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babski @babski.bsky.social · 30m

sounds like it's working!

babski @babski.bsky.social · 2h

let me reiterate: I DON'T WANNA EAT NEAR YOUR DOG AND THEY DONT BELONG IN THE GROCERY EITHER FFS

Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 2h

Abusing the Americans with Disabilities Act to bring your pet into bars, restaurants, and grocery stores is tacky. sfstandard.com/2025/10/08/d...

Dogs in restaurants? It’s getting hairy

In a city where canines aren’t just pets but children, the opinions over where they belong is fierce.

sfstandard.com

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Sarah Fackrell @design-law.bsky.social · 2h

D1,014,905 - issued in 2024 for a design for a "a space werewolf killing inflatable costume." #DesignPatents

costume that looks a bit like an astronaut pickachu

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 2h

Uncle Rinne
Artist: Tetsuro Ohno

Illustration of a man sitting down to eat a bicycle crankset with a screwdriver and wrench as cutlery and oil as a glass of wine.

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Jeff @jlam5.bsky.social · 4h

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Jack ☁️ @bubblycreek.bsky.social · 8h

End of an era 😿

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babski @babski.bsky.social · 7h

wait did you go to UofM too?

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babski @babski.bsky.social · 8h

already got that Top Ten Weather feelin

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 1d

The United States president, who is a pedophile, is currently leading a government shutdown because he is semi-illiterate and professionally destitute in the basic functions of civil government and his lackeys are refusing to remediate this because it would reveal that said president is a pedophile.

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Kenny Goblins @kennylogins.bsky.social · 1d

screenshot of gonzo as narrator of the muppets christmas carol (1992), being implied to have said the quoted post

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babski @babski.bsky.social · 9h

old Vince looking like Noel Fielding

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 23h

I truly don’t get the appeal of podcasts having to be video now. Podcasts are at their very best when you’re doing something else, working out or playing videogames etc, and no good podcaster has ever been someone who should be shown on screen that’s just not how that works. It’s a goblin job.

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Christina S. Ho @christinasho.bsky.social · 19h

Prof. Jacob Bor, commented, “if the US simply performed at the average of our peers, one out of every two US deaths under 65 years is likely avoidable. Our failure to address this is a national scandal.”

Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 1d

New podcast episode where I talk about what's going on with mortality in the US

A wide-ranging discussion of what happened before the pandemic & what's happened since then; racial disparities and how to get our heads around their scope; why things might be going so badly for Millennials & Gen Zers

Prof. Elizabeth Wrigley-Field Discusses Excess Deaths

Because the US death rate has exceeded that of 21 other high income countries for over four decades, an estimated 14.7 million US lives have been lost since1980.

www.thehealthcarepolicypodcast.com

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 10h

I honestly can’t bring myself to read this but I do think it’s very important for people in the US to remember that this is happening right now because of our government.

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 11h

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Yo Gabapentin @yogabapentin.bsky.social · 1d

Claude AI’s logo is unironically Kurt Vonnegut’s butthole drawing

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10h

would you like to live multi-modally?

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Glenn Fleishman @glennf.com · 1d

Consider *Six Centuries of Type & Printing*, a beautiful, compact volume, great for typophiles and others interested in design and printing? sixcent.info Available signed; ships worldwide. Audiobook and ebook versions and bundles are available.

Hand holding open book in front of slightly out of focus bookshelves. The left and right book pages have illustrations at the top: Dance of Death (left); Common Press (right)

Decorated endpapers of book showing type and printing artifacts in black at an angle printed on top of a sharp red paper.

Pivotal type casting machine (Barth caster) in line-art form tinted green. The machine has a variety of gears and adjustments to rapidly produce the same piece of type.

Cover of Six Centuries of Type & Printing: green cloth in 8 by 5 inch format, with brass-colored foil stamping for a border around the title and "by Glenn Fleishman"

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Glenn Fleishman @glennf.com · 1d

Hi, folks, a little personal news. In mid-November, I'm getting my aortic valve replaced via open-heart surgery. As scary as that sounds, my prognosis is excellent. This is fairly personal health news, and I'm posting publicly for two reasons.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 22h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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babski @babski.bsky.social · 22h

Getting this!

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 1d

You can be the safest, most attentive driver in the world and still pose a massive risk to other road users. That’s because cars and car dependency are inherently dangerous.

This doesn’t mean you’re a bad person if you drive, but I do think that drivers should acknowledge their role in this system.

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babski @babski.bsky.social · 1d

SKATE PARK

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babski @babski.bsky.social · 1d

I watch every White Sox game I attend from the 100s with a 500 ticket

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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 1d

Actually, it really matters whether your electeds are progressive. We are often frustrated on the left at what electeds can deliver, but we have to remember moments like this. Paul Vallas would NOT have created ICE free zones.

The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 2d

HAPPENING NOW — This morning, Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order establishing “ICE-free zones.”

“That means that city property and unwilling private businesses will no longer serve as grounds for these raids,” Johnson said to applause.

thetriibe.com/2025/10/mayo...

Mayor Brandon Johnson signs executive order establishing ‘ICE-free zones’ • The TRiiBE

Johnson is calling for a full investigation into “all of the brutality” that federal agents have conducted this past week.

thetriibe.com

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babski @babski.bsky.social · 1d

It actually said "smile if you're horny" which is much worse

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