@skajolly.bsky.social
Elderly kinda lefty bookworm. Ace, neurodivergent. Please no unsolicited dms.
Guillotines
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And this is adding onto the brain drain which already occurred during his first administration.
I've posted about this before, but the China Initiative drove a lot of scientists out of the country.
If you care about this lost opportunity then share. @froomkin.bsky.social @normornstein.bsky.social @kevinmkruse.bsky.social @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social @gregsargent.bsky.social @mollyjongfast.bsky.social @maddow.msnbc.com
31.10.2025 14:57 — 👍 258 🔁 89 💬 8 📌 2
ET plays dress up
HAPPY HALLOWEEN 🎃👻🧡🖤👽👽👻🎃
31.10.2025 21:25 — 👍 75 🔁 24 💬 5 📌 0I am going through old sketchbooks before I shove them into another closet and am somewhat bemused by the notes I wrote to my future self.
“pecked to death by iron-eyed albatrosses”
“Archaeopteryx girl at the cliffs of oolong”
“Eve tastes the Bacon of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.”
If this post gets 500 likes I’ll put a tokay gecko in my pants
01.11.2025 00:03 — 👍 96 🔁 14 💬 9 📌 0
The cover to INSIDE THREAT, a green mossy book with ruins and archways over a woman's figure.
INSIDE THREAT is coming!
The sixth Rachel Peng book follows our heroine as she goes to New Orleans, finds domestic terrorists, accidentally adopts a dog, and gets extremely drunk with a sexy arms dealer. Also, murder.
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Saw a news. Hyperventilated. Here is an emotional support book giveaway: 6 copies of @kbspangler.com's Stoneskin: Prequel to the Deep Witches Trilogy, which is a book I love, and have given out the most copies of.
#KindleBookGiveaway
Sean is giving away copies of my book, STONESKIN! Thank you, Sean!!!
31.10.2025 21:29 — 👍 41 🔁 6 💬 3 📌 0In honor of Halloween, I just read a horror novel and wanted to write up a quick micro-review thread here. Presenting: @mcmanlypants.bsky.social's Children of Solitude. Thread: 1/ www.skylightbooks.com/book/9798992...
31.10.2025 19:06 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1I grew up on food stamps--not SNAP, physical paper stamps that came in a little book that Mom kept in her purse.
31.10.2025 20:43 — 👍 546 🔁 78 💬 8 📌 20JD: This isn't fair.
JD's PR team as they take a swig from their Yeti bottle of "water" again: Try eight years of training just to work for the couchfucker, couchfucker.
JD: What?
JD's PR team: What?
JD: But...but the big guy got away with saying you can grab 'em by the pussy! Just days before the election!
JD's PR team as they sigh and pull out the big chart again: See, the problem is that you have negative charisma. Negative. You drain it out of everyone around you. A charisma vampire.
A white femme with black hair and a white streak with black and teal makeup and rhinestones.
HallowPaints.
31.10.2025 20:41 — 👍 318 🔁 10 💬 34 📌 1
Happy Halloween 🎃 Here is my annual reminder that i have cool Mothman plushies 😎
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The pride is back, baby! Submitted for the Approval of the Midnight Pals: The Podcast is BACK, with a special Halloween treat -- the pals finally get back at those bullies over at Clarion West! midnight-pals.simplecast.com/episodes/the...
31.10.2025 17:14 — 👍 62 🔁 25 💬 3 📌 3
Namesake Halloween art
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SQUIRREL OF THE DAY!
SQUIRREL OF THE DAY!
HAPPY HALLOWEEN
MOTHERFUDGING
SQUIRREL OF THE DAY!
If good little queers leave out cookies and milk on Halloween, Joel Schumacher's ghost appears to bring you an overly muscled saxophone player for no particular reason whatsoever.
31.10.2025 14:30 — 👍 133 🔁 36 💬 4 📌 1Around 1pm EST! Thread will be under the main post, mute or unfollow if you don't want spoilers/chatter/horror/three hours of me shouting "Ursula, what is WRONG with you?"
31.10.2025 13:11 — 👍 83 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 1Hell yeah this is my rep in Colorado.
31.10.2025 13:47 — 👍 103 🔁 21 💬 4 📌 3
A middle-aged woman with shoulder length brown hair and glasses wearing a red shirtdress with a Star Trek insignia. She is smiling, unworried about what usually happens to people wearing red shirts in Star Trek episodes.
People at work seem a little worried about my Halloween costume. But there’s nothing to worry about when wearing a red shirt, right @scalzi.com ?
31.10.2025 12:48 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Four characters from SIDE QUESTED, two human and two chimera, stare off-panel as an ominous "rrrrrrrr" sound grows in intensity
an earth-shattering comic KA-BOOM! which takes out a large chunk of a modern skyscraper building.
Happy Halloween! It's update day for SIDE QUESTED, in which Molly is smolly but fierce.
And! FAMILY DEMONS is here! Our new Patreon-exclusive #webcomic starts with an earth-shattering KA-BOOM!
sidequested.com
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I know lots of y’all have already read HOUNDED but you probably know someone who hasn’t, and now’s your chance to get them hooked on Oberon for cheap. It’s on sale in Ebook for $1.99 until Nov. 6! All platforms in the U.S. and maybe Canada (??). SO MANY SAUSAGES
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At the same time, there are legitimate debates about the best ways to feed the needy, how many should qualify and how much they should get. In the 1970s, 1 in 50 Americans received food stamps. Now, 1 in 8 do. On average, these households get $322 a month. Are 42 million Americans really in such danger of suffering malnutrition that the federal government should spend about $100 billion every year
Certainly, many need the help. The American Enterprise Institute's Kevin Corinth estimates that 2.9 million individuals willbe pushed into poverty if SNAP benefits are not paid in November, including 1.1 million children, 1.3 million working-age adults and about 500,000 seniors. But no one should aspire for large segments of the population to depend on government handouts. The program could certainly be designed better to not discourage work. Ultimately, the best way to help over the long run is to grow the economy, which leads to job creation and rising wages.
Are you people fucking kidding me with this shit @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
31.10.2025 03:04 — 👍 1541 🔁 202 💬 129 📌 118Maybe @washingtonpost.com should do a deep dive on how many need it today due to corporate robbers not paying a livable wage. Maybe think of it as corporate welfare for them to report more profit by squeezing 15% of their cost. Oligarchy in action
31.10.2025 03:11 — 👍 81 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0You’re really doing “do THAT many kids REALLY need to eat food”? This is what you’re doing? This is free markets and individual liberties? I don’t know how you sleep at night or look at yourself in the mirror in the morning. Absolutely fucking disgraceful.
31.10.2025 03:08 — 👍 987 🔁 71 💬 10 📌 3
Ahead of the 1st shutdown of US food aid to hungry Americans in 60 years, some of the 200,000 Little Free Library locations are converting into food pantries. Thanks @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social
30.10.2025 20:31 — 👍 7024 🔁 2680 💬 74 📌 179This is literally Nazi shit. This is what the Nazis did. If you support this, you are a Nazi, and if that makes you upset, then STOP BEING A FUCKING NAZI
30.10.2025 17:20 — 👍 5647 🔁 1966 💬 69 📌 31
Three examples in one 24-hour period of people threatening to use the power of the state against those holding them to account.
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