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CJ de Boix, mechanical owl, they/them👽🌈♿
@cjdeboix.bsky.social
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uncooperative trans enby queer pan ace | ex-academic (music, phil, theo), retired teacher | multilingual | autistic adhd | conversion therapy survivor | breast cancer (stage IV) | pfp: Bubo the Mechanical Owl
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Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social · 8h
You get to read the book, *other* people get to read the book, and every interaction like this that you have with your local library sends a message that it is valued and supported by the community.

Apart from everything else, now is a great time to support civic institutions!
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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 24d
Hey, I know books are expensive and money is tight right now.

But if there's a brand new book you really wanna read — including my own Lessons in Magic and Disaster — you can help get the book into way more hands by requesting it from your local library!

It's easy! Check your library's website.
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 3h
BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 3h
Is it cancel culture when they threaten to kill you?

www.nj.com/news/2025/10...
Sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates speaker appearance in N.J. canceled over security reasons
Organizers canceled a sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates event in Montclair citing undisclosed security concerns.
www.nj.com
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 4h
Funny how that works
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 4h
The Trump administration has been spreading anti-vaccine propaganda for months. Tonight, Trump's physician announced he just received a flu shot and a COVID booster.
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Maggie Blackhawk @maggieblackhawk.bsky.social · 1d
New essay in the Atlantic today: How Native Nations Shaped the Revolution by Ned Blackhawk (with many lessons on how we ended up where we are as a nation, and a gift link) www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
How Native Nations Shaped the Revolution
The Founders were inspired—and threatened—by the independence and self-governance of nations like the Iroquois Confederacy.
www.theatlantic.com
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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 10h
My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but
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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 10h
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 8h
nothing says "we want to end the shutdown" like shutting down Congress for an extra week
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 7h
that johnson is more terrified of seating a duly elected democrat who could force an epstein vote than having the entire government shut down really makes me wonder about that epstein vote tbh
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 6h
Seen in Maywood, Illinois
Handwritten sign on parked car dash that reads ZIP TYING CHILDREN IS FUCKING WRONG
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Angela Collier @acollierastro.bsky.social · 6h
who gets the Nobel prize?
watch me weep openly about the discovery of insulin.
who gets the Nobel prize?
YouTube video by Angela Collier
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fullobacon.bsky.social @fullobacon.bsky.social · 6h
Some people doodle. My mother-in-law sews. Happy world squid and cuttlefish day!
A homemade green squid plushie with orange trim. Probably not anatomically correct. He's more than 2 meters from... um... the top body part to the bottom body part.
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cjdeboix.bsky.social
CJ de Boix, mechanical owl, they/them👽🌈♿ @cjdeboix.bsky.social · 5h
"Just say you like cosplay" lolololol
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CJ de Boix, mechanical owl, they/them👽🌈♿ @cjdeboix.bsky.social · 5h
In the past boiling milk was the norm

"I think why it got forgotten was because boiling milk was a boring chore that Mom does"

🎯
#rawmilk #hygiene #womenswork
youtube.com/shorts/cKKLT...
Raw Milk Myths EXPOSED: The Truth Moms Knew That We Forgot
YouTube video by Farm to Taber
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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 10h
During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door. 

It wasn’t the feds —  it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’
During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d
LMAOOOOO

A bunch of comedians tried to make up for their participation in the Riyadh comedy festival by donating their pay to Human Rights Watch and Human rights Watch was like “nah bitch we don’t want your dirty blood money” 😂😂 I’m dying
Human Rights Watch Doesn’t Want Any Riyadh Comedy Festival Money
Taking money from those who took money from Saudi Arabia would impact perception of the org’s independence.
www.vulture.com
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CJ de Boix, mechanical owl, they/them👽🌈♿ @cjdeboix.bsky.social · 10h
Chemo life is some times taking your anti-emetic meds and then making yourself eat as much of whatever you can keep down, just so you have enough calories to function
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CJ de Boix, mechanical owl, they/them👽🌈♿ @cjdeboix.bsky.social · 10h
Like I, a massive SF fan, would voluntarily watch anything with creep Jared Leto in it

But that said, this sucks
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Slate @slate.com · 11h
The new Tron is like if a Terminator movie wanted you to cheer for Skynet. slate.trib.al/XZ9iQq4
One of Our Oldest Sci-Fi Franchises Is Back. The New Movie Is Woefully Out of Step With Our Moment.
Every generation gets the Tron movie it deserves. That’s bad news for the new one.
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jack the nonabrasive @karabaic.org · 11h
hey just a foreign military base on us soil from the america first crowd

www.cbsnews.com/news/hegseth...
Hegseth announces Qatar will build air force facility at U.S. base in Idaho
The move is a sign of increasingly close ties between the U.S. and Qatar.
www.cbsnews.com
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misspooki 🎃🦇 @misstsuki.bsky.social · 15h
No joke at the work function with older conservatives I got to bring this up and even got one of them to chime in and he called it propaganda to say the whole city is ravaged and I was floored. It really does help to have completely non threatening evidence to the contrary of their claim
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 17h
This video is everywhere because it's a hilarious visual refutation of Portland being on fire. You can't get a mass movement going without convincing the masses

so yes, this does do something actually
Post Dallas Steele @Cherrykickstart Follow This literally does nothing. You are not beating fascism by dressing up in inflatable suits and dancing Quote tweeting Claude Taylor @TrueFactsStated Follow | Portland is leading the way. This is how you (non violently) beat Fascism. Humor and ridicule are key. Stillframe from a video of Portland protesters dancing in inflatable suits 9:17 AM 08 Oct 25 758K Views 13:01 09 Oct 25 32.6K Views 88 Reposts 11 Quotes 1,049 Likes
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CJ de Boix, mechanical owl, they/them👽🌈♿ @cjdeboix.bsky.social · 10h
It gets easier!
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Sara McH 🤧 covid mode @saramchenry.bsky.social · 10h
I think about this tweet a lot, due to the changes in the world
DVS @DVSblast "ok did everyone DOWNLOAD a pencil?" -how school is like now i bet. due to the changes in the world 5:23 PM • Nov 3, 2014
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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 12h
Seeing pictures of an abandoned tamale cart in Pilsen where ICE took a tamale street vendor. Those photos of left behind carts are so haunting. Community members disappeared. Not just vendors but people who have long standing relationships with the community and people.
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NPR @npr.org · 16h
ICE claims assaults on its officers are up sharply since June. There's no public evidence that number is true.
White House claims "more than 1,000%" rise in assaults on ICE agents, data says otherwise
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers claim assaults on their officers are up sharply since June. There's no public evidence that number is true.
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Shannon Rosa @shannonrosa.bsky.social · 11h
…and I would note that autistic joy is a thing regardless of an autistic person's support profile. My high-support autistic son is capable of more joy than anyone I've ever met.

#autism #neurodiversity
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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 13h
"I ask you to consider that autism itself has the power to bring people joy. I experience happiness to the extreme. I can be entertained by the simplest things. I show ppl love in the most unique ways.” Marcy Hannah Waring, @ejwillingham.bsky.social's TPGA newsletter:

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Do some tall people have "profound tallness?" (This is an autism labels side-eye)
You can’t take the tallness out of someone, not in any ethical way. “Tall” is just what they are.
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