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Lady Emily @bluelady.bsky.social · Jul 24

The Guys

A collection of photographs of the ways my child arranges toys. Usually (but not always!) sets of 4.

4 squares with holes in a line touching each other (orange, yellow, dark green, lime green) and the Heeler family (dressed for swim except for Bandit) similarly lined, laying, nearby. Other toys are partially visible at the edge of the photo

Squares standing on edge (orange, dark green, yellow, lime green) touching in a line

4 magnatile triangles in a line (red yellow purple orange)

4 bluey figures ( Coco, swimming Chili, Frankenstein-Lucky, and Bingo) arranged laying in a rough square

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Moe Davis @moedavis.bsky.social · 16h

Kristi Noem has $0 for victims of Hurricane Helene in Western North Carolina who lost their homes but $172,000,000 to buy jets to ferry her around to pose for photo-ops.

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SteveDemetriou @sdemetri.bsky.social · 16h

Rockland, Maine No Kings Rally.

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Lady Emily @bluelady.bsky.social · 4h

Nah-- compost 'em.

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Gallifreyan Jedi @jediofgallifrey.bsky.social · 14h

Fuck the reich

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Sarah Burris @sarahburris.bsky.social · 11h

Holy cats

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 13h

MSNBC captured the crowd from the Boston "No Kings" rally:

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Linda Tirado @killermartinis.bsky.social · 1d

No matter how many people ask I will not be doing quick tips on getting shot, as my only and best advice is to fucking duck.

But, I mean. Duck, though.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 17h

They're closing 17 miles of the 5 freeway near Camp Pendleton to let Vance and Hegseth shoot munitions over the freeway.

5 Fwy to shut down due to event involving live ammunition at Camp Pendleton, CHP says

A 17-mile stretch of the 5 Freeway will be shut down Saturday because of a military event involving live ammunition at Camp Pendleton.

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Linda Tirado @killermartinis.bsky.social · 11h

And if you wondered what having been an Eisenhower Republican mattered to today

That woman took that bullet for the same reason I did mine: because she wasn't gonna stay home while power fucked with the people it controlled.

She would say it more politely, I am sure. That is my quote and not hers.

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Linda Tirado @killermartinis.bsky.social · 11h

Yeah, this protest was about half elders

You ever seen a whole ass government annoy retirees to the point they remember the 60s?

I never have. Not until today. Even in June people weren't asking could I interview them for democracy's sake.

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Linda Tirado @killermartinis.bsky.social · 11h

This lady tells me the last time she remembers this happening in the damn near fifty years she's lived here was over integration.

"But we were northerners, you know, and we told them it wasn't a big deal."

Also:

"I was an Eisenhower Republican. I don't know what these folks are doing."

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Ned Flanders Fields, CFO of Antifa @duidefensela.bsky.social · 8h

If the bystanders arent yelling, "come on cops work that dick," comedy is dead.

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Brian Morans @whpshw.bsky.social · 8h

FYI, I’d feel safer around a 53 year old woman in a penis suit than three cops any day of the week.

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beckscomics @beckscomics.bsky.social · 6h

Scaretober 2025 - Day 18: Blight

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Lady Emily @bluelady.bsky.social · 4h

Worth the wait!!

That looks phenomenal. Love the intergenerational trauma metaphor and breaking the cycle by burning it all down.

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beckscomics @beckscomics.bsky.social · 6h

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piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · Aug 21

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piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · Aug 21

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piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · Aug 21

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piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · Aug 21

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piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · Aug 21

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Opal - Toitū Te Tiriti 🍉 @opaltiger.bsky.social · 10h

To the Editor:
I am one of these so-called profoundly autistic people this article describes. I cannot utter meaningful speech, and as a result, I was branded for years as someone with an intellectual disability and an I.Q. of 40. All this time, however, I understood everything that was going on around me. I just could not show it to others because of my deranged relationship with my own body.
I am concerned about the creation of a separate category, called profound autism, for those of us with the most severe disabilities. There are real differences between the sort of autism that I have and so-called Asperger's syndrome. But it does not help us at all to impose a hierarchy of lower and higher functioning. We need to figure out how to tap into the skills and insights of those of us who cannot talk, who make up anywhere from 25 percent to 40 percent of the autistic community, depending on the estimate.
For me, the way out of this dilemma was learning to communicate by typing. I suddenly went from being seen as intellectually impaired to taking college classes. I was never low-functioning, and neither are my autistic brothers and sisters without the ability to speak. I was just misjudged and ignored, and I fear that my fate will be the fate of many others termed low functioning in this new schema.
Jason Jacoby Lee, New York

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Count Maxula 🧛 @mad-max.bsky.social · 10h

I got hooked on phonics at a young age. Ruined my life for a spell

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13h

Popok: Why did they choose No Kings Day for a “routine training exercise” in a state where his leading political critic is the governor?

Bonta: They’re doing what they always do—trying to intimidate. It would be humiliating for the president—and shameful and embarrassing if he were capable of shame

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Nick Calandra @nickjcal.bsky.social · 13h

So…civilians.

Cause if they were criminals bringing drugs to the US, we would be putting them on trial and not sending them back… right?

This feels like it should be a huge story.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 13h

President Trump confirms the two survivors of a strike on an alleged drug smuggling vessel will be repatriated to Ecuador and Colombia.

US will send survivors of strike on suspected drug vessel to Ecuador and Colombia, source says

The two survivors of an American military strike on a suspected drug-carrying vessel in the Caribbean will be sent to Ecuador and Colombia, their home countries.

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piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · Aug 21

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