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Lynne Huskinson @moodycreek.bsky.social · 16h

Kids read more garbage on their phones than they do in libraries.Wyoming Conservatives Republicans or Christian Nationalists are making sure they keep that trend going‼️
Wyoming libraries are in trouble wyofile.com/wyoming-libr...

Opinion | Wyoming libraries are in trouble

On the heels of Banned Books Week, the Joint Judiciary Committee will consider legislation that threatens libraries' financial stability and Wyomingites' personal liberty, writes Teton County Library ...

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The Herd House @theherdhouse.bsky.social · 17h

A2A Rescue CRITTERFEST 2025!

James Earl Jones takes on ET!

*This is the adoption agency that I do major medical rehab rehabilitation fostering for.
#Halloween2025 #PetCostumes #WheelieDog

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Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 17h

I am aware this may completely decimate my already swamped feed, but here's the start of last year's thread which has some even more incredible looks than this year

Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · Nov 29

Oh joy, I have found the National Costume photos from Mister Global 2023 *and* 2024 so let's gear up for the Bluesky version of my most viral threads from back on Twitter.

For the uninitiated Mister Global is an annual male beauty pageant that is pretty standard in most respects.

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Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 18h

Mr Venezuela looks like someone stole his cape just before he walked on stage but he'd already practised swishing it behind him when he walked the runway so he's going to do it even if it's only an imaginary cloak.

A photo of a contestant at Mister Global 2025

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Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 18h

Mr Sri Lanka. This is a rare case where I think the outfit would be better without the giant gold snakes around his head. Maybe add a cape, but I think the rest of the outfit (what little of it there is) is so great that he doesn't need the snakes.

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Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 19h

Mr Laos. Just when you though this year was a bit quiet on the insanely huge, bedazzled, symbolic costumes along comes Mr Laos and blows everyone else out of the water. This is insane, but it's also *so* good.

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Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 19h

Mr England is setting the tone here for Europe which is very much What The Actual Fuck. The only thing impressive about this is that it's not actually the worst that Europe has to offer.

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Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 19h

Mr Colombia is the first of our LOOK AT MY TITS contestants, but very much not the last. He looks slightly annoyed, but I cannot fault the combination of the maximum amount of skin on show but also the maximum amount of costume.

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Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 19h

Mr Brazil starts us off inoffensively enough with a fairly boring suit but my goodness he's selling it with that walk. He does get a bonus point for the suit clearly fitting though, because as you will see that is not always a given...

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Jennifed @jennifed.bsky.social · 8h

Not one single person makes a move to stop the dog or catch the dog or is even really surprised by the dog. The crowd response doesn't fit.

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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 14h

The administration itself acknowledge that some CDC workers had been mistakenly terminated due to coding errors, as reported earlier by ABC News.
I was also told that RIF'd editors of the CDC's flagship scientific journal, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report have all been recalled, as well as leaders and staffers in several other centers and divisions. Recalled CDC staffers include scientists and other workers in the
Global Health Center, as well as others who work on suicide and other injury prevention.
This is a developing story.

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John Hudgens @johnhudgens.bsky.social · 17h

United We Hop, Divided We Croak

Put the HOP back in HOPE

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Jennifed @jennifed.bsky.social · 14h

Thank you for speaking up. I hope you and your family are well and can find peace in Spain.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · Mar 12

I have been doing entirely too much earnest posting about deep things recently, I need to do a proper thread about hippo testicles or something just to keep myself sane.

Oh by the way hippos have migratory testicles.

a statue of a hippopotamus with its mouth open and teeth showing .

Alt: A hippo being tossed a watermelon, which it crushes in its massive jaws.

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 1d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 1d

Breaking my social media fast to tell you that the Oregon Humane Society has slashed adoption fees 50% this weekend to offset an intake surge in the aftermath of an animal hoarding raid. Go adopt a new bestie like Miles (link below).

Miles
164090
Portland Campus

A very handsome coonhound basset hound mix

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Blob Costas @blobcostas.bsky.social · 1d

East coasters watching this game

#tigers @ #mariners

a man is sitting at a table with his mouth open and saying i wanna goooooo !

ALT: a man is sitting at a table with his mouth open and saying i wanna goooooo !

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Meghan Bartels @meghanbartels.bsky.social · 1d

What a truly delightful piece of research!! 🧪

Silvia Pineda-Munoz, PhD - Climate Ages @climateages.bsky.social · 1d

A 126,000-year-old butt-drag just made fossil history.
A tiny rock hyrax scooted across the sand of ancient South Africa, and that moment was preserved in stone.

