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Hikes and crochet. She/they 🏳️‍🌈 STEM Librarian Feral Appalachian witch and general menace with Crohn’s disease living on DMB, coffee, rage, Cleveland baseball and trashy books

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Feral Appalachian witch in Texas 🌞🌻🏳️‍🌈 @cybrarerin.bsky.social · Apr 17

I’m still selling them for $10 a piece + $10 shipping. Dm me if’n you want one or a few!

Feral Appalachian witch in Texas 🌞🌻🏳️‍🌈 @cybrarerin.bsky.social · Jan 25

How many pride flags can I make this weekend?

Two crocheted progress pride flags laid out on a yellow pillow. There is another pride flag at the bottom that is a work in progress (wip).

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Cards Against Humanity @cardsagainsthumanity.com · 13h

This holiday season, give your loved ones the gift of knowledge, America’s libraries the gift of cash, and don’t give Donald Trump a fucking cent. Cards Against Humanity Explains the Joke is an incredible new product that is 100% EXEMPT FROM TRUMP’S STUPID TARIFFS! ExplainsTheJoke.com

Cards Against Humanity Explains the Joke

An incredible product totally exempt from Trump's stupid tariffs.

ExplainsTheJoke.com

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Congresswoman Chellie Pingree @pingree.house.gov · 13h

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Yesterday, Stephen Miller had one of the most terrifying Freudian slips I've ever heard.

He claimed Trump has plenary authority (absolute power)—before cutting himself off.

Today, Trump said Governor Pritzker and Mayor Johnson should be *jailed*.

This is how authoritarian regimes talk. (1/3)

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Congresswoman Chellie Pingree @pingree.house.gov · 13h

The Posse Comitatus Act prohibits the use of federal forces to execute domestic laws. The whole point was to prevent the president from using troops as a domestic police force!

If Trump gets his way, and he's allowed to call *any* defiance an act of “insurrection,” all bets are off. (2/3)

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 13h

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 12h

we are all so emotionally fried that Dolly Parton had to get on the internet and tell us that it is all gonna be okay

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 13h

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

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Feral Appalachian witch in Texas 🌞🌻🏳️‍🌈 @cybrarerin.bsky.social · 12h

lol

www.explainsthejoke.com

Cards Against Humanity Explains the Joke

An incredible product totally exempt from Trump's stupid tariffs.

www.explainsthejoke.com

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 14h

1. AG Ken Paxton of Texas has announced undercover operations into left leaning groups, citing "transgenderism" and "antifa."

It is the latest in a series of moves that indicates LGBTQ+ people and left-leaning orgs may be targets for domestic surveillance.

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Texas AG Ken Paxton Announces Undercover Operations Into "Antifa," Citing "Transgenderism"

The announcement comes after a flurry of reports that Trump would weaponize the FBI against groups supporting LGBTQ+ people.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 16h

Sign. Join. Go to the meeting. The first instinct is to keep your head down, get the work done, hope someone louder or smarter or whatever helps. But that's the coordination problem of fascism: if you, yes you, ordinary person who's never done this before, do nothing then we all lose.

Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 16h

sign and share and join AAUP actionnetwork.org/petitions/tr...

Trump Higher Ed Compact 2025

We stand for education—for science, for students and for freedom—and against this backward, anti-American policy. We call on university leaders, faculty, staff and students to unite in rejecting the T...

actionnetwork.org

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Feral Appalachian witch in Texas 🌞🌻🏳️‍🌈 @cybrarerin.bsky.social · 13h

Cards Against Humanity is supporting the ALA in its fight against censorship this year for its holiday card pack.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 14h

Is it bad for the average person when goods and services are essentially worthless. 🤷🏿‍♂️ fortune.com/2025/10/08/b...

“The other great economic fallacy that I just see everywhere right now is this idea that AI is somehow going to be this hyper-successful thing: hyper-acceleration of productivity and [will] dramatically change everything, destroy all the jobs,” Andreessen recently said on Stripe’s Cheeky Pint podcast. “And yet somehow that’s going to lead to people being eviscerated, and being poor and not having anything.”

