Hinkydink
@hinkydink.bsky.social
Likes: tiny sandwiches, a well-written joke, emotional maturity.
It is not safe to live in or visit my country. Good luck, everyone.
It is not safe to live in or visit my country. Good luck, everyone.
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Hinkydink
@hinkydink.bsky.social
· Aug 24
Avatar backstory: from Long-Haired Hare (1949), a Looney Tunes short.
Photo #1: Bugs dresses as a bobby-soxer to trick his opera-singer nemesis into signing an autograph with a stick of dynamite. Reminds me of...
Photo #2: I can hear Chuck Jones laughing from here.
Photo #1: Bugs dresses as a bobby-soxer to trick his opera-singer nemesis into signing an autograph with a stick of dynamite. Reminds me of...
Photo #2: I can hear Chuck Jones laughing from here.
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One of the most incredible shots I've ever gotten, in Yellowstone. This coyote walked over a ridge in the blowing snow and posed for me, with a small grin on its face, the snowfalkes like stars in the background.
The desolation and beauty of life and nature is grounding, and so good for the soul.
The desolation and beauty of life and nature is grounding, and so good for the soul.
December 28, 2025 at 2:03 AM
One of the most incredible shots I've ever gotten, in Yellowstone. This coyote walked over a ridge in the blowing snow and posed for me, with a small grin on its face, the snowfalkes like stars in the background.
The desolation and beauty of life and nature is grounding, and so good for the soul.
The desolation and beauty of life and nature is grounding, and so good for the soul.
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Iowa-based journalist Laura Belin compares Bari Weiss' adventures at CBS to Putin's makeover of supposedly independent Russian media, which she covered for RFE-RL twenty years ago. www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/12/25/o...
On "fair" reporting and what happened at "60 Minutes"
Laura Belin: I was alarmed (though not surprised) when CBS News boss Bari Weiss intervened to stop “60 Minutes” from airing a segment.
www.bleedingheartland.com
December 27, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Iowa-based journalist Laura Belin compares Bari Weiss' adventures at CBS to Putin's makeover of supposedly independent Russian media, which she covered for RFE-RL twenty years ago. www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/12/25/o...
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"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—"
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
December 27, 2025 at 2:06 AM
"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—"
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
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RFK: “Where did all this autism come from? It never existed when I was a kid!”
“A Christmas Story”, a 1983 movie based on a 1971 memoir about a childhood in the 1930s: “This is my brother Ralphie. He has a ton of sensory issues and behaviors we don’t understand. Every family has a child like him.”
“A Christmas Story”, a 1983 movie based on a 1971 memoir about a childhood in the 1930s: “This is my brother Ralphie. He has a ton of sensory issues and behaviors we don’t understand. Every family has a child like him.”
December 26, 2025 at 2:43 AM
RFK: “Where did all this autism come from? It never existed when I was a kid!”
“A Christmas Story”, a 1983 movie based on a 1971 memoir about a childhood in the 1930s: “This is my brother Ralphie. He has a ton of sensory issues and behaviors we don’t understand. Every family has a child like him.”
“A Christmas Story”, a 1983 movie based on a 1971 memoir about a childhood in the 1930s: “This is my brother Ralphie. He has a ton of sensory issues and behaviors we don’t understand. Every family has a child like him.”
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producer: what’s the new christmas song about?
guy who wrote jingle bell rock: ok, so you know when you are riding your jingle horse to the jingle hop?
producer: what the fuck
guy who wrote jingle bell rock: ok, so you know when you are riding your jingle horse to the jingle hop?
producer: what the fuck
December 25, 2025 at 6:16 PM
producer: what’s the new christmas song about?
guy who wrote jingle bell rock: ok, so you know when you are riding your jingle horse to the jingle hop?
producer: what the fuck
guy who wrote jingle bell rock: ok, so you know when you are riding your jingle horse to the jingle hop?
producer: what the fuck
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Epstein Survivor Lisa Phillips: Many survivors came forward, and we began comparing notes and working with people in Congress.
As we started connecting the dots, we realized that some of us were sent to the same person in Hollywood for movie auditions. Some of us went to the same modeling agency…
As we started connecting the dots, we realized that some of us were sent to the same person in Hollywood for movie auditions. Some of us went to the same modeling agency…
December 25, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Epstein Survivor Lisa Phillips: Many survivors came forward, and we began comparing notes and working with people in Congress.
