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@dubchi5.bsky.social

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Kate @dubchi5.bsky.social · Apr 26

Finally getting the bug to work on my photography and design again. Honestly just so I can order notebooks with some of my own photography and art, but you know. www.redbubble.com/people/dotla...

DotLaGrangeArt Shop | Redbubble

DotLaGrangeArt is an independent artist creating amazing designs for great products such as t-shirts, stickers, posters, and phone cases.

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Kate @dubchi5.bsky.social · 13h

The only war I’m here for is the pizza dough wars and with that sentence I realized way too late that I’ve been far too chronically online this week.

Kate @dubchi5.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes little acts of resistance can have a resonating impact.

Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 1d

it really has been amazing how much one person in a frog suit destroyed their fantasy visuals over the past week. this wouldn't work everywhere but Portland, you are doing amazing sweetie

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Tyler Keillor @tylerkeillor.bsky.social · 1d

Any Chicago area paleo folks out there- please feel welcome to come to the University of Chicago Fossil Lab monthly Open House this afternoon from 3:30-5:00 pm and see what we’re working on!
5437 S. Wabash Ave., just West of main campus 🦕🦖

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Kate @dubchi5.bsky.social · 1d

I love this thread.

Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 1d

Big adventure in the yard today!

NATIVEPLANTGUY: *bent over to pull a weed* Yeah, I’ve been trying to catch these little weeds while they’re small—
ME: STOP
NPG: *freezes*
ME: Step back, slowly.
NPG: *steps back*
ME: Whew.
NPG: Rattlesnake, right? Where?
ME: *points*
NPG: …whoa.

Kate @dubchi5.bsky.social · 1d

Dear Scholastic Books - I really need you to release a complete set of the Bailey School Kids so I can read them with my kiddo and not have to scrounge eBay for acceptable copies.

Kate @dubchi5.bsky.social · 1d

It’s awful that we need this but it’s the reality.

L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 1d

Here are 10 practical tips, based on Retana’s advice, for talking to kids about ICE raids and helping them cope with fear and uncertainty. Each point is presented in english y español.

The full guide: lataco.com/kids-ice-tal...

By Erick Galindo

Kate @dubchi5.bsky.social · 1d

When the term expert gets bandied about.

Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 1d

when u accidentally become really important at work

Kate @dubchi5.bsky.social · 1d

I have a dream of one day being able to go back and volunteer at Vindolanda. One day.

Vindolanda Charitable Trust @vindolandatrust.bsky.social · Jul 1

Keep up to date with our Vindolanda excavation progress by watching our latest video update from the site ⬇️

Vindolanda Excavations 2025: Video Update #6
youtu.be/fqFAEm-Vugk

Kate @dubchi5.bsky.social · 1d

If this wasn’t 2025 I would have thought this was @theonion.com. Now The Onion articles almost seem more believable.

Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 1d

The Guardian- The US president may impose tariffs, demand higher NATO contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says, if on Friday he is not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. www.theguardian.com/world/202...

Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize

US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says

www.theguardian.com

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Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 2d

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 2d

cc, @historians.org

Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 2d

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

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Kate @dubchi5.bsky.social · 2d

The combo of premium increases and loss of tax credits is going to lead to a huge amount of sticker shock come November. It’s not going to be good.

s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 2d

Essential info here given that my insurer (and yours, if you're on a marketplace plan) should have sent this info out weeks ago for planning purposes esp since I may need to try to switch insurers, downgrade my coverage, or cancel insurance altogether for affordability.

Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 2d

ACA open enrollment starts Nov. 1. Rates should have been published in August. Mike Johnson hopes you don’t know that. But my mom is an independent insurance agent. Has been for 20+ years. So she does know that.

Kate @dubchi5.bsky.social · 2d

@headofzeus.bsky.social is probably like who is going through and liking half our posts, but just realized it was publication day for #HenryV. I didn’t get a chance to review yet, but Dan Jones is an awesome writer of medieval history. So many great books being published by Head of Zeus right now.

