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Anna Possi has been brewing espressos and serving coffees in northern Italy for more than 80 years.

Possi turned 101 on Sunday. She has no intention to retire.

"I have customers who are now grandparents and come in with their grandchildren," Possi said.

17.11.2025 18:41 β€” πŸ‘ 167    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2
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degoogle A huge list of alternatives to Google products. Privacy tips, tricks, and links.

De-Google your shit git.tycrek.com/archive/dego...

13.11.2025 14:42 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Repost this everywhere you’re active on social media. Send to your friends and family who aren’t.

16.11.2025 23:48 β€” πŸ‘ 5703    πŸ” 2845    πŸ’¬ 54    πŸ“Œ 49
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Canada could face β€˜worst kind’ of flu season as experts warn evolving strain may be mismatch for vaccine | CBC News With flu cases now rising in Canada, medical experts are bracing for a difficult influenza season linked to the global spread of an evolving H3N2 strain that could be a mismatch for this year’s vaccin...

Masking works. My respirator has kept me free from Covid and flu for six years. 😷

Vaccines are great, but not inhaling viruses into your body is super cool when vaccines do not provide 100% protection. Vaccines & masking in combination FTW.

09.11.2025 13:43 β€” πŸ‘ 101    πŸ” 39    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 5

Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behindβ€”they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.

16.11.2025 00:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1684    πŸ” 462    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 15
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Donate - Authors Against Book Bans Thank you for donating to Authors Against Book Bans. Your donation directly supports the freedom to read by powering our work with our partner organizations, bringing the author muscle to the fight to...

Hooray! @authorsabb.bsky.social is *OFFICIALLY* a nonprofit, and is now open for donations!

For the last two years we've been doing all this w free tools, or paying out of pocket, & we were STILL able to get SO MUCH DONE.

Imagine what we could do with $$$

www.authorsagainstbookbans.com/donate/

14.11.2025 17:47 β€” πŸ‘ 450    πŸ” 239    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 11
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How much have temperatures risen in countries across the world? Explore country-by-country data on monthly temperature anomalies.

ourworldindata.org/temperature-...

13.11.2025 20:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Y’all need to learn how to 'yes AND'. There’s a lot of rejecting or dismissing facts because the framing is incorrect/immoral/trite, etc. but that’s doesn’t change the FACT. You can still use and share the FACT while altering or arguing against the framing in which said information was shared.

15.11.2025 21:25 β€” πŸ‘ 516    πŸ” 74    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 3
Tiny pink and cream colored cube under 2mm stuck to the surface of a leaf. There were several, scattered around randomly, but the photo is cropped to show the one that was in best focus. The second picture shows a bit of my thumbnail in the corner, with sparkly nail polish.

Tiny pink and cream colored cube under 2mm stuck to the surface of a leaf. There were several, scattered around randomly, but the photo is cropped to show the one that was in best focus. The second picture shows a bit of my thumbnail in the corner, with sparkly nail polish.

Tiny pink and cream colored cube under 2mm stuck to the surface of a leaf. There were several, scattered around randomly, but the photo is cropped to show the one that was in best focus. The second picture shows a bit of my thumbnail in the corner, with sparkly nail polish.

Tiny pink and cream colored cube under 2mm stuck to the surface of a leaf. There were several, scattered around randomly, but the photo is cropped to show the one that was in best focus. The second picture shows a bit of my thumbnail in the corner, with sparkly nail polish.

Diminutive fairy wombat poop. Tiny cubes under 2mm on each side.

These are egg sacs made by a spider in the family Theridiosomatidae.

They made yesterday’s hike special. Finding something I’ve never seen before is such a thrill.

🌱 #nature #macro #spider

10.11.2025 21:48 β€” πŸ‘ 485    πŸ” 109    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 19
The team behind CEASEFIRE!

The team behind CEASEFIRE!

Conflict resolution experts at UofG have developed an alternative to traditional wargaming. πŸ’»

CEASEFIRE! is a 2D strategy game developed by
@uofglaw.bsky.social, @uofggameslab.bsky.social and Education Evolved which encourages players to resolve conflict peacefully.