As we started connecting the dots, we realized that some of us were sent to the same person in Hollywood for movie auditions. Some of us went to the same modeling agency…
As we started connecting the dots, we realized that some of us were sent to the same person in Hollywood for movie auditions. Some of us went to the same modeling agency…
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Not now, haunted Victorian shoes
Mystery as hundreds of Victorian shoes wash up on Ogmore beach
Mystery as hundreds of Victorian shoes wash up on Ogmore beach
More than 400 leather hobnailed boots, thought to date back to the 19th Century, have been found.
www.bbc.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Not now, haunted Victorian shoes
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Remember who was sitting right behind Donald Trump on his Inauguration Day? The richest man in the world, the tech billionaire tycoons, and his billionaire cabinet. He’s certainly delivering his “golden age” for them, but it’s crumbs for everyone else. That’s the Trump economy.
Trump's 'Golden Age' has arrived for the top 10%
The robust GDP numbers reported this week mask the extent to which wealthy Americans are driving growth.
www.politico.com
December 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Remember who was sitting right behind Donald Trump on his Inauguration Day? The richest man in the world, the tech billionaire tycoons, and his billionaire cabinet. He’s certainly delivering his “golden age” for them, but it’s crumbs for everyone else. That’s the Trump economy.
Merry Xmas Eve from Blucifer & his glam squad.
"Open him up and crawl inside, it’s demon horse maintaining time."
denverite.com/2025/12/24/b...
"Open him up and crawl inside, it’s demon horse maintaining time."
denverite.com/2025/12/24/b...
Who keeps Blucifer’s eyes red and blue body shining?
Open him up and crawl inside, it’s demon horse maintaining time.
denverite.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Merry Xmas Eve from Blucifer & his glam squad.
"Open him up and crawl inside, it’s demon horse maintaining time."
denverite.com/2025/12/24/b...
"Open him up and crawl inside, it’s demon horse maintaining time."
denverite.com/2025/12/24/b...
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if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄
December 18, 2025 at 2:05 AM
if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄
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From 2018 to 2024, the tax rate paid by eight major retailers was slashed from 30% to just 17.5%.
The CEOs of those major retailers were paid a collective $1.3 billion.
Meanwhile, the average worker at those stores was paid less than $32,000 in 2024.
Nothing trickled down.
The CEOs of those major retailers were paid a collective $1.3 billion.
Meanwhile, the average worker at those stores was paid less than $32,000 in 2024.
Nothing trickled down.
December 22, 2025 at 7:01 PM
From 2018 to 2024, the tax rate paid by eight major retailers was slashed from 30% to just 17.5%.
The CEOs of those major retailers were paid a collective $1.3 billion.
Meanwhile, the average worker at those stores was paid less than $32,000 in 2024.
Nothing trickled down.
The CEOs of those major retailers were paid a collective $1.3 billion.
Meanwhile, the average worker at those stores was paid less than $32,000 in 2024.
Nothing trickled down.
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A definitional element of extremism is that harming an out-group is inseparable from the success or survival of the in-group. For extremists, such harm becomes an intrinsic need. They come to believe that denying them the right to harm out-groups is the same thing as denying them the right to exist.
The right, along the Roberts Court, is trying to nullify the Reconstruction amendments guaranteeing equality under the law, in order to restore the Antebellum Constitution, which envisions “liberty” as an eternal aristocracy of race and class (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
December 22, 2025 at 5:52 PM
A definitional element of extremism is that harming an out-group is inseparable from the success or survival of the in-group. For extremists, such harm becomes an intrinsic need. They come to believe that denying them the right to harm out-groups is the same thing as denying them the right to exist.
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Does anyone wanna see a really good Getty image of Rita Moreno and Sam The Eagle having dinner in 1979?
December 20, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Does anyone wanna see a really good Getty image of Rita Moreno and Sam The Eagle having dinner in 1979?
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I'm told that HHS has just terminated all funding agreements with the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Here's a letter HHS sent canceling one of the grants, relating to work on birth defects. Canceled because the project "emphasizes equity, diversity, and inclusion as key foundational components"
Here's a letter HHS sent canceling one of the grants, relating to work on birth defects. Canceled because the project "emphasizes equity, diversity, and inclusion as key foundational components"
December 17, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I'm told that HHS has just terminated all funding agreements with the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Here's a letter HHS sent canceling one of the grants, relating to work on birth defects. Canceled because the project "emphasizes equity, diversity, and inclusion as key foundational components"
Here's a letter HHS sent canceling one of the grants, relating to work on birth defects. Canceled because the project "emphasizes equity, diversity, and inclusion as key foundational components"
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you’ve become the very thing you swore to destroy
December 17, 2025 at 10:33 AM
you’ve become the very thing you swore to destroy
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good luck staffing up those rural hospitals bsky.app/profile/reic...
