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Something Witty

@phiguru.myatproto.social

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Lover of sled dogs, snow, wildlife, & maps. NH election official. Autistic & physically disabled. She/her, live with @shroderdog.net, 2 young adults & 9 critters + so much wildlife.

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Something Witty @phiguru.myatproto.social · Jan 20

FYI, if your username or the majority of skeets are a bunch of emoji or special characters for fun, I will block you because I can't decipher it. Non-English language content is great!

This is not:
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20m

There is:

www.givesendgo.com/GKFJ3

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 54m

Lots more detail in here about this outrageous arrest. The guy has been in jail for weeks now for posting a quote by President Trump.

Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 3h

In the wake of Charlie Kirk's death, a TN sheriff had a 61-yr-old man arrested for posting a meme on Facebook, which the sheriff absurdly construed as a threat. It was pretty clearly bullshit but I dug into the case using FB & public records and now it looks even worse. My latest @theintercept.com:

The Absurd Prosecution of a Man Who Posted a Charlie Kirk Meme

Larry Bushart Jr. posted trolling memes on a Facebook thread about a vigil for Kirk. He’s been in a Tennessee jail ever since.

theintercept.com

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Scary Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 9h

if you turn away every time you feel discomfort, your world will contract and contract and contract until you are incapable of connecting to others or imagining other ways of existing in the world

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 19h

I don’t know how many times I have to say this but if you didn’t know any geek girls in high school or you don’t know any now it’s because they didn’t trust you and you’re *NOT A SAFE PERSON* for women to be themselves around.

Earl Grey: 𝙁𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙨 @earlgreymemes.club · 1d

okay grandpa, let's get you to bed

To understand this problem, first, you have to understand the demographics of Star Trek viewers. Trekkies are and always have been men. Women are not usually interested in science fiction, but that’s doubly true of Star Trek in particular.

I hear you, random guy who once knew some lady who watched every Voyager episode. I see you on Instagram, attractive girl cosplaying in Starfleet miniskirts. Unfortunately, you very cool Trek-girls are the exception, not the rule.

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Something Witty @phiguru.myatproto.social · 9h

Yes. But keeping him in his crate 24/7, except to pee, is wholly inappropriate. The total lack of activity could result in other complications with recovery. He would also be miserable and would quickly become uncratable, likely permanently.

Something Witty @phiguru.myatproto.social · 19h

If you would like to see Ronald Regan's full, 5 minute, radio address that was cut into an ad for Ontario - see below, courtesy of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. A link to the transcript is in the description.

You can decide if the edit misrepresented his statement.

youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc

President Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987

YouTube video by Reagan Library

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Something Witty @phiguru.myatproto.social · 1d

Reminder, CBP can search and do surveillance anywhere within 100 miles of a border. Map and more info on the zone that includes approximately 2/3 of the US population at the link. (Notably, they can enter property but not dwellings, thanks to the 3rd Amendment.)
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Something Witty @phiguru.myatproto.social · 1d

Dear Veterinarian,

Please do not give *me* the written instructions that the dog should not be going up and down stairs. Please tell the dog who just launched himself off my dresser.

Or come up with a way to hobble him. Because he is a Shiba Inu and does not care to read your instructions.

Thx.

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Something Witty @phiguru.myatproto.social · 1d

Skip the opening bluster, that last paragraph is a preservation notice for, apparently, the entire State of California, its Congressional representatives, and every local jurisdiction in anticipation of filing charges for "conspiracy".

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 1d

Deputy AG Todd Blanche is threatening to arrest top California officials.

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Something Witty @phiguru.myatproto.social · 1d

Same. The other thing I believed and would say often was, "We were are all here with the same lofty goals of peace, equality, and the American Dream to be real. We only disagreed about the path to achieve those goals."

The union-busting, trans-excluding, profiteers do not share these goals.

Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 1d

I used to be one of those people who said "Ok, none of this perfect and change is incremental but that is what the system is and you work with what you got" and now I totally reject it.

There is literally a small cabal of child rapists destroying our government. Incremental bs is not fucking it.

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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 1d

A moth got into the shelter tonight and it was the event of the season.

Two cats sitting on top of cages and looking at the ceiling

Two cars on the floor staring up at the ceiling

Two young kittens in a cage taking notice

A cat standing on her hind legs to reach for a moth

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Something Witty @phiguru.myatproto.social · 1d

The Treasury Department has at least 4 law enforcement agencies: US Mint Police, Bureau of Engraving and Printing Police, FinCEN's Enforcement branch (Special Agents), and IRS Criminal Investigation Division.

Something Witty @phiguru.myatproto.social · 1d

To her credit, my husband and I rewatch The 5th Element every year between Christmas and New Years as a good luck ritual for the next year. It started as an accident but the one year we missed it was terrible. Now we have a series of ritual movies - you would think we were baseball players.

