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Ex-Curator Sam
@ex-curator.bsky.social
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he/him | Storyteller, public historian, ethnomusicologist, archivist, trans guy living on Haudenosaunee and Anishnaabek lands | Land Back |
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ex-curator.bsky.social
@catespice, I miss your photos of wing night and pavlovas and the seascapes and sand art and the little creatures you painted and the cat and Ankh's poetry. Thought you should know.
December 13, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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trincolllibcam.bsky.social
Signing of the Admissions Books continues today in the Wren Library. Here's Isaac Newton's entry from 1667.
A book from 1667 containing the written entry of Isaac Newton when he joined Trinity College.
October 7, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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captnamy.bsky.social
@erininthemorning.com
vimiller.bsky.social Violet Miller @vimiller.bsky.social · Mar 12
Two days after Trump was elected again, Amy Lendian and her wife no longer felt safe in Florida.

They're among a growing crowd of trans folks fleeing to states like IL amid a wave of federal and state anti-trans laws — w/ @unclosetedmedia.bsky.social
chicago.suntimes.com/lgbtq/2025/0...
March 14, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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popbase.tv
“We are never going to stop existing. I’m never going to stop being trans. A letter on a passport can’t change that, fuck this administration.”

— Hunter Schafer on uniting with trans people against Trump’s administration.
February 21, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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dynoboy.bsky.social
Here’s another one I saved a few years ago…

nymag.com/intelligence...
An Ex-KGB Agent Says Trump Was a Russian Asset Since 1987. Does It Matter?
Revisiting the Trump-Russia mystery in light of the newest revelation.
nymag.com
February 21, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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jortsthecat.bsky.social
Jorts come watch tv. Jorts let’s clean your ears. Jorts put your toys away. Jorts do your timesheets. Jorts you’ve been in the hippo all day. Why are they so obsessed just let me stay in the hippo
an orange cat in a semi-dark room is peeking out from a footstool that has a cat cave built into it. the foot still is shaped like a hippopotamus so he’s looking out from a hippo’s belly
February 11, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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jortsthecat.bsky.social
RIGHT??!! CMON
sesmith.lol s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · Feb 7
You're telling me there are 535 of you and not a single one knows how to bust through a door into a building housing an agency you ostensibly oversee?
February 8, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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tiredgenerally.bsky.social
right now a 25 year old berkeley grad is slapping chat gpt cobol code into the treasury’s electronic payment system. im sure this will be fine.
February 4, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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esqueer.net
This is so catastrophically bad.

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...
Elon Musk’s team has gotten access to the Treasury Department’s payments system.
www.nytimes.com
February 1, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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esqueer.net
Same exact thing.
Alt Text: A black-and-white historical photograph showing a nighttime scene of a Nazi book burning. A crowd of uniformed Nazi officers and civilians stands around a fire where books from the Hirchfeld institute for Sexuality are being burned. These contained the first research into trans people and their healthcare. Many in the crowd perform the Nazi salute, raising their right arms in the air. Thick smoke rises above the flames, and scattered papers or debris litter the ground in front of the blaze.
February 1, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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jortsthecat.bsky.social
You said you were too busy to play with me but you’re literally just eating candy and reading wikipedia articles about mummies
an orange cat sitting on a desk looking skeptical like you just told him a lie to his face
January 24, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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newseye.bsky.social
A tweet by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. It says: Trump is holding all the nation's hospitals and vital services hostage to seize power from Congress and hand it over to billionaires. We must state the truth: this is a constitutional crisis. It's a massive, illegal power grab that the House and Senate have a sworn duty to stop.
January 28, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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muellershewrote.com
Was hoping I wouldn’t have to dust off this gem again.
January 27, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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sheg7.bsky.social
This Cybertruck has not crashed. It made a heartfelt and perhaps ill-advised gesture that, in the moment, might have been misinterpreted as a crash from a certain perspective, but it's important that we dont rush to judgement and assume it has the same failings as every Tesla that's come before
January 22, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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atrupar.com
AOC: "I want folks at home to look at what members of Congress are invested in private prisons companies, and look at the votes on this bill. It is atrocious that people are lining their pockets with private prison profits in the name of a horrific tragedy."
January 22, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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newseye.bsky.social
Pin this, save it, we’ll need it.

