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PWHL

@thepwhl.com

SOUND THE ALARM 🚨

Sarah Nurse scores the first goal in Vancouver Goldeneye history!

November 22, 2025 at 5:15 AM

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False Knees

@falseknees.bsky.social

Panel 1: two crows are walking in the snow as a heavy but gentle snow falls around them.
Panel 2: one says to the other while looking ahead "Heh, that lump of snow looks like..."
Panel 3: what they thought was a lump of snow opens its eyes, revealing itself to be a pure white snowy owl.
Panel 4: "Gasp" gasps the second crow. "... a spirit!" exclaims the first.

January 29, 2025 at 1:31 AM

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Phil Lewis

@phillewis.bsky.social

Colombian President Gustavo Petro's full post ordering an increase of import tariffs on U.S. goods, says he doesn't really like traveling to the U.S. because it's “a bit boring” and invokes the ancestors

Trump, I don't really like travelling to the US, it's a bit boring, but I confess that there are some commendable things. I like going to the black neighbourhoods of Washington, where I saw an entire fight in the US capital between blacks and Latinos with barricades, which seemed like nonsense to me, because they should join together.

I confess that I like Walt Whitman and Paul Simon and Noam Chomsky and Miller

I confess that Sacco and Vanzetti, who have my blood, are memorable in the history of the USA and I follow them. They were murdered by labor leaders with the electric chair, the fascists who are within the USA as well as within my country

I don't like your oil, Trump, you're going to wipe out the human species because of greed. Maybe one day, over a glass of whiskey, which I accept, despite my gastritis, we can talk frankly about this, but it's difficult because you consider me an inferior race and I'm not, nor is any Colombian.

So if you know someone who is stubborn, that's me, period. You can try to carry out a coup with your economic strength and your arrogance, like they did with Allende. But I will die in my law, I resisted torture and I resist you. I don't want slavers next to Colombia, we already had many and we freed ourselves. What I want next to Colombia are lovers of freedom. If you can't accompany me, I'll go elsewhere. Colombia is the heart of the world and you didn't understand that, this is the land of the yellow butterflies, of the beauty of Remedios, but also of the colonels Aureliano Buendía, of which I am one, perhaps the last.

You will kill me, but I will survive in my people, which is before yours, in the Americas. We are peoples of the winds, the mountains, the Caribbean Sea and of freedom.

You don't like our freedom, okay. I don't shake hands with white slavers. I shake hands with the white libertarian heirs of Lincoln and the black and white farm boys of the USA, at whose graves I cried and prayed on a battlefield, which I reached after walking the mountains of Italian Tuscany and after being saved from Covid.

They are the United States and before them I kneel, before no one else.

Overthrow me, President, and the Americas and humanity will respond.

Colombia now stops looking north, looks at the world, our blood comes from the blood of the Caliphate of Cordoba, the civilization of that time, of the Roman Latins of the Mediterranean, the civilization of that time, who founded the republic, democracy in Athens; our blood has the black resistance fighters turned into slaves by you. In Colombia is the first free territory of America, before Washington, of all America, there I take refuge in its African songs.

My land is made up of goldsmiths who worked in the time of the Egyptian pharaohs and of the first artists in the world in Chiribiquete.

You will never rule us. The warrior who rode our lands, shouting freedom, who is called Bolívar, opposes us.

Our people are somewhat fearful, somewhat timid, they are naive and kind, loving, but they will know how to win the Panama Canal, which you took from us with violence. Two hundred heroes from all of Latin America lie in Bocas del Toro, today's Panama, formerly Colombia, which you murdered.

I raise a flag and as Gaitán said, even if it remains alone, it will continue to be raised with the Latin American dignity that is the dignity of America, which your great-grandfather did not know, and mine did, Mr. President, an immigrant in the USA,

Your blockade does not scare me, because Colombia, besides being the country of beauty, is the heart of the world. I know that you love beauty as I do, do not disrespect it and you will give it your sweetness.

FROM TODAY ON, COLOMBIA IS OPEN TO THE ENTIRE WORLD, WITH OPEN ARMS, WE ARE BUILDERS OF FREEDOM, LIFE AND HUMANITY.

I am informed that you impose a 50% tariff on the fruits of our human labor to enter the United States, and I do the same.

Let our people plant corn that was discovered in Colombia and feed the world

January 26, 2025 at 10:21 PM

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The Public Domain Review

@publicdomainrev.bsky.social

🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁

We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive

January 8, 2025 at 5:02 PM

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Morgan Tingley

@mwtingley.bsky.social

The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this

January 8, 2025 at 7:52 PM

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bakoon

@bakoon.bsky.social

russell the cat is almost twenty years old

January 9, 2025 at 6:35 AM

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Ted Leo 🍉

@tedleo.bsky.social

Master doc of mutual aid groups helping people and animals on the ground in LA. Please share docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

MALAN Fire & Wind Storm Resources

docs.google.com

January 9, 2025 at 3:01 AM

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Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew

@amandasmith.bsky.social

My dad audibly “wow”ed when we saw this while on evacuation warming, this incredible drop is going to be discussed by 70 year old men across west LA tomorrow.

Bryan Boatman @bryanboatman.bsky.social · Jan 9

Direct hit on the Sunset Fire in Hollywood. 🎯

Nice work, @lafd.bsky.social #LAFD c/o @nbcla.bsky.social 👨🏼‍🚒

January 9, 2025 at 6:37 AM

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Francesco Francavilla

@ffrancavilla.bsky.social

For those affected by the fires in LA

List of restaurants offering free meals to evacuees in L A
- Yeastie Boys
- Bar Etoile
- Fiorello Pizza
- Bè U’
- Danny Boy’s

List of restaurants offering free meals to evacuees in L A
- Oy Bar
- Sunday Gravy
- Dudley Market
- La Sorted’s

January 9, 2025 at 6:55 AM

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Lisa Guerrero

@lisaguerrero.bsky.social

LISTEN UP: If you’re evacuating from one of the several Los Angeles area fires, try to get as far outside the city as possible. (I went north to Ventura) Don’t worry about work tomorrow or your kid’s classes. Most will be done remotely for the immediate future. Just get to safety and do it quickly.

January 9, 2025 at 5:29 AM

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Autumn Ivy

@autumnivy.net

California LA area fire information links

January 9, 2025 at 7:12 AM

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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸

@ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social

if you’re looking for something to do to help LA, folks in ktown are going to need masks. there are lots of elderly and homeless people in that neighborhood, this organization will distribute aid! ❤️

instagram post from ktownforall.

While not in the direct path of the fire yet - Koreatown is covered in heavy smoke and we are in need of KN95 masks and will need to replace a ton of tarp and tents.
Please consider donating to our Venmo at:
@Ktownforall or via
debit/ credit card through Paypal at
https://www.paypal.com/ncp/pa
yment/D8A65YA2D58EQ
Every dollar will go to survival items that will be handed to someone in need.

January 9, 2025 at 4:17 AM

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Anonymous

@youranoncentral.bsky.social

Here are all of the shelters, food kitchens, evacuation sites, and resources for anyone impacted by the LA fires and for anyone who wants to reach out and help. #PalisadesFire

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

MALAN Fire & Wind Storm Resources

docs.google.com

January 9, 2025 at 5:29 AM

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Jason O'Young

@jasonoyoung.bsky.social

I still can't believe this was from my backyard on October 10th. Twitter crushed the video quality when I posted it there, let's see how Bluesky does it.