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Mels

@maimysantiago99.bsky.social

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Was Ardentdelirium and Researchnerdery on the other site. Disabled, queer, fan of sff & horror. Professional account: @bumblebeeLandscape She/her/they I don't automatically follow back.

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Mels @maimysantiago99.bsky.social · Dec 18

Also I think it's time to recreate the post I pinned over on Twitter, since this stupid phone refuses to learn how I swype (the old ones at least tried)

Please take all "dammit, autocorrect!"s as read

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Mels @maimysantiago99.bsky.social · 4h

She is RIDICULOUS today. And she needs to wear the cone for another 10-12 days! (We're getting an easier to keep on one in the mail tomorrow, at least)

Mels @maimysantiago99.bsky.social · 5h

Me: Gabi, I need to to chill out. Can you do that?... that tail suggests "no."

Gabi:

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 6h

This story is NUTS

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 6h

Look, I've never skeeted about this before but when I was at NYT I was involved in a sexual harassment thing. I was not the person lodging the complaint (nor was I the harasser). I was a corroborating witness let's say. Anyway, NYT did the right thing and fired the harasser.

BUT

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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 9h

Mask mandates return to health care facilities in parts of California.

The mandate goes from Nov. 1 to March 31, 2026. Someone tell Covid it needs to be over by then

www.newsweek.com/mask-mandate...

Mask mandate returns to parts of California

The order in Sonoma County is designed to protect the "most vulnerable populations" in health care facilities during fall and winter.

www.newsweek.com

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Mels @maimysantiago99.bsky.social · 8h

It's clickbait, and I cm tell if the headline is intentional and sly or tone deaf

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 1d

You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists The Pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires. Australian media representatives were among those to hear directly from Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday with about 150 members of newswire alliance MINDS International. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Gina Murrell @ginamurrell1.bsky.social · 8h

Tonight, I was scrolling through the PBS app and by coincidence happened upon the American Masters #documentary “Calder’s Moving Sculptures.” Directed by Roger Sherman, the 1998 doc features Arthur Miller, Inge Morath, I.M. Pei, Calder’s wife and adult children, and more. www.pbs.org/wnet/america...

Promo image for the PBS American Masters documentary “Calder’s Moving Sculptures,” featuring a black-and-white photo of Alexander Calder later in life constructing one of his mobiles.

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Sharrow 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇪🦄💙📚🎃 @sharrow.bsky.social · 12h

#BiSexual people are less likely to be 'Out' & that is due to #BiPhobia & Stigma.

Libby from Biscuit @thisisbiscuit.org.uk · 13h

"Bisexual adults were significantly less likely to come out than their LGTQ+ peers, with 47% saying they aren't out to extended family, 38% saying they aren't out to coworkers, 35% saying they aren't out to parents, 28% saying they aren't out to siblings, and 9% saying they aren't out to friends".

How many LGBTQ+ adults are out of the closet? Almost all — with these exceptions

Around 96 percent of LGBTQ+ adults have come out as queer to at least one person.

www.advocate.com

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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 8h

And this is why, y'all, we have got to protect our whimsy during these trying times.

Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 8h

These inflatable frog suits are taking me out but they are also...healing to watch? I'm upset about what's happening in Portland but laughing is letting the stress out.

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 12h

BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 9h

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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Mels @maimysantiago99.bsky.social · 9h

Of the three I've only seen Candyman (both original and remake) but that makes sense to me

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megasoups.bsky.social @megasoups.bsky.social · 14h

KOSA just got a bunch of new cosponsors so, y'all, kindly tell them to knock it the fuck off.
Make this bill unpassable for the sake of keeping the open internet, enough of this censorship BS and "protect the children" excuses.

#savespeech #KOSA #stopkosa

www.govtrack.us/congress/bil...

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 15h

Seeing Ms. Rachel say exactly what needs to be said to Obama is so damn refreshing

Dear President Obama,
I saw in your statement you said "Israeli families" & "the people of Gaza."
Palestinians have families, too.
This kind of language contributes to dehumanization. Dehumanization is part of what caused so many to stay silent as 20,000 children were killed in this genocide.
I've sat with wonderful Palestinian families from Gaza. They look at their children just like we look at ours - with all the love & hope in the world.
Love,
Ms Rachel

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Lia @liadanmakes.bsky.social · 11h

It's no secret to the shop admin that I REALLY like @saraeileen.bsky.social's stuff because I've bought a lot of it. It is completely wild this necklace is still available. Straight up Locked Tomb awesomeness. YOU KNOW HARROW WOULD WEAR THIS: www.peculiarityshop.com/product-page...

Sara Eileen's Love Never Dies | Peculiarity Shop

Sara Eileen handcrafts these ceramic pieces. Here, ze's placed ceramic skulls in epoxy clay, surrounded by freshwater pearls and red cubic zirconia. The heart bezel is sterling silver. Please take a l...

www.peculiarityshop.com

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Mels @maimysantiago99.bsky.social · 9h

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🦋 @occhitristi.bsky.social · 13h

Being neurodivergent means you over-explain EVERYTHING in hopes of clear communication, then get anxious that your over-explanation was irritating and actually made things more confusing 🫤

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Trae Crowder @thetraecrowder.bsky.social · 11h

Start your weekend off right by watching a hillbilly make a swirly cake

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Mels @maimysantiago99.bsky.social · 9h

Original or remake Candyman?

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Frog Redemption Arc Enthusiast @mxlabradorite.bsky.social · 10h

Here's a Burn It All Down Halloween season triple feature for you:

- They Live
- Candyman
- The People Under The Stairs

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summersland.bsky.social @summersland.bsky.social · 10h

Portland frogs have evolved a taste for spicy food due to the air being 5% pepper spray by volume at all times.*

www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

‘I’ve definitely had spicier tamales,’ says Portland ICE protest frog that got pepper sprayed by federal agents

The 24-year-old talks about the spray, the viral video and why he’s protesting.

www.oregonlive.com

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Mels @maimysantiago99.bsky.social · 9h

In my plan, we are beltless!

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Nicole aka Nimasprout @nimasprout.bsky.social · 10h

Saw a v good therapy rabbit today name Mopsy and she was LARGE.

Brown and white long eared rabbit in blanket

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Mels @maimysantiago99.bsky.social · 9h

When I was little we lived near the naval academy and I had read about kids turning in bottles and cans for the deposits and tried it, nausea l basically picking up all the discarded trash in our neighborhood. My mom thought it was hilarious

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The Octopus Gallery @octopusgallery.bsky.social · 10h

Michigan has had a bottle deposit for 40 years. These are solved problems and they need to talk to their colleagues in other states.

The 51st @51st.news · 10h

Right Proper brewery co-founder Thor Cheston knows that advocating against D.C.'s proposed bottle bill might put him on the wrong side of environmentally conscious customers: "We have to take that risk to be judged in the court of public opinion because if we do not fight this, we do not exist.”

D.C. breweries worry about effects of a bottle-deposit bill

Lawmakers are considering the measure to help clean up the Anacostia River.

51st.news

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The Octopus Gallery @octopusgallery.bsky.social · 10h

Or get Maryland and Virginia to also enact deposits and then no one has to worry about the labels. I’ve always found it stupid it’s not a thing here.

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