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Late-diagnosed ADHD, elder millennial, tired af. LIS, data, and tech in many combinations are cool. I have a tuxedo cat named Darwin and he's the best. I like things a completely normal amount. AO3: pearwaldorf

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pearwaldorf (looking for work) @pearwaldorf.myatproto.social · Jul 9

I am once again asking for somebody to pay me a sufficient amount to live on in exchange for my labor.

Things I can do:
* analyze data and tell you what it means
* help your customers/clients
* support your technicals
* write things down/make better words
* improve your processes

Hit me up!

a man wearing glasses and a jacket is standing in the snow and says `` i am once again asking '' .

Alt: Bernie Sanders "I am once again asking" meme

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 33m

Halloween candy prices are about to lay people OUT.

Sara Mitchell @sbmitche.bsky.social · 6h

I was just discussing price increases in the US across a wide range of goods following T’s tariffs. Definitely feeling it at the grocery store.

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ToughPigs @toughpigs.com · 2h

A new Sesame Street video seems to be promoting A.I., which feels equally icky and disappointing.

www.toughpigs.com/sesame-ai-ju...

Can’t Spell “Julia” Without “AI” - ToughPigs

We're disappointed in Sesame Street's new video that praises artificial intelligence.

www.toughpigs.com

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mAlice aforethought 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🔜 @thesearethekids.bsky.social · 2h

EXTREMELY rude of the sun not to come out for 3 days so I can't show you how sparkly this really is but pls join me on a tour of @longmayheroam.bsky.social 's craft fair auction commission aka the greatest pirate ship ever... The Revenge (Calypso's Birthday edition). She's finally ready to set sail!

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Lindsay Wiley @lindsaywiley.bsky.social · 15h

“Rent relief for tenants who have fallen behind as a result of the ICE raids and money for legal aid and other services are among the provisions in the declaration.”

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 16h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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pearwaldorf (looking for work) @pearwaldorf.myatproto.social · 35m

I love that there are social media famous dogs I've never heard of

www.reddit.com/r/PetsareAma...

From the PetsareAmazing community on Reddit: She gets so happy when people know her Nala stomp song 🥰

Explore this post and more from the PetsareAmazing community

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The Cat Hive @thecathive.bsky.social · 1d

The Criminal

Doodle of an orange cat with a piece of crumpled plastic in his mouth. He is running away quickly, wide-eyed. There is text from someone shouting "WHO IS EATING PLASTIC!!!"

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 5h

1 not convinced that what got leaked in those chats is evidence of new radicalization. These are just the grandkids of the ppl who thought of lynchings as a family picnic day

2 annoyed that by pretending it's new, we now have ppl waxing nostalgic for the old gop as if they weren't also bigoted af

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1h

some colleagues have suggested to me that shame is irrelevant because the people on the "other side" don't know or care what "we" (on whatever "this side") think of them. I have...not gotten that impression

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 2h

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

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Nick Stevens @nick-stevens.com · 3h

This one has more info!

"Space", flax, coupling technology, 38.5 x 21 cm
Creator: A.D. Vasenkova
Made at the Yelets Lace Art Society in 1969.

The panel "Cosmos" can be seen in the permanent exhibition of the Museum of Folk Crafts and Trades.

"Space", flax, coupling technology, 38.5 x 21 cm
Creator: A.D. Vasenkova
Made at the Yelets Lace Art Society in 1969.

The panel "Cosmos" can be seen in the permanent exhibition of the Museum of Folk Crafts and Trades.

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mimi smartypants @mimismartypants.bsky.social · 1h

I saw this Ernie and Bert on an Istanbul street last year.

A 3D Ernie and Bert projecting out from a building wall in Istanbul, Turkiye. Lots of graffiti below.

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pearwaldorf (looking for work) @pearwaldorf.myatproto.social · 1h

From Zohran Mamdani's campaign rally speech. We are the only ones who can save us.

jacobin.com/2025/10/mamd...

