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PictureTheSouth

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Progressive Southern #Veteran, #Deadhead, #Dudeist minister, retired #Infosec, amateur #herpetologist in no particular order. I host the #BackyardWildlife, #Seestar and other feeds. Come for the critters - stay for political rants. #OldWhiteHippy

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PictureTheSouth @picturethesouth.com · Dec 30

“In our democracy, the only title higher and more powerful than that of president is the title of citizen. It is every citizen’s right and duty to help shape the future legacy of our nation.”

Jimmy Carter Op-ed, December 8, 2016

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James West @jamespwest.bsky.social · 2h

The tech has been used to target politicians, journalists, tech execs, dissidents... and Jared Leto.

The story only gets wilder from there.

Read the full investigation here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you

We uncovered a massive data trove. It revealed the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.

www.motherjones.com

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PictureTheSouth @picturethesouth.com · 4h

#Pastis
#PearlsBeforeSwine

"Pearls Before Swine" comic strip, by Stephen Pastis.

Pig sitting at bar tells Rat - "I love how the 1700's are known as the Age of Enlightenment. I wonder what our time will be known as?"

Rat: "I don't wonder. I know." Pig: "What's that?"
Rat: "The Age of the Dumbass".

Pig is now with Goat, watching TV - "My time has finally come."

PictureTheSouth @picturethesouth.com · 18h

Yes.
And both are GOP controlled.

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PictureTheSouth @picturethesouth.com · 18h

This is the only Columbus that matters.

Cover of the 1978 double live album from the band Little Feat. "Waiting for Columbus".

It is a cartoon style cover, with background of palm trees and cacti. In the foreground is a red female body reclining in an orange hammock - with a large smiling tomato as her head.

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PictureTheSouth @picturethesouth.com · 18h

Sorry about sending that up your way. Guess it finally had it's fill of eating houses on the NC Outer Banks.

PictureTheSouth @picturethesouth.com · 19h

Personally, I just let the call roll over to voicemail.

Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 19h

You know, anyone who tells you they know what God wants…

Tell them God can speak to you directly

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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 19h

A lot of comments on Mars rovers or Moon landings, but it's important to remember that the planet NASA studies most is Earth. This is less about cutting flashy things like moonwalks and more about keeping communities in the dark on climate, weather, agriculture, pollution, natural hazards, and more.

Reuters @reuters.com · 22h

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

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NPR @npr.org · 20h

A Statement from NPR’s Editor in Chief on the Pentagon’s Press Policy.
Read More: www.npr.org/2025/10/13/g...

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Music Box Magazine @musicboxonline.bsky.social · 20h

This is a Chinese mantis. The thing is huge and rather alien.

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Music Box Magazine @musicboxonline.bsky.social · 20h

Amphipha is present!

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Uncle John - GDRADIO @gdradio.net · 21h

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PictureTheSouth @picturethesouth.com · 21h

Sounds like Texas sent the Brisket Brigade.

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 21h

Some Texas National Guard members were sent home from Illinois for not making the cut.

Pentagon Pete Fires ‘Fat’ Soldiers as War on Weight Rages

Some Texas National Guard members were sent home from Illinois for not making the cut.

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PictureTheSouth @picturethesouth.com · 23h

Golden peace sign - circle with chicken foot inside - on a black cord.

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 1d

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:

I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.

So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

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PictureTheSouth @picturethesouth.com · 23h

Pulitzer, maybe.......

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PictureTheSouth @picturethesouth.com · 23h

Fuck Micro$oft

The Register @theregister.com · 1d

Microsoft's OneDrive spots your mates, remembers their faces, and won't forget easily

Then shalt thee change the setting three times, no more! Microsoft's OneDrive is increasing the creepiness quotient by using AI to spot faces in photos and group images accordingly. Don't worry, it can be turned off – three times a year.…

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John Kadlecik @johnkadlecik.bsky.social · 1d

I'm guessing the White House about now must feel like a creepy reboot of the Twilight Zone episode "It's a Good Life."

Everyone in the cabinet hoping to not be sent to the cornfield for thinking bad thoughts...

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PictureTheSouth @picturethesouth.com · 1d

Welcome to the Resistance

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John Staton @statonator.bsky.social · 1d

Interestingly, the only 2 writers from the Wilmington, NC, area to have work produced on Broadway were both Black. "Home," by Tony and Emmy nominee Samm-Art Williams, opens Oct. 17 at historic Thalian Hall.

After decades, locally inspired Broadway play comes 'Home' to Wilmington

A Broadway play inspired by Southeastern North Carolina and the Pender County town of Burgaw comes to Thalian Hall.

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