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People like shiny things
@likeraccoons40.bsky.social
Reader, Vermonter, cat-person, day-dreamer, and generally someone who likes to sing to myself.
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pantone just named landlord white the color of the year 2026, WE NEED TO BUILD HOUSES
December 4, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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It's good—very good, and very important—that district courts keep issuing these 100-page rulings upholding the law. It must be incredibly dispiriting to see them overturned in a two-page, lawless, unsigned order, but please, keep them coming. They expose SCOTUS' corruption like nothing else.
December 5, 2025 at 12:41 AM
I keep eating them first thing in the morning and biggest one first, but it really feels like there have been more frogs to eat than usual.
December 4, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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ever since I was a little boy I wanted to check a box to receive email updates about new products and sales
November 29, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Happy “Unsubscribe” to Black Friday deal emails, to all who celebrate!
November 28, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
DOGE was not a money-saving effort. It was an effort to chase down and prove right-wing conspiracy theories. They went after USAID to prove conspiracy theories about foreign aid. Then they went after SSA to, again, pursue conspiracy theories about Dems paying "illegals" to vote. 1/2
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.

I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
November 26, 2025 at 2:31 AM
....And I think I'm getting a cold
November 26, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Trump is Mr. New York - Mandami is his mayor too?
November 23, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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Just how morally, ethically, intellectually bankrupt do you have to be to argue that 15-year-olds can sell sex but can’t affirm gender
November 15, 2025 at 8:05 PM
I am full body itchy!
November 13, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Now that Mandami has been elected, Trump is going to send troops to NY. Adams is a friendly corrupt politician, so there was an understanding before.
November 5, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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The saga of the beautiful husky who needed a home, & the BlueSky folk who stepped forward to make an old-fashioned internet miracle...has had a lot of developments I've been too busy handling to update you all on.

She's ON HER WAY!

The whole story, for all to read: www.patreon.com/posts/142111...
The Pawshank Redemption: A Dog And Her People | Catherynne M. Valente
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October 27, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Baby Like_Raccoons protesting Reagan.
October 27, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Not sure what this week will bring politically, but it's my birthday week, and to help pass into a new year with goodwill and hope, I donated to my local food bank.
October 26, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I keep clicking on the comments section on Facebook posts of the no kings rally - like, really, I know better! So I come over here for a palate cleanse.
October 19, 2025 at 1:54 PM
October 19, 2025 at 1:37 PM
It's snuggle season again
October 4, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Mantra for tonight - I am not a bad person if I take time for myself.
October 3, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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my favorite subgenre of Halloween decoration is “skeleton of things that absolutely do not have skeletons”
September 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Why does learning and growing have to be so uncomfortable? I have emotional shin splints.
September 21, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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brain, brain, go away
overthink some other day
September 20, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Ok, miscalculation on my part. Unfortunately this edible is NOT helping with anxiety. Predictable.
September 21, 2025 at 12:24 AM
The Internet is forever - post like it's going to be shown as evidence.
September 19, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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They are literally canceling culture
September 18, 2025 at 12:26 AM
I knew the vibes were off
You know, tomorrow is definitely going to be the second weirdest 9/11 of our lives
September 10, 2025 at 9:51 PM