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Part of why we were so excited about these is that he designed them to print on their sides, so you can pack 100 onto the A1 mini plate easily! I did my first 100 whistle test run and omg I LOVE THEM NOW THE RAINBOWS GO ACROSS THEM???

(teeth grooves added by suggestion of folks using them!)

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A small plate with 100 whistles printed all in a block, standing on their sides

a pile of 100 whistles. this is the vibrant coral gradient so pink/yellow/green/blue/purple

one whistle laying across my fingers to show how small it is, with the gradient on full display. It's smaller than my pinky and so cute!

the whistle from the side. the teeth grips were added so folks could easily hold them for prolonged blowing

February 13, 2026 at 4:38 AM

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Kinehora

@kinehora.bsky.social

That is Nazi boy Platner, a recognizable Mamdani, and a lightened Jasmine Crockett, who got the slightest of mentions in this piece that mostly consists of an extended blowjob for Platner and waves away his racist, sexist history and Nazi tattoo, which, again, was only covered after he launched.

Let's get this out of the way: Graham Platner isn't a Nazi. He had a Nazi tattoo, sure, but he doesn't anymore. He got it covered up in October, a few days after the world learned about the Totenkopf symbol he got inked on his chest in Croatia while on military leave two decades ago. If one can get a Nazi tattoo innocently, then Platner almost certainly did. He says he didn't know its true meaning at the time, and there's little reason to doubt him. There is nothing in any of the statements that Platner has given in town halls, interviews, or other campaign events to suggest that he's a bigot either, though he did write some bad stuff about Black people and women on the internet a few years ago. (For what it's worth, he also said white rural voters were stupid and racist.) When those posts were unearthed, Platner apologized, citing his PTSD and political and cultural ignorance. Still, it's hard to think of any recent Democratic campaign that could survive having to make so many disclosures.

Many of the new wave of candidates are, like Platner, populists and progressives. But not all of them are. Representative Jasmine Crockett, for example, a centrist from Texas whose description of her former colleague Marjorie Taylor Greene's
"bleach blonde, bad built, butch body" made her an instant star, may win the party's Senate nomination, less for her establishmentarian platform than her pugilistic approach to messaging.

February 13, 2026 at 4:31 AM

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Nella is lost somewhere in Eorzea

@nellakrios.bsky.social

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February 13, 2026 at 6:23 AM

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Roxane Gay

@roxanegay.bsky.social

It’s inaccurate for one. Mellon is by no means the only humanities funder. And the bigger issue is that universities are forced to rely on foundations. I’m more interested in that. And I think the Mellon foundation is great. (No I’ve not received any grants from them.)

Justin Vogt @jvogt.bsky.social · 3h

I found the article irritatingly snarky at times. But the basic observation—that a single organization with a highly specific agenda plays a near-hegemonic role in funding humanities at universities—seems worthwhile to me. This graf is the core of the argument. What do you think of it?

February 13, 2026 at 5:42 AM

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Orcspiration

@orcspiration.bsky.social

SEIZE JOY FROM THE JAWS OF PAIN. ARE YOU HYDRATED?

February 13, 2026 at 5:30 AM

Ser T, Trader of Rogues, Guarder of Veils

@imasithduh.bsky.social

Hey, so this is how I found out I am also so in the habit of adding alt text I didn't realize the requirement had been shut off.

Check your settings, folks!

💞Girlstandstill🦉Champion of the Veilguard @girlstandstill.bsky.social · 2h

Good thing I got in the habit of writing alt text, I didn't even know the latest Bluesky update opted me out of requiring it. I successfully trained my brain to do a thing, it's a win.

February 13, 2026 at 4:55 AM

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Eb

@ebthen.bsky.social

TBH this feels a lot like "no Black people in English-speaking fantasy because the invented setting is often loosely based on the Middle Ages in Europe*".

* Where there were Black people.

Nome @nome.bsky.social · 9h

I have a friend who said, of Starfleet Academy, that this took them out of it - that seeing a person in a wheelchair in the 32nd century seemed unrealistic, since medicine in Star Trek "should be able to cure whatever was wrong with them."

That's not the case, for any number of possible reasons.

Lines of academy cadets, one in command red seated but at attention while in a wheelchair.

February 13, 2026 at 4:27 AM

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Ben Gross

@bhgross144.bsky.social

Exactly! There's even a precedent for that specific situation...

Did people raise this much of a fuss when Melora aired in 1993? memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Melora_...

