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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 13h

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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ExecutiveOtaku @executiveotaku.bsky.social · 9h

Watch Pacific Rim and write your representatives about the importance of free trade and the rampant illegality of the Republicans' tariff taxes.

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ExecutiveOtaku @executiveotaku.bsky.social · 9h

Bulk container ships are the weapons of a prosperous humanity.

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ExecutiveOtaku @executiveotaku.bsky.social · 9h

A reactor of regulations and public spending, weapons of the strongest, most open trade.

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ExecutiveOtaku @executiveotaku.bsky.social · 9h

I know my answer to every problem is "build mecha" but we should build Yeagers to destroy tariffs and trade barriers.

GATT-02 Free Exchanger

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Spooky Matt Grote @mattgrote.bsky.social · 10h

I cannot stress enough how important it is to have an enormous cat

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モトジママサユキ @bkmoto.bsky.social · 10h

『ピオーネ』
透明水彩、ランプライト紙
#水彩画　#watercolor
このブドウ美味しかったぁ🍇

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Janet Lunde @janetlunde.bsky.social · 10h

If you're wondering what will grow in horrible soil, survive no rain or watering for over a month at a time, self-seed and has fun flowers: Rose campion, and Verbena bonariensis!

This post brought to you by noticing these two plants still going strong in the hellscape spot in my back yard.

Here's a hot pink rose campion in full bloom.

This is a mix of rose campion plants with white flowers, and ones with pale pink flowers.

The very tall stems with tufts of purple at the end are verbena bonariensis. In this flowerbed they're echoed by a low growing verbena canadensis 'Homestead Purple'. The bright greenish-yellow flowers are nicotiana langsdorffii. This flowerbed was in my old garden in Portland, Oregon, where I could buy annual species nicotianas at my local nursery. I wish a Pittsburgh nursery would step up and carry these beauties!

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ExecutiveOtaku @executiveotaku.bsky.social · 10h

Trump take pizza.

Since it's the season I just went to Get Go for one of their Trio of Heresy subs, the Pilgrim turkey, gravy, cranberry sauce, and stuffing bread roll. So wrong, so tasty.

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ExecutiveOtaku @executiveotaku.bsky.social · 10h

I was going to order a gyro pizza from the one shop. They've never been the cheapest pizzeria and a specialty pizza like that could get up to $30 for a large.

Went to order and it was $45 now!

First rises were slow. But if this continues we will soon see our first Double Price Event with months!

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Tobias Harris @tobiasharris.bsky.social · 14h

In a free edition of the Japan Daily Briefing — I’m starting “free Fridays” — I look more at the causes and effects of Kōmeitō’s break with the LDP and discuss Ishiba’s reflections on the eightieth anniversary of the end of World War II.

open.substack.com/pub/observin...

The end of the coalition | Japan Daily Briefing

As the coalition breaks, Ishiba delivers an impassioned defense of democracy

open.substack.com

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 13h

It’s true: the cities are lawless and scary, if you live here sell your property as fast as possible, particularly if you have a 2 family row house from the 1920s with those nice bay windows.

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Lake Superior! Live! @lake-superior.live · 11h

Current* conditions near Isle Royale NP, MI:

Views of Lake Superior, Caribou Island at left, Middle Islands at center, and the entrance to Moskey Basin, home of Rock Harbor Lighthouse, at right. // Image captured at: 2025-10-10 22:35:57 UTC (about 13 min. prior to this post) // Current Temp in Isle Royale NP: 54.60 F | 12.56 C // Precip: broken clouds // Wind: NNE at 13.600 mph | 21.88 kph // Humidity: 70%

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Giant Robot FM @giantrobotfm.bsky.social · 11h

What it's like to podcast about ∀ Gundam:

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 15h

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 13h

New England can only dream of California’s bold “eat my ass and hair” approach to rich sociopaths trying to keep people off the state’s 100% public beaches.