Read more: gla.ac/47T2Izr

13.11.2025 13:54 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ... 423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...

I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.

Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...

15.11.2025 05:57 β€” πŸ‘ 3670    πŸ” 1430    πŸ’¬ 139    πŸ“Œ 282
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find someone who will wear a big overcoat with you

IG meetcutesnyc

15.11.2025 00:37 β€” πŸ‘ 4883    πŸ” 490    πŸ’¬ 64    πŸ“Œ 56

Every time Covid and learning loss hits the news, people act like the only factor is folk staying home and learning online, rather than… Living through a global mass death event.

14.11.2025 20:51 β€” πŸ‘ 3745    πŸ” 586    πŸ’¬ 91    πŸ“Œ 73

I'm so tired of this idea that I have no ownership of my own work because I posted it on the internet, but the place I posted it to does own it and can sell it, to companies that are putting me and mine out of work, but if I don't post on the internet no one will see it. When do I get to benefit?

27.02.2024 21:37 β€” πŸ‘ 51    πŸ” 26    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Get your shots, folks. It won't prevent you from getting infected, but it could lessen the severity and keep you out of the hospital.

14.11.2025 01:05 β€” πŸ‘ 293    πŸ” 47    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 1
Blue stone surrounding a gold metal core

Blue stone surrounding a gold metal core

Long ago on the hell site I made long list of historically interesting things to use in dnd ttrpgs and I'll start dragging them over here starting with

2000 years-old sapphire ring presumably belonged to Roman emperor Caligula, depicting his fourth wife Caesonia.

13.11.2025 03:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2628    πŸ” 663    πŸ’¬ 37    πŸ“Œ 99
A white background with black text that reads Things you should NEVER apologize for:
β€’ Crying
β€’ Depression/Anxiety
β€’ How you feel
β€’ Needing/asking for help
β€’ Expressing your opinion
β€’ Taking time to regain peace
β€’ Having high standards
β€’ Being sensitive/emotional
β€’ Trusting your intuition
β€’ Being yourself
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A white background with black text that reads Things you should NEVER apologize for: β€’ Crying β€’ Depression/Anxiety β€’ How you feel β€’ Needing/asking for help β€’ Expressing your opinion β€’ Taking time to regain peace β€’ Having high standards β€’ Being sensitive/emotional β€’ Trusting your intuition β€’ Being yourself β€’

Just a Thursday reminder 🫢🏽✨

13.11.2025 12:57 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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DOCTYPE magazine πŸš€βŒ¨οΈ ’80s BASIC type-in mags are back, but this time for HTML!

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Back in the ’80s there were printed mags of BASIC programs to type in, we’ve brought that back but for web pages!
10 amazing games, toys, puzzles and utilities, no coding knowledge needed
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11.11.2025 12:01 β€” πŸ‘ 113    πŸ” 64    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 20
Full-color image of the Cathedral of Barcelona, composed on a typewriter by Montserrat Alberich EscardΓ­vol. Image from WikiMedia.

Full-color image of the Cathedral of Barcelona, composed on a typewriter by Montserrat Alberich EscardΓ­vol. Image from WikiMedia.

Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich EscardΓ­vol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.

12.11.2025 16:19 β€” πŸ‘ 2863    πŸ” 942    πŸ’¬ 53    πŸ“Œ 102
A bookcase near a doorway, through which you can see another bookcase. There are maybe 150 books visible, with very few duplicates; they are shelved fairly tightly, with only one face out.

A bookcase near a doorway, through which you can see another bookcase. There are maybe 150 books visible, with very few duplicates; they are shelved fairly tightly, with only one face out.

A book open to a page with text about William Caslon, a printer and font creator. The text is actually in Centaur, which was created by Bruce Rogers. This is from Rogers' book about creating Centaur, actually.

A book open to a page with text about William Caslon, a printer and font creator. The text is actually in Centaur, which was created by Bruce Rogers. This is from Rogers' book about creating Centaur, actually.

Let's talk about books and the public trust.

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Something that is easy to forget, in these days of barcode-scanning / auto-adjust pricing on third-party platforms for pennies plus shipping:

Booksellers are not merely people who sell some popular books in a competitive market.

