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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 1h

i am not saying the world has gone completely bonkers but
the world has gone absolutely completely bonkers

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 2d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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merritt @merrittk.com · 2h

its like the old saying goes, if you dont get everything done in one day you should give up. its obviously not going to happen

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Following Hadrian @followinghadrian.bsky.social · 10h

Happy #WorldOctopusDay! 🐙

Fresco from Rome with an octopus clutching a moray eel and a lobster in its tentacles. Dated to the 2nd quarter of the 2nd century AD.
Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Rome.

An octopus on the early 4th-century mosaic floor in the Basilica of Aquileia, Italy.

Mycenaean terracotta stirrup jar with octopus 1200-1100 BC.

An octopus battling with a lobster on a mosaic from Pompeii.

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 3h

This is really blatant pro-Nazi rhetoric, but also the House Un-American Activities Committee following WWII considered it suspicious for people to have been anti-fascist before Pearl Harbor. So like…not new

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 4h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Gorey Cask of Amontilladoing @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 3h

ye see this shits not inevitable never give up in advance

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 9h

Microsoft has withdrawn its proposal for a data center in a Milwaukee suburbs after community pushback.

After opposition from area residents and elected officials the 244 acre Caledonia project will not proceed.

Microsoft drops Caledonia data center after facing opposition. Company looking for new site

Outcry from residents and elected officials caused Microsoft to drop the Caledonia plan. But the company is seeking an alternative site.

www.jsonline.com

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 3h

When are we going to start seeing stories like this @nytimes.com? www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/u...

NYT Screenshot:

'How Biden’s Inner Circle Protected a Faltering President
“Your biggest issue is the perception of age,” Mike Donilon, the president’s longtime strategist, told him in 2022, according to people who heard him."

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 4h

AAAAUGH! The lithops is doing a thing! I was not informed that lithops did things! I thought they just sat there and occasionally sprouted pups like a normal succulent!

A lithops plant in a small terracotta pot, producing a green flower bud thingy.

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The Octopus Gallery @octopusgallery.bsky.social · 5h

Good news for sewists: the paper pattern company feared lost to bankruptcy has been saved as an independent company.

craftindustryalliance.org/sewing-patte...

Sewing Patterns Rise from DGA Bankruptcy Ashes - Craft Industry Alliance

The “Big 4” sewing patterns are saved. Simplicity, McCall’s, Vogue & Butterick get new life under Rubelmann Capital.

craftindustryalliance.org

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 13h

It took a highly sophisticated Jacquard weave to create the incredibly detailed oranges that form the fabric of of this early 1890s dress. You can almost smell the citrusy peel. There so many details to observe here, the pattern matching, the cuff trim, the drama! #V&A #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

A view of the back of an1890s dress showing the bodice with clusters of oranges woven into the fabric. It has black lace on the sleeves and a high collar

A detail of the front of the bodice of the orange patterned 1890s dress showing black lace at the neckline and the detailed fruit

Sleeve detail of the 1890s orange patterned dress which has a yellow silk trellis work trim with black lace

Full length view of the front of the 1890s dress patterned with oranges and trimmed with black lace

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 11h

I've stood as a candidate in local and national elections. The best part of the count is when we see all the rejected ballots. Yes, we see your willy scribbles and insults and decide between us who had the best one

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Anna McDuff @annamcduff.bsky.social · 11h

Hope it goes well!

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Jill Twiss @jilltwiss.bsky.social · 11h

I did truly write one of these banned books, which remains insane to me. Put banned books in your Little Free Libraries today!

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 17h

doomscroll break

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 13h

Occasional reminder that Cleverly, not Kemi, would be Tory leader right now if he hadn't got his maths wrong and knocked HIMSELF out of the race.

(He/his team, shifted too many supporter votes to Kemi, trying to game her into second place behind him. They thought she was the easiest to beat)

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 13h

James Cleverly says the opinion polls will now start "ticking up" for the Conservative party.

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 13h

We all think we're Statler & Waldorf
But we're not
We're a whole website full of Fozzie Bears

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Alex Tomlinson @alextomlinson.com · 1d

Flat illustration of a Wood Pigeon, Magpie, and Robin in a parade-line stride holding autumn leaves up high with their beaks! (UK birds as I am there right now on vacation!)

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 5d

So there's an EU-funded campaign to get millenials to eat potatoes and - I swear to Jesus I'm not making this up - it's slogan is: "Europe's favourite since 1536."

A screenshot of a website that says "DISCOVER THE TASTY VERSATILITY OF POTATOES! Europe's favourite since 1536." banner ads say "funded by the european union" and "enjoy - it's from europe."

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 17h

doomscroll break

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13h

#WarRavagedPortland

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 12h

When you could code silly quizzes on Facebook, it was FULL of "what would you be in medieval times?!" etc.

I made one that nearly always answered "died as a child", "died in childbirth", "lived and died as a servant"

People got SUPER mad with it.

Everyone assumes they'll be at the top of the tree

William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 12h

The subtext of ‘we should be more like Dubai’, beyond the obvious racism, is ‘I should have a servant’.

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Anna McDuff @annamcduff.bsky.social · 23h

Ooh, fabric poster sounds deliciously close to interesting tea towels!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

thank you brett kavanaugh!

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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old uncle BATface @catfacejoe.bsky.social · 1d

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Lady behind me at the thing screening last night to her partner "why are they shooting at the dog?" and her partner says very firmly "have you never seen a film before? you watch and information is revealed"

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 1d

I swear to god, the garden got MORE when I got back after a week. Like the relatively cooler weather made some of the perennials just explode. It’s nuts.

These things! I think this is Kudos mandarin hummingbird mint? WTF?