuisine" nonsense, the fact that a bunch of Israeli cuisine is specifically Mizrahi in origin is relevant.

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Bjorning @bjorning.bsky.social · 10h

More like acknowledging that a whole lot of what's called "Israeli food" (not scare quotes, just specifying the string) is specifically Jewish versions of other Mediterranean food, mostly from countries that expelled their Jews. There's also Israeli Ashkenazi food but it's less prominent here.

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פינחס יוסף מונד @pymundgenealogy.com · 11h

You idiots wouldn't fall for a "Taliban" goat-f—er meme, or digs on "Haitian" intelligence.

That's because you aren't falling for it. Your ranks are infested with people who say that either antisemitism is correct (maybe for only the Jews they don't like) or that it's permissible weapon.

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פינחס יוסף מונד @pymundgenealogy.com · 12h

Look! The Nazi did the Nazi meme!

The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 1d

Israeli food: poutine. Israelis have developed and continue to enjoy a delicious cuisine rooted in the uniqueness of Israeli society itself

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Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 11h

This is such an astoundingly bad idea that I kinda think it’s a false flag or an op of some sort

Merits aside, it is insanely easy to be caught if you do this and the punishment for doing this is much more severe than you’d guess.

(@faineg.bsky.social often writes on stuff like this)

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Isaac (from the Internet) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 2d

just gonna say if you support biblical governance then you should generally oppose a race-baiting leader who is being plagued by frogs

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