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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 10h

Vaccines are safe and effective.

Autism isn't caused by vaccines, and autistic people and their families deserve our support.

When you want information, ask your doctor.

It's more important than ever for all of us to speak plainly, truthfully, and directly about public health.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16h

I wonder if all the people braying about the "war on Christianity" might raise some objections if it were a *Democratic* administration who had its armed thugs shooting priests in the head with pepper balls and waiting outside Catholic Churches to disappear parishioners?

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 17h

"After the warning, neighbors showed up and formed a human chain outside the church to guide parishioners home. NBC Chicago found more organizers doing the same for the beginning of the 6 p.m. mass..."

www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...

Chicago priest urges parishioners to leave mass with caution after ICE agents reported nearby

Chicago's Rogers Park community remained vigilant after reports of federal agents near a Catholic church during Sunday mass.

www.nbcchicago.com

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ricevermicelli.bsky.social @ricevermicelli.bsky.social · 16h

The emdash is unjustly reviled because it is heavily associated with female writers. It is considered ungrammatical, but it is an accurate representation of domestic conversation, where it's more important to convey information on multiple subjects than to sort them neatly.

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Shouty person @clacksee.bsky.social · 17h

Last year, I re-read A Christmas Carol. I was struck by the idea that Scrooge was in love with Marley. His grief for his lost love is the whole reason he’s as rotten as he is.

I will not be taking questions.

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Alt: a black and white photo of a man with the word humbug written in yellow

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Kathryn @skajolly.bsky.social · 11h

I DO want to finish this book, but this other book that I had on preorder just came in and I'm dying to start it, and I have another one unfinished that I quit for this one that I really want to read the end of. I have to impose some self-discipline here or I'll never finish anything!

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Ale @alepresser.com · 16h

Side Quested is up and Charlie's brain has just liquified. Yep. All gone.

🔗 tapas.io/episode/3635...

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🔹 Start here: tapas.io/series/SideQuested
🔹 Or here: sidequested.com/page/1/
🔷 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀: patreon.com/alepresser
🔹 #webcomics

Read Side Quested :: Chapter 3: 42 | Tapas Community

Read Side Quested and more premium Comedy Community series now on Tapas!

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Ale @alepresser.com · 15h

#repostober 13: Nossa Senhora do Chuveiro Elétrico.

An illustration of a woman in a bath towel, under an electric shower head. It looks kind of like some art nouveau, kind of like a saint image. In Portuguese, it says "our lady of the electric shower, give us Resistance".

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Kevin Hearne @kevinhearne.bsky.social · 15h

Reminder to folks in Ontario as you’re digesting turkey that you should make an appointment for your Covid shot, which is free, and available to everyone Oct. 27. You can schedule online with Shoppers Drug Mart super fast. And remember to give thanks for science. SCIENCE!

a man wearing a beanie and a black jacket is smiling and holding a piece of food .

Alt: Jesse Pinkman from Breaking Bad says Yeah, science!

media.tenor.com

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Ale @alepresser.com · 15h

Please preorder our book.

We have been unsupervised and made some HUGE plans for the sequel, but the first book HAS to make some good sales for it to happen!

K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 20h

There are more locations to preorder SIDEQUESTED, the dead trees version of our webcomic!

Dodo-vultures, chonky elder dragons, a super-strong princess, a complete dip of a bard, and the brilliant young librarian who brings them all together!

Free to read here:
sidequested.com

You can preorder SideQuested Book 1 NOW! - Side Quested Webcomic

Yes, finally! You can preorder SideQuested Book 1 wherever books are sold! Here are convenient links to some of the big stores (but your local indie brick-and-mortar store will also…

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Foxfeather Zenkova @foxfeather.bsky.social · 16h

Hola from Costa Rica!
I am here for a work trip and the Raptor Research Foundation conference. We've seen nine king vultures so far, it has been absolutely incredible! 🪶

A wild king vulture in front of a number of American black vultures

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 22h

Quick question: If the Republicans are right, and someone is paying millions and millions of us to protest, and has done it hundreds of other times, and they STILL can't figure out who's funding us, aren't they way too stupid to hold office?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 19h

I don't understand why U.S. reporters so regularly seem to let politicians get away with 'I haven't seen that' about stuff a) they obviously know and b) is directly relevant to their job. Did they sign some kind of agreement never to ask a follow-up question?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

REPORTER: We know the president moved forward with mass layoffs. We're also learning there were significant cuts to staff at special education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts?

MIKE JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know

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Middlerage @middlerage.bsky.social · 16h

So if he hasn't met with Mike Johnson & wants to, how are Democrats the cause of the lingering shutdown???

