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Zam

@zamwriter.bsky.social

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What can you expect from me? Less politics than before--it's like screaming into the void. Theatre. Puppies. Jokey-jokes. Gay stuff. "My eyes are fully open to [our] awful situation..." (with apologies to Gilbert & Sullivan)

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Zam @zamwriter.bsky.social · Nov 23

The last time i went looking for this feature, it wasn't available. Now i can improve my feed by vastly reducing chatter about the fash circus/Chaos agents.

And, frankly, too much talk about the other site -- we're free. Move on.

(It's under "Moderation")

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

Why would someone pay $20k for a robot controlled by a human in a remote location to do things more slowly and clumsily when the median wage for a maid or housekeeper is $33k per year, which is typically spread across 10-20 households?

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 24d

Halloween is going to be weird now that there are scary masked people on the streets all year long.

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 2d

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 3d

My goodness. Please don’t send in ghosts. They are very frightening. We only rate dogs. Thank you... 12/10 (IG: theodore.goldenvelt)

ahh! a small fluffy ghost sits on a hardwood floor staring directly at us. but actually... the longer we take it in, the more cute the ghost becomes. one could even mistake this little guy for a golden retriever puppy wearing a sheet with eye, ear, and mouth holes cut out of it. even though he gave us a fright, we would still pet this ghost puppy.

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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 4d

This Day in Labor History: October 26, 1825. The Erie Canal opened, eight years after construction commenced. This engineering marvel would have enormous impacts on the future of American work, including spurring ever-greater industrialization. It also killed over 1,000 workers building it!

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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 6d

A federal judge ORDERS senior Border Patrol officer Greg Bovino—the face of Chicago's Operation Midway Blitz — to attend in person at a hearing she just set on Tuesday. He's accused of violating her order by lobbing tear gas into a crowd.

More on Bovino www.allrisenews.com/p/general-sc...

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ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · 6d

can someone please just run this as an ad?

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Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social · Oct 24

It's 10 o'clock in the morning on October the 24th, if you want to know.

Two frames from a scene in Lord of the rings.

Frodo, waking up, hears gandalf say "you are in the house of Elrond, and it's 10 o'clock in the morning on October the 24th if you want to know."

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Zam @zamwriter.bsky.social · 6d

Seems like the main criticism of the revival not clearly conveying the plot may have been a feature. 🤔🤔

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 6d

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'

10/10 response, no notes

Image of the mechanical ladder outside the Louvre

Text below says WENN'S MAL WIEDER SCHNELL GEHEN MUSS (When you need to move fast)

Underneath is more German text which translates as "The Böcker Agilo transports your treasures weighing up to 400kg at 42m/min - quiet as a whisper."

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 7d

silentmiddlechild

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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 7d

in case you're wondering what the January 6ers have been up to lately it's "child porn charges, alleged assault on a police officer, multiple weapons violations and rape" so, you know, normal stuff

www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-...

According to a database of news accounts from across the country obtained by The Kansas City Star, CREW’s number was an undercount. The real number of Jan. 6 defendants back in trouble with the law or in prison — including new cases since June — is 200% higher than CREW first reported with more than 30 cases. The new cases include child porn charges, alleged assault on a police officer, multiple weapons violations and rape.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 8d

"A 60-year-old couple earning $85,000 may have to pay $31,000 for a health insurance plan in Kentucky...

$28,000 for a plan in Oregon...

$44,000 for a plan in Vermont..."

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Health insurance sticker shock begins as shutdown battle over subsidies rages

Many states have shown rising premiums ahead of open enrollment for Affordable Care Act plans. The government shutdown is driven by Democrats and Republicans being far apart on the issue of extended s...

www.washingtonpost.com

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 10d

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here."
Anna Bower
Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM
Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about
the Letitia James grand jury.

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Jones @theearlofpowys.bsky.social · 11d

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 11d

Irving Berlin 1941. youtu.be/XDkhzVw0yBs?...

When that Man is Dead and Gone (1941) - Protest song against Hitler (Live Take)

YouTube video by Lizzy & the Triggermen

youtu.be

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 12d

[Exit King.]

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Adam Feldman @feldmanadam.bsky.social · 12d

It’s been fifty years since Lynn Ahrens, the lyricist of Ragtime, wrote and sang this episode of Schoolhouse Rock www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvOZ...

SchoolHouse Rock - No More Kings

YouTube video by tennesseejed93

www.youtube.com

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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 12d

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.

White words on a black background read:

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Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino.

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Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers.

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Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 12d

Boston. Wow.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 13d

The awesome and terrible and inspiringe power of the ymaginacioun of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. She doth put a brilliant nightmare ynto a storye yn 1816, and more than two hundred yeares later her creature ys still speakinge to the worlde.

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james holod kennedy @jamesholod.bsky.social · 13d

a block list to protect your peace

bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 14d

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 14d

John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry began on this day in 1859.

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 18d

We should be asking this
c o n s t a n t l y.

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Zam @zamwriter.bsky.social · 14d

Angela Lansbury would have been 100 today. I was fortunate to see her perform once, in the (misguided) 2010 chamber revival of Night Music on Broadway.

Lansbury as Mme Armfeldt in the 2010 Broadway revival of A Little Night Music.