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Calamitous Ortbo
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Balboa dancer, software engine, home cook. Views are my own.
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erinbiba.bsky.social
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NEW YORK CITY I.C.E HOTLINE IF YOU SEE I.C.E CALL oR TEXT +1 229) 304-8720 6 AM - 6 PM FAQ WHEN IS THE HOTLINE STAFFED? THE HOTLINE IS STAFFED BY BOTH ENGLISH- AND SPANISH-SPEAKING VOLUNTEERS FROM GAM-6PM, 7 DAYS A WEEK. WHO RUNS THE HOTLINE? THE HOTLINE IS VOLUNTEER-RUN AND LED BY A GROUP OF NEW YORKERS CONCERNED ABOUT ICE ABDUCTING OUR NEIGHBORS. CAN YOU TEXT THE HOTLINE? THE HOTLINE ACCEPTS TEXTS AND BOTH PHOTOS AND VIDEOS- THE BEST WAY FOR PEOPLE TO REPORT A SIGHTING IS TO USE S.A.L.U.T.E AND SEND A PHOTO/VIDEO VIA TEXT. WHAT LANGUAGES ARE OFFERED? RIGHT NOW, THE HOTLINE OPERATES IN BOTH ENGLISH AND SPANISH. VOLUNTEERS ARE LOOKING TO EXPAND SOON! NEW YORK CITY I.C.E HOTLINE
November 20, 2025 at 12:20 AM
greylightning.bsky.social
I assumed alpha gal syndrome is something you can get from tik tok. Did not see that one coming
November 14, 2025 at 1:44 AM
greylightning.bsky.social
Om nom nom nom
machinepix.bsky.social MachinePix @machinepix.bsky.social · 9d
Fish sorting line.
November 11, 2025 at 3:27 AM
greylightning.bsky.social
Time to make the traditional blood pudding!
ianzpotter.bsky.social Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 9d
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
It's an artistic representation of a circulatory system walking through a kitchen, as drawn by Dave Gibbons and written about by Alan Moore. It happens a lot 'round here.
November 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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durtmchurtt.bsky.social
If you’ve dated more than one Walter you’re letting them Walts right into your life.
November 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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jaredskolnick.bsky.social
New York City: a muslim socialist is going to become our mayor

Dick Cheney: over my dead body
November 5, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Tuesday night, in an off-year election, a majority — yes, a goddamn majority — of eligible American voters agreed with me. These people spent eight months living in a woke-free America and collectively decided, “We don’t want this.” What we DO want is to be left the f—k alone. Contrary to what Ted Cruz might tell you, that’s what woke does. Woke lets you drive around town without the threat of a cop pulling you over to gun you down. Woke lets you be gender fluid without an emergency PTA meeting springing up outside your door. Woke lets you go to college without entering into a modern sharecropping agreement. It lets children read, lets every citizen be able to vote without a fuss, leaves the original recipe for Tylenol intact, and endeavors to keep our air and water clean. Woke, in other words, is good.
November 5, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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chas.bsky.social
Tony Montana saying fuck Chuck Schumer and fuck the fucking Cuomo Brothers
November 5, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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mcsweeneys.net
"How would less fortunate corporations like Walmart, McDonald’s, and Amazon get by without SNAP and other programs to subsidize their sub-poverty level wages that leave many of their workers reliant on benefits?"
It Is Cruel to Deny Food Assistance to Those Who Truly Deserve It: Corporations
“Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of beneficiaries of federal aid programs like Medicaid and food stamps, according to a study by...
buff.ly
November 3, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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erinbiba.bsky.social
Extremely important pupdate from the NYC dog costume competition.
October 27, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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revbennyd.bsky.social
Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.
October 23, 2025 at 6:51 PM
greylightning.bsky.social
Mrarrrr
Scuffs in floor tile that look like a face saying “mrarrr.”
October 21, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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uncleduke1969.bsky.social
they also carry a wide selection of hand gloves, leg pants, and head hats
A sign on a glass door advertising “FOOT SHOES”
October 20, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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southsideofheaven.bsky.social
Need…

I will not explain why. You see it lol
October 19, 2025 at 9:50 PM
greylightning.bsky.social
For basically all my friends:
bornmiserable.bsky.social born miserable @bornmiserable.bsky.social · Sep 26
THEM: you don’t know what you got ‘til it’s gone

ME: uh, you would if you itemized everything you had on a list
September 26, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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rebeccarhelm.bsky.social
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
greylightning.bsky.social
Honestly thought I was reading the Onion
September 8, 2025 at 8:29 PM
greylightning.bsky.social
Bohemian Rhapsody in Zulu! youtu.be/gbljPQbxtTQ?...
Ndlovu Youth Choir - Bohemian Rhapsody (Official Music Video) isiZulu version
YouTube video by Ndlovu Youth Choir
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September 1, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
Today we learned Andrew Cuomo is directly coordinating with Donald Trump, even as this President sends masked agents to rip our neighbors off the streets and guts the social services so many New Yorkers rely on.