Head of Zeus @headofzeus.bsky.social · 2d

'[A] lively retelling of Henry's remarkable story' @thetimes.com

It's publication day for #HenryV is a brand-new life of England’s greatest king from our best-selling medieval historian Dan Jones

Out today: https://geni.us/HenryVorgsoc

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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 3d

"Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles."
R. L. Stine, born on this day in 1943

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Kate @dubchi5.bsky.social · 3d

This calculation is what Medicare individuals have to face every year when buying MA or Med Supp. Provider groups change based on carriers, drug formularies change every year, everyone over 65 has to do this calculus and most don’t have the knowledge or background to understand.

Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 3d

As well as being a pain in the ass for the consumer, this is likely to make insurance more expensive for everyone as it means that every insurer has to price based on the assumption that their customers have made this calculation

K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · Oct 28

So before considering premium and costshare, you should sit down and understand "what and where are my medical needs likely to be". Do you have a doctor that you especially trust? A specific drug formulation you need to take? A hospital whose system you already know how to work? Do you travel a lot?

Kate @dubchi5.bsky.social · 4d

So like they’re really going after the worst of the worst criminals huh.

PBS News @pbsnews.org · 4d

The U.S. Treasury Department on Monday sanctioned a network of companies and their affiliates that allegedly supplied precursor chemicals to make fentanyl to a faction of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel. https://to.pbs.org/4qcxAmS

U.S. Treasury sanctions Mexican companies accused of aiding Sinaloa cartel's fentanyl production

The U.S. Treasury Department on Monday sanctioned a network of companies and their affiliates that allegedly supplied precursor chemicals to make fentanyl to a faction of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel.

www.pbs.org

Kate @dubchi5.bsky.social · 4d

Didn’t have learning German because I’m listening to German newscasters give updates on American news on my bingo card but here we are.

Kate @dubchi5.bsky.social · 4d

I feel this. I don’t know if I have it in me to learn any other social media platforms and I am barely on almost anything besides BlueSky. I don’t think it would be bad to go back to the days where I’m barely on my phone.

Michael Ruocco @michaeljruocco.bsky.social · 5d

If this site did collapse in on itself, I think instead of jumping ship to something else, I will just go outside more n start living my life.

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.bsky.social · 5d

I just saw a commercial telling people how to invest their 401Ks & retirement in cryptocurrency

Y’all. For the love of Christ, PLEASE do not do that. PLEASE. Tell the elders. Tell the kids early in their career. Between the volatility and the SEC being unwilling to prosecute fraud, do NOT do this.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 5d

K-Pop Demon Hunters is legitimately the global cultural phenomenon of 2025 and honestly there are far worse things to be a cultural touchstone this year than a trio of young women fighting literal soul-sucking hegemony through the power of their art

E. Perkins 🎃 @hauntedpumpkin.bsky.social · 5d

Oh crap, it's back at #1 in movies again today on Netflix too. That's awesome!

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Kate @dubchi5.bsky.social · 6d

It’s really awful that it’s come to this. Unless I’m expecting a call or have them in my phone I won’t answer as I don’t want spam calls increasing. I had to warn my brother when he came back from the EU about what spam calls are like here. Would be cool if our legislators would legislate.

Gareth L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 6d

That really annoying thing where you have a missed call from a mobile number you don’t recognise and they didn’t leave a message so you don’t know if it’s spam or someone genuinely trying to get in touch…

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Andrew Wehrman @profwehrman.bsky.social · 6d

My book, The Contagion of Liberty is coming out (in January) in paperback, and I got some preview copies of this cheaper, more flexible version with new blurbs on the cover!

For the 250th anniversary, it argues that American independence was only achieved through inoculation and public health.

The paperback version of The Contagion of Liberty: The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution.

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Kate @dubchi5.bsky.social · 7d

Jfc. I don’t have any other words.

Kate @dubchi5.bsky.social · 8d

Who can afford to buy a new phone every year? It used to be that you could renew your contract and the phone was covered. Now you’re lucky if you even get trade in value for your old one when buying a new phone.

Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 8d

In the future, iPhone reviews should default to comparing the phone to the model from two years ago ... almost no one I know is upgrading every year any more

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 9d

This woman is on fire in the EU parliament.

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