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Siobhan Thompson @vornietom.bsky.social · 8h

Can’t help but remember when this picture was enough to spark months of scandal

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Rowan @dalzell.bsky.social · 9h

Man, what a game. I'm so glad I'm finally starting to get baseball!

Rowan @dalzell.bsky.social · 9h

I'm really glad I tuned in, this is nuts!

Danielle Radford @danielleradford.bsky.social · 9h

I am being tortured by baseball

Rowan @dalzell.bsky.social · 10h

It's a LOT

Rowan @dalzell.bsky.social · 11h

Ooh yessss let's redo last night with a not-heartbreaking end!

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 16h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 19h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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ceej @ceej.online · 1d

damn. hoping it at least signifies something

William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 1d

It is a tale
Told by an idiot

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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 14h

Hey Team #Greensboro, ICE has been reported in the city but locations are spotty and I don't have Facebook, so if you do, please check. Looks like they might be setting up shop in town.

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lilli @toomanymouths.bsky.social · 17h

this essay is brilliant and heartbreaking and sharp as a fucking razor and everybody should go read it immediately

I could not come up with a better epitaph than that. Because whether Scott Thompson likes it or not, I’m one of the fags that loved his work back in the day. And I’m also disgusted by fags debasing themselves by trying to become respectable, especially when it’s an old bitter queen like Scott. He can cry about being censored by the left all he likes, but that’s a meaningless stance when you’re carrying water for the Trump administration. There’s only one faggot in this conversation who agrees with the President of the United States, and it sure as hell ain’t me.

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Rowan @dalzell.bsky.social · 15h

Erin's way overwhelmed lol but I still badly miss the turkey pastrami, egg and cheese on wheat in Madison, WI.

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 18h

Tell me your bagel order and I will tell you *based on NYC cultural expectations* if you have won or lost your election for political office in NYC.

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 19h

One of my favorite things about NYC is whenever anyone runs for office here they are required to disclose their bagel order.

Rowan @dalzell.bsky.social · 20h

Yellow split peas, way nicer than green, plus a honkin ton of baby potatoes and then whatever else, who cares. It thickens up to damn near solid, I love it so much!

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Rowan @dalzell.bsky.social · 1d

Today I commiserated with a patron who'd been scammed. I told him last time I got got, my credit union rep told me *she'd* been scammed too, and there was just no way to be too smart for them.

He said he really needed to hear that. Nearly every day, my job gives me just enough to help.

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The Ghost Of Cohost. CoGhost. Gohosohssosost @ceresultra.bsky.social · 1d

How do I explain to offline people that my favorite Japanese mascot said "we can only be liberated from queer oppression if we are truly seen as human" and then started wielding fireworks like a rocket launcher on the side of a mountain without sounding like I've totally lost it?

Chiitan forever

Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 2d

Chiitan has a dream.
I hope that one day the term LGBT will become a thing of the past.
I will continue to spread my message until we live in a world where everyone can love freely and is free from persecution and discrimination.
Until then, let's all support each other🤍

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Sith_art aka A’ine! 🏳️‍⚧️ @sith-art.bsky.social · 25d

“Content” is a corpo-brain term, makes me cringe when I hear it in the wild.

You don’t make “content”, you make ART! You write STORIES. Its your WORK (and often play too)!

“Content” is the noise you flick through when trying to find a SHOW you like, don’t cheapen your work comparing it to SLOP. 😤

cypii 🪤 @cypjj.bsky.social · 25d

"Content" is a blatantly misleading term to use for fanworks. Fanworks are the antithesis of content; content is produced for individual gain and consuming, whereas fanworks are created out of inspiration and the communal experience.

AARD @obviouslyaard.bsky.social · 27d

start using "fanworks" again instead of "content" let's go people

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Grunkle Harm @harmcox.bsky.social · 1d

I think that people who are extremely invested in being perceived as "good" get angry when you tell them to stop fat-shaming people because they're embarrassed that they are vulnerable to propaganda.

FYI: You didn't teach yourself to hate fat people, but you can sure as shit teach yourself to stop!

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Rowan @dalzell.bsky.social · 1d

My county is "changing" our DEI office. I've been hugely impressed with the people I've met there and also I'm basically counting down until I need to look for work

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

The Attorney General of New York was just indicted by our tinpot dictator

Letitia James criminally charged in Trump’s latest effort to punish rivals

Prosecutor who sought charges was installed amid Trump frustrations with pace of investigations against rivals

www.theguardian.com

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Larry Ferlazzo @larryferlazzo.bsky.social · 1d

Oklahoma’s Republican governor criticizes guard deployment. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Gov. Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma, a Republican and the chairman of the National Governors Association, on Thursday criticized the deployment of Texas National Guard troops to Illinois as a violation of his beliefs in federalism and “states’ rights.”

His comments, in an interview with The New York Times, marked the first time a Republican governor has questioned the interstate deployment of National Guard troops over a governor’s objections. Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois and other Democratic elected officials have been strongly critical of the move and have implored Republican governors to join the opposition.

Mr. Stitt on Thursday said, “We believe in the federalist system — that’s states’ rights,” adding, “Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

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Rowan @dalzell.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting, because the babies are *not*. A cousin once found an orphaned fawn and we kept it overnight until the rescue folks could get it.

Sounded like a more upsetting goat, poor lil guy.

K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 2d

Dog nearly got me Slendermanned, holy shit what a heart attack.

Opened the door to let her out and she yanked me right into a panicking deer.

Even when freaking tf out, deer are absolutely, perfectly silent.

I…wasn’t.

Rowan @dalzell.bsky.social · 2d

All of Us Murderers was *delightful*, and the epilogue hit exactly perfectly just right! KJ Charles does it again!

Rowan @dalzell.bsky.social · 2d

So like, Éléonore Duplay? Wiki says she died in 1832 but go off I guess

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 2d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Rowan @dalzell.bsky.social · 2d

I haven't seen the second in a long time, I'm adding that to the list!

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Rowan @dalzell.bsky.social · 2d

I'm starting @kjcharleswriter.com newest book and loving it of course, but also thinking for the first time about being ADHD in Victorian times and I think I would simply perish.

My rejection sensitive dysphoria almost gets me *now*, and back in those judgy-ass days??

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Rowan @dalzell.bsky.social · 2d

Nobody bothering to ask peacock mantis shrimp, smh

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Rowan @dalzell.bsky.social · 2d

Lucy Dacus doing a Waits impression, is what my brain is imagining.

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