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@passeriform.bsky.social
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Mostly a feminist liberal screaming leftie fangirl. No tolerance for fascism. AO3: Rhyolight She/her, cis, historically het. Probably older than you are. Tea. Can't quit the NHL. Western MA. (Photo by Inge Morath, 1957)
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THE GREATEST ALLY FASCISM AND GENOCIDE HAS ARE THE PEOPLE WHO SAY "I DON'T FOLLOW THE NEWS. IT'S TOO DEPRESSING." @llamcunningham1. In a font that looks like embossed plastic label-maker
January 26, 2026 at 10:48 AM
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Bleated rivalry
Screenshot of the Museaum of English Rural Life's iconic tweet: "Look at this absolute unit," a fine-looking, rather rectangular ram, tidy of fleece and horn, ignoring the nearby motor vehicles.
January 26, 2026 at 3:03 AM
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STATEMENT FROM MATT MOBERG, CHAPLAIN OF THE MINNESOTA TIMBERWOLVES IF YOU'RE A CHURCH POSTING PRAYERS FOR PEACE AND UNITY TODAY WHILE MY CITY BLEEDS IN THE STREET. MISS ME WITH THAT SOFTNESS YOU ONLY WEAR WHEN IT COSTS YOU NOTHING. DON'T DRESS AVOIDANCE UP AS HOLINESS. DON'T CALL SILENCE "PEACEMAKING." DON'T LIGHT A CANDLE AND THINK IT SUBSTITUTES FOR SHOWING UP. TONIGHT AN ICE AGENT TOOK A PHOTO OF ME NEXT TO MY CAR, LOOKED ME IN THE EYE AND TOLD ME, "WE'LL BE SEEING YOU SOON." NOT METAPHOR. NOT HYPERBOLE. A THREAT DRESSED UP IN A BADGE AND A PAYCHECK. PEACE ISN'T WHAT YOU ASK FOR WHEN THE BOOT IS ALREADY ON SOMEONE'S NECK. PEACE IS WHAT THE POWERFUL ASK FOR WHEN THEY DON'T WANT TO BE INTERRUPTED. UNITY ISN'T NEUTRAL. UNITY THAT REFUSES TO NAME VIOLENCE IS JUST LOYALTY TO THE ONES HOLDING THE WEAPONS. STOP USING SCRIPTURE LIKE CHLOROFORM. STOP CALLING YOUR FEAR "WISDOM." STOP PRETENDING JESUS WAS CRUCIFIED BECAUSE HE PREACHED GOOD VIBES AND PERSONAL GROWTH. YOU DON'T GET TO QUOTE SCRIPTURE LIKE A LULLABY, WHILE INJUSTICE STAYS WIDE AWAKE. YOU DON'T GET TO ASK GOD TO "HEAL THE LAND" IF YOU WON'T EVEN LOOK AT THE WOUND. THERE IS A KIND OF PEACE THAT ONLY EXISTS BECAUSE IT REFUSES TO TELL THE TRUTH. THAT PEACE IS A LIE. AND LIES DON'T GROW ANYTHING WORTH SAVING. THE SCRIPTURES YOU LOVE WEREN'T WRITTEN TO KEEP THINGS CALM. THEY WERE WRITTEN TO SET THINGS RIGHT. AND SOMETIMES THE MOST FAITHFUL THING YOU CAN DO IS STOP PRAYING AROUND THE PAIN AND START STANDING INSIDE IT. IF THAT MAKES YOU UNCOMFORTABLE-GOOD. GROWTH ALWAYS IS. (Caps are in original)
January 26, 2026 at 12:07 AM
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No! Snowing? HERE? Never.
Screenshot from a weather app showing a great mother of a snowstorm, fully blue from the western edge beyond Pittsburgh up, with malign intent to Syracuse and pincering in on New York City and (clutching my pearls) CONNECTICUT! and that's not mentioning the ice over Richmond or the sleet over Raleigh... timestamped Sunday 25 (January 2026) 5:40 am
January 25, 2026 at 10:49 AM
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The inside of the roll says Cognitive Surplus.
A white woman's fingers holding a spool of washi tape with a Mats Rover and some stylized dunes.
January 24, 2026 at 12:09 AM
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Moar turtles!
Screenshot from Bluesky: Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social • 22d "Only you can post about a turtle you saw" feels quite profound to me. Bookmarking that thought. • Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com • 22d Literally begging you to post about Just Some Stuff. We will see the news I absolutely promise. Twenty people will repost the same exact thing about the news. Only you can post about a turtle you saw
January 21, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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the sun is up now, must be warmer. (It is not warmer.)