#StarTrek #DeepSpaceNine 🖖

Screenshot from the Deep Space 9 episode "Melora" showing the title character in a wheelchair while flanked by Jadzia Dax and Julian Bashir.

February 12, 2026 at 10:10 PM

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Running Double

@runningdouble.bsky.social

I don’t know man. I was like ages 7-13 when TNG aired and responses to Starfleet Academy are making me feel insane. This shit isn’t written in a secret code. The advancement is a pluralistic society not tractor beams.

February 13, 2026 at 12:28 AM

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Nome

@nome.bsky.social

Ultimately, a wheelchair is a very good piece of very simple technology, that isn't prone to failure in case of computer issue or power failure. It, like any tool, has its own failure states - but I fully understand someone using one, even in the far Trek future.

And to tie it in to an older thread

Nome @nome.bsky.social · Sep 1

As I've been on a roll with Star Trek threads today, let's continue with this one: you know one of the best parts of Geordie's visor?

90% of the time, nobody fucking mentions it.

a man is standing in a hallway with a blue light behind him

Alt: Geordie LaForge, rolling to make it out of Engineering under the lowering blast doors.

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February 13, 2026 at 12:09 AM

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Nome

@nome.bsky.social

I have a friend who said, of Starfleet Academy, that this took them out of it - that seeing a person in a wheelchair in the 32nd century seemed unrealistic, since medicine in Star Trek "should be able to cure whatever was wrong with them."

That's not the case, for any number of possible reasons.

February 12, 2026 at 9:52 PM

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Matthew Cortland, Esq (they)

@matthewcort.land

Oz's CMS is handing Medicaid data to the regime's child abducting, nurse murdering gestapo. In 28 states, ICE can see your diagnoses, your prescriptions, and where you receive care. No court restrictions at all. I wrote about how this works and what it means.

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February 13, 2026 at 3:14 AM

Ser T, Trader of Rogues, Guarder of Veils

@imasithduh.bsky.social

Focusing on and including Nazi Tattoo Oyster Man is certainly...a choice.

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 5h

A base that has long made pragmatic, sober decisions appears increasingly attracted to charismatic outsiders who promise to break from the party’s failures of the last decade. They see their party’s leaders as feckless and inept.

It’s the Democratic Tea Party, with a twist. trib.al/mC5cBDA

February 13, 2026 at 3:14 AM

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Micah

@rincewind.run

I still can’t fucking believe that Maine is likely going to be a choice between Susan Collins is Very Concerned and a guy with a Nazi tattoo

February 13, 2026 at 3:12 AM

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Fishtopher and Friends

@fishtopher.bsky.social

the best window decor is a cat

Fishtopher, a classic brown tabby cat with green eyes and a pink nose, sitting in a windowsill. The sun appears to be setting, casting a warm light over him. He looks upwards and outwards with an alert expression.

January 18, 2026 at 1:20 AM

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AjiWings

@ajijaakwe.bsky.social

This is my friend Jen's dog, Vinney. If Vinney wins, grand prize is enough dog food to feed the rescues through THU for months, maybe a year. It's legal to vote multiple times a day.

GO VOTE!

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Vinney loves catching snowballs! If he wins the grand prize, he’ll be using his winnings to help community members in need of dog food through Taos Hound Underground!

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February 13, 2026 at 3:06 AM

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WingsNDNSilver

@wingsndnsilver.bsky.social

This is my friend Jen's dog, Vinney. If Vinney wins, grand prize is enough dog food to feed the rescues through THU for months, maybe a year. It's legal to vote multiple times a day.

GO VOTE!

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Jen H.'s Photo

Vinney loves catching snowballs! If he wins the grand prize, he’ll be using his winnings to help community members in need of dog food through Taos Hound Underground!

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February 13, 2026 at 3:07 AM

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February 13, 2026 at 2:57 AM

Ser T, Trader of Rogues, Guarder of Veils

@imasithduh.bsky.social

Just called credit scores 'credit card phrenology' because it makes about as much sense. Ugh.

February 13, 2026 at 2:59 AM

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Winifred Sedai Burton

@authorwinifred.blacksky.app

The efficiency, the return on reach vs spend, all hard to argue with.

Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 9h

Best advertisement I’ve seen so far at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival

Picture of a gray haired woman wearing a shirt that reads on the back “come see my daughter’s film A Woman’s Work at Santa Barbara Film Festival 2/11 at 11:20am 2/12 6:20pm I am a Jewish mother seeking a girlfriend/future wife for my filmmaker daughter (she is multilingual and has an adorable dog). Please inquire with me”

February 13, 2026 at 2:52 AM

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