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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

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ZJ Morris @ztopia.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, we have So Much Love in Seattle, WA

NO KINGS signs, an inspo 🧵

ZJ Morris @ztopia.bsky.social · Jun 14

NO KINGS SEATTLE 1/

THEY BLAME IMMIGRANTS SO YOU DON'T BLAME THE BILLIONAIRES

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ZJ Morris @ztopia.bsky.social · 1d

NO KINGS SIGN INSPO🧵

ZJ Morris @ztopia.bsky.social · Jun 14

NO KINGS SEATTLE 1/

ZJ Morris @ztopia.bsky.social · 1d

Oh my. Time to let my love for America shine this Saturday at 10/18 No Kings!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump on protesters: "You see these violent incidents and then you see people holding this gorgeous sign, with beautiful wood and beautiful cardboard wood everything. Everything's perfect. Perfect paint job. And they're all the same. You know that they weren't made in the basement out of love."

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RainSurname @rainsurname.bsky.social · 3d

Someone left a rack full of inflatable costumes near the ICE building in Portland.

I love this town.

This is a wonderful thread that explains how & why Portland is Like This.
bsky.app/profile/ceau...

A clothing rack on a sidewalk, full of colorful inflatable costumes, with a sign that says free.

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Mia, Queen of the Corgis @queenofthecorgis.bsky.social · 4d

Does anybody else have an overwhelming urge to knit or crochet a frog hat real quick for the protest next week? Can't let the Portland Frogs down! #nokings Ravelry has so many options but i love this one. 🧶 ravel.me/frog-hat-27

Frog Hat pattern by Annanitato Lolo

Knit Frog Hat Pattern

ravel.me

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 5d

Reading this now. It’s the opinion explaining the reason for granting a TRO (the order came out yesterday) against the National Guard deployment in Illinois. It begins with a quote from Alexander Hamilton in the Federalist Papers against the idea.

Big Cases Bot @bigcases.bots.law · 5d

New filing: "Illinois v. Trump (national guard deployment)"
Doc #70: memorandum opinion and order

Download PDF | View Full Case

#CL71559895

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SayItToMyFace🚫👑 @sayittomyface.bsky.social · 7d

Love this! So talented and creative. It’s the soundtrack to the scientific apocalypse we are living in! I follow @ellecordova.bsky.social here but this wasn’t posted. This was from TikTok! Enjoy!

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 7d

This is the lesson of 2025

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 7d

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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ZJ Morris @ztopia.bsky.social · 7d

Because the private equity firms that own the majority of AllTrails …

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ZJ Morris @ztopia.bsky.social · 10d

Seattle No Kings

NO CrOWNS
FOr Fascist
CLOWNS
Sign. Hand drawn Donald Trump head with giant purple lips a red clown nose & an orange drown

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 10d

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 10d

I’m telling you: ridicule works. These guys are supposed to intimidate the citizenry and it’s very hard to do that when a guy in a frog suit is just staring you down and daring you to do something that makes it look like you’re afraid of a cartoon

dan sinker @dansinker.com · 10d

Portland never stops being Portland.

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 11d

wizard frog is insane

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 10d

Immergut: What I'll do is not modify my original TRO but issue a new TRO that prohibits the relocation or deployment of any federalized national guard to the state of Oregon....

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 11d

👇 Midwest correspondent for The Economist

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 12d

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 11d

Beautiful🌳💚🌲

Katie Holten @katieholten.bsky.social · 11d

Nature and the environment permeate the language viscerally. Irish predates English by a millennium. Its early writing system, Ogham, written vertically as a series of lines and strokes, has an alphabet based on trees. The Irish language is a joy.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Illustration of a new Irish Tree Alphabet. Twenty-six trees represent each letter of the English alphabet. At the bottom of the image are lines representing the Ogham alphabet, horizontal and vertical lines, looking like simple trees.

The Irish Tree Alphabet draws trees from existing native as well as non-natives that are now calling Ireland home due to the changing climate.

The trees are drawn in ink with colored water pencil filling in the leaves and fruit.

The work is rooted in the medieval Ogham alphabet which was used to write the early Irish language. The characters or letters were called feda "trees", or nin "forking branches" due to their shape.

Each letter of the Latin alphabet is given a corresponding tree: A = Ailm (Scots Pine), B = Beith (Birch), B = Coll (Hazel), etc.

The tree drawings were turned into a font called Irish Trees.

Irish Tree Alphabet by Katie Holten was made for Visual Carlow in 2020. The font is available to download, so everyone can write with Irish Trees.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 11d

BREAKING: A federal judge has granted a restraining order blocking President Trump's call-up of the National Guard in Portland.

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ZJ Morris @ztopia.bsky.social · 12d

Google Gemini is like this too

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 12d

“Bluesky isn’t fun” problem and “Bluesky is the only social media platform where you will actually see the news” problem are the same problem

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 12d

You.
Are.
Allowed.
To.
Insult.
The.
Police.

It’s a core First Amendment principle. This is utterly lawless behavior, for which there will be no (short-term) consequences.

That he does it so casually, as they are walking away, in front of cameras.

Rightly confident in his impunity.

“[t]he freedom of individuals verbally to oppose or challenge police action without thereby risking arrest is one of the principal characteristics by which we distinguish a free nation from a police state.”

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ZJ Morris @ztopia.bsky.social · 12d

Not with this Congress, as we have seen.

Changing how federal taxes are collected to give states more power?

That sounds interesting imo. But it’s a massive change in the national power structure. I could see it being considered though, after a giant crash & burn

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ZJ Morris @ztopia.bsky.social · 12d

Federal taxes are paid by individuals and organizations.

Not individual states. The withholding needs to come from individuals changing their tax paperwork with their employers.

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ZJ Morris @ztopia.bsky.social · 12d

Sora 🙃 Social

OpenAI’s New Video App Is Jaw-Dropping (for Better and Worse)

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ZJ Morris @ztopia.bsky.social · 15d

Mediocracy is too kind. She said judgmentally.

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Andboo Haunton 🎃😷 @andrewhinton.bsky.social · 17d

This thread is great.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 17d

I feel like not nearly enough people understand this:
"Where real thinking involves organic associations, speculative leaps, and surprise inferences, AI can only recognize and repeat embedded word chains, based on elaborately automated statistical guesswork."

www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

Large Language Muddle | The Editors

The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

www.nplusonemag.com

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