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Seattle Bike Blog @seattlebikeblog.com · 12h

Dear Toronto: We will stop scoring runs this game if Doug Ford agrees to stop tearing out bike lanes. Until then, the runs will continue.

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Kimiko Shibata @eslfairy.bsky.social · 17h

We don’t speak enough about the actual monetary cost of climate change.

Bentley @bigclimate.bsky.social · 17h

#CostOfClimate #ClimateChange www.weforum.org/stories/2023...

Climate change is costing the world $16 million per hour: study

Climate change costs $16 million per hour in damage, mostly due to extreme weather events. Policymakers should use this data to allocate funds to help countries rebuild.

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Ryan Robinson @ryanrobinson.ca · 20h

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Mad Max Fury Road "that's bait" meme.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 3d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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🎃 Scarecrow Baggins 🎃 @nerdobaggins.bsky.social · 23h

Oh, and fuck Christopher Columbus.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 1d

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 2d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

As we all know, real activists who achieve real things talk about doing federal crimes on public social media all the time

(do not trust anyone who talks about how cool doing federal crimes is on public social media)

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 1d

Sign that your 9YO may have two lawyers for parents:

Me: “You’re not complaining, are you?”

9YO: “No. I’m just stating my feelings in an aggravated tone!”

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Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 1d

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

Andy ngo mad about muppets again — this time in Chicago

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Ryan Robinson @ryanrobinson.ca · 1d

Raptors fans often joked online about Kyle Lowry's big ass. But there was never a nickname being used more often than his actual name in mainstream media based on the fact he has a big ass. I'm not sure the NBA would have ever allowed it.

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Ryan Robinson @ryanrobinson.ca · 1d

I don't know much about baseball but I do appreciate that it's the kind of league where a player can be universally known as Big Dumper.

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Ryan Robinson @ryanrobinson.ca · 1d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

"DNS is down again."

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 2d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 2d

"The chancellor approved it"

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Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 2d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 2d

"The chancellor approved it"

🫧 Spark Elation 🫧 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 2d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

“a supply chain attack”

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Isaac (from the Internet) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 3d

just gonna say if you support biblical governance then you should generally oppose a race-baiting leader who is being plagued by frogs

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Melissa Bowman @dtkmelissa.bsky.social · 1d

As noted in @graphicmatt.com's City Hall Watcher, Chow "asks staff to send every MPP stats about road deaths in their area & to send notifications to every household near a camera location letting them know about the potential safety impacts they could face if/when the cameras are switched off."

a woman wearing a shirt that says run capita

ALT: a woman wearing a shirt that says run capita

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

most normies are mad at thiel for being incomprensible

we are mad at thiel for not understanding philosophy and theology

Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 1d

I DEEPLY resent that I have to take seriously the stunted, juvenile political and theological opinions of Peter Thiel

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 2d

Pope Leo at Jubilee Mass: “Let us take care to avoid any exploitation of the faith that could lead to labelling those who are different — often the poor — as enemies, ‘lepers’ to be avoided and rejected.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 1d

Religious movements are *always* internally contested. It is not for historians/outsiders to decide which party to the contestation represents the “true“ version or deserves exclusive use of the movement’s name/label. Their job is rather to describe the internal diversity as accurately as possible.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 2d

Denying entrance to a Eucharistic Procession is to Catholicism kinda like what desecrating the flag is to the American civic religion, except with even more weight of history and tradition behind it!

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 2d

For any Catholic, the sight of a Eucharistic Procession being turned away at the gates of the destination is the embodiment of Jesus being denied entrance. You don't have to be Catholic to get the symbolism in that!

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Killian @greenmtgirl.bsky.social · 2d

I really wish people would familiarize themselves with popular anti-authoritarian movements.

You succeed, in part, by being funny.

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 4d

This video is everywhere because it's a hilarious visual refutation of Portland being on fire. You can't get a mass movement going without convincing the masses

so yes, this does do something actually

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This literally does nothing. You are not beating fascism by dressing up in inflatable suits and dancing

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Portland is leading the way. This is how you (non violently) beat Fascism. Humor and ridicule are key.

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Jordan Haynie Ware @godwelcomesall.bsky.social · 2d

Noblesse oblige is worse than true equality but better than "I earned it, I built it, it's mine, go get yours/if you don't that's on you"

Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 3d

People will scoff at virtue signaling and then wonder why today’s billionaires don’t build museums, libraries, hospitals, and universities like Gilded Age ones did.

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sarahquaint @sarahquaint.bsky.social · 3d

While providing tech support for my FIL:

FIL: What's that screen?

ME: The terminal. You should never use it.

FIL: Never?

ME: So you know how I'm allowed to watch you open the electrical panel and swap out breakers, but I'm not allowed to ever open up it myself?

FIL: Ah! I understand, thank you.

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Cathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social · 2d

Not the first time a tyrant has been plagued by frogs.

Reverend Jesus "Ł" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 3d

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 3d

Side note: lest you think this is a one-off, a sizable group of Catholic nuns, priests and lay leaders have announced plans to do the same thing — offer communion to detainees in the Broadview ICE facility — tomorrow.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 3d

NEW: Clergy are at the Broadview, IL ICE facility today — where clergy have been shot w/pepper balls in recent days.

UMC minister Rev. Hannah Kardon, one of those shot w/pepper balls in the past, among those asking to give communion to those detained. Attendees (who sent photos) say police declined

Clergy holding communion wares talking to police.

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