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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1d

Vanilla salt: saltsofthe7seas.com/vanilla-bean... (the website is from 1998 but the products are great)
Blackberry: www.saltspringseasalt.com/products/bla...
Chocolate: www.saltspringseasalt.com/products/cho...

Vanilla Bean Infusion Sea Salt

Taste how vanilla sea salt can add another layer of flavor to your food

saltsofthe7seas.com

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 9d

I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak

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jmgeduld.bsky.social @jmgeduld.bsky.social · 11d

Just located a letter I wrote to a friend a week ago but had mislaid before mailing - it was bookmarking a recipe I want to try... 🤣

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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 13d

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 13d

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

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jmgeduld.bsky.social @jmgeduld.bsky.social · 16d

Pulling the warm coats out of storage and reminding myself that in two months (probably less), the temps that have me shivering in the morning and evening this week will feel practically balmy.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 22d

It's Murderbot time! I'm back with a discussion of Artificial Condition and everyone's favorite Asshole Research Transport.
reactormag.com/martha-wells...

Martha Wells Book Club: Artificial Condition - Reactor

When we last left our grumpy SecUnit, it had ditched the PresAux team and set out for the great beyond...

reactormag.com

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Lambda Literary @lambdaliterary.org · 27d

🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Lesbian Romance: Here We Go Again by Alison Cochrun! 🎉🎉🎉
#Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

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jmgeduld.bsky.social @jmgeduld.bsky.social · Sep 4

Just finished COFFIN MOON by Keith Rosson (out this month) - a Vietnam vet and his niece seek the vampire who destroyed their family in this gripping dark and violent 1970s revenge talel. #ewgc

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · Aug 30

I know everything is a 5 alarm fire right now, but this is really important.

Will🇺🇸📎✌️🌲 @econaturalist.bsky.social · Aug 30

You have just 3 weeks to object to the Roadless rule rollback.

Link to USDA public comments here:

You Have Just 3 Weeks to Object to the Roadless Rule Rollback, Which Will Affect 45 Million Wild Acres Across the U.S.

The Trump administration just opened a three-week comment period for revoking the Roadless Rule, which keeps wilderness intact.

www.outdoorlife.com

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Godspeed You! Woke Moralists @dashwallkick.bsky.social · Aug 22

Time to mobilize on this one.

Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · Aug 22

Treasury is required to produce a report to Congress related to Direct File, the free tax filing option that the current administration intends to kill. They've created a survey with a bunch of leading questions. The survey deserves some responses supportive of the program to counteract its framing:

IRS asks for public input on free tax filing options to inform congressional report | Internal Revenue Service

IR-2025-85, Aug. 21, 2025 — The IRS invites the public to participate in an anonymous feedback survey on tax preparation and filing options, which will run through Sept. 5, 2025.

www.irs.gov

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · Aug 2

Nearly every Fri before Shabbat, I tweet:

May we rage when we must and rest when we can.
May we build the peace we so desperately need.
May we turn our hands, in all things, to the justice that peace requires.

The only liberation is a shared liberation. May we have courage sufficient to build it.

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · Aug 2

An awful, awful gut punch in an already profoundly shitty year www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting to shut down following funding cuts

Trump’s successful campaign to strip federal money to NPR and PBS effectively ended the public media middleman.

www.washingtonpost.com

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · Jul 24

Kids playing Ozzy's Crazy Train on xylophones

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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · Jul 19

"It is frustrating that someone who does not know the worth of what they're breaking, breaks it.”

www.cbsnews.com/news/sources...

Sources describe disarray at State Department after Trump administration's layoffs

Last week's sweeping State Department layoffs gutted some offices unexpectedly and forced staff to scramble, sources told CBS News.

www.cbsnews.com

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Aaron J. Waltke @goodaaron.bsky.social · Jul 18

I can confirm the PBS Passport is a very good deal for $5/month or $2.50/month if you do yearly.

Thousands of hours of top notch content. NOVA is great. The new Ken Burns doc on Leonardo da Vinci is excellent.

You can sign up at the link below!

www.pbs.org/passport/lea...

