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D.C.: the Spooky Mom

@hobbiets.bsky.social

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Dungeon Master ordinaire. Masters in Sociology. Just wanna be an X-Wing pilot. Aspiring Magical Cat Girl Jedi Mechwarrior. Miniature painter. 🏳️‍⚧️NB (Any/All)

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D.C.: the Spooky Mom @hobbiets.bsky.social · Oct 23

Looks like I've got some new followers, so I guess it's introduction time.

Hi, I'm Hobbie.

I'm a miniature painter, and I stream most of my painting sessions on Twitch
Twitch.tv/hobbiets

You can also find pictures of my work on IG
instagram.com/hobbiets

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felis lux 🥀 @luxgalador.bsky.social · 8h

get off TikTok a year ago but also right now

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10h

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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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 11h

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

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 14h

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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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 19h

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · Mar 26

Thinking about that time the My Little Pony comics, of all things, absolutely bodied Scott Adams.

Close up of Pinkie Pie looking at a newspaper comic saying “Hmpf. I thought these were supposed to be funny?”

The comic is called Ponybert by Trot Adams. It opens with a building and we see a word balloon that says “Well?” The second panel is of Ponybert, the Dilbert stand-in saying “No one is smart but me.”

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D.C.: the Spooky Mom @hobbiets.bsky.social · 4h

That was some game huh?

At least that's what I've gathered from my timeline

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 8h

My big conspiracy is that due to our overall systemic decline in both cultural literacy and actual literacy we have spawned a generation of people who don’t even know how to get horny anymore

TheGamersician 🎮🎶 @thegamersician.com · 20h

🤦🏾‍♂️

Speak for yourself lol

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D.C.: the Spooky Mom @hobbiets.bsky.social · 4h

Fuckin hell

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 4h

FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

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Elliot 🥕 @nameoftheyear.bsky.social · 9h

LOSING MY MIND AT THE PHONE NUMBER ON THIS BUS IN FRONT OF ME

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Teufelaffe @teufelaffe.bsky.social · 5h

"I'll fight till hell freezes over and then I'll cut the ice and fight on" is metal af

Post by user @jamellebouie.net that reads, "from chandra manning's wonderful book "what this cruel war was over"

Nothing made slavery's toxicity more obvious to Union troops than its effect on the fundamental unit of society, the family. For one thing, slave sales separated families. In the Upper Sout, where many Union soldiers were stationed in 1861, about one in three first marriages was broken by sale, and about half of all slave children were separated from at least one parent. With their own eyes, soldiers saw slavery snap bonds between parents and children. The men of the Seventh Wisconsin were awakened by gunshots one November night. The following day, soldiers "learned, and saw the cause of the alarm in the form of two negro women—a mother and a daughter." The pair had fled to Union lines to avoid the proposed sale of the "goodlooking" daughter into the so-called fancy trade, which soldiers viewed as a form of concubinage. Outraged by the plight and moved by the vulnerability of the mother and daughter, "every private in the ranks" cursed "that system which tramples on the honor of man, and makes merchandise of the virtue of women," according to one member of the regiment. When an Iowan encountered a young child about to be sold by her own father, who was also her master, he vowed, "By G-d I'll fight till hell freezes over and then I'll cut the ice and fight on."

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key-lime pie @keymonster.bsky.social · 5h

ICE out of Portland!
#abolishICE #resist #PDX

A digital drawing of a frog standing on a bright red background. The frog is holding a sign that says “ICE out of Portland”. The frog looks mad.

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D.C.: the Spooky Mom @hobbiets.bsky.social · 5h

Ooooo, new crew!

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 5h

Ms Rachel is a real one

msrachelforlittles o
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Dear President Obama,
I saw in your statement you said "Israeli families" & "the people of Gaza."
Palestinians have families, too.
This kind of language contributes to dehumanization. Dehumanization is part of what caused so many to stay silent as 20,000 children were killed in this genocide.
I've sat with wonderful Palestinian families from Gaza. They look at their children just like we look at ours - with all the love & hope in the world.
Love,
Ms Rachel

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D.C.: the Spooky Mom @hobbiets.bsky.social · 8h

*gets out glue gun*

D.C.: the Spooky Mom @hobbiets.bsky.social · 10h

Painting stream is live

To whom it may concern
#battletech

Twitch.tv/hobbiets

Help support me on ko-fi

ko-fi.com/%20hobbiets

A Battletech Longbow miniature painted white, purple and green

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D.C.: the Spooky Mom @hobbiets.bsky.social · 10h

All they do is threaten. The good time never comes

D.C.: the Spooky Mom @hobbiets.bsky.social · 12h

a woman in a green shirt is holding her head and saying `` every single day . ''

Alt: a woman in a green shirt is holding her head and saying `` every single day . ''

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D.C.: the Spooky Mom @hobbiets.bsky.social · 14h

Looking forward to the regime being brought down by an army of people in frog costumes

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Chris Plante @plante.bsky.social · 17h

"I think the video game industry, as we know it today, might not be around for much longer [...] but I think video games as an art form and as a product are stronger than they've ever been and will only continue to be."
@jasonschreier.bsky.social

www.patreon.com/posts/140869...

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Meredith McClaren at ROMICS Oct '25 @iniquitousfish.bsky.social · 14h

Unironically.
This is also why I maintain that a lot of 'rich folks' are not actually rich. They're just tossing around the same 'estimated assets' that I'm not convinced have any actual dollar backing.

And adding imaginary interest on top of those numbers to make 'number go up' in perpetuity.

Ayme @catcoconut.com · 22h

I’m getting big “artists at a con circulating the same $20 around” vibes but like, in an evil way

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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 15h

Almost everyone would rather die for reasons like “things are only meaningful bc they end” (shallow copium imo) or “everyone I know and love would die” (they will anyway at least immortality = max time with them and more people will be born to adore) or “I would be so bored” (skill issue tbh)

Ryan Cady @rycady.bsky.social · 15h

wait, 66% of responders would rather DIE?????

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 20h

Meanwhile in #Portland

Kermit faces off with Hopper in The Muppet Movie

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undeadeleine 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @webway.bsky.social · 14h

i identify with gudetama because i too was once a depressed egg

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onion person @junlper.beer · 16h

all things considered, he’s just a really stupid guy with really stupid beliefs

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D.C.: the Spooky Mom @hobbiets.bsky.social · 15h

I saw a cybertruck today, painted white, with "cyberbeast" on the tailgate in faux graffiti text

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16h

EISMAN: Tesla’s earnings “are down 60% from 2022 through 2025. And the stock is slightly higher. ..

“.. it’s a cult.”

@electrek.co $TSLA
electrek.co/2025/10/10/t...

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 15h

Someone ask Peter Thiel if Greta Thunberg is in the room with him right now.

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