Nora
@norabelle.bsky.social
Books. Animals. TV. Feminism. Theater. Podcasts. Crafting. Car-hating.
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It's not a badge of honor when books get banned. It stinks for everyone. For the book creators, who worked hard to create something special that now won't be shared. The kids who miss out. The librarians and teachers who are treated like criminals. And taxpayers who have to pay for this nonsense.
December 2, 2025 at 11:48 PM
It's not a badge of honor when books get banned. It stinks for everyone. For the book creators, who worked hard to create something special that now won't be shared. The kids who miss out. The librarians and teachers who are treated like criminals. And taxpayers who have to pay for this nonsense.
I was sick for the first few weeks of November so I never got around to posting my October reads! Here's both October and November:
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December 4, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I was sick for the first few weeks of November so I never got around to posting my October reads! Here's both October and November:
💙📚
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All super rich guys sound the same now. It’s all “I sleep four hours a night and spend the other twenty hours a day developing a product that’s going to bring us the best widespread poverty anyone’s ever seen.”
December 3, 2025 at 9:53 PM
All super rich guys sound the same now. It’s all “I sleep four hours a night and spend the other twenty hours a day developing a product that’s going to bring us the best widespread poverty anyone’s ever seen.”
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FUCK THE SALVATON ARMY - dashare.zone ADMIN
December 2, 2025 at 3:11 AM
FUCK THE SALVATON ARMY - dashare.zone ADMIN
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one insidious thing about gen AI is it's not just causing us to mistrust dodgy images, it's also making us mistrust images that look perfectly normal. this is gaslighting in a very literal sense bc the technology is undermining the trust we have in our own ability to perceive reality!
November 28, 2025 at 8:55 PM
one insidious thing about gen AI is it's not just causing us to mistrust dodgy images, it's also making us mistrust images that look perfectly normal. this is gaslighting in a very literal sense bc the technology is undermining the trust we have in our own ability to perceive reality!
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Hi everybody,
It's Black Friday, a big day for us at The Onion, since we rely almost entirely on your memberships.
Our goal for 2026? More print subscribers than the Washington Post.
This is, somehow, feasible.
So sign up! A year of print is $75 for the year today. Help us do a very funny thing.
It's Black Friday, a big day for us at The Onion, since we rely almost entirely on your memberships.
Our goal for 2026? More print subscribers than the Washington Post.
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November 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Hi everybody,
It's Black Friday, a big day for us at The Onion, since we rely almost entirely on your memberships.
Our goal for 2026? More print subscribers than the Washington Post.
This is, somehow, feasible.
So sign up! A year of print is $75 for the year today. Help us do a very funny thing.
It's Black Friday, a big day for us at The Onion, since we rely almost entirely on your memberships.
Our goal for 2026? More print subscribers than the Washington Post.
This is, somehow, feasible.
So sign up! A year of print is $75 for the year today. Help us do a very funny thing.
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I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
So happy to know that a restaurant I ate at 7 years ago is thankful for me this season. That's a great use of my personal email address.
November 26, 2025 at 10:46 PM
So happy to know that a restaurant I ate at 7 years ago is thankful for me this season. That's a great use of my personal email address.
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Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.
November 21, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.
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My other other conclusion is that "outfit recycling" should be the highest badge of honor in fashion and so we should STOP complimenting people for new clothes and START complimenting people who wear the same thing again.
November 20, 2025 at 5:34 PM
My other other conclusion is that "outfit recycling" should be the highest badge of honor in fashion and so we should STOP complimenting people for new clothes and START complimenting people who wear the same thing again.
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🚨PEEVE ALERT🚨
Outrage/Threat Level: Mildly Irksome
When restaurant menus refer to sandwiches as “handhelds”
Outrage/Threat Level: Mildly Irksome
When restaurant menus refer to sandwiches as “handhelds”
November 19, 2025 at 5:58 PM
🚨PEEVE ALERT🚨
Outrage/Threat Level: Mildly Irksome
When restaurant menus refer to sandwiches as “handhelds”
Outrage/Threat Level: Mildly Irksome
When restaurant menus refer to sandwiches as “handhelds”
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Trump’s order to rebrand the Department of Defense as the “Department of War” this past summer will cost billions of dollars, a new report suggests. The switch requires changing signage, letterheads, employee badges, vast amounts of rewriting coding on websites and internal software, among others.
