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John Larson
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Roadside attraction enthusiast.
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adamparkhomenko.bsky.social
It is newsworthy that the president of the United States is increasingly verbally abusive of women reporters and he should be asked about it.
December 8, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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naomikritzer.bsky.social
Hey, I want to offer some helpful tips for coping with the cold for ICE folks who might have come from warmer places.

1. Wear cotton socks! Cotton is nice and soft next to your skin and will absorb your sweat so your feet stay warm. Cotton everything but ESPECIALLY socks!
pailbn.bsky.social Brianna Nicole Pail (PAILBN Art) @pailbn.bsky.social · 10d
Good morning to fuckers in our neighborhood kidnapping our neighbors! Can you see the city skyline? No? You’re wondering if Minneapolis burned down again overnight? Oh no, sweetie. That’s ice crystals in the air . It looks like it will get to around -8F without windchill! Please enjoy your stay!
December 4, 2025 at 6:03 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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nocontexttrek1.bsky.social
Star Trek The Next Generation scene. The Enterprise D gang is in Ten Forward standing around a beautifully decorated banquet table adorned with exotic flowers and lots of food. Seems like a fancy party is happening, I'm guessing some light chitter chatter is in the background, dishes and flatware tinkling and clanking, maybe some nice soft harpy music, but this is a picture so it's tough to say. Ok, back to the story, so Captain Picard is carving a large round turkey. Bev Crusher, Geordi, Data, and a very very tall Klingon, all in uniform, stand and observe. Closed caption reads, "I shall try some of your burned, replicated bird meat." 🦃
November 27, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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alyankovic.bsky.social
All 2026 tour dates and ticket info up RIGHT NOW at
www.weirdal.com/tour
November 17, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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RraaaaaAaaawr!!*

*Happy Halloween!
Jack-o-lantern with a wide open mouth, triangle eyes and a candle.
October 31, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social
Shout out to the top 5 kings in the world, Martin Luther, Larry, Don, Stephen and Americans don't have a motherfuckin'.
October 17, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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catsofyore.bsky.social
Before laser pointers we had to just point at the wall with a stick. Photo from my collection, no date/info.
Black and white photo of a shorthaired tabby up on his hind legs with his forepaws braced against the outside of a brick building, seeming to sniff and investigate the tip of a small stick that a white person off camera is holding against the wall.
October 13, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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wyden.senate.gov
Every single one of these clips was taken today in downtown Portland. Portland doesn’t want or need a federal takeover. If Trump insists on sending federal “resources” he can start with funding health care, bridges, affordable housing, and wildfire protection to name a few.
September 27, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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philplait.bsky.social
This is great
drwendyrocks.bsky.social Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · Sep 6
👏👏👏 👏👏
September 6, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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altcdc.altgov.info
Contrary to what RFKJ yelled in the hearing today, COVID vaccines will not be free and available to everyone due to his decisions. Here’s what you can do to get one, and how annoying it’ll be.

What better way to give him a big🖕 and protect yourself for respiratory virus season than getting a 💉?
September 4, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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thebandcake.bsky.social
A little math about that prison camp in Florida. $450 million per year for 3,000 people is $150,000/person per year. The cost for one person receiving SNAP for one year is $2256, yet they're telling us that's too expensive. threads.com/@unapologeticallyzae
August 8, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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Excellent mail day! Beautiful Prosper with Dragons card game and note from @nickydrayden.bsky.social and @suyidavies.com . Can’t wait to play!
Prosper with Dragons card game and note.
August 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM
jclarson.bsky.social
Megafauna of North Dakota.
Sandy the Sandhill Crane Salem Sue, the world’s largest Holstein. World’s Largest Buffalo
July 29, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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bencollins.bsky.social
I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that.

The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.

This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.
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.
July 1, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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evandorkin.bsky.social
A refresher course.
Warning: High art.
A one-page comic of Milk and Cheese on a city-wide rampage, yelling "Merv Griffin!" louder and louder in every pane as they pummel people and destroy property. The name of this comic is "Merv Griffin". It is art. Don't judge it, love it.
June 29, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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kenplume.bsky.social
From the 1982 MDA telethon, I challenge you to keep the surreal dissonance of this performance of “Jessie’s Girl” from burrowing deep into your brain…
March 25, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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brezwrites.bsky.social
Mon Mothma's Wedding Death-Dance is The Song of Summer.

