AnneWith 🐝

@deadontheoutside.bsky.social

24 Nov 2025

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Guess it's time to pin this cartoon again. 😕 www.smbc-comics.com/comic/geopol...

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karanormal activity 💜

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perfect, no notes

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Damn, that's embarrassing: I deleted 2 skeets because while I was quote-skeeting about Teresa Wright, the movie stills I posted were Jeanne Crain. 🤦🏻‍♀️

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Anyway, Teresa Wright stars in my absolute favorite Hitchcock, Shadow of a Doubt. Here she is being vaguely menaced by Joseph Cotton, who portrays her dear Uncle Charlie. bsky.app/profile/toma...

Tomás Murray@tomasjmurray.bsky.social

It’s Teresa’s birthday tomorrow.

@anthonymkreis.bsky.social

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And here she is in The Best Years of Our Lives, an absolutely stellar post WWII film.

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Anthony Michael Kreis

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How racist and desperate do you have to be to look at this and say, “Got ‘em!”?

Anthony Michael Kreis@anthonymkreis.bsky.social

The White House put an AI video of Hillary, Chuck, Hakeem, Kamala, and Ilan jamming out to The Gap Band’s “Outstanding” like a Tiny Desk concert and described Democrats as “washed up,” but damn they never looked cooler. Total self-own.

salon.comHow Hegseth shattered the world Eisenhower madeThe defense secretary broke the 34th president's globe — and provided an inadvertent metaphor

Yet another metaphor which in fiction would have people calling the writer hackneyed & ham-fisted. 🤦🏻‍♀️ What's your favorite too-on-the-nose Trump era metaphor?

Salon.com@salon.com

The defense secretary broke the 34th president's globe — and provided an inadvertent metaphor.

pbs.orgThe East Wing of the White House has been demolished. Here’s a look at its historySeveral preservation groups have expressed concern in recent weeks about the project, which is the first major change to the exterior of the White House in 83 years.

Can't forget how Trump wrecked the People's House: www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

wjla.com'Giant death trap': Group calls for investigation of dead ducks near Reflecting PoolAn environmental group is calling for a federal investigation after multiple ducks were reportedly found dead near the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in D.C.

Rounding it out with the Reflecting Pool: wjla.com/news/local/d...

salon.comHow Hegseth shattered the world Eisenhower madeThe defense secretary broke the 34th president's globe — and provided an inadvertent metaphor

Yet another metaphor which in fiction would have people calling the writer hackneyed & ham-fisted. 🤦🏻‍♀️ What's your favorite too-on-the-nose Trump era metaphor?

Salon.com@salon.com

The defense secretary broke the 34th president's globe — and provided an inadvertent metaphor.

mining.comTrump’s US ‘gold dollar’ coin has no precious metalThe Mint's gold Trump $1 coin for America's 250th anniversary stirs debate on its gold content, legality, and symbolism.

This is a good one. (Of course, the gilding Trump's added to the White House isn't actual gold either.) www.mining.com/trumps-us-go...

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li

@sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com

if voting didn't matter they wouldn't be working so hard to stop you

The Associated Press@apnews.com

The long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has conceded defeat in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government.

bit.lySerbia’s strongman leader Vucic concedes defeat to student-led movement in seismic political shiftThe long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has conceded defeat in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government.

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Charles Louis Richter

@richterscale.bsky.social

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Thomas Zimmer

@thomaszimmer.bsky.social

The Right’s Fascistic Fever Dreams Are a Sign of Weakness MAGA wants us to believe that Trump can simply declare “martial law” and wipe away the system - but it’s just not true. A threat assessment before the midterms. Some thoughts from my new piece: 🧵

steady.pageThe Right’s Fascistic Fever Dreams Are a Sign of WeaknessMAGA wants us to believe that Trump can simply declare “martial law” and wipe away the system - but it’s just not true. A threat assessment before the midterms.

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The Wolfpack

@wolfpack11720.bsky.social

"The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." ~ Plato @deadder.bsky.social

sbellefeuille.bsky.social

Every accusation is a confession, part eleventy-two

Morgan J Freeman@mjfree.bsky.social

Well, well, well…. An analysis of voter registration records reveals Republican operative Scott Presler had 3 out-of-state voters use his Pennsylvania address to vote in the 2024 election. This is what voter fraud looks like.

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Merriam-Webster

@merriam-webster.com

We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps: -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It's 'buck naked' -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’ -It’s ‘toe the line'

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@sbellefeuille.bsky.social

Loved this.

