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Tommy Valdez
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For today's maxi challenge...
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November 19, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Get that coin, diva.
A dreamworks animation book called "Shrek the Third: Fiona's Fairy-tale Five"
November 18, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Today the State of Michigan retirement system dropped all investments in Israeli bonds.

The Michigan Treasury declined to reinvest SMRS funds in a $10 million Israel Bond upon its maturity this November.
DIVEST MICHIGAN VICTORY THE STATE OF MICHIGAN RETIREMENT SYSTEM DROPS ALL INVESTMENTS IN ISRAEL BONDS
November 18, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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A bald twink in a suit with popping lip gloss.
November 18, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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I have her name muted but it's still breaking through to my feed
My eyes! The goggles do nothing!
November 17, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Detroit!
We are at the Detroit Shipping Company until 9pm! A portion of every purchase you make from our vendors goes to support:
Palestinian mutual aid
The Detroit Black Farmer Land Fund
Flood relief in Punjab, India
An artist market tent full of vendors and customers. People browse tables full of wares at an artist market.
November 15, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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For posterity because god damn what a weirdo.
A skeet by me: I'm mad that The Crimson's report on this mentions Elisa New, but not her telling noted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein that books about statutory rape has beautiful prose. A reply from Him Lincecum @rainblurredsky.bsky.social Lolita famously does have beautiful prose? I reply with [squints] Him Lincecum @rainblurredsky.bsk... Oh you're a moron, got it.
November 15, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Everything old is new again.
Between the 16th and 18th century the Tobacco smoke enema was all the rage in Europe. Doctors would take a mouth full of tobacco and blow it up a patients ass either directly or through a tube. It was mostly used for resuscitation of drowning victims but also as a panacea Pictured here is an illustration of a man with a long pipe blowing smoke up the exposed buttocks of a drowned man.
November 14, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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GW Bush getting whispered to
November 14, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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November 13, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Predator protecting predator.
A quote tweet by @mattgaetz which reads Reporting that Israeli intel lived with Epstein is max antisemitic. The quoted post is from Murtaza Hussain @MazMHussain and reads NEW: An Israeli military intelligence officer lived at Jeffrey Epstein's home in Manhattan on multiple occasions, including while he was an aide to then-Israeli defense minister Ehud Barak. Yoni Koren was a senior AMAN officer with decades of experience in the Israeli security
November 13, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Oooy. @bsky.app suspended an anthropologist for posting Johnny Cash lyrics. Then lied about when it was posted in their explanation.
Sarah Kendzior’s Newsletter I was suspended from BlueSky for defending the honor of Johnny Cash. I wish I were joking. In early October, I referenced the “I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die” lyric of “Folsom Prison Blues” in response to a terrible Wall Street Journal article saying that Johnny Cash was uncool. I quote-tweeted the article and everyone understood the reference. There was no outcry. I stand by my assessment that Johnny Cash is cool. I do not like being the subject of so much attention, especially when I cannot see the discussion. But the BlueSky admins are now claiming that I wrote a post saying, out of nowhere, “I want to shoot the author of this article just to watch him die”. They are not posting a screenshot of the actual tweet, which shows that I am quote-tweeting an article about Johnny Cash, and that my post is obviously not a threat but a play on “Folsom Prison Blues.” BlueSky is lying and saying I posted this line on November 10. I did not. I posted it in early October, when the WSJ article came out. You can see that they are lying about the date from this page showing my last BlueSky tweets: I was not given any explanation for my suspension the first two times I inquired. Later I was told it was for the “Folsom Prison Blues” reference, and I asked for clarification but did not receive it. I thought it might be a prank until a reporter reached out this morning and confirmed it. BlueSky’s behavior is bizarre and unwarranted. I have lost access to friends and all my posts and photos. I am incredibly grateful for the outpouring of support here on Substack and also on BlueSky — though I cannot see it, because I am suspended. To quote another Johnny Cash song: "I ain’t never done nothin' to nobody/ I ain’t never got nothin’ from nobody, no time/ And until I get somethin' from somebody, sometime, I don't intend to do nothin' for nobody, no time." As for BlueSky…
November 13, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Good snaps!

My iPhone pics came out just like yours.
An arc from the aurora jets into the night sky
November 13, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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This was taken a little earlier in the night. The battery died right as things were getting good.
November 13, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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Tonight’s aurora in Michigan.
November 13, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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Running a timelapse on my camera. For now, here’s an iPhone pic of the aurora in southern Michigan.
The black silhouette of a cornfield set against the bright green and pink of the northern lights. Pillars stretch high into the sky throughout the aurora.
November 13, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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And doing whatever this is.
November 12, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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An embarrassing Leto joker costume with a speech bubble pointing down.
November 12, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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Brock licking sudowoodo
November 12, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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If I were a wealthy nepo baby, I would just spend my days doing shit like this. Instead of pretending that I cared about public service.

Can we just fucking stop with the family dynasties?
November 12, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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Rita Hayworth with messy hair, covering her face. From the perfect film Gilda (1946)
November 12, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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Live look at Jay in Bsky HQ
Stephen Stucker grinning while holding an orange extension cord.
November 11, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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A quote post by Aidan McLaughlin @aidnmclaughlin which reads: A data point on how much Mamdani's win in New York has resonated on the right: on Fox News, "affordability" has been mentioned 240 times since last Tuesday The original post is by Aaron Rupar • @atrupar and features a Fox News video of Laura Ingraham. Aaron’s post reads INGRAHAM: Is affordability a voter perception issue of the economy, or is there more that needs to be done by Republicans? TRUMP: More than anything else, it's a con job by the Democrats. Are you ready? Costs are way down.
November 11, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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200 letters sent! Nice!

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November 10, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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R Pattz looking up as "goo" falls through the grates of the Lighthouse lantern room.
November 10, 2025 at 3:40 PM