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Books, cats, bugs 🇮🇱 Zionist (please read some books so you actually understand what that means) two-state solution, Hamas are terrorists, pro-Pal who don’t understand the region are useful idiots

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tinyfrightening.bsky.social @tinyfrightening.bsky.social · Jul 21

Trying a thing - links to threads with this post pinned, so basically pinning more than one thread

tinyfrightening.bsky.social @tinyfrightening.bsky.social · Jan 8

Making a food storage thread - starting with long term repackaging, I use Wallaby Mylar bags and oxygen absorbers, and seal them with my flat iron.

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TheeDemFairy510🍁 @theedemfairy510.bsky.social · 4h

Amazeballs. Gets better with each repost🤣🤣🤣

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Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · 3h

For #NautilusNight
#CephalopodAwarenessDays
Tiffany Studios (NYC, USA)
#Nautilus Table Lamp, c.1905
nautilus shell, gilt bronze, mother of pearl
H 13⅜ in. (34 cm)
www.sothebys.com/en/buy/aucti...
#ArtNouveau

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Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · Oct 10

Light it up for #NautilusNight with an original Nautilus Reading Lamp by Tiffany Glass & Decorating Co. (NYC, USA), bronze & leaded glass, c. 1899-1902. [A later version would use an actual #nautilus shell for the shade.]  Cleveland Museum of Art: clevelandart.org/art/1997.298 #ArtNouveau

official museum photo of the nautilus lamp; Bronze, leaded glass
Overall: 34.5 x 21.3 x 13.4 cm (13 9/16 x 8 3/8 × 5 1/4 in.);
DESCRIPTION Benjamin Hubbell, the architect of the Cleveland Museum of Art, acquired this vase from Louis Comfort Tiffany, with whom he collaborated on various projects. The shape of the nautilus shell provides the perfect space to conceal a light bulb, the newest form of technology at the time. As a result, this lamp was a critical success and sold both in this original form and with the later alteration of a bronze mermaid for the stand and an actual nautilus shell for the shade.

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 4h

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 4h

This is why dozens of former national park superintendents wrote a letter begging Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to keep parks closed during the shutdown.

Squatters, illegal BASE jumpers invade Yosemite amid federal shutdown

"It's the Wild Wild West."

www.sfgate.com

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tinyfrightening.bsky.social @tinyfrightening.bsky.social · 4h

It’s getting chilly here, they’re happy I put the flannel covers on their beds. How are you and Ray?

tinyfrightening.bsky.social @tinyfrightening.bsky.social · 4h

It’s so weird that people are influenced by any of them!

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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 9h

The Guardian- The US president may impose tariffs, demand higher NATO contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says, if on Friday he is not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. www.theguardian.com/world/202...

Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize

US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says

www.theguardian.com

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 5h

Here's the TOTAL budgets of some other agencies that are being cut so the Admin can send $20B your tax dollars to their ideological friends:

- EPA (clean air and water): $9.1B

- NOAA (weather forecasts, warn if hurricane coming): $6.8B

- DOE EERE (energy efficiency & renewable energy): $3.4B

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 5h

We're spending $20B to bail out Argentina, but they cut USAID down to the bone, causing deaths around the world. The entire budget of USAID, the whole agency, was $21B last year. Shameful.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 6h

The Trump administration confirmed that the U.S. bailed out Argentina.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he had directly bought Argentine pesos in global currency markets in a bid to relieve pressure on the nation’s embattled President Javier Milei, a supporter of President Trump.

The U.S. just bailed out Argentina, Treasury Secretary confirms

The US Treasury has finalized a $20 billion financial rescue of Argentina, including a currency swap arrangement with the country's central bank.

www.washingtonpost.com

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NewsCurrentNow @newscurrentnow.com · 14h

We’re watching an entire political party actively protect the single most infamous sex-trafficking operation of our time.

This isn’t just silence—it’s complicity at the highest level.

