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I live in Colorado, have mad fits of creativity followed by periods of somnolence, and am charmed by snakes. She/her, or whatever. Signal: whetstone.54

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🪦 @whetstone.bsky.social · Nov 14

solidarity that doesn’t include disabled and vulnerable people is not, in fact, solidarity

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🪦 @whetstone.bsky.social · 6h

@amyhoy.bsky.social aw yay it’s spooky season! just noticed your name is back

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 6h

people are going to post AI slop...sometimes they just do not realize it at the time and have the good graces to delete it

but if they are told and keep posting it your safest action is just to block them because they will continue to spread it

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 7h

We gotta start thinking about things harder before sharing, you can tell this is AI right away if you already loathe AI with every fiber of your being but it's getting harder.

Jenn Budd @jennbudd.bsky.social · 8h

Seems like they are going after reporters who are women. They hit one w/pepper spray ammo in her car, the WGN reporter and now this.

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🪦 @whetstone.bsky.social · 6h

i chose to block for that. falling for it and deleting i forgive, knowingly keeping up lies for clout means i never want to hear from you again

🪦 @whetstone.bsky.social · 6h

the salt crystal stuff is great too if it works with your skin

lasts a long time and smells like truly nothing

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 7h

This story is NUTS

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 8h

Look, I've never skeeted about this before but when I was at NYT I was involved in a sexual harassment thing. I was not the person lodging the complaint (nor was I the harasser). I was a corroborating witness let's say. Anyway, NYT did the right thing and fired the harasser.

BUT

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🪦 @whetstone.bsky.social · 7h

*eek* the babies are the ones that scare me because they don’t know about dry bites yet

and less noisy

🪦 @whetstone.bsky.social · 7h

@tkingfisher.com just finished hemlock & silver and it is ✨wonderful✨

i have a card i‘ve been hoarding that i would send you, but since i wouldn’t ask for an address, a description will have to suffice: it’s a photo of a supercilious cat with the text “if a cat could talk, it wouldn’t”

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 19h

A billion dollars is the socio-political equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work as ruthlessly and diligently to prevent the acquisition of the former as we do the latter.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 1d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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🪦 @whetstone.bsky.social · 19h

i think the why is that he likes power and access and thinks he's entitled to both, and this is a pathway to them

loving how his ignorance of things that any normal person who's lived in nyc for longer than 5 minutes would know is sabotaging his ability to connect with voters

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🪦 @whetstone.bsky.social · 20h

truly gobsmacking

like, if we’re considering strategy, which potential voters could this possibly fool?

if you are lower or moderate income you know exactly who rides the bus

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 2d

As usual, Tennessee Holler lifts video without crediting creator. No location or date. No ID of person shot in the head w/less lethals. All findable!

By removing context, Tennessee Holler damages activism and makes misinfo more likely.

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WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

vertical video of a minister looking up and talking to ICE agents on the roof of the Broadview, IL ICE facility.

October 8, 2025 at 7:23 AM

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🪦 @whetstone.bsky.social · 1d

📌 book

🪦 @whetstone.bsky.social · 1d

people radically underestimate how weird hands are, in my experience

they do not look anything like most people think

anyway my hand also looks like that, in that position. normal thumb length, normal way to hold a sign

might be ai but easily could be real imo

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 2d

Frog and Toad looked into a mirror.

“We look brave,” said Frog.

“Yes, but are we?” asked Toad.

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Nekrởtzar @nekrotzar.bsky.social · 1d

ICE wasn’t prepared to face amphibious units.

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🪦 @whetstone.bsky.social · 1d

took me a sec

Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 1d

We may have some problems on here but link-throttling is not one of them. Well, except for the one link

🪦 @whetstone.bsky.social · 1d

oof

for anybody else who is curious about why (given the existence of “baby aspirin”):

search for “reye’s syndrome”

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Tiffany Vilchis @tiffvilchis.bsky.social · 1d

I agree that it wouldn't have happened under Harris; however, this type of messaging is essential for Democrats to seize on.
"Look at this MAGA voter. This can happen to you." "Republicans don't want to pay the military." "MAGA is killing military families."
It's theater, but it sells.

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🪦 @whetstone.bsky.social · 1d

Shorter Mike Johnson: “We were saving the healthcare hostage for *later* dang it!”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "It's about keeping Congress operating so we can get to healthcare. We always were going to. They're lying to you. Okay? The healthcare issues were always gonna be something discussed, deliberated, contemplated, and debated in October and November."

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🪦 @whetstone.bsky.social · 1d

omg that is unbelievably adorable

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Ethan “Brother Ethan” Kocak @ethankocak.com · 1d

Hell yeah

Larval axolotl in clear egg on my finger

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🪦 @whetstone.bsky.social · 1d

The suggestion to get a tag engraved was really good too, better than a note even! You can put your number and “is it ok to adopt this cat?”

🪦 @whetstone.bsky.social · 1d

oh man it’s finally my turn with the wallet inspector

🪦 @whetstone.bsky.social · 1d

I once bought a collar for a friendly cat and attached a very small note to it inside one of those little metal pill cases, the kind that unscrews and has a loop to put on a chain. Maybe you can try to find out if an owner exists that way. Worked for me!

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