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Alex Blackwood
@alexblackwood.bsky.social
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Navigating dystopia.
Interested in vaccine and science advocacy,
disability and neurodiversity.
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Real photo of the White House. The signage lets you know this is the last salon in town that still does beehive hair.
A real photo of the White House, with Temu gilt above the door and a sign reading The Oval Office in loopy letters
November 5, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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One for your pocket:
Baby goat giving side eye, captioned: When no one believed you but it turns out you were right
October 29, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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Great advice. I took a shortcut, added a fancy cheese and truffle pasta sauce I just found at Costco to my scrambled eggs. I learned that truffles are not for me. Thanks to you I figured it out without wasting the truffles. I will rehome them, since the bag is still unopened.
A jar of Tartufo Jimmy Truffle & Cheese pasta sauce
October 26, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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Help
An unopened box labeled Nagrani black truffle: gourmet dried mushrooms
October 24, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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What remains of the East Wing tonight.

WaPo article without the paywall: www.msn.com/en-us/societ...
The East Wing of the White House, with most of the exterior demolished
October 22, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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What remains of the East Wing tonight.

Gift link: wapo.st/4qi1Uwp 🎁
The East Wing of the White House, with most of the exterior demolished
October 21, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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I didn't think anyone could make me laugh about this.
Alien ship blowing up the White House in the movie Independence Day
October 21, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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I've been remodeling too!
Brick house shown before (magnificent) and after (brick, stone and wood all painted white, large portico removed) @cardamomkiss: Look what they did to this 1930s Tudor Revival maybe one of the worst home makeovers I've seen microplastics dedicator @irregulargrapes: on second thought, maybe Millennials don't deserve to own homes 3:00 PM Oct 16, 2025 4.8M Views
October 19, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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Steve Cousineau:
Steve Cousineau cartoon The Developmental Divergence of Frogs Inflatable frog: RESIST Actual frog: FLIES? Pepe the frog: RACIST
October 18, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Ten years ago. Still 🎯
Adrian Bott @Cavalorn Oct 16, 2015 'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.
October 17, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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The "optical illusion":
Stars and Stripes USA flag with the red and white stripes altered to form a swastika
October 16, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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What a great piece of furniture for a home with children. I'm sure nothing bad will happen.
A chest of drawers with a stairstep top. One end is two drawers tall, the middle is three drawers tall, the other end is four drawers tall.
October 16, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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If you're in Houston, please go to the City Council meeting 10/14, 1:30 pm. Emmanuel Gonzalez Garcia must be returned to his mother and protected. Why didn't HPD return him to his mother?
WHY DID HPD TURN AN AUTISTIC CHILD OVER TO IMMIGRATION? We need you at Houston City Hall on Tuesday for the general meeting to ask Mayor Whitmire and council why this happened. SIGN UP TO SPEAK BY calling (832.393.1100) or by email speakers@houstontx.gov FIEL Est, 2007 @FIELHOUSTON
October 14, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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Another Friday night massacre, at the Department of Education. Nearly everyone who administers funding for students with disabilities cut.

www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...
USA TODAY EDUCATION Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says The agency cut nearly everyone who works to administer federal funding for the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, one staffer said. Zachary Schermele USA TODAY Oct. 11, 2025, 3:24 p.m. ET
October 11, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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OSLO, Norway (AP) - Opposition activist María Corina Machado of Venezuela won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. The former opposition presidential candidate in Venezuela was lauded for being a "key, unifying figure in a political opposition that was once deeply divided an opposition that found common ground in the demand for free elections and representative government," said Jørgen Watne Frydnes, chair of the Norwegian Nobel committee.
October 10, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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Eleanor Roosevelt, captioned CAPTURED
October 9, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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They finally nabbed this troublemaker.
Eleanor Roosevelt
October 8, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Finally nabbed her
Eleanor Roosevelt
October 8, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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92° F right now
JUPI'S RODEO @fromkicatcher X.com "why is it 90 degrees in october?" bc you can't make your grocery list without using chatgpt. 2:46 PM 10/5/25 4M Views
October 7, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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I have an official ADHD diagnosis, sure, but this should count too.
Google Chrome browser showing 98 open tabs plus 1000 inactive items — tabs and groups not used for 21 days or more
October 5, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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He wants the battleships to match the drapes.
Gold curtains at the Oval Office. Elon Musk standing with a child on his shoulders, Donald Trump sitting at his desk
October 1, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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From Threads: brenmarpnw 1🧵Target, Tesla, Chicago, and now Kimmel. I keep going back to this statement by Ken Burns on Nicole Wallace’s The Best People Podcast. Ken Burns: (George) Washington comes to some realizations pretty early on that he's the head of an insurrectionary force. He doesn't have to win. He just can't surrender. The British have to win. He doesn't have to win. Nicolle Wallace: He just has to resist. Ken Burns: He just has to resist. And he gets beat all the time. brenmarpnw 2🧵And even in the Southern campaigns, his general, Nathaniel Green, says, "We fight, we get beat, we fight again." It's just about resisting. My threads friends, whether you are marching, boycotting, fighting in court, supporting your community, etc. all those points of resistance add up. Don’t capitulate. Don’t bend the knee.
September 28, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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From @stonekettle.bsky.social:
Jim Wright Don't get me wrong, I think the Third World Tin Pot Dictator revengification of our justice system is horrifying. But since that IS case anyway, I will shed absolutely no tears for those who gleefully and with malice aforethought ushered in this state of affairs thinking they would be above it all but now find themselves waking in the middle of the night to the sound of jackboots kicking in their door. Which is the long way around of saying: Up yours, James Comey, no one deserves it more.
September 26, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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From Dr. Kellie Snooks SCARIER THINGS THAN TYLENOL as a pediatric intensive care unit doctor 1 A child with a gun shot wound 2 A child with Epiglottitis (swollen airway) due to Haemophilus influenzae type b 3 A child with liver failure from Hepatitis B 4 A child with Encephalitis (brain inflammation) from Varicella (chicken pox) 5 A child with Pneumonia from Measles A baby with apnea (stopping breathing) 6 from Pertussis 7 Untreated fevers from sepsis and multiorgan failure 8 A teenager without mental health resources following a suicide attempt 9 Electrolyte imbalances due to malnutrition from a lack of nutrition asssitance programs
September 26, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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The US if Tylenol actually caused autism:

High-speed rail
Metric system
Every restaurant meal served so different foods do not touch
petey @peteypayless the US if Tylenol actually caused autism Graphic: UNITED STATES HIGH SPEED RAIL SYSTEM Map note: TRAVEL TIME AT 220 MPH 2:36 AM Sep 23, 2025 1M Views
September 23, 2025 at 8:04 PM