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Sky's the limit over here. Rockin' the greater Houston area 'burbs…exiled from New Orleans, but not in the Napoleonic sense. Trans-Sabine Texmudgeon. Also found on 🧵 as liprap3. https://liprapslament-theline.blogspot.com

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liprap @liprap.bsky.social · 3h

New Orleans has so many potholes name pronunciation-wise.

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ᒍᗩᗴ 🇿🇦 ᖇOK @jaerok.bsky.social · 5h

ᕼIᔕ ᑎᗩᗰᗴ Iᔕ ᗷᖇᗩYᒪOᑎ ᗷᖇOᗯᑎᗴᖇ

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Josh Johnson @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social · 5h

Oooh People are so mad about Bad Bunny’s Halftime

liprap @liprap.bsky.social · 5h

The street ham incident sounds like a new band name.

liprap @liprap.bsky.social · 5h

Whoops, I meant "we didn't work too far from that street." Never lived any further uptown than a few blocks from Napoleon & St Charles.

liprap @liprap.bsky.social · 5h

Swifties?

Jake Adelstein @tokyovice.bsky.social · 5h

In these serious times, I have a stupid question but I'll ask anyway.
What is the song "Cardigan" by Taylor Swift actually about? It's playing on an endless loop in my head.

liprap @liprap.bsky.social · 5h

Noooooooooo

liprap @liprap.bsky.social · 5h

I only recall that 'cause I worked in the Riverbend for a while and we didn't live too far from that street. A florist called some of the roses she used to offer "Leonidas" and that was one word that caught out-of-towners off guard.

liprap @liprap.bsky.social · 5h

That's just nuts.

liprap @liprap.bsky.social · 6h

Also see: Calliope, Chartres, and Leonidas

So Sayeth Black Lord: @jmood88.bsky.social · 6h

New Orleans vs Orleans ave/parish

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 8h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 8h

Cause the algorithms are increasingly shady and I don’t see much promotion, let me Gift Link this:

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Civil Rights Lawyer Bryan Stevenson on How America’s Story Should Be Told

www.nytimes.com

liprap @liprap.bsky.social · 8h

In H-town, there would be badass sneakers involved somehow, and perhaps all the art cars would be called in for barricades against the federalized NG.

liprap @liprap.bsky.social · 9h

I started watching Michael Palin's show reviewing his world travels and damn, Around the World in 80 Days, his first travel show, was in 1989??
AND he traveled Dubai to Mumbai back before Dubai got built up and resortified. youtu.be/Yv9xOf1iNXU?...

Outboard Toilet | Michael Palin Travel | Around the World in 80 Days | BBC Studios

YouTube video by BBC Studios

liprap @liprap.bsky.social · 9h

Oy to the vey.

liprap @liprap.bsky.social · 9h

Dunno if there's something in the air but people coming into my workplace were especially cranky and rude today.

liprap @liprap.bsky.social · 9h

Sending all the goodest of good vibes your way.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 9h

Oh — new reporting on Pope Leo from El Paso Matters, citing footage they have of yesterday's meeting.

Sounds like the pope was even *more* forceful in urging U.S. bishops to speak out about immigration than first reported.

I mean, that's…not subtle. elpasomatters.org/2025/10/08/e...

“I was struck at the beginning (of the video), it talks about the feeling of powerlessness, which I think is so much. I think it’s so important that we as a church give a message of hope in the midst of these horrible struggles, what’s going on in so many cities in the United States right now. At least the church cannot be silent,” the pope told the El Pasoans, according to a video of the meeting provided to El Paso Matters by Hope Border Institute.

Seitz responded: “You’ve spoken very strongly. We’re trying to do the same in our country and yet not get into the political fray the best that we can.”

Pope Leo told Seitz that he’d like to see the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops become more vocal on immigration issues.

“I mean, even within the conference, there are challenges. That’s one place they should be … I wish they were stronger in their own voice,” Leo said, adding that Archbishop Timothy Broglio, the president of the conference, should speak out more on immigration.

“There’s been some good movement in that sense, but I certainly intend to continue to encourage” U.S. bishops to address immigration, Leo said.

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Rep. Ro Khanna @khanna.house.gov · 10h

@democracynow.org had @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social and me on together to explain that she is not being sworn in because she is the 218th signatory for the release of the Epstein files. Swear her in today.

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NPR @npr.org · 9h

Thirty of Ross' trademark landscapes will be sold at a series of auctions starting in November. He painted many of them live on The Joy of Painting, which started airing on PBS in the 1980s. n.pr/474wJvJ

Dozens of Bob Ross paintings will be auctioned to help public TV after funding cuts

Thirty of Ross' trademark landscapes will be sold at a series of auctions starting in November. He painted many of them live on The Joy of Painting, which started airing on PBS in the 1980s.

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The Bearded Educator @literarybeardo.blacksky.app · 11h

I love local New Orleans businesses. I'm doing lunch at a spot I haven't been to in YEARS. They remember me from when I used to bring my son when he was a toddler. They even asked about him and felt some kind of way that he's in high school now.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 12h

Nobody in the blue states asked for your “help,” Greg.

Tweet from Greg Abbott showing members of the Texas National Guard boarding a large military cargo plane on a runway at sunrise. Text reads:
“The elite Texas National Guard.
Ever ready.
Deploying now.”

liprap @liprap.bsky.social · 11h

Billy Joel wrote some classical piano music and had it on an album called Fantasies and Delusions. One of the songs he named for Nunley's amusement park where my cousin would bring me when I was a kid. This writing brought those connex in Joel's music up so well.
ihavethatonvinyl.com/essays/life-...

Life in a Glass House

All of which is to say that I loved Billy Joel because I loved my dad. I loved that he’d moved 300 miles away from Farmingdale to some little rural town (the Hudson River line would only take you part...

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liprap @liprap.bsky.social · 1d

Misheibeirach avoteinu m'kor hab'rachah l'imoteinu.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1d

Dolly Parton’s sister, Freida Parton, is asking for people to pray for her sister’s health.

Verified Facebook post by Freida Parton. The caption reads:

“Last night, I was up all night praying for my sister, Dolly. Many of you know she hasn’t been feeling her best lately. I truly believe in the power of prayer, and I have been lead to ask all of the world that loves her to be prayer warriors and pray with me. She’s strong, she’s loved, and with all the prayers being lifted for her, I know in my heart she’s going to be just fine. Godspeed, my sissy Dolly. We all love you! ❤️”

Below the caption is a photo of Dolly Parton standing outdoors in front of lush green ivy, hands clasped in prayer, wearing a shiny silver outfit with lace-trimmed sleeves, her signature blonde hair styled in soft curls, looking upward serenely.

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Surly Buddhist @surlybuddhist.bsky.social · 1d

The feel good story that you didn’t know you needed today.

THE TOXIC AVENGER Wipes Up $15 Million In Medical Debt

THE TOXIC AVENGER's fundraising theatrical run wiped the floor with medical debt, with Cineverse, Undue Medical Debt and Toxie fans helping to raise $15 million for an amazing cause.

www.fangoria.com

liprap @liprap.bsky.social · 1d

Did some quick stitching on my day off. Chart is from @finefrogstitching.com. Working on a couple of her other sealife charts as well. #xstitch

Completed cross-stitching of Fine Frog Stitching design - features a hammerhead shark in orange-to-pink colors and the words "nailed it."