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Hikes and crochet. She/they 🏳️‍🌈 STEM Librarian Feral Appalachian witch and general menace with Crohn’s disease living on DMB, coffee, rage, Cleveland baseball and trashy books

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Feral Appalachian witch in Texas 🌞🌻🏳️‍🌈 @cybrarerin.bsky.social · Apr 17

I’m still selling them for $10 a piece + $10 shipping. Dm me if’n you want one or a few!

Feral Appalachian witch in Texas 🌞🌻🏳️‍🌈 @cybrarerin.bsky.social · Jan 25

How many pride flags can I make this weekend?

Two crocheted progress pride flags laid out on a yellow pillow. There is another pride flag at the bottom that is a work in progress (wip).

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 7h

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 8h

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 6h

As a straight young white man who covers Christian nationalism, I would perhaps have asked Doug Wilson some follow ups on this if it were running it in the NYT as part of his 10K-word defense of Christian nationalism.

For example:

“That really happen?”
“You sure about that??”
“But did it tho?????”

Wilson: No, I grant the point in principle. I don't believe that classical liberalism gets everything wrong. I really don't believe that.
And I enjoyed very much the country I grew up in, and I received many benefits from that era. So that point's granted.

But on the dank right, I believe that the liberal treatment of young white males has been one of the causes for this recoil and eruption. What you had was a toxic combination of a bad economy of young men being told repeatedly that they are the cancer of the planet, that their masculinity is toxic, that their skin is the blight of the world, and their heterosexuality is a hate crime.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 6h

If our TV networks had not been captured by the right wing, some very easy journalism would be to play this clip besides a very not on fire Portland and then tell viewers that the President of the United States is living in an alternate reality.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 3d

Look at her go!
#invertebrates 🌿

Screen shot of Project Monarch app map of progress of a monarch butterfly from southern Ontario to Oklahoma.

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Feral Appalachian witch in Texas 🌞🌻🏳️‍🌈 @cybrarerin.bsky.social · 7h

Season 2 of Invasion, Aneesha’s kids are still dumb.

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 10h

Idaho being colonized by Qatar was not on my prediction list for 2025 tbh

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Jason E. Dunlap, Valeyard @redeyedjedi.bsky.social · 9h

So, on the same day that Hegseth announces a Qatari Airbase

A US military explosives manufacturer blows up & 19 people die

abcnews.go.com/US/tennessee...

Multiple people dead, 19 unaccounted for in 'devastating blast' at explosives manufacturer in Tennessee: Sheriff

Accurate Energetic Systems manufactures explosives and energetic devices for aerospace, defense, demolition and mining industries, according to its website.

abcnews.go.com

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Feral Appalachian witch in Texas 🌞🌻🏳️‍🌈 @cybrarerin.bsky.social · 13h

Racism gonna racist, I guess.

Turning Point USA, the organization founded by Charlie Kirk, is throwing its own Super Bowl halftime show

Turning Point USA is hosting its own Super Bowl halftime show.

www.yahoo.com

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

Friends and comrades made a crowdfunding page for my family.

It’s really hard to post this. I know that there are a lot of other important issues asking for money but things have gotten to the point where we need to open ourselves up to your support.

Thank you for your consideration.

"Help us leave safely" on FreeFunder

Click here to support "Help us leave safely" by Dara on FreeFunder!

www.freefunder.com

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Old Dog @the-old-dog.bsky.social · 17h

That's not a "guest" essay. That's an advertisement

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 17h

Marc Rowan says the "compact" will "protect free speech," but First Amendment scholars across the political spectrum are of one mind that the compact is flagrantly unconstitutional, and every major free speech org--from the ACLU to FIRE to PEN--agrees. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 1d

here’s a great, informative interview with @mark-bray.bsky.social published yesterday

Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 1d

Mark Bray — scholar of European history and radicalism, and the author of several books including ‘ANTIFA — the anti fascist handbook’ — on the rise of antifascist movements from the 1930s to today, and why Trump's terror designation recalls authoritarian crackdowns through history

What exactly is Antifa? | CBC Radio

In late September, Donald Trump designated Antifa a domestic terror organization. Today, we’re tracking the meaning and history of antifascist protest — from 1930’s Europe, to today — and asking: how ...

www.cbc.ca

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Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · 1d

Rutgers Professor @mark-bray.bsky.social, who studies & writes about Antifascism,Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats

By the time he & his family reached the gate, their tickets were cancelled.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n... flagrantly & appallingly lawless. Hope he & his family are ok.

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats

www.nytimes.com

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 19h

Oligarchs are going to oligarch. Trump may love him, but we don't have to. He is a pernicious figure and should be scorned and mocked. Without his billions, no one would care what this man says. 3/ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

The Billionaire Behind Trump’s Deal for Universities

www.nytimes.com

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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 23h

“The presence of frogs is often a mark of a healthy ecosystem, something we should strive to preserve.” – David Attenborough

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

www.propublica.org

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 19h

All my comics have happy endings!

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David Ryan Miller @davidryanmiller.com · 1d

True scientific method in action:

1) Draw your conclusion
2) Gather "data" and conduct "analysis" to align with conclusion
3) Develop post hoc "theory" that links your conclusion to your "results"
4) Restate your conclusion and pat yourself on your back for your prescience

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Zelena Sage @zelenasage.blacksky.app · 1d

Rod Johnson is a 67-year-old Black military veteran who already suffers from PTSD.

The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 2d

NEW — Rod Johnson will never forget federal agents zip-tying his hands behind his back.

The night of the South Shore raid in Chicago, Johnson said he was detained for two hours.

“I’m an American citizen with no warrants,” Johnson said.

thetriibe.com/2025/10/sout...

South Shore raid triggers past traumas and sparks new conversations about divisions between Black and Latino communities • The TRiiBE

Federal agent activity on Chicago’s South and West sides put Black people in the crosshairs.

thetriibe.com

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Serendipity @serendipityinfl.bsky.social · 1d

Well it looks like not all the American Lawyers went over to the dark side.
There's still a glimpse of the rule of law and integrity left in America.

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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 3d

It was fun seeing bribe for hire Pam Bondi get annihilated in her bullshit perjury-filled Senate hearing today, but I would’ve much preferred seeing her sent to prison for fraud, corruption and bribery.

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Zeyi Yang 杨泽毅 @zeyiyang.bsky.social · 1d

This week's newsletter Made in China: How Hong Kong's former glory in manufacturing led to the creation of Labubu, and how Pop Mart turned Hong Kong's indie toy industry into a mass market spectacle.

www.wired.com/story/made-i...

The City That Made the World Fall for a Monster

How Hong Kong gave rise to Labubu and a designer toy movement now shaping global culture.

www.wired.com

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Matthew Reichbach @fbihop.press · 1d

The Holtec International nuclear waste facility in southeastern New Mexico isn't going forward.

www.reuters.com

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Feral Appalachian witch in Texas 🌞🌻🏳️‍🌈 @cybrarerin.bsky.social · 1d

Sir! none of this is based in reality.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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