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Julie& @himissjulie.bsky.social · 19h

Let’s pile political upheaval trauma on top of mass gun violence trauma on top of pandemic trauma on top of generational trauma on top of personal trauma et al and see what happens! That’s the REAL American experiment.

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Julie& @himissjulie.bsky.social · 19h

This country hates children.

Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 1d

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

Julie& @himissjulie.bsky.social · 19h

Having been one once myself, I can say that teenage girls can be incredibly terrifying, even without being infested by demons. Adding to the tbr pile.

🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 20h

Grateful to @locusmag.bsky.social for including TEENAGE GIRLS CAN BE DEMONS, my coming-of-rage horror collection, as part of "13 Creepy New Titles to Read in October"

What a coincidence, there are 13 stories in the book too 😈

locusmag.com/2025/10/13-s...

13 Spine-Chilling Books for October!

Brace yourself, horror enthusiasts! This was going to be a shorter list, but we felt it was only right to start off October with lucky number 13. So here are 13 new books to rattle your bones befor…

locusmag.com

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 20h

lol gentle reminder that DEI is not illegal. Supporting marginalized groups is not illegal. Anyone reneging on support is making a CHOICE to do so.

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Revenge of the Oxford Comma @pensivetoker.bsky.social · 21h

Cities standing up for, helping instead of harming each other.

We do this all the time for natural disasters (👀). We collect food and supplies. We send people to help. We gather in solidarity.

We have a long history of helping each other and being demonized for it.

We do it anyway.

Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 22h

"It would be powerful if folks from Dallas stand up for Chicago and folks from Chicago stand up for Dallas, so that narratives like 'Texas invades Illinois' can't take hold. Cities are not invading each other. The federal government is attacking Americans."
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/panopticon...

PanoptiCon Artists: Your Questions Answered

On digital surveillance, ICE city raids, the need for new parties, and more.

sarahkendzior.substack.com

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Joan Colbert @joanc.bsky.social · 21h

In her replies, Kendzior linked to this Elijah Lovejoy article from *Nov 3, 2016* - probably considered hyperbolic gloom and doom by many at the time, it pales looking back from our current reality.
(Lovejoy’s brave history is included in her book, Hiding in Plain Sight.)

Our fate was sealed long before November 8 (and not because the election’s rigged)

I do not know what kind of America I will wake up to November 9. But I know that the future of America does not hinge on Election Day. What happens to the US will be the cumulative effect of a Trump c...

thecorrespondent.com

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Julie& @himissjulie.bsky.social · 1d

Podcasters all, just look up how to pronounce things before you hit record. Only Hobbes is exempt from this rule.

Julie& @himissjulie.bsky.social · 1d

a woman in a black dress says it - it - the f - it - flam - flames

Alt: Mrs White in the movie Clue in a black dress says “it - it - the f - it - flam - flames. Flames on the side of my face” while gesturing to her face with both hands

media.tenor.com

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 2d

This is outstanding.

Never forget that these weak fascist lying losers are WEAK FASCIST LYING LOSERS.

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 2d

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

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 2d

just watched a dozen people ask microsoft copilot experts their most pressing questions and those questions were 90% “how do i turn it off?” and “when i turn it off, is it really off or is it spying on me?”

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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 2d

Still true

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 3d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Julie& @himissjulie.bsky.social · 2d

I’d say it’s 💯

Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 2d

Like 97 percent of why he’s obsessed with winning the Nobel peace prize is that Obama won it

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Julie& @himissjulie.bsky.social · 2d

I have all the mouths and all of them are screaming all the time.

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mimi smartypants @mimismartypants.bsky.social · 2d

Antifa and a transgender were in the closet burning flags and I saw one of the flags and the flag looked at me

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Julie& @himissjulie.bsky.social · 2d

I’m so grateful my loans were forgiven and I’m so pissed for everyone who is getting jerked around now.

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Julie& @himissjulie.bsky.social · 2d

Hello @heykellyjensen.bsky.social has this on lock.

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 2d

. @404media.co is investigating book bans. They could use your pointers on where to be looking. You can do it anonymously.

"We need help deciding... which school districts and cities to seek public records from and... where we should point our reporting efforts. "

www.404media.co/help-us-inve...

Help Us Investigate Book Bans and Educational Censorship Around America

404 Media has gotten a grant to unearth public records about systematic censorship of books, schools, and libraries in the U.S.

www.404media.co

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Julie& @himissjulie.bsky.social · 2d

Who is paying him to have this opinion.

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 3d

‘AI is here to stay and change things’: Mad Max director George Miller on why he is taking part in an AI film festival

The director believes AI has made film-making ‘way more egalitarian’ – and is set to lead the judges at Omni AI film festival in Australia There’s no arguing the use of artificial intelligence in film-making is getting a bad rap. Last week’s unveiling of Hollywood’s first AI “actress”, Tilly Norwood, generated howls of protest from actors’ unions across the UK and US, where the industry is still reeling from last year’s 118-day strike over, among other issues, the threat of AI. And earlier this week, Australia’s Productivity Commission was pilloried by Liberals and Greens alike for failing to recognise the dire impact AI may have on the country’s creative industries. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Julie& @himissjulie.bsky.social · 2d

We need to be more accurate with language. Anti-fascist instead of antifa. Forcefully call it the affordable healthcare act instead of Obamacare. We need to call things what they are. Have you never read a fecking fairy tale? Naming Rumplestiltskin caused that mother to tear himself in half. POWER.

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Julie& @himissjulie.bsky.social · 2d

This country doesn’t care about children. At all. Children deserve human rights and there’s a document asserting that and “…196 countries are party to it, including every member of the United Nations except the United States.”

www.ohchr.org/en/instrumen...

Convention on the Rights of the Child - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Julie& @himissjulie.bsky.social · 2d

Orange cats tend to be very dog like in my experience. Kindred spirits.

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 2d

Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme

tweet from childish branzino @absflora:
timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

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Julie& @himissjulie.bsky.social · 2d

This is an insult to toddlers.

José Pablo Iriarte @labyrinthrat.bsky.social · 2d

The era of trump is revealing to us who in our society would be/is inept at dealing with toddlers.

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Julie& @himissjulie.bsky.social · 2d

So we heading for a civil war or what?

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Julie& @himissjulie.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks I hate it

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