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Very Old Pic of D. Gray @blurbette.blacksky.app · 1h

Giancarlo Esposito

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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 15h

"One ring 'to rule them all' poses risks for Middle Earth, some experts warn."
- Gondor Herald-Tribune

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🌈Dr. Franken Frizzle 🎃 @swilua.bsky.social · 1h

He was considered horrific BY THE PEOPLE WHO STARTED THE SPANISH INQUISITION

Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 4h

You don't have to judge Columbus by the standards of today. His tenure as governor of Hispaniola was so horrific that he was dragged back to Spain in chains to answer for his many crimes.

Plus he never set foot on any land that would ever be a part of the United States of America.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 22h

About a year ago I put down my marker and called it: one day, in my lifetime, we will look back on the social media economy as a weird counter cultural aberration and I will be very relieved.

Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 2d

An influencer asked to collab with a Scottsdale, AZ bakery and was told no thanks. Influencer then shows up, leaves a rude and condescending review, so the owner drops this video with receipts about how the include tried to “blackmail”. Wild.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8AfqYBh/

I will forever dedicate my time and energy to continue to make it right to the people who value my teams hard work and have respected us and supported us since day one. #review #influencer #bakery

TikTok video by JLPATISSERIE

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Shelly Penton @plaidsilk.bsky.social · 21h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Reviewer: "Where's the Bible?"

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Archives banned making copies.

Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 22h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

New library catalogue website.

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Shelly Penton @plaidsilk.bsky.social · 21h

NO

two women are standing next to each other in a grocery store . one of the women is pushing a shopping cart .

ALT: two women are standing next to each other in a grocery store . one of the women is pushing a shopping cart .

media.tenor.com

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Shelly Penton @plaidsilk.bsky.social · 22h

And before you ask, no, it wasn't satire.

I read it three times genuinely hoping it was.

Shelly Penton @plaidsilk.bsky.social · 22h

I read a blog by a conservative Christian who honest-to-God thought Parasite was a conservative movie because it was "pro-family."

At this point I'm begging for basic literacy.

Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 23h

instead of traditional political debates, the only prompt candidates should have to respond to is “please explain the themes of Watchmen and also the movie Parasite” and we can see what happens

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Shelly Penton @plaidsilk.bsky.social · 1d

Big yikes. :(

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SayItToMyFace🚫👑 @sayittomyface.bsky.social · 2d

Who do you believe- the reporter who says she did nothing wrong to cause her violent detainment and who they released hours later with no charges. Or the poorly trained aggressive ICE agents who hit a car as they sped away with the violently detained reporter? I wonder which one I believe? 🤔

Feds detain WGN-TV staffer, slam into resident’s car in Lincoln Square

Federal immigration authorities hit a car with a driver inside after making arrests in Lincoln Square on Chicago’s North Side.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

As I said a couple hours ago about a different fake video, you don't need to feel stupid if you fell for it.

The entire internet is drowning in this AI shit. And there's no easy solution. We're just fucking cooked as a society.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

Don’t feel stupid if you fell for fake video. It can be really hard to tell these days. But we do have to try and be careful with what we share because there’s so much AI video out there.

It’s just the world we live in now.

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Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove @wilsonhartgrove.bsky.social · 2d

The Trump regime is trying to label next Saturday’s No Kings Day “anti-Christian” and “anti-American,” but the flagship event of the last No Kings Day opened with a Christian preacher teaching the American history, the Constitution, and a Bible story. ourmoralmoment.substack.com/p/we-the-peo...

"We the People" are America's Power

Now is the time to link up, stand together, & reconstruct democracy

ourmoralmoment.substack.com

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 2d

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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Shelly Penton @plaidsilk.bsky.social · 2d

MIT on the govt's compact for "academic excellence":
"In our view, America’s leadership in science and innovation depends on independent thinking and open competition for excellence...Therefore, with respect, we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education."

Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart

orgchart.mit.edu

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 2d

They hate us for our freedoms, man, I dunno what else to say

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 2d

gonna keep reposting this until i don't have to

www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-t...

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 2d

i want a "resistance ranking" for dems that grades them on how seriously they're taking this

something like support for:

1. prosecuting gop criminality
2. court reform
3. procedural agressiveness
4. end ICE
5. trans rights
6. calling this fascism

+ points for having taken personal risks

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Lisette Titre-Montgomery @lisettetitre.bsky.social · 2d

This is what gaming leadership having vertebrae looks like

Toxic players cost us billions.
1/3rd of all gamers quit playing games all together due to toxicity.
We are losing players everyday

If you owned a restaurant and 1/3 of your customers left and never came back guess what you’d be? Closed

Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 3d

We banned a guy on the Steam forums for repeatedly saying there were “too many women” in our game

So he flipped his positive review to negative

Still totally worth it

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

These watches appear to be ripoffs of famous designs. Likely from some factory that normally produces "homage" watches and they just swapped out the branding.

Comparison of Trump watches to similar looking models from Patek Philippe

Comparison of Trump watches to similar looking models from Rolex

Comparison of Trump watches to similar looking models from Rolex and Hublot

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Shelly Penton @plaidsilk.bsky.social · 3d

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Shelly Penton @plaidsilk.bsky.social · 3d

Taps the *S U E T H E S H IT O U T O F T H E M* sign

Screenshot of NYT headline: "Librarian Fired in Books Dispute to Receive $700,000 Settlement"

Caption: "A library director in Wyoming who was fired two years ago because she refused to remove books with sexual content and LGBTQ themes from a library’s children and young adult sections was awarded $700,000 in a settlement on Wednesday."

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 3d

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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Caris Adel @carisadel.bsky.social · 3d

This is affecting local government and school district budgets too 🫠

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 3d

1/ Listen: the people who can’t afford ACA hikes or are getting kicked off Medicare are the priority. But…last year my company saw a 17% increase in healthcare costs. This year we are projecting 20%.

Every year for idk a decade has been at least 10%

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Kathryn @kathrynlaughon.bsky.social · 3d

Today the UVA School of Nursing passed, with overwhelming support, a resolution demanding that the rector and interim president reject the compact. bit.ly/3KPRMKV

SON resolution against the compact

The University of Virginia School of Nursing places the ethical principles of our profession at the center of its work. The American Nurses Association's Nursing Code of Ethics affirms nurses' obligat...

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 3d

Years ago I was teaching my gun history class and at the end of the quarter one of the students said that he was in the campus TPUSA chapter and they put him up to taking the class to spy on me but he felt bad about that because he loved the class and learned a lot and had a great time

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