It’s disqualifying and a betrayal of our city.
August 6, 2025 at 10:27 PM
greylightning.bsky.social
It’s starting
July 30, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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luxalptraum.com
I have a personal rule that whenever I feel angried up about discourse that I should post a link that enables people to help rather than bitch online and I have fallen away from that but

WCK helps feed Gaza: donate.wck.org/give/499865/...

WFP helps feed Sudan: donate.wfpusa.org/page/Countri...
Urgent: Donate Now to Sudan
Everyone in Sudan is hungry. Each day is a desperate search for food. People often go the entire day and night without eating. Parents go hungry so their children can eat. The need can feel overwhelmi...
donate.wfpusa.org
July 30, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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markpopham.bsky.social
it's my daughter's birthday and I ordered her a monster cake from Carvel and this is the picture on the website and this is the picture of it in real life. please note: this is not a complaint. if this had been the picture on the website i would have paid more
photograph of a round cake covered in chocolate crunchies with ice cream cone horns, eyes, a wide pink smile, little arms and a belly indicating a friendly little monster guy photograph of the actual cake through a carvel box, the guy looks fuuuuucked upppppp. he looks surprised and disgusted
October 2, 2024 at 9:56 PM
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paulisci.bsky.social
1939
Herr Goebbels Angered By Anti-Nazi Wit Comedians Banned For Humorous Remarks on Leaders --The Montreal Star, 4 Feb 1939
July 26, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
The Denver Post stands firm when a flack for the federal government tries to go on background.

The NY Times? Well, not so much.

Via today’s Laurels/Darts.

www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...
ICE had something to say about this, but the agency provided its response to local TV and radio stations, not the Post. As Bradbury's story notes, ICE flack Steve Kotecki "previously has requested blanket anonymity for his statements as a spokesman for the federal agency, which the Post declined to grant. He also has said he would no longer provide information to the Post unless the newspaper complied with his request for anonymity." The Post's transparency stands in contrast to what we saw in an otherwise compelling New York Times story this week: FEMA failed to answer thousands of calls from flood-stricken Texas residents, shortly after the government fired hundreds of call-center contractors. The scoop also included a response from "a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security who declined to be identified."
July 18, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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petersterne.com
This is what mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani told @errollouis.bsky.social when asked about the slogan "globalize the intifada" and his position on Palestine. (When Mamdani said "images you're speaking of," he was referring to the Second Intifada.)

Full interview here: ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...
I’ve thought about this quite a lot. For some New Yorkers, this phrase refers to civil disobedience and protest, a call to end the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land. But I know for many Jewish New Yorkers, it brings to mind images of the like that you are speaking of. I was sitting with a rabbi not too long ago who told me how the same phrase is heard very differently by her and it’s heard as a reference to bus bombings in Haifa, restaurant attacks in Jerusalem. It engenders a fear in her and in others of those very attacks coming home here in New York City. That distance between what some intend and what others hear is a bridge that is too far, and it is why I have not used the phrase and why I discourage its use. My focus is on building a movement for justice and equality, and as it pertains to Israel and Palestine, I think often of the words of Noy Katsman, who lost their brother in the horrific war crime of October 7th. Noy said we must believe in all life, Israeli and Palestinian, Jewish and Arab, that it is equally precious. That is the vision that I hope to fulfill. It was just a few months ago that I met a New Yorker in Brooklyn who told me of how more than 80 members of her family have been killed by the Israeli military in Gaza. This is a devastation that many New Yorkers are feeling personally. It’s one that for others, they are witnessing on a day to day basis, and it continues until today. Just last week, NBC News reported that the Israeli military bombed a health clinic in Gaza, killing 10 children, including a 1-year-old who had just uttered his first words hours before. We are speaking of a place that is now home to the greatest number of child amputees in modern history. What offends so many in this city is this horror is one that is subsidized by our country.
July 18, 2025 at 5:21 AM