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[94:5] So, surely with hardship comes ease.

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Post a book you love from the 80s. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books
A Brief History of Time From the Big Bang to Black Holes Stephen W.Hawking With an introduction by Carl Sagan
December 6, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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One thing I miss about working on Court St is being able to get a halal burger at 8-Bit Bites whenever I wanted. nothing beats their combo of cheat code sauce and 80’s nostalgia. (although my arteries are surely better off)
Photo of the inside of 8-Bit Bites on Court St. featuring a video game screen and neon sign
December 5, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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my mom found my 1st grade report card from :cough:over 30 yrs ago:cough: and I am pleased to note that my general attitude has not changed much…ie still a time waster who hates doing things alone but still cares about others

(stars mean strengths, checks mean weaknesses, blanks mean no issues)
Marking Period 1 2 3 4 PERSONAL/SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT Demonstrates self-control Demonstrates self confidence Assumes responsibility Respects rights and feelings of others 米米 Works and plays cooperatively with others 米米米米 Takes care of personal and public property Demonstrates a positive attitude toward learning STUDY HABITS Works independently ✔️✔️✔️ Follows directions Uses time wisely ✔️✔️✔️ Takes pride in accomplishments
November 11, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Wind of the Spirit is an immigrant rights advocacy group that is urging the NJ state legislature to codify immigrant protections before the new governor takes office. Call your state assemblymember to bring the Immigrant Trust Act to a vote so Murphy can sign it before he leaves. Script below:
We need you to publicly pledge to schedule the Immigrant Trust Act for a hearing and vote - ICE uses state collected personal data to guide their violent raids and further terrorize our communities and separate families. That means that every day without the Immigrant Trust Act, raids like today's are allowed to continue. (Refers to an ICE raid on a warehouse in Avenel on 11/7/2025)
November 7, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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It’s 5:29pm and I am once again confused why we force this time change upon ourselves
Image of a comic drawn by Adrienne Hedger from HedgeHumor.com (watermark included on image) 3 comic panels in a row with a 4th larger panel underneath: 1st panel: A woman in a purple shirt looking out a window saying: “it’s pitch-black out!” 2nd panel: Same woman exclaims: “What TIME is it?” 3rd panel: “IS IT MIDNIGHT?” 4th panel: The woman is grabbing at her own head in despair, wailing: IT FEELS LIKE MIDNIGHT!” A man in a green shirt standing next to her with his arms crossed and a deadpan expression says, “It’s 5:27 p.m.”
November 6, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Proud of our first Shia Muslim mayor, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

Alhamdulillah, now the real work begins. #NYC
Zohran Mamdani acceptance speech live on a tv screen with a shirt that says ‘Shias for Zohran’ in the foreground
November 5, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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love this idea. They’ve already gotten $80k in donations to support this. i would totally donate to any business doing the same here in NYC

#HereticCoffee #Portland #SNAP #MutualAid
hereticcoffeepdx 1d We just had a kid - a literal CHILD, come into the shop and ask if they could "get the SNAP breakfast a couple days early." This breaks my heart. No child should EVER have to ask for food. [censored] it. SNAP breakfast is open as of now. Come get fed. Don't go hungry. Open until 2pm. 1/2 ❤️ 22.5K 💬335 🔁 1.8K 287
October 29, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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I’ve got an easy baked chicken recipe with lots of veggies that you can scale! I like to serve it with crusty bread, pasta and/or rice since the tomatoes and olive oil reduce to a nice little sauce while baking. (Your baking time may vary based on the size of the chicken pieces; smaller = less time)
‏Easy Baked Chicken Recipe   - 4 skinless, boneless chicken breast halves (1/2kg of chicken) cubed into 2” pieces  - 2 medium green bell peppers, chopped  - 2 large tomatoes, chopped  - 1 red onion, chopped - 2 tablespoons olive oil  - 1 tablespoon garlic salt (I prefer to use fresh minced garlic and then add extra salt to taste)  - 1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley (I use cilantro instead)  - 1 tablespoon chopped fresh chives  - 1 teaspoon ground black pepper  - 1 teaspoon Old Bay® Seasoning  - 1 teaspoon seasoning salt  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F  2. In a medium bowl, mix the olive oil, garlic salt, parsley, chives, pepper, Old Bay Seasoning, and seasoning salt. Rub the chicken cubes with 1/2 the mixture, and place the breasts in a medium baking dish.  3. Toss the green bell peppers, tomatoes, and red onion with the remaining olive oil mixture. Arrange over the chicken.  4. Bake 1 hour in the preheated oven, stirring the vegetables once, until the vegetables are tender, the chicken is no longer pink, and its juices run clear.