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 18h

ALSO. ALSO. Needing us to find Europeans who condemned him for his actions at the time--and there are many! So many! My God so many!--is also some white supremacist bullshit, because the TAINO PEOPLE HE WAS MURDERING CERTAINLY CONDEMNED HIM FOR IT AND THEY WERE HUMAN BEINGS OF HIS TIME TOO.

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 22h

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16h

This press release from a North Carolina GOP figure portrays the current redistricting wars as something *Democrats* started in Calif., ignoring the fact that this all began with the Trump White House and first unfolded in red Texas.

According to them, Republicans are once again The Real Victims™

House Redistricting Chairmen Brenden Jones (R-Columbus) and Hugh Blackwell (R-Burke) said, “We’re stepping into this redistricting battle because California and the radical left are attempting to rig the system to handpick who runs Congress. This ploy is nothing new, and North Carolina will not stand by while they attempt to stack the deck. President Trump has called on us to fight back, and North Carolina stands ready to level the playing field.”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

"Most Americans probably don’t have a detailed grasp of what’s happening with ACA subsidies right now, but once people start getting letters notifying them of how much their premiums are going up, it will become a much bigger issue."

Republicans are completely full of it on healthcare

And it becomes more obvious every time they talk about it.

www.publicnotice.co

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 16h

Prepping for Halloween. We never get any kids at the house (because we live out of town at the end of a long driveway) but kids show up at the church for trick or treat, so we'll be ready. And indeed we are the Full-Sized Candy Bar People because we can be, and if you can, why wouldn't you.

Boxes of candy bars, M&Ms, Skittles, and Starbursts

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 16h

Book 3 in one of my fave Sci fi romance series!

Jessie Mihalik @jessiemihalik.com · 3d

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She’s a prickly intergalactic thief.
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Together, they have to save their friends—and the galaxy.

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 16h

this is not the first time false information has circulated that conveniently pisses off would-be enthusiastic mamdani supporters.

there are real things mamdani has shifted on that have deservedly drawn ire. we do not need to invent new ones, nor should we circulate unverified, provocative quotes.

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 16h

a fake quote being attributed to zohran mamdani is igniting the pro-palestine left.

he never said arresting netanyahu would make him a trumpian fascist. that phrase was posted by an account known for using extreme rhetoric to accuse mamdani of effectively saying that as a result of him softening.

image circulating claiming to attribute a fake quote to mamdani. text reads:
dec. 2024: “as mayor of nyc i would arrest benjamin netanyahu”
sept. 2025: “arresting netanyahu would make me a trumpian fascist.” - this second quote has in big letters over it the words “fake quote.”

post from the originator of the phrase. text reads:

@zei squirrel
here you have it side by side. Zohran in December 2024, when he was running in the primary, pledging that he will definitely arrest Netanyahu. Then fast forward to Zohran in September 2025, after he won the primary, and suddenly arresting Netanyahu makes you a Trumpian fascist:

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 16h

October Spooky Reads: All Of Us Murderers by @kjcharleswriter.com

Ghosts! Curses! Family secrets! An inheritance at stake! A walled estate and the Dartmoor mists closing in! The romance is delightful, the plot reminiscent of a good Agatha Christie crossed w classic Gothic. A+ atmosphere & plotting

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 10d

part 2 of this silliness (ie, the second and final 2 mins of this).

need it be said: works better if you watch part 1 first (embedded herein)

www.youtube.com/shorts/O9HFb...

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 16h

...what really gets me is that this is less heretical than a lot of the things that trad Caths say

Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 16h

made another short silly video for all several of my fans.

this is ChadCath priest Father Diesel giving you an eternal life hack about confessing in the third person (2ish mins):

ChadCath PSA: Confession Hack
youtube.com/shorts/LVCo-...

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 16h

There is a cease fire in Gaza but still no jobs and my friend and brother Mohamed's land lies in the security buffer zone. He cannot go home.
I worry what will become of him and his family as the world looks elsewhere. If you have a couple dollars to share, I would be grateful.

Help Mohamed Get His Family to Safety

Hello, this is Meave Gallagher, the sponsor of this fundraising campaign for our dear friend, Mohamed Ahmed, the displaced Palestinian farmer growing a small farm in Mawasi, Khan Yunis. His original g...

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 17h

Yeah that's right I HAVE FUCKING LEVELED UP and now maybe finally I will get THE RESPECT AROUND THIS PLACE that I deserve LOOK UPON ME BLUESKY I AM YOUR GODDAMNED GOLDEN IDOL

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