AccuWeather screenshot saying "Minus 3°F/ minus 15 °C"
January 21, 2026 at 2:27 PM
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Here in Western Mass.
Trimmed screenshot of Accuweather home page, saying it's minus 2 Fahrenheit (minus 18.89 º C). It also speaks of snow on Wednesday evening and Thursday morning, but not very much.
January 21, 2026 at 11:52 AM
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Alt.
Screenshot of he important bit of an article, where the author consults three trans women she knows: A: "For a few months I would meet up with friends and they would say 'oh, how are you?, in a nice normal way, and normally you go oh I went on holiday last week, you know, I'm having an OK time!. But the problem was, as soon as they asked how are you, I would then launch into, 'God, everything fucking sucks. I'm terrified every time I go to the toilet now. But then, you just have a shit evening, don't you? So now I try to answer in a nice normal way when people ask me questions like that." S: "2025 was the year I realised that I was no longer going to be able to live a normal life in Britain, and that was going to continue to be the case for some time. I started looking at options for moving abroad, started thinking seriously about whether I could still do my job, started thinking seriously about how I could exist in public life in the UK." R: "We are, as a population, really quite prone to mental health issues. I'm not saying I wouldn't have struggled with those things anyway, but it is harder to get out of bed and say fuck you' to depression when you turn on your phone or read the news, and people are basically debating whether or not you get to have rights or participate in society. It's just harder."
January 21, 2026 at 11:25 AM
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My therapist sends me:
Screenshot, quote from dxu5001: '"Why do women love HeatedRivalry??" I think it's the lack of misogyny.' on a background of some kind of scattered white flowers in hazy outdoor setting.
January 19, 2026 at 6:15 PM
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Brad Lander posts, on light turquoise background, a bit of a mountain on the left, probably the Statue of Liberty's hand and torch (torch is dark blue, flames are solid orange and lighter yellow; the graphic is good. Is the mountain like the one in the speech, below? Is Liberty holding out the torch for us to take it? Is it fair to make a transcriber cry?). Text of post: DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. identified the "triple-pronged sickness" of racism, poverty (caused by unfettered capitalism and materialism, and militarism as three interconnected evils, threatening our nation's soul. Today, that triple-pronged sickness has metastasized, as Dr. King's daughter Bernice reminds us: In efforts to roll back the civil rights struggle. In cruel and lawless immigration enforcement against people of color. In blatant racism against Somalis. In a rush to war and domination. In corrupt, crony capitalism, and obscene celebrations of wealth while millions struggle to survive. Dr. King's "three evils" remain deeply interconnected in our politics: a reinforcing cycle of the worst impulses is ascendant in the U.S. and far beyond. So our obligation is not simply to quote his words, but - as Rev. William Barber II will preach today at BAM - to recommit to the interconnected struggle to overcome those three evils. That means nonviolent civil disobedience, as Dr. King practiced and preached. It means winning policy to fundamentally address each evil. And it means doing it with insistent love, never finching from calling out injustice, but still always aiming to "unharden hearts" (as this week's Torah portion, Va'era, helps teach). A tall order, but a clear one.
January 19, 2026 at 4:24 PM
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Here it is, all lit up!
A small tree in my front yard, with bushes nearby. Snow all over the ground, limning the twigs and branches. The mountain on the other side of the road in the background shows some dark conifers. The snow on the ground is crossed by dramatic messy shadows cast by the BRILLIANT SUN, upper right, all a whited-out silver BLAZE in the corner.
January 19, 2026 at 3:30 PM
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It's less dramatic in real life but this is why I keep saying 'It's so _pretty_.' Full-color picture, no filter.
A dark grey tree coming in a fountain-shape out of the ground, which is covered with snow. Each branch and twig on the tree, and the bushes to either side, are over-lined (like 'underlined,' but topside) with snow. In the background the mountain across the street is wearing the same outfit. The sky is the same color grey clouds, with paler, bright streaks backlighting them.
