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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 1d

I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning.

A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.

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habu333.bsky.social @habu333.bsky.social · 1d

Is it bad to hope that he is noncompliant with taking medication?

habu333.bsky.social @habu333.bsky.social · 1d

Grumpy old men
Grumpier old men

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Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 1d

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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habu333.bsky.social @habu333.bsky.social · 1d

Between the axolotl and pterodactyl for me.

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habu333.bsky.social @habu333.bsky.social · 1d

Kinda tempted.

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Banned Books Week @bannedbooksweek.bsky.social · 1d

“Americans are curious, inquisitive, learning, and enriching themselves…”

Banned Books Week honorary chair @georgetakei.bsky.social knows we need the right to read to understand each other.

Full interview: youtu.be/Gm4-SOEwEYk

#BannedBooksWeek #CensorshipIsSo1984

w/@topshelfcomix.bsky.social

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habu333.bsky.social @habu333.bsky.social · 1d

Its hard to look intimidating when the opposition is dressed in an inflatable costume.

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Jill Sargent Russell, PhD @jsargentr.bsky.social · 1d

Bring back Rickrolling.

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SilverMoon FAFO 💙🦋💙 @silvermoonfafo.bsky.social · 3d

The Antiphibian of Portland is gearing up to be an iconic symbol of resistance

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Bert’s Books @bertsbooks.bsky.social · 1d

So we’re asking for help.

For every £60 we receive, we’ll give another school £100 worth of books. And thanks to three local Swindon businesses, we’ve already increased our list of schools for 2025 to 15.

Mega thanks to Location Real Estate, Liddington Mortgages and Ben Wills Hair and Beauty.

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Bert’s Books @bertsbooks.bsky.social · 1d

As part of celebrating Bookshop Day, Bert’s is donating £100 worth of books to 12 schools across Swindon.

Literacy levels in Swindon have fallen behind the national average, so we’re making a commitment to do this every year – but it will take us seven years to make sure every school benefits.

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Tisiphone @tisiphone.bsky.social · 1d

🐸 An Ode To The Portland Frog

Ode to the Portland Frog

From the mist of the moss
and the grey Oregon rain,
There leaps a green hero
to ease all the pain.
My love for this frog
is apowerful thing,
For the justice and freedom
his ribbit can bring.
With a croak full of spirit
and a firm little bound,
He stands up to bigots
who poison the ground.
He's our small, squat
defender,so brave
and so fast,
A symbol of hope that
forever will last.

Shane Ford

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habu333.bsky.social @habu333.bsky.social · 2d

Every road named charlie kirk should lead to dumpsters or porta-potties.

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habu333.bsky.social @habu333.bsky.social · 2d

They probably doubled it.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like a broken record, but I have to keep saying it over and over again: a farmer bailout won’t do much of anything because the market is gone. There will be no incentive to plant next year.

The bailout will help payoff farmer debt to the banks. That’s all.

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habu333.bsky.social @habu333.bsky.social · 2d

Studies to make the proof?! That's not how it works.

Shana Gadarian @sgadarian.bsky.social · 2d

Everyone who studies research methods just had an aneurysm

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

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

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habu333.bsky.social @habu333.bsky.social · 2d

He found a new-to-him medical term to blame for autism.

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habu333.bsky.social @habu333.bsky.social · 2d

Sounds like some medical intervention is needed.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 2d

But also good luck staffing the knowledge economy, which is required to operate an AI-centric ecosystem, after you've destroyed all of higher ed and made it impossible for the smartest people in the world to study here if they happen to be from another country.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 2d

Self serving nonsense. Andreessen has never demonstrated that he would do anything other than take profits if the cost of production went down. The idea that savings would be passed onto consumers is just another version of trickle down economics.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

ANDREESSEN: Even if AI ends up destroying all the jobs, “the result would be hyper-deflation of prices, which is the thing that people miss. .. Things that today cost a lot of money will all of a sudden be cheap or free.”

@fortune.com
fortune.com/2025/10/08/b...

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Michelle 🪷🇲🇽🇺🇸🌵 @chicana74.bsky.social · 3d

This headline 🤣🤣🤣

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habu333.bsky.social @habu333.bsky.social · 2d

I have people in my office putting symptoms into chatgpt. I an sure they are getting webmd types of diagnoses.

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habu333.bsky.social @habu333.bsky.social · 3d

Some nights, that's dinner.

habu333.bsky.social @habu333.bsky.social · 3d

Just tell him you will be 11 years younger than me!

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