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Your Obedient Serpent

@athelind.bsky.social

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Athelind Llewellyn Long, Dragon At Large, Hoard Potato. Born on the Cusp of the Boom and Gen X, I am nevertheless The World's Oldest Millennial. Pronouns He/Him or They/Them; I am large, I contain multitudes. Queer, Here, Get Used To It

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Your Obedient Serpent @athelind.bsky.social · Feb 7

Universal Basic Income is not a "solution" to the "problem" of automation.

It is the FULFILLMENT of the PROMISE of automation.

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Mr.Lemur 🎨🖌️✨🐾 🔜 NFC 🔜ATT1 @misterlemur.bsky.social · 14h

Spooky Croc ✨🦴🐊

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 17h

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

prospect.org

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 1d

Gonna be fun watching the Sweatlords implode with both "female spacemarines are unreallistic" and "why don't these like delicate princesses?!" simultaneously

merritt @merrittk.com · 2d

are they soft-launching female space marines

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Hourly Foxes @foxes.hourly.media · 1d

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 1d

COVID-19 outbreaks in Australian residential aged care facilities: 2 October 2025

🔹Active cases: 290 (+53.4%)
🔹Active outbreaks: 54 (+14.8%)
🔹Resident cases: 230 (+54.3%)
🔹Staff cases: 60 (+50.0%)
🔹Reported deaths in 2025: 390 (+3)

@SamRaeMP

Source: www.health.gov.au/resources/pu...

COVID-19 outbreaks in Australian residential aged care homes

National snapshot

As at 8:00 am 2 October2025, there are 290 active COVID-19 cases reported in 54 active outbreaks in residential aged care homes (RACHs) across Australia. There have been 26 new outbreaks, 3 new resident death

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Dana Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror 🎃 @danacorn.bsky.social · 1d

Without downloading anything new, where are you mentally?

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Jul Reindeer @jul-deer.bsky.social · 4d

Let's get some furries on a boat! virginiav.org/calendar/

Free Halloween Cruise on a vintage Steamship. Oct 26th, Lake Union Park, Seattle.

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Jill Weinberger @jillybobww.bsky.social · 2d

We obvi can't *know* if a suspension right when someone's been highly critical of the CEO of Bluesky is retaliatory. (Or indirectly so via mass reporting from friends of said CEO.) But suspending a user at that exact time thanks to a VERY bad-faith reading of a 2-wk-old post isn't NOT suspicious.

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Jill Weinberger @jillybobww.bsky.social · 2d

Wondering where ‪@erinbiba.bsky.social is? Suspended. Officially, it's b/c 2 weeks ago, she posted an accurate description of the End Times scenario Christian Zionists believe in (all Jews convert or die), & typing this *apparently* encouraged violence or self-harm. Unofficially? Feels sketchy AF.

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WBUR @wbur.org · 1d

In 2020, the folk musician Jake Blount launched into national awareness with the release of his debut album, “Spider Tales.” His reclamation of Black and Indigenous mountain music spoke to the nation’s racial reckoning, and led him to invent a new genre: Afrofuturist folk.

Jake Blount's dystopian folk music is an omen for the present

The Providence musician released his first album of Black mountain music during America’s racial reckoning. Amid Trump’s DEI purge and environmental collapse, his Afrofuturist folk hits different.

www.wbur.org

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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 1d

A little-known process that requires insurers to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment.

External reviews are one of the industry’s best-kept secrets, and only a tiny fraction of those eligible actually use them.

By @deldeib.bsky.social

This Little-Known Appeal Could Force Your Insurer to Pay for Lifesaving Care. Here’s How to File It.

When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...

www.propublica.org

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Col. Boozy Badger @boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com · 1d

Dunno man, seems a little misleading to write an article about Trump describing activity in Portland and Chicago as “insurrection” with a 33 year old photo of a burning donut shop taken in the 1992 LA Riots (sans caption explaining that) as the header on all your posts about it.

The picture from
The article with a picture of an armed men standing in front of a burning donut shop. You must click through to read the caption “
Two National guardsmen stand guard outside a burning donut shop in Los Angeles on April 30, 1992.
The National Guard was called in to aid police during the second day of rioting in the city.”

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新金梦 This Much Dragon Feels ILLEGAL @xinjinmeng.neocities.org · 1d

🐲: All this “could be text" vs. “could have been a video" is distracting us from how it should have been a cartoon.

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 2d

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

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Hourly Foxes @foxes.hourly.media · 1d

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 1d

CNN: Trump says violence on streets of Portland is rising.

Game of thrones; a dragon destroys the land with fire breath.

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Reweth 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦🐦‍⬛ @birb.mom · 1d

"In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty" - Phil Ochs

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Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 2d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 2d

4 panel comic

Panel 1:
A Purple person is standing holding a clipboard. A Blue Person sits at a laptop.
Blue Person: Woohoo. I’m the CEO of a social media platform.

Panel 2:
Purple person: We should hire a PR person to interact with the public
Blue Person begins to type on laptop and says: Nope. Gonna do all that myself

Panel 3:
Purple person looks concerned and says: Really…but…

Panel 4:
Purple person: You’re such a whiny little fucking baby

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · Sep 8

“I’m strong and I want to have like fifty kids and a farm” of course you do. You’re twelve. “I don’t want to eat vegetables I think steak and French fries is the only meal” hell yeah homie you’re twelve. “Maybe if there’s crime we should just send the army” bless your heart my twelve year old buddy

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · Sep 8

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

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Your Obedient Serpent @athelind.bsky.social · 2d

Getting strong #KingCrimson vibes from this

The front and back album covers from King Crimson's "In the Court of the Crimson King", featuring a distorted face screaming as it fades into the cosmos.

The inside art from King Crimson's "In the Court of the Crimson King", featuring a disembodied, distorted, smiling face floating in a blue void with red dots or spheres. There are hands making odd but peaceful gestures. To the left, the lyrics of the album are printed.

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Hourly Foxes @foxes.hourly.media · 3d

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 3d

all very normal. Fine, we're all fine here. How are you?

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 3d

Definitely did not expect to be working on a book where some of the bigger questions included:

-- will I ever be allowed to publish another one under an autocratic regime hostile to the first amendment?

-- will I get the book out before the country collapses into civil war?

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