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Lazy Anole @thelazyanole.bsky.social · 9d

QUESTION: Why did it take so long to invent self-trimming wicks?!??
Candles have been used for thousands of years, but the self-trimming wick was only invented in the 1800s.
Was it dependent on some other technology or material? What took so long?
I am perplexed!

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Jasper @jaspersfelines.bsky.social · 15h

Jasper for #KittyLoafMonday 🦁🧡 #cats

An orange cat with long white whiskers loafs on a chair

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Gryph @lfgryph.com · 8h

Precious little girl who came in yesterday. She looks sad in this pic, but she's okay. ❤️ Little mini Lumi except not so round, lol.

Little torbie/calico kitten sitting up in a shelter transfer cage. She has a sad look on her face, but it's just the way she looks in the shot.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 2h

you cannot "abuse" your rights.

civil rights either are protected and real or they are not.

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 5h

Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson's full statement, in which she says she will sign an EO permitting protest "only at the safety zone located at the ICE facility on Beach Street," is up on the village's website.

"There are too many protesters abusing their right to protest," Thompson says.

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Broadview Shrinks Protest Safety Zones

The following statement can be attributed to Village of Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson:

“The protests at the ICE facility on Saturday night degenerated into chaos. There were 15 arrests, and 10 of those were around the age of my own daughter. As a mother and a mayor, I am mad. Broadview didn’t choose to have the ICE facility in our community. But it’s here. And so are Broadview residents. There are too many protesters abusing their right to protest. Too many are raising their fists rather than their voices, creating chaos at the expense of the people who call Broadview home. Broadview residents lack the protestors’ privilege to return to calm, quiet neighborhoods for undisturbed rest.

Therefore, I have issued a new executive order, in consultation with the Illinois State Police and Cook County Sheriff, that permits protests only at the safety zone located at the ICE facility on Beach Street.

There will no longer be a designated protest safety zone at 2000 South 25th Avenue between Lexington and Fillmore.

Additionally, it has been only God’s grace alone that a protester has not been struck and killed by a motorist on 25th Avenue given how frequently protesters dash onto this busy, four-lane street. This new
measure will provide for both the serenity of residents and safety of protestors.

As I have repeatedly said, I respect, support, and defend the protesters’ free and – peaceful – speech against the outrageous injustices and deplorable unprovoked chemical arms attacks by ICE agents against American citizens, journalists, and ministers that put Broadview police and firefighters in harms’ way.

Nevertheless, my first priority is to defend public safety and the residents who live here and people who work here. They deserve stability, safety, and respect, a quality of life that is currently being denied to them. They deserve the love and kindness that they expect by being Broadview residents.”

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jen rice @jenrice.bsky.social · 2h

you probably haven't heard much about the major federal hearing that just ended on the TX redistricting map, but it's important. my full recap:

in a federal courtroom in TX, republicans were desperate to keep details of their gerrymander under wraps

www.democracydocket.com/analysis/in-...

In a Federal Courtroom in Texas, Republicans Were Desperate to Keep Details of their Gerrymander Under Wraps

Read about the fight for democracy from activists, elected officials, legal experts and others.

www.democracydocket.com

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 2h

My favorite aspect of the Columbus legend is him getting rejected by the Portuguese gets spun as them not recognizing the genius of his idea. No - he went into a roomful of expert navigators and made basic math mistakes, they thought he was a moron, and they wouldn't fund his idea on that basis.

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Lacerta "Free Łink" Winters @antarcticempire.net · 2h

Everyone's like "ICE is out of control!!!" as if a well-controlled ICE would be just fine, and it's a great tell of character and life experience

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 2h

Tenure in Texas means nothing anymore.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2h

If you make "controversial statements" outside of classroom, that the President of the university dislikes, you can be summarily fired even if you are tenured.

Julie Greene @greeneland.bsky.social · 2h

I just learned, Thomas Alter, tenured professor, has been terminated effective immediately. Shame on Texas State! We mst build support for Tom. spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-tex...

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Deer Lady83 @deerlady83.bsky.social · 2h

Reparations would be good too.

The Onion @theonion.com · 2h

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

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The Cat Hive @thecathive.bsky.social · 3h

The Criminal

Doodle of an orange cat with a piece of crumpled plastic in his mouth. He is running away quickly, wide-eyed. There is text from someone shouting "WHO IS EATING PLASTIC!!!"

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 7h

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!

The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/

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Jenn Diagram @jenxer.bsky.social · 4h

It is done

#embroidery

Baphomet sitting atop a pile of skulls with an upside-down star in front of his hands. The word "Blessed" is beneath him, written upside-down in Live Laugh Love script

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♡ Kate's haunted emporium 👻 🎃 🇬🇹~ FREE 🇵🇸 🇸🇩 @katespeace.bsky.social · 4h

Happy Indigenous People's Day! Solidarity, love, and support from me with the beautiful Guatemalan resplendent quetzal! 🪶

The Guatemalan resplendent quetzal flying off a branch or plants. It has brilliant, vibrant green, red, white, and black colors on its plumage.

