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Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social · 17m

Good morning

A sign in my window that reads Sic Semper Tyrannis
All Tyrants Fall

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Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social · 1h

Stay weird, Portland.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social · 10h

10 horror movies to get to know me by.

🎃 30 Days of Night
🎃 Green Room
🎃 JAWS
🎃 It Follows
🎃 Evil Dead 2
🎃 The Thing
🎃 NOPE
🎃 In the Mouth of Madness
🎃 Blair Witch Project
🎃 The Ring

Cindy Vs. The Army of Darkness Phan @cindyphanauthor.com · 11h

10 horror movies to get to know me by

💀 Alien
💀 Terrified
💀 The Autopsy of Jane Doe
💀 Hereditary
💀 It Follows
💀 Exhuma
💀 The Wickerman
💀 Army of Darkness
💀 The Descent
💀 A Nightmare On Elm Street 4: The Dream Master

Eve Harms, Gourd Respecter @eveharms.com · 11h

10 horror movies to get to know me by

Evil Dead 2
Frankenhooker
Hellraiser
Reanimator
The Thing
Inland Empire
Under the Skin
Videodrome
Gozu
Lair of the White Worm

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Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social · 11h

This is supposed to be community-led moderation in this social media experiment. But our organization's developers need to be able to listen to the community.

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Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social · 11h

He looks so very elderly.

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Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social · 11h

I don't understand how Link can be exiled. He never hurt anyone, he helps crowdfund for our most vulnerable. He tries to help. He shared a snarky meme. We all do that. Singal Inc. has led to a lot of very vulnerable people getting hurt. He gets to slither on by.

Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 1d

“As a neurodiversity advocate and as an autistic person, I’m really grateful for so much of the work that’s been done that allows me to be myself and to be successful being myself.” Link, who has been *banned*!?!? from this platform?

thinkingautismguide.com/2025/06/spac... #AutisticWhileBlack

Space Law, Race, and Neurodiversity: Autistic Advocate AJ Link

We live in a country & society that is built on racism. The neurodivergent community isn't free of that racism—per Autistic advocate AJ Link.

thinkingautismguide.com

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Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social · 11h

I'm so sorry this is happening, you are justified in your frustration, it's scary!

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Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social · 11h

The brain fog form of long COVID? The chronic illness community on Bluesky can hook you up with resources to seek treatment, if you need help. @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social do you have any guidance?

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Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social · 11h

I imagine something real batshit but then I am afraid to write it down for fear it will manifest like every other monstrosity that seems to barrel into existence nowadays.

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Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social · 13h

When you suppress the rights of the citizens of a place, citizens who have grown accustomed to those rights, you are setting up a powder keg rigged to go off in a short order. A century worth of change can happen in months, a week, a day, when that bomb goes off. be ready when opportunity strikes.

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Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social · 15h

I'm trying, silo graphic, I'm trying.

a warning for grain silos, the illustration shows how crusted grain on surface can make it seem stable. but there is a void under the crust. And you could fall in like quick sand!
The graphic reads: "It only takes two or three seconds to become helpless in the flowing grain."
DO NOT ALLOW YOURSELF TO BE TRAPPED IN THE VOIDS

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Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social · 17h

Congrats Bari! You are so screwed.

Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 23h

please read my memo www.theverge.com/business/793...

Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed

Bari Weiss has sold her company, The Free Press, to manage the decline of broadcast news at CBS. How many ways can it go wrong?

www.theverge.com

Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social · 17h

Please hire a comms director and let us have our Link back @jay.bsky.team We miss Link, a person who tries to pool resources through the platform. I'm sorry he was rude to you and so many are rude to you but that is all the more reason to get a comms director, they will handle the mob of rudeness!

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 17h

A great way to turn the temp down here as @jay.bsky.team @pfrazee.com and @aaron.bsky.team want would be to stop communicating site policies and practices with individual users or on their timelines and hire a comms person who is a professional communicator to do all the front facing interaction.

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Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social · 17h

Zach Bryan will meet you outside after school to kick your ass. You, being the entire surveillance state. Dude holds a grudge and is full of spite (complimentary).

Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 17h

Yesterday brought news that country star Zach Bryan is dropping a song critical of ICE.

Today, the official DHS account trolls him by using one of his songs (without permission, one strongly presumes) over the kind of cinematic footage Trump loves, of masked federal agents clashing with Americans.

Screenshot of a tweet from @DHSgov dated 7 October 2025. It shows a video of federal agents, under the text "We’re having an All Night Revival"

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Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social · 19h

Time for autumn cleaning of your digital closets.

Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 19h

A lot of the apps on your phone are tracking your physical location and selling that information to other companies. Here's a fantastic explainer from @pcmag.com about 20 of the most common apps that spy on you. Service journalism at its finest. www.pcmag.com/explainers/t...

These 20 Apps Are Watching You—And You Probably Use Them Every Day

You might use these apps every day, but have no idea what they collect. These 20 apps are quietly harvesting your location, contacts, photos, and more—here's what you can do about it.

www.pcmag.com

Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social · 21h

Our main export remains American culture, good and bad.

Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 22h

NEW: I talked to scholars who study political contagion about how America’s freefall could affect the rest of the world. They are… concerned. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Is America contagious?

Scholars in political extremism are documenting the global spread of right-wing populism.

www.motherjones.com

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Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social · 21h

It's not just you! Me, a science writer with resources to spare, had to hustle to find a pharmacy that offered the kids' dose and the quest included a few deadends, and snarls and yelling at CVS' website so much, so very much. This is a recipe for disaster and mass illness. 🩺

Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 21h

This one's for all the parents who have told me they're going through hell trying to find Covid vaccines for their children: It's not just you! Gift link:

Seeking Covid Shots for Their Children, Some Parents Hit a Wall

www.nytimes.com

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Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social · 21h

Literally, me during my morning team meeting. "uuuhhh i am working on five stories and I can't remember what they are at the moment."

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Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social · 21h

mood

🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 21h

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Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social · 23h

a rainbow colored illustration of a unicorn and anthropomorphic crescent moon. It reads: The Old World Is Dying.
The New world struggles to be born
NOW IS THE TIME OF MONSTERS

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Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social · 23h

is there a gas leak on wall street? the vapors are getting thick

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Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social · 1d

How to make your insurance company do its job. An arcane ritual, but it could work!

ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

NEW: When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider.

Here are six steps experts suggest to help you through the external appeal process.

This Little-Known Appeal Could Force Your Insurer to Pay for Lifesaving Care. Here’s How to File It.

You may have the right to get a denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here’s how experts suggest you do it.

www.propublica.org

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Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social · 1d

My son drinks milk by the glassfuls and it grosses me out. I use it maybe in some cereal? We go through milk so quickly!

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Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social · 1d

👀Notable context in times when medical research funding is being destroyed. And Funding for the police state increases. 🩺 🧪

Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 1d

What Americans Die from?

And what the media reports on...

Our World in Data ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...

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Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social · 1d

It's nothing personal Philly! He is heroically skilled, it's an honorable pain to experience.