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slowhed @slowhed-comics.bsky.social · 1d

onetrooluff.bsky.social @onetrooluff.bsky.social · 3h

Very sad to live just a bit too far away to see @marthawells.com and @chuckwendig.bsky.social in PA tonight.... will console myself by curling up with my copy of Queen Demon.

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onetrooluff.bsky.social @onetrooluff.bsky.social · 3h

I just reposted him two minutes ago and I happen to be halfway through the first Davi book right now!

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 10h

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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onetrooluff.bsky.social @onetrooluff.bsky.social · 3h

OH SURE. And yet, I still can't get one for my 7-year-old.

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 4h

The Trump administration has been spreading anti-vaccine propaganda for months. Tonight, Trump's physician announced he just received a flu shot and a COVID booster.

onetrooluff.bsky.social @onetrooluff.bsky.social · 3h

Yeah.... no. I don't want to inflict it on other people, and I certainly don't want to smell other people.

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onetrooluff.bsky.social @onetrooluff.bsky.social · 11h

Fact-check info.

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 11h

Hegseth sucks. The Qataris suck. But we aren’t giving Qatar an airbase in Idaho. It’s building dorms etc. at an existing base to train them on F-15s we sold them, just like Singapore already has there. Common arrangement we have with lots of countries. This one was already being planned under Biden.

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Jay @rogueaiconstruct.bsky.social · 15h

It’s because of these assholes that I’ll be attending my first No Kings rally on October 18. I value my rights so much I’m doing what I think is the best course of action to preserve them, which is the opposite of “hating the country”.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15h

The House Majority Whip is also insisting that a peaceful "No Kings" demonstration is in fact a "hate America rally" held for the "terrorist wing" of the Democratic Party.

Really feels like they're trying to manifest a violent reaction to it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 1d

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 1d

Still amazed that the Vatican has been more responsive to the threat Trump represents than the vast majority of American institutions.

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 1d

A lapse in the National Flood Insurance Program when the government shut down threatens to snarl home sales in the nation’s riskiest floodplains and leave some homeowners without coverage in the middle of hurricane season.

Shutdown Cuts Off Flood Insurance Program During Storm Season

A lapse in the National Flood Insurance Program because of the US government shutdown threatens to snarl home sales in the nation’s riskiest floodplains and leave some homeowners without coverage in the middle of hurricane season.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 1d

There's no sci-fi dystopia as bleak as millions of people taking advice about pregnancy from Donald Trump.

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onetrooluff.bsky.social @onetrooluff.bsky.social · 1d

Humble Bundle has Star Wars novels with authors like @delilahsdawson.bsky.social, @chuckwendig.bsky.social, Claudia Gray, @mikechenwriter.bsky.social , @rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social, @bethrevis.bsky.social & more. I've read all but Glass Abyss & loved them all. www.humblebundle.com/books/star-w...

Humble Book Bundle: Star Wars Novels: Go Beyond the Films

We’ve teamed up with Random House Worlds for our newest bundle, featuring all the Star Wars stories you won’t see in the movies. Pay what you want and support charity!

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eric gonzalez juenke @egojunk.bsky.social · 1d

Students are going to love this. Love it so much they want to scream.

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Meghan Bartels @meghanbartels.bsky.social · 2d

The science is in: COVID boosters are worth it, even if you've been vaccinated and/or infected before. Stay safe out there, friends!: 🧪 🛟 www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-...

Annual COVID Vaccines Save Lives, New Study Shows

A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

www.scientificamerican.com

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StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 2d

The Oregon National Guard general says if they were to be deployed, they would be instructed under his leadership to protect the protesters and not ICE

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onetrooluff.bsky.social @onetrooluff.bsky.social · 2d

I would like to throw in a plug for some older titles like Zeroes, and Invasive, and the Aftermath trilogy (Sinjir Rath Velus!!). P.S. did you see that Snap Wexley's aunts made an appearance in the Star Wars Outlaws game? I was so excited!!

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 2d

yes this timeline is a rough route. yes there are waves of strife. but behind it all lies the inertia of all things which prompted fish to trot out of the ocean and humans to gather in commune. we are driven to fill the nothing with ourselves, with LOVE. its the unconquerable wind behind our sails

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onetrooluff.bsky.social @onetrooluff.bsky.social · 2d

Oops, I forgot One-Eyed Cat by Paula Fox.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 3d

This is how propaganda works. They slapped an image on this from Los Angeles in 1992 during Rodney King riots.

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Two National guardsmen stand guard outside a burning donut shop in Los Angeles on April 30, 1992.
The National Guard was called in to aid police during the second day of rioting in the city. (Mark
Elias/AP)

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onetrooluff.bsky.social @onetrooluff.bsky.social · 2d

September 2025 reads.

Lucky Day by Chuck Tingle; One Way Witch and Death of the Author, both by Nnedi Okorafor; the Fire-Eye and Rogue's Curse ElfQuest arcs; Sisters of the Vast Black by Lina Rather.

Drowned Country by Emily Tesh; A Pirate's Life for Tea by Rebecca Thorne; Lower Decks vol. 1 by Ryan North & Chris Fenoglio; The Memory of the Ogisi by Moses Ose Utomi; Don't Sleep with the Dead by Nghi Vo.

The Winter's Tale by Bruce Coville & LeUyen Pham; The Girl Who Thought in Pictures by Julia Finley Mosca & Daniel Rieley; But Not Too Bold by Hache Pueyo; The Knight and the Butcherbird by Alix E. Harrow; The Enchanted Greenhouse by Sarah Beth Durst.

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onetrooluff.bsky.social @onetrooluff.bsky.social · 2d

This whole thing is so frigging weird. He said it and then froze like an automaton that got switched off. Absolutely short-circuited, had no social skills to play it off or move on, just a deer in the headlights. And shame on CNN for editing it out!

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 3d

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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