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The Onion @theonion.com · 2h

Hotshot Peasant Has Window

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Erika Lee Sears @erikaleesears.bsky.social · 4h

Mood. #art #oilpainting

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 2h

Guys: the Republic has fallen.

He's asserting that he's not going to abide by budgetary laws, on top of taxing and spending without congressional approval.

The GOP-controlled Congress gives rubber-stamp a bad name. Even if Congress cared, SCOTUS is empowering all of this.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Trump: "We're getting rid of problems that we didn't like but that were negotiated in but we didn't like. We're terminating those programs. And they're gonna be terminated on a permanent basis."

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tatosaurusrexbot.bsky.social @tatosaurusrexbot.bsky.social · 6h

10 years of NEON already?!! Damn

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9h

By now, foreign governments must have put their least effective and competent spies on the job of spying on us. It's just too easy.

Jesse Dollemore @dollemore.com · 1d

Currently on a flight to Japan watching a Pentagon Assistant Press Secretary (Riley Podleski) work on a document in the open on her laptop. She spent the last hour copy and pasting headlines from articles critical of the Administration’s hostility toward the 1st amendment.

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Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 21h

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Last June, more than 5 million Americans joined #NoKings rallies across the country, protesting President Trump's authoritarianism. And this Saturday, with your help, it's going to be even bigger and better.

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tatosaurusrexbot.bsky.social @tatosaurusrexbot.bsky.social · 21h

@norfolkology.bsky.social I didn't request this one, it was a quick freestyle piece from the inspired artist 😂

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tatosaurusrexbot.bsky.social @tatosaurusrexbot.bsky.social · 21h

Artistic reinterpretation by hubs™️

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 2d

If this isn't the last video that MTV ever plays, I will be so furious:

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Anita Bryant Humiliation Day

A four-panel image of Anita Bryant being pied in her sanctimonious face by gay rights activist Thom Higgins, 1977.

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ヴァネッサ @strifeisgood.bsky.social · 1d

I’ll take the good news no matter how modest it may be: www.13newsnow.com/article/news...

Norfolk Airport declines to air DHS video blaming Democrats for government shutdown

Norfolk Airport says it won’t play DHS video blaming Democrats for the shutdown, citing a long-standing policy against political messaging in its facilities.

www.13newsnow.com

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Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 1d

BWI not showing Kristi Noem video that blames Democrats for government shutdown

BWI is not displaying a new video in which Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem blames Democrats for the ongoing government shutdown.

buff.ly

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tatosaurusrexbot.bsky.social @tatosaurusrexbot.bsky.social · 1d

Stoked when they came over from Twitter. Been difficult to try to rebuild my previous list of fav accounts 😭. God bless nihilist Arby's

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tatosaurusrexbot.bsky.social @tatosaurusrexbot.bsky.social · 1d

Nothing matters anymore. Eat at Arby's.

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tatosaurusrexbot.bsky.social @tatosaurusrexbot.bsky.social · 1d

Take a second to hug those around you and dance today. Wherever you may be.

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tatosaurusrexbot.bsky.social @tatosaurusrexbot.bsky.social · 1d

Sad news: one of my favorite Aunts has been diagnosed with brain cancer. She has a masters in piano & organ, her instrument collection is incredible. She agreed to play piano at my wedding and when asked what I wanted her to play I said "Lord of the dance, up the aisle and back" and she was like 🫡

Donovan - Lord Of The Dance

YouTube video by AnEnchantedGypsy

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 2d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 2d

There's no such thing as an "urban hike." You took a walk about town.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 2d

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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SamWalkerOBXNews 🎙📻📰🥍🦓 @samwalkerobxnews.com · 2d

Monday morning in Buxton. (Don Bowers/Island Free Press photos)

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The Borowitz Report @borowitzreport.bsky.social · 2d

Bad Bunny was born in America. The same cannot be said about 67 percent of Trump’s wives

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Lizet Kruyff @lizetkruyff.bsky.social · 2d

Good morning all! Brand new week, let's get started!

Lilla Cabot - Breakfast with Dog

#art #food #breakfast

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 2d

It’s an odd idea that “toppling statues” is “denying history”

Archaeologists will tell you people have always added to, removed, slighted monuments (eg medieval grave slabs with faces knocked off in the Reformation)

Toppling statues IS history in action.

observer.co.uk/culture/inte...

Nicholas Cullinan: ‘I don’t think it’s ever a good idea t...

The British Museum director on toppling statues, the Parthenon marbles and hosting London’s new star-studded answer to the Met Gala

observer.co.uk

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JA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com · 3d

The greatest productivity app of all time is a blank piece of paper and the deep existential dread of knowing you’re running out of time.

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tatosaurusrexbot.bsky.social @tatosaurusrexbot.bsky.social · 2d

Trying to find a dress for a black tie wedding this month and this is quite the review. 5/5.

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