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Adi 🍉

@adigoesswimming.bsky.social

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In an interstellar burst 🐋 (she/they) I bake cookies to fund abortions and talk about ponies *a lot* and want to live in the sea. Received the (very real, universally coveted) PSB Award for Good Taste In Books. Still masking.

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Adi 🍉 @adigoesswimming.bsky.social · Aug 21

I made an abortion-themed mug at the request of a friend and made all proceeds benefit @reachfundct.bsky.social and SOMEONE BOUGHT ONE! REACH emailed and said they want to make the mug part of their permanent campaign so uh I think I'm a famous artist now?

GET YOURS:
www.bonfire.com/dont-talk-to...

Don't Talk to Me | Bonfire

Buy Don't Talk to Me merchandise that supports The REACH Fund of Connecticut Inc. Featuring Orange Two-Tone Ceramic Mugs, professionally printed in the USA.

www.bonfire.com

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Adi 🍉 @adigoesswimming.bsky.social · 6h

PUPDATE: it CHILLY, and the sweater I ordered isn't here yet and he shivers every time we have to go out, so I made a sweater out of Ten's too-small sweatpants leg 😂 HASHTAG STYLE

A small puppy in what looks like a grey sleeveless shirt thing but which is really the bottom part of a pant leg. He's sleeping with legs extended but all together on a blanket that looks like a giant tortilla

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🎃 a frightful hoxgoblin 🎃 @kellenhoxworth.bsky.social · 10h

Higher Ed in 2025 is opening your mailbox to see that your institution has sent you:

1. A Center for Teaching and Learning call to integrate AI into your classroom; and

2. An Office of Academic Integrity email encouraging you to crack down on students who use AI to cheat.

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Daniel Donner @donnermaps.bsky.social · 18h

Last night it said 100+ bought in the past month. Tonight, 200+. The legion grows.

screenshot of amazon page that says Inflatable Frog Costume for Adults - Blow up Halloween Costume. 200 plus bought in past month

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 19h

Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 22h

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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 19h

there are SO many more inflatable costumes tonight. clearly we have settled on a motif

Wide shot of many people in inflatable costumes

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21h

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Adi 🍉 @adigoesswimming.bsky.social · 10h

I reposted this, saw the username, and un-reposted it because there was a very TERF-y account of this name. It seems this is the same person who now includes trans women? I can't tell if it's actually someone else or if bullying transphobes works.

womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 16h

Louise V Durham, stained glass and driftwood sculpture, Shoreham by Sea, UK #WomensArt

Photo of a vertical driftwood sculpture inlaid with rainbow coloured stained glass, the sculpture is sited on a wet looking shoreline by the sea under a sky with silver clouds and pale blue light

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 13h

This is like writing about someone hoping to get a Best Actor Oscar despite not appearing in any films

D Lavoie @djlavoie.bsky.social · 20h

One of the more bizarre stories I've ever read in the NYT. I don't remotely understand what its thesis is.

And it has a world-historic "to be sure..." graf in the 26th paragraph.

NYT headline

Trump Has His Eyes on a Nobel Peace Prize.
Will He Get It?
President Trump has coveted the prize for years. The winner will be unveiled 48 hours after President Trump announced a breakthrough in the Israel-Hamas war.

Ms. Graeger also noted that some of Mr. Trump's foreign policy aims run counter to the prize's criteria - such as peaceful disarmament and international cooperation - given the U.S. strikes on Iran's nuclear program, its withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement and its cuts to international humanitarian aid programs like U.S.A.I.D. She added that Mr. Trump's domestic policy agenda points to an
"infringement of the basic democratic rights."

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Will🇺🇸📎✌️🌲 @econaturalist.bsky.social · 1d

Scholars who study America are saying they won’t visit because it’s too risky.

"Too risky": Scholars who study America say they won't visit

At a recent panel in Vienna, academics who study America said the country has become similar to Russia and China.

www.salon.com

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Alex Bean @abeanchi.bsky.social · 11h

“He has called for reparations from the descendants of slaves to the descendants of slave owners.”

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST!

