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PictureTheSouth

@picturethesouth.com

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Progressive Southern #Veteran, #Deadhead, #Dudeist minister, retired #Infosec, amateur #herpetologist in no particular order. I host the #BackyardWildlife, #Seestar and other feeds. Come for the critters - stay for political rants. #OldWhiteHippy

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PictureTheSouth @picturethesouth.com · Dec 30

“In our democracy, the only title higher and more powerful than that of president is the title of citizen. It is every citizen’s right and duty to help shape the future legacy of our nation.”

Jimmy Carter Op-ed, December 8, 2016

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PictureTheSouth @picturethesouth.com · 10h

Pecan

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 14h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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The Orianne Society @oriannesociety.bsky.social · 16h

2025 Spotted Turtle survey season stats:

States surveyed: 3
Trap nights: 3,208
Survey hours: 349
Miles surveyed: 171
Spotted Turtles found: 123
Other turtle species found: 7
Other non-testudine herp species found: 32
Flat tires: 2
Cars stuck in ditch: 1
People needed to get car out of ditch: 5

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PictureTheSouth @picturethesouth.com · 10h

Only one head short of saying we found the ancestor of King #Ghidorah.

#kaiju

www.iflscience.com/check-out-th...

What Is This Prehistoric Animal With Two Heads? We Asked A Dinosaur Expert

And yes, it's real.

www.iflscience.com

PictureTheSouth @picturethesouth.com · 11h

#GoPack

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#GoPack

Ollie Connolly @ollieconnolly.bsky.social · 13h

Per sources: Bill Belichick has discussed buyout options with North Carolina’s hierarchy. Belichick has signaled a willingness to trigger his own $1 million buyout if he can find a soft landing with another team or in media

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Yo Gabapentin @yogabapentin.bsky.social · 1d

Claude AI’s logo is unironically Kurt Vonnegut’s butthole drawing

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Liz Ahern 🌈🧜🏼‍♀️🇲🇽🍉 @austinmermaid.bsky.social · 1d

A talented protester played the theme to the “Schindler's List” with his violin at Portland’s ICE detention center last night.

I hope the world gets the message.

#AbolishICE #Invoke25th #Portland

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PictureTheSouth @picturethesouth.com · 14h

I experienced a spontaneous orgasm when I completely deleted it from my phone a couple years back.

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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 1d

Thugs

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Rob Rogers @rob-rogers.bsky.social · 1d

When the NFL announced that Bad Bunny will be the halftime performer at Super Bowl LX, the white nationalist MAGA crowd lost their minds. I hope Bad Bunny takes a knee too. #BadBunny #MAGA #SuperBowlLX #Trump #NFL

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SpookyLizard @swamplizard.bsky.social · 15h

Okay, but what about the part where blowing up people without any kind of due process who are not posing an immediate threat and who could be intercepted in other ways is morally, ethically repugnant? If this is legal, we need to change the law, and you’re still a monster for using it.

Burgess Everett @burgessev.bsky.social · 15h

Rubio explained to Senate Republicans this afternoon the legal theory behind the administration’s strikes on the boats off coast of Venezuela, per Sen. Kennedy. “He’s clearly thought it through”

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PictureTheSouth @picturethesouth.com · 16h

Dolly's gonna be laying some serious "bless your heart" onto little sis.

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Dennis Draughon @dennisdraughon.bsky.social · 23h

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PictureTheSouth @picturethesouth.com · 18h

Or your car hood goes between the stilts - and you are now in an "Anchorage Convertible" as the torso shears the roof off your car. Possibly along with your head.

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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 19h

Cops used 83,000 cameras to track a single abortion patient — on her abuser’s tip.

Cops Used 83K Cameras to Track an Abortion Patient—on Her Abuser’s Tip

Turns out the cop was also an abuser

jessica.substack.com

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PictureTheSouth @picturethesouth.com · 19h

Did you get Sue's autograph? Or vice versa?

PictureTheSouth @picturethesouth.com · 20h

NASCAR. Catfight. Guns. Family Dollar.
The only way this story could get more "southern" would be if it happened in a Waffle House instead.

www.wsoctv.com/news/local/f...

Fight over NASCAR shirt turns to gun threat inside Family Dollar, witnesses say

A fight over a NASCAR shirt inside a north Charlotte Family Dollar ended with customers being threatened at gunpoint.

www.wsoctv.com

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PictureTheSouth @picturethesouth.com · 1d

A thread to pin and follow.......

Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 7d

Now that it's officially spooky season, let me do a list of favorite spooky books till Halloween! #SpookyBookSeason First up: Laird Barron's original horror collection The Imago Sequence, with stories often featuring tough guy characters facing supernatural horror! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

The Imago Sequence and Other Stories

Check out The Imago Sequence and Other Stories - <B>To the tradition of eldritch horror pioneered and refined by writers such as H.P. Lovecraft, Peter Straub, and Thomas Ligotti comes Laird Barron, an...

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

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💞Sabrina💞 @sabrinarina.bsky.social · 1d

Oregon National Guard Adjutant General, General Gronewold says if they are federalized, that he will advise the Title 10 commander to utilize National Guard Troops to PROTECT protesters at ICE facilities. This is the right answer.

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BluesMusic @bluesmusic.bsky.social · 4d

Orianthi🎸jammin' w/ Michael Lemmo at Norman's Rare Guitars🎶

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PictureTheSouth @picturethesouth.com · 1d

Ya know. As you get older and start to reflect back, there will always be live concerts you sorely wish you had attended, but for whatever reason did not.

Don't let a Billy Strings #Halloween show be one of them.

#BMFS

Poster for Billy Strings concert on Halloween night. It's in a pulp horror comic fashion, and is themed "Meet Me At The Crypt". The band members are listed as representing various classic Universal monsters - Dracula, Wolfman, Frankenstein, etc.

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Stonekettle @stonekettle.bsky.social · 1d

If Chicago wanted to make those Texas soldiers feel at home, they'd wait for a blizzard, then turn off all the power and go to Cancun for the weekend.

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Trae Crowder @thetraecrowder.bsky.social · 1d

On Trump Deploying Troops to More Cities to Protect ICE from Antifa (Or Whatever)

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PictureTheSouth @picturethesouth.com · 1d

www.law.cornell.edu/wex/clear_an...

clear and present danger