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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 17h

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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kay taylor rea but spooky @kaytaylorrea.bsky.social · 15h

Tip for people who want to give out Halloween candy this year, but 🥴 at those wildly inflated prices: double check your local grocery stores’ weekly and digital ads this week. A lot of them put the earliest ordered bags on a moderate sale right now and they’ll still be good to pass out on the 31st.

a penguin is sitting in a halloween pumpkin filled with candy

Alt: a penguin is sitting in a halloween pumpkin filled with candy and tossing pieces into the air

media.tenor.com

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 23h

A library director in Wyoming who was fired two years ago because she refused to remove books with sexual content and LGBTQ themes from a library's children and young adult sections has just been awarded $700,000 in a settlement. t.co/EA5L1kOZfV

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/us/wyoming-library-settlement-book-bans-terri-lesley.html?smtyp=cur&smid=fb-nytimes&fbclid=IwdGRjcANWLXdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHhlnY6nKj_j4zuP3VjNSstXWBaV1t8-sPQ5C3b_jS6WN...

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 17h

Looks from here like the goal is to create confusion, and focus public attention on a subset of the most outrageous firings — to distract from the other firings.

We shouldn’t be fooled, and should demand that all the illegal shutdown RIFs are made null and void. /end

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 17h

Seeing a lot of celebration of this as a win.

But at NIH we have seen this exact play before.

It looks like it is the Vought strategy -and to stop the lawless firings we have to see the bigger picture.
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Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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kay taylor rea but spooky @kaytaylorrea.bsky.social · 15h

Truly hope it brightened their day 😂

kay taylor rea but spooky @kaytaylorrea.bsky.social · 15h

I did take my weighted vest off after the eleventh inning lmao

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kay taylor rea but spooky @kaytaylorrea.bsky.social · 1d

tfw you’re moderately sports superstitious and say you’re gonna stay on the walking pad until the end of the of the Mariners game even though it was long run day and then the game goes to 15 innings lmao

Image of an Apple Watch on a wrist showing the time as 10:04 the step count as 33,761 steps and the distance as 15.54 miles

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Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social · 1d

Este estudio estara iniciando con talento Mexicano y Latinoamericano para vincular animadores de varios paises y ifrecera estudios a un animador Mexicano por cda ciclo escolar durante una decada entera.

Animated Antic @animatedantic.bsky.social · 1d

Guillermo del Toro and Netflix have announced plans to form a new stop motion studio that will be both a studio and a school to push the medium forward and will develop plans to make Del Toro's next stop motion project after Pinocchio. I'm very hyped to see what this leads to!

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 1d

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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kay taylor rea but spooky @kaytaylorrea.bsky.social · 1d

sent this to my sister whose masters is in archaeology and she sent me back a voice memo which was just her laughing for a minute straight

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Keegan Matheson @keeganmatheson.bsky.social · 1d

#BlueJays vs. Mariners

American League Championship Series

Game 1: Sunday at 8:03pm ET in Toronto

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

BREAKING: Jorge Polanco hit a game-ending single in the 15th inning, and the Seattle Mariners advanced to the AL Championship Series by outlasting the Detroit Tigers for a 3-2 victory in the longest winner-take-all postseason game in baseball history.

Polanco hits winning single in the 15th inning as the Mariners beat the Tigers to advance to ALCS

Jorge Polanco hit a game-ending single in the 15th inning, and the Seattle Mariners advanced to the AL Championship Series by outlasting the Detroit Tigers for a 3-2 victory in the longest winner-take-all postseason game in baseball history.

bit.ly

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kay taylor rea but spooky @kaytaylorrea.bsky.social · 1d

IT WORKED 🎉🎉🎉

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kay taylor rea but spooky @kaytaylorrea.bsky.social · 1d

tfw you’re moderately sports superstitious and say you’re gonna stay on the walking pad until the end of the of the Mariners game even though it was long run day and then the game goes to 15 innings lmao

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kay taylor rea but spooky @kaytaylorrea.bsky.social · 1d

Unfortunately yes lol

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kay taylor rea but spooky @kaytaylorrea.bsky.social · 1d

It’s so wonderful!! Excellent job by you and the whole team 💜

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

that johnson is more terrified of seating a duly elected democrat who could force an epstein vote than having the entire government shut down really makes me wonder about that epstein vote tbh

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kay taylor rea but spooky @kaytaylorrea.bsky.social · 1d

I will always take a free baked good 😂

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kay taylor rea but spooky @kaytaylorrea.bsky.social · 1d

This is out and it’s an absolute DELIGHT. I snagged a copy of the audio and the narration is truly chef’s kiss. Freya never misses!

Freya Marske @freyamarske.bsky.social · Mar 21

Coming in October 2025: CINDER HOUSE, a queer Gothic retelling of Cinderella in which our titular character is a very frustrated ghost! 🔥 Fire, skeletons, fairies, intense epistolary friendships, and lots of feelings about ballet.

Preorder US - bit.ly/CH-buyUS
Preorder UK - bit.ly/CH-buyUK

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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kay taylor rea but spooky @kaytaylorrea.bsky.social · 1d

😍😍😍

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kay taylor rea but spooky @kaytaylorrea.bsky.social · 1d

What’s a small thing you do that brings you joy for relatively low or no cost? One of mine is paying a small premium for higher quality spices. Literally everything you cook and bake is going to be better with more flavorful and robust spices. I’m just sitting here smelling my Saigon cinnamon like

a doll with blue eyes and a chef 's hat

Alt: Pillsbury dough boy smelling a waft of steam

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 1d

the other one is the Dick Durbin thing

having an American pope not only say “absolutely a pro-choice Democrat Catholic politician is worthy of being honored” but also “abortion is not gonna be central to my brand and you abortion-only guys are not ‘pro-life’ actually” is. uh. lowkey seismic tbh

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