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · Aug 2

The guy Trump picked to lead the office that’s now investigating Jack Smith:

— said Niki Haley is ineligible to be president
— has neo-Nazi ties
— was Andrew Tate’s lawyer
— 2x Claremont fellow
— wrote for Gateway Pundit
— called for Pence to be hanged
— called for secession after 2020 election

Paul Ingrassia (lawyer) - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 11h

"Put simply, only the extremely wealthy appear to be benefiting from all of this."

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

futurism.com

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 18h

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 19h

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

Netanyahu's mouthpiece, Amit Segal, casually admits on Twitter that his country has been holding 1,700 people from Gaza hostage, including children.

Among other things, according to the decision:

- 250 security prisoners will be released.
- 1,700 residents of the Gaza Strip who were not involved in the events of October 7 and were arrested after the massacre will be released.
- 22 minors under the age of 18, residents of the Gaza Strip who were not involved in the events of October 7 and were arrested after the massacre, will be released.
- 360 bodies of terrorists will be returned.

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it's decorative dani season motherfuckers @daniskitchen.bsky.social · 11h

some teenage punks decided to have a late night party on my deck last night in case you're wondering how I slept

a large habanero plant on its side street being knocked off the small table it was sitting on, a raccoon is macerating an unripe pepper in it's front paws

a raccoon is sniffing around in the dirt from a capsized potted plant while another peeks out from behind a smaller potted plant on another table

one raccoon is digging around in the planter of an upright pepper plant, with a capsized plant in the gorgeous and a second raccoon enjoying the view from the railing behind him

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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 11h

Artist Michelle Browder’s 'Mothers of Gynecology' project is an act of resistance, challenging the silences around the ugly history of medical apartheid's impact on Black women. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

One woman's quest to reclaim the ugly history of Black maternal health

Artist Michelle Browder's Mothers of Gynecology project is an act of resistance.

www.motherjones.com

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 11h

This morning there is one Nobel Peace Prize winner, 8.1 billion or so people who did not win the Nobel Peace Prize, and one Nobel Peace Prize loser.

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Adi 🍉 @adigoesswimming.bsky.social · 1d

Shopping for puppy toys and came across this... Molotov cocktail for puppies??

Dog toy shaped like a purple bottle with a rope coming out the top. The rope is frayed on the end and there's a spiky rubber bit around the bottle top but it immediately evokes a bottle with a rag shoved in

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 1d

CAN YOU GUESS THIS ONE?? 👀

(Thanks to @schmidtocean.bsky.social for letting me share their video!)

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Adi 🍉 @adigoesswimming.bsky.social · 1d

If you knock on my door and I don't answer, and then you knock AGAIN and I stop what I'm doing to answer because maybe it's important! and it's just a cold sales call, I'm not fucking buying anything you're selling just out of *spite*

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 1d

This is the lesson of 2025

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 1d

It is simply accurate to call this regime segregationist.

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

www.nytimes.com

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 1d

of the moral conundrums you will be presented with, as an adult, "stop buying these specific children's toys" is like. the easiest possible

Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 1d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 1d

Republican Senators, with an assist from Sen. John Fetterman, voted down an attempt to block the Trump administration’s missile strikes on alleged Venezuelan drug boats. interc.pt/4o9CBur

A photo of Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., sits on the steps of the U.S. Capitol on Oct. 1, 2025, in Washington, overlaid with the headline, "Fetterman Is Sole Democrat to Vote Against Blocking Caribbean Drug Boat Attacks," and the DEK, "It was the first time members of Congress were put on record about whether they supported or opposed the president’s war in the Caribbean."

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John Carpenter’s ‘Halloran’ @profhalloran.bsky.social · 1d

Said on the local weather this morning: “It went from 80 to 55 like it saw a state trooper.”

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 1d

I'm gonna be honest, I'd rather not be living through it, but: if anybody is gonna be able to take on USA hegemony and have a right chance at it, the Vatican is an unexpected but worthy contender

Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 1d

www.thedailybeast.com/pope-leo-ram...

Pope Leo Ramps Up His Trump Feud With Order to American Bishops

The Chicago-born pontiff has sharpened his criticism of the Trump administration and reportedly decided to take action.

www.thedailybeast.com

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