12.11.2025 20:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2221    πŸ” 430    πŸ’¬ 32    πŸ“Œ 20

Joke’s on everyone who said liberal arts degrees don’t prepare you for the real world - my studies in rise of the Third Reich now doubles as a survival guide.

11.11.2025 06:04 β€” πŸ‘ 4159    πŸ” 634    πŸ’¬ 122    πŸ“Œ 26

I Want You to Understand Chicago
Politics Chicago
2025-11-08

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. β€œWe could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st.

Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. β€œWe could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

09.11.2025 20:49 β€” πŸ‘ 10262    πŸ” 5651    πŸ’¬ 114    πŸ“Œ 340

BREAKING: The Supreme Court denied an attempt to challenge Obergefell v. Hodges, the case affirming marriage equality nationwide.

Our freedom to marry remains the law of the land.

10.11.2025 14:46 β€” πŸ‘ 11824    πŸ” 2746    πŸ’¬ 248    πŸ“Œ 412
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β€˜Sesame Street’ premiered on this day 56 years ago! (November 10, 1969)

#SesameStreetDay #SesameStreet

10.11.2025 19:22 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Reposting because, and I say this with love, some of you are going to see this and go β€œoh shit, I need to check my bottle” and then immediately forget about it so if this could affect you, go check right now before you even scroll to the next post, I mean it.

05.11.2025 20:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1951    πŸ” 2344    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 8

Here are some "On Tyranny" free resources to use and to share
bsky.app/profile/timo...

05.11.2025 15:36 β€” πŸ‘ 334    πŸ” 133    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 3
Photo of a black and white shorthaired cat with green eyes lying on a plush light blue blanket. Her face has an adorable little grinchy expression.

Photo of a black and white shorthaired cat with green eyes lying on a plush light blue blanket. Her face has an adorable little grinchy expression.

This is Her Royal Highness. She is the sweetest lady with the cutest little grinchy face! She was found as a pregnant stray, and when her own kitten didn't make it she very lovingly raised some orphaned kittens as her own. Adoptable in Burlington, VT! www.hsccvt.org/Cats#sl_embe...

04.11.2025 18:07 β€” πŸ‘ 4742    πŸ” 518    πŸ’¬ 60    πŸ“Œ 18
Find Free Food and Groceries | Feeding America The Feeding America network of food banks and meal programs can help you find food and financial assistance.

If any friends have lost SNAP benefits this week or you know someone who has, below is a website where you can find a local food bank to help make ends meet.

Groceries can be tough, especially around the holidays.

www.feedingamerica.org/need-help-fi...

04.11.2025 17:01 β€” πŸ‘ 77    πŸ” 68    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 3
Illustration by @joyfulsmolthings featuring a warm, layered heart design. The background consists of concentric heart shapes in rich shades of orange, yellow, and gold, each bordered with a thin black outline and filled with subtle dotted textures that give a gentle, hand-drawn feel. At the centre of the image, inside the lightest heart, the handwritten text reads: β€œYour ability to feel other people’s pain doesn’t mean it’s your responsibility to fix it.” The overall tone of the illustration conveys empathy, compassion, and the importance of healthy emotional boundaries.

Illustration by @joyfulsmolthings featuring a warm, layered heart design. The background consists of concentric heart shapes in rich shades of orange, yellow, and gold, each bordered with a thin black outline and filled with subtle dotted textures that give a gentle, hand-drawn feel. At the centre of the image, inside the lightest heart, the handwritten text reads: β€œYour ability to feel other people’s pain doesn’t mean it’s your responsibility to fix it.” The overall tone of the illustration conveys empathy, compassion, and the importance of healthy emotional boundaries.

β€œYou are not required to set yourself on fire to keep other people warm.” Penny Reid

Caring deeply is a gift but it doesn’t mean we have to fix.

Sometimes the most powerful act of empathy is simply being there… fully present, steady, and kind.

🧑

#kindness #empathy
Picture by @joyfulsmolthings

04.11.2025 07:58 β€” πŸ‘ 115    πŸ” 24    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 3

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