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Escape From Flatland
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escapefromflatland.bsky.social
Miles is the second Dream Team youth the RAGBRAI community has lost in the past 6 months.

www.caldwellparrish.com/obituaries/m...
Miles Phipps Obituary November 4, 2025 - Caldwell Parrish Funeral Home & Crematory
View Miles Phipps's obituary, find service dates, and sign the guestbook.
www.caldwellparrish.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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midlandsrainbow.bsky.social
New queer trail in Staffordshire Moorlands celebrates LGBTQ+ stories

#LGBTQProjects #QueerMedia #Stafforshire #StaffordshireMoorlands #QueerArts #QueerHistory #QueerHeritage #Geocaching #TheQueerQuest #Legends #Myths #Folklore #QueeringHistory

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New queer trail on Staffordshire Moorlands celebrates LGBTQ+ stories
A new LGBTQ+ arts and heritage trail has been launched on the Staffordshire Moorlands, celebrating stories, creativity, history and connection from the community
midlandsrainbow.wixsite.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:44 AM
escapefromflatland.bsky.social
Another day, another reason I am too angry to talk to my mother who voted for this shit.
motherjones.com Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 10d
ICE officers reportedly shot a 25-year-old named Carlos Jimenez.

He was shot after getting out of his car to tell the agents, who had pulled over a vehicle, that children would soon be gathering in that spot for the school bus.
Report: ICE shot a US citizen trying to help kids
According to his lawyer, immigration officers shot Carlos Jimenez after he warned them that children would soon gather for the bus where they had pulled over a vehicle.
www.motherjones.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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tjconroy.bsky.social
Coyote Creek/Black Lake, NM
#MountainMonday #newmexico #landscape #autumn #EastCoastKin #BlueSkyArtShow
November 3, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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rjrock.bsky.social
“High Country Quiet”

Snow settles into the folds of Summit County—mountains and clouds mirroring each other in still, deliberate rhythm.

#EastCoastKin #Photography #LandscapePhotography #MountainMonday #ClassicMono #Nikon #Colorado
A black-and-white landscape photograph of Summit County, Colorado, viewed from an elevated vantage. Snow-dusted mountains roll across the frame, their slopes dark with evergreens and shaded valleys. In the mid-distance, frozen lakes and meadows form pale ribbons between the ridges. Above, layered clouds sweep across the sky in broad, textured bands, echoing the land’s contours. The image carries a sense of restrained grandeur—neither storm nor calm, but the poised silence that lives between them, where winter breathes softly over the high country.
November 3, 2025 at 3:57 PM
escapefromflatland.bsky.social
I thought I felt someone watching me sleep last night.
An aluminum ladder rests against the side of the building, outside my third story bedroom window.
November 2, 2025 at 10:08 PM
escapefromflatland.bsky.social
Finally getting my #DVD collection organized. I hauled these to multiple army bases across the US and Iraq when I was a combat medic under #DADT. Oh hey @margaretcho.bsky.social
Seriously, you don't know how much this show meant to a gay teen in rural Iowa. Thank you. So many college memories that included lines from these discs.
November 1, 2025 at 10:18 PM
escapefromflatland.bsky.social
This was the family ritual, growing up in the 80s. Tally it up. Check the inside of the Snickers wrappers to spell out a word to mail in for a prize.
jessicacalarco.com Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 14d
We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
My 11-year-old sitting with her pile of Halloween candy, sorting it into a bar graph
November 1, 2025 at 4:19 AM
escapefromflatland.bsky.social
I am using AI to build out my schedule for the next 3 weeks..add office hours, add daily outdoor time, add travel times, add meal times, add study blocks within library hours, and blocks for sleep...830pm bedtimes? Aww man!
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence
October 31, 2025 at 3:36 PM
escapefromflatland.bsky.social
The puffball mushrooms were the size of grapefruits last weekend. 25.OCT.2025
#MoreInTheAlt
Calvatia gigantea, the giant puffball mushroom. Found along the edges of a grassy trail through a wooded area, where fallen leaves are protected from the wind, these mushrooms are an off-white color, currently the size of grapefruits. I have seen some that were almost the size of beach ball. Calvatia gigantea, the giant puffball mushroom. Found along the edges of a grassy trail through a wooded area, where fallen leaves are protected from the wind, these mushrooms are an off-white color, currently the size of grapefruits. I have seen some that were almost the size of beach ball.
October 31, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
Swear her in. Release the Epstein Files.
Ettingermentum writes: “Actually what on earth is in those files bro.” The image from Courier Newsroom headline reads: “Rep-elect Adelita Grijalva is now the longest Rep-elect in history to not be sworn in. Mike Johnson still refuses to swear in Rep-elect Grijalva over fear of releasing the Epstein files.” The picture shows Grijalva in a red jacket beside Speaker Mike Johnson.
October 30, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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cat-v-cat.bsky.social
"Hold still, stinky human!"
🖤🤍🖤-Squirt
Squirt, a black and white tuxedo cat with a black mustache, licks his human's head.
October 30, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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katmabu.bsky.social
I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.

