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Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.bsky.social · 2m

I’m just picturing an enormous inflatable Garfield going after a bunch of ICE agents—and if it happens, I have no idea what you’re talking about and I was nowhere near it when it exploded

Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.bsky.social · 7m

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Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.bsky.social · 8m

Trying to figure out what the New York version of this is and wondering how hard it is to liberate and inflate the Macy’s balloons

Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.bsky.social · 8m

Trying to figure out what the New York version of this is and wondering how hard it is to liberate and inflate the Macy’s balloons

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Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.bsky.social · 11m

Just to pick some examples from the last thousand years at random

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Shelby Edwards @sedwards.bsky.social · 15h

This is the way!!

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Lizzy (she/her) @justalizzy.bsky.social · 1d

They're screwed if they hit Atlanta. We have 80k geeks that go to #Dragoncon every year, and a good chunk of them have inflatable t-rex cosplays for the yearly #TRexStomp. I think they set a world record a few years ago.

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Shelby Edwards @sedwards.bsky.social · 1d

Truth in this. But can you see it? Each city in it's nature, in it's colors? Bring your thing, amplify, be the technicolor and ridicule these people into oblivion. Deny them their new civil war. Demand our peace.

Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 1d

it really has been amazing how much one person in a frog suit destroyed their fantasy visuals over the past week. this wouldn't work everywhere but Portland, you are doing amazing sweetie

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

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Aleksei Ilídio Valentín (he/they) ✡️♿🏳️‍🌈 @aivalentin.bsky.social · 13m

I know NOLA is fucking READY for this. We are a city unmatched in costume aptitude and capacity (and penchant)for public weirdness. We've got this.

So who's getting the King Cake Baby mascot costume from the Pels?

Shelby Edwards @sedwards.bsky.social · 1d

Truth in this. But can you see it? Each city in it's nature, in it's colors? Bring your thing, amplify, be the technicolor and ridicule these people into oblivion. Deny them their new civil war. Demand our peace.

Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 1d

it really has been amazing how much one person in a frog suit destroyed their fantasy visuals over the past week. this wouldn't work everywhere but Portland, you are doing amazing sweetie

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Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.bsky.social · 13m

Oops! All Dementia!

Iikka Korhonen @iikkakorhonen.bsky.social · 18m

”..trade war is suddenly hotter than it’s been since Mr. Trump’s infamous Liberation Day announcement in April. Mr. Trump retreated from those border taxes after markets staged a meltdown, and investors have thought the worst was over. Maybe not.”
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Opinion | Trade Wars Aren’t Easy, China Edition

Beijing plays its rare-earth minerals card, Trump responds with a new tariff threat, and markets take a header.

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Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.bsky.social · 15m

Evergreen, honestly

Marc Veldhoen @marcveld.bsky.social · 16h

I’ve been saying this many times: challenge what they claim, what the words they’re using mean. Ask them to define them, to provide evidence from good primary literature, and let them explain what is good, why, and what it means.

Antivax and Zerocovid use the same tactics
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Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.bsky.social · 16m

Good news it’s working

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Marc Veldhoen @marcveld.bsky.social · 16h

I’ve been saying this many times: challenge what they claim, what the words they’re using mean. Ask them to define them, to provide evidence from good primary literature, and let them explain what is good, why, and what it means.

Antivax and Zerocovid use the same tactics
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Marc Veldhoen @marcveld.bsky.social · 24m

Expert provide evidence. They do not use manipulated images, don't use words like "hijacking" and "corrupting' immunity.

This is another scare account

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Jordan Grimes @cafedujord.bsky.social · 10h

Important to remember that not only did we pass #SB79, the biggest transit-oriented upzoning bill ever, we also passed a clean CEQA exemption for new multifamily infill housing.

This is, bar none, the biggest year in state action on housing policy reform in California history. Not even close.

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Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.bsky.social · 1h

(So much more work than that on everyone’s part, I know)

Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.bsky.social · 1h

That is a gorgeous cover

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Dr. Jillian Scudder @jillianscudder.com · 8h

I got a very kind email about this book this week so I figure it’s time to remind all you gentlefolk I have a book out and people seem to be really enjoying it! 📖📚🔭

Dr. Jillian Scudder @jillianscudder.com · Mar 19

Hello folks in spite of The Everything™️, my next book is out in one week!! 7 days!

If you would like to have a small heavily illustrated book tell you about the stars illuminating our understanding of the cosmos, this is your book!

To preorder (US): bookshop.org/p/books/fort...

🧪🔭📚 #booksky

The author’s hand holding a copy of 40 Ways to Know A Star, by Jillian Scudder, PhD, against a beige wall.

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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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Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.bsky.social · 1h

Ofc!

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Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.bsky.social · 1h

“Can I pay extra to make it really gory”

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Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.bsky.social · 1h

This is how I feel about so many super hero comics. Like Spider-Man and Jessica Jones are the only ones I relate to long term because poor and PTSD respectively

Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.bsky.social · 1h

I mean all they have to do is join up with the people in frog suits and these chucklefucks are done for

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Rob is reading On Thermonuclear War🧭 @robisreading.bsky.social · 2h

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Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.bsky.social · 1h

File under good times, with which to tempt the speaker

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Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.bsky.social · 1h

In a world without enough synchronized fictional television shows, still we make do

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