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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 19h

Guys, I don’t mean to sound like this but there is a felon down the street making AI videos of himself as a king shitting on Americans and the American flag and he is literally tearing down the White House as we speak

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𝙹𝚊𝚢 𝙵 𝙰𝚛𝚗𝚘𝚕𝚍 @jayfarrellarnold.bsky.social · 18h

Yeah. So The White House
is designated a National Historic Landmark.

That means:

It’s formally recognized as having exceptional national historical significance.

Any substantial changes, demolitions, or new construction affecting it are tightly restricted.

It’s not his house! WTF.

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Donut Thief @grunhund.bsky.social · 22h

I miss really nice menswear stores. Great coats (love me a raglan sleeve) were overlooked and usually my size.

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Deanna Raybourn @deannaraybourn.bsky.social · 1d

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Gräfin Frightenberg🗽🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @grafinfreudenberg.bsky.social · 22h

Stumbling over some book or film by chance is more likely to expand your mental horizons than dutifully watching what the algorithm chooses for you.

Sam Brunson @smbrnsn.bsky.social · 23h

I’m gonna counterpoint this one: browsing was part of the fun. And browsing in the physical world is different from browsing in the virtual world.

The things that sucked about Blockbuster were primarily late fees and it being hard to find a new release on a Friday night.

Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 23h

Yeah, I think I see the problem here - it's not that the video store was good, it's that you miss being a teenager

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lights out for migrating birds @lightsoutforbirds.bsky.social · 1d

youtu.be/m5-k8Sj-VkY

Toronto Wildlife Centre
EST. 1993
@TWC Wildlife
X.com
As temperatures drop, species like #RedBats migrate while others like #BigBrownBats hunker down for hibernation. They may unknowingly seek shelter in homes and buildings, which can get them into trouble! Learn more about these often misunderstood mammals:
youtu.be/m5-k8Sj-VkY?si...

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Lyle Lewis @race2extinct.bsky.social · 3d

Passenger pigeon. Ivory-billed woodpecker. Eskimo curlew. Slender-billed curlew.

Every extinction is a wake-up call.

Our default setting is snooze.
theconversation.com/slender-bill...

Slender-billed curlews are officially extinct – here’s why the loss of these migratory birds really matters

Why the loss of this species shines light on the global extinction crisis.

theconversation.com

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The Nitrate Diva @nitratediva.bsky.social · 1d

Personal highlights from #NoKings in Manchester, #Vermont yesterday:
🇺🇸 Lady gave my signless dad a flag to wave just as we arrived
🦄 Antifa unicorn
🦖 Twerking T-rex
🎀 Pink lady in sparkly beret
🛻 Vintage truck driver honking with gusto
🍩 Someone who couldn't attend sent a friend to hand out donuts

Me, a brunette in jeans, holding a hand-drawn sign with a black cat dangling a dead snake wearing a crown and the caption I'LL TREAD WHERE I PLEASE, against a background of a quaint VT town's roundabout lined with fellow protestors on a beautiful autumn day

A person in turquoise sunglasses in an inflatable unicorn costume holds a sign that reads "I'm ANTIFA. RU? IF NOT, WHAT ARE YOU?"

Stylish lady in pink and a gentleman with a gray beard stand on the sidewalk while a someone in an orange T-rex inflatable costume dances in the background on a beautiful autumn day

Electric blue vintage pickup truck drives past a group of protestors, one of whom holds a large sign reading TEAR THE FASCISTS DOWN.

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David Avallone @davallone.bsky.social · 1d

Yesterday at #NoKings, I met a woman who works with the local anti-ICE “Home Depot Patrol,” and I’m going to make some time to stand a few watches over at my local Home Depot.

Springboards.

Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 1d

the massive scale of the No Kings protests, from the organizers’ perspectives, was ALWAYS about making it easy for people to people to go and meet organizers and organizations and mutual aid:

“Let this be a springboard, not the end of your journey.”

if you went, how are you doing so?

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 1d

hell yeah, we're doing hopepunk, we're making star wars references, we're cringemaxxing

caring about stuff is so uncool that it's cool again, get ready www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Resistance Is Cringe—But It’s Also Effective

Dismissing the movement as embarrassing pap ignores what has made it so powerful.

www.theatlantic.com

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Mike "looking for research fellowship" Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social · 2d

Telling moment: I was walking back from the rally, but a couple miles from it, carrying nothing but my gigantic American flag. An eight year old on his bike sees me with it and yells "No Kings!!" with absolute conviction.

My friends, they have lost the flag.

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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 1d

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.

Audrey Hepburn in How to Steal a Million

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Donut Thief @grunhund.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for the heads up! Watching now. Just in time for "Daisy". "Ah, she's a bonnie doozer!" ♥️

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Donut Thief @grunhund.bsky.social · 1d

This, this, this, and more of this!!! 👏👏👏 #Purdue assist for the win. #IU 🥹♥️🤍+💛🖤

Gabrielle Hecht has no more spoons @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 2d

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

Sara Whitmer
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1h • 8
I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into scist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town.
Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming.
Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance.
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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 2d

TODAY — At the No Kings rally in Chicago, organizers recognized the work of independent news outlets including The TRiiBE and Unraveled Press, and nonprofit newsroom Block Club Chicago.

Video: CBS Chicago

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 2d

That is hot ice

It’s an ice machine made into a sign. It says “Chicago likes its ice crushed ****”

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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 2d

#NoKings, Madison WI

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 2d

Just want to give a shout out to my 83 year old dad- normally conservative, a former SCOTUS law clerk for Rehnquist- who protested out in the rain this morning in St Louis. #NoKings

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 2d

"I've told the story of Akromiya for 20 years. I’m telling it again now, because today is No King’s Day, and I am afraid that 'Antifa' is the American Akromiya: a fabricated entity made by state propagandists to persecute anyone who opposes the government."
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/inventing-...