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I have three pairs of Bibi's compression gloves and several pairs of their cute compression thigh highs, too.

It's good not only supporting a Black disabled-owned business, but the value is incredible compared to mass produced versions of these items available at large retailers!

Hey, Mo’s on the front line, this is a nice way to help out for those of us out of state.

The majority of people on the right I know and what I see from right wingers online is they have a politics as sports worldview. 👇 They think bringing up Bill Clinton in regards to the Epstein Files is a gotcha. However, I don't know a single Democrat who defends him.

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A poster on a wall among bookshelves. It's in glorious color with pink peonies along the bottom. The text reads 'Unattended children will be given an enthusiastic explanation of intersectional feminism.'

My daughter is on a junket to New York with her online peeps. She sent me this poster from the Ripped Bodice:

#CovidIsNotOver #LongCovid

very heartening to see even many of the people driving by stopping to yell at them

these guys are gassing themselves up online with stupid memes but in person they are the villains and everyone knows it

This is an age where you start to think, "I'm too old to get started on X. I'll be 37 (or whatever) by the time I'm finished!"

Most of the fear attached to that is the being 37 part. But you'll be 37 eventually anyway. So jump past that and decide what kind of 37-year-old you want to be.

On every interactive internet-connected device around the world, a question came up in the user's preferred language:

"Do you agree or disagree with the proposition that it is morally wrong to claim you can own the body of another sentient being?"

I'm really curious to see the result of that poll.

If you are a regular here at Bluesky and don’t know what this is about, it’s probably because you’re not trans.

Get enough exercise, brush and floss, eat your vegetables, and wear sunblock.

Seriously, it will make such a huge difference to your quality of life when you are fifty or sixty, you have no idea.

Their new album is coming out soon!

You can't raid and arrest everyone in an entire apartment building, or even legitimately get a warrant to do that, any more than you could for a whole neighborhood. That would be a general warrant. This is the most specific core the-British-did-it-to-us thing the Fourth Amendment is written to ban.

Government Workers Say Their Out-of-Office Replies Were Forcibly Changed to Blame Democrats for Shutdown Some employees at the Department of Education changed their responses back to the more neutral language, only to have it changed yet again to the partisan response, multiple sources tell WIRED.

NEW! Dept of Education workers say their OOO replies were forcibly changed to blame Democrats for shutdown. When employees changed their responses back to the more neutral language, it changed yet again to the partisan response.

@wired.com @leahfeiger.bsky.social

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we are but inches from a return to publishers inserting soup ads directly into the text again

(yes, this is a real thing, it happened to Terry Pratchett in Germany)

This comment nails it. Frankly it’s none of anyone’s business who else is in a public lavatory, even if they consider someone is in the “wrong” one. If you’re upset by the mere presence of somebody else for reasons of your own beliefs, that’s your problem.

a democratically elected congresswoman is being denied her seat because the speaker simply does not want to seat her and leadership is as unconcerned about this as they seem to be about everything else

U.S. Pulls Plug on Haiti’s Last Big Industry The end of a trade initiative imperils embattled clothing exporters that employ thousands who make garments for Hanes, Calvin Klein and Gap.

For nearly two decades, the U.S. provided a lifeline to Haiti: duty-free textile imports that drew American apparel manufacturers and created tens of thousands of jobs in the Western Hemisphere’s poorest country. As of Wednesday, that lifeline is no more. www.wsj.com/world/americ...

2 years ago I worked on a project to restore a 1920s WHS railway station bookstall. It was in pieces & in a bad state. A colleague & I found old photos of it in the WHS archive at @themerl.bsky.social which helped the restoration work. Look at it now👇 Full story www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Hundreds plunge in Chicago River for first official swim in nearly 100 years Group participates in previously unthinkable mile-long swim after US made key progress to clean polluted rivers

Some 300 swimmers looped through downtown Chicago in the first official river swim since 1927, a milestone made possible by decades of cleanup, starting with the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency and Clean Water Act in the 1970s. buff.ly/QiC1WZD
#ShareGoodNewsToo

every day JB is out there showing none of this is hard, the democratic party is just that soft

I am quick at playing board games; I have nine skills; I forget runes slowly; the book is a preoccupation with me and also craftsmanship. I am able to glide on skis; I shoot and I row so that it makes a difference; I am able to understand both: harp-playing and poems. — Earl Rognvald of Orkney, trans. Judith Jesch.

Weirdly enough I was telling my first-years about "warrior ethos" last week.

Here's the skill set of a Top Viking, as set out by a dude who'd have gone through anyone using the phrase "warrior ethos" like a well-aimed axe.

Some true things (a non-exhaustive list):
--Kindness is never a mistake.
--Libraries are wonderful.
--You should drink more water than you are.
--If you're grouchy, eat something.
--No one is perfect. Pedestals are not safe for anyone.
--Love is the answer to a lot of questions.
--You are valuable.

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

FCC moves to end discounts for Wi-Fi hotspot lending and school bus connectivity The Federal Communications Commission voted to end discounts for library and school Wi-Fi hotspot lending programs on Tuesday, drawing criticism from lawmakers and librarians who say the move will mak...

Trump's FCC yesterday voted to kill a program that provided free Wi-Fi to rural school kids at no cost to taxpayers, falsely claiming the program was "illegal" and was being used to "censor Conservative ideology."

People of Illinois, we need your help.

Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors.

We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

This Day in Labor History: September 30, 1919. A shootout occurred between armed guards protecting a union meeting of sharecroppers in Elaine, Arkansas and whites seeking to intimidate them. The next day, the governor ordered the military to massacre the workers!!! This is the Elaine Massacre!

Hey remember when the CDC dropped 6 of the 8 foodborne illnesses from the nationwide monitoring system in July and one of them was listeria? Mentioning for no particular reason www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

I can't get over how the right-wing doesn't understand modern militaries, with the majority serving non-combat roles. You think the best IT security & logistics personnel spends two hours in the gym every day to look like the cast of 300? They're at furry conventions and model train shows.

Black people actually did call all of this, so did Indigenous people. White people just thought we were exaggerating because you were fine with the violence toward communities that you thought wouldn't include you. But the thru line from eugenics, bleach, and Ivermectin to here was incredibly clear

the law of the short underpass is, at least, immediately self-enforcing