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Luarien [$150/$600]

@luarien.bsky.social

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I will not reskeet your art or your memes without alt text Pan and polyam writer and gamer too distracted by needing to beg for support to do anything fun. Also continually frustrated anarchist. 🔞 If you want to help me, https://ko-fi.com/luarien

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Luarien [$150/$600] @luarien.bsky.social · 3d

It's #MutualAid Monday and time for a new post! I've got fibromyalgia and can't work anymore, and thanks to Trump I've lost SNAP, so I need your help paying rent and buying food! Please share and donate if you can!

venmo.com/code?user_id...
www.paypal.me/luarien
cash.app/$Luarien
gofund.me/9074f134

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Luarien [$150/$600] @luarien.bsky.social · 4h

Unfortunately you can't grow old there right now due to a very complex tachyon field that prevents cellular change. You don't age but you have very strange memory issues

Newfound Planets @i-find-planets.bsky.social · 5h

They have discovered a planet. The sun glows a strong cerulean. In the future, you could grow old there.

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Big Demon Energy @mayawest.online · 5h

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Peanut (Repost Pinned) @peanutium.art · 6h

Food: 100/100
Internet (16th): 0/200
Car (21st): 0/563

$givepancake
paypal.me/inosaramet
Venmo: pancakewitch
www.gofundme.com/f/support-sa...
ko-fi.com/peanutliquid

#helpfolkslive2025
#mutualaid
#transcrowdfund
💸💞

Picture of Peanuts black cat laying down on a black blanket

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Luarien [$150/$600] @luarien.bsky.social · 4h

Grammar's a little weird but yeah, I'm not an e ticket attraction. I'm weird, disabled, ugly, and technically never graduated high school. I'm more of a party favor.

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Psychotronic Fanzine @fanzine.bsky.social · 16h

Both Marvel and DC higher ups saying this plainly this week is pretty good to see

Comicsbeat @comicsbeat.bsky.social · 16h

NYCC ’25: Cebulski says “we don’t condone AI in the Marvel Comics division”

Marvel editor-in-chief C.B. Cebulski spoke against AI at New York Comic Con, stating that Marvel does not and will not use it.

NYCC ’25: Cebulski says “we don’t condone AI in the Marvel Comics division”

Marvel editor-in-chief C.B. Cebulski spoke against AI at New York Comic Con, stating that Marvel does not and will not use it.

www.comicsbeat.com

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NPR @npr.org · 23h

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down. n.pr/3KIfcSn

This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

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Émile Darkheim @rntropy.bsky.social · 4d

This is a great piece. The rise of Bari Weiss is a crystalline example of how thoroughly American meritocracy has been corrupted into a form of courtcraft and a spoils system where mediocrities are rewarded for telling the wealthy and powerful what they want to hear.

Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 4d

I wrote about the ascendance of Bari Weiss from a hack columnist to media royalty, and what it means for the future of CBS News.

Bari Weiss Takes Her Grift Mainstream

Journalism's biggest fraud takes the reins at CBS

stringinamaze.net

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 23h

i spent the last few months reporting on a wild question: what makes a british aristocrat decide to become a big MAGA booster??? read my lengthy answer here: www.vanityfair.com/news/story/l...

Lady Victoria Hervey, British ’90s It Girl Turned Mar-a-Lago Habitué, Wants to Make England Great Again

A pandemic-era political awakening turned this aristocrat into a MAGA-hat-collecting Trump booster—and now she’s telling Vanity Fair why she backs Nigel Farage.

www.vanityfair.com

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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 5h

It's like he's doing what the previous Administration should've done to the insurrectionists to prevent another insurrection but instead to chill any future attempts to stop insurrection

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15h

trump was prosecuted for real crimes and now he's punishing the people who prosecuted him with fake crimes

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Chris A Field, Otherverse Games @otherverseg.bsky.social · 6h

She's carrying all the groceries inside in one trip.

becca | they/them @beccaisoutside.bsky.social · 12h

this is the most pollen ive ever seen on a single bug, shes having the time of her life

photo of a bee covered all-over with bright orange pollen.

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 5h

Here's the thing. Over the last few days people have wanted to discourse, or play lawyer, or be petty and weird with minutia

Whatever.

It's real simple to me.

Link being permanently banned is wrong. That decision should be reversed.

Period.

Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 6h

Link's ban is wrong and should be reversed.

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 4h

Sharif still smiling but still needing help for his family

Sharif 🎬169 @shadowtrace.bsky.social · 19h

Come, let me take you on a journey among the broken-hearted.
We rejoice for a moment, then fall silent
not because we hate joy,
but because it has betrayed us so many times.
The kind-hearted ones only are you still with me?
Your support is the safety valve 😔

chuffed.org/project/sharif

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Luarien [$150/$600] @luarien.bsky.social · 4h

I mean it could be worse.

