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KristyQ01 @kristyq01.bsky.social · 1h

I guess better to discover that situation before you get into the air, but yikes.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 2h

Heidegger, Pound, Webern, Jung all supported the Nazis.

fascism is a moral error, not an intellectual one. being educated isn't a prophylactic.

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 5h

Most of these people are deeply trained, or at least highly educated, in humanities. Knowing isn’t being.

brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 11h

Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.

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Hobby Drifter in Tokyo @hobbydrifter.bsky.social · 7d

White people who have spent decades thinking “Born in the USA” is patriotic and “Every Breath You Take” is a great wedding song are suddenly very concerned about not being able to understand lyrics to some songs at the Super Bowl halftime show.

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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 4h

I'm not going to give it views with a share, but no, it is not "feminist" for someone like Weiss to be head of CBS. She's awful and unqualified and anti-feminist herself. This is White Feminism TM "logic" whereby the only qualification for feminism is cis women in positions of power.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 9h

No. No. No.

(Nothing against Steven, I used to do this too until I learned that it was a bad idea.)

Swim goggles hit by a projectile (like a tear gas canister or pepper ball) can direct force to the area around your eyeball and pop it out of your skull.

NOT desirable.

Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 10h

Pro tip to reporters and protesters: always have swim goggles in your pockets or bags. They’re small, $10 and if tear gas is used, slip them on & no matter how much you cough, you’ll still be able to SEE without burning eyes.

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KristyQ01 @kristyq01.bsky.social · 5h

I get very irritated when TV shows ignore the MAJOR PLOT POINT of season three to make an episode of season five work out.

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Aarne Granlund @aarnegranlund.bsky.social · 10h

Ask not how many cars you can power with solar power instead of biofuels, but how e-buses, trains, and e-bikes can move people affordably in a clean grid.

#Sufficiency

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Lynn Stahl @msbtterswrth.altgov.info · 1d

Hot off the presses! If you need a bigger size to print your stickers let me know!

The Portland frog as a founding father, surround by the words "give me ribberty or give me death"

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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 8h

If you don’t see the link between ICE and the IDF, you haven’t been paying attention. We are being asked to accept a world where whole communities are made disposable and marked for disappearance. If we accept that for anyone, no one is safe anywhere.

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Matthew Dow Smith @matthewdowsmith.bsky.social · 7h

A really, really nice review of my beloved DC's MISFITS OF MAGIC. I'm incredibly proud of this book and it remains the most fun I've ever had making a comic book.

Stergios Botzakis @stergbot.bsky.social · 8h

I recently read DC’s Misfits of Magic by @matthewdowsmith.bsky.social, which stars teen-aged versions of Dr. Occult, Blue Devil, Deadman, and Enchantress. It’s a fun riff on DC’s magic users, and a perfect YA graphic novel for this Halloween season 🎃

DC's Misfits of Magic

Continuing my look at spooky themed books this month, today I look at DC's Misfits of Magic , which is from the latest series of their grap...

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KristyQ01 @kristyq01.bsky.social · 8h

A genius.

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 9h

The American legal system is EXTREMELY HOSTILE TO VICTIMS OF SEX ABUSE.

Stop hiding behind it.

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Caroline @csharp7.bsky.social · 8h

Can we stop putting any governors up on pedestals?

Elected officials are tools. Either they’re useful or they aren’t.

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KristyQ01 @kristyq01.bsky.social · 8h

I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Oct 12th 2025) in less than 13 minutes
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Clues by Sam

A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who are criminals and who are innocent!

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KristyQ01 @kristyq01.bsky.social · 11h

On the last day of a previous summer intern's duty at DC, I brought in a giant bag with dozens of curly-hair product failures. Rarely have I seen someone so excited about leftovers!

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Liz @liz-is.bsky.social · 12h

Such a good explanation! A clever extrovert friend explained this to me years ago as "it literally doesn't matter what you say - do the friendly ritual" and my autistic self has been a happy small-talker ever since

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 18h

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

A comic strip in six panels. The panels inerlock like a jigsaw with knobs and sockets. Two stick figures walk right to left through all the panels.

Panel 1: Person 1 says "I hear you're working on a new theory."
Panel 2 & 3: Person 2 says: "Yes, I'm calling it the jigsaw model. I think it could change our whole View of reality."
Panel 4: Person 1 says "When Will you publish?:
Panel 5: Person 2 says "But a couple of things are still bothering me." (this piece/panel is a bit squint)
Panel 6: This piece is rotated ninety degees and fits to the others very badly. Person 2 is saying "Soon. I feel like I'm really close"
A second look at the whole comic shows that the last two panels read in the wrong order because the jigsaw has been put together incorrectly.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 8d

If you work for ICE, you should quit.

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KristyQ01 @kristyq01.bsky.social · 1d

And that is beautiful...

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KristyQ01 @kristyq01.bsky.social · 1d

I like your reasoning!

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Tom Fowler @tomfowler.bsky.social · 1d

Perhaps my greatest work?

My version of the predator meme but with Kermit and Fozzy’s arms clasped.

“Fozzy, you son of a bitch!”

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KristyQ01 @kristyq01.bsky.social · 1d

Where would you rank Dracula from Buffy? Any man who makes Xander eat a bug is high on my list, but I seek an expert opinion.

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KristyQ01 @kristyq01.bsky.social · 1d

South Jersey reporting in that…the mushed up name is weird, but I was more thrown by lettuce. Has anyone EVER said, “you know what my pork roll and cheese needs? Salad.”

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

Hello bluesky! I'm Nora and I have a jewelry store focused on fused glass; I also have game tokens and worry stones.

Collage: nora.jewelry/collections/...
Cluster: nora.jewelry/collections/...
Worry stones: nora.jewelry/search?q=wor...
Earrings: nora.jewelry/collections/...

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ad for the nora.jewelry collage collection, which consists of pieces made from patterned cane with some transparency piled on top of other different color canes and turned into a molded shape; the transparency creates a lot of depth in the final pieces, because you can see through the transparent bits to what is behind it. pictures are a pair of round green, white and purple cufflinks, a orange and yellow bolo tie, and a teardrop shaped pendant with a green/white design added to a pink design

ad for the cluster collection, a group of fused glass pendants (and a couple other things, but only pendants are pictured) made from placing glass cylinders on their ends in a group and melting them just enough to round them out but not enough to make them fully puddle like most of my designs. the result of this ends up looking a bit like fish eggs adhered to a flat surface, or a bundle of grapes. the ones pictured are a simple round aqua blue design with yellow middles, a purple design with distorted flowers (this one started out as regular flowers but rounded their petals in the kiln, blurring them) and a round tan design with brown and white middles.

worry stone collection: this one has an orange collage design worry stone in an abstract shape, a white and green one where the edges between the colors blur, and a round one in a bi pride pattern.

earring collection: this one shows a sparkly green aventurine pair of round earrings, one that's white/grey/clear with black spots (that one's made from spiral cane that I made flat and you can see the spiral in the final design) and one with swirling green, yellow and pink set in white.

all the backgrounds on all of these are an aventurine dragonskin sheet that i put at low transparency over white, so they have a lacy quality to them.

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KristyQ01 @kristyq01.bsky.social · 1d

Because the alligators are also having Lexapro night sweats?