January 19, 2026 at 1:17 PM
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Optimism is a political act. Entrenched interests use despair, confusion and apathy to prevent change. They encourage modes of thinking which lead us to believe that problems are insolvable, that nothing we do can matter, that the issue is too complex to present even the opportunity for change. It is a long-standing political art to sow the seeds of mistrust between those you would rule over: as Machiavelli said, tyrants do not care if they are hated, so long as those under them do not love one another. Cynicism is often seen as a rebellious attitude in Western popular culture, but, in reality, cynicism in average people is the attitude exactly most likely to conform to the desires of the powerful - cynicism is obedience. Optimism, by contrast, especially optimism which is neither foolish nor silent, can be revolutionary. Where no one believes in a better future, despair is a logical choice, and people in despair almost never change anything. Where no one believes a better solution is possible, those benefiting from the continuation of a problem are safe. Where no one believes in the possibility of action, apathy becomes an insurmountable obstacle to reform. But introduce intelligent reasons for believing that action is possible, that better solutions are available, and that a better future can be built, and you unleash the power of people to act out of their highest principles. Shared belief in a better future is the strongest glue there is: it creates the opportunity for us to love one another, and love is an explosive force in politics. Great movements for social change always begin with statements of great optimism.
January 19, 2026 at 10:16 AM
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Forgot post was a pic (as did, perhaps, the Bluesky alt prompt). My apologies. Alt:
Screenshot of a translation of a screenshot of a French tweet: Luc Rombout@RomboutLuc Interesting message on French newschannel LCI: "Ukrainian intell services sent false strategic info to US intell services ... and observed that the information had been relayed to RUS and was used by RUS forces." => total replacement of US as Intell partner with FRA, GBR, DEU Post übersetzen 24h Pujadas @24hPujadas • Jan 16
January 18, 2026 at 1:59 PM
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David Brauer ... 5m • 6 A friend said those of us who live in Minneapolis should write about what's going on here for folks who live elsewhere. You need to know that whether you're a Republican, Independent or Democrat, the Constitution is being violated by our federal government. This is not about catching criminals, or even deporting people. It is about punishing an entire state, including citizens, for not supporting the president. Everyone in my part of Minneapolis is affected. On our streets, ICE is stopping people of color and demanding their papers. In America. US citizens do not have to prove citizenship to ICE. Yet people are being intimidated, some cases beaten up and detained, for requiring ICE to follow the law. ICE needs a judicial warrant to enter homes. Yet there are documented cases of them ignoring the law - violating a bedrock constitutional principle. Americans of color are staying home, afraid to go to work, school, to grocery shop, or fill their cars with gas. This isn't just "illegals" or immigrants with valid work permits, it is citizens who have had their cars rammed by ICE for merely looking Hispanic. Businesses are closing. Schools are 50 percent full. When they are open, fascists are calling in bomb threats because the president decided to make us a meme. After a daycare teacher with a valid work permit (through 2030) was snatched from her workplace, parents (and grandparents) have had to organize to watch their SCHOOLS, to make sure conditional rights are observed. This is being repeated throughout Minnesota. Imagine trying to do your job or live you life while also taking volunteer shifts to make sure the federal government doesn't act extrajudicially. Continued next alt continued for previous .alt Because of ICE's documented abuses, neighbors have organized to monitor federal actions. This observation is legal, as long as it doesn't interfere with a valid action. Yet since ICE killed Renee Good, they are increasingly stopping this observation, breaking car windows and pulling observers out, in one case unconscious, merely for watching what they are doing. The country should be alarmed - they won't stop with us - but know that while this is traumatizing to any good person you know here, we're also pissed and resolute. Please do what you can to let your friends know what's happening, to support us and local orgs as you can, and to learn how to defend your own community. Thanks for reading this. Please feel free to share.
January 17, 2026 at 11:11 PM
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Screenshot of a tweet: Malcolm Nance C @MalcolmNance CONSEQUENCES FOR DUMBASSES: You are an F'ing idiot. If we invade Greenland we go to war with 31 nations. NATO stays together but without us. Its HQ is in Brussels, not the Pentagon. Our global reach across the Atlantic will end with our closest refueling base in Israel or Egypt. 100,000 American soldiers will be forced to board civil airliners and sent home or be taken as POWs/Detainee WITHOUT WEAPONS OR EQUIPMENT. Canada will close its airspace and sea space. US Ballistic Missile Defense at Pettufik and Fylingdales ENDS, which means we see nothing except what space sensors can see. US Intelligence is reduced to Fort Meade, Ft Gordon and Colorado Springs and Hawaii. CIA spies will be rolled up by their former friends in HOURS. NO ONE WILL SHARE ANYTHING WITH US. ALL GLOBAL SHIPPING WILL BE CLOSED TO US. Denmark operates the largest shipping company in the world. SIX OUT OF TEN global shipping companies are in Europe... Worlds Biggest container ships? DENMARK! Australia, NZ, Canada are Commonwealth so they will cut ties with us or be neutral too. PS Denmark & locals tun all life support and generators at Pittufik and Canada resupplies it... all 150 US Spece force personnel would become POWs to guys on sleds. FYI They have troops there now and 35,000 Caribou hunting rifles. FYI France and UK have nukes. Hundreds of them so you cannot intimidate them with that. Oh and they collapse the US economy by sanctioning us and selling off 2.3 Trillion in US treasuries simultaneously. Also no Botox, Ozempic or insulin. Its made in Denmark. Ya fucking dope.
