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OmegaMamba (she/her) @omegamom.bsky.social · 1h

But of course…

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 9h

BREAKING: Israeli war planes continue to launch raids on Gaza City as Palestinians celebrate the ceasefire announcement, according to an Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent on the ground.

🔴 LIVE update: aje.io/xqppys

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Just Jim will do. @justjim.bsky.social · 2h

Play it cool! 😎🦌

Image of a bat silhouetted by a red stylised full moon.

Text above and below reads, "Bats never apologise for screaming and bumping into things, and neither should you."

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Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 6h

"A government doesn't announce they have become fascist; they announce anti-fascists are enemies of the state."

CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 13h

Jack Posobiec explicitly says that "Antifa" dates back to the Weimar Republic, explicitly acknowledging that this administration is opposed to those who resisted the arrival of Adolf Hitler in Power.

A screenshot of C-Span showing Jack Posobiec speaking during a panel on "Antifa."

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 6h

In all likelihood what’s happening all over the country is ICE getting a list of names and running a data broker search then scooping up every random Frank Miranda or Maria Lopez who might fit the details close enough. And that’s why they’re supposed to get fucking warrants.

Renee (paix120) @paix120.bsky.social · 6h

Masked ICE agents threatened an American citizen, put him into an unmarked van, held him for several hours, and dropped him back off at his workplace, without ever explaining why they abducted him

VIDEO: ICE detains, threatens Oregon man despite U.S. citizenship
www.koin.com/news/portlan...

www.koin.com

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dillo (yakubian mamba) @dillo.media · 5h

i will vote for anybody who fixes the headlight brightness situation

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Birder K @birderk.bsky.social · 7h

BILLION BIRD NIGHT!!!
#birds #fall #migration

BirdCast map showing 1.24 billion birds headed south at 9:50pm EDT on October 8, 2025. Most of the migration is concentrated in the east, especially the southeast.

NEXRAD radar composite map showing birds and weather.

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Cartoon Art Museum @cartoonart.bsky.social · 12h

Did you know that Girls Scouts can earn a Cadette Comic Artist Badge for creating their own comic? If your troop's looking for some assist, we're here for you: CAM offers private group workshops that can help creators of all skill levels reach their goal. More info at cartoonart.org/education-index

Image of the Girls Scouts Cadette Comic Artist Badge

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TrustedReveler @trustedreveler.bsky.social · 1d

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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Danielle Rose Baker 🚀 @planetaryartist.com · Aug 19

Still thinking about last Saturday, driving on the Oregon Coast, south of Bandon where I took the photo that inspired this painting! I don’t think I could replicate that lighting if I tried, it was one in a million conditions. 😍

#watercolor #landscape #ocean #OregonCoast #driftwood #art

BANDON DRIFTWOOD by Danielle Rose Baker.
A watercolor painting of multiple driftwood trunks emerging from the beach at Bandon, Oregon. Purplish clouds hang in the overcast sky above the whitecapped horizon. The wood is painted in warm oranges and browns.

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OmegaMamba (she/her) @omegamom.bsky.social · 5h

THE most iconic photo of the Mt. St. Helens eruption, and a damned exciting story, to boot. Keep an eye out tomorrow!

Mount St. Helens in 1980 @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social · 8h

Tomorrow, we will talk about this photo.

A red Ford Pinto hatchback angles across a narrow gravel forest service road, a blue enduro motorcycle on a rear hitch carrier. Tall firs frame the view. Beyond them, a towering ash cloud from a pyroclastic density flow billows skyward. Photo by Richard Kent Lasher, May 18, 1980.

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Dan Liimatta @danliimatta.bsky.social · 9h

#Daily 34 River | Sacred bones

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 11h

Brainstem damage found to be behind long-lasting effects of severe Covid-19.

"Using ultra-high-resolution scanners that can see the living brain in fine detail, researchers from the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford were able to observe the damaging effects Covid-19 can have on the brain."

Brainstem damage found to be behind long-lasting effects of severe Covid-19

Damage to the brainstem - the brain's 'control center' - is behind long-lasting physical and psychiatric effects of severe Covid-19 infection, a study suggests.

www.news-medical.net

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 12h

I have taken
the freedom of speech
that was in
the Constitution

and which
you were probably
using
for peaceful protest

Forgive me
the courts said they were
so agitating
and so irritating

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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OmegaMamba (she/her) @omegamom.bsky.social · 7h

So apparently there *was* an agenda item at the city council to waive fees, but it was dropped from the agenda…

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-scoffs-austin-resolution-waive-215232642.html

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

"I'd love to do something about that" -- Trump floats the idea of stopping a planned protest in Austin

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social · 13h

As a paleontology enthusiast I always find it funny how pop culture constantly describes large herbivorous dinosaurs as "gentle giants" when most of our current living herbivorous megafauna are some of the most physically dangerous and temperamental creatures on the planet.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 19h

horses can SERIOUSLY injure you with their jaws - do not ever antagonize enormous animals with opinions

Rivikah @rivikah.bsky.social · 19h

My grandfather was missing a finger and a half from his right hand due to it being bitten off by a horse.

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OmegaMamba (she/her) @omegamom.bsky.social · 8h

“Oh..hi, mom? I guess?” And, damn, just when she was getting somewhere with the Weaver…

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 13h

AAAAUGH! The lithops is doing a thing! I was not informed that lithops did things! I thought they just sat there and occasionally sprouted pups like a normal succulent!

A lithops plant in a small terracotta pot, producing a green flower bud thingy.

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OmegaMamba (she/her) @omegamom.bsky.social · 8h

See?! It’s a bloody Christmas present for Dems.

Zach Halper @zanath.bsky.social · 14h

"We took freedom of speech away" should be in every campaign ad moving forward.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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OmegaMamba (she/her) @omegamom.bsky.social · 8h

But the thing is, they ARE taking away freedom of speech. They ARE threatening people who call what they’re doing fascism, call them fascists and nazis.

And and and…

It’s the tagline we need.

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OmegaMamba (she/her) @omegamom.bsky.social · 8h

Dems! There’s your message! “We took the freedom of speech away…”

I mean, he’s an idiot, you can still burn an American flag, and LOTS of things agitate & irritate people. But he says, right here, “We (note that *we*, implying he’s one of the people who did it) took the freedom of speech away.” 1/

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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The Octopus Gallery @octopusgallery.bsky.social · 14h

Good news for sewists: the paper pattern company feared lost to bankruptcy has been saved as an independent company.

craftindustryalliance.org/sewing-patte...

Sewing Patterns Rise from DGA Bankruptcy Ashes - Craft Industry Alliance

The “Big 4” sewing patterns are saved. Simplicity, McCall’s, Vogue & Butterick get new life under Rubelmann Capital.

craftindustryalliance.org

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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 14h

Just golden retriever-level bewildered at how there's a good number of my fellow Americans who think Portland is an apocalyptic hellscape despite how the people who live there constantly assure them that nothing's on fire except the jugglers.