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Fukken' A, this is fine:

Women's Rugby as a growing sport deserves better on the collegiate level than to be tanked on a whim, disrupting athletic scholarships, and the lives if those who have traveled to study & grow together. Do better, Quinnipiac. Glaring at you from California. Do. Better. c.org/QrcBCyn24Y

an incredibly important project by Connie Walker — most Canadians don't know that the government has an archive of 38,000 residential school survivor testimonies, which are slated to be destroyed next year www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

Eleventh Annual Bay Area Printers' Fair & Wayzgoose, April 25, 2026, History Park, 635 Phelan Ave, San José, 10 am - 3 pm. Free Admission San Jose Printers' Guild SJprintersguild.com Live demos, type, cards, ink, book arts, posters, printmaking, presses #Letterpress #printmaking #BookArts

ProPublica has marketed themselves as the good guys doing trustworthy news. I even gave them the money I used to give WaPo before they flipped the breakers on democracy. Make their actions align with their words. don't cross the picket line and demand they deliver what their advertising promises.

first time really tuning into a war? welcome. Let’s go over some rules of how to behave. These are going to be especially important if it’s a war you oppose. 1. You are allowed an opinion. This is America. Whether you served or not. It’s done in your name so might as well speak up. 🧵

Best in Show (in honor of the Day):

Paging @weaverlaura.bsky.social especially for the comments, in delighted memory of your brother:

By the mid-90s, fallout from Prop 13 in CA had killed the school field trip; an interested science teacher arranged a docent-led tour of Elkhorn Slough for any kids/parents who wanted to go, so Kiddo & 2 buddies bundled into our car and off we went to see the local flora & fauna. Loved it!

Hello, I'm a woodcarver, and this what I do ✌️ You can help me a lot by sharing my work, so people can buy or commission me sculptures. Praying for octopus blessings on your life 🐙🙏

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This site needs a break. Post 3 good things, none of which are the cessation of a negative. 1. A really good homemade chicken-cashew-curry salad with a bit of our blood oranges in the sauce, even better as lunch this second day. 2. Kitties (an ongoing goodness). 3. Spring freesias blooming.

Hi #EarlyModern Bluesky - did you know that someone brilliant has built working printing presses using Lego and they are trying to get enough supporters so that Lego will release it as a kit? They look so cool! beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...

Event season is here. Test the con crud, find out what you have, don't nyquil&pray potentially serious illness. Here is 4-in-1 COVID + FLU A/B + RSV home tests for $15. This is the exact combo that costs you $400-500 at urgent care. Covid-only tests as cheap as $4. Not affiliated. Repost please!

crying in the club* (*at my desk) bc stanley tucci took the USA women's hockey team out for a meal at his favorite restaurant and they gave him his own jersey

The DNC should release this as an ad immediately

Yesterday I gave a guest lecture in a colleague's class. They had just wrapped up the ODYSSEY and had discussed other epics like the RAMAYANA before reading an excerpt from my FEATHERED SERPENT, DARK HEART OF SKY: MYTHS OF MEXICO. I discussed an "Aztec" equivalent to "arete" and "dharma." 1/

you can just put records on and sit in front of a heat source and read until you fall asleep; no one tells you this

Ending this operation is not enough. We need justice and accountability. That starts with independent investigations into the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, economic restitution for businesses impacted, abolishing ICE, and the impeachment of Kristi Noem.

What are your biggest “I saw that in the first run cinema” flexes? 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) I think I was all of seven. Loved every bit of it. More than the entire Apollo moon program, this likely set up my lifelong wist to live & work in space.

ProPublica is publishing the letters of children incarcerated inside ICE facilities. If you are from another country, do not come here. Not even to visit. Some of these children have been inside almost a year and only came here for family vacation.

Peacehammer 40K: Paintinge litel miniatures of gardeneres, sculptors, academics. Detailed scale dioramas of museums, kiosks, cafés. Trimminge hedges. Makinge friendes. Yn the cozye glowe of the far future ther ys onlye WARMTH.

