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Abby

@proactivebusybody.bsky.social

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It's not you. I talk this much to everyone.
Psychologist. Soprano. Shutterbug.
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Abby @proactivebusybody.bsky.social · Nov 12

Hey, if you follow me, I don’t wanna do a jump scare, so I’ll tell you off the bat that I’m very much NOT a fan of using our tax $$$ to fund a genocide. Generally don’t like genocides full stop. Also VERY into letting trans humans live full lives w access to hormones & gender-affirming care. 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️

Abby

@proactivebusybody.bsky.social

I loved this take. Trump is destigmatizing the concept of fascism. @matthewremski.bsky.social

www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8UN3SUk/

Trump is making the f-word acceptable. He is destigmatizing the concept of "fascism". This is in line with the criminalization of "antifascism."

TikTok video by matthew remski

www.tiktok.com

November 22, 2025 at 3:17 AM

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George Takei

@georgetakei.bsky.social

This young man has it exactly right.

A tweet from “Adam Mockler @adammockler” reads:
“Stephen Miller just went on Fox News and said telling troops to refuse illegal orders is an ‘open act of insurrection.’ He is telling on himself.
They are planning to give illegal orders, and they want a military that will follow them blindly.”

November 21, 2025 at 11:30 PM

Abby

@proactivebusybody.bsky.social

I live in Raleigh, NC. There's a huge new build going up three doors down from me. The crews were not on site M-Th this week, but today, I walked past about 8 (Spanish-speaking) framers who were back on site today. I spoke to them for a bit. 1/2

November 22, 2025 at 1:18 AM

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weeder

@weeder.bsky.social

This machine kills fajitas

November 21, 2025 at 2:22 AM

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Joe Dudek

@joedudekjd.bsky.social

Not the point, but: The Sedition Act did not provide for capital punishment.

The Sedition Act of 1918 allowed for severe penalties, generally including heavy fines and imprisonment for up to 20 years. Additionally, the Postmaster General could refuse to deliver mail from those violating its provisions. See

November 20, 2025 at 8:42 PM

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Tim Onion

@bencollins.bsky.social

Incredible headline.

Elon Musk Could 'Drink Piss Better Than Any Human in History,' Grok Says

Grok has been reprogrammed to say Musk is better than everyone at everything, including blowjobs, piss drinking, playing quarterback, conquering Europe, etc.

www.404media.co

November 20, 2025 at 10:01 PM

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Nat

@nachyocheese.bsky.social

Or not.

www.cnn.com/2025/11/19/t...

Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives | CNN Business

Sales of an artificial intelligence-enabled plush toy have been suspended after it was found that it engaged in conversation around sexually explicit topics and offered potentially dangerous advice.

www.cnn.com

November 20, 2025 at 9:17 PM

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast)

@brainnotonyet.bsky.social

If you’re at the point you are having to tell your military to not follow illegal orders to murder prominent political rivals I’m really not sure what to tell you except things are going to get far far scarier than most people really understand at the moment.

November 20, 2025 at 9:22 PM

Abby

@proactivebusybody.bsky.social

So death penalty for following the Constitution? #coolcoolcool www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Trump floats death penalty for Democrats urging military to refuse illegal orders

Six Democratic politicians, all of whom are veterans, are urging members of the military not to obey unlawful orders.

www.abc.net.au

November 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM

Abby

@proactivebusybody.bsky.social

Considering getting a HELOC of $60k for a house project. The good rate that's on offer is 6.52% Fixed. That makes it seem like you're going to pay 6.52% of $60k, which would be $3,912. But given how loans work, you're actually paying out more like 37%. That's $22,109! 🤯

November 20, 2025 at 4:23 PM

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Anthony Michael Kreis

@anthonymkreis.bsky.social

November 20, 2025 at 12:41 PM

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Hildur Knútsdóttir

@hildur.bsky.social

Why yes, @microsoft.com, I will HAPPILY provide you feedback on how exactly I feel about Word right now.

