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Rebecca @bluebec.bsky.social · 1d

For newer users of BlueSky, please alt-text your images. It helps people who use screen-readers or who have slow internet connections understand the image you've uploaded. Make the web accessible.

I rarely reshare images without alt-text & I know others do the same. Alt-text your images for reach

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 10h

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 13h

The MSM does not interview community organizers. It's part of why they miss so much of what happens at the local level.

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Trish Anderton @trishanderton.bsky.social · 12h

Yeah, I mean, it’s not like I wanted to root for the guy. He just didn’t seem very realistic. But I’ve been proved wrong a thousand times over. Soulless Nazi goons not only exist, they’re running the country! 😭

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 14h

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 13h

the republican majority leader with a clear vision for the democratic party

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 15h

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 15h

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Trish Anderton @trishanderton.bsky.social · 13h

That should really help with their little coup attempt

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Trish Anderton @trishanderton.bsky.social · 13h

Again, if you think my posts are dumb, why engage? Enjoy life! Go read someone else!

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 17h

A few minutes ago in the House:

- Speaker Mike Johnson officially cancels votes next week, extending the House recess through a fourth week

- House Republicans block Democrats from passing a bill to pay the troops during the shutdown, ensuring they will miss paychecks next week

House Press Gallery: During today's pro forma session, the Clerk read a message from the Speaker designating Tuesday, October 14 through Sunday, October 19 as a district work period.

Punchbowl's Briana Reilly: House gaveled in and out of its pro forma just now w/o recognizing Rep Elfreth, who was seeking to UC a mil pay bill from Rep Sykes.

Elfreth told reporters after that House Dems stand “ready and willing to take” up standalone legislation to pay troops.

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Miles W. Griffis @mileswgriffis.bsky.social · 17h

NEW: 53 participants involved in the Vyvgart trial for Long COVID are calling on the government to fund research for the drug after they saw significant improvements that the study didn’t capture.

thesicktimes.org/2025/10/10/v...

Vyvgart brought us back to life, but the Long COVID trial was canceled. We are calling on the NIH and HHS to study the drug. - The Sick Times

We are a group of 53 individuals with Long COVID from across the U.S. In 2023, we joined a Long COVID clinical trial for Vyvgart (efgartigimod), a drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FD...

thesicktimes.org

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 21d

I am once again saying that after the federal fiscal year ends on Sept. 30th and thousands of Virginians lose their paychecks, the electoral fallout is going to be massive by November

Sam Shirazi @samshirazi.bsky.social · 21d

I remember diving into Virginia early voting data in 2021

It showed there would be a lot of turnout

2025 could see even more turnout given first numbers today

But there is going to be a lull during next phase of early voting

Then a surge at the end

44 days still to go…

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 16h

Seeing pictures of an abandoned tamale cart in Pilsen where ICE took a tamale street vendor. Those photos of left behind carts are so haunting. Community members disappeared. Not just vendors but people who have long standing relationships with the community and people.

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 16h

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15h

a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa's headquarters is SHEIN and if the company fell the whole network would fall

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Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social · 20h

I bet these dudes have not bought their partners tampons one single time.

www.wired.com/story/men-ar...

Men Are Betting on WNBA Players' Menstrual Cycles

Some sports gamblers are trying to predict WNBA players’ performance—and the outcomes of games—based on the athletes’ periods. One betting content creator has dubbed it “blood money."

www.wired.com

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Trish Anderton @trishanderton.bsky.social · 17h

so good!! 🍂🍁

Trish Anderton @trishanderton.bsky.social · 17h

Here is a good resource manningkrull.com/digital-phil...

Alt text 101 for Bluesky | Digital Philosophy by Manning Krull

Hi! You may be here because I or someone else sent you this link in response to a conversation about alt text on Bluesky. Welcome! Here's some basic info about alt text, its importance, and how to wri...

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Trish Anderton @trishanderton.bsky.social · 17h

Dude. Without alt text the post is "not for" anyone with a visual disability. It's the equivalent of front steps without a ramp or a subway station without an elevator. It's prejudice, and it's ugly.

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Trish Anderton @trishanderton.bsky.social · 17h

Absolutely true to form for cops and their ilk; they love to shoot dogs 😢

Trish Anderton @trishanderton.bsky.social · 17h

Same to you. Also I was curious.

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Trish Anderton @trishanderton.bsky.social · 17h

Apologies for the “than”—probably autocorrect. If you find my meaning that obscured by the lack of commas I really don’t know what to tell you. Block me maybe?

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Trish Anderton @trishanderton.bsky.social · 17h

I did a google image search

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 19h

I don't think it's going to work out in the way they think because what they are doing is to actually promote the protest and the date in a way that the organizers can't on their own. So lots of people will now be searching: October 18 protest who would have had no clue before.

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Trish Anderton @trishanderton.bsky.social · 18h

Actually the problem is both

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