Here is a map of the affected countries (excluding Tonga), to give you a sense of how much this new ban restricts immigration from Africa in particular.
Of the newly-added country, Nigeria faces the largest impact, with tens of thousands of visas issued every year to Nigerians.
Of the newly-added country, Nigeria faces the largest impact, with tens of thousands of visas issued every year to Nigerians.
December 16, 2025 at 10:42 PM
good luck staffing up those rural hospitals bsky.app/profile/reic...
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It's not that "no one was ready" it's that literacy efforts don't get funded, fact-checking is now "censorship", grants got killed, taxing companies to mitigate social impact =nonstarter in the US, politicians focused on the wrong things. Trust & social norm breakdown the are major non-tech issues.
December 16, 2025 at 1:46 AM
It's not that "no one was ready" it's that literacy efforts don't get funded, fact-checking is now "censorship", grants got killed, taxing companies to mitigate social impact =nonstarter in the US, politicians focused on the wrong things. Trust & social norm breakdown the are major non-tech issues.
These are all 😍, but I was especially happy to learn about psychiatric service dogs. What a beautiful skill!
December 15, 2025 at 6:00 PM
These are all 😍, but I was especially happy to learn about psychiatric service dogs. What a beautiful skill!
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Posting the sign so I can tap it when necessary.
December 15, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Posting the sign so I can tap it when necessary.
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It’s Steve Schirripa’s dachshund’s world, you’re just living in it
December 14, 2025 at 10:54 PM
It’s Steve Schirripa’s dachshund’s world, you’re just living in it
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Not only did the U.S. not stop it, it gave unchecked power -twice-to the movement that feeds Alex Jones, who was found liable for terrorizing Sandy Hook families with his lies. Rather than Jones feel the pain of his $1billion restitution judgment, his mass propaganda business is instead validated.
13th anniversary of horrific shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary.
I recall thinking then that when a shooter killed 26, 20 of them 6- and 7-yr olds that FINALLY we'd do something about scourge of gun violence that uniquely afflicts U.S.
But gun lobby & weak politicians prevents it
#StopGunViolence
I recall thinking then that when a shooter killed 26, 20 of them 6- and 7-yr olds that FINALLY we'd do something about scourge of gun violence that uniquely afflicts U.S.
But gun lobby & weak politicians prevents it
#StopGunViolence
December 14, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Not only did the U.S. not stop it, it gave unchecked power -twice-to the movement that feeds Alex Jones, who was found liable for terrorizing Sandy Hook families with his lies. Rather than Jones feel the pain of his $1billion restitution judgment, his mass propaganda business is instead validated.
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You noticed it too, right?
The minute Jasmine Crockett, a fierce fighter against fascism, announced her run for the Senate, the never-Kamala trolls came out in force.
Never that same heat for Trump, who wants to export Palestinians from Gaza and turn it into a resort. Literally ethnic cleansing.
🧵
The minute Jasmine Crockett, a fierce fighter against fascism, announced her run for the Senate, the never-Kamala trolls came out in force.
Never that same heat for Trump, who wants to export Palestinians from Gaza and turn it into a resort. Literally ethnic cleansing.
🧵
December 14, 2025 at 7:22 PM
You noticed it too, right?
The minute Jasmine Crockett, a fierce fighter against fascism, announced her run for the Senate, the never-Kamala trolls came out in force.
Never that same heat for Trump, who wants to export Palestinians from Gaza and turn it into a resort. Literally ethnic cleansing.
🧵
The minute Jasmine Crockett, a fierce fighter against fascism, announced her run for the Senate, the never-Kamala trolls came out in force.
Never that same heat for Trump, who wants to export Palestinians from Gaza and turn it into a resort. Literally ethnic cleansing.
🧵
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If Abrego Garcia really was a criminal, the president would be pardoning him.
December 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM
If Abrego Garcia really was a criminal, the president would be pardoning him.
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Murphy: "This isn't shocking, bc over last year, Trump has been engaged in a dizzying campaign to increase violence in this country. He's restoring gun rights to felons, eliminated the WH office of gun violence prevention & stopped funding mental health grants & community anti-gun violence grants"
December 14, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Murphy: "This isn't shocking, bc over last year, Trump has been engaged in a dizzying campaign to increase violence in this country. He's restoring gun rights to felons, eliminated the WH office of gun violence prevention & stopped funding mental health grants & community anti-gun violence grants"