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Kirsten Bakis
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Author: King Nyx, Lives of the Monster Dogs. Awards: Bram Stoker, Whiting, Sustainable Arts. Finalist Women's Prize for Fiction. Rep: Janklow & Nesbit. Teach@Yale Writers Workshop. 🌱 💚 she/they
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paulduane.bsky.social
Fidget spinner sales could falter if people stop buying fidget spinners, fidget spinner manufacturer warns.
January 20, 2026 at 2:48 PM
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jcsalterego.bsky.social
bluesky is the #1 app for introspection
a comic with three frames: 1) a man is reading a book entitled "Why Your Bluesky Timeline Is Bad" 2) the man is looking at a page in the book and it reads "skill issue" 3) the man cries tears of anguish
June 12, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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lollardfish.bsky.social
same bsky.app/profile/loll...
lollardfish.bsky.social David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 4h
Our beautiful city. Minneapolis deserves better than the people terrorizing it.
Sunrise behind a steam stack pouring steam into the sky.
January 20, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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noescapevg.com
"bluesky is dying" "bluesky is unsustainable" my man someone just liveskeeted their kidnapping on a bus on here maybe you're the problem
January 20, 2026 at 6:23 AM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
each day we’re forced to confront the craziest shit you could possibly imagine and each day we’re forced to wash the same spoon for the millionth time
January 20, 2026 at 11:31 AM
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proptermalone.bsky.social
I'm not saying it's perfect here on bsky dot app but we got college football talk, couple different flavors of smart people having good conversations about smart things, crazy-ass heartwarming(?)/terrifying(?) live blog, pretty decent jokes, some good on-the-ground stuff; things are all right
January 20, 2026 at 3:40 AM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
“Neighbors found the 6 year old girl walking down the street alone crying out for her father”
January 20, 2026 at 4:57 AM
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benedictsred.bsky.social
Might just fuck around and let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.
January 19, 2026 at 3:58 PM
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neilwillard.bsky.social
According to Bishop Andrew Waldo, who was a priest colleague of mine in the Episcopal Diocese of MN and is now retired there, this terrorized man, ChongLy Thao, is a cousin of one of the priests at the Hmong-majority Episcopal congregation in the Twin Cities. Oh, and Thao is indeed a U.S. citizen. ⚓️
ICE broke into Minnesota home, dragged barely clothed man into snow
A Minnesota man told Reuters on Monday he felt fear, shame and desperation a day after ICE officers broke down his door with guns drawn, handcuffed him and dragged him into the snow wearing shorts and...
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January 20, 2026 at 5:49 AM
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bullgooseparty.bsky.social
No one has yet tried to marry me or give me a million dollars, BlueSky is simply not sustainable
January 20, 2026 at 2:05 AM
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statuscoupnews.bsky.social
🚨"I'm a nurse...my brown patients are choosing to stop chemo because they do not want to be abducted." -ICE protester tells JT Cestkowski about sick Minnesotans foregoing cancer treatment because of ICE terror. LIVE NOW ⬇️
January 19, 2026 at 11:12 PM
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esquiring.bsky.social
moral arc backwards gyre widening what do?

amplified sound rules for falconers

rough beast posture correction how?
January 19, 2026 at 11:33 PM
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esquiring.bsky.social
*frantically googling*

moral arc bent wrong how to fix

wikihow diy moral arc fix

moral arc technician near me
bsky.dad Joe Garland 🦋 @bsky.dad · Jul 2
Who up bending they arc toward justice
January 19, 2026 at 8:38 PM
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fakegreekgrill.bsky.social
This is literally what every right-winger has spent my whole life telling me they want.
iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d
A community member armed with a firearm stands guard in his neighborhood after ICE was spotted nearby during an abduction operation in St. Paul, Minnesota, on January 18, 2026.
January 20, 2026 at 3:05 AM
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trungles.com
I can’t go to the grocery store alone right now because ICE is racially profiling and abducting people who aren’t white
markwarner.bsky.social Senator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · 3d
Despite Trump’s promises, grocery prices are still rising fast. Families can’t afford this… when is he going to get serious about lowering costs?
January 19, 2026 at 9:51 PM
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peterbakernyt.bsky.social
The three highest-ranking Roman Catholic clerics who lead archdioceses in the U.S. say that America’s “moral role in confronting evil around the world” is in question for the first time in decades. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/u...
Top Catholic Clerics Denounce U.S. Foreign Policy
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January 20, 2026 at 2:10 AM
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edsbs.bsky.social
High, tinny doink. A summery flavor to it. Bright tones, hint of flagpole rattle.
January 20, 2026 at 2:13 AM
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ericktheblue.bsky.social
Don't look at my posts, they're not ready yet
July 28, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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bbolander.bsky.social
god fucking damnit
bbolander.bsky.social Bo Bolander @bbolander.bsky.social · 18h
who the fuck WANTS their posts to go viral, have you ever had that actually happen? it's like getting a winning pull on a slot machine if wasps started pouring out the bottom instead of quarters
January 20, 2026 at 12:24 AM
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andyo.bsky.social
Gift link!

