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Girls Running From Houses @girlfleeshouse.bsky.social · 7h

Distress.

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six of them @six-of-them.bsky.social · 13h

good

puff is a small gray cat with white patch on her chest sitting on a rug

Puff has tiny paws and a jacked chest but she is chubby - she has three legs which means she moves around differently than most cats

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rebecca s pumpkins @sweetpeebs.bsky.social · 12h

do i have to get out my copy of “the making of tron: how tron changed visual effects and disney forever” by william kallay and explain why y’all need to stop saying tron is overrrated/a nothingburger or overly pretentious, or am i going to be normal about this

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John Allison @badmachinery.com · 20h

Vertigo have just announced ten new titles at #NYCC. Fine. So will I.

COELACANTH FIGHTER #1
LET'S BUY DECKCHAIRS #1
SUPERSTAR COBBLER #1
THERMOSTAT 3000 #1
THE GNOMIC NINE #1
BALTIMORE HUG PATROL #1
EBONY AND USURY #1
FLABÉLOS WARRIORS #1
PORTNOY THE PUNK #1
LINGERIE JONES #1

Collect them all!

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Em, spookily 👻 @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 22h

City Bureau has an amazingly comprehensive guide to fighting ICE www.citybureau.org/newswire/202...

How Chicagoans Can Get Help and Help Others During ICE Raids — City Bureau

Local community groups are providing hotlines, trainings, legal support, community canvassing and other resources to keep people informed.

www.citybureau.org

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 1d

this is so good. throw em some bones if you can. (the goal is to buy street vendors out of their merch so they can still support themselves but not have to be out on the streets where they’re vulnerable.)

Capt. Jack Sharrow @sharrows.bsky.social · Sep 6

We’ve officially launched! Lots of ways to support this new initiative that supports street vendors from 🧊 we keep us safe!

Interest form and flyer below! #BikeChi

forms.gle/dY931Sxzs6V9...

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 1d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Cyndi B @spintheiryarns.bsky.social · 1d

we watched the conversation in that class though! great movie. only thing i understood all year

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Cyndi B @spintheiryarns.bsky.social · 1d

i was a pretty champion bullshitter, but my first year of undergrad i had to take a full year of something called "media aesthetics" and i was so far underwater that by the end of the year (and to this day) i still didn't know what media aesthetics was. my bullshitting powers did NOT save me there

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Music Box Theatre @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social · 1d

RIP actor & Chicago native Ron Dean.

He interrogated Dr. Richard Kimble in THE FUGITIVE, he dropped Andy off at detention in THE BREAKFAST CLUB, he was shot by Harvey Dent in THE DARK KNIGHT, he was Marty Crane's poker buddy on FRASIER, and so much more.

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 1d

this is how I, a resident of LA, found out that the Palisades fire was arson, that they caught the guy, and that he used gen AI to work his way up to doing the crime

niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 1d

the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault

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The Octopus Gallery @octopusgallery.bsky.social · 1d

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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knives | plz repost 📌 @kazumajis.bsky.social · 2d

hey yall—gonna do $10 sketches…please dm if interested, here’s an example. will even do grayscale included. i’m desperate atp

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Second Great Bisexual Awakening @suesswassersee.bsky.social · 2d

Look at this gorgeous place, I'm so sad for people who hate us

Lake Michigan! Live! @lake-michigan.live · 2d

Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:

View looking east from the Skydeck at top of the Sears Tower towering over the Loop, Millenium Park, Chicago Harbor and Lake Michigan. // Image captured at: 2025-10-08 14:36:43 UTC (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Current Temp in Chicago: 59.66 F | 15.37 C // Precip: few clouds // Wind: N at 5.749 mph | 9.25 kph // Humidity: 72%

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Punchy @punchystream.bsky.social · 2d

people kept asking me during my runs "ok so what's Hinako guilty about why are the horrors happening" and this is SH2 fandom-brain and not how SH really works.

Hinako is not guilty about Shit, she's scared but also *angry* about stuff, that's why F is a more visceral action game.

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jaythechou.bsky.social @jaythechou.bsky.social · 2d

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1668

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Cyndi B @spintheiryarns.bsky.social · 2d

Nope, Capricorn (Christmas Eve 1741)

Cyndi B @spintheiryarns.bsky.social · 2d

every time, leah! every time!! even the county line splits it

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Cyndi B @spintheiryarns.bsky.social · 2d

yet again someone has made a map and drawn a line directly through my hometown

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 2d

Posted to the Southern Reach Reddit...

Southern Reach told me Area X keep eatinh his expeditions so I asked how many expeditions he has and he said he just goes to the shelter and gets a new expeditions afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding expeditions to Area X and then his daughter started crying.

(adapting a tweet about coyotes eating cats)

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Wrong Station @thewrongstation.bsky.social · 2d

More & more people are saying this when we bribe them with copper company stock options

Cyndi B @spintheiryarns.bsky.social · 2d

i loooooved this one

Wrong Station @thewrongstation.bsky.social · 2d

// YOU CAN KICK, AND BEAT, AND SHOOT, AND HANG.
// YOU CAN SEND US TO HELL. IT DOESN'T MATTER.
// AS LONG AS THIS BLOOD RUNS RED, WE WILL RETURN.

The Wrong Station presents a rallying cry of bloody vengeance. Listen to "IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW MANY TIMES YOU KILL US," the 5th episode of 31 in October

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Liberum Evropa 🇪🇺🇧🇬🏴‍☠️ @lispegistus.bsky.social · 2d

humans are hardwired to see consciousness in everything and we're right more often than not. There are malicious spirits in printers and there are benevolent ones in 8bit consoles. Only x86 is a soulless abomination.

neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 3d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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Cyndi B @spintheiryarns.bsky.social · 2d

i loooooved this one

Wrong Station @thewrongstation.bsky.social · 2d

// YOU CAN KICK, AND BEAT, AND SHOOT, AND HANG.
// YOU CAN SEND US TO HELL. IT DOESN'T MATTER.
// AS LONG AS THIS BLOOD RUNS RED, WE WILL RETURN.

The Wrong Station presents a rallying cry of bloody vengeance. Listen to "IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW MANY TIMES YOU KILL US," the 5th episode of 31 in October

156 - It Doesn't Matter How Many Times You Kill Us

Spotify video

open.spotify.com

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Gorey Cask of Amontilladoing @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 3d

i heard in ireland the roads are made of toffee and the trees jerk you off

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 3d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Anthony Oliveira @meakoopa.bsky.social · 3d

protest for Palestine in Shibuya Tokyo !

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