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@liprap.bsky.social

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Sky's the limit over here. Rockin' the greater Houston area 'burbs…exiled from New Orleans, but not in the Napoleonic sense. Trans-Sabine Texmudgeon. Also found on 🧵 as liprap3. https://liprapslament-theline.blogspot.com

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liprap @liprap.bsky.social · 5h

All this cardiac age business is absolutely worthless, especially when applying it to someone who clearly does not have a heart.

liprap @liprap.bsky.social · 5h

Oh, I don't have a chance. I love me a toasted garlic bagel with butter.

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 11h

Tell me your bagel order and I will tell you *based on NYC cultural expectations* if you have won or lost your election for political office in NYC.

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 12h

One of my favorite things about NYC is whenever anyone runs for office here they are required to disclose their bagel order.

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bring on the headless horses @ihavethatonvinyl.com · 5h

hi. sorry to do this again but life sucks

it’s almost the middle of the month which means it is that time when i am broke. after mortgage, bills, paying out IHTOV writers, etc. i am absolutely tapped and still need to put gas in my car, pay the heating bill, and get some food. things should clear up by december; i have some money coming my way. but for now i am struggling thanks to unexpected repairs and emergencies. i hate this, but here i am. if you like my posts and appreciate IHTOV and want to throw me a buck or two, i appreciate all the help i get here. don’t know where i’d be without it. venmo is michele-catalano2659, paypal is michele.catalano at gmail. thank you

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liprap @liprap.bsky.social · 6h

Yup.

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Brett Nicholson @aggiebrett.bsky.social · 6h

I support this idea.

Cynthia 🐈 @cynthia.dev · 15d

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liprap @liprap.bsky.social · 6h

GEAUXJIRA

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liprap @liprap.bsky.social · 6h

Someone's already gathering a frog dancing krewe even as we speak, I bet.

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 7h

Encouraged by the example of MIT, I wrote today to the new president of UT-Austin, my alma mater, to ask him to reject Trump's foolish and authoritarian "compact."

For other UT alums, Jim Davis's e-mail is [email protected].

Email to president@utexas.edu. Subject: President Trump's Compact.

Dear President Davis,

Good morning. I'm a two-time graduate of UT-Austin (BA English 1989, PhD American Studies 2003). My parents are both UT grads. I've been a visiting professor at the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies, and I'm a Life Member of the Texas Exes. I'm a proud, multigenerational Longhorn.

I'd like to ask you urgently to reject President Trump's harmful and illegal "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education."

As I'm sure you know, MIT has already rejected the compact, and no doubt many other respected institutions will do so soon.

Free inquiry and academic freedom are critical to the success and proper functioning of any university, and it would be tragic if UT-Austin were to sacrifice its long tradition of academic excellence by submitting to an unconstitutional and autocratic demand from the White House. It is simply not the president's right or role to dictate to any university what its faculty can teach, say, or research. He must be resisted.

The UT community, and you as its leader, should stand firm against the president's direct challenge to the integrity of the University and to the prestige of the degrees we earned there.

Please reject this outrageous assault on academic freedom and the University's most deeply held values.

Thank you.

Respectfully,

Bryan Edward Stone, Ph.D.

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The Big Bad Wolf @tbbw1.bsky.social · 9h

"When you strike The Frog with pepper balls, it [splits into a swarm of frogs or calls up all the other frogs in the land]."

There's some debate over the text. 🤣🐺

The Portland frog standing defiant against tyranny.

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Loglady Marmalade (Coleen) @coldbean.bsky.social · 11h

Ten years ago at a Nowruz party, Mr. Al came up to me and said, “My sister, I see you everywhere, what is your name?”
An awesome organizer and charming gentleman. I’m so glad to see his name lifted.

The Lens Nola @thelensnola.bsky.social · 14h

#TheLensNola🔍 Marshall is one of the main forces behind the Oct. 11 charter amendment that would amend the New Orleans Bill of Rights to add “conviction history” alongside race, religion, disability, and gender.

✍ Katie Sikora for ANTIGRAVITY Magazine

Full Story 🔗: buff.ly/2PTOggA

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liprap @liprap.bsky.social · 11h

I'd take that home anyway.

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liprap @liprap.bsky.social · 11h

It's the burbs, for crying out loud. There's loads of parking there. They SHOULD stay open 'til 9 pm. This used to be a proper country, indeed.

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liprap @liprap.bsky.social · 11h

The mall itself is open early for people to walk around in it, but the shops themselves? Not until 11, most of 'em. Just strange.

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 14h

Experimenting with a new concept using @queermedieval.bsky.social’s Portland Frog woodcut. Embracing goofiness as protest.

A poster in green ink on off white paper. In the center is a woodcut style illustration of a protester wearing an inflatable frog costume standing up against two ICE agents. The text above and below reads:

VIVE LA
RIBBITSTANCE

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liprap @liprap.bsky.social · 11h

Dogs and cats living together...

liprap @liprap.bsky.social · 11h

I went malling today and didn't realize the shops at the nearest big mall open at 11 am on a weekday.

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So Sayeth Black Lord: @jmood88.bsky.social · 11h

What’s really funny about this is that black people did stuff like this to white Americans, but because they thought black people were incapable of satire, they never picked up on it

Damion @damionmatthews.bsky.social · Feb 26

I’ll Be Glad When You Dead…

Buck Woods tells German-speaking Nazis what he thinks of them while performing in France. Somehow feels relevant these days.

From REUNION IN FRANCE, starring Joan Crawford and John Wayne, released on Christmas, 1942.

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liprap @liprap.bsky.social · 11h

Seersucker frogs.

liprap @liprap.bsky.social · 11h

My grandma back on LI still says dungarees. And pocketbook.

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liprap @liprap.bsky.social · 15h

Eh, it could be this...
bsky.app/profile/door...

liprap @liprap.bsky.social · 15h

I already have an inflatable T-Rex costume...

a clock hangs above a pepsi vending machine in a school cafeteria

Alt: T-rex costumed person is rolling through a school cafeteria on a wheeled office chair

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liprap @liprap.bsky.social · 16h

"My baby does the hanky panky..."

liprap @liprap.bsky.social · 16h

I think all of Bluesky is on the floor over Sherman.

liprap @liprap.bsky.social · 16h

a drawing of a person playing drums with the words `` ba dum tsss '' .

Alt: a drawing of a person playing drums with the words `` ba dum tsss '' .

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liprap @liprap.bsky.social · 16h

When the backyard pool needs cleaning, the amphibian noise after a good rain is deafening. That could be the next protest step, come to think of it...