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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 4h

gandalf: I am not trying to rob you!
I'm trying to help you.

[small dog holding tennis ball in its mouth stares back]

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 14h

My kind friend and coworker Starly needs some serious help and is in a deep pinch. Even if you can't donate, please spread the word around and RT if you can. Thanks, gang. ❤️

.°• ☆ Starly! ✨🌿🍄 @artbunnii.bsky.social · 1d

Hi guys! After what happened, it's evident that my mom's surgery can't wait, so I'm asking for donations to help to gather the money for it

She almost lost consciousness last night and the insurance keeps refusing to help us

Every help counts 🙏💕

ko-fi.com/drstarline/g...

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HJ Armstrong @hjarmstrong.bsky.social · 14h

How are these people just so absurdly stupid? Hooooowwwww?

Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 17h

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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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 18h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 1d

Independent media here and happy to report 🫡

Though I think the more relevant, immediate news story is the psychopaths around him enabling him and speed-running 1930s Germany.

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

Is it just me, or does it seem the press is actually and completely terrified to report about Donald Trump's physical and mental health the way it would have if anyone else were president?

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HJ Armstrong @hjarmstrong.bsky.social · 19h

What?! Oh, man. RIP.

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 20h

Keaton was best known for her roles in Annie Hall, Reds and The Godfather films.

Oscar-winning actress Diane Keaton dies aged 79

Keaton was best known for her roles in Annie Hall, Reds and The Godfather films.

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HJ Armstrong @hjarmstrong.bsky.social · 23h

Well, I know where I’m stopping first. 🧙‍♀️

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 1d

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 1d

Every year at #NYCC there’s one cosplayer that takes the cake, the cookies AND the pie. It’s only Friday but I think I found the one.

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HJ Armstrong @hjarmstrong.bsky.social · 1d

So good!

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HJ Armstrong @hjarmstrong.bsky.social · 1d

JFC.

HJ Armstrong @hjarmstrong.bsky.social · 1d

I kept waiting for one of them to lose an eye in this chaos. 😱

s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 1d

A little something to take the edge off as you head into the weekend @erinbiba.bsky.social

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 1d

I don't know if there's such a thing as a "world cyberwar" but I think we are in one? and the US is determined to lose it. 🧵

Today the admin is mass-firing the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the nation's cybersecurity protection across all levels of government.

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SAFE Team Rescue @safeteamrescue.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Friday from adoptable kitty, Gemma! Gemma is thrilled to be @1023nowradio’s Pet Purrsonals Star this week! She is the sweetest little doll and she is going to fill her forever home full with love. Gemma is 3 years old and she is looking for a calm and quiet child free forever home.

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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 2d

Last week, I wrote an article about how Trump and Russell Vought would exploit this shutdown to accelerate Project 2025.

Here we go. Mass layoffs have begun.

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HJ Armstrong @hjarmstrong.bsky.social · 1d

My condolences to you and your family, Celeste. 🫶

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HJ Armstrong @hjarmstrong.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly, I love it as it is.

HJ Armstrong @hjarmstrong.bsky.social · 2d

🤣 Perfect.

Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 2d

Meanwhile in #Portland

Kermit faces off with Hopper in The Muppet Movie

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HJ Armstrong @hjarmstrong.bsky.social · 2d

We're WHAT now?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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The Cattery Cat Shelter @thecatterycc.bsky.social · 2d

The perfect Halloween sticker sheet! #sticker #catstickers #spookysticker #

https://princesscecilycc.org/products/halloween-sticker-sheet

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Brett Zimmerman @b-zimm.bsky.social · 2d

We want to know the root cause of homelessness so we can “solve” it. It’s the confluence of wealth inequality, housing commodification, inflated healthcare costs, no child or elder care, the list goes on.

But the root cause is us. It is the level to which we will tolerate our neighbors’ suffering.

Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 2d

Today is World Homeless Day, and after years reporting on this crisis, I'll just say: homelessness is neither inevitable nor intractable. It's the result of choices—political, economic, moral—that can be unmade.

And this: how we treat the unhoused is a bellwether for the violence we will tolerate.

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 2d

Today is World Homeless Day, and after years reporting on this crisis, I'll just say: homelessness is neither inevitable nor intractable. It's the result of choices—political, economic, moral—that can be unmade.

And this: how we treat the unhoused is a bellwether for the violence we will tolerate.

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HJ Armstrong @hjarmstrong.bsky.social · 2d

Remember this ad? I feel like Trump is Beatrice, his toadies are the lady in pink, and Dems are the annoyed lady who speaks up.

youtu.be/Aq_1l316ow8?...

That's Not How This Works!!

YouTube video by Kris Quartermus

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Lady “What Now” de Bourg @njpnw.blacksky.app · 2d

Sorry! That’s a sachet.
A duvet is when a dancer lifts both heels into the en pointe position.

HJ Armstrong @hjarmstrong.bsky.social · 2d

That, my friend, is an ashtray.

A duvet is a small porous bag filled with herbs, potpourri or perfumed powder.

🪡 Ether GhostLace 🪡 (she/her—illiteratis did this) @laceslibgremlin.bsky.social · 2d

Sir, I think you’re confused. That’s passe.

A duvet is a small dish where smokers put out cigarettes

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