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Book production queen. Occasional writer. Amateur jeweler. Spoonie. I post pictures of my cats and food. I love to RT art, but only if it has decent alt-text. 🦖TRANS RIGHTS OR I BITES 🦕

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The Boobarienne casting primitive hexes @thebarbarienne.bsky.social · Oct 13

I say it all the time:

FUNCTIONAL LITERACY IS NOT THE SAME AS AN ABILITY TO WRITE.

People who don't understand this will never be any good as fiction writers.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 17h

These freaks keep getting on TV talking about opposing antifa and how they believe antifa wants to destroy them, and not a single person in mainstream media has asked or commented on what is the opposite of antifascism and who is threatened by antifascists

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 3h

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social · 9h

You get to read the book, *other* people get to read the book, and every interaction like this that you have with your local library sends a message that it is valued and supported by the community.

Apart from everything else, now is a great time to support civic institutions!

Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 24d

Hey, I know books are expensive and money is tight right now.

But if there's a brand new book you really wanna read — including my own Lessons in Magic and Disaster — you can help get the book into way more hands by requesting it from your local library!

It's easy! Check your library's website.

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ProdigalHoosier @prodigalhoosier.medsky.social · 4h

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If anybody wants to know why Gen X is always mad, it's because we had to replace our record collections with a tape collection that we had to replace with a CD collection that we had to replace with an MP3 collection...

And now we need a subscription to listen to music

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 3h

I don't know if there's such a thing as a "world cyberwar" but I think we are in one? and the US is determined to lose it. 🧵

Today the admin is mass-firing the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the nation's cybersecurity protection across all levels of government.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 3h

Yes, because NYT is a fascist institution

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 4h

Douthat is laundering hard core white Christian supremacy into the mainstream, with the NYT's blessing.

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 5h

Ross Douthat treats this guy like they're having some deep conversation about the relationship of Christianity and the government, but the dude is a garden-variety dull, shallow, hateful, worthless bigot with nothing interesting to say, just endless riffs on "God hates everything/everyone I do."

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 5h

This administration definitely would jail the people hiding the little girl in the attic

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 5h

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 6h

CHICAGO: REBUILD is providing therapy to folks detained by ICE. Please feel free to let people know.

findmeatherapist.org

Find Me A Therapist

findmeatherapist.org

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The Boobarienne casting primitive hexes @thebarbarienne.bsky.social · 2h

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The Boobarienne casting primitive hexes @thebarbarienne.bsky.social · 2h

Chicken pan dowdy?

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 6h

I 100% get why Link did the mutual aid Fridays.

Like, every time someone replies by telling me the need is met is one less person struggling in the world.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 3h

That TikTok account has a few fake videos of reporters getting detained. They make these videos because it’s a big story in the news. Real reporters are getting arrested. And so people are making AI videos to get engagement on TikTok.

dontbeonline • 1d ago
Journalist gets detained while doing her job #ForYou, #viral, #foryoupage, #tikto... more
• Contains: Bad Boys (The...

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Ruckawriter @gregrucka.com · 3h

Three armed reporter indeed.

I fell for it. Should’ve checked my work. Now removed the repost.

We are all too easily triggered because so much is so VILE right now.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 3h

This is AI.

Jenn Budd @jennbudd.bsky.social · 4h

Seems like they are going after reporters who are women. They hit one w/pepper spray ammo in her car, the WGN reporter and now this.

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Will Saletan @saletan.bsky.social · 4h

Here's a neat trick they teach in authoritarianism school: If you purge the people who measure the effects of your policies (BLS, MMWR), you can just claim everything's great, and nobody can prove how much damage you're doing.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 4h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 3h

Anti-vaxxers often overlook that state public health agencies have authority to keep unvaccinated kids out of school during an infectious disease outbreak.

These are often the same people who said they were deeply concerned about children’s mental health during pandemic-related school closures.

Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks

At least 270 unvaccinated kids are staying home from school as measles continues to spread nationwide. "Expect more," one expert said.

www.nbcnews.com

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 4h

A long time ago, a friend of mine introduced me to a profound idea. At the end of the day, every human organization only has one true purpose. To ensure its own continued existence. All other activities are ultimately about that.

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 4h

just randomly looking around and found a place that sells these outfits in multiple sizes, if anyone's interested

www.favounicorn.com/inflatable-f...

Inflatable frog costume in kid and adult sizes, $54

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 4h

I had a lot of convos with people who said they were sympathetic, but Defund the Police was a "bad slogan". I told them it wasn't a slogan. It was an answer. It was an answer to the constant question "what can we do to actually lower crime and make our neighborhood's safer?"

Anyway. Here we are.

Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 4h

Should’ve defunded the police like we instructed smh

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 13h

How big is ICE’s projected budget? This big: bit.ly/4o9oW6y

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · 10h

Thank you to our brave NIHers like @ianlmorgan.bsky.social who have continuously shown true patriotism in standing up for the health and safety of the American people

Sign your support for these brave employees here if you haven’t already 👉

www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...

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The Boobarienne casting primitive hexes @thebarbarienne.bsky.social · 9h

"Other people" can fuck off. If they don't like it, that's their problem.

The Boobarienne casting primitive hexes @thebarbarienne.bsky.social · 9h

Sesame seed or egg bagel, with butter and smoked salmon (preferred) or lox (more available in a bagel shop).

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 10h

Tell me your bagel order and I will tell you *based on NYC cultural expectations* if you have won or lost your election for political office in NYC.

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 11h

One of my favorite things about NYC is whenever anyone runs for office here they are required to disclose their bagel order.

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Monica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 14h

So this IL Hospital Association memo describes an incident where ICE detained a US citizen, gave them HEART PROBLEMS, took them to a hospital where the fought with medical personnel, then left when they realized they detained a CITIZEN.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 9h

ICE in Portland is coming off like Gargamel getting repeatedly rolled by the Smurfs

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