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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 12h

Oooh that’s so cool

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Scott McDonough @sjmcdonough.bsky.social · 14h

En-nígaldi-Nanna, the daughter of the last king of the Neo-Babylonian empire (626-539 BCE), had a museum in Ur, complete with 1500 year old artifacts and “museum labels.”

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ennigal...

Ennigaldi-Nanna's museum - Wikipedia

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 12h

Allegedly he said that the finest invention, though, was air conditioning. Given he was born in Oklahoma and lived most of his life in Texas, I think he’s right

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 12h

My grandfather was born in 1896 and lived to be 90. I think a lot about how he moved by mule wagon as a child, then saw the invention/popularization of cars, phones, radio, television, airplanes, space travel, and the very beginning of the internet all in his lifetime.

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 15h

The rumor mill has over time turned this into “because they were close and Andre was too big to ride the school bus,” but the truth is there was no school bus and many locals would just drive a passel of random kids to school on a rotating basis

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 15h

Samuel Beckett was neighbors with Andre the Giant when Andre was a child, and would sometimes give him a ride to school

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 17h

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Curb Your Malthusiasm 2.0 @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 23h

"This Whole Thing Smacks Of Gondor," i holler as i overturn my uncle's funeral pyre and turn the 4th Age of Man into the 4th Age of Shit

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 21h

have i mentioned today that rich people have more money than they know what to do with and need higher taxes?

NBC News @nbcnews.com · 21h

The booming IV hydration spa industry, where people pay hundreds of dollars to have vitamins and minerals dripped directly into their veins, operates with virtually no oversight or data backing up its claims, according to the first comprehensive national analysis of hydration clinics.

Hydration spas are largely unregulated, study finds

The first comprehensive research on the growing IV hydration industry finds little oversight of invasive procedures like vitamin drips.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sorry but how does this person have standing to challenge Colorado's ban on LGBTQ conversion therapy when she has explicitly disclaimed any desire to change a patient's sexual orientation or gender identity? How is this a real case? slate.com/news-and-pol...

The Supreme Court’s First Blockbuster Case This Term Looks Pretty Fake

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in Chiles v. Salazar, a case that seeks to undo a major triumph of the LGBTQ+ movement.

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 23h

Right, like I think most people don’t realize that the largest contingent of unhoused people are people who do in fact have work but don’t have the ability to pull together a security deposit plus first and last month’s rent

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The Ineffable Horror of Joe Muggs @joemuggs.bsky.social · 23h

never mind a month, give them $4200 ONCE and a huge proportion of them could shift their situations

Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 23h

Maybe the most infuriating part of this is that if you just gave most of these people $4200 a month they’d find their own damn housing and get their lives back on track

ProPublica @propublica.org · 2d

NEW: After paying for hotel rooms to shelter homeless people, Seattle deliberately left them vacant.

By the end of 2024, taxpayers were spending $4,200 a month per empty room at a time when thousands of residents were without a roof over their heads.

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 23h

Maybe the most infuriating part of this is that if you just gave most of these people $4200 a month they’d find their own damn housing and get their lives back on track

ProPublica @propublica.org · 2d

NEW: After paying for hotel rooms to shelter homeless people, Seattle deliberately left them vacant.

By the end of 2024, taxpayers were spending $4,200 a month per empty room at a time when thousands of residents were without a roof over their heads.

Seattle Spent Millions on Hotel Rooms to Shelter Unhoused People. Then It Stopped Filling Them.

Early last year, the city signed a $2.7 million lease extension to continue using a hotel’s rooms as shelter space. Yet despite committing to pay the rent, the city stopped sending people there.

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 23h

And of course, Cillian Murphy being magnetic

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 1d

I kind of can’t believe this Bari Weiss quote is even real, and yet www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

“I know that there are some people in this room who don’t believe that my marriage should have been legal … and that’s ok. Because we’re all Americans who want lower taxes.”

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 1d

We’ve been watching House of Guinness, which is trying maybe a little too hard to be Peaky Blinders 2. I think I would prefer this story of a dysfunctional group of siblings to be told in the style of the Righteous Gemstones

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 1d

This really makes it sound like a Border Patrol agent tried to kill an anti-ICE activist in Chicago and DHS lied to cover for him

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 1d

Margot is getting her clubfoot casts removed on Thursday, so we keep wandering around saying “legs are coming soon!!”

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 1d

I’m afraid so. Fun fact, she dated Kate McKinnon in college

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 1d

If you’re confused about the rise of Bari Weiss, consider that she’s gay and conservatives LOVE token minorities who endorse their ideas

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 4d

wow I wonder why my entire body was in the air in the first place

Meatball Rob @wrenispinkle.bsky.social · 4d

Absolutely INSANE use of passive voice in this CNN piece

just incredible

@katmabu.bsky.social “landed on the ground” during the protest???

At least one other person, who identified herself on social media as Kat Abughazaleh, a former journalist also running for Congress, landed on the ground during that same protest after she was pushed by a federal law enforcement agent in a camouflage uniform wearing a full face covering, sunglasses and a helmet, video by CNN affiliate WBBM showed.

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 3d

Went to a party hosted by an absolute icon

A hanging banner spelling out “PLEASE LEAVE BY 8”

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 3d

Could also just embrace the old fashioned footnote

Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 3d

Shades of Japanese American farmers losing their land to white people when they were imprisoned during WWII

ellenahzulu.bsky.social @ellenahzulu.bsky.social · 4d

There's a bigger play going on here. Slumlords coordinating with ICE to roust tenants, steal or destroy their stuff, damage the building so its uninhabitable. All to trigger legal expedited evictions, make insurance claims, and then sell to developers.

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Investors buy bigger share of properties in South Shore than other neighborhoods near Obama Center

Investor interest in South Shore has steadily increased with investors buying single family homes and condos.

www.cbsnews.com

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Candice Fortin @candicefortin.bsky.social · 4d

Definitely had this hunch when I read that their personal property was seized as well.

Makes me think of the Bronx in the 70’s when they just straight up burned the buildings down.

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