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@starrymessenger.bsky.social
Artist, adjunct, art teacher, labor, socialist, star wars, reylo, AI hater, she/her
Had a mild stroke 2/12/2025. Excuse the brain fog. Check your BP ladies 🫀
(DNI: minors, fintech, traders, OF, antis, “refined gentlemen” pls do not follow)
Had a mild stroke 2/12/2025. Excuse the brain fog. Check your BP ladies 🫀
(DNI: minors, fintech, traders, OF, antis, “refined gentlemen” pls do not follow)
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Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
November 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
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🧵 Have you heard of the Hellfire Clubs?
Sir Francis Dashwood's version of a Hellfire Club was a series of get togethers with his best buddies, including the Earl of Sandwich (inventor of the sandwich!)
These friends were in of lots of gentlemen's clubs that were popular in the eighteenth century.
Sir Francis Dashwood's version of a Hellfire Club was a series of get togethers with his best buddies, including the Earl of Sandwich (inventor of the sandwich!)
These friends were in of lots of gentlemen's clubs that were popular in the eighteenth century.
November 21, 2025 at 5:04 PM
🧵 Have you heard of the Hellfire Clubs?
Sir Francis Dashwood's version of a Hellfire Club was a series of get togethers with his best buddies, including the Earl of Sandwich (inventor of the sandwich!)
These friends were in of lots of gentlemen's clubs that were popular in the eighteenth century.
Sir Francis Dashwood's version of a Hellfire Club was a series of get togethers with his best buddies, including the Earl of Sandwich (inventor of the sandwich!)
These friends were in of lots of gentlemen's clubs that were popular in the eighteenth century.
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If Big Tech gets its way, our skies are going to look a whole lot more crowded in the future. slate.trib.al/O5WLyIK
Google Wants to Power Their Chatbots By Filling Our Skies With Garbage
The space data-center wars are coming—and they’re going to be ugly.
slate.trib.al
November 22, 2025 at 10:50 AM
If Big Tech gets its way, our skies are going to look a whole lot more crowded in the future. slate.trib.al/O5WLyIK
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“Hold somebody else’s chin at the waterline ‘til they get a chance to breathe because on one day that’s going to be you.”
The unrivalled Bernadette Devlin McAliskey on solidarity and compassion
Full episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/patron...
The unrivalled Bernadette Devlin McAliskey on solidarity and compassion
Full episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/patron...
November 18, 2025 at 8:38 AM
“Hold somebody else’s chin at the waterline ‘til they get a chance to breathe because on one day that’s going to be you.”
The unrivalled Bernadette Devlin McAliskey on solidarity and compassion
Full episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/patron...
The unrivalled Bernadette Devlin McAliskey on solidarity and compassion
Full episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/patron...
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Earlier this week, a new page titled “Vaccines and Autism” appeared on the CDC website. The agency's employees are not happy about it.
“The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.”
“The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.”
“Embarrassing” and “horrifying”: CDC workers describe the new vaccines and autism page
"The best way I can put it is it feels like we're on a hijacked airplane."
www.motherjones.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Earlier this week, a new page titled “Vaccines and Autism” appeared on the CDC website. The agency's employees are not happy about it.
“The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.”
“The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.”
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This story was produced as a collaboration between @pablo.show and @motherjones.com. Watch the Pablo Torre Finds Out episode here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKUl... 2/
Riley Gaines Investigated: The Lia Thomas Race, the Coach & Why She "Doesn't Even Like" Trump | PTFO
YouTube video by PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT
www.youtube.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:26 PM
This story was produced as a collaboration between @pablo.show and @motherjones.com. Watch the Pablo Torre Finds Out episode here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKUl... 2/
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Thank you to the University of Kentucky teammates and NCAA competitors who trusted me enough to speak to me on one of the most controversial topics there is in politics or on the internet today.
Read the story here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
8/8
Read the story here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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How right-wing superstar Riley Gaines built an anti-trans empire
The swimmer tied a trans woman for fifth. The MAGA industrial complex took care of the rest.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Thank you to the University of Kentucky teammates and NCAA competitors who trusted me enough to speak to me on one of the most controversial topics there is in politics or on the internet today.
Read the story here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
8/8
Read the story here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
8/8
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The ongoing US actions are 'suffocating the social fabric of Cuban society', according to the expert.
