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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 1d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

"The bird gained global fame Oct. 7, when right-wing influencer Benny Johnson posted video of U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem stepping onto the ICE facility’s roof and staring down a handful of hecklers—and one chicken."

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

‘£20 a night for one of the most peaceful locations in the world’: readers’ favourite remote stays

From the Scottish Highlands to a Greek island, our tipsters have been awed by silence, beauty and wildlife in out-of-the-way corners of Europe

www.theguardian.com

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d @dimajor.bsky.social · 1d

Nice! Well spotted 🙂

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d @dimajor.bsky.social · 1d

lol

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 2d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 2d

One of our favourite nature facts is that the collective term for a group of ladybirds is 'a loveliness of ladybirds'.

What's yours?

#BBCNatureWeek

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🇺🇦Noelle🇺🇦Dem Good @ Everything. DeICE America @nreveillee.bsky.social · 3d

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Heather Cox Richardson discusses the Insurrection Act and the Posse Comitatus Act in relation to Trump and his activities in moving America toward a fascist dictatorship.
youtu.be/vgHEzVmRnTA?...

An Attempt to Turn Chaos Into Control | Explainer

YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 3d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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d @dimajor.bsky.social · 2d

Huh. Another reason not to use DoorDash

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d @dimajor.bsky.social · 3d

I really hope you have the chance to meet her! As a teacher I love inspiring kids to the wonders of reading, so it was her Imagination Library program that won me over

dollyparton.com/imagination-...

Welcome to the official, historical archive of Dolly Parton

The official, historical archive of Dolly Parton including awards, books, family history, entertainment, milestones, movies, music, philanthropy and TV.

dollyparton.com

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d @dimajor.bsky.social · 3d

Absolutely! One of the best!

Thought you’d enjoy the video. I was so glad to see it … and goodness knows we all could use a little boost 🙂

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Mackaracka @mackaracka.bsky.social · 3d

Parkinson’s treatment progress

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Scientists Halt Toxic Brain Protein Behind Parkinson’s in Landmark Study

Researchers have designed a peptide that stabilizes a key brain protein linked to Parkinson’s. Scientists from the University of Bath, working with colleagues at the Universities of Oxford and Bristol...

scitechdaily.com

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d @dimajor.bsky.social · 3d

@mikemontreal.bsky.social
Some good news

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 8d

[Scene is ANCIENT GREECE - where SOCRATES and PLATO and others are sitting round, thinking]

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SOCRATES:
Plato..

PLATO:
Yes Socrates?

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SOCRATES:
Can you tell me, are you human?

PLATO:
Why… yes, Socrates

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SOCRATES:
And would you agree, Plato, that a human knows what a chariot is?

PLATO:
Um, yep

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SOCRATES:
So you can tell me, then

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[Socrates produces a papyrus, showing a drawing of the corner of a chariot wheel]

SOCRATES:
*Is that a chariot*?

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PLATO:
Well
that’s more just a bit of wheel

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SOCRATES:
So not a *chariot*.

PLATO:
No.

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SOCRATES:
[Producing another papyrus with the full drawing of the chariot, chopped into boxes]

So if a man were challenged to “tap the boxes containing chariots to prove you’re human” when he was just trying to check his ClubCard points... *where could he tap*?

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PLATO:
Well you can’t tap any of them really

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SOCRATES:
So are we not human?

PLATO:
‘Spose not.

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[Bleak pause]

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PLATO:
I’ll get the hemlock

SOCRATES:
Yeah

[ends]

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 10d

Talking image-text relations in class today - great opportunity to share Ibn Al-Rabin's seminal “Le Verbe Prophétique” alongside the always brilliant @tomgauld.bsky.social to demonstrate how the seemingly simple can be bewilderingly complex - things that can only be done in comics!!

A six panel comic of a man and a woman where their word balloons are actually other panels (there are no words) indicating future actions and explaining why they did what they did.

a three panel comic about Søren Kierkegaard in which the text of the man reads backwards and the dog forwards "Life can only be understood backwards" and the dog "but it must be lived forwards"

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ᴄʜᴀʀʟᴇʏ★ᴘɪʀᴏᴛʜ @charlespiroth.bsky.social · 4d

Three Barn Owls at a quatrefoil church window. Shot at a local church in North Norfolk, England.
📷 Richard Brooks

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 4d

This is Eeyore. He led a sheriff's deputy to his grandma after she fell during their walk. We are awarding him the incredibly rare 15/10 (FB: OkaloosaSheriff)

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d @dimajor.bsky.social · 4d

Breathtaking. Not in a good way

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 5d

Attention: If you live in Rep. Derrick Van Orden's (R-WI) district, here's what your costs will look like if Republicans don't extend the tax credits:

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d @dimajor.bsky.social · 4d

@minibubbly.bsky.social Have you seen the information about US health care tax increases?

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Castanet.net @castanet.net · 5d

'It was a dream come true': Vancouverite wins global photography prize with rare eclipse shot #Vancouver #MetroVancouver #YVR

'It was a dream come true': Vancouverite wins global photography prize with rare eclipse shot - Metro Vancouver News

A local photographer with an eye for all things nature seems like he can't stop winning.

www.castanet.net

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 5d

Briton Rivière RA (14 August 1840 in London – 20 April 1920 in London) was well known for his animal paintings.
I'm a sucker for this sort of stuff so here's a thread with some of his work.
You're allowed to get wet eyes.

Requiescat (1888; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney)

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d @dimajor.bsky.social · 5d

Agreed! ☺️