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Proud hot dog rancher since 1862 🌭🌱
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hotdogplant.bsky.social
I'm always saying this
February 3, 2026 at 12:58 AM
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standplaatskrk.pl
This image of a helicopter over the Sydney Opera House shows neither adequately.
December 8, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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pucksarcana.bsky.social
do not go piggly into that good wiggly
February 1, 2026 at 6:44 PM
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joaquincastrotx.bsky.social
Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.

Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
February 1, 2026 at 3:49 PM
hotdogplant.bsky.social
Really bugs me that ppl keep calling it a "ceasefire" when clearly the firing, strikes, and killing are only reduced
apnews.com/article/mide...
Israeli strikes kill 30 Palestinians, including children, as Gaza ceasefire inches forward
Israeli strikes in Gaza have killed at least 30 Palestinians, marking one of the highest tolls since the October ceasefire.
apnews.com
February 1, 2026 at 4:34 AM
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goblingalpalrazii.bsky.social
January 27, 2026 at 3:47 PM
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jarodkanderson.bsky.social
Nature is eating him and he knows it.
A bruise. A slouch. Unspooling.
There’s no price or poll to stop the chewing.
His masked men can’t shoot the teeth of time.
(1/3)
January 24, 2026 at 7:25 PM
hotdogplant.bsky.social
Oh I can't wait
alyankovic.bsky.social Al Yankovic @alyankovic.bsky.social · 11d
Variant cover by Dan Mora for the upcoming DC Comics title Batman/Superman: World’s Finest #50
Illustration of Weird Al playing his accordion in front of Batman and Superman. Superman seems way more into it.
January 23, 2026 at 8:20 PM
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
my Blackest opinion is that the presumption of conflict between "America has a long and deeply rooted history of violence" and "we can and should fight against today's version of that, as did those who came before us" is less a philosophical debate about how to treat the past and more a skill issue
January 22, 2026 at 5:38 PM
hotdogplant.bsky.social
Planning on running a #BladesInTheDark one-shot for my brothers on Saturday, my first time GMing

Rather than purchasing a screen or making do without one, I made my own!
A GM screen on a table. Black with white decorations of two knives in the center, a crescent moon and a ghost on the left, and a broken circle (the shattered sun of Doskvol) on the right. A table lamp, turned on, rests behind the screen. The same GM screen as before, from the same angle, reversed. There are sheets of paper affixed to this side. The center two are covered in text too small to read at this distance. On the right is a map of the city of Doskvol. On the left are several index cards: again, the text is too small to read.
January 18, 2026 at 10:38 PM
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kitwhitfield.bsky.social
Had an intriguing editorial discussion recently: how did people in the past talk about 'minutes' when they didn't have watches or standardised times? How does that affect your thinking?

Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me.

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January 17, 2026 at 10:34 AM
hotdogplant.bsky.social
Big news for globalists!

apnews.com/article/merc...
"The signing ceremony in Paraguay's humid capital of Asunción marks a major geopolitical victory for the EU in an age of American tariffs and surging Chinese exports, expanding the bloc's foothold in a resource-roch region increasingly contested by Washington and Beijing. It also sends a message that South America keeps diverse trade and diplomatic relations even as U.S. President Donald Trump declares dominance in the Western Hemisphere."
January 17, 2026 at 6:27 PM
hotdogplant.bsky.social
The other day I was watching a video where @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social eats his "last meal" and one of the courses had some arepas

There was some masa about, so I made some myself yesterday, and I've been sleeping on these!

So tasty, and a peach to make too
Five arepas on an oval-shaped plate with a blue design around the border. One of the arepas has a bite taken out of it.
January 16, 2026 at 10:11 PM
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ositanwanevu.com
I wrote about Renee Good, Venezuela, Greenland, and what it means to be a human being. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
America, JD Vance tells us, is merely a nation like many others ⁠– a “homeland”, he said upon accepting his nomination to the vice-presidency, for “people with a shared history and a common future”. That’s a vision of American identity that would have described bands of cavepeople in skins just as well or better. Stephen Miller’s proleptic defense of seizing Greenland last week suggests the Trumpists themselves know this. “We live in a world, in the real world ... that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power,” he declared. “These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.” Miller’s laws are the laws of animals. It is true, obviously, that high ideals have long been deployed to obscure or justify predation, here and elsewhere. But Miller’s stance and the stance of the administration is that there aren’t, actually, any high ideals worth pursuing or even pretending to – that the human being, in itself, is nothing so much ⁠and that we are, fundamentally and forever, primitives. Against the demands and best aspirations of civilization – western or any kind – they tell us the human being is a creature that yearns for nothing more than blood and soil, which is, of course, just mud. The lust for mud has taken up many guises in our history and has been many given names of late – neo-reaction, post-liberalism, fascism. But the name familiar to most is evil. It was evil – the standpoint that only might matters, that human morality, and our sense of reality itself, must yield to the turfism of the primates with the biggest clubs – that ginned up the propaganda that provoked an act of terrorism against our legislature and the policemen defending it five years ago. It is evil that undergirds pronouncements from the same voices responsible for that attack, in defense of the man who shot Renee Nicole Good, that those who disobey the commands of law enforcement, however unsound or unjust, deserve summary execution – that implies, as Fox’s Jesse Watters and others have, that Good’s killing was of trivial significance because she was a lesbian “with pronouns in her bio”. It is evil that sends innocent men to foreign gulags, evil that condemns hundreds of thousands of destitute people abroad to death without a moment’s discussion or debate about what the country they had depended on might owe them, or the furnishing of alternative arrangements for their wellbeing. The gutting of USAID remains this administration’s worst and least surprising offense against the human conscience – a president who rejects the idea that we might have obligations to all within our society can’t be expected to wonder or worry about whether we have obligations to those outside of it. This is also why, after all the noise and nonsense about the need to depose the Maduro regime, the Venezuelan people are now being told that regime will be left in mostly in place for as long as it takes to secure and extract the country’s resources on our terms – that Venezuela will not see democracy unless and until it is profitable for the United States. Democracy has always been a useless abstraction to those who deny we have basic human entitlements – for those who believe, instead, that the idea of human liberty is a luxury for those wealthy and powerful enough to consider themselves our betters rather than the birthright of all. As many who’ve taken to the streets in protest have noted, the Trump administration’s assaults on liberty here at home are the kinds of abuses that spurred the revolution we will commemorate this year. But no grand revolution is in the offing this time around. The only just and plausible recourse for our situation is politics – understood not merely as the contest to win any given set of elections but as the broader fight to forge a republic that honors and strengthens our humanity. The American project must and will succeed. Its enemies stand for too little. Our lives are worth too much.
January 14, 2026 at 3:26 PM
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laurajedeed.bsky.social
A few months ago, ICE hired me

