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Alpha Kitty @alphakitty.bsky.social · 5m

Because a third of the people are brain-dead panty wipes, another third can’t be bothered or are in denial, and only a third actually understand what is happening.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 3h

What Governor Pritzker is doing is right for his state, but it is vital for the Republic.

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Alpha Kitty @alphakitty.bsky.social · 8h

10/8/1903 — b. Elizabeth Wyn Wood, Canadian artist, arts educator. Sculptor; figural works, modernist landscape works, and major public commissions in Ontario. Held key posts in the Federation of #CanadianArtists & the Canadian Arts Council (1944-48) #WomensHistoryMonth #womenartists #womensart #OTD

Elizabeth Winnifred Wood standing next to a large male bust sculpture of hers.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Make America Great Again…

GTF Out!

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Pavlov's Other Dog 🐾🐶🎶📚📸⚾️ @idiot-wind.bsky.social · 1d

#MusicSky

A quick trip with #Donovan

2/3 Hurdy Gurdy Man 1968

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkQy...

NEW 📀 Hurdy Gurdy Man - Donovan {Stereo} Summer 1968

YouTube video by Smurfstools Oldies Music Time Machine

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 1d

📽️ VIDEO: Republicans are redrawing congressional maps to lock in their power for years to come. Executive Director of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee Marina Jenkins explains how these redistricting moves threaten fair elections👇
https://bit.ly/42vWAey

Inside Trump's Unprecedented Power Grab | Marina Jenkins

YouTube video by Democracy Docket

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 2d

ICE is made up of men who have failed the human test and have nothing of value to offer this nation.

Adults with decency and options and possibilities don’t do this shit.

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byron coley @byroncoley.bsky.social · 2d

RIP CHRIS DREJA. those yardbirds sides still get regular play around here. there's no firewall on this link

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/a...

Chris Dreja, a Founding Member of the Yardbirds, Dies at 78

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Alpha Kitty @alphakitty.bsky.social · 1d

October 14th is Ada Lovelace Day!

A day of blogging, podcasting, posting and hosting events worldwide to celebrate Women in STEM fields, and to encourage and support girls and women to STEM roles and leadership findingada.com

#WomenInSTEM #GirlsInSTEM #ALD25 #AdaLovelaceDay

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Alpha Kitty @alphakitty.bsky.social · 1d

10/7/1675 — b. Rosalba Carriera, Venetian artist. A Venetian portrait painter and miniaturist who influenced and changed the portraiture genre. She was the creator of the Rococo style in France and Italy; noted for her pastel works #womenshistory #Rococo #womenartists #womensart #OTD

A self-portrait painting by Rosalba Carriera where she is seated and holding a self-portrait in the painting

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Donnell Caballero @donnellcaballero.bsky.social · 5d

We do not have a justice system, we have a legal system.

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KCUR (Kansas City's best news source) @kcur.org · 4d

Newly restored mural in an unassuming building at the University of Missouri-Kansas City is a bizarre and enthralling masterpiece that stands as a testament to immigrants and the danger of authoritarianism.

A hidden Kansas City mural is 'a warning' against fascism, from a Spanish artist who survived it

Artist Luis Quintanilla fled the Spanish Civil War to escape persecution, but most of his work was destroyed. Today, one of his two remaining murals sits in an otherwise ordinary corner of the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Newly restored, Quintanilla’s bizarre and enthralling masterpiece stands as a testament to immigrants and the danger of authoritarianism.

www.kcur.org

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Alpha Kitty @alphakitty.bsky.social · 4d

Let’s not forget evil turtle boy who illegally installed three of them, McConnell will undoubtedly be archived as a villain in both U.S. + world history. Can’t image unleashing that much harm onto your own country + the world

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VoteVets @votevets.org · 5d

4.4 million veterans live in rural America, many of whom are older and rely on Medicaid. With Republicans slashing funding, struggling rural hospitals face even greater challenges, putting veterans' lives at risk. #TrumpsHealthCareShutdown

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 7d

We believe healthcare is a right for every American.

But starting today, millions of people will be notified that they are being priced out of their insurance thanks to Republican policies.

Enough is enough. The GOP may shut down the government, but we will stand tall for YOU.

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Butterflies Katz ⓥ @butterflieskatz.bsky.social · 7d

Greta Thunberg & Jane Goodall

#JaneGoodall #environment

Everyday should be Earth day.