Even the smallest acts can echo through time.
🧪 #SciComm
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The 126,000-Year-Old Butt-Drag That Rewrote What Counts as a Fossil

How a small animal’s odd habit turned into one of the most unexpected stories ever preserved in stone Some discoveries make headlines because they’re dramatic: new...

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WyoFile @wyofile.com · 1d

Terri Lesley wants the costly settlement of her lawsuit against Campbell County and conservatives on the library board to “shut down all these censorship efforts in Wyoming and beyond.” But advocates of new rules on library materials say they aren’t backing down. wyofile.com/fired-wyomin...

Fired Wyoming librarian hopes $700,000 settlement deters conservative lawmakers. They say it won’t. - WyoFile

Former Gillette librarian announced the settlement of her lawsuit against Campbell County and conservatives on the library board days before a key legislative meeting.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 9d

3a) Notable in the "Manifesto of Fascist Intellectuals:
- the desire to do politics as warfare (important given the legacy of WWI)
- the argument that what was needed at the start of fascism was a 'revolutionary' violation of the (perverted) law to restore 'order', i. e. the "new law."

Mussolini and other fascists marching in black shirts

It was the very faith that had ripened in the trenches and in intense reflection on the sacrifice accomplished in the course of battle, a sacrifice for the only worthy goal: the vigor and greatness of the fatherland. It was an energetic, violent faith, unwilling to respect anything opposed to the fatherland's vigor and greatness. This is how squadrism arose. Determined youths, armed, organized in military fashion, and dressed in black shirts, placed themselves outside the law in order to institute a new law. They fought the state in order to found a new state.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 11d

I teach a history of antifascism course @ruhistorydept.bsky.social and figured I'd start an ongoing thread this semester to share some insights from course readings and recommend some great works on antifascism.

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Espy @esp1371.bsky.social · 1d

Because this is actually like only an hour away from me, I would like to point out that Trump is not giving Qatar an air base, he is letting them build a training facility at an existing U.S. Air Force Base. Apparently, Singapore has a similar facility there as well. 1/2

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Trump and Hegseth give Qatar an airbase in Idaho and Qatari pilots will be flying jets over American airspace. Their lavish gifts and personal business deals with Trump worth billions really paid off for them.

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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 1d

"Democrats keep shooting sniper rounds into ICE facilities."

After Ms. Noem’s visit to Portland, Mr. Johnson appeared live on Newsmax from inside the cordoned-off ICE building. He described the building as being in downtown Portland and said that the windows were blacked out and covered with tarps because “Democrats keep shooting sniper rounds into ICE facilities.”

Police have not reported any incidents of sniper fire, and the ICE building sits about two miles from downtown Portland.

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Dr. James H. Gundlach @pecanjim.bsky.social · 1d

Here I compare the percent changes in single year age deaths rates from 1999 to 2019, the last year before COVID, for non-Hispanic Whites and Blacks as well as Hispanics of all races. Click ALT to see more: 🧪💡☠️ #Sociology #Population #Auburn #Think #News

I think this graph shows some of the most unique in the United States changes in death rates. I usually include the data used to create graphs but that is not possible here with as much data I used to produce this graph.

The graph starts with a lot of scattered dots showing little racial and ethnic differences among the young. The health care for the young in the United States is primarily covered by capitalist health insurance but almost all the states have socialist health care for the uninsured young. Much of the differences in the height of the dots among the young is due to the random effects showing up in data with small n's. But in general, our young experienced fairly consistent declines. Even the high Hispanic dot at age 6 is for a one percent decline.

The worst part of our unique death rates hist in young adulthood. Our middle aged health care is dominated by capitalist health insurance. The United States is unique in the economically developed world in that we allow the capitalist health insurance to delay care as they decide if they will cover particular health care. This practice was put in place after software was developed that allowed the health insurance industry to predict who they would lose money on based on early adult health problems. Those upward slopes in the three lines of dots are produced by some of the people being uninsured and the health insurance industry denying care. The main thing this graph shows is that this increase in death rates in the private health insurance covered population is strongest in the most insured group, non-Hispanic Whites.

The last part of the graph shows that Medicare coverage produces the best protection against unnecessary early deaths, We simply wait for people to get too old for civilized health care to have a life expectancy among the longest.

I will end repeating my most repeated line. Canada has a life expectancy that is 3.3 years longer than we in the United States does.

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