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paulpro

@mariopro.bsky.social

It's only a bummer when the narcissist in question actually wins. But for those who remember the 2008 election, remember Rudy Giuliani's performance? Mmmmm 😎

Martin #509@martin509.bsky.social

One reason I kinda envy the US primary system is because it is really, really funny to watch conceited, narcissistic morons like him burn millions of dollars to get 5th place in Iowa because they act like they are the first guy to ever run for president.

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Greg Pak

@gregpak.net

Replying to @gregpak.net

I'm blocking @mary1kathy.bsky.social and adding the account to my blocklists. Life is too short and the times are too serious to fuck around with disinformation and "A.i." bullshit. For accountability, here's the screenshot of the video they posted.

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Greg Pak

@gregpak.net

This is "A.i." bullshit and if this account doesn't take it down within minutes, you should block the account.

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youtube.comWho is human— historically? #history #historyshorts #historyfacts #historytime #slaveryYouTube video by Eva Schubert

Just saw this banger of a short on YouTube. Bad things happen when you don't recognize a group as fully human deserving of rights www.youtube.com/shorts/UZfpB...

This thread is a banger. Terfs/GC frame trans women in women's spaces as would be predators waiting to attack, when in reality trans women are women who need that space for the reason it was intended. Transphobes don't see trans people as actual people, but as an amorphous scary mass.

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youtube.comKansas trans men protest state's bathroom law by following itYouTube video by NBC News

And of course, terfs/GC/transphobes are laser focused on trans women, overlooking what their desired laws do to trans men. bsky.app/profile/indi...

AnneWith 🐝@indigoace.bsky.social

When Ty Masterson & crew rammed an asinine bathroom bill through the Kansas legislature, they didn't take trans men into account. Now a group of trans men, the Compliance Crew, are protesting the law by complying with it. Good for them! ❤️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBt1...

If a trans man needs to pee and you insist that all trans people use the toilet according to their gender assigned at birth, you are insisting that a man enter the women's bathroom. You are yourself arguing that women's spaces be breached by a man. You have just created what you claim to fear.

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penguinrandomhouse.comA Pox on Fools by Thomas Levenson: 9798217155002 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: BooksAn urgent and profound history of vaccine skepticism, seeking to understand how our three most common fears about vaccines hardened into a lethal ideology—from a leading science writer “Brimming...

(It reminds me of that quote, "Feminism is the radical notion that women are people." Contrary to what terfs/GC/transphobes believe, trans women are women and trans women are people.)

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Jonathan Howard

@joho.bsky.social

Tom is 100% right and he’s saying this as someone who wrote a history of the antivaxx movement.

Boston Tom Levenson@tomlevenson.bsky.social

Kennedy's HHS spews falsehood from every pore. People have and will die as a result. This is not a "reasonable people disagree" moment. mRNA vaccines did not kill kids. COVID did. Measles vaccines do not cause autism. Measles can leave its victims with lifelong issues; it kills some. And so on.

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Micah

@rincewind.run

literally this comic except he apparently lives in Czechia instead of Nebraska

Charlie Warzel@cwarzel.bsky.social

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

theatlantic.comThe Man Who Saved the Internet YesterdayOndřej Surý was a relatively anonymous volunteer working on PHP security. Then the internet exploded.

There were 2 or 3 places that used to offer spaghetti by the bucket when I first moved to Springfield. I miss them. (I usually ordered some extra sauce on the side, though, because the noodle-to-sauce ratio was way too high,)

Discontinued FoOoOods! 👻🎃@discontinuedfoods.bsky.social

Diner beware, you're in for a scare...the discontinuation of the giant, cheap bucket of spaghetti from Little Caesars

lagondolaspaghettihouse.comLaGondola Spaghetti House | Scratch-Made Italian FoodLaGondola Spaghetti House serves scratch-made Italian favorites — spaghetti, ravioli, tortellini, lasagna & torpedoes. Order online for delivery or pickup.

LaGondola lives on! Just not in Springfield. 🙁 lagondolaspaghettihouse.com/en-US

avantisnormal.comBest Italian Food in Bloomington Normal | Avanti's Italian RestaurantAvanti's serves the best Italian food in Bloomington-Normal! Home of the Gondola... Our bread is made from scratch, baked fresh daily. Check out Avanti's in Normal, IL (309) 452-4436.