"They have been given limitless license to abduct anyone — not just the undocumented immigrants, but American citizens who happen to look foreign, whatever that might mean. Even Native Americans..."

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Opinion | In Minneapolis, I Glimpsed a Civil War
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January 19, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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michellegoldberg.bsky.social
Absolutely essential from @polgreen.bsky.social
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Opinion | In Minneapolis, I Glimpsed a Civil War
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January 19, 2026 at 5:28 PM
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“…We are forced to consider Hitler, the Fuehrer, not as a personal devil, wicked as his actions and philosophy may be, but as the expression of a state of mind existing in millions of people…To remove Hitler may be a necessary first step, but it would not be the cure.”
patrickiber.bsky.social Patrick Iber @patrickiber.bsky.social · 1d
A passage from the 1943 OSS psychological assessment of Hitler, for your holiday mo(u)rning www.cia.gov/readingroom/...
PSYCHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND RECONSTRUCTION The world has come to know Adolph Hitler for his insatiable greed for power, his ruthlessness, cruelty and utter lack of feeling, his contempt for established institutions and his lack of moral restraints. In the course of relatively few years he has contrived to usurp such tre- mendous power that a few veiled threats, accusations or insinuations were sufficient to make the world tremble. In open defiance of treaties he occupied huge territories and conquered millions of people without even firing a shot. When the world became tired of being frightened and concluded that it was all a bluff, he initiated the most brutal and deva- stating war in history - a war which, for a time, threatened the com- plete destruction of our civilization. Human life and human suffering seem to leave this individual completely untouched as he plunges along the course he believes he was predestined to take. Earlier in his career the world had watched him with amuse- ment. Many people refused to take him seriously on the grounds that "he could not possibly last." As one action after another met with amaz- ing success and the measure of the man became more obvious, this amusement was transformed into incredulousness. To most people, it seemed inconceivable that such things could actually happen in our mod- ern civilization. Hitler, the leader of these activities, became generally regarded as a madman, if not inhuman. Such a judgment, concerning the nature of our enemy, may be satisfactory to the man in the street. It gives him a feeling of satisfaction to pigeon-hole an incomprehensible individual in one category or another and having classified him in this way, he feels that the problem is solved. All we need to do is to eliminate the madman from the scene of activities, replace him with a sane indivi- dual, and the world will again return to a normal and peaceful state of affairs. This naive view, however, is wholly inadequate for those who are delegated to conduct the war against Germany or for those who will be delegated to deal with the situation when the war is over. They can- not content themselves with simply regarding Hitler as a personal devil and condemning him to an Eternal Hell in order that the remainder of the world may live in peace and quiet. They will realize that the madness of the Fuehrer has become the madness of a nation, if not of a large part of the continent. They will realize that these are not wholly the actions of a single individual but that a reciprocal relationship exists between the Fuehrer and the people and that the madness of the one stimulates and flows into the other and vice versa. It was not only Hitler, the madman, who created German madness, but German madness which created Hitler. Having created him as its spokesman and leader, it has been carried along by his momentum, perhaps far beyond the point where it was originally prepared to go. Nevertheless, it continues to follow his lead in spite of the fact that it must be obvious to all intelligent people now that his path leads to inevitable destruction. From a scientific point of view, therefore, we are forced to con- sider Hitler, the Fuehrer, not as a personal devil, wicked as his actions and philosophy may be, but as the expression of a state of mind existing in millions of people, not only in Germany but, to a smaller degree, in all civilized countries. To remove Hitler may be a necessary first step, but it would not be the cure. It would be analogous to removing a chancre without treating the underlying disease. If similar eruptions are to be prevented in the future, we cannot content ourselves with simply remov- ing the overt manifestations of the disease. On the contrary, we must ferret out and seek to correct the underlying factors which produced the unwelcome phenomenon. We must discover the psychological streams which nourish this destructive state of mind in order that we may divert them into channels which will permit a further evolution of our form of civilization.
January 19, 2026 at 3:13 PM
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freyablekman.bsky.social
I heard last week that the physics teacher of the daughter of one of my colleagues told the daughter that girls who do their nails don’t do physics. Sigh.

So, here are the nails of an internationally leading particle physics professor. My nails.

Don’t believe the gatekeepers! #womeninSTEM
January 19, 2026 at 12:17 PM
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runoldman.bsky.social
Tupperware is great for when you want to throw your food out on a different day . . .
January 19, 2026 at 1:14 PM