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ginger @gingerest.bsky.social · 16h

Hahahaha she’s a big aggressive baby (derogatory)

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 1d

“I … met with the governor, met with the mayor, met with the chief of police, and the superintendent of the highway patrol. They’re all lying, and disingenuous, and dishonest people,” Noem said, because they wouldn’t back up her baseless claims that the streets were overrun with terrorists.

ICE Barbie Says an Entire State’s Worth of Officials Are “Lying”

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is convinced, against all evidence, that Portland is a war zone.

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ginger @gingerest.bsky.social · 17h

I love it when people find out that so many things are brassicas

Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 18h

i'm sorry WHAT

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Brassica oleracea, also known as wild cabbage in its uncultivated form, is a plant of the family Brassicaceae. The species originated from feral populations of related plants in the Eastern Mediterranean, where it was most likely first cultivated. It has many common cultivars used as vegetables, including cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, romanesco, kale, Brussels sprout, collard, Savoy cabbage, kohlrabi, and gai lan.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 22h

Of course, never ever do this! Shun anyone who says to.

If that's not enough, you know that purty bright line pointing up at the sky? It also marks the spot of the person holding it.

It's a self-snitching device.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 23h

someone on the Internet who really wants to convince you to shine lasers at manned aircraft as a protest tactic “because they did it in Chile in 2019” is either:

1. a fascist fed, or,

2. so terminally stupid that they have become functionally indistinguishable from one

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ginger @gingerest.bsky.social · 20h

and they're new every time, which I know because we all block the old ones

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ginger @gingerest.bsky.social · 20h

IME pretty much every time Faine says "don't try to shoot down drones" or "don't target anything flying with lasers" and especially when it's followed with "and don't talk about the plans to do it in public because these are felonies, dummies" these people (mostly guys) come out of the woodwork.

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ginger @gingerest.bsky.social · 20h

ah, is this your first time with the randos in Faine's mentions?

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ginger @gingerest.bsky.social · 20h

I mean, it's not surprising that the Free Press isn't talking about this but Peter is still right

Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20h

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

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ginger @gingerest.bsky.social · 21h

How’d they do that with all the crime and murdering and war?

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 21h

Photos: More than 54,000 runners stepped off for the 26.2-mile Chicago Marathon that weaved through 29 neighborhoods, where spectators packed sidewalks, screamed, cheered, danced, blew air horns, displayed clever signs, and handed out snacks and Gatorade.

Runners and their cheerleaders turn out for Chicago Marathon: ‘This is our Super Bowl'

Countering weeks of intense immigration enforcement, mass protests and negative national headlines about Chicago, runners and spectators told the Sun-Times they reveled in the chance to show off what Chicago is really like.

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Tammi, yeah, that one. 2.1 @tammi.bsky.social · 1d

I found a 19th century Cat Villain!

A huge chonk of a fluffy cat sitting on a table near an open fire. The cat is cream and grey and appears to be shaped like a barrel in a fur coat. They are scowling fiercely with their moustache and bewhiskered ears apparently flowing back into the cold wind. There's a definite vibe that this villainous cat twirls their moustache as they evict orphans into the aforementioned blizzard and think Scrooge was an easy-going lightweight. They are magnificent.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 22h

American politics becomes what it becomes because when people were saying “ Americans don’t protest like the French, Koreans, etc”

Everyone leaves out the context of

How they stopped covering Black protests and no longer mention them

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ginger @gingerest.bsky.social · 21h

Super interesting thread

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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ginger @gingerest.bsky.social · 21h

At this level, not only can one rich person intentionally change the direction of history by their personal spending, their hoarding makes a detectable difference in what is left for everyone else

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22h

Thinking this is wrong and untenable isn’t radical.

Thinking it isn’t, is.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22h

Thinking this is wrong and untenable isn’t radical.

Thinking it isn’t, is.

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ginger @gingerest.bsky.social · 21h

The Willamette might be clean enough for that these days (when I lived there, it was … not.)

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ginger @gingerest.bsky.social · 21h

Omg the die-in on that freezing asphalt - only thing worse would be doing it on the Hawthorne steel grating (is it still steel? I haven't been back in a minute)

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ginger @gingerest.bsky.social · 22h

I’m glad you made another circuit of the sun with us!

ginger @gingerest.bsky.social · 22h

My kingdom for an edit button

ginger @gingerest.bsky.social · 22h

Oh, I’m sad that this is where the kid who created the Coronavirus Dashboard invented this terrible thing

Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 22h

“If one of your five closest friends is an AI companion that is a great sounding board and a great therapist or coach, and everyone has that, I think that will raise the emotional intelligence of most people and really smooth out the variance in people,” Schiffmann said.

The guy behind those ‘Friend’ ads in the subways is tired of talking to New Yorkers

New Yorkers are taking note and even scribbling their own graffiti on the ads. Avi Schiffmann, 22, says that's the point — but doesn't feel like talking to them.

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ginger @gingerest.bsky.social · 22h

You know, I feel confident saying there are lots of people with expertise in human anatomy who would like a continuing teaching position and would not rely on AI to generate their teaching texts

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Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 2d

From liaaa.bia on TikTok. She’s been doing a great job of documenting and communicating with her Dean. The professor seems very uninterested in addressing this.

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Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 2d

“People who dislike Gen AI are just stuffy bores”

Bitch one of us actually knows how many fingers humans have and evidently it’s not ChatGPT

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ginger @gingerest.bsky.social · 22h

October in Portland can be very damp and chilly! even with climate change

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 23h

someone on the Internet who really wants to convince you to shine lasers at manned aircraft as a protest tactic “because they did it in Chile in 2019” is either:

1. a fascist fed, or,

2. so terminally stupid that they have become functionally indistinguishable from one

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ginger @gingerest.bsky.social · 22h

It’s not obligatory to get naked, just to be supportive of the people who are - it is about freedom

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ginger @gingerest.bsky.social · 1d

Would I rather believe they meant to fire everyone and then panicked at public response, or they are that wildly grossly incompetent? Hm

Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump administration on Saturday scrambled to rescind layoffs of hundreds of CDC scientists who were mistakenly fired on Friday night in what appeared to be a substantial procedural lapse.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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