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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 1d

You know who loves that "you want to take a skate on the ice inside my veins" line? The ice skater fan edit creators, that's who.

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Rosa @prollywillquit.bsky.social · 4d

I experience Taylor Swift mostly through fan edits of shows I like -my favorite has already released some with her new songs...and I love them. This is a very fancy version of that. (complimentary)

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Rosa @prollywillquit.bsky.social · 6d

Kesley Mitchell. Star. Star. Star.

Fever star Kelsey Mitchel in the Fever black uniform facing Halibuton the pacer player in the stands he and the rest of the crowd is wearing the red "Now you Know" shirts and he is giving and enthusastic high five to Kelsey after she did another amaizng play.

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 8d

The Pope is the Holy Father because a major skill is driving the vehicle carefully to the destination while tuning out that the kids are fighting like dogs in the back and demanding you sort it out when you have no intention of getting into that squabble unless you absolutely unavoidably have to.

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Rosa @prollywillquit.bsky.social · 7d

i went to a public school montessori elementary school (there was lottery to get in ) so in class you were grouped with kids at the same level in whatever subject and then magnet schools you had to apply for (plus lottery) for the rest. So everybody in the program wanted to be there. that helped

Rosa @prollywillquit.bsky.social · 8d

the line they gave on the Sound of Music tour I went on was that the movie guys wanted the crowd of extras in Salzberg to sing Edelweiss and they were suprised no one knew it.

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Small But Kinda Mighty @sbkm.bsky.social · 12d

For those of us who have been aware of anti-vaxxers for a long time, these horrifying names keep popping up…

Like David Geier, not a physician but advocate of chemical castration as “treatment” for autism.

Now Mark Blaxill (not a doctor either), of Age of Autism infamy…

Really disturbing.

Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 12d

He helped build the anti-vaccine movement. RFK Jr. just hired him: Among other things, Mark Blaxill tried to deter parents in Minnesota from getting MMR in the middle of a measles outbreak. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/r... via @msnbc.com @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social

Mark Blaxill helped build the anti-vaccine movement. RFK Jr. just hired him at CDC.

Neither a physician nor a scientist, new CDC senior adviser Mark Blaxill claims without evidence that every child who takes vaccines is in some way injured.

www.msnbc.com

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Rosa @prollywillquit.bsky.social · 13d

I keep thinking The Shriners would be great for this day in age...funny hats, tiny cars, acts of service, day drinking, there has to be something of interest for people 40 and under

Rosa @prollywillquit.bsky.social · 14d

I agree it is a bit wild how far some of the younger people take it...but on screen ..its actual actors and of course books ..its not real people...I can tolerate a lot more bad stuff happening to kids in books than on screen in part because sometimes thinking about the kid actor gets in the way

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strap_tap @strap-tap.bsky.social · 20d

REPORTER: What would you say to those who question whether Sandy should be here next year to coach you guys again?

STEWIE: What Da Fuck

#WNBA

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 16d

It doesn’t matter how righteous or popular your cause is if you can’t do messaging right to the general population

Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 16d

More from the Suffolk University poll: www.suffolk.edu/-/media/suff...

Do you support or oppose "defund the police"?
Support - 21%
Oppose - 74%

Would you support or oppose cutting some of the police budget and using the money for social services?
Support - 54%
Oppose - 41%

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Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · 16d

And refugee resettlement and a host of other social goods now actively targeted for destruction by Elon, Stephen Miller and self-described 'Christian Nationalists.'

Selling out immigrants and trans folk isn't the move. Networking at a Methodist chicken BBQ is the move. bsky.app/profile/leth...

ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 16d

I've said this before but every emergency homeless shelter and the majority of the food banks in my county are run by churches.

Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · 16d

2025 has brought incredible clarity that mainline protestant churches simply must be reinforced as counterweight to the SBC/Megachurch conglomerate. Not that they're all 'liberal' necessarily but they actually do the work to be a social glue instead of a partisan tax evasion & radicalization scheme.

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 20d

6-7, 6-7, 6-7 skibidi
6-7, 6-7, 6-7 skibidi
Ohio, a big back Ohio!
An alpha sigma rizzler
Go back to Ohio. Slay!

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 20d

New "do-re-mi" for Gen Alpha just dropped

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Rosa @prollywillquit.bsky.social · 19d

that is exactly what I did when I was 16 and worked my first month as a MCL Cafeteria worker. I layed right down on the floor and cried. I knew I was being ridiculous but...also right. I got over it of course..but I still feel in my heart I was correct.

