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Lisa Rowe 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @txvoodoo.bsky.social · Nov 9

Were we mutuals on the Other Place? Comment to let me know you're here, especially if you've changed your handle!

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Lisa Rowe 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @txvoodoo.bsky.social · 7h

It was good!

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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 9h

This was a choice made by Republicans to explode health insurance costs for millions. Now military families aren’t getting their paychecks and are online at food banks.

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 1d

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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Luna @lunalore.bsky.social · 7h

"Unfortunately, Denner’s experience is all too common."

www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

For Some Women With Serious Physical Ailments, Mental Illness Has Become a Scapegoat Diagnosis

Patients with difficult-to-diagnose conditions like endometriosis are often sent home with diagnoses like anxiety or bipolar disorder

www.smithsonianmag.com

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 10h

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

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 10h

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 9h

I don’t think Biden was president on J6.

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MaskTogetherAmerica @togetherwemask.bsky.social · 16h

“I try to normalize masking: first, because we’re still in a pandemic, and second...”—Greg Pak, writer & filmmaker best known for comic books like Planet Hulk & Mech Cadat Yu, was interviewed by @msjulieslam.bsky.social from #MaskTogetherAmerica at #NYCC25 @newyorkcomiccon.bsky.social

ALT: Greg Pak, weaing a black KN95, holding “Who Belongs?” a graphic novel he wrote in 2023 for NYC Department of Social Studies & Civics @nycschools, was tabling at his booth at the New York Comic Con #NYCC2025. Behind him were posters showing graphic novels he authored, including Mech Cadat Yu and Planet Hulk.

Why does Greg Pak mask up?
Read interview by @MsJulieLam
https://www.instagram.com/share/BBHLGTPQnW

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/14MssWrVBEZ/?mibextid=wwXIfr

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Linda Tirado @killermartinis.bsky.social · 16h

If y'all wanted to go into your evening smiling: some dude none of us have ever met has a wheelchair that works now. The broken one has been donated to the same shop I got the new one from, so they're gonna repair that and give it away.

Mutual aid is a force multiplier.

Virtue cycles are awesome.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 15h

It’s no wonder that Trump has such a twisted view of war and sacrifice. And the utility of bribes.

Donald was seven years old, and his father was brought before a U.S. Senate committee investigating abuses in a housing program for war veterans and middle class families. President Eisenhower had been outraged to learn of the bribes that developers paid to bureaucrats and of the alleged profiteering practiced by Trump and others. Ike called them "sons of bitches."
As federal investigators had discovered, the elder Trump had collected an extra $1.7 million in rent-equivalent to $15 million today-before beginning to pay back his low-cost government loan. He was able to do this because a bureaucrat named Clyde Powell approved the paperwork.
Powell, who had never been paid more than a modest government salary, had mysteriously amassed a small fortune. (While it was clear Powell accepted bribes, the sources were never officially identified.) In addition to collecting the extra rent, Trump paid himself a substantial architect's fee. And he charged inflated rents based on an estimate of construction costs that was far greater than what he actually spent. All of this was legal, even if it did victimize taxpayers, veterans, and other renters.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 15h

AI has lost the dunce vote. It’s over

Nate Silver
@NateSilver538 • 5h
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I'm just one person, and my programming needs are somewhat unusual (building various kinds of statistical forecasting models). But I'm just not seeing the consistent productivity gains from LLMs that I would have expected if you'd asked me 6 months ago.

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Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 15h

reminder to check your kid’s trick or treat candy this year to make sure there isn’t any ai in it

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Lisa Rowe 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @txvoodoo.bsky.social · 11h

Plz do a video on this. It screams out for longform!

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 14h

Guy falling over after putting a stick in the wheel of his own bike

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 14h

I prefer “anti-fascist“ for a host of reasons and this is a nice practical one.

Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 15h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Eric Alper @thatericalper.com · 14h

Dolly is a true gift.

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Lisa Rowe 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @txvoodoo.bsky.social · 11h

I like the blade of the knife just disappearing.

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Ragnarok Lobster @eclecticbrotha1.bsky.social · 13h

God bless the one and only Rick Steves

Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 2d

Thread:

A year ago yesterday was a very happy day for me. I had lost my prostate. It was good riddance, as it was riddled with cancer. I’m now cancer-free — and thankful for the tax-funded technology that saved my life.

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 13h

No money in the red kettles. Mutual aid instead.
(And no, I'm not taking questions about this.)

kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 15h

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 16h

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 13h

If we survive this, and Democrats are able to take back power, I guarantee you we will have to endure think-piece after think-piece that demand the rest of us reach out, stop shaming, and forgive fascists and the crimes they’ve committed. I absolutely guarantee it.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 15h

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 13h

For those not fluent in Catholic: refusing the Monstrance is not denying prisoners the Eucharist, it is refusing Christ himself, since Christ is present in the Monstrance.

If Portland’s blow up animals are the right language for Portland, this is the right language for Chicago.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 17h

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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Lisa Rowe 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @txvoodoo.bsky.social · 11h

Go submerse yourself in korean cooking content and "the rest is history" podcast and things like crowseyeproduction

INSTANTLY cleanses your YT

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Necronancy SF @bulldykechinashop.bsky.social · 12h

Very cool! free streaming of some classic queer cinema through the end of the month, check it out

Stream these 20 queer films for free during LGBTQ+ History Month

Frameline, the world’s largest queer media nonprofit based in San Francisco, is offering counterprogramming to Trump-era policies.

www.sfchronicle.com

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Lisa Rowe 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @txvoodoo.bsky.social · 11h

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Dave Fortin @davidwfortin.bsky.social · 11h

This is one of the most Philly/PA headlines ever...

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Philly’s Scrapple Sculpting Contest was won by a Delco tattooer who carved the Tush Push

Philadelphia Art Museum director and CEO Sasha Suda, who judged the competition, said the winning sculpture pushed scrapple "to its absolute limits."

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Lisa Rowe 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @txvoodoo.bsky.social · 11h

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petefrommanhattan.bsky.social @petefrommanhattan.bsky.social · 11h

‘The Labor Department warned in an obscure document filed with the Federal Register last week that “the near total cessation of the inflow of illegal aliens” is threatening “the stability of domestic food production and prices for U.S. consumers.”’ wapo.st/48Iuil5

Trump administration says immigration enforcement threatens higher food prices

U.S. farmers face labor shortages and potential food price hikes due to Trump’s immigration policy, the administration acknowledged in a Federal Registry document.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 13h

It's cool how when you try to search for the solution to a computer problem now you can pick from an AI summary, several out-of-date videos by a guy with a shitty mic, or some forum posts on the publisher's site dealing with an obsolete version of the software

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