US sanctions must be stopped as they reshape life in Cuba: UN rapporteur
The ongoing US actions are 'suffocating the social fabric of Cuban society', according to the expert.
bit.ly
November 22, 2025 at 11:00 AM
The ongoing US actions are 'suffocating the social fabric of Cuban society', according to the expert.
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Hell yeah @rianjohnson.bsky.social (reposting with alt text)
November 22, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Hell yeah @rianjohnson.bsky.social (reposting with alt text)
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speaking as a virginia beach native if these kind of dudes are plotting against ICE then there is wide runway in public opinion for straight up abolishing the agency under a dem presidency
Kempsville High School assistant principal charged for threats against police, ICE
Virginia Beach assistant principal John Bennett and Mark Bennett charged for conspiring threats against police and ICE agents. Both are held without bond.
www.13newsnow.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:39 AM
speaking as a virginia beach native if these kind of dudes are plotting against ICE then there is wide runway in public opinion for straight up abolishing the agency under a dem presidency
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I reckon you can learn a lot about the atmosphere in various Oxford colleges by looking at what they choose to name their cats (courtesy of @oxfordclarion.bsky.social ). We should all aspire to the energy of a Teabag, Isambard Kitten Brunel, or an Admiral Flapjack
oxfordclarion.uk/college-cats...
oxfordclarion.uk/college-cats...
November 21, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I reckon you can learn a lot about the atmosphere in various Oxford colleges by looking at what they choose to name their cats (courtesy of @oxfordclarion.bsky.social ). We should all aspire to the energy of a Teabag, Isambard Kitten Brunel, or an Admiral Flapjack
oxfordclarion.uk/college-cats...
oxfordclarion.uk/college-cats...
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Cuomo's so bereft he just sent home the intern he was hunting for sport.
Miller, chained up in the Situation Room, a foot from the TV:
November 21, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Cuomo's so bereft he just sent home the intern he was hunting for sport.
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They’ll redo the judgeship maps in Arkansas/ Little Rock to make sure there’s never a Black judge again.
NEW: You've heard SCOTUS could soon upend the balance in power in Congress by gutting the VRA. But that'd also be a huge blow to Black voting power in *local* governments.
In west Tennessee, Black residents just won a new county map this year—but those gains now look very fragile.
Great reporting:
In west Tennessee, Black residents just won a new county map this year—but those gains now look very fragile.
Great reporting:
Black Residents in West Tennessee Just Won Fairer Districts. Now Comes SCOTUS. - Bolts
The Supreme Court may further erode the Voting Rights Act in an upcoming decision. Beyond affecting Congress, that would reverberate across local governments nationwide.
boltsmag.org
November 21, 2025 at 6:46 PM
They’ll redo the judgeship maps in Arkansas/ Little Rock to make sure there’s never a Black judge again.
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They line up perfectly.
November 22, 2025 at 2:32 AM
They line up perfectly.
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Imagine, if you will, that NASA updated its website to suggest gravity might not exist, prompting CalTech and CERN to release statements saying, "With great sadness, we can no longer recommend listening to NASA."
This is what's happening in epidemiology.
This is what's happening in epidemiology.
November 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Imagine, if you will, that NASA updated its website to suggest gravity might not exist, prompting CalTech and CERN to release statements saying, "With great sadness, we can no longer recommend listening to NASA."
This is what's happening in epidemiology.
This is what's happening in epidemiology.
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In the latest in our imagined history of inventions yet to come, Future Chronicles columnist Rowan Hooper reveals how an ingenious way to avoid being swamped by AI content was invented in the late 2020s
Imagining a future where smart glasses allow 'AI slop' to be avoided
In the latest in our imagined history of inventions yet to come, Future Chronicles columnist Rowan Hooper reveals how an ingenious way to avoid being swamped by AI content was invented in the late 2020s
www.newscientist.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:06 AM
In the latest in our imagined history of inventions yet to come, Future Chronicles columnist Rowan Hooper reveals how an ingenious way to avoid being swamped by AI content was invented in the late 2020s
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The extent of the damage done to public health, biomedical science, and healthcare in the US in less than a year will take a generation or more to repair. This is the scale of the destruction. Let that sink in. A new president, Congress won't be enough to reverse things fully. It's that bad.
Breaking News: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he personally instructed the CDC to abandon its position that vaccines do not cause autism. The move underscores his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy — in this case, that vaccines save lives — and bend the health department to his will.