October 28, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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This is not counting the over half a million users who have the account blocked via a list
[screenshot of ClearSky stats] The White House @whitehouse-47.bsky.social 4 DAYS AGO LISTS BLOCKING LISTS BLOCKED BY Blocked by 549,897 users via lists # eva.computer eva (^-*)/ 17 seconds ago us gov block list for us gov accounts (does not include NOAA, NWS, CPSC, or accounts for individuals) view subscribers @monday3946.bsky.social 21 seconds ago Followers of whitehouse-47.bsky.social Users that follow whitehouse-47.bsky,social Last updated 2025-10-19 view subscribers @youranoncentral.bsky.social Anon... 75 seconds ago Trump Regime Accounts Block list for Trump regime government accounts.
October 21, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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[screenshot of Clearsky page] The White House @whitehouse-47.bsky.social 8 HOURS AGO LISTS BLOCKED BY Blocked by 363,440 users via lists
October 18, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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pretty sure she thinks genocide is a made up word too
annabellelecter.bsky.social‬ ‪@annabellelecter.bsky.social‬ · 5h I would love to ask some of Uncommitted morons how they feel about U.S. troops being deployed to protect Qatar''s interests. It's October... BOO, BITCHES! ‪@alyssonfergison.com‬ They only care about "gEnOcIdE"... and even then, only in one tiny area of the world. Which also happens to be the only area of the world that gets an attention and has the potential to impact the outcome of American elections. I'm sure that's just a coincidence though.
October 6, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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NYC come out in support of Gaza! Tomorrow in Washington Square Park at 2pm
NEW YORK CITY TWO YEARS OF GENOCIDE RISE UP FOR GAZA INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ACTION OCTOBER 4 WASHINGTON SQ. PARK • 2PM PALESTINIAN YOUTH MOVEMENT
October 3, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Took the ferry from South Brooklyn at sunset today for the first time in a while. It was a perfectly gorgeous night for a boat ride in NYC. Glad I got to have a proper send off to the end of summer. The world is indeed a beautiful place subhanallah
Sunset off the pier of the nyc ferry in brooklyn
September 27, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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Hearing of an ICE raid in Bushwick on Suydam street today. Brooklyn peeps stay safe! (Follow @nycicewatch on IG and report other sightings to them!)
September 25, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Close-up of the mural:
new mural by Banksy showing a judge beating an unarmed protester with a gavel on a wall outside a London courthouse
September 9, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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Fundraiser for Gaza today Sept 4th from 1-9pm in Brooklyn! www.instagram.com/p/DNWJ54oxlmR/
palawda Join us on September 4th at Widdi Hall from 1-9pm for a fundraising event for families in Gaza! Shop from over 20 local vendors and enter raffles for a chance to win prizes. Proceeds will be donated to support families in Gaza. We will also be hosting a letter writing workshop to stand in solidarity with Palestinian political prisoner and CUNY student Tarek Bazrouk. 🗓️ Thursday, September 4th ⏰ 1 - 9 pm 📍Widdi Hall - 5602 6th Ave Brooklyn, NY 11220 #FREETAREKBAZROUK Sign the petition: Put money on Tarek’s books: TINYURL.COM/FREETAREKBAZROUK TINYURL.COM/TAREKSBOOKS
September 4, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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Final message from @apnews.com freelancer Maryam Dagga to her son, Gaith. #Gaza #FreePalestine
Gaith, you are the heart and soul of your mother. I want you to pray for me, not cry over me, so l can remain happy. I want you to make me proud, to be smart, successful, and strong. I want you to become a capable businessman, my love. Please, my dear, never forget me. I did everything just to see you happy, to make you feel safe and comfortable, and to give you all I could. And when you grow up, get married, and have a daughter - name her Maryam after me. You are my love, my heart, my strength, my soul, and the son who always makes me proud and happy with his good reputation. Gaith, my son - always remember your prayers, your prayers, my love. Your mother, Maryam
August 26, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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This is the New Yorker cover/cartoon he mentions at the end, in case you were curious. I feel like it’s kind of the perfect perspective for a mayoral candidate.