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pollyrepeat @pollyrepeat.bsky.social · Jul 16

New fanvid! RADIOACTIVE, by Murderbot.
youtu.be/CCuDPbIjcw0
#fanvids #vidding #murderbot

RADIOACTIVE by Murderbot (Murderbot TV)

YouTube video by pollyrepeat

youtu.be

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · Jul 15

I realise that reading vast amounts of fiction, and buying about three times more than even I can read, is neither a substitute for therapy nor a solution to everything out there. However, in my defence, just fucking *look* at everything out there.

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Lauren Deschain @thatnerdchick.bsky.social · Jul 15

Hey, nerds,

If you're missing my dude @sgj.bsky.social here in Seattle next week, he will be back for our local Seattle Arts and Lectures in Town Hall, come March of 2026. These events are open to people on a sliding scale ticket (Please donate if you can):

lectures.org/event/stephe...

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · Jul 13

July Fields, 1959
by painter Joan Eardley #WomensArt

Painting of a fence line in a golden field with many wild flowers created in a semi abstract style

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Sarah J Williams @sarahjwilliams.bsky.social · Jul 13

Life hack for book lovers: 😍🤣 💙📚

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Children's Bookshelf @pwkidsbookshelf.bsky.social · Jun 29

“Children’s books have an artistic and moral obligation to show children as they are, and not what adults want them to be”: National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature Mac Barnett (l.), giving a talk in the Library of Congress booth #ALAAC25

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Mary K @maryloveswords.bsky.social · Jun 29

“If you don’t believe that the picture book is real literature, then in some level you don’t believe that children are real people. And that’s unacceptable.” Thank you, Mac Barnett. #ala25.

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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · Jul 7

Are you from one of these states? Then we need your help to save American science!

The Senate Appropriations Committee will be marking up the President's Budget Request for science on Wednesday. People have been saying the proposed cuts "decimated" US science, but that's wrong: they are apocalyptic

A map of the US with the states the republican senators are from marked in red and states the democratic senators are from marked in blue:
Senator Susan Collins (Republican - Maine)
Senator Mitch McConnell(Republican - Kentucky)
Senator Lisa Murkowski(Republican - Alaska)
Senator Lindsey Graham(Republican - South Carolina)
Senator Jerry Moran(Republican - Kansas)
Senator John Hoeven(Republican - North Dakota)
Senator John Boozman(Republican - Arkansas)
Senator Shelley Moore Capito(Republican - West Virginia)
Senator John Kennedy(Republican - Louisiana)
Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith(Republican - Mississippi)
Senator Bill Hagerty(Republican - Tennessee)
Senator Katie Britt(Republican - Alabama)
Senator Markwayne Mullin(Republican - Oklahoma)
Senator Deb Fischer(Republican - Nebraska)
Senator Mike Rounds(Republican - South Dakota)
Patty Murray(Democrat - Washington)
Richard Durbin(Democrat - Illinois)
Jack Reed(Democrat - Rhode Island)
Jeanne Shaheen(Democrat - New Hampshire)
Jeff Merkley(Democrat - Oregon)
Christopher Coons(Democrat - Delaware)
Brian Schatz(Democrat - Hawaii)
Tammy Baldwin(Democrat - Wisconsin)
Chris Murphy(Democrat - Connecticut)
Chris Van Hollen(Democrat - Maryland)
Martin Heinrich(Democrat - New Mexico)
Gary Peters(Democrat - Michigan)
Kirsten Gillibrand(Democrat - New York)
Jon Ossoff(Democrat - Georgia)

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Cora Harrington @cora.bsky.social · Jun 27

Last semester, I had the opportunity to take a class on costume design in fantasy, sci-fi, and supernatural film and television. And for my final project, I chose to analyze the costumes in Jem and The Holograms! ✨

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NOLNIR ✨🌠💫 @nolnir.com · Jun 20

I've slapped together approximately 173 pages of material that aims to teach programming a personal website with HTML and CSS to artists, animators, writers, music producers, etc.

F*ck It, Let's Make a Website Part 1 is now live ✨
Go here to read: bit.ly/filmawPartOne
More info below 👇

a digital drawing of a young character with a turquoise bow on her head. She possesses canine-like features and wears a white outfit with yellow gloves. To the right of her is text that reads "Fuck it, let's make a website!"

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