In the few times I've had money to donate to GDQ I've saved it for the summer event because I like MSF a lot. (Not to say the Prevent Cancer Foundation isn't good but MSF is both amazing and incredibly important)

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 8h

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 9h

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 4h

I am bound by the ancient contract of the internet to repost this.

👻 YSUBoOooOooOo 👻 @bassoonysu.bsky.social · 5h

As is always correct and in accordance with all the laws of the internet, I just watched Tom Holland's epic Lip Sync Battle performance, and now I am sharing it with all of you so you can do the same.

Lip Sync Battle - Tom Holland

YouTube video by Comedy Central Latinoamérica

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Luarien [$150/$600] @luarien.bsky.social · 4h

There's a couple of accounts that are some kind of hot woman doing sex work that will like random posts of mine but haven't updated in months and it feels weird.

Like it feels weird when hot people pay attention to me in any capacity but this is less social awkwardness and more security paranoia.

Luarien [$150/$600] @luarien.bsky.social · 10h

Praise quick mac and cheese, or Kraft dinner for your Canuckistanians. It's cheap, it's effective, and even I can do it while my knees are making very convincing arguments for amputation.

Please help me stay housed and fed so I can be this well off at least since the next step down is dangerous.

Luarien [$150/$600] @luarien.bsky.social · 3d

Venmo | Daniel Samuelson

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Luarien [$150/$600] @luarien.bsky.social · 11h

I'm using my pony/jigger to measure milk to make macking cheese

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Sol ⚜️ The Fairy Princess 🩵🎀✨ @atompalace.bsky.social · 13d

diagnosis: STINKY
prescription: wash
verdict: Not Happy!!!!!
#pokemon #sylveon

Doodle of a Sylveon cornered in a shower and being rinsed, throwing its head back and letting out a woeful wail; reminiscent of most cats’ reactions to being washed

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Adam 🪿 @vexnir.bsky.social · 18h

Cozy and stylish ✨

#art #cuteart #gouache

Gouache illustration of a black cat wearing a scarf with various geometric patterns on it. The scarf is in warm shades with some green accents.

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AnthonyJK_RGC $335/$2,000 For Restoring Disability Benefits @anthonyjk-rgc.bsky.social · 19h

Now down to needing $720 by tomorrow morning!! Rent, past due bills, and food!!

ONE MORE DAY LEFT TO SAVE ME FROM EVICTION!!

💸💕

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cash.app/AnthonyJK6319
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22h

This pretty much captures the contradictions of the politics of Kirk and Turning Point: Of course we oppose doxxing and violence, but we will absolutely use inflammatory language, false claims, and enemies list that fuels threats and intimidation.

Several days after publishing the petition calling for Dr. Bray’s dismissal from Rutgers, the Turning Point USA chapter added an update saying that it did not support harassment or the doxxing of him or anyone else.

“I think that all death threats and doxxing are unjustified and not how political disputes should be resolved in civilized society,” Ava Kwan, a Turning Point USA chapter member, said in an email on Wednesday.
But she defended the broader point of the petition, saying, “I think Dr. Antifa, who believes in violence as a political tool, should be fired, of course. Taxpayer money should not fund the salaries of terrorists.”

For years, Turning Point USA has maintained a watch-list of hundreds of professors whom the group accuses of advancing leftist propaganda in the classroom. Dr. Bray is on the list.

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 14h

The same Trump-selected prosecutor who indicted James Comey has indicted New York Attorney General Tish James on alleged mortgage fraud, following sustained pressure from Trump to pursue his political enemies.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

New York Attorney General Letitia James, a Trump foe, is indicted by Trump’s DOJ

She has been charged with two criminal counts by the same U.S. attorney who brought charges against James Comey.

www.politico.com

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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 14h

In the distance I heard a metallic POP and then a fizzing noise. I had assumed the beagle had found and exploded a coke zero bottle of mine and got up to clean it up.

Then the smell started wafting into the room.

It turns out that the beagle had found, chewed on, and penetrated one of these:

A spray bottle of "concentrated room spray" scents from Bath and Body Works

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Autumn @alpacawax.bsky.social · 17h

35/550 2 Weeks
35/150 Fri/Food
35/300 Fri/Sat/Food

Due before 11am. Allowing Dad, and I, to get my paperwork sorted. Find help fixing the van's cooling. And just not worry about shelter. Anything helps, tysm!

autumnalpaca.carrd.co
Venmo: AlpacaWax
#mutualaid #helpsky #helpfolkslive2025 💸💕

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Luarien [$150/$600] @luarien.bsky.social · 17h

Thanks! <3