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Laura J @laurajpdx1.bsky.social · 18h

Like, education is step one, but at what point am I obligated to report the relative in question to some kind of health authority, especially with small children living there and medically complex elders frequently visiting?

Laura J @laurajpdx1.bsky.social · 18h

Does someone have any suggestions on books that address basic food handling? Like why you don't recook food left out accidentally overnight because some poisons aren't killed by cooking once they set in?

Laura J @laurajpdx1.bsky.social · 18h

Does someone have any suggestions on books that address basic food handling? Like why you don't recook food left out accidentally overnight because some poisons aren't killed by cooking once they set in?

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Josh Crews @joshcrewsreally.bsky.social · Dec 28

Superman and friends by Ito.
(@ itoscaresme on ig)
#comics #art

Lovely watercolor of Superman standing and looking at a paper of some sort in his right hand while sipping tea from a mug in his left hand. There are at least 3 cats hanging on to Clark and one cat chilling to the side.

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Laura J @laurajpdx1.bsky.social · 3d

Why, yes, I am falling into fandom and refusing to get up and look at the news. Is it:

A) neurodiversity strikes again
B) migraine and/or nerve pain
C) a crappy work day resulting in exhaustion
D) the ever-nearing approach of full-blown fascism
E) all of the above

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Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan @warringtonruncorn.com · 5d

You've just made me realise what the true north-south divide is.

A map of the UK showing that all UK detective programmes in the north are grim, bleak and miserable, whilst those in the south are cosy, chummy and very upper-middle class.

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Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium @ptdefiancezoo.bsky.social · 17d

Ever seen a 750-pound muskox face off with a 210-pound pumpkin? 💥 Hudson did, and won! 🏆 Catch more pumpkin-smashing, leaf-crunching, fall fun during #ZooBoo, October 18 & 19. 🎃🐾

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SG Hendricks @sghendricks.bsky.social · 13d

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Laura J @laurajpdx1.bsky.social · 4d

I still can't get over this photo

Carrie Tait @carrietait.bsky.social · 14d

This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.

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Laura J @laurajpdx1.bsky.social · 4d

This may or may not be the top to go with that hat

The Met: Costume Institute @metcostume.bsky.social · 9d

Afternoon jacket
https://botfrens.com/collections/223/contents/96433

Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of the Princess Viggo in accordance with the wishes of the Misses Hewitt, 1931

Laura J @laurajpdx1.bsky.social · 4d

This needs yo be part of a witch costume

The Met: Costume Institute @metcostume.bsky.social · 6d

Hat
https://botfrens.com/collections/223/contents/101112

Gift of June Dorflinger Hardy (Mrs. John A. Hardy Jr.), 1981

Laura J @laurajpdx1.bsky.social · 4d

I need to learn how to tat.

The Met: Costume Institute @metcostume.bsky.social · 11d

Snood
https://botfrens.com/collections/223/contents/98591

Laura J @laurajpdx1.bsky.social · 4d

Randomly coming across people i knew on LiveJournal from *squints* Buffy fandom? on bsky and being happy they're still decent folks, by interpretation of their reskeets, is a trip

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 9d

man wouldn't it be nice to have a week -- even a day or two -- that's not like getting blasted in the face with a firehose

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a very dangerous fruit 🍉 @itsmewendle.bsky.social · 11d

why is it an essential service to appoint right wing judges, demolish the east wing, but not to feed americans

Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 11d

Absolutely inexcusable.

Senate Press Gallery @senatepress.bsky.social · 12d

Dems/Ind Senators voting in favor: Coons, Durbin, Fetterman, Hassan, Heinrich, Kaine, Kelly, King (I), Klobuchar, Reed, Schiff, Shaheen, Welch, & Whitehouse.

Senators not voting: Duckworth & Tillis

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Laura J @laurajpdx1.bsky.social · 11d

Buying a house was part of the "getting married" process for my folks when they were in their twenties in the late 1970s.

I am twice their age and 99% of housing stock is out of reach and the last 1% needs to be bulldozed or exorcised.

John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 12d

The average age of U.S. homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 last year.

In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 12d

Anyway if you have a Nazi tattoo it’s true you’re not a secret Nazi. You’re an open Nazi. You literally have a sign that you carry around in your body every day that says “I’m a Nazi.”

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Mockingbird, MPH, CHES @amockingbird.bsky.social · 11d

I will always remember a comment from someone who said her friend preferred “pregnant people,” because she’d been a pregnant teen, and she was very much not a woman then. Sure, you could say “pregnant women, girls, nonbinary people, trans men, and gender nonconforming people,” but why ? Be concise.

Dr. Jamila Perritt MD MPH FACOG @reprorightsdoc.bsky.social · 12d

“I was with you, until you said ‘pregnant people.’”

I get this a lot. I’m an abortion provider, and the CEO and President of an org known for abortion advocacy. Let’s talk about why I use inclusive language — and why I’m not stopping. 🧵

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 11d

People refusing to let a Nazi tattoo make them reassess their priors is really something.

Being able to process new information and update your beliefs, or at least your arguments, accordingly isn't just a sign of maturity, it's a sign of intelligence.

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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 11d

Absolutely agree—>

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 12d

a functional press would, every single day, repeatedly, across numerous paragraphs in every story about him, make it clear that this is indisputably the most corrupt President in U.S. history

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12d

Trump: "It's awfully strange to make a decision where I'm paying myself. But I was damaged very greatly and any money I would get I would give to charity."

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Eleanor More Tomb 🎃 @eleanormorton.bsky.social · 12d

Never not a perfect day to repost this

Eleanor More Tomb 🎃 @eleanormorton.bsky.social · May 2

Its 1933 and everything is FINE

youtube.com/shorts/i4l8T...

it's 1933 and everything is FINE

YouTube video by Eleanor Morton

youtube.com

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 12d

the year is 2030. the white house remains half demolished because president trump refused to pay construction workers and musk gutted government spending. two thieves sneak into the white house using a truck mounted ladder and steal the constitution

The White White East Wing has a big gaping hole.

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Laura J @laurajpdx1.bsky.social · 12d

Oh, my god. When I first heard about this I thought it was another stupid "clean on opsec" thing. But it isn't. It's so much worse. Wtf is Halligan doing? This feels like something a person could be disbarred for.

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 13d

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here."
Anna Bower
Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM
Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about
the Letitia James grand jury.

Laura J @laurajpdx1.bsky.social · 12d

Wait, it's the dude challenging Susan Collins, who we were hopeful about, with a Nazi tattoo? And he got it in Croatia?

Not to fight the Balkan wars again, but did he confuse it with Serbia?

Visiting my Croatian cousins in 2012 they asked "Why do Americans hate Obama? He seems normal and good. "

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Micah @rincewind.run · 13d

billionaires should not be allowed to exist because the downside of "one of them loses their mind" is simply too dangerous for a functional society

also, having a billion dollars tends to make you lose your mind

John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 13d

The whole point of democracy is so one person's derangement does not become everybody's problem. It's social hygiene. The fact the richest men in the West are a mix of grotty twelve year olds and deranged apocalypse fanatics is a problem, and we should be honest about it.

Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 13d

Someone went there:

"It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It"

via @futurism.com

futurism.com/future-socie...

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Nick @ecosozialismus.bsky.social · 24d

Embarrassed for anyone who is legitimately scared of Portland, Oregon.

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