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Nikole

@picnik.bsky.social

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An unofficial BlueSky greeter :) You may send money gifts to: PayPal.Me/nak3gg (PayPal not required - Credit or debit works)♥️ Vegan-leaning vegetarian ♥️ Low-income, high standards♥️ Sober; I don't have the inhibitions that many drink to lose😄

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Nikole @picnik.bsky.social · 1h

Fascism sucks, racism sucks ... and ageism against the elderly ("geezer") sucks, and is the most prevalent worldwide bias 😕

Nikole @picnik.bsky.social · 2h

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Daniel Solove @daniel-solove.bsky.social · 10h

Scraping, which is essential for AI, is inconsistent with nearly all core privacy principles in privacy laws.

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Nikole @picnik.bsky.social · 2h

WOW, this is tone deaf. You are in the wrong room, Economist.

Nikole @picnik.bsky.social · 2h

The lesson of _When Women Were Dragons_ is, in my opinion, that you don't become gorgeous and near-invincible via sadness (ladies), only via rage or ecstatic joy💕

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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 5h

Dr. Oz flunked math..... They all flunked math......
Stupidity, just like who pays the tariffs ?....

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Nikole @picnik.bsky.social · 3h

Nicotine is as addictive (if not moreso) as heroine :(
💉 🚬

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I Quit Smoking 🚭 📚 🐕 @iquitcigs.bsky.social · Aug 8

From @melrea.bsky.social "My beautiful, brilliant talented mother died of lung cancer at 57, each time I saw someone smoking, I wanted to slap the cigarette out of their hand...to save their life".

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Nikole @picnik.bsky.social · 3h

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Devin Elle Kurtz @devinellekurtz.bsky.social · 3h

My Ninja Turtles card from Magic the Gathering was revealed!

Art from the Magic Card “Turtles Forever”
The four teenage mutant ninja turtles appear in a multiverse crossover. Donatello appears to be from the old live action movie, Raphael from the Fred Wolf TV cartoon, Leonardo from the Magic the Gathering TMNT universe, and Michelangelo from the Mirage comics. They are fist bumping and noogie-ing each other in front of a bright cityscape background. Ninjas lay scattered and defeated behind them.

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Leonid Baezhnev @rev-avocado.bsky.social · 13h

This is good, actually. This is the kind of thing we need to build a pro-court expansion majority.

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 16h

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 17d

I went to the, quite strange, Osaka Expo 2025, and made a video about it! You legally have to watch it because you follow me on the internet youtu.be/D10S6G1InXg?...

The Japan World's Fair Is Kinda Bad (But That's Okay)

YouTube video by Big Joel

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Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 12h

I really like the joke people do where they pretend to have just learned about Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars, and are like "oh my god". If you're ever wondering if you should make that joke, just keep in mind that it would probably get a smile out of me

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Nikole @picnik.bsky.social · 8h

Oh gosh.

Nikole @picnik.bsky.social · 8h

Wow.

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Andrew Flanagan @af68.bsky.social · 12h

tRump awarded $1.26B contract to build & operate new tent city detention center in Texas to company, Acquisition Logistics, so small it operated out of single-family home in Richmond, Virginia

Acquisition Logistics had no prior incarceration experience.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

How a tiny, inexperienced firm landed a $1.3 billion detention deal

To hold 5,000 human beings.

www.motherjones.com

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Nikole @picnik.bsky.social · 9h

🫂 🧸

Nikole @picnik.bsky.social · 11h

Let's do it! 💕

Nikole @picnik.bsky.social · 11h

Two kinds of diets:.
1) Breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince (or hungry princess), dinner like a pauper.
2) Biggest meal for lunch.

I myself like a large breakfast (500 to 700 calories), and then the biggest meal for lunch, a light dinner♥️

Nikole @picnik.bsky.social · 1d

Wait. MAGA is disagreeing with Trump??

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Cannaman @midem.bsky.social · 1d

He fired 17 federal inspectors general overnight, a purge of oversight.
Those watchdogs exist so presidents don’t get away with abuse unchecked. He’s tearing down accountability. #PurgeOfWatchdogs #UncheckedPower

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tstoeckel.bsky.social @tstoeckel.bsky.social · 1d

I recently saw the term "Trunt" to describe MAGA people like Bondi, Noem, Leavitt, Halligan, Loomer, Greene, etc. I don't know who originated it but now I can't get it out of my head every time I see one of them on the news. Well played.

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Nikole @picnik.bsky.social · 1d

Welcome to Bluesky, Anabel :)