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Currently at VTS near DC. Recovering Twitter User. I still do cool stuff like read the Western Canon for fun & now MDiv. absurdist 'holy theatre' pashit. Peter Brook (RIP) is still my hero. I live for cats (aka Iggyboos)

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🎉 Gidgetwidget @gidgetwidget.bsky.social · Dec 2

You know what we need is beyond anything I presume to imagine.

So I hope for every one reading this and I hope for the ones you hold dear.

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 2h

Less than 72 hours out from the federal court order meant to stop feds from doing this.

Shows you about how seriously the small army of masked, unaccountable feds in Chicago are taking it.

Language of a federal court's temporary restraining order meant to rein in federal agents' violent behavior, including the wanton deployment of tear gas.

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Ernesto Castañeda @drernestocast.bsky.social · 32m

Spoke to Pablo Aranzaes Maturana of Sonar FM about today's immigration realities & how they contrast with the web of lies from the adminsitration. The effecs of deportations are visible in cities, families, & the constrution, agriculture & restaurant sectors.

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Diane Patterson @dianepatterson.bsky.social · 26m

Literally every part of my body — shoulders, back, hands, tush — hurts when I at this photo.

Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social · 1d

This photo of Robert Bloch is the most writer photo to have ever writer photo’d. It is Pure Writer Photo.

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Ernesto Castañeda @drernestocast.bsky.social · 26m

Entrevista completa grabada en vivo Oct 8, 2025 Santiago de Chile Sonar FM Radio.
youtu.be/e6hxu_TemSM?...

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The Sidewalk School @thesidewalkschool.bsky.social · 2h

Disgraceful

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🎉 Gidgetwidget @gidgetwidget.bsky.social · 11m

You bet our collective ass we love Gillian A.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 13m

Ok so the consensus seems to be:

Overall: meh

Monster of the week episodes are good. Overall conspiracy doesn’t hold up.

Too many episodes fall prey to the 90s “none of this would have happened if we had call phones” trope.

Everyone fucking loves Gillian Anderson.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 18m

3D printers: WE NEED YOU! If you have a printer, start making whistles for your community. Volunteers of ours have been printing and passing them out across communities, over 200 have been handed out so far!

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🎉 Gidgetwidget @gidgetwidget.bsky.social · 41m

TY for clarifying!

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Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio @rlmartstudio.bsky.social · 4h

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

A photograph from the 1988 ACT UP demonstration outside the FDA. Many people are participating in a die-in on the front steps, holding mock tombstones with messages like "RIP - killed by the FDA" and "Dead from lack of drugs." A line of police officers (some with classic 80s mustaches) wearing riot helmets stands between them and the building; one cop wearing white gloves is walking through the demonstrators. Affixed to the 2nd story windows of the building is a series of posters and a large blank banner reading Silence = Death.

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Wool-Encased Tea Addict @passeriform.bsky.social · 1h

cats sniffing the blue-jeaned leg of their protector, who has been being licked by three bouncy but well-enough mannered, good-hearted DOGS.

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 1h

George Stephanopoulos cuts off JD Vance mid sentence 🤣🔥….this is the way!

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🎉 Gidgetwidget @gidgetwidget.bsky.social · 51m

It seems someone paid attention to Lawrence O'Donnell calling the legacy media out on falling for the "Lucy with the Football" trick everytime. Let's see more cutting to commercial breaks please.

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 5h

Not sure why it has taken until late 2025 to see this, but this is how you do it. Every time. For every one of these guests.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

🎉 Gidgetwidget @gidgetwidget.bsky.social · 56m

Someone dropped the #XFiles bomb & I love it.

IDK about you, but I love 1990s Scully & Mulder.

Some crazy Vanity Fair shoot where Scully and Mulder are lying naked on autopsy tables as if lounging in bed on a Saturday morning but they're in a morgue with toe tags on their bare feet and sheets mostly covering the nekkid. Lol

Gillian A at a launch for some og IBM or Microsoft desktop. Very retro early 90s.

🎉 Gidgetwidget @gidgetwidget.bsky.social · 1h

😝😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 1h

the motw episodes do. the conspiracy stuff is kinda fun for the first 4 seasons, out of gas by the time of the first movie, bad by the last 5 seasons of the regular run. the revival even addresses it to meh effect.

i will never not recommend clyde bruckman or how the ghosts stole xmas.

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🎉 Gidgetwidget @gidgetwidget.bsky.social · 1h

The embedded cultural norms of the 1990s is inescapable, for sure, especially around mental health. The Fiji Mermaid episode was pretty cool though.

🎉 Gidgetwidget @gidgetwidget.bsky.social · 1h

She had 7 kids (?) during the show's run. A fun game to play is figuring out when because the shots hide her pregnancy.

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🎉 Gidgetwidget @gidgetwidget.bsky.social · 1h

The whole dynamic of Scully trying to figure out where Mulder is/was... *chefs*kiss*

🎉 Gidgetwidget @gidgetwidget.bsky.social · 1h

Cigarette Smoking Man is the one who told Trump to go into politics but Trump forgot to tell Elon and so, yeah, DOGE fucked up, big time.

🎉 Gidgetwidget @gidgetwidget.bsky.social · 1h

Context is helpful since the series held up through at least 7 seasons. Duchovny's last season on the show started to get super meh. Post-Mulder Xfiles is okay. 2008 film is a 'watch at your own risk' situation.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1h

Does the X-Files hold up?

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 1h

Absolutely horrible news - Saleh was killed today

www.middleeasteye.net/news/saleh-a...

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 1h

BREAKING: Prominent Palestinian journalist Saleh Aljafarawi has been killed by gunmen in Gaza City’s al-Sabra neighbourhood, making him one of more than 270 journalists killed since Israel’s war began in 2023.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/p49p9n

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🎉 Gidgetwidget @gidgetwidget.bsky.social · 1h

My friend, Saleem!! I eluded to the crazy context and well, yeah, it's that. I expect to cry a lot in the coming days, especially when he speaks truth to ignite a brutal clarity & understanding. Oh 💔😭🔥

Between Wall and Cross: The Challenges of Ministry in the West Bank with Rev. Deacon Saleem Kasabreh