🤦🏻‍♀️ *Bloomington* IL was the place with 3 spaghetti-by-the-bucket places, not Springfield. Stupid memory. Avanti's is the 3rd place, you can get it by the half-gallon or gallon. But the real star at Avanti's is the bread. 🤤 The rest of the food is also great! avantisnormal.com

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Diner beware, you're in for a scare...the discontinuation of the giant, cheap bucket of spaghetti from Little Caesars

I *think* the main place I remember is The Spaghetti Shop, but La Gondola in Bloomington also did spaghetti-by-the-bucket. And TIL there's a chain out west called By the Bucket. Cool!

It's amazing the number of norms that have just been shattered in the last 10 years. Do you remember how shocking it was when Trump started having rallies after he became President? (Or was it just me finding it shocking?) He had 10 rallies in 2017, the 1st less than a month after his inauguration!

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Rep. Jim McGovern

@repmcgovern.bsky.social

Pete Hegseth likes to call himself the “Secretary of War.” If he wants a new made up title, he should go by the Secretary of War Crimes.

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Schooley

@schooley.bsky.social

The psychic damage Trump winning twice has done is it's no longer safe to mock the chances of spectacularly unqualified candidates with name recognition.

And when journalists do ask, too often it's a carefully curated group or demographic. How many stories ran about Trump voters in 2017? Way too many. How many stories featured Clinton voters? Less than 5, and one was in the Toronto Star.

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(Not to mention all the interviews with "undecided voters" who turn out to be Republican Party officials or operatives.)

theonion.comNot Sure How They Deal With Criminals In Your Town, But ’Round Here We Use A Restorative Justice ProcessWell, well, well. What have we got here? Another city slicker who thinks he can waltz into my town and start causin’ all sorts of trouble. I’d be careful if I was you, fella. Because however they do t...

"There’ll be no disenfranchisin’ of marginalized populations on my watch." theonion.com/not-sure-how...

mississippifreepress.orgKohen Wiley Shooting ‘Was Justified,’ Mississippi AG SaysThe police shooting that killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley as he sat in his mother’s lap in a Walmart parking lot in Senatobia, Miss., in June “was justified,” Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch’s…

How could this possibly be justified? No one was threatening the cop, and the whole thing was over *shoplifting*. Jesus wept. Mississippi exists so that Arkansas has someone to look down on, I swear.

Ashton Pittman@ashtonpittman.bsky.social

JUST IN: The police shooting that killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley as he sat in his mother’s lap in a Walmart parking lot in Senatobia, Miss., in June “was justified,” Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch’s office said on Monday. Her office will not charge the white officer who shot the child.

youtube.comKansas trans men protest state's bathroom law by following itYouTube video by NBC News

This is amazing. 🥲❤️ (Alt text in the 1st reply to the quoted skeet).

Noelle@finallynoelle.bsky.social

So we fly a pride flag in our front yard in a very conservative neighborhood and it’s been there for the last few years. Someone put this in our mailbox and my goodness…

I love the mission statement which appears in the nested skeet below (reposting to add alt text). This is a great thread, and museums are incredible!

J Pardo@jdpardo.bsky.social

I posted this last week without comment, but I'm going to comment now. The people who established the system of museums in the West had a very specific reason for doing so: they thought that having an appreciation for the wonders of the world was absolutely necessary for being a good citizen.

P.S. I love libraries, too. This is the old Little Rock library, which was built on the site of the old Carnegie library. I adored everything about it, from the books to the huge globe to the powdered soap in the restrooms. It smelled of fine stone and paper. ❤️

(The new library (the Central Arkansas Library System Main Library, if you want to get technical about it) was opened in 1997, replacing the building from childhood. I'm not really familiar with it since I moved to Illinois in the 80s, but I include it for the sake of completeness.)

I love the mission statement which appears in the nested skeet below (reposting to add alt text). This is a great thread, and museums are incredible!

J Pardo@jdpardo.bsky.social

Here's another exhibit which had a huge impact on me: Paris Street, Rainy Day by Gustave Caillebotte. It's in the Art Institute of Chicago (fabulous place!), and again, the size is overwhelming: 212.2 cm × 276.2 cm (83.5 in × 108.7 in). Seeing things in person can affect how you react to them!

Anyway, I'm a huge fan. ❤️

I love the mission statement which appears in the nested skeet below (reposting to add alt text). This is a great thread, and museums are incredible!

J Pardo@jdpardo.bsky.social

Some things are better appreciated in person. For instance, the Rosetta Stone. It was always shown in my textbooks as below, & my impression was of a flat slab of rock, maybe about 2" thick, about the size of a laptop. Then I saw it at the British Museum in 1983. That sucker is huge!