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kitsch, she/her, in my 30's. i'll probably talk a little about cooking, a little about politics, and more about figure skating than you would like. PS. for scum villain, follow me here: https://bsky.app/profile/kitschlet.bsky.social

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liunatics unite @maillardreaction.bsky.social · 20d

maslow's fundamental needs:
-food
-security
-kaori sakamoto winning an olympic gold medal at milano-cortina 2026

liunatics unite @maillardreaction.bsky.social · 4h

it's the way china never even intended zhang/huang to have it, only to buy time for sui & han to train up

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liunatics unite @maillardreaction.bsky.social · 7h

15 years of skating fandom... when will i learn i can't just google "grand prix" and expect to get results about figure skating 😩

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Dcmfox @dcmfox.bsky.social · 10h

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 14h

TONIGHT (and especially for followers outside of NYC who want to get involved):

Join @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social on a special phonebank at 6pm!

Sign up: volunteer.zohranfornyc.com/phonebank-fo...

A graphic with a photo of Brennan Lee Mulligan that says "Phone Bank with Zohran, Wednesday, October 8th at 6pm."

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Kayleigh McKee, Cheerer for the Dolls 🔜 NYCC! @ghaspey.bsky.social · 14h

Good :) because if it can't exist without proper pay and permissions it shouldn't exist

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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liunatics unite @maillardreaction.bsky.social · 12h

VERY true, you can tell mark makes an effort. he's such a sweetie

liunatics unite @maillardreaction.bsky.social · 15h

oh well done to that guy!!! mark and ted were definitely not getting it right at chinese nebelhorn but those two mispronouncing names is nothing new 😩

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liunatics unite @maillardreaction.bsky.social · 1d

need skating fans to understand that "petr" is just a bad transliteration of the name pyotr and stop trying to pronounce it "pay-ter" as if that's more authentic than saying "peter"... neither are authentic because it's pyotr

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liunatics unite @maillardreaction.bsky.social · 1d

it's weird being in a sports fandom instead of a fandom fandom. i saw someone say there was "discourse around shaidorov's jump layout" but it turned out to be about whether his signature jump combination was the best way to maximize points, and not about whether the triple axel was lesbophobic

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 1d

These programs weren't set up this way simply for the benefit of recipients. They are by design also a subsidy for American agriculture. That's the longstanding red-blue, rural-urban political deal of it. Like how they're getting nuked by the trade war, they are cannibalizing their own coalition.

ProPublica @propublica.org · 2d

Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

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liunatics unite @maillardreaction.bsky.social · 1d

glad to hear it!

liunatics unite @maillardreaction.bsky.social · 1d

i'm genuinely so annoyed about this because bsky is like JUST getting active enough to be a real social network. please don't make me move again

Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 2d

tl;dr: Bluesky began with genuine promise: a new social media platform where users could feel safer, but inconsistent moderation quickly eroded trust.

When systemically marginalized users pushed back, Bluesky’s leadership minimized concerns and began to target them for bans.

Bluesky’s CEO meltdown: How leadership continues to fail its most marginalized users

tl;dr: Bluesky began with genuine promise: a new social media platform where systemically marginalized users could feel safer, but…

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liunatics unite @maillardreaction.bsky.social · 1d

so i hope you don't worry too much about having to restrain your interest or excitement... skating is kind of a niche interest, so i think all skating fans love the chance to talk about it more!

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liunatics unite @maillardreaction.bsky.social · 1d

i'm sorry you're feeling this way! but you know, getting to explain stuff to newer fans is extremely fun for me because it's also my special interest and i love talking about it 😅 and i always get so excited when people are interested in the sport and actually care to learn about it

liunatics unite @maillardreaction.bsky.social · 2d

i like chocolate that makes me feel like i need aftercare

liunatics unite @maillardreaction.bsky.social · 2d

100% cacao unsweetened dark chocolate

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

What foods do you love that you fully acknowledge make you a pervert for loving them?

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 2d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 2d

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liunatics unite @maillardreaction.bsky.social · 2d

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Boowellyn 👻 @llewellynrose.bsky.social · 2d

the first minute and a bit of a project i've been working on for several years now!

Or, the Modern Prometheus is my adaptation of the bookends of Frankenstein that i've made by cutting together public domain films and footage. it started as an experiment and i'm extremely excited to share it!

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 2d

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson:

"Private establishments can partner with us to make it clear that private property is private property and ICE cannot enter establishments without a valid warrant ... If Congress will not check this administration, then Chicago will."

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 3d

Pretty clear Stephen Miller, Noem, Hegseth and Trump are trying to provoke a Civil War at this point. What's interesting is they want to do it now, because even though they're unpopular, they seem to believe this is the most popular they'll be ever again. We can't let them win.

Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 3d

This is a breathtaking abuse of the law and power by the President of the United States.

America is on the brink of martial law.

Do not be silent.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 3d

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.

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gugalanna daddy issues @ninazu.bsky.social · 4d

FOURTEENTH MSF WORKER IN 2 YEARS

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 5d

MSF staff are universally understood to be engaged in an essentially sacred form of work. For a state to nonetheless continuously murder them is a testament to a truly unthinkable degree of depravity.

msf.org/msf-denounce...

This morning, an attack carried out by Israeli forces killed Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff member, Omar Hayek, and seriously injured four others. The attack took place on a street where our teams were waiting to take a bus to the MSF field hospital in Deir al Balah, Gaza.

All staff were wearing MSF vests, clearly identifying them as medical humanitarian workers.
We express deep sorrow and outrage over the killing, which occurs less than two weeks after another MSF colleague, Hussein Alnajjar, was killed by the Israeli forces, in Deir Al Balah.

Our thoughts are with Omar’s family and colleagues at this tragic time. Omar, 42 years old, is the fourteenth MSF colleague to be killed in Gaza since 7 October 2023.

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liunatics unite @maillardreaction.bsky.social · 2d

i definitely agree... of course you want to reward things that are difficult, but for fundamental skating skills to be so undervalued feels wrong. like that's the whole point of what we're doing here...

liunatics unite @maillardreaction.bsky.social · 2d

exactly...... there are treatments for psychosis

liunatics unite @maillardreaction.bsky.social · 3d

i haaaaaate how common "psychotic" is as an insult even among leftist/progressive people. look i'm not that strict about language but i do think if something is a literal diagnosis people receive in the modern day we should avoid genericizing it as a word for evil

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