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Middle-Aged Bear

@middleagedbear.bsky.social

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Middle-aged bear in Chicago. Nerd. Partner to a great guy. Lover of science, art, books, food, travel, music, gardening, nature, photography. Hater of whatever it is that's going on with America right now.

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Middle-Aged Bear @middleagedbear.bsky.social · 4d

Chicagoans do not f around

Middle-Aged Bear @middleagedbear.bsky.social · 10d

“The Lighthouse” is a film in which Robert Pattinson is slowly driven to madness by Willem Dafoe’s farts.

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taber @kvetch.gay · 16d

Here's a link to the open letter — it's Good Stuff. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Middle-Aged Bear @middleagedbear.bsky.social · 18d

Update: later estimates put the total between 250,000 and 300,000

Middle-Aged Bear @middleagedbear.bsky.social · 19d

Tribune estimates over 100,000 people showed up in today’s No Kings / Hands Off Chicago rally in Grant Park

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Middle-Aged Bear @middleagedbear.bsky.social · 20d

#nokings #handsoffchicago #chicago #savedemocracy

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Middle-Aged Bear @middleagedbear.bsky.social · 20d

The Lighthouse is Brokeback Mountain with tentacle porn

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 21d

oh man they did it for real

TMW panel with ICE officers arresting statue of liberty

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · Oct 6

In addition to their national defense duties, Americans rely on our National Guard to fight wildfires and respond to other natural disasters.

Donald Trump's weaponization of the Guard and deployments to American cities erodes that trust, and makes us less prepared when they are most needed.

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Middle-Aged Bear @middleagedbear.bsky.social · Oct 6

Pissed off, dismayed and horrified at the way the Republican regime is invading our city, gassing and shooting civilians, and then trying to paint those civilians as dangerous terrorists.

Middle-Aged Bear @middleagedbear.bsky.social · Oct 4

Last night I watched JAWS, a fable in which greedy politicians ignore scientists and career civil servants, and a lot of people get eaten.

Middle-Aged Bear @middleagedbear.bsky.social · Sep 24

I think you’re right

Middle-Aged Bear @middleagedbear.bsky.social · Sep 24

Hades and Persephone?

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Middle-Aged Bear @middleagedbear.bsky.social · Aug 26

Food for thought, and perhaps hope.
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New_ Public @newpublic.org · Aug 25

Nothing demonstrates the potential benefits of decentralized social media better than Blacksky.

Seeing the demand for safe and inclusive digital spaces by and for Black communities, @rudyfraser.com and his team used AT Protocol to design and quickly scale the platform into a thriving community.

🔭🖤🚀 Social media’s next evolution: decentralized, open-source, and scalable

How Blacksky grew to millions of users without spending a dollar

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Middle-Aged Bear @middleagedbear.bsky.social · Aug 26

This is some Ba Sing Se shit

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Israeli strikes kill 22, including 5 journalists, in a Gaza hospital

Israeli forces killed 22 people, including five journalists, in two strikes on Gaza's Nasser Hospital, drawing global condemnation and prompting a rare admission of regret from the Israeli government.

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Middle-Aged Bear @middleagedbear.bsky.social · Aug 23

She was just seventeen
Too old for Epstein
On a private jet, on the way to his private isle,
He used to hang with The Donald
(oooooooooo!)
Release the Epstein files!

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🇨🇦Greg Stefan aka Fella Dogfather 🇨🇦 @ih8handles.bsky.social · Aug 22

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Middle-Aged Bear @middleagedbear.bsky.social · Aug 22

Like, I woke up, but I still live here.

Middle-Aged Bear @middleagedbear.bsky.social · Aug 22

Last night I had a dream that I was trying to escape from a megachurch filled with fundamentalist vampires, and goddamn if that’s not an apt metaphor for America

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bingley567 @bingley567.bsky.social · Jul 31

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Anonymous ⩜ @youranona.bsky.social · Aug 1

Israel's blockade on Gaza is causing a starvation crisis, with no infant formula available and malnourished mothers unable to breastfeed, leading to 159 hunger deaths including 90 kids. #Gaza

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · Jul 31

I wish a very happy “fuck you” to everyone who thought throwing trans people under the bus was going to stop these lunatics

Their goal has *always* been the eradication of the entire LGBTQ+ community, and they’re not gonna stop at Obergefell either

This is why we fight for *everyone*

Imani Gandied Yams @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · Jul 31

And so it begins...

Evangelical legal group asks Supreme Court to overturn same-sex marriage ruling [Obergefell v. Hodges]

Evangelical legal group asks Supreme Court to overturn same-sex marriage ruling

(RNS) — ‘We think that it’s not a matter of if, but just a matter of when, the Supreme Court will overrule Obergefell,’ said Mathew Staver, head of Liberty Counsel.

religionnews.com

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Middle-Aged Bear @middleagedbear.bsky.social · Jul 30

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Dutch Art Nouveau book covers and ephemera? Sign me up

LET’S GO DUTCH: HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE DE VEEZE COLLECTION AT THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU LIBRARY

Not long ago, I had the pleasure of being asked to provide some guests from the Netherlands with a private tour, highlighting, of course, the incredible range of Dutch language materials in our rar…

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Middle-Aged Bear @middleagedbear.bsky.social · Jul 25

Horrified and frustrated by what is happening in Gaza