January 17, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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I spent some time watching zine YouTubes and they were all 'great stuff cheap!' So I went in and behaved fairly well....
A black drawing paper pad, a very brightly colored book of Lisa Frank stickers (words can scarcely convey the over-cuteness of the animals or the saturated explosive colors....I was out of school by the time she was popular but it is never too late for loud cheery stickers) and a much more restrained set of eight mostly pastel rainbow-colored fountain pens in a box with each of them their own-color cartridges. I think this haul was less than $15.
January 15, 2026 at 8:54 PM
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The National Lampoon Version was less cringey.
A very close parody of the cover of _The Joy of Sex_ White, with National Lampoon above a neat text box. The subtitle above the title, which is in big cheery gold italics, _The Job of Sex: [crisp sans-serif plaincase] A Workingman's Guide to Productive Lovemaking [tiny plain caps ILLUSTRATED WITH PICTURES_ which, actually was maybe the most subtle and funny thing about the book. The cover of the actual _Joy of Sex: a gourmet guide to lovemaking, illustrated edition_ was in dark red, discreet plaintext sans serif. I was perfectly happy never thinking about this again.
January 14, 2026 at 12:25 PM
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Screenshot for the Financial Times: The big banal shed full of humming and twinkling machines is arguably the first real major post-human building type, an architecture built not for us but for the computing power we are coding and training (and which will be coding itself) to outsmart, even supplant us. Ancient peoples used to build huge temples to the gods they wanted to please and appease, to make them sacrifices and offerings. In the process they created architecture. We are somehow going the opposite way, creating the gods that could destroy us while housing them in the most nondescript, generic buildings imaginable.
January 14, 2026 at 10:25 AM
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Alt, and good stuff. Some of p 2 is .Alt onto p 3, and some of p 3 is on the .alt for p4.
WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON January 13, 2026 Chairman Comer, We want to take a moment, given everything, to address you directly. This past year has seen our Government engage in unprecedented acts, including against our own citizens. People have been seized by masked federal agents from their homes, their workplaces, and the streets of their communities. Students and scientists with visas permitting them to study and work here have been deported without due process. The people who laid siege to the U.S. Capitol have been pardoned and called heroes. Agencies vital to the country's national security have been dismantled. Universities, media companies, and law firms have been subjected to threats to their funding, access, and licensing unless they made concessions and surrendered their right to constitutionally protected free speech. American troops have been deployed on the streets of our towns and cities. The Justice Department has been used as a weapon, at the direction of the President, to pursue political opponents. And most recently and searingly, an ICE agent killed an unarmed mother only days ago. Every person has to decide when they have seen or had enough and are ready to fight for this country, its principles and its people, no matter the consequences. For us, now is that time. We are lucky by virtue of the positions we held, and the protections afforded by them. But we are not blind. Every day we see the country we have dedicated our lives to improving take step after step after step backwards. As chairman of this powerful congressional committee, you have immense power to target anyone and subject them to closed door interrogation and more. The decisions you have made, and the priorities you have set as chairman regarding the Epstein 2 investigation, have prevented progress in discovering the facts about the government's role. The facts speak for themselves: You subpoenaed eight people in addition to us. You dismissed seven of those eight without any of them saying a single word to you. You made no attempt to force them to appear. In fact, since you started your investigation last year, you have interviewed a total of two people. Two. A legal analysis prepared by two law firms and provided to you yesterday makes clear your subpoenas are legally invalid. You claim your subpoenas are inviolate when they are used against us yet were silent when the sitting President took the same position, as a former president, barely more than three years ago. We call on you to release that analysis to the public to allow them to see how this is yet another example of the casual disregard of the law of the land. All the while, you have done nothing with your oversight capacity to force the Department of Justice to follow the law and release all its Epstein files, including any material regarding us as we have publicly called for. Over the last year in the House, extending health care for Americans in any state succeeded only because enough Republicans joined with Democrats. The fact that the public and we are seeing any of the Department of Justice's Epstein files is only because four Republicans, out of 220, joined every Democrat to reach the minimum number of Members to force a vote. You were of Ment z not one of those four. Even