Screenshot of Microsoft asking for feedback on Word where I wrote: One of the worst times I had this year was spending DAYS trying to turn off that horrible, awful AI, copilot. I am a writer, I have spent years honing my craft, and it is frankly offensive to offer to rewrite what I just wrote with a stupid machine. I almost stopped using Word until I FINALLY found a way to turn it off. I don't want to use AI and you still keep trying to ram it down my throat and I hate it.

November 20, 2025 at 1:07 PM

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Aaron Rupar

@atrupar.com

CNN: What if there are more names connected to the Democratic Party that come out in the files?

CHRIS MURPHY: So what?

November 20, 2025 at 1:10 PM

Abby

@proactivebusybody.bsky.social

Where are these thug visitors staying in Raleigh? Which hotels? Tell me.

November 20, 2025 at 3:18 PM

Abby

@proactivebusybody.bsky.social

Have y'all searched Courier's searchable database of the files that were already released? It's already damning: "Epstein's phone directory from his computer contains 14 phone numbers for Donald Trump, including emergency numbers, car numbers, and numbers to Trump's security guard and houseman."

November 20, 2025 at 2:42 PM

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD

@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social

This is completely disgusting. Today, the CDC updated their vaccine safety page. It now says:

“The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism”.

Vaccine Safety
MENU V
For Everyone
NOV. 19, 2025
KEY POINTS
• The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism.
• Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities.
• HHS has launched a comprehensive assessment of the causes of autism,
including investigations on plausible biologic mechanisms and potential causal links.

November 20, 2025 at 2:53 AM

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warrior cop

@wyattprivilege.bsky.social

Loving this Larry Summers arc where he’s like, wow taking a step back from leadership now that I found out about my own behavior which I have had access to at all times

November 20, 2025 at 3:06 AM

Abby

@proactivebusybody.bsky.social

What could possibly go wrong?!

Florida Funds Drones to Confront School Shooters
• On Monday Florida Education Commissioner Anastasios Kamoutsas announced Florida approved $557,000 to pilot Campus Guardian Angel drones in Broward, Leon and Volusia counties.
• Because faster response is vital, Campus Guardian Angel CEO Justin Marston said, Most of the death happens in the first two minutes *
• Campus Guardian Angel's system deploys drones within seconds using on-site charging pads and remote pilots at the Austin command center, employing non-lethal tools to disable shooters quickly.
• Florida becomes the first state to fund a drone pilot designed to disorient shooters and buy time for first responders, with Volusia County Schools endorsing the safety step.
• Marston said the system averages $4 to $8 per student per month, with 18 drones in six boxes at smaller schools and operations run from a military-style command center staffed by 11 specialists.

November 18, 2025 at 4:04 AM

Abby

@proactivebusybody.bsky.social

Birthdays on Facebook are so funny. My inner monologue: "Thanks for the birthday wishes, girl from my children's choir. Thx, mom of my middle school bully. Thx, Zionist friend I didn't get around to firing yet. Thx, Dad of my ex. Thx, person in a random local band whose photo I took once!" 🤷‍♀️

November 15, 2025 at 7:58 PM

Abby

@proactivebusybody.bsky.social

In 1987, I attended a massive march against one of the worst Sundowns Towns in America: Cumming, GA. It was lead by the MLK Center in Atlanta, Hosea Williams, Coretta Scott King. Marjorie Taylor Green was 13 at the time. This was her stomping ground. This place incubated her hate. Don’t trust her.

