ccnomad
@ccnomad.bsky.social
📚📝🎶🎧☕️ ‘ccnomad’ or ‘ccnomadwrites’ all over town: Gmail, Medium, Reddit, IG/Threads. New York for a year, then off to teach English & help BrE- & AmE-speaking tourists in Deutschland 🇩🇪 She/her
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Just saw someone repost this so I thought I'd resurface it for everyone. It's still relevant.
Saw someone upbraiding someone else for having a hobby while the world is on fire, and, my friends:
1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;
2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;
3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.
1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;
2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;
3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.
August 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Just saw someone repost this so I thought I'd resurface it for everyone. It's still relevant.
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The New American Gothic (2017) by Criselda Vasquez
August 10, 2025 at 2:36 AM
The New American Gothic (2017) by Criselda Vasquez
@darthbluesky.bsky.social it turns out ‘hash browns’ was trending on Threads last night (it’s petering out now, but still going). I can’t help but think you’d have been the life of the party 🥔
August 6, 2025 at 11:39 AM
@darthbluesky.bsky.social it turns out ‘hash browns’ was trending on Threads last night (it’s petering out now, but still going). I can’t help but think you’d have been the life of the party 🥔
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Jesus and the Devil, caught at a Coldplay gig
July 20, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Jesus and the Devil, caught at a Coldplay gig
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@tomtomorrow.bsky.social @rubenbolling.bsky.social
First they come for the comedians, then the cartoonist. Kings fear being laughed at. We have a funny bone to pick with/without a smile on our faces #Colbert #Kimmel #SethMeyers #DailyShow
First they come for the comedians, then the cartoonist. Kings fear being laughed at. We have a funny bone to pick with/without a smile on our faces #Colbert #Kimmel #SethMeyers #DailyShow
July 18, 2025 at 2:43 PM
@tomtomorrow.bsky.social @rubenbolling.bsky.social
First they come for the comedians, then the cartoonist. Kings fear being laughed at. We have a funny bone to pick with/without a smile on our faces #Colbert #Kimmel #SethMeyers #DailyShow
First they come for the comedians, then the cartoonist. Kings fear being laughed at. We have a funny bone to pick with/without a smile on our faces #Colbert #Kimmel #SethMeyers #DailyShow
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Stop horsing around….
It will end up in a cat fight… 😂🤣🥰
🐈⬛ 🐎
It will end up in a cat fight… 😂🤣🥰
🐈⬛ 🐎
July 19, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Stop horsing around….
It will end up in a cat fight… 😂🤣🥰
🐈⬛ 🐎
It will end up in a cat fight… 😂🤣🥰
🐈⬛ 🐎
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In the next ten months—while he’s still being broadcast—someone needs to get the Epstein list to Colbert so he can read it on the air
July 19, 2025 at 12:41 AM
In the next ten months—while he’s still being broadcast—someone needs to get the Epstein list to Colbert so he can read it on the air
This week on Know Your Housemate
Keep absolutely still….
The cats vision is based on movement…
😂🥰
The cats vision is based on movement…
😂🥰
July 19, 2025 at 12:26 AM
This week on Know Your Housemate
I haven’t watched regular TV for a long time, but if I ever do again, it won’t be anything on CBS
CBS cancelled The Smothers Brothers show for their criticism of the Vietnam War. This yet another episode in an honorable and proud tradition.
July 18, 2025 at 10:58 PM
I haven’t watched regular TV for a long time, but if I ever do again, it won’t be anything on CBS
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CBS's Colbert cancellation is eerily like Edward R. Murrow's cancellation for criticism of McCarthyism. Both were cancelled by CBS for the same reason, standing up to authoritarianism.
July 18, 2025 at 6:28 PM
CBS's Colbert cancellation is eerily like Edward R. Murrow's cancellation for criticism of McCarthyism. Both were cancelled by CBS for the same reason, standing up to authoritarianism.
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Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
July 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
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I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better
July 16, 2025 at 6:39 AM
I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better
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“I hadn’t seen that kind of activation in the 22 years I’ve lived here. Nothing like it.”
How ICE's arrest of high school student Marcelo Gomes da Silva mobilized a Massachusetts town
How ICE's arrest of high school student Marcelo Gomes da Silva mobilized a Massachusetts town
How ICE’s arrest of a high school student activated a Massachusetts town
“We’re trying to find ways the community can defend itself.”
www.motherjones.com
July 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
“I hadn’t seen that kind of activation in the 22 years I’ve lived here. Nothing like it.”