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Something Witty @phiguru.myatproto.social · 1d

Timeline cleanse! Here is a Shiba Inu with a thousand yard stare (drugs) in a recovery suit. He's fine - he was neutered today. His coat is so dense and plush that he had to be sized up to a (slightly too long) large suit. Apparently, unlike children's clothes, "husky" sizing was not available.

A Shiba Inu, red with white eyebrows and a white face is standing on a towel on a truck seat, staring just to the left of the camera, eyes slightly closed. One foreleg has a visible shaved spot that shows easily 50% more fur than could be expected on a dog. He is wearing a turquoise "recovery suit" that covers his chest and is down his front legs similar to a cap-sleeved t-shirt. His head and neck including a prominent face ruff and a neck roll (fur) are visible above the markedly snug "suit". Even for Shibas, he has an exceptional coat of fur. This is the dog equivalent of putting 10 pounds in a 5 pound bag.

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Something Witty @phiguru.myatproto.social · 1d

Thank you for continuing to bear witness to these executions. Thank you also for taking the time to get to know these men and providing a portrait of who they are now.

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Jules @librarydoodles.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you so much for doing this! I’m a cat-loving librarian and illustrator.
This vampurr-er and other cute critter art is up in my shop: www.inprnt.com/gallery/jmor...

Illustration of a black cat with an unsure expression wearing an elaborate Dracula-esque red cape

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Something Witty @phiguru.myatproto.social · 2d

Hey, Gluten Intolerant or Celiac Folks! This is a flexible GF bread recipe that you might be able to make with ingredients from the food pantry!

1 to 1 flour, yeast, sugar, water, vinegar, applesauce*, instant potatoes*
*substitutions provided in video

youtube.com/shorts/2zE4H...

CHEAP Gluten-Free Bread! #recipe #cheap #budgetmeal #gf #glutenfree #allergyfree #cooking #baking

YouTube video by Kiki Rough

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Something Witty @phiguru.myatproto.social · 2d

Just saw a sign at a local ski shop that I love:
When you buy online, a snow angel tears an ACL

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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 2d

A dead star has been spotted ripping a planet apart! “Something clearly disturbed this system long after the star’s death,” said co-investigator John Debes of the Space Telescope Science Institute. (1/4) 🔭 🧪 🧵

At image center is a small, white star against a gray background. It is surrounded by a large translucent disk with rings and gaps that extends from upper left to lower right. In the foreground, irregular chunky rocks are floating in space along the bottom of the frame. A stream of material extends from lower right toward the central star. The words, artist’s concept are at lower left.

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Something Witty @phiguru.myatproto.social · 2d

I worked in government-funded R&D for decades. You know what every industry fought to keep? Ownership of copyright and patent rights. I disagree with my former employers on a lot of things, but direct investment and loss of ownership has been anathema for decades for good reasons.

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 2d

Exclusive: Several quantum-computing companies are in talks to give the Commerce Department equity stakes in exchange for federal funding.

Exclusive | Trump Administration in Talks to Take Equity Stakes in Quantum-Computing Firms

The discussions signal Washington’s wider involvement in critical parts of the economy.

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Something Witty @phiguru.myatproto.social · 2d

He did say that sexual assault was the fault of drunk women. Last night on the local news he said he had "just come out of the infantry" where he "rarely interacted with women professionally" except that per his bio it was over a year after he separated and was at GW.

wgme.com/news/local/s...

Senate candidate Graham Platner addresses past Reddit posts and controversial tattoo

Graham Platner admits when he made the Reddit posts he was angry, crude, and critical of others.

wgme.com

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D@ve @daveishere.bsky.social · 2d

and not only that, there was a 40% increase!!!

jonlink @jonlink.bsky.social · 2d

Everyone said the Massachusetts millionaires tax would result in them all fleeing. That’s proved to be demonstrably false.

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Something Witty @phiguru.myatproto.social · 2d

Just in case anyone thought Libertarians in Canada are less awful than Libertarians in the USA, here is an MP candidate on age of consent laws.

DEREK ELLIOTT for NIAGARA @elliott4mp.bsky.social · 2d

Abolish statutory age of consent. Focus exclusively on capacity to consent (a test of rational understanding and voluntariness for each person) and strict enforcement of the Non-Aggression Principle (NAP) against all coercion/exploitation, regardless of age.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 2d

A small Lofoten tourism group announces they're shutting down their guides and possibly going bankrupt thanks to the loss in revenue from chatbots that steal and rephrase their content

None of this shit is inevitable. Fuck the slimy tech bros.

www.instagram.com/p/DPyRB-tDBf...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2d

Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

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