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Countx Chocula 🦇👻

@speedofhuman.bsky.social

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Weirdo nature nerd, 🪨hound, 👻 storyteller, #trans 🏳️‍⚧️⚧️, #genderqueer, #AuDHD #pwME #WUFO Liminal Earth Ambassador

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Countx Chocula 🦇👻 @speedofhuman.bsky.social · Mar 14

I finally wrote up a field report zine about some of my wild experiences in Boyer Chute, which I alluded to a few weeks back in #WUFO

📖 You can check out "Fairy-Led at Boyer Chute" here (no need for an account - click "continue as guest"): new.express.adobe.com/publishedV2/...

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kim @kimmymonte.bsky.social · 1h

if you count cows instead of sheep to try and fall asleep it’s probably pasture bedtime (i’m so sorry)

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Countx Chocula 🦇👻 @speedofhuman.bsky.social · 9m

I don’t think I would have appreciated the feminist critic of B horror flicks that this film is without the knowledge Elvira is family.

But I probably still would have chuckled about the hotdog taco gag.

Countx Chocula 🦇👻 @speedofhuman.bsky.social · 9m

Confession: until this very day, I had never watched an Elvira anything (other than some of her awesome TikToks) but since it’s Coming Out Day, I figured it was time to get acquainted with the Mistress of the Dark

a woman with long black hair is sitting at a table holding a piece of paper and looking at it .

Alt: Elvira turns the camera and says “Is that timing or what” in a clip from the beginning of the film Elvira: Mistress of the Dark

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 47m

how does one accidentally fire hundreds of people?

characterizing this as a mistake because that's what the administration says feels just about as naive as the journalists who "fact checked" people who warned Trump was going to enact Project 2025, because he said he wouldn't lol.

Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 2h

The Trump administration on Saturday scrambled to rescind layoffs of hundreds of CDC scientists who were mistakenly fired on Friday night in what appeared to be a substantial procedural lapse.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Cozca @cozca.bsky.social · 3d

Support Indigenous People's Day at ICE in Portland, Oregon. Support Indigenous Peoples Day everywhere you possibly can.
This Monday October 13, 2025.

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Dra. Rocío @drrosalesmeza.bsky.social · 1d

Colonization is at the root of our unwellness.

Colonization creates soul loss.

Mental health care & wellness efforts must then be rooted in decolonization.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

“FPS could even enter a private residence containing an identified sniper blocks away from a federal facility in order to eliminate that exigent threat…we do not live in a world of sticks and stones, but Mausers and Winchesters.”

DHS top lawyer says 'no legal barrier' to actions officers can take to defend federal property

In a memo obtained exclusively by The Handbasket, Federal Protective Service (FPS) officers were given free rein.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 4h

ICE IS DISAPPEARING PEOPLE TO WORK CAMPS

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.°• ☆ Starly! ✨🌿🍄 @artbunnii.bsky.social · 1h

Yay!!! $2k already :D! This has been certainly faster than I expected, thank you so much for all of your love ;w;!!

The help and support I've received has been amazing so far, you guys are the best 🥺💕💕💕 thank you a lot! Please keep sharing it 🙏💕

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 8h

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 1h

Belatedly reading about this and as always really important to remind people in *every breath* that when the right talks about “woke” and “DEI” they are talking about the cultural and political wins of the civil rights movement. This arrangement existed for 52 years because of historical activism.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 12h

www.dailytarheel.com/article/e9c7...

UNC ends Black Student Movement's 52-year 'co-ownership' of Upendo Lounge

BSM President Adam Sherif said administrators cited new federal guidelines that instruct all federally funded entities to ensure they are not engaging in "discriminatory practices, including those lab...

www.dailytarheel.com

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Hard Drive @hard-drive.net · 1h

RUMOR: New ICE Recruits Given Copy of “Papers, Please” in Lieu of Proper Training

Title screen for the video game “Papers, Please”

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Countx Chocula 🦇👻 @speedofhuman.bsky.social · 1h

Hope your mom recovers quickly! 😢

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💙Sue L N @blue-rosary52.bsky.social · 4h

Everything you need to know…

Just talked to my friend who’s majoring in history at a university in the Netherlands. She said all her professors are using current American politics as their premier example of how fascism rises.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2h

Quick update on what we just saw here—*before curfew*, ISP troopers, Broadview PD and CCSO deputies began menacing demonstrators outside the ICE facility. Several arrests.

Pepper ball guns at the ready, a bit of a standoff going with remaining protesters. All people are doing is playing music.

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 2h

state troopers have finally packed up and are telling protesters they’re reopening 25th street.

“clear the roadway and go home,” they say.

looks like most folks are calling it a night.

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 2h

meanwhile, back at the “free speech zone,” the illinois department of transportation is adding more concrete barricades.

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Kate Evans @kategevans.bsky.social · 6h

Brilliant! Origami and evolution 😍
knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...

Animal origami: The physics of nature’s folds

Insects that tuck away wings; a protist with an accordion-like neck — studying these clever creases may inspire foldable structures for drones

knowablemagazine.org

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Countx Chocula 🦇👻 @speedofhuman.bsky.social · 3h

Carmen Sandiego (both shows), Magic School Bus, Ghost Writer…so much good stuff

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 4h

Nixon’s crimes look like harmless high school pranks compared to the now-daily unprecedented illegal & unconstitutional crimes being committed daily by this president & his staff

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 4h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 3h

A 77 year old man sent a postcard to Florida Chief Financial Officer Blaise Ingoglia that simply read: “You lack values.”

Police showed up at his door.

This is not only a first amendment violation but a clear sign of how fast the fascists are moving to censorship and constant monitoring.

Judy Stone @drjudystone.bsky.social · 4h

Law experts appalled as cops swoop on 77-year-old for writing 'innocuous' postcard

www.rawstory.com/florida-2674...

Law experts appalled as cops swoop on 77-year-old for writing 'innocuous' postcard

Florida resident James O’Gara received a surprise visit from law enforcement at his home last week in what First Amendment experts have labeled a clear attempt at intimidation in response to a “pretty...

www.rawstory.com

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 3h

Wow.

Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.com · 4h

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 3h

“Silence is supporting this abuse of these members of God’s family.”

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 5h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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knifeBOOts aka Jen (they/them) 👻 @knifeboots.xyz · 7h

People have no idea how well priced Bibi's disability/mobility aids are and how excellent the quality is. Bibi's stuff LASTS. It wears well. And Bibi is bending over backwards to accommodate US customers right now due to tariffs we never wanted and Bibi has no control over.

🌸Bibi🌸♿ (formerly bibicosplays) @bibiblossoms.bsky.social · 5d

This isn't towards those who are broke.

I've noticed that people devalue my work. I could have hundreds of reviews raving about my products. But people only wanna support me if they feel they're getting a VERY "cheap" price. While so many other creators can charge whatever for their products.

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Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · 5h

‼️ My internet connection is very weak I’m still in the displacement camps. Can anyone tell if there are any eSIM that work in the Al-Mawasi area near the beach? It’s really urgent. ‼️ 😔

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