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Rob Arnol @robertarnol.bsky.social · 2h

Mass shootings by year and country.

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Cari Barcas @caribarcas.bsky.social · 49m

Simultaneously heartbroken and inspired to witness what's unfolding in my former hometown this week. On one side are the horrific accounts of abductions and abuse amid this unconstitutional invasion and occupation, and on the other are incredible stories of community solidarity. Bear down, Chicago.

Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 3h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 1d

In case this is too wordy: FREE JEWELRY and/or GLASS CABOCHONS and/or GAME TOKENS for TRANS PEOPLE in the UNITED STATES who can't afford it but would like some. Tomorrow, 9AM Mountain.

Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 1d

I am doing a round of We Want You To Have This TOMORROW MORNING at 9AM mountain time. If you are trans in the US and want a gift from my shop but cannot afford it, or if you have a trans loved one you would like a gift for, I will have 20 available. Details in thread. nora.jewelry/pages/we-wan...

We Want You To Have This: Jewelry Gifts For Trans People

Requests for gifts are now closed! They will open again at 9AM Mountain Time (Denver) Wednesday, October 8th. The following round will be on Saturday, October 25th at 9AM. Just looking for the forms?...

nora.jewelry

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Megaholt 𓅃 @megaholt.medsky.social · 5h

We are so fucked.

Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 2d

This guy is in charge of US health care.

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Megaholt 𓅃 @megaholt.medsky.social · 5h

If I were closer, I would happily give you a ride home!

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Megaholt 𓅃 @megaholt.medsky.social · 5h

This. I don’t know if anyone in his immediate family is capable of feeling love.

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Megaholt 𓅃 @megaholt.medsky.social · 5h

Squashed Twinkie.

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Megaholt 𓅃 @megaholt.medsky.social · 5h

Be careful, friend!

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Megaholt 𓅃 @megaholt.medsky.social · 5h

I met you both, @therealdsrini.medsky.social, and-obviously- @theford.bsky.social, among many others!

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Megaholt 𓅃 @megaholt.medsky.social · 5h

Have any ICE agents died while on duty since they started acting like jackbooted thugs with nothing to hold them back?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Kristi Noem: "Any elected official that allows this to happen and gives cover to those kind of individuals who are perpetuating murder should absolutely be prosecuted in my opinion."

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Megaholt 𓅃 @megaholt.medsky.social · 5h

Jesus.

How heartbreaking. This is completely preventable, and each person responsible for this has blood on their hands.

Meatball Rob @wrenispinkle.bsky.social · 22h

I’m a single-issue voter from now until the day I die: “hold the people who did this and all these other crimes responsible, no matter what it takes”

I’m gonna go to town halls and congressional field offices and bring it up ad infinitum

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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SH😮CK-tor Benway @docbenway.bsky.social · 17h

USAID was a net positive in basically every way and Musk killed it, and untold numbers of people, because he’s as racist as he is stupid and he’s as stupid as he is evil.

Meatball Rob @wrenispinkle.bsky.social · 22h

I’m a single-issue voter from now until the day I die: “hold the people who did this and all these other crimes responsible, no matter what it takes”

I’m gonna go to town halls and congressional field offices and bring it up ad infinitum

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Megaholt 𓅃 @megaholt.medsky.social · 5h

He did ask *WHO* Habeas Corpus was…

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Megaholt 𓅃 @megaholt.medsky.social · 14h

If you ask one of my former colleagues, I was going to eventually kill someone…with coban.

Yeah.

I’m a fucking menace with coban.🤣😂

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T @terry-157.bsky.social · 15h

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

400 prior FAA Technicians etc were part of cut backs first & foremost.

Now we are gambling that two planes don’t collide to demonstrate what a bad decision that was.

And the shutdown elevates the risks.

“Fly if you dare!”

Staffing challenges create delays at airports for second day as shutdown drags on

Travelers in Chicago and Nashville were experiencing delays Tuesday night.

www.nbcnews.com

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Megaholt 𓅃 @megaholt.medsky.social · 15h

I hope that last part holds true for me, because I don’t want to see what could happen in that realm.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

glad to be born at a time when i got to see what life was like before the internet and will be dead before AI completely destroys humanity

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Megaholt 𓅃 @megaholt.medsky.social · 15h

Of course he does. He wants anyone who opposes him in the slightest to be punished-mercilessly.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Trump calls for Brandon Johnson and JB Pritzker to be imprisoned

Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also!

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Megaholt 𓅃 @megaholt.medsky.social · 15h

I will, too.

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Megaholt 𓅃 @megaholt.medsky.social · 16h

Oh shit! That’s way too funny 😂🤣

Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 16h

😂

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Megaholt 𓅃 @megaholt.medsky.social · 16h

When I was at my slimmest, I was eating maybe 1200 cals/day on the high end; low end saw half of that intake. I was on the ice for no less than 2 hours a day, 7 days a week-plus running, aikido, cycling, and lifting. I should have been eating way more than I did at that time.

Megaholt 𓅃 @megaholt.medsky.social · 16h

Ugh. Debating if I should try to nap before I go to my doctors appointment or stay up and be productive.

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Megaholt 𓅃 @megaholt.medsky.social · 16h

Hey @thesarawithanh.bsky.social

Katie Holten @katieholten.bsky.social · 4d

Nature and the environment permeate the language viscerally. Irish predates English by a millennium. Its early writing system, Ogham, written vertically as a series of lines and strokes, has an alphabet based on trees. The Irish language is a joy.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Illustration of a new Irish Tree Alphabet. Twenty-six trees represent each letter of the English alphabet. At the bottom of the image are lines representing the Ogham alphabet, horizontal and vertical lines, looking like simple trees.

The Irish Tree Alphabet draws trees from existing native as well as non-natives that are now calling Ireland home due to the changing climate.

The trees are drawn in ink with colored water pencil filling in the leaves and fruit.

The work is rooted in the medieval Ogham alphabet which was used to write the early Irish language. The characters or letters were called feda "trees", or nin "forking branches" due to their shape.

Each letter of the Latin alphabet is given a corresponding tree: A = Ailm (Scots Pine), B = Beith (Birch), B = Coll (Hazel), etc.

The tree drawings were turned into a font called Irish Trees.

Irish Tree Alphabet by Katie Holten was made for Visual Carlow in 2020. The font is available to download, so everyone can write with Irish Trees.

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Megaholt 𓅃 @megaholt.medsky.social · 16h

They can, but they won’t. I suspect they are going to lay off a significant chunk of those who would be stiffed as they just see them as an extra expense.

Megaholt 𓅃 @megaholt.medsky.social · 16h

If my parents weren’t here and in as frail health as they are, and if my husband was able to go with me, I would totally move to Canada. It’s a mile and half away from my current apartment.

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