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Alan @shalrath42.bsky.social · 4h

The ones the copper "recyclers" have already removed the cables. 😉

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Alan @shalrath42.bsky.social · 6h

"...to live in less interesting times"

Alan @shalrath42.bsky.social · 11h

Isn't that the "Charlie Brown" song?

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Alan @shalrath42.bsky.social · 12h

a large red ball is flying through the air in a field

ALT: a large red ball is flying through the air in a field

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Kit [they/them] 🐀 @kitrole.bsky.social · 13h

Due to some very sudden layoffs, my allotted editing time just opened up quite a bit! I’ll have time to take on a few more projects that usual, especially towards November.
If you’ve got a project that needs refining, or some lines that need a voice, let’s chat! ✨

(Sharing is always appreciated!)

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Alan @shalrath42.bsky.social · 14h

Was not expecting the E9 twist at all

Alan @shalrath42.bsky.social · 18h

This time of year i like to make molasses cookies

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Blue Wave @votebiue.bsky.social · 3d

Portland Protestors Baiting ICE Agents
With Donuts on Fishing Poles
calling it ICE Fishing

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Alan @shalrath42.bsky.social · 18h

two men standing next to each other with the words i 'm glad we had this talk written below them

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Alan @shalrath42.bsky.social · 18h

a man with a beard in a dark room asking how about now

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Alan @shalrath42.bsky.social · 1d

Was looking for something different to watch & stumbled across "Warrior Nun." It's surprisingly good.

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Alan @shalrath42.bsky.social · 1d

a man singing and it burns burns burns with a guitar strap around his neck

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Alan @shalrath42.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine David is holding not an orb, but your head. He is examining you.

an unpainted 3d printed David holding an orb (from Prometheus)

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Todd Stashwick @realtoddstashwick.bsky.social · 3d

You can be part of the game! Join me and some of my Star Trek family as we play #Dungeons&Dragons to fight childhood cancer with the Pablove Foundation on Nov 9th. Go to www.pablove.org/roll to donate and enter to be one of two players at a virtual table with these amazing folks. Go now!

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 1d

My spicy take for this moment-

Too many of you do not understand the concept of infrastructure. How systems are built, how systems are maintained.

You want big bold action but haven't committed to the planning and the boring mundane tasks needed to make said action possible.

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Alan @shalrath42.bsky.social · 1d

LOL was the local hangout in middle school.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Alan @shalrath42.bsky.social · 1d

*posed as a sasquatch replacement idea

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Alan @shalrath42.bsky.social · 1d

... what if the Bermuda Triangle episode was an induced hallucination they both experienced? There was more than just a kiss. Scully got pregnant but it was removed and grown in vitro. They discover the child later and then raise it together.

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Alan @shalrath42.bsky.social · 1d

Better Tropicana than Sunny D 😜

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Kelly McKernan 🔜 NYCC F-23 @kellymckernan.bsky.social · 1d

I’m at @newyorkcomiccon.bsky.social in the artist alley at table F-23! Come say hiiii! 💜

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 1d

Greetings from U.S. District Court Judge April Perry’s courtroom in the Dirksen Federal Courthouse. Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul is present, waiting for the high stakes hearing to begin. @wttw.bsky.social

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 1d

FULL STORY: As lawyers for the Trump administration defended the president’s unprecedented decision to send National Guard troops to Chicago despite the objections of Gov. Pritzker and Mayor Johnson, officials acknowledged that California troops had also been sent to Illinois. @wttw.bsky.social

Judge to Decide Whether to Block National Guard Deployment as Trump Sends California Troops to Illinois

Lawyers for the Department of Justice told U.S. District Court Judge April Perry the president deployed the National Guard because “levels of violence against federal law enforcement executing their l...

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Alan @shalrath42.bsky.social · 1d

Said it in chat: "...College of Snacks is so appropriate" 😉

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T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel (Retired)" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 1d

Technically missed 2025 because of work too 😂 But making up for it now!

For every 👏 single 👏 donor 👏 from now until 11:59pm PDT Sunday, there are five of us adding in $5 apiece

So a $10 donation from you means $35 to Crayons2Calculators!

Donate here:
bullcityschools.app.neoncrm.com/tgregdoucette

Greg's C2C Fundraiser

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ti zhang @zerochilltea.bsky.social · 2d

so the frog is 卖娃青蛙。https://m.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_23101624 it was designed by a mom with the last name Tong in Nanjing, inspired by the toad in en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calabas.... it is a mascot of 躺平culture (lay-flat, against capitalism)

Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 2d

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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