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Rabbit @lochinvar.bsky.social · 5h

Thank you for turning my feed into a Sigourney Weaver appreciation carousel, homie.

Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · Oct 8

Happy birthday, Sigourney Weaver

By Helmut Newton, 1983

Sigourney Weaver looking tough in a man's three-piece suit

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Laura K @creekdontrise.bsky.social · 9h

Drawings been kinda hard lately so instead I’ve been making mixed media poly clay guys. This one featuring a dog tooth I bought at a late night Baltimore garage sale that I gold leafed lmao

Image of a three-faced figure with arms locked around knees, grey/green with mossy crevices. A stick, a bell, and a hagstone are tied with string to a metal ring sticking out of its back.

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Rabbit @lochinvar.bsky.social · 5h

Love those!

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 5h

Piece is too long, and too much time on history rather than the present, but I got to the end and realized that actually that past was important. Just because our fascists tend towards sloppiness and weird shit, and lost, doesn't mean they haven't always been here, doesn't mean they aren't here now.

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Mike Dawson @mikedawson.bsky.social · 8h

Not only have editors prevented me from showing my ass in public, so has hiring sensitivity readers. I’m a big fan of both. Having someone be honest with you while also keeping your best interests at heart is something to be valued not dismissed

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 11h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Rabbit @lochinvar.bsky.social · 5h

Baseball, man.

Baseball Highlights⚾️ @badgerbaseball.bsky.social · 5h

David Ortiz to the Yankees, after taking a swig from a bottle of tequila on national television: “Join me in Cancun, baby.”

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 18h

Despite strong objections from Governor Pritzker, Mayor Johnson, and the people of Chicago, the Trump regime is preparing to deploy National Guard troops in Chicago today.

If you are in Chicago and need guidance on how to interact with the Guard, here’s a helpful guide:
bit.ly/resistancetoolkit

Responding to Federal Occupying Forces

Click here for another version of this document optimized for readability and accessibility. Table of Contents (click to jump ahead) We the People are PISSED: statement/intro Situation Report: current...

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 18h

We are definitely in an era where a disturbing portion of our news sounds like deranged, satirical Mad Libs.

Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 19h

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Gay Virginia Republican plagued by Nazi porn scandal brags running mate is ‘100% against’ marriage equality

It's a statewide political ticket of extremes.

www.yahoo.com

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Stephen Morrow @stephenmorrow.bsky.social · 18h

Everything is bad, so I drew a Nightwing for, I guess, fun.

Semi-realistic drawing of Nightwing doing an acrobatic floor maneuver. He looks great, he always does.

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En Sabah Neurodivergent @spearhafoc.bsky.social · 19h

It's @ingforart.bsky.social's theory of Antifascist Clowns.

Fash street thugs want to fight to show toughness, but clowns are a step too far. If they win against the clown, the best they can say is they beat up a clown. But if they lose? Even if it's a %1 chance... there's no coming back from that

Maj @lif3asmaj.blacksky.app · 20h

The best part of how Portland is handling this is they’re not only protesting, but also angering the goose steppers by not taking them seriously.

Pretty genius. Because even ICE & the national guard don’t want to be displayed as that asshole fighting people in cute costumes.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Friday Afternoon Tea @fridaytea.com · 19h

It's that time again, friends! Our monthly art installation slots are now open for 2026! Have you always wanted your pieces to hang on the walls of a lovely witchy tea house? This is your chance!⁠

Call for PNW artists! Our Seattle-based queer nerd witch tea house is accepting applications for 2026 visual art installations! Email portfolio links to fridayafternoontea at gmail dot com

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Jojo she/her @jojofe24.bsky.social · 15d

I seriously dont know how to make this clear without coming off as this lol😭

These people, this group, are behind all this

And they are already influencing uk the way they have usa

This is stuff we cant keep ignoring

Jojo she/her @jojofe24.bsky.social · 19d

Trying to explain project 2025 and how its affecting the uk, to 'normies', without sounding like a conspiracy theorist challenge

Level- probably impossible

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Bishop Joey (he/him) @bishopjoey.bsky.social · 19h

Social media post from @DrChrisThompson (dated 17/12/2021):
Time for your annual reminder that, according to A Christmas Carol, Bob Cratchit makes 15 shillings a week. Adjusted for inflation, that's $530.27/wk, $27,574/yr, or 13.50/hr.
Most Americans on minimum wage earn less than a Dickensian allegory for destitution.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 19h

Reuters story headline reading:

Trump calls for jailing Democratic leaders as troops prepare for Chicago deployment

By Brendan O'Brien, Andy Sullivan and Susan
Heavey
October 8, 2025 9:41 AM EDT • Updated 36 mins ago

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Rabbit @lochinvar.bsky.social · 19h

Time for a Man Who Was Thursday reboot.

Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 19h

Ken Paxton announcing undercover operations reminds me of when J.Edgar Hoover announced 25% of all communist party members were undercover operatives—the objective is the same, just to sow distrust within the movement and scare people out of participating.

Attorney General Ken Paxton Launches Undercover Operations to Infiltrate and Uproot Leftist Terror Cells in Texas After Increased Political Violence

In response to the political assassination of national hero Charlie Kirk and the disturbing rise of leftist violence across the country, Attorney General Ken Paxton has launched undercover investigati...

www.texasattorneygeneral.gov

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Rabbit @lochinvar.bsky.social · 1d

So I decided to watch Duck Soup for the first time and of all the movies I didn’t expect to be relevant to the present moment WTF.

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Rabbit @lochinvar.bsky.social · 1d

W/alt.

THE HILL
Trump says backpay for furloughed workers
'depends on who we're talking about'
BY BRETT SAMUELS - 10/07/25 1:03 PM ET

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Rabbit @lochinvar.bsky.social · 1d

And they’re really not even doing that right or well says me, a practicing Jew who does a lot of Torah study.

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Rabbit @lochinvar.bsky.social · 1d

The best part is it super doesn’t say that at all, but boy do some folks like to use it like it does. They could just was easily be thumping a copy of “The Stand”.

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Rabbit @lochinvar.bsky.social · 1d

@gregstolze.bsky.social -/ this strikes me as useful.

Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 1d

Because it feels relevant as we continue to evaluate the media and our representatives’ statements, my favorite way to identify the active vs. passive voice.

A post by Rebecca Johnson:
“I finally learned how to teach my guys to ID the passive voice. If you can insert "by zombies" after the verb, you have passive voice.”

A tumblr respond from mightymur:
“The final, brilliant word on passive voice.
"She was killed [by zombies.]"<--passive
"Zombies killed [by zombies] her." <-- active”

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Rabbit @lochinvar.bsky.social · 1d

He would have been baller as the Nutcracker Prince fr.

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Rabbit @lochinvar.bsky.social · 1d

As usual, I agree with Gorsuch in this one narrow area.

Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 1d

Supreme Court refuses Apache plea to save Oak Flat from copper mining destruction

* *Gorsuch dissent calls the decision a “grave mistake” as copper mine threatens to create massive crater

By: Shondiin Silversmith- May 27, 2025 12:54 pm UPDATED OCT 6TH 2025

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Dr. Wendsler Nosie Sr. of Apache Stronghold talks to a crowd of people outside the Sandra Day O’Connor Courthouse on May 7, 2025, as Apache Stronghold urged the federal court to save Oak Flat. Photo Courtesy of Becket

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Rabbit @lochinvar.bsky.social · 1d

Watching good basketball is so beautiful.

jordan @jordantyranny.bsky.social · 1d

when people ask me why i love basketball, i always say first... out of the four major professional sports here in america... it's the closest one to dance

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