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Michelle 🪷🇲🇽🇺🇸🌵 @chicana74.bsky.social · 1d

This headline 🤣🤣🤣

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Scott Myers @gointothestory.bsky.social · 2d

Greta Gerwig: "Whenever I have trouble writing, I think about the pace of baseball. It’s slow, just grinding out another play. You strike out a lot. This, for me, is very helpful to have in my mind while writing.” gointothestory.blcklst.com/screenwritin... #screenwriting

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 2d

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 5d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Kim Baker @kimbaker.bsky.social · 6d

First time in my life I’m not rooting for the Dodgers in the playoffs in part because most of them went to the WH after the World Series last year . Hope the Phillies knock their clown asses out. 🤡 #NLDS www.latimes.com/sports/dodge...

a man wearing a jacket that says la is sitting in front of a scoreboard

Alt: Dodgers skipper takes off his hat

media.tenor.com

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 10d

this thread started here and landed with a history lesson about egyptian cotton. a literal "today i learned."

Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 10d

US farmers are saying they "just need temporary help, until things get better."

Here's the thing. US farm exports- which are mostly soy- CANNOT get better.

Other countries expanded their soy industries to fill China's demand.

We've walled ourselves out of the global market, folks. This is it.

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Andrew | TheSpoilist @thespoilist.bsky.social · 9d

The Chris Pratt of Jimmys

Phil Nobile Jr. @philnobilejr.bsky.social · 9d

Fucking disgusting variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Jimmy Fallon Plans to ‘Keep My Head Down’ and Avoid Politics on ‘The Tonight Show’: ‘We Hit Both Sides Equally’

Jimmy Fallon says he plans to "keep my head down" and avoid politics on "The Tonight Show."

variety.com

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 16d

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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Kim Baker @kimbaker.bsky.social · 15d

Respectfully, if you’re on board with this person examining their privilege and bias, you might want to consider your own. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

My problem with grammar snobs

Is it right to shut people down and exclude them from public debate because of their lack of understanding of the rules of grammar? I think not. Grammatical elitism helps no one

www.theguardian.com

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Kim Baker @kimbaker.bsky.social · 16d

Seattle, spend a few minutes turning up the gas. 👇🏼

dudettinginthepnw.bsky.social @dudettinginthepnw.bsky.social · 16d

A hardworking person posted the KOMO advertisers on Reddit. Really easy to just follow the links and contact Sinclair’s revenue sources in Seattle.

www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/co...

From the Seattle community on Reddit: How to contact companies that run ads on local Sinclair stations (KOMO)

Explore this post and more from the Seattle community

www.reddit.com

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Kim Baker @kimbaker.bsky.social · 16d

Kelly Link is writing a middle grade!✨

Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 16d

I am aquiver with delight at this publication news from @kellylink.bsky.social

MacArthur Genius Grant recipient and Pulitzer Prize finalist Kelly Link's THE LOVER OF BOOKS, in which dinner party guests relate uncanny stories as a haunting—filled with wet footprints, mysteriously placed caches of buttons, and ghosts, past and present—casts a specter over the evening; plus an untitled anthology of ghost stories compiled by the author.

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J. Anderson Coats (she/her) @jandersoncoats.bsky.social · 16d

PNW friends - hope to see you there! This event is free and open to the public. 📚❤️📚

Bigfoot Kids' Book Festival @bigfootbookfest.bsky.social · 20d

We've got a middle grade line up this year that's sure to appeal to reluctant readers and satisfy your voracious readers too! Come meet the authors of these amazing books at our 3rd annual Bigfoot Kids' Book Festival on Sat, Oct 11th from 10am to 4pm at the Redmond Senior & Community Center!

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Kim Baker @kimbaker.bsky.social · 16d

Ghost stories *and* middle grade? Such happy news! FWIW, this fan and MG writer has long thought you’d be amazing with middle grade.

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Kim Baker @kimbaker.bsky.social · 17d

Look at this glorious beast. It’s Elmer, a fly river turtle and permanent resident at the fish store with his own mammoth tank. He’s got loads of fish friends and rizz for days.
#turtlesky

Elmer, a fly river turtle, swimming by with glorious paddle arms and a porcine nose.

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Kim Baker @kimbaker.bsky.social · 18d

It makes it extra special that this series is against the Astros. 👋🏼

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 19d

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Kim Baker @kimbaker.bsky.social · 22d

What in The Crucible... 🤬

Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 22d

Sinclair Broadcasting stations are replacing Jimmy Kimmel Live with a tribute to Charlie Kirk. They are also demanding an apology and that Kimmel make a substantial donation to Turning Point USA.

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Malcolm Nance, Leading Resister @malcolmnance.bsky.social · 22d

CBS, ABC and Disney should get the full treatment Target got. They are anti-FreeSpeech & openly pro-Fascist.

Boycott them.
Destroy their bottom line.
See how long they can survive just MAGA viewership.

Time to put your money where your love of the Constitution is.
Do. Not. Support. Them.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 22d

It’s astonishing and scary to watch because generally when Trump meets resistance he eventually moves on — he doesn’t want to be seen taking the L. He tests the fences and goes away. Instead here, he tests the fences and they just… take the fences down for him.

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Kim Baker @kimbaker.bsky.social · 22d

And here's the link for Disney+ help.disneyplus.com/article/disn...

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Kim Baker @kimbaker.bsky.social · 22d

ABC and Hulu are owned by Disney, in case you didn't know already. If the Jimmy Kimmel news freaks you out, as it absolutely should, maybe cancel Hulu and Disney+. help.hulu.com/article/hulu...

help.hulu.com

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 23d

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 23d

ah, well

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · Jan 23

a good arbiter of how close we are to bad hybrid regime shit is if the political comedy shows start getting pulled for whatever reason

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 23d

Anyway, now we know what the FCC thinks is in the public interest:

Fox host advocating for executing homeless people? Yes

ABC comic suggesting Trumpers are using a death cynically? No

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23d

Tim Walz: "I'll tell you what doesn't make people feel safe -- a tank next to Chipotle. It's stupid and it's for the cameras ... where are the 'don't tread on me' people?"

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