Even if that scenario were to come true, the Andreessen Horowitz cofounder predicted that people would enjoy massive spending power. A surge in productivity would cause everything to be “oversupplied,” he said, and things that once cost $100 would now sell for a penny.

“Even if it played out, the result would be hyper-deflation of prices, which is the thing that people miss,” the 54-year-old billionaire continued.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 14h

“In case you’re wondering, you won’t need to send Google your feet pics in order for this feature to work.”

Google’s AI try-on imagines your feet in new shoes

Google’s AI will swap your shoes for you.

www.theverge.com

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Reclaim Hosting @www.reclaimhosting.com · 13h

If you are working with students in a Domain of One’s Own, Shared Hosting or a Wordpress Multisite, we want to hear from you! We are running a student competition to showcase and it's open for entries! blog.reclaimhosting.com/open-for-ent...

Open for entries: Reclaim's Student Showcase

If you are working with students in a Domain of One’s Own, Shared Hosting or a Wordpress Multisite, we want to hear from you! We are running a student competition to showcase emerging voices from…

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 15h

microsoft product (begging, pleading): save this document to my documents?

me: save to desktop

microsoft (twitching, shaking) this jpeg. save to pictures?

me: save to desktop

microsoft (weeping, throwing up): this email attachment... downloads?

me: desktop

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404 Media @404media.co · 14h

People Are Crashing Out Over Sora 2’s New Guardrails

🔗 www.404media.co/sora-2-conte...

People Are Crashing Out Over Sora 2’s New Guardrails

OpenAI’s Sora 2 platform started just one week ago as an AI-generated copyright infringement free-for-all. Now, people say they’re struggling to generate anything without being hit with a violation er...

www.404media.co

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Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 14h

“No warrant could authorize entering every single apartment, smashing down every door, and dragging every person out in handcuffs, which is what they did.”

The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 1d

As Trump and ICE unleash terror on Chicago, due process is nowhere to be found.

@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social unpacks ICE’s overreach
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/ice-is-out-of-control-aaron-reichlin

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Feral Appalachian witch in Texas 🌞🌻🏳️‍🌈 @cybrarerin.bsky.social · 14h

Pretty sure the republican party stands for bigotry, but please do go on... 🙄

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Gay Community News @gcnmag.bsky.social · 14h

The programme is a vital act of solidarity, safety and self-determination. Read 👉 buff.ly/AQih5bL #GCNnews

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17h

i think it is cool that a government run by fanatical bigots is on track to plunge the economy into a mountain and cause a food crisis

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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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 16h

I could maybe tolerate this slightly better if I'd seen the people in charge of U.S. media make literally ANY serious effort in the last two decades to creatively fund meaningful journalism

or hadn't watched countless editor and journalist friends get shitcanned by trust fund brunchlord failsons

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 16h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 16h

In unrelated news, here's @juliesulabor.bsky.social writing for @msnbc.com about how Amazon mistreats its package handlers and delivery drivers: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

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the corgi from cowboy bebop @realqrampage.fightins.online · 16h

friendly reminder that “professionalism” often has little to do with your actual behavior and everything to do with other folks’ biases

in my case, I look younger than I am and older men love to complain about that when they’re not being overtly creepy about it

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Feral Appalachian witch in Texas 🌞🌻🏳️‍🌈 @cybrarerin.bsky.social · 16h

Fair! I’m not replacing those either, the ones made of foam. But the poly filled ones— the ones that were lumpy as hell— they went in the dumpster lol 🚮

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 18h

Texas bishop had brought Pope Leo a packet of letters from terrorized immigrant families

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El Paso bishop brings Pope Leo XIV desperate letters from migrants in crosshairs of US crackdown

The Texas bishop on the front lines of the U.S. immigration crackdown has met with Pope Leo XIV in the Vatican.

apnews.com

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 1d

The reason people are targeting disabled people with prosthetics with the ‘clanker’ epithet on social media is because of ableism—not because of AI hate.
Disabled people get slurs, targeted harassment, epileptics get flashing gifs sent to them; I think it’s interesting how some people suddenly care.

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