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💀 miscalex 🧛‍♀️🎃

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trying to escape the cone of uncertainty 🎶🎶🎶 manatee (IYKYK). Hiraeth & fernweh connoisseur. Wimsey-infatuated 🧐 social & fashion history ~ sighthounds En rafraîchir mon français🇫🇷 YNWA ⚽️ 🌻 To be wise, one might have stayed at home at Summer Street!

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💀 miscalex 🧛‍♀️🎃 @miscalex.bsky.social · 3d

Just going to alternate between pinning this one and Niyazov wiki until the grid shuts down, I guess

💀 miscalex 🧛‍♀️🎃 @miscalex.bsky.social · Mar 6

no idea how it took me so long to remember this evergreen banger
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MUSE - WE ARE FUCKING FUCKED (Official Performance Video)

YouTube video by Muse

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

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Jake Rudh @jakerudh.bsky.social · 9h

On this day in 1997, David Bowie released the single "I'm Afraid of Americans” from his 21st studio album "Earthling”

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💀 miscalex 🧛‍♀️🎃 @miscalex.bsky.social · 13h

Like the world wasn't depressing enough, f'ing Beach Santa (& more warmly dressed compatriots) on full display next to a ton of other Xmas crap at CVS. It's not even HALLOWEEN yet! And it's still 90°+ outside
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Victoria Haddock @vickyhaddock.bsky.social · 19h

Actress Lillian Gish, "The First Lady of American Cinema," was born #OnThisDay in 1893. This 1920s silk Fortuny Delphos dress, embellished with glass beads, was gifted by Gish's estate to the Met Museum useum. Lillian and her sister Dorothy were both clients of Fortuny. #fashionhistory

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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 1d

It's pretty random which books stand the test of time. For every acknowledged classic, there are a at least half a dozen books that are just as good and no one remembers them except one grad student or crazy bookstore owner.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 1d

Holy crap. This is terrible.

The article states it's "not related to the current U.S. government shutdown". But of course it is: they are both connected by the GOP destroying everything good about this country from the top down and the bottom up.

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d

Some CDC layoffs from last week have been reversed. But not for the analysts responsible for monitoring and protecting the United States from biological, chemical and nuclear threats www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Hundreds of CDC layoffs reversed, but biodefense preparedness staff hit

More than half of the roughly 1,300 CDC layoff notices have been rescinded, but workers at health agencies who work on biodefense and mental health still lost their jobs.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Nellie Cubed @nelnelnellie.bsky.social · 1d

This swan sculpture in Elk Horn, Iowa, is made out of recycled plastic buckets and moves in the wind. Absolutely loved it.

There can be beauty in the smallest things and places.

(It’s on the grounds of the Danish American Museum.)

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 1d

The final guest to arrive at Trump's peace summit is Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

Oh wait no, it's actually... FIFA President Gianni Infantino.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Today, House Republicans will take their 70th day off with pay in the last 82 days.

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 2d

“More than $6 billion in DeSantis ‘emergency’ contracts are missing legally required public documentation”

Daniel Ducassi for Florida Bulldog

More than $6 billion in DeSantis ‘emergency’ contracts are missing legally required public documentation

By Daniel Ducassi, FloridaBulldog.org - More than $6 billion in DeSantis ‘emergency’ contracts missing legally required public documentation.

www.floridabulldog.org

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Craig Engler @craigengler.bsky.social · 2d

Sunday night, 51% funded with 19 days to go.

You've got 19 days to get the best Halloween puzzle🎃🧩 ever created. It comes with a podcast 🎤, a playlist🎵, a watchlist🎥, a recipe🍪, and a SUPER SECRET envelope✉️:

www.kickstarter.com/projects/448...

The Great Halloween Puzzle & Podcast

A Halloween mystery puzzle that changes as you build it, with a podcast that gives you clues and tells you the history of Halloween.

www.kickstarter.com

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 2d

Work harder and die

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Lynn Stahl @msbtterswrth.altgov.info · 3d

Hot off the presses! If you need a bigger size to print your stickers let me know!

The Portland frog as a founding father, surround by the words "give me ribberty or give me death"

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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 2d

Women have powered the economy:
- First money was cloth, woven by women
- Ancient Roman women owned ships, shops & clay beds
- Huang Dao Po created a multiple thread spinning wheel, making China center of global cloth production
- Created consumer banking
www.fastcompany.com/91416986/fiv...

Five ways women have historically powered the economy

Here are just five of the (many) ways that women have powered the global economy from the Stone Age to the present day.

www.fastcompany.com

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 2d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Jake Rudh @jakerudh.bsky.social · 2d

On this day in 1981, U2 released their second studio album “October” featuring "Gloria” "I Fall Down" "Rejoice" "Fire" and "With a Shout"

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @resistrebelrevolt.net · 2d

A priest led 1000 Catholics in a Eucharistic Procession from St. Eulalia Church to Broadview - monstrance in hand - to give Holy Communion to detainees.

DHS denied them even though prisoners, by law, can't be denied religious rights.

Christian Nationalism is phony baloney straight-up evil!

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 2d

The Trump administration has promoted the anti-vax, anti-science movement which has now produced an epidemic www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks

At least 270 unvaccinated kids are staying home from school as measles continues to spread nationwide. "Expect more," one expert said.

www.nbcnews.com

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 3d

Has lived in the US since he was NINE MONTHS OLD.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 3d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

Epstein files giving House Republicans over two months paid vacation and counting.

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 3d

Seeing a lot of celebration of this as a win.

But at NIH we have seen this exact play before.

It looks like it is the Vought strategy -and to stop the lawless firings we have to see the bigger picture.
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Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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🎃nisillos @onisillos.bsky.social · 3d

“If H5N1 does make the jump in the US, we will likely not know about it until it is already a pandemic.”

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The Death of Public Health

Another Friday night massacre, but this time it's not just an essential federal public health agency that will die

open.substack.com

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 3d

We’ve reported extensively on how the FDA allowed foreign drugmakers to send generic medications to the U.S. from factories with filthy labs and contaminated equipment.

This month, we’re digging deeper and could use your help. THREAD/

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 3d

Lots of Epidemic Intelligence Service officers ("disease detectives") gone.
In-country staff in Africa (including those helping to manage the current Ebola outbreak) are fired.

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