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Haunted Bouncy Castle @hauntedbouncy.bsky.social · 4h

To celebrate our new variety of books, we've decided to give youy a free bookmark with every book purchase!

When you buy a book, just add any one bookmark you like to your basket and the shop won't charge you for it.

hauntedbouncycastle.com/collections/...
#booksky 🌈📚 #queerbooksky

two shelves of books, with three new releases turned facing the camera: A Steeping of Blood by Hafsah Faizal, Looking for Group by Alexis Hall and You Weren't Meant To Be Human by Andrew Joseph White

A cute bookmark with a print of cute angry unicorns and pan pride rainbows

A cut ebookmark with an illustration of a cute purple snail with a pansexual pride coloured shel that had a layer cake on top of it, which in turn has a little guillotine decoration

A collection of four bookmarks with cute cartoon critter illustrations on them.
The first is a trans flag coloured opossum holding a rainbow glazed donut, the second is a strawberry shark slurping on a school lunch sized strawberry milk with straw that they are holding with their fins, the third is a chubby baby mothman surrounded by gently twinkling lightbulbs, the fourth is a very round, red frog floating on a strawberry

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Cvkvlv Beadwork @cvkvlv.com · 8h

Today is a great day to support Native art! New items are available on my website for the upcoming Native American Heritage Month (November) 🤍💛❤️🖤

#Mvskoke #Native #Indigenous #Beadwork #IndigenousPeoplesDay

Cvkvlv Beadwork @cvkvlv.com · 8h

HAPPY INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY (aka fuck Columbus day 😝)
For me making my beadwork, and for yall buying/wearing beadwork is a great way to say fuck Columbus, fuck colonizer assholes, fuck fascism. Im gonna stay celebrating my culture, the culture that they tried to wipe out from this land → cvkvlv.com

My hand holding a pair of long black beaded dangle earrings with red, orange, and yellow accents and silver bugle beads

My hand holding a pair of black beaded loop earrings with red, orange, and yellow accents and silver bugle beads

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‪🏳️‍⚧️Scribble Art Cryptid @scribbled-death.bsky.social · Jul 11

new print !!!
🌈👁️✨🔥🔥
#inprnt #queer #art #pride #krita #digitalart #eyestrain #psychedelic
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
www.inprnt.com/gallery/scri...

Rainbow Phoenix, an art print by Nintala

Gallery Quality Prints

www.inprnt.com

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 7h

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 10h

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 3h

Before laser pointers we had to just point at the wall with a stick. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

Black and white photo of a shorthaired tabby up on his hind legs with his forepaws braced against the outside of a brick building, seeming to sniff and investigate the tip of a small stick that a white person off camera is holding against the wall.

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jen rice @jenrice.bsky.social · 6h

please join me in blocking CBS news

Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 8h

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.

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Lazy Anole @thelazyanole.bsky.social · 4h

lol, I’m betting not legally, but nothing he does is legal; he just has enough people willing to go along with what he wants that legality doesn’t matter any more. The only thing that matters is if there are enough people not willing to go along with what he wants.

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 6h

I signed.

c.org/kvNpPrVvhT

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

Alumni urging UT Austin to reject the federal funding compact

c.org

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sawdustmaker.bsky.social @sawdustmaker.bsky.social · 5h

If you don't keep your tractor grill free of fluffy seeds, it's ability to cool the engine will be impaired. Ask me how i know! #smallfarmlife

Front of tractor covered with light brown fluff from seeds.

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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.bsky.social · 5h

Archie, formerly Jorts Junior/JJ, was totally shut down and untrusting of humans after being surrendered at 4 months old. Look at this amazing, sweet and loving boy now!!

Ghost Herc & Möther @cosmicvulture.bsky.social · 5h

🚨folks…Archie just jumped up and made himself comfortable in my arms for the very first time. I’m crying, and obviously screaming internally. I have been waiting for this moment 😭💗🥹 @crits4cats.bsky.social

Orange tabby cat looking comfy in my arms

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 6h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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poorly drawn cats @poorlycatdraw.bsky.social · 8h

5 to go!!!

poorly drawn cats @poorlycatdraw.bsky.social · 13h

20 more and vampurr rises! help wake him from his slumber 🦇

www.makeship.com/products/vam...

vampurr, a gray plush cat dressed as a vampire, it’s placed on a rock in front of a tree trunk outdoors

a close-up showing vampurr’s face and details of the cape’s collar

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 7h

“Sauve qui peut”. This is a French phrase that translates literally to something like "save yourself who's able/can" and roughly equates to “run for your life!” or “every man for himself!”, indicating a chaotic or dangerous situation/stampede. Postcard from my collection, no date/info.

Black and white photo of a shorthaired tabby kitten appearing to burst through a sheet of white paper in a dark frame. Text at the bottom reads “sauve qui peut”.

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