now, despite the Department of Justice's failure to follow the law the Congress passed, you have chosen not to consider subpoenaing the sitting Attorney General to follow the law. Despite everything that needs to be done to help our country, you are on the cusp of bringing Congress to a halt to pursue a rarely used process literally designed to result in our imprisonment. This is not the way out of America's ills, and we will forcefully defend ourselves. Indeed, bringing the Republicans' cruel agenda to a standstill while you work harder to pass a contempt charge against us than you have done on your investigation this past year would be our contribution to fighting the madness. We have tried to give you the little information we have. We've done so because Mr. Epstein's crimes were horrific. If the Government didn't do all it could to investigate and prosecute these crimes, for whatever reason, that should be the focus of your work - to learn why and to prevent that from happening ever again. There is no evidence that you are doing so. Instead, you have forced the victims to relive their painful experiences, while doing little to give them and everybody else what's deserved: truth and justice. There is no plausible explanation for what you are doing other than partisan politics. You accepted the least from those who know the most but demand the most from those who know the least. To say you can't complete your work without speaking to us is simply bizarre. You have asked what we know. To answer your inquiry, we are providing you with the same or more than seven of the other eight individuals you subpoenaed regarding the handling of the Epstein investigations and prosecutions, which may be why you have not publicly released their written statements. We expect you will say it is not enough. We expect you'll reject it. You may even set out an empty chair or stand in front of the cameras and outright dismiss what we have provided. We expect you will direct your committee to seek to hold us in contempt. You may even release irrelevant, decades-old photos that you hope will embarrass us. You will say your caucus, and the Speaker and the President are behind you 100%. We hope, perhaps in vain, that they will not allow you to singlehandedly hijack the Congress by unilaterally making this decision for your colleagues, your party, and our country. You will say it is not our decision to make. But we have made it. Now you have to make yours. We are prepared to make our case to your 45 committee members, and if need be, more. Importantly, we also will defend ourselves in the public arena and ensure this country knows exactly what you are doing and why you are doing so, instead of helping the American people who need this Congress's work and protection. For most people, maybe even the bulk of the Congress, today will be the first they learn of this dispute. We are confident that any reasonable person in or out of Congress will see, based on everything we release, that what you are doing is trying to punish those who you see as your enemies and to protect those you think are your friends. Continue to mislead Americans about what is truly at stake, and you will learn that Americans are better at finding the truth than you are at burying it. Continue to pursue autopens instead of penning laws Americans need, and you will learn that you are signing away any remaining chance of being on the right side of history. Continue to abet the dismantling of America, and you will learn that it takes more than a wrecking ball to demolish what Americans have built over 250 years. Sincerely, Bill Clinton Hillary Rodham Clinton
January 13, 2026 at 9:38 PM
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And yet it seems twice as long. Cf:
A poem: Mnemonic Thirty days hath September, April, June and November. Unless a leap year is its fate, February hath twenty-eight. All the rest hath three days more, excepting January, which hath six thousand, one hundred and eighty-four. Brian Bilston
January 12, 2026 at 9:25 PM
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My sone sent me an X-Men thing:
In a heart-shaped vignette, bright comic book coloring: Kitty Pryde (with Lockheed) on the left; Rachel Summers, her arms reaching for Kitty, says "I'm coming to the cottage." Blazon in corner: The Uncanny X-Men Experience, with rainbow trim.
January 10, 2026 at 10:56 AM
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alt:
Waiting for a Maori God Salutation to Tim Shadbolt I went up to Mother Crawford's boarding house Just for the spin And enquired about you from the pigs at the door But they wouldn't let me in: ‘Are you a commy or a queer?’ they said - ‘When were you last on junk?' So I left you, Tim, to meditate alone Up there in your mildewed bunk. The people are driven like bullocks up the ramp By the man with the electric prod And half the Maori leaders are rotting in the clink Waiting for a Maori God - So that's where you would learn in the marrow of you bones What way the creek has to run, And the green blistered walls of Mother Crawford's house Teach more than the light of the sun. --James K Baxter
January 8, 2026 at 10:06 AM
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If you entirely lose it, you can print out emoji on your thermal printer to make tiny tiny stamps.
A tiny envelope folded over a paper clip. This one says 'VIA AIR MAIL' in red, and PAR AVION in blue, with red and blue airmail slashes along the edges and the 'rocket' emoji on a tiny _tiny_ sticker as a stamp.
January 7, 2026 at 11:42 PM