THOUSANDS IN CIVIL RIGHTS MARCH JEERED BY CROWD IN GEORGIA TOWN
By Dudley Clendinen, Special To the New York Times
Jan. 25, 1987
This small town in Forsyth County was overwhelmed today by civil rights
marchers, members of the Ku Klux Klan and their sympathizers and an army of National Guardsmen and law-enforcement officers who kept the opposing groups separated.
Guarded by what a spokesman for the Governor's office called "the greatest show of force the state has ever marshalled," a crowd of marchers estimated at 12,000 to 20,000 funneled slowly into Cumming, where a week earlier counterdemonstrators, throwing stones and bottles, disrupted an interracial "walk for brotherhood" prompted by the all-white county's racist legacy.
As the marchers headed into Cumming, which has a little more than 2,000 people…

As the marchers headed into Cumming, which has a little more than 2,000 people, they found waiting for them, behind a stern-faced force of 2,300 guardsmen and police officers, a group of hundreds if not thousands of white, mainly young, rural men and women, repeatedly shouting,
"Nigger, go home!"
For hours, as Confederate banners, caps and other emblems waved and bobbed in the crowd and Klan uniforms mingled with the camouflage fatigues of Klan sympathizers, the town approached gridlock. #55 Arrested or Detained At least 55 people, including David E. Duke, a former Ku Klux Klan leader, were arrested or detained. Mr. Duke, who now runs the National Association for the Advancement of White People, and two comrades were charged with reckless conduct and blocking a highway.
Various others, said Harry Heath, the spokesman for the Georgia Guard, were arrested for possession of unspecified weapons as well as bows and arrows, fireworks, and for making a telephone bomb threat. No injuries were reported, and by 6:30 P.M buses carrying the marchers had begun to depart.
Among those marching were Coretta Scott
King, the widow of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jy former Senates Gary Hart,

Among those marching were Coretta Scott
King, the widow of the Rev. Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr, former Senator Gary Hart, Mayor Andrew Young of Atlanta, the Rev.
Jesse Jackson, the Rev. Ralph David
Abernathy, the comedian Dick Gregory and Benjamin Hooks, executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Concern Over Security
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation was so concerned about security, Mr. Heath said, that for a time this afternoon its agents would not allow Senators Sam Nunn and Wyche Fowler and Representative John Lewis of Georgia to cross the streets from the courthouse to speak to reporters. Nor would the agents allow reporters to cross into the courthouse square where speeches were to be made.
Estimates of the crowd of marchers varied, with march organizers putting the figure at 20,000. County Sheriff's deputies estimated that 12,000 to 14,000 people participated. A National Guard spokesman gave an estimate of 15,000 to 20,000.
Whatever the final figure, the march was one of the largest civil rights demonstrations since a 1965 rally that followed a march from Selma, Ala. to Montgomery. The rally, led by Dr. King, drew 25,000 people.

Whatever the final figure, the march was one of the largest civil rights demonstrations since a 1965 rally that followed a march from Selma, Ala. to Montgomery. The rally, led by Dr. King, drew 25,000 people.
The sheer numbers involved today made the head of the march four hours late, and when the first group of marchers arrived they found the courthouse square surrounded by jeering whites.
The march was initially delayed at the gathering point for the march, the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta, as more than five times the number of people expected scrambled to find seats on the 175 buses.
March leaders who had gathered inside the King center found they had no transportation to Cumming. Several hundred people were left behind after the march's organizers quickly filled 10 more buses that had been brought to the King center.
After demonstrators marched a mile and a quarter from the Cumming city limits to the courthouse square, they were greeted by at least three separate groups of protesters, some of whom chanted, "Go home, n-word."
'Embarked on a Journey'

November 15, 2025 at 1:59 PM

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bring on the dancing turkeys

@ihavethatonvinyl.com

i swear if i see any of you mothefuckers rallying around marjorie taylor greene i will disown you

November 15, 2025 at 3:22 AM

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G. Willow Wilson

@gwillow.me

It is 1998. I am at the kitchen table writing Batman fanfic but I keep getting distracted by breaking news about a Bill Clinton sex scandal

It is 2025. I am at the kitchen table writing a canonical Bat-book but I keep getting distracted by breaking news about a Bill Clinton sex scandal

November 15, 2025 at 1:34 AM