“When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.”

AOC 🔥🎯
January 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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nytimes.com
Breaking News: Pete Hegseth’s former sister-in-law made a sworn statement to senators that the secretary of defense nominee was abusive toward his second wife.
Hegseth Ex-Sister-in-Law Tells Senators He Was ‘Abusive’ to Second Wife
A woman once married to the brother of Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary nominee, submitted a sworn statement to the Senate in a late-hour complication to his confirmation. His attorney denied her a...
www.nytimes.com
January 21, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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meidastouch.com
Wow. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde fearlessly calls out Trump and Vance to their faces. This is heroic.

(posting in 3 parts due to Bluesky's 1 minute limit)
January 21, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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esqueer.net
Rainbow capitalism was always hollow but it's jarring to see two decades worth of progress pushing equality wiped away in a few weeks.

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Amazon cuts mentions of DEI and LGBTQ rights from public policies
The online retailer removed commitments to supporting transgender rights and the safety of Black customers and employees from a webpage of corporate policies.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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arealmofwonder.bsky.social
"There are in this world blessed souls, whose sorrows all spring up into joys for others; whose earthly hopes, laid in the grave with many tears, are the seed from which spring healing flowers and balm for the desolate and the distressed."
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
January 11, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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hailtheyounger.bsky.social
Blue‐faced honeyeater ruling the roost, while a noisy miner stands by.
Hardings Paddock, Ipswich region, QLD
#birds #ausbirds #ozwildlife #lichen
Photo of a blue-faced honeyeater perched on an old piece of wood. Its beak is wide open, as it is making loud territorial calls. It is a medium-sized bird, with olive-green feathers on its wings and back. Its belly is all white, with streaks of black down its throat and around the back of its head. Its eyes and cheeks are bare of feathers, with bright blue skin. A noisy miner is visible just behind the honeyeater.
January 10, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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jortsthecat.bsky.social
Don’t tell me what to do I’m a cat who smokes cigarettes now. Due to bad influences
an orange cat is smoking a cigarette
January 3, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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thetastate.bsky.social
Free speech means you can speak (draw) truth to power. Ann Telnaes is one of the best at doing so, and was censored from doing so. open.substack.com/pub/anntelna...
Why I'm quitting the Washington Post
Democracy can't function without a free press
open.substack.com
January 4, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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clivethompson.bsky.social
Behold the "sci fi tarot"

A tarot deck in which each card is done in the style of a golden-age sci-fi pulp novel

designed and sold by Brian Alcott

Item #4 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter, free to read here: buttondown.com/clivethompso...
Six images of the sci-fi tarot cards. Each one looks like a pulp sci-fi novel from the 1940s and 1950s. The first one is "10 of cups", and shows a 1950s-style family riding along in their yellow flying saucer, high above a suburban mansion and a green field. The next is "the king of wands" and it shows grim cartoon of a black and white man in a cape, holding a glowing green wand, set against a red background with, far in the background, a dark castle on a hill. The next is "nine of swords", showing a woman with a Marilyn Monroe style appearance -- dressed in a short blue skirt, blue leggings and white boots, holding a blue space pistol aloft, as she turns her head around to look at the viewer, with an expression of surprise; behind her three glowing red banks of computers. The next is "the chariot", and it shows a man piloting a three legged UFO across a rocky green surface. The next is "death", and it shows a gray cartoon of a family, dressed in 1950s clothing, walking away from us and towards a line of people that recede into the distance towards the base of a spacecraft that is pointed towards the sky; everyone is apparently getting into the spacecraft, and in the sky above is a ringed planet. The final one is "four of wands, and it shows a cartoon of a glowing red flying saucer that has landed on the ground, from several aliens are emerging and waving at a crowd of similar aliens who gathered around to greet them. The aliens are composed of a large round body that is mostly just an eye, with two spindly legs and two spindly arms.
January 4, 2025 at 5:37 PM