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Bridget

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Bridget @drawfour.bsky.social · Feb 14

Josh snores. It's usually fine as long as I fall asleep first but that does not always happen. (Like tonight.) I will frequently just put in earplugs to help but in the middle of the night, I take out at least one in my sleep. This will be my running list of where I find them.

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Better Things Are Possible

@internethippo.bsky.social

I love working at the Department of Justice and participating in a conspiracy to cover up the demented 80 year old president's sex crimes. I spend 18 hours a day redacting documents and there's a putrid husk where my soul used to be

December 20, 2025 at 12:15 AM

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ArtsulSelva

@artsulselva.bsky.social

Boy in red shirt mowing lawn next to black blob

December 20, 2025 at 12:27 AM

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Andy Craig

@andycraig.bsky.social

December 20, 2025 at 12:21 AM

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Nilah "Nine Jobs" Magruder

@nilahmagruder.com

And you know I talked about how people suggest I use genAI to save time and there's scorn in that, too. There's the idea that spending time on art is abhorrent.

But spending time on art is everything. It is the whole point. Why would I want to hand over any part of the process to a machine?

December 20, 2025 at 1:00 AM

Bridget

@drawfour.bsky.social

Minnesota "Baby, It's Cold Outside"

You really can't stay
Baby, it's cold outside
You gotta go, eh
Baby, it's cold outside
It's sure been fine
Sven says it's -29
But now it's late
Just let me fix up a last plate
We have to get up early tomorrow
Do you have a hat I can borrow?

December 19, 2025 at 11:00 PM

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Rex Thrillho

@evanbrady.bsky.social

Who's the greatest character in all of popular fiction and why is it Grandma Arbuckle?

Jon's Grandma pats Garfield on the head and Garfield loves it, that big mush.

December 6, 2025 at 10:08 PM

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shauna

@goldengateblond.bsky.social

bugs bunny was literally the first guy in drag i ever saw but ok

weirdo @JackPosobiec reacts to netflix possibly buying warner bros:

“They're going to make Looney Tunes gay
They're going to make everything gay”

December 6, 2025 at 1:55 AM

Bridget

@drawfour.bsky.social

This episode of Bluey is called "Jurassic Park."

December 4, 2025 at 11:50 PM

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David Brauer

@dbrauer.net

I’ll bet you never heard of an incredible weather event that happened 34 years ago on this very date, one so rarely mentioned yet so epic in scale, seemingly unknown to younger Minnesotas who lean forward with anticipation and excitement as survivors begin the tale of a Halloween blizzard that

October 31, 2025 at 11:09 AM

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darth™️

@darthbluesky.bsky.social

people who earnestly try to argue that blocking certain accounts deprives u of important opposing viewpoints are assuming these certain accounts are posting in good faith
which is a dangerous assumption tbh

October 18, 2025 at 1:06 AM

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Stephanie Ruhle

@stephruhle.bsky.social

EMERGENCY MEDICAID REIMBURSES HOSPITALS FOR CARE TO UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS BECAUSE BY LAW HOSPITALS CANNOT TURN AWAY ANYONE IN AN EMERGENCY.
RONALD REGAN SIGNED THIS INTO LAW.

October 2, 2025 at 3:57 AM

Bridget

@drawfour.bsky.social

We go through the tomatoes before putting the garden to bed for the season and pick all of the ones that are shiny. They come in the house and ripen slowly. Last year we had fresh cherry tomatoes into December!

VegPlotter: Online Vegetable Garden and Allotment Planner @vegplotter.bsky.social · Sep 30

Still staring at a wall of green tomatoes? 🍅 That end-of-season chill is stopping them ripening on the vine.
Top Tip: Pick them & pop them in a drawer with a ripe banana. The banana releases ethylene gas, which will encourage them to turn red in a few days! #greentomatoes

October 3, 2025 at 1:06 AM

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Catherine Rampell

@crampell.bsky.social

In 2016, JD Vance mused that Trump might be "America's Hitler"

September 24, 2025 at 7:23 PM

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Giraffe Or Possibly Popehat

@kenwhite.bsky.social

I think this point is far more important than we realize. The fact that we consume completely different media showing us completely different things is a huge driver of division.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · Sep 14

This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.

ML @mlpoole.bsky.social · Sep 14

September 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM

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Claire Willett

@clairewillett.bsky.social

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

One thing that has become really clear since yesterday is that we live in at least two different realities. Talking to a friend who only knew Charlie as a Christian motivational speaker because that's all that ever came across her feed. Showed me videos I've never seen before of him saying perfectly reasonable and empowering things.

I showed her videos she'd never seen before of his racism, misogyny, homophobia, advocating for violence against specific groups of people. She was horrified by his remarks about Pelosi's husband's attacker being bailed out and celebrated for his violent act. She was horrified by a number of things that he said, but she had never seen or heard them before, the same as I had never seen or heard the generalized clips of him sounding like a perfectly nice loving man and father.

Neither of us had a whole picture of this man. I mentioned he was a known white supremacist and she thought I was joking.

She talked about him giving a speech about finding your purpose and doing good in the world and I thought she was joking.

I saw why this friend was mourning the loss of a person she thought was a good person.
My friend, bless her, saw why I feel the way I do about him. We understood each other better. In spite of a multi-billion dollar internet machine specifically focused on keeping us apart. Because we talked to each other with the desire to listen and to learn rather than the desire to change someone else's mind or to be "right".

None of those motivational things he said change my opinion about him because they don't erase the negativity, the subtle calls for violence, the belittling and denigrating of other races religions genders etc. His negative and blaming comments about homeless people, the poor, and victims of domestic violence. His comments about rounding up people who didn't think like him and putting them in camps where their behavior could be corrected. That time he said empathy was a made-up word he didnt believe in. That other time he said the Civil Rights Act was a mistake. The time he said most people are afraid when they get on a plane and see that there's a black pilot. His anti-vaccination rhetoric and his active campaigning against people being allowed to wear masks for their own health. His open support of fascism and white supremacy. To me, all of those are fully unchristian sentiments. Those are undeniable and just one of them would be a deal-breaker for me. All of them together are a picture of a man who was polarizing,

enraged a lot of people and rightly so, but even with all of that I would never wish upon him or especially his children the end that he got.
Oh, and my friend had never heard, and God help me I don't know how she escaped the news, but she had never heard of the Minnesota legislators who were shot in June. The husband and wife and dog who were killed, one after throwing themselves over their child to protect the child. The other couple who somehow survived.

Politically motivated attacks specifically because they were democrats. She learned about those shootings that happened months ago because I showed her Charlie Kirk's comments about them. The kidnapping plot against a female Midwestern Democratic governor. The assassination attempt against Pennsylvania's democratic governor. All things Charlie had plenty to say about while supporting the Second Amendment and bashing the Democratic party. She didn't know about any of it because we're all living in two different worlds and none of us have the whole story.

September 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM

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Bradley Warshauer

@warsh.bsky.social

george lucas made a three film opus about how a combination of tariffs, incels, and anxiety would give rise to fascism and we all made fun of him smfh

September 11, 2025 at 1:04 PM