Rosa @prollywillquit.bsky.social · 19d

Michaels Baltutis shows how people live and interact with Hinduism, breaks it up into dual chapters each taking on an different aspect. talks about changes over time. mentioned Deepa Mehta's movie. gave it a watch..also Great! the book helped me appreciate the story so much more.

movie poster, large blue letters FIRE the title of the movie and under that "a deepa mertha film" in red on a yellow background on the top third of the poster two Indian women one in her 30s and another early 20s both smiling

book cover. what is Hinduism: A student's introduction, Michael Baltutis
top of cover green and white mural of Ganesh sitting with a shelf in front with various tin cans red and green and silver

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Rosa @prollywillquit.bsky.social · 29d

jokes dealing with the darkness we live in make sense, not caring about Kirk makes sense, pushing forward other groups and people who we should care about makes sense..but pretending that political assassination ever leads to anything good is idiotic, childish, and terrible.

Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 29d

If you are cheering on a political assassination you can go straight to hell I am so serious.

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 29d

I think we should put forward a bill for the Charlie Kirk Memorial Assault Weapons Ban.

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Rosa @prollywillquit.bsky.social · Sep 9

I hear ya. I avoid driving on the highway around my city at all costs because of some insane random experiences I've had..you do what you have to do to make it through the day...if its being afraid of public transport so be it.

Rosa @prollywillquit.bsky.social · Sep 9

anyone who calls folks concerned about the impact of A.I "lazy luddites" really hasn't read up on who the "Luddites" were....lazy was the absolute last thing you would ever call them. They were not against technology just against allowing the use of technology to steal their humanity.

bnacker @bnacker.bsky.social · Sep 9

Starting to regret inventing the podcast

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Rosa @prollywillquit.bsky.social · Sep 7

I am a natural centrist..but watching this unfold over my adult life as pushed me so far away from compromise that no one I know will talk to me about it anymore (which is fine I am not intrested in arguing)

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · Sep 6

Exactly. Exactly. We know there is no compromise to be had on immigration *BECAUSE DEMOCRATS HAVE TRIED TO BROKER ONE FOR 30 YEARS*.

Three f’ing decades! As long as Jerusalem Demsas, who offered another “let’s hear the right out” proposal this week, has been alive!

Me, writing on Twitter in June of 2018:

The story of immigration policy for a quarter-century has been one of Democrats making concessions to nativists — which nativists pocket every time, before proceeding to up their ask.

In the mid-nineties—after the 1994
'Republican revolution' and the passage of Prop 187 in California—President Clinton signed a GOP-authored clampdown that widened the range of "aggravated felonies" that could trigger deportation into a dragnet.

After 9/11, Congress and the President advanced a plan to build hundreds of miles of fortifications along the U.S.-Mexico border — and funded a doubling of the ranks of the Border Patrol.

President Obama, for his part, proceeded to grow the Border Patrol even more.

In a bid to secure lasting immigration reform with GOP support, Obama also ramped the pace of deportations up to a record high.
In appreciation, he got then-Speaker John Boehner and others charging the administration with refusing to enforce the law.

(^ Not hyperventilating or exaggerating here. Even after the more-than-doubling of the Border Patrol, construction of hundreds of miles of barriers, and a record pace of deportations, this was pretty much the standard of Republican rhetoric: [images removed])

For over 20 years now, none of the measures taken to harden the border or discourage undocumented crossings have made any difference to nativists. Even with migrations from Mexico at net-zero or less _for years_, right-wing panic has never abated.

Instead, with border crossings near half-century lows ...

The president wants, as his modest ask:
- Billions for an even more outlandish wall;
- An even freer rein for ICE;
- Higher bars against lawful asylum seekers;
- Termination of the visa lottery;
- Indefinite internment-camp stays for migrant children.

And that wish list is what Republicans on the Hill have sold as a "compromise" bill — even though no Democrat in the House or the Senate has signed their name to it.

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Rosa @prollywillquit.bsky.social · Sep 2

I agree of course but as a Teamster not only had my union not "stepped up to the moment" they are in lock step with Trump and Hawley and the rest of the jokers.

Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · Sep 1

I have an opinion piece in the New York Times today on how the labor movement has failed to step up to the moment in countering Trump, even as Trump unilaterally strips public sector workers of collective bargaining. Labor will die as a movement if this continues.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Opinion | Trump Is Wiping Out Unions. Why Are They So Quiet?

www.nytimes.com

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Rosa @prollywillquit.bsky.social · Aug 31

to be fair its only in the last couple of years history books have been including the War of 1812...The Napoleonic Wars by Alexander Mikaberidze still is selling itself as the first "global history" of the Napoleonic wars..I'd love some Haiti-Louisiana-French type books.. tough subject though

Rosa @prollywillquit.bsky.social · Aug 31

Joanna Bourne books..you get anti napoleon, pro napoleon, anti-terror and pro revolution...from different characters --mostly it is how politics and violence upend lives ..The Rake by Mary Jo Putney has bits about how the end of the war messed up the economy, lots deal with the guilt of war.