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Tom K

@gctom.bsky.social

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Elementary school teacher. Cognitive science and how brains learn. Baltimore Orioles

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Tom K @gctom.bsky.social · Feb 15

"Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers."

Does this even matter?

6/20

#BookSky #20BookChallenge

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Camellia Tea Ceremony @camelliakyoto.bsky.social · 12h

🦋BUTTERFLIES🐛

Sonyō-in (尊陽院), a sub-temple of Honpō-ji (本法寺), has a rather stunning ceiling.

not yet a butterfly
even as autumn passes
the caterpillar
秋を経て蝶もなめるや菊の露
-Matsuo Bashō (松尾芭蕉)
Trans. Reichhold.

#Japan #butterflies #蝶々 #Kyoto

Sonyo-in's sumptuous coffered ceiling features paintings of flowers and butterflies on a gilded background.

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Grant @gdubbstl.bsky.social · 15h

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Tom K @gctom.bsky.social · 15h

She goes to different school

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 18h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · Dec 2

90 years ago, prominent German physicist Albert Einstein, artist Kathe Kollwitz, writer Heinrich Mann, & others appealed for a unity coalition against the Nazi Party in coming elections.

United the other parties could narrowly win. Divided Hitler would win. The opposition didn't unite.

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Tom K @gctom.bsky.social · 15h

That’s why the Orioles traded his bitch ass lol

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Zeboyd Digital Entertainment @zeboydgames.bsky.social · Jul 10

If "AI" was as valuable as they say it is, they wouldn't be selling it to you. They'd be using it themselves in secret to make the next Minecraft, the next Avatar, the next Hello Kitty and then they'd sell that to you.

They're trying to sell you a sick goose, while pretending it lays golden eggs.

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 1d

I hope this is right and I would be extremely happy to eat my words and be wrong if in two years we look back on this and realize it's wrong.

Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 1d

Contrarian point: it's really bad but at the same time US political media is already so in the tank for trump that I don't know how much this moves the needle. If anything weiss is so incompetent and unqualified that maybe it ends up just discrediting mainstream coverage that's already not adequate

Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 2d

The CBS takeover by Larry Ellison and Bari Weiss is the most foreboding move in a while, and I’m not saying that lightly.

It will have an effect on the 2026 elections: CBS will now lie to people and normies will believe it.

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 1d

We are in late-stage authoritarian media takeover.

Fox and CNN are owned/controlled by rightwing billionaires.
Twitter and Truth Social
WSJ and WaPo
CBS and ABC
Newsweek, Sinclair, now Tegna; TikTok getting close.

We are far along in the Putin-mold media takeover plan.

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 1d

this is an extremely high priority.

“Murdoch Fox” and “Ellison CBS” should be said by every Democratic politician at least once per day.

Unremarkable Internet User @nostaticatall.bsky.social · 2d

It's incumbent upon the Democratic Party to educate the public on why CBS news is not to be trusted anymore.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 1d

The imperial presidency, created by both parties since WWII must be dismantled. Every one of the aircraft carrier-sized loopholes enabling the POTUS to act as a Mad King by waving his hands & invoking “national emergency” etc. must be closed. Democracy requires it.

bsky.app/profile/mcop...

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

All of these excesses can be reined in, if not entirely eliminated, by Congress—or at least by a Congress not under Donald Trump’s thumb. All it needs is the wisdom to recognize its own crucial role in creating this problem.

Reining in Rogue Presidents

How ambiguities in the law gave Trump power he could seize—and what a future Congress can do about it.

www.thebulwark.com

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🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 1d

If an autistic person “seems fine,” ask what it took for us to appear that way. Masking isn’t thriving it’s surviving in a world that punishes difference 👌🏽

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

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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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 1d

SURGEON GENERAL'S WARNING: Firing RFK Jr. Now Greatly Reduces Serious Risks to Your Health.

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 2d

they just slapped a surgeons general warning on RFK like he’s a pack of cigarettes

Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 2d

“Secretary Kennedy is entitled to his views. But he is not entitled to put people’s health at risk.”

Six former surgeons general condemn RFK Jr.

Opinion | Six surgeons general: RFK Jr. is a threat to the health of Americans

It was our duty in office to warn of dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Drew @4484.cool · Feb 25

When you see this guy going around town in his little car, do what I do and say "From one lowly worm to another, keep on truckin', brother!" - Drew4484

That famous worm we all know, the little man himself, the one and only Lowly Worm. Driving his little apple car, what's that thing run on

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

“No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.”

George Pearkes @peark.es · 1d

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 1d

Another incident of federal agents pointing guns at Chicago area residents.

Tweet from @laura_n_rod

Text: A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them.

Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

Photo: shows a federal agent in a truck pointing a gun

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Tom K @gctom.bsky.social · 1d

Another vote for the Republican Party should fix everything for him

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Department of Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 1d

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Tom K @gctom.bsky.social · 2d

So are the Baltimore Orioles!

MLB Daily News @fantasymlbnews.bsky.social · 2d

Phillies drop first 2 NLDS games at home

Schwarber/Harper: 1-14, 8 K

Phillies now 2-9 in their last 11 playoff games.

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Tom K @gctom.bsky.social · 2d

Frustrated with the fact that I’m yet again working for a school that uses “leveled” reading groups, centers, small groups, vibes, etc. #edusky
You know what’s better than working with the teacher for a few minutes in a small group? Working with the teacher the entire class period.

Tom K @gctom.bsky.social · 2d

I never knew Spider-Man klopped the Kingpin

Tom K @gctom.bsky.social · 2d

I just looked up macouns and now I’ve got to find one!

Tom K @gctom.bsky.social · 2d

Envy and local (Thurmont, MD) honey crisp

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 3d

Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.

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