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NPR @npr.org · 7d

Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere.

Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.

Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj

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Anton @antonfromaustin.bsky.social · 8d

America needs a General Boycott until we have a new administration. Just stop spending ANY money at all and start saving and/or supporting any of the many people who need it instead. Unplug as much as possible from the economy. Use that time to learn who even deserves your dollars.

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Reverend Aiden @sweetfnlucifer.bsky.social · 8d

The America we grew up in is already dead. The economy is being held together by stitches and market manipulation, prices rising as rapidly as the brazen acts of corruption. Americans are already suffering from this unlawful regime. Rip off the band-aid. Shatter the illusion and SHUT THIS SHIT DOWN.

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Charles M. Schulz Museum | The home of Snoopy & the Peanuts Gang @schulzmuseum.bsky.social · 9d

This PEANUTS comic strip was published #OTD on September 29, 1987.

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Alpha Kitty @alphakitty.bsky.social · 9d

People hear sounds differently as well. CCR - “There’s a bathroom on the right” + Hendrix - “Excuse me while I kiss this guy”, and so on. There are a couple songs that once I learned the actual lyrics I was somewhat disappointed because I liked what I thought the lyrics were much better

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Common Cause Ohio @commoncauseohio.bsky.social · 10d

ACTION:
The first deadline in Ohio’s Congressional redistricting process is Tuesday, Sept 30. The majority party has yet to produce any map for discussion, debate or adoption.
Call Rep. Brian Stewart & Senator Theresa Gavarone today & ask: Where’s the Map?
actionnetwork.org/forms/log-yo...

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Katherine @kmr318.bsky.social · Aug 21

She was a badass!

Feministory @feministory.bsky.social · Aug 21

8/21/1863 — b. Baroness Hélène van Zuylen, French author, motorcar racer and socialite. The first woman to compete in an international motorcar race (1898). She wrote poetry, short stories, novels and three plays (1902-14) #womenshistory #womenwriters #WomenInSTEM #OTD

Hélène Van Zuylen holding steering wheel of her race car.

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Michael @mdstamper.bsky.social · 17d

“The Church” by Gertrude Abercrombie (American) - Oil on canvas / 1938 - Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (Bentonville, Arkansas) #WomenInArt #WomanArtist #art #artText #artwork #church #GertrudeAbercrombie #Abercrombie #Surrealism #CrystalBridgesMuseumofAmericanArt #WomensArt #WomenArtists

In the foreground, a lone woman in a long black dress with matching hat and shoes plus white socks and long gloves stands on a narrow dirt path leading toward a small, whitewashed church. She holds a leaf-less branch in her left hand while her right steadies her hat. Giving a sense of distance and solitude, the a solitary white church rises at the center of the scene, with pale walls, darkened windows, and a slim steeple topped by a pointed spire. It sits on flat ground, surrounded by open space with no trees or buildings nearby. The horizon is low, emphasizing the wide sky above, which is painted in muted blues and grays with hints of overcast light. Dark storm clouds, dead trees, and tree stumps surround the path near her. The stillness of the scene, the isolated figure, and the stark geometry create a quiet, dreamlike atmosphere.

Gertrude Abercrombie, remembered as Chicago’s “jazz witch” and a leading figure in American Surrealism, painted “The Church” during her early period, when she pared down landscapes to bare essentials and infused them with psychological resonance.

Born in Texas and raised in Illinois, Abercrombie studied briefly at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago before developing her own style. During the Depression, she worked for the WPA Federal Art Project, producing a painting a month between 1935 and 1940. This experience sharpened her minimal, symbolic approach. By the mid-1930s she had become central to Chicago’s creative scene, hosting gatherings of musicians like Dizzy Gillespie and Sarah Vaughan, whose improvisation mirrored her own imaginative freedom.

For Abercrombie, churches, moons, barren trees, and solitary women were not literal but symbolic as motifs of solitude, longing, and the search for transcendence. She once said her art was about “simple things that are a little strange.” Here, the familiar sight of a country church becomes uncanny, charged with questions of faith, abandonment, and the mysteries of life.

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Colleen Mondor @chasingray.bsky.social · 12d

The kind of flying back then was incredibly tough. Here's Marvel Crosson - she died in the 1929 air race and I think was the coolest aviatrix of the era. (There were a lot of cool female pilots!) (I just love this picture, so any chance to share it and I will!)

Picture of aviator Marvel Crosson who died in 1929.

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