I think of the pastor I sat with just a few weeks ago in East Flatbush. He told me how in September, a young woman from his congregation approached him after church. She told him she was facing a deportation order. He knew her well, and he knew the work she did with young people with disabilities in this city. She told him she couldn’t afford an attorney and had no one else. She asked if he would go with her to 26 Federal Plaza. He said yes.

Sitting in the courtroom, the judge told her to be ready to leave in the clothes she was wearing. He asked her if she had said goodbye to her family. She began to cry.

And then, in what felt like a miracle, the judge changed his mind. He decided he would put her Temporary Protected Status order before the deportation order. For a minute, it seemed as if the danger had passed.

But the pastor knew that ICE stood outside. They did not care about a court order, because they do not care about the rule of law.

He turned to a few court watchers in the room and asked them to go outside first. He asked another man to hold the elevator. He picked up the young woman under her arms, opened the doors, rushed her past ICE agents into the elevator, and down into a waiting car before speeding off back to Brooklyn.

Through it all, her feet had never even touched the ground. He told me that it felt like the Underground Railroad. And still, he knew she was anything but safe.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 2h

i'm the product manager at bluesky working on DMs. every time you complain about how long it's taking me i book another 3 week vacation to a remote village with no wifi. the bluesky team is powerless to stop me because of my generous unlimited PTO package and full WFH hiring conditions

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pearwaldorf (looking for work) @pearwaldorf.myatproto.social · 1h

For a bunch of people who are supposedly obsessed with creating cohesive meaning they're remarkably glib about decontextualizing things (Pepe) for shitposts and memes in ways I don't see with liberal/leftist stuff. It's referent without grounding in anything

pearwaldorf (looking for work) @pearwaldorf.myatproto.social · 1h

There's a whole blog post/newsletter issue about how the alt-right embodies the worst stereotypes about postmodern semiotics and epistemology that somebody should write.

I was thinking about this specifically re: the Moon Man meme and Pepe (and "waffles")

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

DHS Includes White Supremacist Meme in Video Promoting Deportation Blitz

A video posted on X by the Department of Homeland Security included a brief flash of a character who has...

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 2h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 2h

Battle.net workers unionize as Microsoft neutrality agreement expires
aftermath.site/battle-net-wor...

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ellie | do it for rhysie @ellmercury.bsky.social · 3h

ofmd creators I AM IN LOVE WITH YOU i hope you know that you are the backbone of the fandom and I am so fucking grateful to share this space with so many talented people my god I'm gonna cry

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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 2h

This 🧵 on teaching people to recognize & counteract misinformation is exciting! More than 13,500 students across 500+ villages, with results that persisted months later.

Looking forward to reading the (open access) paper www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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pearwaldorf (looking for work) @pearwaldorf.myatproto.social · 2h

I asked my doctor the same question and she was like, "There are many modalities of therapy and some of them involve giving you skills to cope with and live through trauma."

And idk if your therapist is one of those but maybe it's worth finding out?

(I get it tho. It is hard <3)

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 3h

“But you are making plans / without a future and my now / is twisted into your crying.” Read “Entanglements,” a poem by Ursula K. Le Guin about cats.

A Poem by Ursula K. Le Guin About Cats

“Entanglements” March 28 Black cat, amiable visitor, let’s give each other all the pleasure we can, quick, yes, sitting on each other in the sunlight and stroking each other with our hands and face…

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 4h

weird phenomenon i keep encountering where “writers” correctly identify the soul-sucking danger that large language models pose to their craft, but for some reason have no problem using generative AI to make images. like….are you stupid!!!!

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Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 4h

Sagappa Joe, the mascot of Sagami Women’s University, is a kappa who lives in the pond in the school garden, despite not being able to swim. He is renowned for his shapely buttocks.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4h

#4 👍

Zohran sitting in the corner seat on a subway.

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 3h

Spotify is running ICE recruitment ads. I ditched it awhile ago for other political reasons, but this might tip your hand.

Thanks for the heads up @chuckwendig.bsky.social.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 3h

There will never be a day in my life when I don’t laugh at who thinks they are genetically endowed by god. Never. Ever.

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