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Alyssa Williams 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @alyssa667.bsky.social · Jan 19

And that’s that, last sunset as a fully free, functioning, democratic republic. Do not succumb to the new normal, dark times ahead, but solidarity is paramount to overcome them.

Didn’t expect this level of grief. 💔 🇺🇸

Sunset: Sirius rising in deepening blue sky with orange on the horizon and pink clouds.

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Alyssa Williams 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @alyssa667.bsky.social · 51m

Not really. It was one of her sisters who put that out, she has kidney stones, nbd.

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A. Whitney Brown @awhitneybrown.bsky.social · 21h

@tracesoftexas.bsky.social
RIP Speedy Sparks, bass player for the Texas Tornados and many others. And a real gentleman.

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T. Tex Edwards @ttexed.bsky.social · 1d

The Pretty Things Jamming In Germany late '68'/early '69'
youtu.be/A9G9fKq6i90
"The Pretty Things 'Blowing' In Germany to the Byrds classic song "Why" - Dick Taylor left the band in May 1969 - this line-up existed only for a very short time....

The Pretty Things Jamming In Germany late '68'/early '69'

YouTube video by JESIXTIESBOY

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Alyssa Williams 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @alyssa667.bsky.social · 1d

Kali Maa energy! 🖤💥

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

i had no idea this is how canada's supreme court dresses

Nine members of the Canadian Supreme Court sitting for a photo. They are dressed in red robes trimmed in white.

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Alyssa Williams 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @alyssa667.bsky.social · 1d

Happened to look up at dusk & wow. Full Harvest Super moon in Aries.

A potent time for initiating action, claiming personal power & confronting relationship dynamics. Fiery, assertive energy encourages independence and authenticity-time to take decisive steps toward goals.
#fullmoon #supermoon

In the fading light of sunset the full moon, huge and tinted orange, rises in the sky

Full Harvest super moon (vivid orange) rises in the dark blue dusk

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Wendy O'Rourke @wendyo.bsky.social · 2d

The Rolling Stones - Out Of Time youtu.be/pXP1MSFwMnc?...

Rolling Stones tour program from the autumn of 1966 promoting the Aftermath LP. A multiple exposure portrait of the band.

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Alyssa Williams 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @alyssa667.bsky.social · 2d

“Metro loner” (ok two words)coined by @ginsol gets my vote.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

we need a word for a type of person who spends all their time working to live in a city so they can be near cool things, but they don't actually like going out

Alyssa Williams 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @alyssa667.bsky.social · 2d

This is the one

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Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · 2d

Plate IX Animal Moss (Flustra cormata)
from Alfred Moquin-Tandon’s Le monde de la mer (The World of the Sea), 1866 (English ed. 1869)
www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47911#p...
[Yes, they’re animals! Phylum Bryozoa]

book plate in portrait orientation, illustration of a colony of Bryozoans with grey vase-shaped bodies and yellow tentacle crowns against black background, with caption: “ANIMAL MOSS (Flustra cormata)”

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 2d

Once upon a time, if a president head lied this brazenly, it would be considered a disgrace by both political parties

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 3d

Trump: Portland is burning to the ground—insurrectionists all over the place. The politicians are afraid for their lives. That’s the only reason they say there’s nothing happening.

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No Context College Football @nocontextcfb.bsky.social · 3d

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Wendy O'Rourke @wendyo.bsky.social · 4d

Friday

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T. Tex Edwards @ttexed.bsky.social · 4d

From Deep Ellum Community Center's current "Behind the Music" exhibit: It was great to see prominently displayed, the NERVEBREAKERS/TOYS black razorblade flyer, for the December 2nd & 3rd, 1977 show at Manhattan Clearing House, 3420 Main Street....

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Evil MoPac @evilmopacatx.bsky.social · 4d

Bitching About ACL Weekend 1 has officially kicked off in Austin

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RedditCFB @redditcfb.com · 4d

Tonight features 12 hours of college football across 4 countries and 2 continents...
Full List: old.reddit.com/r/CFB/commen...

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 4d

My man

Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 4d

I love this so much!

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Washington D.C. - Bijan Robinson has been selected as the Week 5 NFL Players
Association (NFLPA) Community MVP after hosting a book fair for more than 7,700 kids in Atlanta.
After learning nearly 70 percent of third-and fourth-grade Atlanta students were reading below proficient level, the Atlanta Falcons running back felt compelled to do his part in addressing the growing literacy rate crisis. On September 23, Robinson welcomed students from more than 35
elementary schools in the Atlanta Public Schools (APS) district to Mercedes Benz
Stadium for a memorable event.

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The Athletic @theathletic.com · 4d

HERE. WE. GO.

🏀 Game 1 of the 2025 WNBA Finals
🆚 Las Vegas Aces vs. Phoenix Mercury
📍 Michelob ULTRA Arena, Nevada

Tap in for live updates: http://dlvr.it/TNSd02

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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 5d

The Horrible Snow Cat, 1969, by Albert Dumouchel

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IUCN SSC Marine Conservation Committee (MCC) @sscmarine.bsky.social · 5d

We join the world in mourning the passing of Jane Goodall — visionary ethologist, devoted IUCN member, and tireless advocate for nature. We honour and celebrate her extraordinary life and legacy.

#RememberingJane

iucn.org/iucn-stateme...

IUCN pays tribute to Jane Goodall

IUCN joins the global community in mourning the loss of Jane Goodall, renowned ethologist and dedicated IUCN member, and celebrates her extraordinary life.

iucn.org

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 5d

If anyone is still in DOJ who knows about this, please, reach out. Who signed off? I want emails, I want memos, I want names.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 5d

These are all horrible, but this is just disgusting.

justice.gov

Democrats have shut down the government. Department of Justice websites are not currently regularly updated. Please refer to the Department of Justice's contingency plan for more information.

An official website of the United States government Here's how you know

U.S. Department of
JUSTICE

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 5d

Read the Martin Niemöller poem.

We are living it.

Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 6d

My god.

“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Alyssa Williams 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @alyssa667.bsky.social · 6d

Had a sweet visitor in time for

#Internationalraccoonappreciationday

A raccoon peeps between palm tree fronds as it sits on a fence

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Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · 6d

We lost one of humanity’s true treasures today. ☹️
“The Measure of a True Visionary: Jane Goodall on the Indivisibility of Art and Science”
www.themarginalian.org/2025/10/01/j...
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The Measure of a True Visionary: Jane Goodall on the Indivisibility of Art and Science

The aim of science is to illuminate the mysteries of nature and discover the elemental truths pulsating sublime and indifferent beneath the starry skin of the universe. The aim of art is to give us…

www.themarginalian.org

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 6d

“Unwoven Light” by Korean artist Soo Sunny Park who creates large sculptural installations using glass, wire and light #WomensArt

Photo featuring a person standing under a huge suspended glass and wire sculpture in a gallery space in purple light

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