How "Niamos! (Chandrilian Club Mix)"🎶 from #Andor went from a moment of bleak catharsis to a social media phenomenon. It's now growing far beyond the #StarWars fandom.
Mon Mothma’s ‘Andor’ Wedding Death Dance Is the Song of Summer
It was designed to show a revolutionary’s emotional spiral after consigning her dearest friend to assassination. Now it’s a party meme.
www.vanityfair.com
June 9, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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nickydrayden.bsky.social
We went from 94% funded to 106% funded today! 💥

Many happy dances have been danced. Thank you!!!
nickydrayden.bsky.social Nicky Drayden @nickydrayden.bsky.social · Feb 27
Gah, I didn't expect to make Stretch Goal posts today, but since Prosper with Dragons is now funded, here we go!

From here on out, more pledges mean more art commissioned from our amazing artists!

More dragon art at $15k, folks!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/115...

#dragons #cardgames
Prosper with Dragons
A cooperative, post-apocalyptic, Afrofutures card game (with dragons!)
www.kickstarter.com
February 28, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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nickydrayden.bsky.social
Just a lil graph showing how close we are to bringing y'all an incredible card game! We just need a few strong days!

If you want:
- An intense co-op game
- Great Afrofuturistic art
- A chance to befriend dragons

Keep spreading the word!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/115...

#cardgame #kickstarter
Kickstarter funding chart showing a steady climb towards our funding goal, just 22% to go in 4 days! A group of people having fun playing Prosper with Dragons in a gastropub. Glamour shot of the Prosper with Dragons card game, dragon cards and decks laid out on a diagonal.
February 24, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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suyidavies.com
@prosperwithdragons.bsky.social has now crossed $8k of funding! Thanks to the 213 backers who have gotten us here. @nickydrayden.bsky.social & I deeply appreciate your support.

Will we reach our $12,500 goal in the 8 days we have left? 🤞🏿 Share with friends & help us get there! 🙏🏿
prosperwithdragons.bsky.social ProsperWithDragons @prosperwithdragons.bsky.social · Jan 31
Prosper with Dragons is a cooperative card game for 2-4 players, ages 10 and up. In a post-apocalyptic world, disasters lurk around every corner and only a combination of human ingenuity and dragon might can fend them off.

Check out our Kickstarter today! 🐉

www.kickstarter.com/projects/115...
Coming soon: Prosper with Dragons
A cooperative, post-apocalyptic, Afrofutures card game (with dragons!)
www.kickstarter.com
February 20, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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nickydrayden.bsky.social
Hey y'all, let's show some love to Black creatives on Valentine's Day! We're closing in on being halfway funded, halfway through our campaign. I know we can do this!

Spread the word! Spread the love! ❤️🐉❤️

www.kickstarter.com/projects/115...
Prosper with Dragons banner: Face of an enourmous green dragon with a child and elder perched on its tail, feeding it. 47% funded on Kickstarter with 2 weeks to go. A cooperative, post-apocalyptic, Afrofutures card game...(with dragons!)
February 14, 2025 at 3:12 PM
jclarson.bsky.social
Lemon Pig 2025 is ready to face the new year. Thank you for your service, Lemon Pig 2024!
January 1, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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wychstreet.bsky.social
Michael Stipe posted this on insta. He said he met President Carter doing human rights work & got this after. He was floored.
December 31, 2024 at 2:14 AM
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markjacob.bsky.social
Remember the right-wing plot to sabotage Jimmy Carter’s re-election by urging Iran to hold American hostages longer? You don’t? It’s a shocking example of the American right’s treachery that more people should know about. (Gift link to 2023 NYT story.)
A Four-Decade Secret: One Man’s Story of Sabotaging Carter’s Re-election (Gift Article)
A prominent Texas politician said he unwittingly took part in a 1980 tour of the Middle East with a clandestine agenda.
www.nytimes.com
December 29, 2024 at 9:55 PM