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Amanda Hayes @mandalee.bsky.social · 1d

So sad. It'll be melted down by now 😖

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Darryl Mott 💀 @gamerstavernshow.com · 1d

I can't draw. Know what I do when I need art and can't make it myself? I check for free, legal sources like public domain or creative commons licensed art. Or I hire one of the many artists I know to make it for me (it's surprisingly cheap). I refuse to steal it.

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Peter du Toit @peterdutoit.com · 1d

Areas as risk as early as 2030 - just 4 years away.

#ClimateCrisis #SeaLevelRise

Map showing the Mekong Delta flooded as early as 2030.

Map from Climate Central's Coastal Risk Assessment Tool

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Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 1d

Help us get out of Gaza
let us rebuild our lives, please, my friends. share for us much as you can during this period, because there is news that the crossing will open so we can get out from Gaza.

Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 24d

Here is Jamal from Gaza whose family lost everything and he is trying with all his might to rebuild their lives and help them with the crazy costs in Gaza and travel outside Gaza when the crossings open. I hope you support us. Your little support, even if it is $5

chuffed.org/project/1389...

Help Jamal’s family leave the war zone and rebuild their life!

Hi my loves! My name is Caroline, and I created this fundraiser to help Jamal support his family as they fight to survive the genocide in Gaza, evacuate to safety, and eventually rebuild their lives f...

chuffed.org

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Mark MonroOoOoOoOo (Like a ghost, you see) - He/Him 🌈 @thatidiotmonro.bsky.social · 1d

"Oof" - Oswald Mosley's speech in Liverpool

Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 1d

Ah, happy 88th anniversary of the day Oswald Mosley tried to sell fascism to Liverpudlians – and someone concussed him with a brick

A man in a suit stands at a microphone which has been mounted on the roof of a van. There are loudspeakers at his feet, and a building behind him. He has an arm raised, and is flinching as projectiles are hurled at him, because he's a fucking Nazi

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 2d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them.

They should feel bad.

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Amanda Hayes @mandalee.bsky.social · 1d

Unforgettable, even

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Amanda Hayes @mandalee.bsky.social · 1d

I helped convince both my uni roommate and my sister to get tested, based in part on their self-medication with enormous quantities of coffee. Not precisely what you're talking about, I know, but we use whatever we can get...

and.my

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

Segal also said on Israeli television that there is no such thing as a phase two to the deal, and that the war will resume.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

Netanyahu's mouthpiece, Amit Segal, casually admits on Twitter that his country has been holding 1,700 people from Gaza hostage, including children.

Among other things, according to the decision:

- 250 security prisoners will be released.
- 1,700 residents of the Gaza Strip who were not involved in the events of October 7 and were arrested after the massacre will be released.
- 22 minors under the age of 18, residents of the Gaza Strip who were not involved in the events of October 7 and were arrested after the massacre, will be released.
- 360 bodies of terrorists will be returned.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting.

Larry Ferlazzo @larryferlazzo.bsky.social · 1d

Oklahoma’s Republican governor criticizes guard deployment. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Gov. Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma, a Republican and the chairman of the National Governors Association, on Thursday criticized the deployment of Texas National Guard troops to Illinois as a violation of his beliefs in federalism and “states’ rights.”

His comments, in an interview with The New York Times, marked the first time a Republican governor has questioned the interstate deployment of National Guard troops over a governor’s objections. Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois and other Democratic elected officials have been strongly critical of the move and have implored Republican governors to join the opposition.

Mr. Stitt on Thursday said, “We believe in the federalist system — that’s states’ rights,” adding, “Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 1d

At some point in the last 2.5 years I went to bed thinking of Israel as a flawed but recoverable democracy that could work out its issues eventually post-Netanyahu and woke up holding it in the same disdain as Milošević’s Yugoslavia and the Confederate States

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 2d

Apropos absolutely nothing else there is still a rather rude awakening which is yet to come for those in the Democratic Party and in the camp of liberalism writ large if they think Israel's public image is at all recoverable among young and nonwhite voters and apparatchiks.

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 1d

Israel existing as a democracy would naturally require a universal rule of law across all the territory it controls binding and protecting Palestinians, Jews, and all of the state’s ethnicities alike in enfranchisement, and Israel has neither had that nor demonstrated any willingness to make it so

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 1d

ME: Now Mom, just remember, there's a lot of disinformation and AI in your social feed and your friends' Facebook.
MOM: I know! My friend sent me this crazy post where someone used AI to make an image of a giant frog fighting Army troops!
ME: ... okay, no, that one's ... goddamit, Portland.

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Amanda Hayes @mandalee.bsky.social · 1d

The availability of numerous hot springs with wildly varying temperatures only added to the variety, and the mystique

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Amanda Hayes @mandalee.bsky.social · 1d

My lovely husband @sxh.bsky.social regaled me each night when we were camping in Yellowstone with tales from that lovely travel tome entitled "Death in Yellowstone". Unforgettable romance 🥰

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 1d

🚨Al-Hayya confirms what Drop Site reported yesterday that the ceasefire deal agreed to by Hamas and Israel includes the provision that Rafah crossing with Egypt would be open from both sides.

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Amanda Hayes @mandalee.bsky.social · 1d

I'm...not a LEGO expert, but I'm a Roman pottery specialist, if that's of any use?

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Amanda Hayes @mandalee.bsky.social · 1d

And that is how you create masterpieces.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

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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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 1d

Israel just bombed a home and now there are 40 people under the rubble.

They’re demolishing Gaza as quickly as they can while delaying their “peace” negotiations

UPDATE | The Israeli cabinet meeting to ratify the ceasefire agreement did not convene, despite an hour having passed since the scheduled time.
Additionally, the government session to approve the agreement, scheduled for 5:00 pm, was postponed to 6:30 PM, then to 8:00 PM.

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Amanda Hayes @mandalee.bsky.social · 1d

These are so bloody cool

Miles (post op) @blacksmoke1033.bsky.social · 1d

Anglerfish pins are on my store, they blink blink 🐡 blacksmoke1033.etsy.com

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Amanda Hayes @mandalee.bsky.social · 2d

So happy for you and yours, Jamal 💜

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 2d

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have discovered a powerful antibody, known as 04_A06, that is able to neutralize 98.5% of MORE THAN 300 different HIV strains AND permanently reduce HIV viral load to undetectable levels, making it one of the broadest-acting antibodies against HIV identified to date.

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Travis Reese (One of Many-Gravity's Rainbros) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 2d

People discuss how things may have to be reconciled in America if we have the chance to recover the system from the perverse actions taking place. The first order is for public officials to actually execute the tasks as Constitutional officers that they demured last time. It has to be done.

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