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@vafnord.bsky.social

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Mom, gamer, Futuramist, Policy Wonk, aspiring Raptor Princess Protect trans kids! She/her Hating Alex Jones is currently 65-99% of my personality, the rest is cooking and cats

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Virginia @vafnord.bsky.social · Feb 13

Anybody else ever think about how gift cards are private corporate currency and that buying them is functionally equivalent to giving an interest-free loan to a corporation and we mostly pay full face value for them!

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Dunes

YouTube video by Alabama Shakes - Topic

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Virginia @vafnord.bsky.social · 2d

Cat love bean?

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 3d

feel like we can do better than “man these guys are real fatsos” when talking about agents of state violence idk

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 2d

when you equate body type and morality you are reiterating fascists’ own ideas

Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 2d

Excuse me? www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...

MEDPAGETODAY®
Public Health & Policy > Health Policy
Many With Obesity 'Don't Respect the Temple of Their
Soul,' Dr. Oz Says
— "The only thing they think they control in their life is the fork at the end of their arm"
by Joyce Frieden, Washington Editor, MedPage Today
October 7, 2025 • 5 min read

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Chloé Stawski (Spooky Edition 🎃🦇) @chlowski.bsky.social · 3d

hades gals 💀🌸

fanart of Melinoe from Hades 2, wearing a modern outfit (dark jeans, orange top), she has a big tattoo on her right arm, and is about to tie her hair with a hair band (is this how it's called in english ?)
her eyes are closed, she has nice arm muscles and looks extremely lesbian

fanart of Nemesis from Hades 2, wearing a modern outfit (red jeans, black crop top with the Hades sigil as a pattern on it), moon shaped necklace, tattoos on her left arm and pecs, as she's about to tie her hair using a green hairband, her eyes closed
(green light on her right side cause she's standing next to Melinoe's glowing arm, off camera)

fanart of Eris, from Hades 2, she's sitting, right leg with her knee bent, in front of her
right hand on her right foot, left hand on her face, framing her left eye between two fingers
she's wearing big sneakers, micro shorts, some sort of sweater with stripes showing her shoulders
she has apple tree branch tattoos on her thigh and left shoulder

fanart of Medea from Hades 2, but wearing modern clothes (tiny leather shorts with double belt, red/purple leather crop top), a nose ring, necklaces, also big tattoo covering the entire left arm (a snake, a moon crescent, flowers and leaves)
She's sitting, resting on her left hand, her right hand next to her face, conjuring some plague magic that bathes her in green light

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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 4d

"everybody has a smartphone these days lol" false. that's something you made up. only 91% of Americans have smartphones. those last 9% are still people who deserve services (and probably need them more than anybody else). that's still like 30.6 million people

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skáld @danglinghemmie.bsky.social · 4d

ICE officers strike me as the kind of people who are good at money management im sure working for a couple months without a paycheck won't cause them any problems

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Virginia @vafnord.bsky.social · 7d

I was very afraid for her.

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 9d

i got to talk about anarchist santa

not actually a biography, but instead talking about how this guy did a lot of cool science and changed the way we understand competition and cooperation in evolutionary biology

Cool Zone Media @coolzonemedia.bsky.social · 9d

New Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff 🐕

Margaret continues talking to Katie Goldin about the anarchist prince who laid the foundations for understanding cooperation in the wild.

@margaret.bsky.social @katiegoldin.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social

www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...

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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 14d

If your Klein be Naomi, then listen, homie;
But if your Klein be Ezra, disregard what he sezra

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Beccas can't be choosers @beccanical.bsky.social · Jan 7

present tense? uh, yeah, of course it is

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Virginia @vafnord.bsky.social · 17d

Bill Joy (sun microsystems)

Virginia @vafnord.bsky.social · 17d

In the same spirit, Linus Torvalds and Richard M. Stallman

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Virginia @vafnord.bsky.social · 17d

I did it

I joined the Itty Bitty Titty Committee

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bucolic dirtbag @boldfashioned.com · 21d

I can not believe I am forced to read thinkpieces and policies every day arguing that the plot of Futurama’s Bend Her episode is the most prevalent and immediate threat to childhood sports.

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 23d

Everybody praising Charlie Kirk is doing it because they’re afraid and anything else they say is a filthy lie

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Virginia @vafnord.bsky.social · 23d

Wonderful alt text

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Lila Byock @lbyock.bsky.social · 24d

New meme just dropped

Jean Smart silently disassociating while David Zaslav mansplains and invades her personal space.

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DaddyJew @daddyjew.bsky.social · 23d

the revolution will be monetized

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23d

CROCKETT: When I say that you are the least qualified FBI director in the history of the FBI, that is real, because you are the only one that never even served with the FBI

PATEL: That's false

CROCKETT: I didn't ask you a question

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onion person @junlper.beer · 24d

its kind of insane that we’ve been forced to watch rightwingers openly celebrate and taunt everyone over the death of people like trayvon martin for over a decade now and now they’re trying to grandstand over the one time it’s personally affected them and political project

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Silkabelli (mutazione-piromane Edition) @silkabelli.bsky.social · 24d

Queen

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 23d

Ezra out here speed running the Paradox of Tolerance

Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 23d

"All I can say for me in the work I do is that I want to create a space that takes our disagreements seriously, that takes the stakes of them seriously, the consequences for people seriously, but does so without deepening our divisions irreparably. We are going to have to live here with each other"

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Virginia @vafnord.bsky.social · 23d

Debate is bad, actually

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Qhapaq 🦙🇵🇪 @yanaqhapaq.bsky.social · 24d

morning bsky!

current mood

A drawing of a planted potato

"They tried to bury me - they didn't know I was a potato"

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