“View of the World from Ninth Avenue” is Saul Steinberg's most famous work, and its fantastic success beguiled its creator. Beyond busy, shabby West Side streets, nine named and vaguely distributed locales—New Jersey, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Kansas City, Nebraska, Texas, Utah, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles—and the odd mountain represents what’s memorable in a tidily rectangular nation, which ends at a notional Pacific Ocean. In the far distance, uniform humps suffice for Japan, China, and Russia. There’s no Europe—a zone behind the eyes, and perhaps shaping the mind, of an East Coastal gaze. The image has been interpreted as an encompassing joke on Manhattan insularity. Saul Steinberg created 85 covers and 642 internal drawings and illustrations for The New Yorker during his career. On October 17, 2005, American Society of Magazine Editors unveiled its list of the top 40 magazine covers of the prior 40 years, and ranked View of the World from 9th Avenue in fourth place. The listing stated that the work "...has come to represent Manhattan's telescoped perception of the country beyond the Hudson River."
August 12, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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As compared to their coverage of Ana’s Al-Sharif’s assassination by Israel, where the @nytimes.com is literally taking the murderer’s justifications at face value.
August 11, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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#YaHusayn #Muharram #Arbaeen #ImamHusain #Karbala
The Martyrdom of Hussain عَلَيْهِ الصَّلَاةُ وَالسَّلام needs no religion. There is no Shia, there is no Sunni, there is no Catholic, there is no Christian, there is no Jewish, there is no Hindu. Whatever creed you follow, and whatever Lord you claim can appreciate the sacrifice made at Karbala by Imam Hussain لام and his blessed family and righteous companions, for the sake of piety and service to God. عَلَيْهِ الصَّلَاةُ وَالسَّلَامُ The events at Karbala are not a matter of my religion or your religion, they are a matter of humanity, and anyone who is not moved by the martyrdom of Hussain عَلَيْهِ الصَّلَاةُ وَالسَّلَامُ lacks a sense of humanity
August 9, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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For ppl in NYC who may be food insecure, the city provides free breakfast and dinner to kids under 18 across all boroughs during the summer. No ID required. There are also halal options. Here’s the link to find a location near you: www.opt-osfns.org/schoolfoodny...
Free Summer Meals Starts June 27 Even when school is out, you can still enjoy breakfast and lunch! Our 2025 Free Summer Meals Program is here for you all across New York City, and it's totally free for anyone who's 18 years old or younger. You can find these meals at specific places like select NYC Public Schools, community pool centers, parks, and libraries. And guess what? You don't need to sign up, show any papers, or have an ID to get these meals. Just head to one of our spots and enjoy a delicious breakfast and lunch. Have a great summer filled with good food! As summer approaches more additional information will be available. Service Dates & Menus Thursday, June 27, 2025 – Friday, August 29, 2025 There is no service Friday, July 4, 2025 All dates, times, locations and menus are subject to change. Breakfast Service Time: 8am - 9:15am Lunch Service Time: 11am - 1:15pm Menus coming soon. Find A Location Near You Summer Feeding locations: PDF Version Summer Halal Feeding locations: PDF Version Use the search below to find a location near you Call 311 Food Truck Service 7 Days of the Week 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM Weekdays 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM Weekends Manhattan: Sara D. Roosevelt Park (Chrystie St. & Forsythe Street New York, NY10002) Brooklyn: Prospect Park (Parkside & Ocean Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11215) Bronx: Haffen Park (Ely Avenue & Hammersley Avenue Bronx, NY 10469 by the baseball field & basketball courts)
August 5, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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At the funeral prayer (janaza) today for Didarul Islam
July 31, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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In case you were wondering who/what/where/when this protest happened:
Jews Cry Out: Let food into Gaza! When: Monday 7/28, 6pm Where: Across from the Israeli Consulate (800 2nd Ave.) [Logos of 8 Jewish Organizations at the bottom of the flyer: T’ruah, NYJA, Israelis for Peace NYC, smol emuni, New Jewish Narrative, JStreet, Partners for Progressive Israel, New Israel Fund]
July 29, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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This is so upsetting. They were so close! #Handala #FreedomFlotilla
A screenshot of the flotilla tracker showing the path of the Handala with a red line and a dot in the international waters just off the coast of Gaza
July 26, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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“Who is willing to fight against the imposing forces of death, control, lies, greed, and destruction?”
This isn’t just about fighting for better wages and working conditions. It was never just about that. But it sure as shit can’t be about just that now. This is about who is willing to fight for life itself, for liberty, and for the needs of all met so all can pursue their happiness
July 25, 2025 at 9:28 PM