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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 6m

I have never seen so many Baseball/Waiting for Godot crossover posts and I understand neither of those things enough to appreciate them but I'm obsessed with them anyway

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Doctor Science ❌👑#NoKings2 Oct18 @doctorscience.bsky.social · 1h

he has become one with the fluff

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 2h

Fiasco get up and take your meds buddy

*squints*

wait he was here a second ago

a fluffy grey tabby asleep belly-up on a faux-fur blanket in tabby colours of grey and black

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Doctor Science ❌👑#NoKings2 Oct18 @doctorscience.bsky.social · 1h

what a great piece. @jeffsharlet.bsky.social , you'll love this.

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Seyward Darby @seywarddarby.bsky.social · 10d

"We’re traveling nearly 2,000 miles on I-95 from Miami to Maine, and pausing at virtually every rest stop. Our project is simple and vast at once: to ask fellow travelers where they’re headed, and where they think America is going too."

New from @atavist.com.

magazine.atavist.com/2025/america...

I’ve Gone to Look for America - The Atavist Magazine

Conversations and revelations about an ailing nation along Interstate 95.

magazine.atavist.com

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 2h

A surprisingly hopeful perspective from a reporter who asked random folks on the east coast how they were doing, learned we’re all having a really bad time, and chose to highlight the shared humanity in that.

Seyward Darby @seywarddarby.bsky.social · 10d

"We’re traveling nearly 2,000 miles on I-95 from Miami to Maine, and pausing at virtually every rest stop. Our project is simple and vast at once: to ask fellow travelers where they’re headed, and where they think America is going too."

New from @atavist.com.

magazine.atavist.com/2025/america...

I’ve Gone to Look for America - The Atavist Magazine

Conversations and revelations about an ailing nation along Interstate 95.

magazine.atavist.com

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Veronica @veronicaf.bsky.social · 4h

I have kissed Sabine's head SO MANY TIMES she's almost stopped getting upset about it. She even got a cuddle (appropriately facing away from my body so she didn't feel trapped or scared).

I am SO PROUD.

I am also very well groomed today, thanks Meg.

A very grumpy little black cat with a white splash on her chest. She's glaring at me, but she's also enjoying her pats. She's currently inside a crate and that is very offensive to her.

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George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social · 3h

🧵Spotted on Market Day in Aotearoa New Zealand:

A small human (4?) is strutting along next to Dad, gripping a cheese scone that's almost as big as his face, munching on it like an apple.
Bare feet.
The sun's shining.
Crumbs flying everywhere and no one cares.
He's having a GOOD day. (1)

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 5h

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 5h

he literally is losing court cases because his public statements have nothing to do with reality.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

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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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 4h

SOON: @ezralevin.bsky.social will join @chrislhayes.bsky.social to discuss Republicans’ lies about the peaceful No Kings Day protests and the Trump regime’s escalating attacks on dissent. Tune into @allinwithchris.bsky.social on @msnbc.com.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 6h

It’s pretty bleak that The Wire, looking back, is a romanticized picture of American policing

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Action Together New Jersey @atnj.org · 6h

Excited to announce that both the Leprechauns and Unicorns will be attending the October AntiFi meeting!
Stay tuned for details.

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"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 3d

antifa is reclaiming frogs from the alt-right

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 9h

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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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 6h

If you want proof that people are incapable of learning here is your reminder that Titanic had a sister ship called the Brittanic that was pressed into service as a hospital ship during WW1 and was so successful that they called her unsinkable and then she sank on the next voyage

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 6h

the Latin Mass is a perfect example of this. 25 years ago it was for monks and nerds. now it is for misogynist white supremacist antisemites. but Leo would have come up in a Kennedy Catholic world, where in American cities, rosaries and Latin chanting could fully coexist with civil rights protests

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George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social · 1d

Also, this was the view out of my living room window this morning before I took part in my lovely friend Caimh McDonnell's online book launch. Too pretty not to share.

You're looking at a photograph straight over a green valley that's got misty puffs of clouds travelling leisurely through it, not doing a very good job of hiding a whole lot of mostly single story mainly white bungalows below. On the hill directly in the picture's eyeline is a whole lot of trees that are hiding quite a large number of sheep and their spring lambs. Since my window was open when I took this picture, imagine the faint bleating of lambs drifting across the valley and a whole lot of bird song. An absolutely delightful cacophony. The sky overhead is a pale morning blue with pearly sunrise clouds hovering low down in the background. Looking at this picture it's a little hard to believe that I live in the middle of a city, but that's New Zealand for you. Also, since the window is open, you'd also be able to hear the drifting voices of a men's walking group passing by, gossiping up a storm and generally having a good catch up. And while you're at it, picture the daffy person taking this picture, wearing a dressing gown, leaning out of their window, frankly looking like a bit of a fright because they spotted the view while half way through doing their makeup for a friend's online book launch. This picture promises a good day. (Which quite frankly is how it's all turning out.)

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George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social · 1d

🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand:

A tiny human (1?) is fascinated by Mum's shoelaces.(Ohhh.)
Whenever he undoes them, he sits back, looking at Mum expectantly.
Mum bends down, ties them and...
OOPS Tiny Human's undone them again!
A huge gummy grin on his face. (1)

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 12h

Lawyers have been publicizing a new term to describe ICE's racially targeted detainments: a “Kavanaugh stop.”

Mother Jones reporter Pema Levy explains in this new video:

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 9h

Bari Weiss’s first project for CBS brought in a phenomenal 145 viewers. Love this for her.

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"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 6h

tweet by sketchesbyboze: thinking again about how "plague of frogs" in hebrew is actually "plague of frog," and how the rabbis took this to mean that pharaoh was terrorized by a single enormous frog

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"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 7h

If you refuse to let [my people] go, then I will plague your whole country with frogs...The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your courtiers.

another drawing of the plague of frogs from the biblical exodus story

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 8h

I did hear about this and I don’t know that I have TEA but I have THOUGHTS

first of all let us not skip past the symbolic significance of “Leo signed the document on Oct. 4, the feast of St. Francis of Assisi”

Julia L @calenmir.bsky.social · 8h

@clairewillett.bsky.social wanted to make sure you hear this (and hear any tea you might have regarding this): www.ncronline.org/pope-leo-bla...

Pope Leo blasts elitism, indifference toward poor in first major document

"I am convinced that the preferential choice for the poor is a source of extraordinary renewal both for the church and for society," the pope wrote in Dilexi Te.

www.ncronline.org

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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 12h

MAJOR NEWS: @GavinNewsom signed SB 79, my bill allowing more housing near public transit — rail, subway, rapid bus.

It’s a huge step for housing in California. It’ll create more homes, strengthen our transit systems & reduce traffic & carbon emissions.

Thank you, Governor!

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