Meatball Rob @wrenispinkle.bsky.social · 1d

HAHAHAHAHAHA get fucked you rich asshole

Carlsbad homeowner ordered to remove private gate to public beach, fined $1.4 million

John Levy was penalized by state Coastal Commission for a string of Coastal Act violations stretching back years

www.sandiegouniontribune.com

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 13h

This shit is crazy because they're just straight up on video hitting a car that was blocked in the street. The extent as to which DHS now just brazenly puts out lies is utterly obscene.

CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 14h

UPDATE: In emailed statement to me / @reason.com, DHS alleges that WGN-TV producer Debbie Brockman "threw objects at Border Patrol’s car and she was placed under arrest for assault on a federal law enforcement officer."

Screencap of email from DHS public affairs: Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin:

“U.S. Border Patrol was conducting immigration enforcement operations and when several violent agitators used their vehicles to block in agents in an effort to impede and assault federal officers. In fear of public safety and of law enforcement, officers used their service vehicle to strike a suspect’s vehicle and create an opening. As agents were driving, Deborah Brockman, a U.S. citizen, threw objects at Border Patrol’s car and she was placed under arrest for assault on a federal law enforcement officer.

“This incident is not isolated and reflects a growing and dangerous trend of illegal aliens violently resisting arrest and agitators and criminals ramming cars into our law enforcement officers. These attacks highlight the dangers our law enforcement officers face daily—all while receiving no pay thanks to the Democrats’ government shutdown.”

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Minovsky @minovskyarticle.bsky.social · 13h

I have already beaten the Buddhism game by not playing.

Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 18h

”im addicted to this Buddhism game” —things someone who is good at buddhism would say???

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 14h

creating a defense tech startup against feral pigs

Comerado @dogsinautumn.bsky.social · 14h

They’re surprisingly resilient. Part of the problem is they just don’t taste as good as you’d think compared to the literal same animal, but raised on a farm. They’re also quite smart & very dangerous to stalk.

It’s basically an intractable problem & likely to get worse as fewer & fewer people hunt

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ExecutiveOtaku @executiveotaku.bsky.social · 14h

US Fish and Wildlife Service, M3.30

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ExecutiveOtaku @executiveotaku.bsky.social · 14h

Build mecha to combat the feral hogs, it's the only way.

Ida Clemens @idaclemens.bsky.social · 14h

turns out the absurd part of his post was not that you can have 30-50 feral hogs appear out of nowhere, but indeed the notion that a semi-automatic rifle could possibly be enough to stop them

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Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · 15h

MY FALL DROP IS NOW LIVE! NEW PINS (DID SOMEONE SAY WHALE FALL?!!), STICKERS, AND MORE!!!

🛒🐛 shop.fossilforager.art

A photo of a large gold-plated enamel pin photographed on top of a lichen-covered rock. The enamel pin features a whale skeleton covered with various deep sea creatures, such as octopuses, hagfish, a giant isopod, a crab, and chimaeras.

A photograph of a shiny gold metal-plated jewel weevil enamel pin. It is a green weevil with yellow and pink highlights, and large dark eyes. It is photographed on a lichen-covered rock.

A photo of a tiny fruit fly enamel pin, with large red eyes and brown markings! Also photographed on a lichen-covered rock

A photo of two leafcutter ant pins carrying large green leaves. The ants are small and reddish-brownish. They are photographed on top of a lichen-covered rock.

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Thaliarchus @thaliarchus.bsky.social · 17h

You can call a close friend 'mate', but when some guy you don't know crashes his car in a harmless & comical way you can also shout 'Can't park there, mate!'

This is like using thou-thee-thy in Middle English.

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Thaliarchus @thaliarchus.bsky.social · 17h

T-pronouns can insult strangers because they imply the stranger is a social inferior, someone to whom you need pay no respect.

Closest analogue I know (there may be better) in present-day British English is gendered, but: it's like a man calling another man, whom he doesn't know, 'mate'.

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Thaliarchus @thaliarchus.bsky.social · 17h

Earlier we heard Éowyn use t-pronouns to assert intimacy when talking to Aragorn.

A weird (to L1 present-day English speakers) thing about t-pronouns is that they can be insulting if used to strangers. And the captain of the Nazgûl uses them to address Éowyn.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%E2%80...

T–V distinction - Wikipedia

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