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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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sariane @sarriane.bsky.social · 2d

Annatar from the Rings of Power with a tweet from Chase Passive Income: Huge dating mistake I made:
Only dating women in their 20s
The problem: they have low salaries and don't have a valuable professional network
Then I realized that 60-year old men make 10x as much and have amazing professional networks
Now I exclusively date men in their 60s
No coincidence that my career and investments have taken off.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 1d

1. Last night, 26 Senate Dems helped pass a NDAA containing a military trans sports and surgery ban and dropped demands for protections against US troop deployments in the bill.

It is the latest in the national fight over must-pass bills during the shutdown.

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26 Senate Democrats Help Pass Military NDAA Containing Trans Sports, Surgery Ban, No Protection For US Troop Deployments

The bill passed by a wide margin in the Senate and will be the starting point for negotiations with the House, which contain more severe anti-trans riders.

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🇵🇸 Caleb 𓇼 ⋆｡˚ 𓆝⋆｡˚ 𓇼 🏳️‍⚧️ @littlestpersimmon.bsky.social · May 16

The Little World Next Door

A knight from a worn book leans over to kiss his beloved on a different book, The Lonely Prince. Stars glow around them, small lilies, star and glass bead pendants, and a string of hearts on a porcelain pot..

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tar-minyatur’s court twink ✵ @caranthirs.bsky.social · 2d

i post stuff like this primarily because i mean it but also it helps to fend off the wrong kind of lord of the rings guys who occasionally follow me

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 3d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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🍂🖋️ Thelien🖋️🍂 YCH Halloween COMMS OPEN @tarrthelien.bsky.social · 3d

Andreth, my girl :´)

#tolkien #silmarillion #jrrtolkien #athrabethfinrodahandreth #tolkienart #silmart #tolkienfanart #silmfanart #fantasy #andreth #andrethsaelind #houseofbeor

Andreth has brown, braided hair she is holding with both her hands as she looks wishfully up to her right. She has brown green eyes and a dark tattoo on her lip to her chin and hands. She is wearing a green dress with a blue belt, a redish coat over, and a cape shaped like moth wings with fur on top. Her braid is held with bronze pins shaped like moths as well as pale ribbons. She is wearing a belt, bracelets, necklaces, and earrings in bronze and different coloured pearls, as well as a loose cirlet.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 4d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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MGCoco | Tolkientober 🎨 @mgcoco.bsky.social · 4d

#Tolkientober Day 7: Ósanwë

Air dropping some memes

#TolkienTrewsday #art

Legolas looking smug with an airdrop symbol over his head. Around him are memes of Isildur saying No, Boromir one doesn’t simply meme, low opacity Elrond, and Keep your secrets Frodo

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ttrtru @ttrtru.bsky.social · 4d

Inktober 2025 8.) Reckless
Reckless actions of the last moments of #Feanor

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amazed grandis @samarqand.bsky.social · 5d

‘from the river to the sea’ is not a plea. it is a demand. victory and peace to the Palestinian people.
two years of genocide.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 5d

There has always been a small, noisy minority of gay people whose belief in gay rights boils down to "I shouldn't have to give up any of my prejudices because of who I am." And straight people in media have always fallen all over themselves to hire them.

Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 5d

I kind of can’t believe this Bari Weiss quote is even real, and yet www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

“I know that there are some people in this room who don’t believe that my marriage should have been legal … and that’s ok. Because we’re all Americans who want lower taxes.”

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Drew Schnoebelen @dschnoeb.bsky.social · 4d

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visitor @lonelyvisitor.bsky.social · 5d

Always here 2 stoke the flames 😈😈 midcentury and closeted an incredible vibe for these two

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visitor @lonelyvisitor.bsky.social · 5d

Only thinking of them as predatory house flippers / probably reality tv show hosts from now on

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visitor @lonelyvisitor.bsky.social · 5d

Down with Love was on in a bar I was at this weekend and I was like, this could be curufinrod’ed (already a pastiche of sex and the single girl is it not??)

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visitor @lonelyvisitor.bsky.social · 5d

“they flip kingdoms” i am assuming can only refer to galadriel and celeborn rofllllllll

By-the-Bywater @bythebywater.bsky.social · 5d

Anyway, our latest episode is live! This time around it's marriage as portrayed in Tolkien's works, which is far less straightforward than it might seem. Art as ever by @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social here showcasing Galadriel's travails with the Purse...

79. Some People Flip Houses, They Flip Kingdoms. | By-The-Bywater

On marriage in Tolkien.

megaphonic.fm

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By-the-Bywater @bythebywater.bsky.social · 5d

Anyway, our latest episode is live! This time around it's marriage as portrayed in Tolkien's works, which is far less straightforward than it might seem. Art as ever by @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social here showcasing Galadriel's travails with the Purse...

79. Some People Flip Houses, They Flip Kingdoms. | By-The-Bywater

On marriage in Tolkien.

megaphonic.fm

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MGCoco | Tolkientober 🎨 @mgcoco.bsky.social · 5d

Happy Mid Autumn Festival! Mooncakes with Earendil, Idril, and Luthien’s heraldic devices. 🥮 #Tolkien #art

Mooncakes with Earendil, Idril, and Luthien’s heraldic devices on them.

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Robin Propst @robinpropst.bsky.social · 7d

Tolkientober: Hope
- Yé! utúvienyes!

#Tolkientober
#Tolkien

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MGCoco | Tolkientober 🎨 @mgcoco.bsky.social · 7d

#Tolkientober Day 4: Armor

Life, in defiance of death #art

Adar’s armor on the ground, worn from time. Simbelmynë and other wildflowers grow around it

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harpy halloween @harpy.party · 8d

the sky was transgender, like a tv tuned to a gay channel

shitty cellphone image of an evening sky that is all bands of blue and pink

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TobermorianSass @tobermoriansass.bsky.social · 8d

Offering #2: xeno noncon eggpreg transfem!Luthien/Celegorm ft forcefem and answering desultory questions abt "how to make eggpreg scientifically accurate" "can Celegorm ever improve" and "what is a woman" - archiveofourown.org/works/71314406

New Session | Archive of Our Own

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

archiveofourown.org

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 8d

🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨

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Lyds @lydiacroftart.bsky.social · 9d

Hello, I've opened a patreon ♡
www.patreon.com/Lydia_croft_...

Drawing of thranduil speaking to elrond in a conceited manner. The speech bubble says "patreon open, lydia_croft_art "

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