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Julia Baritz @juliabaritz.bsky.social · 29m

These Gestapo scum are so fucking pathetic. What is the possible rationale for his arrest here???

Robby Roadsteamer @roadsteamer.bsky.social · 1h

🚨 *Breaking News* Robby Roadsteamer has been detained by ICE Portland after singing Rod Stewart with the Portland Frog! We need your help!

Please support Robby's campaign and lawyer fees at robbyroadsteamer.com link on bio 💙🦒🦒🦒

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 15h

academic elitists are erasing our culture and heritage

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 16h

A team of researchers analyzed the anatomical dimensions of an infamous imprint on a Chicago sidewalk, sifting through photos and measuring mammal specimens in museum collections to put what they were seeing in context.

Their conclusion? The Chicago Rat Hole was not made by a rat.

The Chicago Rat Hole Was Not Made by a Rat

A statistical analysis of an infamous indentation in a sidewalk suggested a 99 percent likelihood that another rodent made the mark.

nyti.ms

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Julia Baritz @juliabaritz.bsky.social · 23h

Wow. Has anyone checked if Hell is feeling a bit chilly today

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 23h

Fox News, the former employer of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, has joined other media organizations in refusing to sign onto the Pentagon’s new press requirements.

"Today, we join virtually every other news organization in declining to agree to the Pentagon's new requirements, which would restrict journalists' ability to keep the nation and the world informed of important national security issues. The policy is without precedent and threatens core journalistic protections.
We will continue to cover the U.S. military as each of our organizations has done for many decades, upholding the principles of a free and independent press."
- Joint statement from ABC News, CBS News, CNN, FOX News Media, NBC News

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Julia Baritz @juliabaritz.bsky.social · 23h

Man ANYTHING ELSE???

It's Helga Again @helgaastrophysics.bsky.social · 3d

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BREAKING🚨: It's Official. There's a Black hole on the loose in the Milky way galaxy
Astronomers have officially confirmed the first-ever rogue black hole drifting through our Milky Way galaxy!

Using data from Hubble and Gaia, scientists spotted this cosmic ghost not by its light (it emits none)

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c.e. chant/hades 💀🐊 💬 too many comics @portaltohades.bsky.social · 1d

Hey im so sorry but I need to take bo to the emergency vet and I absolutely do not have enough to cover x rays as my wellness plan only covers the office visit. If you were ever interested in a book, now is a great time!

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 1d

I’m gonna go to a No Kings rally on Saturday and I hope all of you will too! There are more of us than there are fascists and it’s time to remind them.

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

The fact that top Republicans are already fearmongering about, lying about, the No Kings rallies this Saturday, across the US, tells you how worried they are about public pressure and protest against their reactionary, autocratic, anti-American agenda.

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Dan Liimatta @danliimatta.bsky.social · 2d

#daily 38 unicorn | cursed tome

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Lynn Stahl @msbtterswrth.altgov.info · 3d

Hot off the presses! If you need a bigger size to print your stickers let me know!

The Portland frog as a founding father, surround by the words "give me ribberty or give me death"

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gimme the spoo-K Special @gimmethekspecial.bsky.social · 4d

After saying “what” for the third time and still having no clue what they just said, is it okay to just crumple up in the fetal position until they go away?

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · Jan 9

Who up wandering around like Théoden King muttering hauntedly "how did it come to this"?

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Julia Baritz @juliabaritz.bsky.social · 4d

Still cannot get over the fact that he said this and it somehow just sailed over the heads of every Democrat in congress. this should have sparked a nation-wide crisis, but I guess absolutely nothing matters anymore!!

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Julia Baritz @juliabaritz.bsky.social · 4d

being a boiling frog sucks man

Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 5d

I've been wondering why Dominion Voting Systems suddenly reached settlements with Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and One America News.

Turns out, it's been purchased by a Republican-owned election tech firm that insisted on it, per Axios.

www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...

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T. Ashley 🌸 Jenkins @fluttersprite.itch.io · 6d

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Julia Baritz @juliabaritz.bsky.social · 10d

he somehow failed to understand any of the meaning of star trek. captain kirk would dropkick his ass

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Julia Baritz @juliabaritz.bsky.social · 10d

I should do more in this vein really

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Julia Baritz @juliabaritz.bsky.social · 10d

💕

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Suzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · 11d

If only someone had told us this would happen

The Verge @theverge.com · 11d

Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs

An “unauthorized party” may have accessed the names of users, the last four digits of credit card numbers, and more.

buff.ly

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Adam 🪿 @vexnir.bsky.social · 13d

Sharing is caring 🧡

#art #pokemon #pokemonart #watercolor

Watercolor illustration of two Pokémon, Pumpkaboo and Mimikyu, sharing a big, swirly lollipop. There’s also a jack-o-lantern shaped candy basket in front.

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Julia Baritz @juliabaritz.bsky.social · 11d

does anyone have suggestions for trying to pare down the number of personal projects you're working on from say, 15, to a more manageable amount like perhaps 5

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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 12d

Social media has always been toxic, is increasingly moreso, and it's becoming a good, sensible mental and emotional health decision to disengage. Publishers need to address what happens when a large chunk of their current audience goes offline.

G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 12d

In all seriousness, publishers are going to have to figure out how to market books in the post-social-media landscape. That should be an implicit part of their job. What authors/artists can do on their own is increasingly limited and siloed.

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Julia Baritz @juliabaritz.bsky.social · 12d

How are you liking autumn in the northeast?? Have the leaves started changing over there yet?

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Dio⎊Pardalis @diopardalis.bsky.social · 13d

Seeing NSFW artist mad(rightfully so) but then going to... IG?? Patreon?? Tumblr?

Ya'll... Pillowfort is right there stop with these big corpo platforms.

"Well no one is there!"
No one was here either, it took more time to turn against artists that moved than rebuild.

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Another crunch month with my sad captains @bigbigtruck.com · 13d

been sitting on this for a year now and I can finally announce it!

ACQUISITION DEAL ANNOUNCEMENT FROM PUBLISHER'S MARKETPLACE: EK Weaver's SHOT AND CHASER, an adaptation of the author's webcomic, taking place over the course of 24 tumultuous hours in the lives of soulmates and amateur storm chasers as they follow a supercell, to Tess Banta at 23rd Street, for publication in 2027, by Anjali Singh at Anjali Singh Agency (world).

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Julia Baritz @juliabaritz.bsky.social · 13d

Very true actually 😂

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mr potato @tweetpotato314.bsky.social · 14d

[after reading exactly one work email] i am going to go lie face down in the parking lot

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