How ICE's arrest of high school student Marcelo Gomes da Silva mobilized a Massachusetts town
How ICE's arrest of high school student Marcelo Gomes da Silva mobilized a Massachusetts town
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“At some point these headlines drop and your heart sinks, not just for the country, for the state of Florida, but for the craft of satire. How do you get ahead of it?”
Has MAGA killed satire?
A talk with Florida author Carl Hiaasen about writing humor in the era of Trump.
www.motherjones.com
July 3, 2025 at 5:21 PM
“At some point these headlines drop and your heart sinks, not just for the country, for the state of Florida, but for the craft of satire. How do you get ahead of it?”
@johnfugelsang.bsky.social Good to see you at RiseNY today, John! Hope you Ava your party had fun :)
July 3, 2025 at 5:08 PM
@johnfugelsang.bsky.social Good to see you at RiseNY today, John! Hope you Ava your party had fun :)
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I had to read this twice to believe it...Meloni, who ran for office on an anti-immigration platform, has now announced plans to let in hundreds of thousands of immigrants, in order to deal with the Italian labor shortage
www.reuters.com/world/italy-...
www.reuters.com/world/italy-...
Italy to issue half million non-EU work visas over next three years
The move is part of a strategy to expand legal immigration channels in response to labor shortages.
www.reuters.com
July 3, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I had to read this twice to believe it...Meloni, who ran for office on an anti-immigration platform, has now announced plans to let in hundreds of thousands of immigrants, in order to deal with the Italian labor shortage
www.reuters.com/world/italy-...
www.reuters.com/world/italy-...
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this explains so much posting
Hahaha we are both in the Venn intersection for mansplaining (women in male-coded fields) and cynicism bias (ie being negative to look smarter). The idea that we don’t think our world needs to end in death and despair *because* we deeply understand its physical reality is apparently hard to grasp.
July 3, 2025 at 1:32 PM
this explains so much posting
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this is the time for scifi fans to exercise the ultimate depth and breadth of their creativity
make them shut down the hotline
use all your best Borg jokes
make them shut down the hotline
use all your best Borg jokes
July 3, 2025 at 3:33 AM
this is the time for scifi fans to exercise the ultimate depth and breadth of their creativity
make them shut down the hotline
use all your best Borg jokes
make them shut down the hotline
use all your best Borg jokes
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"The bill passed by the Senate this week is perhaps the biggest red flag for the country since Trump's reelection, bigger even than Supreme Court corruption."
Police State Blues | How to Prevent a Full-Blown Dictatorship | Andrea Pitzer | Next Comes What
YouTube video by Degenerate Art by Andrea Pitzer
www.youtube.com
July 3, 2025 at 11:21 AM
"The bill passed by the Senate this week is perhaps the biggest red flag for the country since Trump's reelection, bigger even than Supreme Court corruption."
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July 2, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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“Because they never heard about the lives regularly saved by their tax dollars, Americans don’t realize the generosity that has been stolen from them,” writes William Herkewitz, who worked for U.S.A.I.D. missions in Rwanda, Ethiopia and Kenya.
Opinion | Why We Couldn’t Sell America on U.S.A.I.D.
The end of the federal agency gives us a final lesson about the importance of telling the stories of humanitarian aid.
www.nytimes.com
June 29, 2025 at 3:31 PM
“Because they never heard about the lives regularly saved by their tax dollars, Americans don’t realize the generosity that has been stolen from them,” writes William Herkewitz, who worked for U.S.A.I.D. missions in Rwanda, Ethiopia and Kenya.
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"No one could have seen this coming," say the people who were complicit in making sure it happened.
(Also, any sentient person knew this was coming based primarily on relentless announcements such as "We are going to do this thing.")
(Also, any sentient person knew this was coming based primarily on relentless announcements such as "We are going to do this thing.")
June 30, 2025 at 12:36 PM
"No one could have seen this coming," say the people who were complicit in making sure it happened.
(Also, any sentient person knew this was coming based primarily on relentless announcements such as "We are going to do this thing.")
(Also, any sentient person knew this was coming based primarily on relentless announcements such as "We are going to do this thing.")