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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 14h

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Billie Bloebaum @billie.bookstoreromanceday.org · 5h

They'll never do it, but Portland's public transit cards are Hop cards & I would love to see this design on one. "Taking Tri-Met to a protest? We have a Hop card for that."

Image of a frog that looks similar to the inflatable frog costumes people are wearing to protest ICE in Portland, OR. The image is done in the style of Shepard Fairey's iconic Barack Obama "Hope" poster, but done mostly in shades of green. The frog is wearing a neckerchief in the stars & stripes of the American flag, which what appears to be a cape of red & white stripes. Beneath the frog it says "Hop".

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Beth Downey @librarybunny.bsky.social · 6h

It’s like the refs are trying so hard to give the game to Georgia and yet Georgia is giving them NOTHING to work with.

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 8h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Cheray @cheray.bsky.social · 8h

TIL
This was directed by Diane Keaton 💔🤍🕊️

Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is A Place On Earth

#MusicSky 🎶🎧
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Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is A Place On Earth (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by BelindaCarlisleVEVO

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Beth Downey @librarybunny.bsky.social · 7h

I must ask, how did you enjoy our many roundabouts?

Beth Downey @librarybunny.bsky.social · 11h

Honestly the way Ole Miss has treated him, I imagine him like Maleficent, or a cryptid that walks into Oxford and the grass browns beneath his feet, the leaves curl up and fall as he passes. Every time he comes into town, a new roundabout appears.

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Beth Downey @librarybunny.bsky.social · 11h

Also, if we play the next two games the way we played today, we'll be coming home as a 6-2 team to play the Gamecocks. 😖

Beth Downey @librarybunny.bsky.social · 11h

Jesus H Christ thank fuck that's over.

We're 6-0, but my BP is 180/90.

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Beth Downey @librarybunny.bsky.social · 12h

This is the team that deployed ABBA's "Dancing Queen" after beating LSU.

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Beth Downey @librarybunny.bsky.social · 12h

Well goddamnit.

Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 12h

Terribly sad news about one of the greats. Diane Keaton has died at 79.
people.com/diane-keaton...

Diane Keaton, Famed for Roles in 'Father of the Bride,' 'First Wives Club' and More, Dies at 79 (Exclusive)

Diane Keaton has died at age 79. Keaton was best known for roles in movies like 'Annie Hall,' 'The First Wives Club,' 'Something's Gotta Give' and 'The Godfather.'

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Beth Downey @librarybunny.bsky.social · 14h

And this is why the fish man would have been our most appropriate mascot.

a picture of an alien with the words " it 's a trap " on the bottom

Alt: Admiral Ackbar from Star Wars saying "it's a trap"

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Alex McDaniel @alexmcdaniel.co · 14h

“tons of cougars in oxford this weekend”

buddy you don’t even know

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Beth Downey @librarybunny.bsky.social · 14h

Finding out @brianmfloyd.bsky.social @celebrityhottub.bsky.social and @stevengodfrey.bsky.social were in Oxford, no offense but I got a bad feeling about this.

Cougs score first...think I was justified. #WAOM

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 1d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Beth Downey @librarybunny.bsky.social · 18h

Wasn't there an old-school mafioso that walked around the neighborhood in his bathrobe feeding pigeons pretending to have dementia, when behind the scenes he was still running the show?

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 1d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 1d

Jesus died for your AI.

He didn't have all three arms nailed to the cross for nothing.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d

Exclusive: Tech billionaire Peter Thiel warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of AI are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures that connected government oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future.

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

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Rebecca Bodenheimer @rmbodenheimer.bsky.social · 1d

🧵🧵🧵

As for her call for non-academics to get involved: one thing you should do if you see attacks on academic freedom or administrators capitulating to Trump's extortion at your alma mater is to write the uni/college president & express your outrage. They need to hear from alumni ASAP. Template👇

Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 1d

I am writing this because it has swiftly become crystal clear to me that many people have no idea what is happening or how this works. Here is a thread for non-academics to put into context what just happened to Dr. Mark Bray, a fellow historian.

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Crowd Control (on Dropout) @crowdcontroldo.bsky.social · 1d

Who has more trauma in Voltron: the characters, or the fans? 🤖

#CrowdControl

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Beth Downey @librarybunny.bsky.social · 1d

*Sees he is Presbyterian Church (USA)* Hey that's MY church!*

*Which I haven't been to in quite a few years but still...

Beth Downey @librarybunny.bsky.social · 1d

For the longest time I assumed it was supposed to be pronounced AN-tie-fa (like "ANTI-fascist") and the right purposely said an-TEE-fa because it makes it sound foreign.