RFK Jr. Says He Instructed CDC to Change Vaccines and Autism Language on Website
In an interview, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited gaps in vaccine safety research. His critics say he is ignoring a larger point: Vaccines save lives.
nyti.ms
November 21, 2025 at 11:43 PM
The extent of the damage done to public health, biomedical science, and healthcare in the US in less than a year will take a generation or more to repair. This is the scale of the destruction. Let that sink in. A new president, Congress won't be enough to reverse things fully. It's that bad.
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Artists in more than 40 states are spending Friday and Saturday participating in the "Fall of Freedom" – which they say represents a creative resistance to authoritarianism.
Artists respond to a cultural squeeze during the 'Fall of Freedom'
Artists in more than 40 states are spending Friday and Saturday participating in the "Fall of Freedom" – which they say represents a creative resistance to authoritarianism.
n.pr
November 22, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Artists in more than 40 states are spending Friday and Saturday participating in the "Fall of Freedom" – which they say represents a creative resistance to authoritarianism.
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Study (N=1,700) finds men sponsor others to get ahead in their own careers, choosing to sponsor only when it is a win-win for them and the protégé. Women are more likely to balance their own needs with what is best for their protégé’s career.
hbr.org/2025/11/rese...
hbr.org/2025/11/rese...
Research: How Men and Women Sponsor Junior Colleagues
Research has shown that sponsorship tends to benefit junior employees, but its impact on sponsors is less understood. A new study, the first to examine sponsorship from a leadership perspective, revea...
hbr.org
November 22, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Study (N=1,700) finds men sponsor others to get ahead in their own careers, choosing to sponsor only when it is a win-win for them and the protégé. Women are more likely to balance their own needs with what is best for their protégé’s career.
hbr.org/2025/11/rese...
hbr.org/2025/11/rese...
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The Queens Daily Eagle remains undefeated.
Queens men meet — Queens Daily Eagle
The first man from Queens to be elected president and the first Queens resident to be elected mayor of New York City met for the first time in the Oval Office on Friday.
queenseagle.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:33 AM
The Queens Daily Eagle remains undefeated.
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Here in GEORGIA 14TH DISTRICT, I am ecstatic at the news of MJT resignation.
I am supporting her
QUALIFIED OPPONENT
BRIGADIER GENERAL SHAWN HARRIS RETIRED!!!
shawnforgeorgia.com
I am supporting her
QUALIFIED OPPONENT
BRIGADIER GENERAL SHAWN HARRIS RETIRED!!!
shawnforgeorgia.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Here in GEORGIA 14TH DISTRICT, I am ecstatic at the news of MJT resignation.
I am supporting her
QUALIFIED OPPONENT
BRIGADIER GENERAL SHAWN HARRIS RETIRED!!!
shawnforgeorgia.com
I am supporting her
QUALIFIED OPPONENT
BRIGADIER GENERAL SHAWN HARRIS RETIRED!!!
shawnforgeorgia.com
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From The Washington Post:
The concentration of wealth among the richest Americans is unlike anything in history — and so is billionaires’ influence in politics.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
The concentration of wealth among the richest Americans is unlike anything in history — and so is billionaires’ influence in politics.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
November 21, 2025 at 10:05 PM
From The Washington Post:
The concentration of wealth among the richest Americans is unlike anything in history — and so is billionaires’ influence in politics.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
The concentration of wealth among the richest Americans is unlike anything in history — and so is billionaires’ influence in politics.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
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Too many Dems see these votes as some masterful Republican trap they can't get out of when they're really an easy opportunity to highlight the dumb crap Republicans are spending their time on instead of addressing the cost of healthcare and groceries.
BREAKING: The House of Representatives voted 285–98 in favor of a resolution condemning socialism.
Eighty-six Democrats joined Republicans in supporting the measure, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
Eighty-six Democrats joined Republicans in supporting the measure, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
November 21, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Too many Dems see these votes as some masterful Republican trap they can't get out of when they're really an easy opportunity to highlight the dumb crap Republicans are spending their time on instead of addressing the cost of healthcare and groceries.
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Oíche mhaith.
“You cried for night - it falls. Now cry in darkness.”
― Samuel Beckett
“You cried for night - it falls. Now cry in darkness.”
― Samuel Beckett
November 22, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Oíche mhaith.
“You cried for night - it falls. Now cry in darkness.”
― Samuel Beckett
“You cried for night - it falls. Now cry in darkness.”
― Samuel Beckett