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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 3d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Burrito Justice @burritojustice.bsky.social · 8d

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

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Piper Wallingford, PhD @octopiedpiper.bsky.social · 12d

Pete Hegseth’s meeting could have been a signal chat

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 16d

I have taken
the Tylenol
that was in
the medicine cabinet

and which
they think probably
is the reason
you like trains

forgive me
but that’s bullshit
you got autism
from your dad

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 17d

for all people mock it wikipedia is genuinely one of the wonders of the modern world

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Piper Wallingford, PhD @octopiedpiper.bsky.social · Aug 7

It's the only time I ever vacuum the baseboards

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Piper Wallingford, PhD @octopiedpiper.bsky.social · Aug 6

That's because you're wrong.

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Dracula’s Dog’s Groomer (1979) @jamiroqueer.bsky.social · Aug 5

“Uh, no, when you were on the roof they were shouting ‘Trump! Trump!”

Smithers lies to Monty Burns that his boos are people chanting “Boo-urns.”

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · Jul 18

I keep seeing people say things like, “Well we’re not going to HAVE elections,” and with all due respect, I think this is both wildly pessimistic and also wildly naive.

We are not going to have free and fair elections. We also have not had them in the past.

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Scaryanne Denton 🎃🧡 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · Jul 17

Never gets old but I wish it would.

A four panel meme with two characters from Star Trek Deep Space Nine: Julian Bashir, MD, a human and Garak, a Cardassian.

Bashir: Are you okay?
Garak: No one in the USA is "okay."
Bashir: What about people who think everything is okay?
Garak: They are either privileged, oblivious, or malevolently ignorant, none of which is okay.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · Jul 14

I can't be silent any longer. The shark influencers are lying to you.

The shark in this poster. The shark of all sharks. *The Shark*.

It's a shortfin mako.

Great Whites don't look like that.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · Jun 25

andrew cuomo won't see your insults but corrupt, serial sexual harassers who are trying to run cities they don't actually live in will

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · Jun 22

Well, here we go

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · Jun 21

Why do the characters in JAWS not simply defeat the shark in the marketplace of ideas?

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Piper Wallingford, PhD @octopiedpiper.bsky.social · Jun 21

It took 151 days for our neighbor’s trump flag to come down. But it did come down

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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · Jun 16

Thanks to NPR for explaining that due to the ancient, mysterious culture of Persia, Iranians "don't like to be attacked" npr.org/2025/06/16/n...

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Jun 17

it's not orwellian. it's american.

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · Jun 12

NY times: Spirited Kristi Noem Briefing Interrupted by Annoying Sound of Democrat Senator Padilla's Skull Hitting Floor

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Jun 12

This video shows what happened to Sen. Padilla after they forcibly removed him from Kristi Noem's press conference.

He's given orders from the officers that would cause him to smash his face, then pushed to the ground and handcuffed.

Via: x.com/elex_michael...

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California Fast Food Workers Union @cafastfoodunion.org · Jun 9

This is the spirit of Los Angeles.

This is California.

Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

#FreeDavidEndRaids

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ColdChef, an Undertaker. Booooo @coldchef.bsky.social · Jun 8

Give the photographer the Pulitzer Prize

Stormtrooper-ass looking cops standing in front of a giant donut.

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✧𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔤𝔥𝔬𝔰𝔱 𝔬𝔣 𝔪𝔲𝔡 𝔰𝔠𝔞𝔪𝔭✧ @altaudge.ruins.party · Jun 8

this user supports crows, ravens, and their agenda
corvid haters unfollow immediately

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Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · Jun 7

🚨 Support Los Angeles immigrant communities 🚨

Please consider donating to one or all of the following orgs:

Immigrant Defenders Law Center: give.immdef.org/donate

LA Jail Support / Bail Fund:
account.venmo.com/u/jailsuppor...

Unión del Barrio:
uniondelbarrio.org/main/support...

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Zuul @zuulthegatekeeper.bsky.social · Jun 7

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Deontological Warfare But She's A Skeleton Or Something @clockworklady.bsky.social · Jun 5

if the wheels had come off this thing any faster it'd be a Cybertruck

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