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Deb

@debramayberry.bsky.social

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DC Area event planner. Activist. Antifascist. She/her. Classically-trained chef. Amateur photographer, no AI. Pictures posted are taken that day unless noted. Attempts at comedy in my alt-text. Rock Chalk. 💕 Royals, Nats, & Chiefs. Now Blue Jays, too.

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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 3h

Chicagoans still marching on Michigan Ave chanting "up up with liberation, down down with deportations!"

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Loves banned book @facetiousone.bsky.social · 3h

Finished my #Halloween decorations tonight. Not too bad. Next year, Im buying a 12 x 17 foot inflatable skeleton and a fogger. It was just slightly out of the budget this year.

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Deb @debramayberry.bsky.social · 15h

Looking tough while getting a snack in the rain. #sqrlpix

Gray squirrel is dangling a peanut out of the side of her mouth. Rain or shine, The Arlington Peanut Table is always open to punk-rock squirrels and birds.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 4h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Deb @debramayberry.bsky.social · 15h

Thinking about you, Lynn. Hoping for a speedy recovery for you.😘

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Deb @debramayberry.bsky.social · 15h

Search and hashtags not working.😩

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Deb @debramayberry.bsky.social · 15h

So many people are deactivating their accounts rn. 😩

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Deb @debramayberry.bsky.social · 15h

Looking tough while getting a snack in the rain. #sqrlpix

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Deb @debramayberry.bsky.social · 16h

From the Bsky Tracker app: Deleted or deactivated their account.

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Rick Havoc
@rickhavoc
Account Deleted

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rcjhawk @rcjhawk.bsky.social · 1d

Yoda, Star Wars: “Quiet in the Bronx, it is.

Made with Pinata Farms — Thanks, guys.

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Remora House DC 🎃 @remorahousedc.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t you dare stop using alt-text on this site & community that Link built

Kathryn BrightBOO! 👻 @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 1d

Too much of this site is turning on alt text image descriptions on the grounds that they could be used to train AI.

Pro tip: If your AI-less utopia requires intentionally leaving out disabled people to achieve, you're imagining a dystopia.

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Deb @debramayberry.bsky.social · 1d

Glad you’re finding some!

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johno_5 @johno5.bsky.social · 1d

There was just a commercial during the Yankees-Blue Jays game for a company making survival food, like 3-, 6-, or 12-month supplies of freeze dried family meals. The ad began with a white man with a flannel dirt and a long beard saying “we all know food shortages and lack of food supply are coming…”

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Deb @debramayberry.bsky.social · 1d

That sucks. I hope you’re in touch w/ the followers you like from there.

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Ryan Screem 🎃 @ryandeem.bsky.social · 1d

Psst...hey...Blue Jays...maybe.....do the thing?

a man in a suit is sweeping the floor in front of a sign that says nba on it

ALT: a man in a suit is sweeping the floor in front of a sign that says nba on it

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meh 🎃 @mharvey816.bsky.social · 1d

It's official. @tomsietsema.bsky.social is leaving WaPo.

Gift article, free to read by all.

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Column | Food critic Tom Sietsema is stepping down — and dropping his anonymity

After a quarter-century of reviewing restaurants, donning disguises and turning down photos, The Post’s food critic is ready for his next course.

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 2d

"From the public health standpoint, you never want to see a population that's afraid to access medical care and is afraid to speak to health officials ... [T]hat's one of the things we see."

ProPublica @propublica.org · 2d

For most workers in Wisconsin who get hurt on the job, the state’s workers’ compensation system is there to help.

But thousands of immigrant dairy workers — the backbone of one of the state’s most dangerous industries — don’t get this protection.

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When Immigrant Dairy Farm Workers Get Hurt, Most Can’t Rely on Workers’ Compensation

Wisconsin’s exemption for small farms is one of many federal and state carve-outs that have historically left farm workers — and dairy workers in particular — with fewer rights and protections than ot...

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sal9009.bsky.social @sal9009.bsky.social · 2d

The Hallow-show must go on. Preliminary prep and lights testing, under the full Harvest super moon.
Why not light up my permanent window sign while I’m at it. Maybe I’ll make it into an ad for the 18th.