Renee Good's widow shared this statement with us today. It's absolutely heart-wrenching. 💔

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aaaaaaaand the account I run totally transparently for Fidaa is gone, @fidaaumar.bsky.social I don’t even feel like it’s safe to appeal without risking my own account again. They identified the post this time, which doesn’t break any of the rules listed 🙃

Venerable magazine Harper's Bazaar is running its short story contest again, with the winner receiving "the chance" of publication in the magazine. Just one catch: per the wording of the guidelines, _just by entering_ you transfer copyright ownership of your story to Harper's parent, Hearst. 1/3

GF has the idiom!

Holy shit.

If you have a Ring camera, get rid of it now.

Can hugely recommend; these are good stories.

If you're a soldier in the 11th Airborne Division being ordered to prep for deployment to Minnesota or Greenland, remember that you have the right to apply for conscientious objector status. Call the GI Bill Rights hotline: 1-877-447-4487

Maia's post about Substack also has links to guides, etc toward the bottom. www.patreon.com/posts/substa...

Oh hey, for the early morning crowd . . . www.standwithminnesota.com Also be sure to take your morning meds, drink something, eat something. Listen to a song you like. 💜 There are more of us than there are of them.

“We can’t abolish ICE, that’s ridiculous.” Buddy, they just abolished the Department of Education. We can do whatever the fuck we want.

Caturday - our little anxious dude Mabon has really been freaking out this week of house deep cleaning/rearranging Stuff. His sibs are keeping him close. 💖💖💖

I know plenty have folks have shared it but in case you missed it, Discord is asking for user opinions on adding AI to the platform. Give em hell and tell them precisely how you feel about it. Including the intent to leave if it's added in. discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

“'The guy, I’m telling him like, "Please step off the school grounds," and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he knocked me down,' an official at Roosevelt High School said. 'They don’t care. They’re just animals. I’ve never seen people behave like this.'"

@rokhanna.bsky.social’s report on X of his visit to the immigration concentration camp in CA near NV, operated by CoreCivic. Many in thread 🧵 “I might be the first Member of Congress to enter alongside a staff member who took detailed notes to tour the ICE California City Detention Center.”

The aging pedophile who wants to be a king has kidnapped the leader of a sovereign nation without congressional approval. If the United States had an opposition party, they would treat this as an illegitimate act and start impeachment proceedings immediately.

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free. consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

Celebrating at the end of the year: a highly favored discovery this year is Shared Cultures miso made on all manner of different-than-soy veggies and grains. In Japan some purists say it's very interesting but not miso but we don't have a better name for it; we say yum: www.shared-cultures.com

So - I'm making Mutual Aid request here, on behalf of a schoolteacher friend in Minnesota Winter whose furnace needs replacing asap. She's got all but about $2000 of the bigger bucks she's needed - can you help bring her up over the top? Every little but helps. Thanks! gofund.me/43738e7be

Tom, your alt text game is utterly On, in this thread of great portal pix.

#COMPANIONSofCHRISTMAS: Tante Arie and Marion Plenty of livestock was present when Jesus was born in a stable, including a donkey who was the first animal to acknowledge the baby’s divinity, bowing down at his cradle and thereafter affixing herself to the Holy Family. 1/

#COMPANIONSofCHRISTMAS: Shmutzli! Schmutzli was a chimneysweep in Switzerland, and took in many children from the local orphanage. He didn’t do this out of love or charity; he wanted tiny workers to do the dangerous job of going down the slimmest chimneys to remove the soot and coal ash. 1/

#COMPANIONSofCHRISTMAS: Guinefort, the Cajun Christmas Werewolf! When Santa Claus visits the bayous of Louisiana, the dense canopy of trees that blanket the rivers along which its people live preclude him from employing his reindeer-pulled sleigh. 1/