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alyel27.bsky.social
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Winter Solstice I don't know when your darkest day was this year. I just hope when you look back you remember the stars. Rachel Beachy
December 21, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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kjshepherd.bsky.social
It's your birthday, Duane.
Duane Kearns Puryear, holding his panel for the AIDS Memorial Quilt. It reads, in block letters: "My name is Duane Kearns Puryear. I was born on December 20, 1964. I was diagnosed with AIDS on September 7, 1987 at 4:45 PM. I was 22 old. Sometimes, it makes me very sad. I made this panel myself. If you are reading it, I am dead..." There are several great resources to learn about Duane, his advocacy, his family, his panel, and the politics of memory and re-creation, especially this one by The Dallas Way: http://www.thedallasway.org/stories/written/2021/9/19/duane-puryears-and-the-quilt-panel Duane Puryear died in 1991.
December 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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ockitten.bsky.social
BIG Challenges 🐊
November 14, 2024 at 7:15 PM
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oregonthedm.bsky.social
Part 107 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg

Paintings of hammerhead sharks from Japan 1735 CE
Left and right shark What stands out is the goofy happy smile
November 14, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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clarz.bsky.social
letter from james schuyler (poet) to john button (painter), 1956. this is IT for me. this is love, it's been captured, it's done, we can all pack it up. "and suddenly everything i'd ever felt about you turned into a diamond or a rose or something"
Dear John, I don't know why I have to tell you this today (but I do) — perhaps it's because when I look out into the fog all I can see is the hairs of your adorable chest. I'm terribly in love with you, and have been for such a long time, ever since the first time Frank took me to your apartment. I looked around at your beautiful paintings and suddenly everything I'd ever felt about you turned into a diamond or a rose or something — anyway I went striding up and down while Frank played Poulenc and felt exactly like the Ugly Duckling the day he found he was a swan. Then you came home and I didn't think I could ever look at you or to you again, all I could do was giggle and snort and twitch. But I've looked at you a lot since then, and there isn't anybody else in the world that I want to look at; or want, for that matter. It seems to me that I've been so GOOD that I couldn't hate myself more. I don't see why I couldn't have been born a robber baron type instead of a fool. Now I'm going down and set 57th Street on fire to keep you warm. This is all nonsense. I love being in love with you, it makes even unhappiness seem no bigger than a pin, even at the times when I wish so violently that I could give my heart to science and be rid of it. With all my love, Jimmy
August 26, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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matttomic.bsky.social
The lesson from New York is we should all have ranked ballots. The people yearn to RANK. We want to RATE and SORT.
June 25, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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ela-bambust.bsky.social
> “I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
> "So do I," said Gandalf, "this shit fucking sucks.”
April 11, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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annamazz.bsky.social
It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.
May 21, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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encephalophatass.bsky.social
You're finally ready for this:
Microscopic image of Tardigrade with eggs in its belly. Text: "Tardigrades are not extremophiles. They don't enjoy living in extreme conditions, they are just good at surviving them." Microscopic image of Tardigrade. Text: "In that way, maybe they are something like us. We also sometimes live through situations we thought would be impossible." Microscopic image of Tardigrade: "But, all things being equal, both tardigrades and us just want a nice place to live, plenty of yummy food, and whenever possible, to not be exposed to the vacuum of space."
April 4, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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quatoria.bsky.social
MA residents, please join me in calling Governor Healey's office to demand action and a response to these brazen kidnappings carried out by ICE on the streets of our cities.

If you'd like a script, we've provided one - full copy in the alt text.

Her office's number is 617 725 4005.

Flood it!
“Hello, My name is <your name> and I’m calling from <your number.> I'm one of Governor Healey's constituents and I am calling to demand concrete action to protect our students and our neighbors from the brazen and unamerican attacks ICE is currently launching, including the kidnapping of Fulbright scholar Rumeysa Ozturk When will the Governor denounce these terror attacks, denounce the kidnapping of surgeons and scholars, snatched off our streets by masked thugs in plain clothes? I demand to know what Governor Healey is going to do to protect our students and protect our schools, because these deportations are not just attempts to end our first amendment right to protest perpetuated by a genocidal regime, but they are also clearly attempts to scare away international students, damage our Universities, and punish our state for voting against him. I demand to know when I'm going to stop having to hear the Governor shamefully remind the country that we are not a sanctuary state and push for rolling back our right-to-shelter law, and when I'm going to start hearing her use her executive power to prevent state police and city governments from collaborating with ICE. I demand to know which concrete steps the Massachusetts administration will take to protect our citizens from these horrifying raids.”
March 26, 2025 at 7:19 PM
expescapades.bsky.social
I'm a school librarian and our district, due to budgetary bullshit, cut 40 people yesterday. Today I saw that our middle and high school students are planning a walkout and protest in solidarity. Things feel really dire out here but these kids give me hope.
March 22, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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meakoopa.bsky.social
whenever i'm up all night writing with the cat i think of Pangur Ban - the cat of an Irish monk who lived in Reichenau Abbey in the 9th century, and the poem the monk wrote about him.
The scholar and his cat, Pangur Bán (Translated from the Old Irish by Robin Flower. Click here for the original with a literal translation.) I and Pangur Bán my cat, 'Tis a like task we are at: Hunting mice is his delight, Hunting words I sit all night. Better far than praise of men 'Tis to sit with book and pen; Pangur bears me no ill-will, He too plies his simple skill. 'Tis a merry task to see At our tasks how glad are we, When at home we sit and find Entertainment to our mind. Oftentimes a mouse will stray In the hero Pangur's way; Oftentimes my keen thought set Takes a meaning in its net. 'Gainst the wall he sets his eye Full and fierce and sharp and sly; 'Gainst the wall of knowledge I All my little wisdom try. When a mouse darts from its den, O how glad is Pangur then! O what gladness do I prove When I solve the doubts I love! So in peace our task we ply, Pangur Ban, my cat, and I; In our arts we find our bliss, I have mine and he has his. Practice every day has made Pangur perfect in his trade; I get wisdom day and night Turning darkness into light. medieval illumination - a cat in a monk robe
January 17, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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gettymuseum.bsky.social
hi
Close up on an ancient plate featuring a light pink octopus with bright eyes and a smile. The octopus has two arms waving above its head in a friendly manner.
January 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
expescapades.bsky.social
Finally moving here from the bad place and am SO thrilled to find all my Pirate aquaintences again. In the years (and years and years...) I've been on socials I've always been a lurker, so maybe this is a chance to start new and actually talk to all ya'll =)
January 5, 2025 at 10:31 PM