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@amyb8888.bsky.social

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Legal editor. Amateur 🍄photographer, photos taken on my 2020 iPhoneSE. Obsessed w/nature/dogs/science/sci-fi/music/movies/books Hometown: Pittsburgh, living in PNW. #Vegan 🗳️💙 She/her Owned by a rescue dog #AdoptDontShop No DMs unless I know you.

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@amyb88(8/8 is my🎂, nothing else)bsky.social 🍄🍄‍🟫 @amyb8888.bsky.social · Nov 20

I posted my favorite mushroom photo I’ve ever taken (and I’ve taken thousands!) when I first joined, but I didn’t know about #fungifriends yet, so I’m reposting it. Waxcap. #naturephotography #forestfloor

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@amyb88(8/8 is my🎂, nothing else)bsky.social 🍄🍄‍🟫 @amyb8888.bsky.social · 9h

Describe your Bluesky account with a single image.

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@amyb88(8/8 is my🎂, nothing else)bsky.social 🍄🍄‍🟫 @amyb8888.bsky.social · 10h

I have to say that I fully expected someone to say this looked like a ballsack, so I’m very impressed with you all that no one did. Gold star 🌟 for adult behavior. 😉

@amyb88(8/8 is my🎂, nothing else)bsky.social 🍄🍄‍🟫 @amyb8888.bsky.social · 20h

Bonus fungi post: Look at the pretty colors of the guttation on this Calcipostia guttulata! (I’m pretty sure that’s what it is.) A shot of another one and the whole end of the log below.
#fungifriends #fungi#mycology #naturephotography

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 13h

Can’t believe I have to say this, but in Minnesota you will continue to have the freedom to get your COVID and flu shots.

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@amyb88(8/8 is my🎂, nothing else)bsky.social 🍄🍄‍🟫 @amyb8888.bsky.social · 11h

Sunset on our evening walk.

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@amyb88(8/8 is my🎂, nothing else)bsky.social 🍄🍄‍🟫 @amyb8888.bsky.social · 11h

People telling other people to eat something that very well could be poisonous is my least favorite part of fungus posts on social media. Thanks for saying something!

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@amyb88(8/8 is my🎂, nothing else)bsky.social 🍄🍄‍🟫 @amyb8888.bsky.social · 14h

Thank you for that. 🙏

@amyb88(8/8 is my🎂, nothing else)bsky.social 🍄🍄‍🟫 @amyb8888.bsky.social · 14h

I would be so thrilled if the biggest protest blocking this from happening, literally blocking the construction crews, was organized and it kept it from starting until Trump is out of office.

Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 22h

1. On Monday, Trump delivered a $70 million windfall to his billionaire buddy, John Paulson.

Paulson hosted the biggest fundraiser of Trump's 2024 campaign, raising over $50 million.

This week, Trump returned the favor.

Follow along for details.

Trump approves mining road, delivers $70 million windfall to MAGA billionaire

On April 6, 2024, a procession of Range Rovers, Aston Martins, and Bentleys rolled up to the Palm Beach mansion of billionaire John Paulson. The occasion was a glitzy fundraiser for Donald Trump’s…

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@amyb88(8/8 is my🎂, nothing else)bsky.social 🍄🍄‍🟫 @amyb8888.bsky.social · 14h

I didn’t read them, I already feel like my head is going to explode every damn day.

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@amyb88(8/8 is my🎂, nothing else)bsky.social 🍄🍄‍🟫 @amyb8888.bsky.social · 16h

My coping mechanism.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 17h

He finally got the election-denying MAGA A.G. he always dreamed of. Bondi was openly partisan, scornful & highly combative, her non-answers dripping with disdain. Very telling when she was asked if she'd seen the photos of her boss "with half-naked young women." PATHETIC
#ProtectingHerPedophilePrez

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the corgi from cowboy bebop @realqrampage.fightins.online · 2d

LMAO LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH
EVERY TIME I DO IT MAKES ME LAUGH

Kash Patel in his own merch looking fucking embarrassing as hell lmao

he’s so fucking ugly

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

Stephen Miller believes that if he supercharges the debate over Trump's abuses of power with enough propaganda, he can polarize it and force low-info voters to embrace authoritarianism. Pritzker/Newsom have accepted that this requires an information war in response.

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@amyb88(8/8 is my🎂, nothing else)bsky.social 🍄🍄‍🟫 @amyb8888.bsky.social · 20h

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1d

Make sure you read the report about how Stephen Miller deported Waco's favorite Mexican restaurant owner.

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A picture of Sergio Garcia and George W and Laura Bush. It is signed, To Sergio Garcia with best wishes.

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@amyb88(8/8 is my🎂, nothing else)bsky.social 🍄🍄‍🟫 @amyb8888.bsky.social · 21h

So much of this is about their enormous egos.

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@amyb88(8/8 is my🎂, nothing else)bsky.social 🍄🍄‍🟫 @amyb8888.bsky.social · 21h

Exactly that.

@amyb88(8/8 is my🎂, nothing else)bsky.social 🍄🍄‍🟫 @amyb8888.bsky.social · 21h

I’m glad you think so! I know there are a lot of pretty ones but I like the weird ones just as much.

@amyb88(8/8 is my🎂, nothing else)bsky.social 🍄🍄‍🟫 @amyb8888.bsky.social · 22h

A fungus photo a day: I have so many 🍄 I want to post from the last few days but this Onnia subtriquetra I saw yesterday was so cool-looking (at least to me!) that I had to post it. Usually, you don’t get such a great view of the sides. Top below. #fungifriends #fungi#mycology #naturephotography

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 22h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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@amyb88(8/8 is my🎂, nothing else)bsky.social 🍄🍄‍🟫 @amyb8888.bsky.social · 22h

There’s no way that poor man isn’t going to have physical damage from that, any how many steps away are we from these thugs starting to actually kill people?

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@amyb88(8/8 is my🎂, nothing else)bsky.social 🍄🍄‍🟫 @amyb8888.bsky.social · 22h

A must read.

Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 22h

"Black people are tired. Not metaphorically tired—actually tired. The kind of tired that turns every group chat into a mix of gallows humor and emotional triage."

I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.

White People’s Performative Ignorance Is Exhausting—Opinion

Disbelief over authoritarianism in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait. It’s a confession: You haven’t been paying attention.

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 22h

Justin J. Pearson — the 30-year-old Memphis representative and member of the “Tennessee Three” who protested gun violence — has announced a bid to primary 76-year-old Democrat Steve Cohen for a seat in the U.S. House.

Justin J. Pearson of the 'Tennessee Three' Has Had It With 'Mediocrity' -- So He's Running for Congress

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