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My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
jonkingh.bsky.social Jonathan Kingham @jonkingh.bsky.social · 3d
This is so disgusting.
December 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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frogandtoadbot.bsky.social
“Then I saw two huge eyes. It was the Old Dark Frog. He was standing near me.”
The Old Dark Frog, a giant frog with terrible eyes, looms over little Frog. From "Shivers" In *Days with Frog and Toad*
December 6, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Texte: le calendrier de l’avent interdit Image 1: un pied de biche Image 2: un ensemble de casiers automatiques type « Amazon » situé en extérieur
December 6, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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From indies like Blue Prince to big console exclusives like Donkey Kong Bananza, NPR staff members and contributors round up their favorite games of 2025. n.pr/3K8WaF5
The best games of 2025, picked by NPR's staff
From indies like Blue Prince to big console exclusives like Donkey Kong Bananza, NPR staff members and contributors round up their favorite games of 2025.
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December 3, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
This is true. It is the best email I got this year.
I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation. Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror... I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes. A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her. Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard. ... Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.
November 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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mcsweeneys.net
"You mutter 'What fresh hell is this?' every ten minutes."
America in 2025 or Hollow Knight: Silksong?
1. It’s the hotly anticipated sequel of a late 2010s, grimdark existential nightmare. 2. The economy is really, really bad. Like. Really bad. 3. Th...
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November 22, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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queermedieval.bsky.social
a world without trans people has never existed and never will
a medieval style digital drawing of an androgynous brown-skinned knight on horseback on a hill, stabbing a long gold spear into a blue dragon on the ground. the knight has a gold halo behind their head and wears a suit of silver armor with a nonbinary flag striped tunic and a trans flag as a cape. their horse is white, with blue tack with trans pride trim. there is black gothic text at the top and bottom of the image reading “A world without trans people has never existed and never will.” there’s an ornate pale blue border around the image, filled with pink and blue scrollwork, gold hearts filled with colorful flowers, a smiley bat, two smiley moles, and two smiling frogs holding up trans flags.
April 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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michaelrera.bsky.social
Capitain haddock meme -"What a week! I'm exhausted" -"It's Monday morning captain" ,
November 17, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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willpooley.bsky.social
sprout season!

every person that i served this ridiculously easy gratin yesterday asked me for the recipe. www.deliciousmagazine.co.uk/recipes/crea...
Creamy brussels sprout gratin with walnuts
This creamy brussels sprout gratin recipe is guaranteed to convert sprout resisters into fans. An easy Christmas side dish for 6.
www.deliciousmagazine.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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90scompgamesboxart.bsky.social
Riven: The Sequel to Myst (1997)
November 6, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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theonion.com
Mr. Autumn Man Walking Down Street With Cup Of Coffee, Wearing Sweater Over Plaid Collared Shirt
Mr. Autumn Man Walking Down Street With Cup Of Coffee, Wearing Sweater Over Plaid Collared Shirt
BOSTON—The twigs and acorns crunching pleasurably beneath his boots, Mr. Autumn Man Dennis Clemons, 32, reportedly strolled down Massachusetts Avenue on Wednesday wearing a gray sweater over a plaid c...
theonion.com
November 1, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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mcsweeneys.net
MOM: You can’t spend all day moping. Not on Lottery’s Eve!

TESSIE: I have to find a way to get my life back. I don’t have time for the Lottery.

MOM: There's always time for family. Help your sister roll her wheelchair down to the creekbed to collect some stones for tomorrow.
The Hallmark Channel Presents: Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”
INT. BIG CITY HEDGE FUND Tessie Jacobs (30-something, blonde) stares at a bar graph with two columns: “money” and “not money.” Her boss (you know h...
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October 28, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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mcsweeneys.net
To the rug—
The good rug—
NOW.
No, Mom—
Urrrrrp.
I absolutely
Hurrrrgh.
Cannot wait
Mmmmrgh!
To get
FLURRRRP!
Outside.
I Am a Dog. I Am About to Puke. Where Is the Good Rug?
Oh. Oh no. Something is… wrong. Very wrong. Oh, boy. Yeah. No. Nope. Not okay. Don’t get up, Mom. You’re so Comfy On the couch. I… got this...
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October 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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broadwaybabyto.bsky.social
SNAP is not the reason your taxes are high.

SNAP recipients don’t need to “just go get a job”.

Most of them work. The rest are disabled, elderly, children or caregivers.

People need & deserve assistance

Your taxes fund wars and tax cuts for the ultra rich

Be mad about that
October 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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thebaltimorebanner.com
Why Jane Austen superfans pick Baltimore as their ballroom in novelist’s 250th year
Baltimore has become a place of pilgrimage for Jane Austen fans in America
By chance, a little college in Towson has come to hold the largest Jane Austen collection in the world outside of England.
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October 26, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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dungeonbitch.bsky.social
August 4, 2025 at 4:56 AM
bs-oliver.bsky.social
I love that last one so much
ani-obsessive.bsky.social Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · Sep 4
Concept art by Steve Pilcher and Bill Cone for Brave (2012), dir. Brenda Chapman and Mark Andrews, Pixar
September 4, 2025 at 9:52 AM
bs-oliver.bsky.social
Uh oh.
owillis.bsky.social Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · Aug 27
a lot of millennials have named their kids "oliver." in my childhood i was almost always the only oliver.

but soon we shall be legion. i hope i live to see them become adults and herald an Age of Oliver.

then go ahead and ask us if we want "more."
August 27, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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kenplume.bsky.social
This They Might Be Giants TONIGHT SHOW performance of "Birdhouse In Your Soul" from 1990 remains firmly lodged in my noggin thanks to the Tonight Show Band's full commitment and Doc Severinsen's incredible trumpeting... It took an already great song and made it transcendent.
August 23, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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chimeracoder.bsky.social
RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.
August 21, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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bryb.bsky.social
I don't know why this lad is building a subterranean city for cats, but I'm all for it.
August 16, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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alic.bsky.social
BEHOLD THE EVIL BUTTERFLY OF DOOM
gwyllm.bsky.social Gwyllm Llwydd @gwyllm.bsky.social · Aug 11
Watch Out!
August 13, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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josholson.bsky.social
How great was Tom Lehrer? In 2020, he moved his entire catalog into the public domain because he felt he'd made more than enough money off of it.

Enjoy every Tom Lehrer album:

tomlehrersongs.com
Songs and Lyrics by Tom Lehrer
Songs and Lyrics by Tom Lehrer DISCLAIMER STATEMENTI, Tom Lehrer, individually and as trustee of the
tomlehrersongs.com
July 27, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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brenttoderian.bsky.social
My semi-regular reminder of a really important reality about cities, density, services and taxes.

Any questions?

Graphic recently cleaned up by @kathrynmathias.bsky.social. #CityMakingMath
Venn diagram showing you can’t achieve stable services, low density and low taxes at the same time.
July 21, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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in-otter-news.bsky.social
Good morning!
July 14, 2025 at 8:17 AM