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Scott Kardel aka Palomar Skies @palomarskies.bsky.social · 4h

How could this possibly be cheaper than batteries?

Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 17h

Do we really want 250,000 mirrored satellites in Low Earth Orbit? Hasn't the Starlink megaconstellation already done enough damage?
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A US startup plans to deliver ‘sunlight on demand’ after dark. Can it work – and would we want it to?

Satellites beaming sunlight down to Earth sound like science fiction – and they have astronomers very worried.

theconversation.com

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Crazy Cat Lady Abroad @crazycatladyabroad.bsky.social · 4h

Brexit will end when enough people accept its failure. American fascism will end when enough people accept its failure.

That requires destroying the economy, persecuting the vulnerable, and shrinking on the world stage.

We had to destroy two countries rather than elect a "socialist" or a woman.

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Fraid o' da Pirate🏴‍☠️👻🎃 @xochiptx.bsky.social · 4h

Gotta love all the anti-fascist amphibians!
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Drawing of said Portland frog, with the word 'Resist' on the top

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Anne-Marie W. Clark 👩‍👧‍👦🐶⚖️😷🌎🚢📚🌦️⚜️ @amwclark.bsky.social · 2d

This comic is more than 10 years old.

(Image credit: Tom Toles | Copyright 2014 Universal Press Syndicate)
https://theweek.com/cartoons/427052/political-cartoon-campaign-midterm-elections-senate

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Crazy Cat Lady Abroad @crazycatladyabroad.bsky.social · 4h

To be fair,I have seen more coherent ramblings from AI.

Then again, I've also seen more coherent ramblings from a bowl of Cheerios.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 4h

Remember that there are righteous people among us, always.

Left: Netherlands, 1942

Right: Illinois, 2025

One day in the summer of 1942, after the onset of the deportations of the Jews from Holland to “the East”, a student, who was a courier for the ASG student underground group in Amsterdam, approached the de Vries family, asking them to hide a Jewish child. The de Vrieses, who had two children of their own, decided to accept the offer despite the risk that was involved in hiding Jews, and soon four year-old Louise Pinto was brought to their home.

Amid the smoke bombs and screams that ricocheted throughout a South Shore building last month during a massive military-style immigration raid, one man heard a knock on his door.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.

“I wasn’t planning on letting her stay, but I didn’t know what the hell was going on,” the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.

“I didn’t want them to take her,” said the man, who didn’t want to be named because he fears he’ll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.

“I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her, ‘Just stay there. Don’t open, don’t, shh, just stay quiet,’” he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 5h

This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.

This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!

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Crazy Cat Lady Abroad @crazycatladyabroad.bsky.social · 4h

There is an anecdote about a New Orleans potential juror during voir dire being asked whether they trusted police officers more than regular citizens and responding with bouts of hysterical laughter.

ICE may arrest people and charge them, but their chances in trials are not great. Have a sandwich.

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Jon Hutson @jonhutson.bsky.social · 7h

EPA stops tracking pollution, starts tracking traces of abortion pills in waste water: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

The E.P.A. Followed Up on an Unusual Request About Abortion Pills

www.nytimes.com

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Crazy Cat Lady Abroad @crazycatladyabroad.bsky.social · 5h

Don't look at me. There is one song I associate with frogs above all others.

kermit the frog is holding a banjo and says someday we 'll find it

Alt: Kermit T. Frog singing "Someday we'll find it" from The Rainbow Connection.

media.tenor.com

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Crazy Cat Lady Abroad @crazycatladyabroad.bsky.social · 6h

If this keeps up, I'm going to be a Crazy Frog Lady by the end of the month.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 8h

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 11h

❗️/1. After a long pause, Russia is again sending big armored columns into attack. A mass assault with 35 tanks & AFVs on Ukrainian positions took place in the area of responsibility of Azov 1st Corps.

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Crazy Cat Lady Abroad @crazycatladyabroad.bsky.social · 6h

If it's that or the "parasols," I'll take...

Oh, look! It's Gozer The Gozerian!

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Crazy Cat Lady Abroad @crazycatladyabroad.bsky.social · 6h

Anybody who would use this stunt as a management tool should have to answer it publicly themselves first and then have the howls of laughter played back to them as every employee's response.

Crazy Cat Lady Abroad @crazycatladyabroad.bsky.social · 8h

Albatrosses wore it. Therefore lovely.

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Crazy Cat Lady Abroad @crazycatladyabroad.bsky.social · 9h

With a huge 2025 influx of slavering psychopaths who didn't think law enforcement was barbaric enough already, the brutality of the American Gestapo is about to get more obscene than it's ever been.

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Dennis B. Hooper @dennisbhooper.bsky.social · 2d

Meowlignant (2021)

A woman with long brown hair and a vest seen from behind and the cat is being carried in the vest with only its face showing at the back of the woman’s head, reminiscent of Gabriel in Malignant (2021)

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Crazy Cat Lady Abroad @crazycatladyabroad.bsky.social · 10h

I don't want to attack Mr. Soros. And he doesn't need me to defend him. But let's be frank: He didn't get where he is by making stupid financial decisions.

The idea that he'd pay us to do what we'd do for free anyway is the sort of thinking only done by people who make stupid financial decisions.

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Purple Teacher @peaceandteachin.bsky.social · 13h

Federal judge ruled Ice Agents have to have identification and wear badges while on the job in Illinois unless they are undercover.
Ruling also said they cannot use bullets and pepper spray against peaceful protesters and journalists.
#ProudBlue#Voices4Victory
#OneV1
apple.news/AkHeUzRPhTeu...

ICE Agents In Chicago Area Who Aren't Undercover Must Wear Badges Or IDs, Federal Judge Rules — Block Club Chicago

Agents have been concealing their identities by wearing masks and hats without badges or name tags. Advocates say the ruling is a step toward accountability.

apple.news

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Crazy Cat Lady Abroad @crazycatladyabroad.bsky.social · 10h

I don't mean to suggest that police have ever represented the best and brightest.

But stop and think a moment about exactly what sort of psychopathic monster would look at ICE right now and decide to be part of what they're doing. Law enforcement abuse is about to go off the charts.

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Bob Geiger @bobgeiger.bsky.social · 10h

They show up wearing masks, in unmarked vehicles, with no ID visible, to snatch people off the street.

This is MAGA.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

ICE racially profiles an elderly man and takes him into custody. They realize their mistake and release him. They also intimidate witnesses. This incident occurred in Long Beach, California.

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National Immigration Law Center @nilc.org · 16d

"Dreams can come true if you work really hard."

That's what Jackie Merlos shared when she was previously featured in the Portland Business Journal. Now, she's locked up in ICE custody, needlessly separated from her young U.S. citizen kids.

Free the Merlos family.
bit.ly/47ZVdIE

After ICE arrests parents, Portland business owner takes in 4 kids - Portland Business Journal

Portland business owners Mimi Lettunich and Jackie Merlos have been friends for 20 years. With Merlos now in ICE custody, Lettunich is championing her case.

www.bizjournals.com

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Crazy Cat Lady Abroad @crazycatladyabroad.bsky.social · 10h

Huh. Hadn't realized there was a SpaceX facility in Moscow.

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Whatifisaidit @whatifisaidit.bsky.social · 10h

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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 22h

I hereby nominate the Portland Frog for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Municipal Fox @amunicipalfox.bsky.social · 2d

This frog is your FRIEND
He fights for FREEDOM

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