This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
October 29, 2025 at 4:55 PM
escapefromflatland.bsky.social
“When one has been angry for a very long time, one gets used to it. And it becomes comfortable, like old leather. And finally, it becomes so familiar that one can’t remember feeling any other way.” - Captain Picard.
October 29, 2025 at 4:29 AM
escapefromflatland.bsky.social
CNN has kissed the ring.
carlquintanilla.bsky.social Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18d
“.. staffers were taken aback the next morning, when Thompson suggested during the daily network editorial call that it should ease up on covering Trump’s East Wing demolition ..”

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@status.news
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October 27, 2025 at 10:48 AM
escapefromflatland.bsky.social
Sometimes I wonder if someone actually has the fuck@you.com email address I use to "sign up" to access articles
October 27, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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On this day in 1813, the Battle of Chateauguay was fought near present-day Ormstown, Quebec. A combined force of 1,530 British, Canadian and Mohawk repelled 2,600 Americans who were attempting to invade Lower Canada.
A black-and-white engraving showing multiple figures in a wooded area. Some figures are positioned behind logs, holding long rifles. Other figures are standing, some with raised swords. Smoke is visible in the background. Trees and foliage surround the scene.
October 26, 2025 at 11:45 AM
escapefromflatland.bsky.social
Got out hiking today to scout out locations for geocaches for next March's MOGA mega event.
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October 26, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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bridgetemob.bsky.social
Went to a prayer service tonight at St. Mary of the Lake, where they have cardboard cutouts throughout the church representing parishioners afraid to come to Mass because of ICE.
a photograph of the interior of a church. Several people are visible sitting in pews. In the pew immediately in front of the photographer, a black human-sized cardboard cutout in the outline of a woman is visible, as though a shadow is sitting in the pew in front of you.
October 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
escapefromflatland.bsky.social
This sloth appears to have realized that he left his oven on at home.
romanceofbooks.bsky.social Sarah Finn @romanceofbooks.bsky.social · 25d
Two toed sloth by Charles Reuben Ryley from ‘Musei Leveriani explicatio, anglica et latina’ by George Shaw. London, Impensis Jacobi Parkinson, 1792-1796. Smithsonian Libraries and Archives.

#InternationalSlothDay #Sloths #naturalhistory #sciart #rarebooks
October 24, 2025 at 2:46 AM
escapefromflatland.bsky.social
On RAGBRAI this year, I met 2 people from Australia who didn't know each other and had just met.
07.20.2025
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October 23, 2025 at 3:26 AM
escapefromflatland.bsky.social
There are people mocking trump questioning if he'll go to heaven. But I get it. It's human nature to question one's legacy and one's future. When I die, I want my eyes to be closed and my heart to be open, and I can honestly say that I am not in that place.
October 22, 2025 at 12:29 PM
escapefromflatland.bsky.social
Waldo, Kansas. 06.22.2025
A larger-than-lifesize wood cutout of Waldo stand in front of a metal frame of horseshoes and wagon wheels on a faded red picnic rables under a faded red picnic shelter in the town of Waldo, Kansas.
October 22, 2025 at 12:16 PM
escapefromflatland.bsky.social
Halfmoon Creek ripples and shines on a sunny June day, carrying the meltwater down from 13ers and 14ers in the Collegiate Peaks Wilderness. 06.15.2025
Halfmoon Creek ripples and shines on a sunny June day, carrying the meltwater down from 13ers and 14ers in the Collegiate Peaks Wilderness. 06.15.2025
October 21, 2025 at 10:42 PM