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Cloudy🐈 @hellocloudy.bsky.social · 1h

I know it's still early to be talking about Christmas, but if you would like to commission a pet portrait from me to give as a gift, now is a great time! 👀🎄

hellocloudy.etsy.com 💖

a portrait of a white and grey fluffy cat named Gustavo, wearing a blue babushka headscarf and surrounded by forget me nots

a portrait of a white and grey cat named Pancake and a white and brown dog named Fritter. Pancake is wearing a pink babushka headscarf and Fritter is wearing a red one and they're surrounded by strawberry plants

a portrait of a calico cat named Babushka, wearing an orange babushka headscarf and surrounded by orange poppies

a portrait of a white and black cat named Mona, wearing a yellow babushka headscarf and surrounded by silent princess flowers

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 9h

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 11h

found exactly the one use of “evil recoils in the presence of Christ” I am willing to sign off on, HOOOOOOOOLY SHIT

Father Larry did not come here to fuck around

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 17h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 7h

This is what they've done.

ProPublica @propublica.org · 20h

WATCH: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.

➡️ Read more: https://propub.li/4odsKnn

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Friday Afternoon Tea @fridaytea.com · 12h

Happy #nationalcomingoutday! 🍵✨🦄

#tea #earlgrey #earlgay #queerownedbusiness

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Maria Capelle Frantz @mariacfrantz.bsky.social · 17h

Treating myself to some colors todayyy

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 16h

I’m not trying to give @pbs.org ideas for raising money—but I am. I would buy women’s fit T-shirts of all my favorite childhood shows. Reading rainbow, 321 contact, square one, zoobiliee zoo. I feel like two generations will run to donate even more money for shirts with Levar Burton on them…

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 19h

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

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Kristin Pratt @prattkristin.bsky.social · 15h

Glad she’s recovering well!

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Neil Ramsay @neil-ramsay.com · 18h

New dangle earring design I'm trying to finish before launch. Not polished yet. Beast and a half to polish, so I'm going to mostly do a 'glossy, but not mirror' finish.

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Kristin Pratt @prattkristin.bsky.social · 15h

You guys, look at how cool these are!

SAHASA 🐙 @sculptedreef.com · 16h

#BlueSkyArtShow #Glow
Sharing a handful of my 🐙 sculptures with vibrant glowing features ✨ ⭐

🐙 All are hand sculpted from clay and lovingly painted 🎨🌟

#ArtYear #Art #Artist #ArtGallery #Sculpture #Octopus #Astronomy #MarineLife #BSNM #Invertebrates 🦑🐡

A coconut octopus sculpture with bright blue glow in the dark suckers.

A pink and yellow Nebula themed octopus with vibrantly glowing white stars.

A green octopus sculpture with a white pattern that glows in the dark.

A royal blue octopus sculpture with vibrant white glowing stars.

Kristin Pratt @prattkristin.bsky.social · 15h

Oh wow the coconut octopus with the blue glowing suckers is so, so cool! (They’re all amazing but that’s my fave of these four ha)

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 16h

There hasn't even been enough time for there to have been an outrage cycle of pushback.

The people in charge simply have no idea what they're doing.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 16h

The mass layoffs of federal workers on Friday night swept up dozens of scientists with expertise in infectious diseases that have pandemic potential. But after The New York Times reported the dismissals, a federal health official said many of them had been fired in error and would be brought back.

Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error

Friday’s layoffs swept up scientists involved in responding to the measles outbreak and running an influential journal. An official acknowledged the mistakes on Saturday.

nyti.ms

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 15h

OOOPS! UPDATE: Two HHS officials tell me that disease detectives, measles response officers, global health officials and the MMWR staff were laid off by mistake and will be reinstated. But Washington office is still RIFed

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Kristin Pratt @prattkristin.bsky.social · 20h

Florence + The Machine is my fave, only because she has a real knack for saying beautifully and clearly a lot of things I’ve felt, in a “yes, I couldn’t explain it properly, but this is it precisely” way. Love her use of metaphor, simile and imagery too. And god can she sing.

Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 6d

I also need to know: I am fairly middle-of-the-road on Taylor Swift but someone I know called her the Greatest Living Lyricist. She is not.

Who is yours? Either the greatest or your favorite?

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Kristin Pratt @prattkristin.bsky.social · 23h

Horrifying. Just absolutely horrifying.

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 1d

I think it would be a huge public service if major media outlets interviewed people given RIF notices and let them explain in detail what their jobs are so that people can judge for themselves whether these positions are wasteful like Trump and Vought claim or whether they help the country prosper.

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Ellen @justelleniguess.bsky.social · 1d

Taco Bell

The Gurgling Cod (he/him) @thegurglingcod.bsky.social · 1d

Ok, what fast food chain would be most chaotic if it had a liquor license?

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Kristin Pratt @prattkristin.bsky.social · 1d

Happy ninth anniversary! Thanks for all of your lovely drawings! 🫶

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 1d

Netflix partners with Gobelins school and Guillermo del Toro to launch a stop-motion studio in Paris.
variety.com/2025/film/gl...

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 1d

Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans ripped health care away from 15 million people and are raising costs for millions more.

The numbers are damning.

Graphic showing the average ACA premium increase in each state. It's an average of 136% increase this year alone.

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Kristin Pratt @prattkristin.bsky.social · 1d

My dad signs he emails to me as “NTM” for “Not the Mama” 😆

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Oni @onidraws.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sad to see a lot of artists I know saying it's super hard to get sales. And it really is. So I wanna promote them here again.

Go check them out and buy or tip them if you can. This is the non-US shops list but I'll post other lists as well.

Oni @onidraws.bsky.social · Sep 11

I made a pack for non-US artists shops!
Let me know if you want to be added (with a shop link) or removed!

go.bsky.app/KgkXQns

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 1d

I have more story coming out this year: "Phantom View" drops in two weeks! It's a creepy novelette about the accessibility needs of caretakers and ghosts alike. I can't wait for people to read this baby.

There's a sneak preview up at my Patreon! www.patreon.com/posts/sneak-...

Sneak Preview: Phantom View, my next novelette! | John Wiswell

Get more from John Wiswell on Patreon

www.patreon.com

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