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poorly drawn cats @poorlycatdraw.bsky.social · 15h

from the spooky tutorial series: how to draw pumpkin cat 🎃

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allison @deadbeatpoet.bsky.social · 11h

fucking love Halloween hell yeah

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 12h

I think Houston might actually have outdone NYC in terms of creativity in its puppy Halloween costume contest.

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 1d

This is a good piece but god almighty is it sad, sad, sad

One app, 60 men, 26 dates: my adventures in alt-right dating

There’s no question that we’re living — and looking for love — in contentious times, where extreme political ideologies have all but divided parts of the dating pool. Or have they?

www.cosmopolitan.com

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 1d

This timeline manages to be both gravely horrific and deeply unserious at the same time.

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a scary floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 1d

I encourage everyone to read the indictment. Read it. People will lie about what it says and you should know what it says.

She is not even being *accused* of physically harming anyone. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71795...

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allison @deadbeatpoet.bsky.social · 2d

uhhhhh wtf???

Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 2d

Under Trump, the draconian future of homelessness policy is coming into focus: mass internment. Utah is building a 16-acre site to detain up to 1,300 homeless people inside locked "accountability centers." This is profoundly alarming.

Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:

In Utah, Trump’s Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape

www.nytimes.com

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allison @deadbeatpoet.bsky.social · 3d

why’s it always gotta be Iowa 🫩

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d

NYT puts farmer pain on Page One:

@nytimes.com

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 4d

New from me:

Elite law firms, multiple media outlets, the D.C. attorney general, and a group of parents accused a teacher of molesting 15 kids. They were wrong.

This piece is two-and-a-half years in the making. And as you'll see, it took some incredible turns, even as I was reporting it.

Accusing Jordan Silverman

A D.C. teaching assistant was accused of molesting up to 15 kids. Multiple law enforcement agencies cleared him. But his nightmare was just beginning.

radleybalko.substack.com

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 4d

recently discovered that wikipedia volunteers have a hilariously high bar for what constitutes "unusual death"

Why Wikipedia editors have deleted entries from the “List of unusual deaths”:

“hippos are extremely dangerous and very aggressive and there is nothing unusual about hippos killing people”
“the man was working on the toilet, making his death inherently less strange than if he had been using it”
“no longer an unusual or unique occurrence” regarding impalement by beach umbrella
“being hit by multiple motorcycles in a race is not an unusual death”
“fatalities involving objects or animals being launched into oncoming traffic are considered commonplace” regarding a Canadian couple’s fatal collision with a “flying bear”

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 4d

This Rollercoaster Tycoon video is an actual work of emotionally-gripping mad genius

Defying Gravity | Synchronized Roller Coasters (Wicked)

YouTube video by Tube Cody

youtu.be

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C.H. Romatowski @chromatowski.bsky.social · 5d

It’s POTS awareness day—a blood flow problem common after Covid.

POTS can be subtle—I often wonder how many people who feel rundown, anxious or distracted have this treatable condition.

Main criteria is heart rate going up >30bpm when going from laying down to standing—smthg you can check at home!

What Does POTS Stand For?

POSTURAL: Related to the position of your body
ORTHOSTATIC: Related to standing upright
TACHYCARDIA: Increased heart rate
SYNDROME: A group of symptoms

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 6d

this is the people's ballroom

The Last Vegas Sphere (a big round building) lights up with a smiling emoji

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Mattslew Batberg-Mothfit (any/all) @mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social · 13d

This article from 1925 gets food aversion better than most modern sources! If you want to know more about food aversion, check out my food aversion acceptance cookbook and guide COLOR TASTE TEXTURE! Written by me, a food averse classically trained chef.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 7d

A couple of weeks ago, Trump struggled with a broken umbrella as he boarded Air Force One.

Let me tell you how we got to this point — and the tragic downfall of the noble umbrella. 🧵

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 11d

Good lord police you're looking for someone who robbed an art museum the guy is RIGHT THERE

Original photo from post showing a well dressed man with a blazer, hat and umbrella standing next to police. I have helpfully circled the man on the photo and drawn arrows pointing at him to help law enforcement

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jeremy kaplowitz @jeremykaplowitz.com · Aug 3

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

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pumpkin queen 🎃 @faerydusts.bsky.social · 11d

there's been a rather ingenius, insidious, deliberate effort via propaganda and social messaging to get people to shift their anger and trauma about covid away from the officials who failed them, to the people asking them to mask.

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 11d

Hey everybody look at this disgusting piece of trash human who wants disabled people to completely exit society and doesn’t understand how community care works.

“Don’t expect the world to take care of you” is a depraved way to exist in society.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 11d

Vibe shift in the culture towards earnestness

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a scary floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 12d

Lionel Hutz: IF THERE'S-ONE THING AMERICA NEEDS, IT'S MORE
LAWYERS.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 12d

Political parties must shift immediately and dramatically to the left to avoid alienating these frustrated and abandoned young women. Am I doing this right?

19thnews @19thnews.org · 12d

Our recent poll found that women 28 and younger skew substantially more left than the national average. Nearly 80 percent of Gen Z women want abortion to be legal and seven in 10 want gender-affirming care to be accessible for trans adults.

Gen Z women are the most liberal group in the country

On issues like abortion and gender-affirming care, women 28 and younger skew substantially more left than the national average.

19thnews.org

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 15d

New from 404 Media: ICE, the Secret Service, and NCIS all had access to Flock's nationwide network of AI-enabled cameras, letter reveals. Shows many more federal agencies had access to network that authorities typically use without a warrant to search whole country

www.404media.co/ice-secret-s...

ICE, Secret Service, Navy All Had Access to Flock's Nationwide Network of Cameras

Flock has built a nationwide surveillance network of AI-powered cameras and given many more federal agencies access. Senator Ron Wyden told Flock “abuses of your product are not only likely but inevit...

www.404media.co

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allison @deadbeatpoet.bsky.social · 15d

Classic “in this house we believe science except for covid bc that’s scary and we assume the ask is for all masks all the time instead of like hospitals and grocery stores where everyone has to go”

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frankenstein friday @frankensteinfriday.bsky.social · 15d

it is not hard to put on a mask in indoor places where you’re not eating. it does not ruin the experience to cover your face for 20 min at trader joe’s. establishing this as a social norm would prevent so much illness. five years in i do not understand why this breaks so many people’s brains

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17d

(and i think it is a demand that stems from fear more than a rational assessment of the threat environment)

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 19d

(forgetting the word for antibiotics) do i need cancel culture

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allison @deadbeatpoet.bsky.social · 16d

🫡 you’ve escaped This Building 🫡

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