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Cindy Calisher ❌👑 @buglady1104.bsky.social · 8h

Had my 1st such dream right before I had my braces removed at age 15. I figured subconsciously I must’ve felt like the braces were the only things keeping my teeth in my mouth. No such excuses for subsequent sporadic teeth-falling-out dreams over the years.

Cindy Calisher ❌👑 @buglady1104.bsky.social · 22h

After a moment of initial puzzlement, I surprised myself by getting it. So how can a person make sense out of something like that, but not …(waves hand) … *all THIS?*

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Cindy Calisher ❌👑 @buglady1104.bsky.social · 2d

He isn’t wearing his makeup, so he looks pale and unnaturally… natural. And also old.

Cindy Calisher ❌👑 @buglady1104.bsky.social · 2d

One of my favorite things about #canvassing at this time of year is seeing the various Halloween decorations people have put up in their yards and on their porches. I found this wreath to be understated yet still celebratory. And oh yes, if you live in #California, please vote #YesonProp50

Here we have a lovely wreath, the foundation of which is made of black twigs, densely packed. The lower half of the wreath is covered in dried brown moss. There are 2 little headstones, some slender black mushrooms, a few fern fronds and a skull. Simple but elegant. Oh, and there’s a sweet pinkish moth at the top of the wreath.

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Cindy Calisher ❌👑 @buglady1104.bsky.social · 3d

The toesies on the little one crack me up!

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 3d

One of my favs

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 3d

After a week of ridiculous Republican smears and Trump claiming that “very few people are going to be there,” you just made history. #NoKings

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Cindy Calisher ❌👑 @buglady1104.bsky.social · 3d

#NoKings in #LaHabra had a great turnout. Thanks to Gaston Castellanos for his coverage for the Fullerton Observer, and a slew of photos of the peaceful participants. fullertonobserver.com/2025/10/18/n...

No Kings Protesters Rally Against Administration Overreach in La Habra - Fullerton Observer

According to the protest organizers approximately 3,500 demonstrators gathered at the intersection of Imperial and Beach Boulevard on Saturday to voice their concerns over what they described as sever...

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Cindy Calisher ❌👑 @buglady1104.bsky.social · 4d

I didn’t come into my weirdness all of a sudden. I was a weird kid from day one.

Cindy Calisher ❌👑 @buglady1104.bsky.social · 4d

Um, no. It’s not a steamy romance. It’s just steam. I find watching it to be relaxing, meditative in a way. I used to enjoy watching the smoke rising from my mom’s cigarettes too, when I was very little.

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Cindy Calisher ❌👑 @buglady1104.bsky.social · 4d

I’m ready for #NoKings tomorrow. Look for me in #LaHabra #CA
and carrying this sign. With Halloween right around the corner, I made the regime look extra ghoulish!

My protest sign, featuring Trump as a scary clown, Vance as Frankenstein, Miller as a vampire, and RFK JR as a zombie. Their faces are within the boundaries of a purple map of the US, and the caption warns, “Here Be Monsters” in a (sort of) creepy font.

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Stephanie Wade @transglamazon.bsky.social · 5d

If you live in California & you fear our military is being turned into the sword of fascist dictatorship, please sign my petition. If Gavin Newsom takes this up he will take it to every Governor in the country and make enough noise that our troops and generals will hear the alarm. c.org/xhZVWykFbh

This campaign needs you now

Question Your Orders-Training for the CA Guard on the Duty to Disobey Unlawful Orders

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Cindy Calisher ❌👑 @buglady1104.bsky.social · 5d

Ooh, I’m in!

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 6d

Country music singer
Bryan Andrews speaks out against Trump's ICE

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Cindy Calisher ❌👑 @buglady1104.bsky.social · 6d

I tried, twice, to enter the alt text for these little video clips, to no avail.

I wrote:
Blue skies. Bright sun. trees with wet green leaves backlit by the sun. A wooden fence darkened with age and wetness, from which tendrils of steam are rising from each soggy board.

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Cindy Calisher ❌👑 @buglady1104.bsky.social · 6d

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Cindy Calisher ❌👑 @buglady1104.bsky.social · 6d

One of my favorite things: the ethereal sight of my backyard fence steaming in the morning sun after a day and a night of rain. This is my first steaming fence of this season.

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Cindy Calisher ❌👑 @buglady1104.bsky.social · 8d

We haven’t even had Kira for 3 months yet, but it’s pretty much been like this since the first 3 days.

Cindy Calisher ❌👑 @buglady1104.bsky.social · 8d

I never would have expected that Kira, the new dog, on the left, would so quickly become the alpha, or that Dex, with almost 6 years of being the spoiled only dog, would be totally ok with that. 🖤🖤 #blackdogs

2 black dogs huddle together on a brown leather couch. The room is in its usual state of “slight disarray”, with blankets and a jacket lying in view.

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Michael DiTullo @d2lo.bsky.social · 10d

We handed out fliers for #nokings on Oct 18th. We were surprised how many young folks didn’t know about it but were really excited to learn! Talking to people IRL & giving them a piece of paper works.

@indivisible.org @ezralevin.bsky.social @leahgreenberg.bsky.social @coin-indivisible.bsky.social

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 8d

You gotta give ‘em hop.

A tweet from the Anonymous account says, “Make sure the dude in the frog costume in Portland knows he's an icon.” The image is a stylized poster of a frog wearing a stars-and-stripes scarf with the word “HOP” below, in the style of the Obama “HOPE” poster.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 9d

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

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Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 11d

Everyone do what they want, “you be you,” but my humble hope is that as many people as possible carry American flags to the Oct. 18 rally. That will make for the images that will most infuriate the Republicans and best sway the moderates.

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Cindy Calisher ❌👑 @buglady1104.bsky.social · 11d

An excellent suggestion, but should they be upside down, or no?

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 14d

someone needlepoint this on a pillow for me, please and thank you

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 14d

glad to be born at a time when i got to see what life was like before the internet and will be dead before AI completely destroys humanity

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