I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable

And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!"

My latest for Slate
You’ve Heard About Who ICE Is Recruiting. The Truth Is Far Worse. I’m the Proof.
What happens when you do minimal screening before hiring agents, arming them, and sending them into the streets? We're all finding out.
slate.com
January 13, 2026 at 2:11 PM
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bornunderpunches.bsky.social
For table top fans, Eat The Reich lets you play as Cool Vampires on a mission to eat Hitler and it's a hoot and you don't have to give money to EA or Activision
January 9, 2026 at 9:05 AM
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petridishes.bsky.social
if you want a long read that involves udders, a hot air balloon, and some extremely dubious data on egg prices, the story I’ve been working on for the last few months where I tried to single-handedly take on every government function myself is now online! www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
I Tried to Be the Government. It Did Not Go Well.
My five-month quest to monitor the weather, track inflation, and inspect milk for harmful microorganisms
www.theatlantic.com
January 8, 2026 at 8:41 PM
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jamellebouie.net
american innovation continues unabated
January 4, 2026 at 5:24 PM
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cristianfarias.com
Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.
Twitter thread in Spanish by José Mario de la Garza, a human rights lawyer in Mexico, translated using Google Translate: 1. Overthrowing a dictator sounds morally right. No one mourns a tyrant. But international law wasn't built to protect the good, but to restrain the powerful. That's why it prohibits force almost without exception: not because it ignores injustice, but because it knows that if each country decides whom to "liberate" by force, the world reverts to the law of the strongest. 2. The problem is not Maduro. The problem is the precedent. When military force is used to change governments without clear rules, sovereignty ceases to be a limit and becomes an obstacle. Today it is “overthrowing a dictator”; tomorrow it will be “correcting an election,” “protecting interests,” “restoring order.” The law does not absolve dictatorships, but neither does it legitimize unilateral crusades. Cont’d: 3. The uncomfortable question is not whether a tyrant deserves to fall, but who decides when and how. Because history teaches something brutal: removing a dictator is easy; building justice afterward is not. And when legality is broken in the name of good, what almost always follows is not freedom, but chaos, violence, and new victims. The law exists to remind us of this, even when it makes us uncomfortable. Maduro isn't the problem: he's the face of the problem. Removing him from power would be merely opening the door. Behind him is the machine: Rodríguez, Cabello, the military command, the operators of repression and plunder. If you only change the person at the top and leave the system intact, what follows isn't democracy: it's a reshuffling. And there's something even more difficult: Chavismo didn't just capture institutions, it captured daily life. Economy, media, bureaucracy, employment, fear, favors, blackmail. A country can't be "de-Chavistaized" by decree or by an electoral miracle. The real transition begins when that network is broken without setting the country ablaze. The challenge is enormous, and it's also a moral one: to unite without vengeance, but without impunity. Targeted justice for those most responsible, truth for the victims, guarantees that the rest will dismantle the system, and a plan for people to live again—not just survive. Because freedom doesn't come with a new president: it comes when the state ceases to be a threat.
January 3, 2026 at 2:16 PM
hotdogplant.bsky.social
Fundamental misunderstanding of what a "gift" is
December 26, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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emilyenco.bsky.social
Merychippus!
Artist rendition of Merychippus from Encyclopedia Britanncia, with an added christmas hat.
December 24, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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causewaypride.bsky.social
Are you lgbtqia+ and spending this Christmas alone or with unsupportive family? Join us for an online Christmas day hangout from 2pm Dm the page or contact joinus@causewaypride.co.uk
December 22, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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architecture.bsky.social
Installed in 1410, this 600 year-old clock located in Prague is the world's oldest astrological clock still in operation.
Installed in 1410, this 600 year-old clock located in Prague is the world's oldest astrological clock still in operation.
December 16, 2025 at 3:48 PM
hotdogplant.bsky.social
Need this in my life ASAP
courtneyellis.bsky.social Courtney Ellis @courtneyellis.bsky.social · Dec 16
Pretty sure I won at White Elephant this year.
December 16, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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murdoink.com
the world has changed
December 13, 2025 at 4:08 PM