“Department of War” Name Change, Which Isn’t Even Official, Will Cost $2 Billion
The move prioritizes “political theater over responsible governance,” a group of Democrats said in a statement.
truthout.org
November 14, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Trump’s order to rebrand the Department of Defense as the “Department of War” this past summer will cost billions of dollars, a new report suggests. The switch requires changing signage, letterheads, employee badges, vast amounts of rewriting coding on websites and internal software, among others.
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The Republican president is a pedophile who has doubled my healthcare costs and let scores of violent criminals out of jail. But a Democratic mayor-elect wants to make busses free in a city I don't live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.
November 13, 2025 at 12:47 PM
The Republican president is a pedophile who has doubled my healthcare costs and let scores of violent criminals out of jail. But a Democratic mayor-elect wants to make busses free in a city I don't live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
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How to accomplish normal governmental business: after obtaining a superdupermajority of 101 senators you must hope against hope that the parliamentarian's whip doesn't invoke the heckler's veto.
How to accomplish despotic acts of random cruelty: the president declares it and it's instantly done.
How to accomplish despotic acts of random cruelty: the president declares it and it's instantly done.
November 13, 2025 at 3:10 AM
How to accomplish normal governmental business: after obtaining a superdupermajority of 101 senators you must hope against hope that the parliamentarian's whip doesn't invoke the heckler's veto.
How to accomplish despotic acts of random cruelty: the president declares it and it's instantly done.
How to accomplish despotic acts of random cruelty: the president declares it and it's instantly done.
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Good DC news: food and beverage workers at 9:30 Club, The Anthem, The Atlantis, and Lincoln Theater just won voluntary union recognition!
Now, box office and production staff at the venues are fighting for union recognition too as separate bargaining units.
Congrats to the workers!
Now, box office and production staff at the venues are fighting for union recognition too as separate bargaining units.
Congrats to the workers!
Staffers At 9:30 Club, Other Iconic D.C. Concert Venues Win Voluntary Union Recognition From IMP
Workers at the 9:30 Club and several other iconic D.C. concert venues have won union recognition from management at Independent Concert Promotions
deadline.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Good DC news: food and beverage workers at 9:30 Club, The Anthem, The Atlantis, and Lincoln Theater just won voluntary union recognition!
Now, box office and production staff at the venues are fighting for union recognition too as separate bargaining units.
Congrats to the workers!
Now, box office and production staff at the venues are fighting for union recognition too as separate bargaining units.
Congrats to the workers!
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In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
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It's irritating that they describe the effects of his racism as limited to causing controversy within science and reputational consequences for himself rather than giving an immeasurable boost, false veneer of legitimacy, and idiot-friendly prestige to modern scientific racism and eugenics.
James D. Watson died on Thursday in East Northport, N.Y., on Long Island. He was 97.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/s...
James Watson, Who Helped Discover the Structure of DNA, Is Dead at 97
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:42 PM
It's irritating that they describe the effects of his racism as limited to causing controversy within science and reputational consequences for himself rather than giving an immeasurable boost, false veneer of legitimacy, and idiot-friendly prestige to modern scientific racism and eugenics.
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Major win in Arlington County Public Schools, with pro-trans Moe Bryant dominating the election. Arlington County Public Schools has made headlines for defying the Trump admin on trans kids in bathrooms.
November 5, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Major win in Arlington County Public Schools, with pro-trans Moe Bryant dominating the election. Arlington County Public Schools has made headlines for defying the Trump admin on trans kids in bathrooms.
Woke up sick, masked up and voted at 6:30, back in bed by 6:35
November 4, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Woke up sick, masked up and voted at 6:30, back in bed by 6:35
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YES YOU SHOULD VOTE IN LOCAL ELECTIONS TOMORROW EVEN IF MAMDANI IS NOT ON THE BALLOT WHERE YOU LIVE
November 3, 2025 at 9:02 PM
YES YOU SHOULD VOTE IN LOCAL ELECTIONS TOMORROW EVEN IF MAMDANI IS NOT ON THE BALLOT WHERE YOU LIVE
My office is having a full-blown fight over whether the word "toboggan" is a sled or a hat. Haven't seen this kind of fisticuffs since The Dress.
November 3, 2025 at 5:33 PM
My office is having a full-blown fight over whether the word "toboggan" is a sled or a hat. Haven't seen this kind of fisticuffs since The Dress.