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Lore Sjöberg @loresjoberg.bsky.social · 4d

Times remain tough, and I'm having trouble finding clients through my usual channels. If any of you have a line on a job for a full-stack developer, remote or in Seattle, please let me know. You can mail me at [email protected]. Thanks!

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love & barley 🐸🌶️🪏🎃 @loveandbarley.bsky.social · 2d

give greta thunberg a gundam

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 1d

/adds to lexicon/

Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 2d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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Lore Sjöberg @loresjoberg.bsky.social · 1d

Having watched the 1938 film “Bringing Up Baby” starring Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant, I can confidently and scientifically say that the exact point where a madcap comedy becomes a screwball comedy is when you introduce a second escaped leopard into the plot.

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Greylace @greylace.bsky.social · 1d

The recent ICE raid which emptied an entire apartment building was apparently at the request of Wells Fargo, which is trying to foreclose on the building.

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 1d

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Jon Hance @jhance.bsky.social · 1d

Ok, this is just funny.

isportlandburning.com

Is Portland Burning?

No. See real-time Portland cameras, PulsePoint incidents, and sourced fact checks.

isportlandburning.com

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 1d

they just slapped a surgeons general warning on RFK like he’s a pack of cigarettes

Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 1d

“Secretary Kennedy is entitled to his views. But he is not entitled to put people’s health at risk.”

Six former surgeons general condemn RFK Jr.

Opinion | Six surgeons general: RFK Jr. is a threat to the health of Americans

It was our duty in office to warn of dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

www.washingtonpost.com

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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Rose @rosearethusa.bsky.social · 9h

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 19h

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It's the Anakin Padme meme. Anakin is now a smoke detector saying I don't have enough energy to tell u if there's a fire. Padme happily asks So u don't have enough energy to make a shill loud beep every minute for years? Then she looks worried, and asks again: U don't have the energy to make a shill loud beep every minute for years, right? To which Anakin the smoke detector replies BEEP

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Friday Afternoon Tea @fridaytea.com · 18h

It's that time again, friends! Our monthly art installation slots are now open for 2026! Have you always wanted your pieces to hang on the walls of a lovely witchy tea house? This is your chance!⁠

Call for PNW artists! Our Seattle-based queer nerd witch tea house is accepting applications for 2026 visual art installations! Email portfolio links to fridayafternoontea at gmail dot com

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 9d

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 9d

hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.

"Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians not directly taking part in hostilities, even if they are believed to be smuggling drugs."

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Washington State Department of Health @doh.wa.gov · 13h

Washington's #WIC program is still operating.
Please continue to:
✅ Use your benefits as usual
✅ Attend your appointments
✅ Access services like nutrition education & breastfeeding support
⚠️ Due to the federal shutdown, some local WIC clinics may temporarily close, but many will remain open

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Lore Sjöberg @loresjoberg.bsky.social · 5d

Ronald McDonald House: Admirable charity, terrible electronic dance music genre.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 5d

Peacehammer 40K: Paintinge litel miniatures of gardeneres, sculptors, academics. Trimminge hedges. Makinge friendes.

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Rose @rosearethusa.bsky.social · 6d

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 8d

a democratically elected congresswoman is being denied her seat because the speaker simply does not want to seat her and leadership is as unconcerned about this as they seem to be about everything else

Oriana González @oriana.bsky.social · 8d

Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva hasn't been sworn in, so she has to roam Congress with an escort

I saw her this morning going through security along visitors — something lawmakers don't need to do when walking into the Capitol

More on her limbo status here:
www.notus.org/congress/ade...

Voters Elected Her to Congress. Mike Johnson Is Making Her Wait.

“At this point, I can’t hire staff. We don’t have an office. I can’t get around without being escorted,” Arizona’s incoming House Democrat, Adelita Grijalva, said Tuesday.

www.notus.org

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 7d

The legendary Jane Fonda “has relaunched the Committee for the First Amendment, the McCarthy-era initiative started by her father, Henry Fonda ...” www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Jane Fonda relaunches free speech group started by her father during the McCarthy era

In wake of the Trump administration’s censorship threats, the actor re-established the Committee for the First Amendment with A-list support

www.theguardian.com

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Abjurer @abjurer.bsky.social · Jan 6

Evangelical converts to Catholicism are appropriating Italian culture. Being Catholic and going to war with the Pope was something they've been doing for *centuries* and then some waspy MFer stumbles in like he invented being a Ghibelline.

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · Jan 6

Once again noting how annoying it is that adult converts to Catholicism are trying to destroy the church whenever it does something that's not extremely conservative. Just walk out! You can leave!

Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · Jan 6

Look, I’m not Catholic, but a lot of (Republican) family members are, and this is kind of a middle finger from the Vatican to these fundie Catholics. A tug on the leash, as it were. People like Vance are going to be put in a position where they have to actively defy the Church.

It’s a good move.

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Insufferable INTJ (She/Her) @mightyani.bsky.social · 7d

"I thought you were the party of peace?? 😭😭😭"

Black text on an ecru background:

The tolerant left? No, they're down the hall. We're the "fuck off and die you racist motherfuckers" left.

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Rose @rosearethusa.bsky.social · 8d

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Rachel FigueroAAAH! 👻💀 🎃 @jewyorican.bsky.social · 9d

Is this a typo or did a mohel take over the dining room 🤔

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 9d

Kind people want a just world. Nice people want a calm world. These are fundamentally incompatible positions in an unjust system, and results in the latter trying to stomp down any fuss over getting to the former.

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Alex DiFrancesco @alessandrostardust.bsky.social · 15d

I posted that autistic people are not a tragedy and some tool retweeted saying WhAt AbOuT nOnVeRbAl AuTiSTiC pEoPlE,

So let me clarify- no autistic person is a tragedy.

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Rose @rosearethusa.bsky.social · 12d

How do they know you’re not a nonverbal autistic person just by seeing a post you typed?