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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 8h

Brandolini’s Law (also known as the bullshit asymmetry principle):

The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.

H/t @unbiasedscipod.bsky.social

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Ofherb 🟦 🇮🇱 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 @bestsurvivor.bsky.social · 8h

The 1988 Hamas charter is known for its stated call for the destruction of Israel and its use of antisemitic and conspiracy-theory language. Hamas released a revised policy document in 2017 to temper some of this rhetoric to improve its image, but didn't rescind the 1988 charter.

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🦄)))🕊️🎗️✡️🐇 YES ON PROP 50 @melisandra01.bsky.social · 9h

Red Green Brown Alliance NaZZis

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tinyfrightening.bsky.social @tinyfrightening.bsky.social · 9h

Was it just reality tv > IG influencers > TikTok that led all the young women to be so vulnerable to anti-Israel bullshit? And Covid over and over so they’re even less capable of critical thought? Some young woman on the local FB page all up in arms about Israel and citing Greta. Idiotic.

tinyfrightening.bsky.social @tinyfrightening.bsky.social · 11h

Style was really interesting pre-Nancy Reagan, too - even bedding was brighter and more playful. Republicans are boring.

Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 11h

Under the Trump administration, fashion is losing its playfulness and taking cues from authoritarian aesthetics and conservatism.

How Trump-Era Politics Are Reshaping Fashion: From Barbiecore to Workwear

In this reported op-ed, writer Kelsey Stiegman connects the rise of MAGA politics to a darker fashion shift — where self-expression gives way to self-preservation.

www.teenvogue.com

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12h

Real estate investors now own about 20% of single-family homes in the country.

A big reason why home prices have skyrocketed in recent years is a lack of supply — and investors sinking their teeth into whatever is left on the market is making the problem even worse.

How Wall Street Priced You Out of a Home | Robert Reich

Robert Reich

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Sailor Michael @sailormichael.bsky.social · 14h

Let me say it more clearly for those who about to be shitty. Netanyahu had no interest in having Harris or Biden as president. He favored Trump and this was known on a global scale. Think for yourself what that means and don't be silly.

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Evan Frost @wildwoods.bsky.social · 13h

More acknowledgement that Forest Service footdragging is what doomed the Teakettle Forest to burn -- “What really slowed us down from being able to get prescribed fire implemented was lack of interest from the local national forest...” ~Malcolm North, USFS ecologist www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...

Forest Service lags on burns after Calif. loses old-growth trees to wildfire

An entire experimental forest in the Sierra Nevada burned up in September.

www.sfgate.com

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Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · 15h

Whale Fall pin 🦀🐋🦑

A photo of a large gold-plated enamel pin photographed on top of a lichen-covered rock. The enamel pin features a whale skeleton covered with various deep sea creatures, such as octopuses, hagfish, a giant isopod, a crab, and chimaeras.

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tinyfrightening.bsky.social @tinyfrightening.bsky.social · 13h

I hope Daniel Kraus sees this!

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bonque, ben @kwstzhaderbonch.bsky.social · 13h

I was looking this up and happened upon the Google search suggestion "does the placenta come from the father." Thought that was fun.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15h

I'm sorry, did Temu Mel Gibson here just sat that the baby is *in* the placenta?

Is there any aspect of human biology this lumbering science experiment of a man can't get wrong?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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tinyfrightening.bsky.social @tinyfrightening.bsky.social · 13h

We’re fucking doomed. I don’t see a way out of this, I really don’t.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

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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Shontel @shontelmorris.bsky.social · 1d

This is just sick😡
These antisemites parrot Nazi rhetoric the way they talk about AIPAC the same way Goebbels talked about the Rothschilds & Jewish bankers controlling governments but putting a pic of🍉& KFC in their "Track AIPAC" BS makes it clear how racist these 'pro-Palestinian" MFers really are.

EktaShahMD @ektashahmd.bsky.social · 1d

We been knew about these pro Hamas assholes…

They are racist as fuck

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