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  HUGE relief tonight: Lula is reelected in Brazil--fuck the Bolosonaros; and in Serbia, the protesting student candidates win over half the seat in the legislature, forcing the authoritarian leader there to concede defeat. #Brazil #Serbia #Politics Brazil election results: https://www.reuters.com/live/brazil-election-live-lula-bolsonaro-face-off-presidential-runoff-2026-10-25/ Serbia election results: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/serbias-vucic-concedes-defeat-student-led-movement-parl...

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  RE: https://kind.social/@azteclady/117467822777896945 ICYMI

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  #JoyScrolling Once upon a time, a set designer for a children's movie bought a prop--a painting--for a few hundred dollars. Turns out, it was an avant garde masterpiece lost since the 1920s! https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/27/stuart-little-art-historian-long-lost-hungarian-masterpiece

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  RE: https://kind.social/@azteclady/117457870034827656 #PSA Everything Zuckerberg touches will be used to harm you, exhibit I lost track several thousands ago: Hanna' Tamez: "Meta removed “train” from its upcoming commercial terms. But the terms still allow broad website scraping and could potentially supersede robots.txt." https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/legal-experts-warn-metas-new-terms-still-grant-broad-scraping-permissions-despite-language-changes/ #MetaTOS #G...

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  RE: https://kind.social/@azteclady/117453965195664096 ICYMI #JoyScrolling

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  I have just been made aware that this exists, and it may be a game changer! Also of note: it's part of a series for people living alone! #Baking #Cooking

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  Anyone familiar with "weaponized incompetence" can recognize Republicans' "weaponized helplessness". Like Susan Collins claiming she couldn't have predicted Kavanaugh's or Amy Coney Barrett's role in fucking us all over on Roe: they want what Trump's doing, they understand it's bad PR, we get this. And supposedly non-Republican media provides cover by not pointing this out or ever connecting the dots for their...

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  RE: https://kind.social/@Zaelriel/117475469720856875 #JoyScrolling

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  It's been...one of those weeks. And then, just now, I broke a molar right down to the root so both parts are operating independently from each other (meaning, not even soft food is safe, as it gets in the crack and puts pressure that hurts) How safe would it be to pull the 'floating' part out? ETA: this is more uncomfortable than painful. I think the nerve has been dead for a long time, so the pain comes from pressure when the 'loose' part moves against...

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  #Reading #SALE Vie Sean Eric Fagan on Bluesky: The Inheritance Trilogy by N K Jemisin is on sale for US$3.00 (georestricted to the U.S.). This contains all three novels, *plus* "The Awakened Kingdom" novella. (check your preferred format/book selling site to confirm this works for you) @bookstodon

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  #PSA #FoodRecall #Wheat #Celiac Please share!

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  Via Suzanne Brockmann: "Hey Massachusetts! We have ten ballot Qs this year! Here’s a handy short guide about those Qs from Progressive Mass (images). Another resource is https://bluevoterguide.org/ Vote as early as you can—from 10/17 in MA. If you vote by mail, don’t send the ballot back, instead use a dropbox. Check your town’s .gov website for locations and options, and then spread the word among Democratic family and friends." #USPolitics #MA #2026Midterms

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  From Felicia Davin: "This Word Suitcase is about two books with prepositional phrases in their titles" I'm still chuckling at "Blessed are the authors of nonfiction, for they cite their shit." (It's also why I adore genre fiction authors who add notes with all the research they weren't able to integrate in the narrative.) Finally, 'nonage' makes 'coming of age' make sense in a way that fills me with joy....

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  23.- I read Rachel Reid's _Role Model_, the fifth in her Game Changers series of contemporary ice hockey m/m romances. #2026Reading #RomBkBlog #RachelReid #GameChangers @bookstodon@fedigroups.social https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2026/06/04/role-model-by-rachel-reid/

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  RE: https://kind.social/@azteclady/117331771244052693 ICYMI:

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  "we have a company that is a big player in the age verification space, talking up age and identity verification laws, that appears to have had a long-standing ongoing leak of every ID it scanned. At this point, anyone still supporting age verification requirements, especially claiming it’s for “child safety,” should have to answer for all the millions of people put needlessly at risk due to data breaches like this." #DataBreach #KOSA #Privacy #AgeVerification https://www.techdirt.co...

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  #JoyScrolling "Over a couple of months, he noticed that the things he used during the day were being mysteriously put away at night, so he set up a night-vision camera in his shed in Builth Wells, Powys, Wales, to find out what was happening. He discovered that an industrious mouse was picking up items such as nuts and bolts, clothes pegs and cable ties and tidying them away into a box." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLDPzQ42kws

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  A masterful essay on gay (and generally queer) cinema: 12(ish) Essential Gay Films Everyone Should See. #Movies #GayCinema #QueerMedia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_AldzY1_Z4

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  From the depth of my "I can barely function enough to keep my job" depression: holy jesus fuck #MentalHealth #Depression

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  "a Republic, for as long as you can keep it" #CallToAction #PSA Kelly Jensen on Bluesky: "Republicans in the Senate have drafted S. 4925, their companion to the House's HR 7616 bill. This nationwide book banning bill shows the GOP's priorities during the quiet summer season. S. 4925 is already in the HELP subcommittee." #Libraries #Censorship #BookBans #USPolitics https://bookriot.com/senate-bill-4925/

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  Jared Pechaček: " wrote this piece about Hunt for Red October a couple years ago and fuck it, it's free now in Sam Neill's honor" #SamNeill #HuntForRedOctober https://www.patreon.com/jpechacek/posts/serving-hunt-107578256

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  Via Kelly Jense: "WAKE NOW IN THE FIRE, an excellent comic about the banning of Persepolis in the Chicago Public Schools in 2013, is on sale across digital platforms today for $2." #Sale #Persepolis #BookBans #Censorship

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  Heads up, Seattle! The Urbanist: "By far the most impactful amendment set to be considered to Katie Wilson's proposed transit measure renewal, Councilmember Bob Kettle's proposal would lead to more than 1 million fewer service hours over the course of 10 years." #Seattle #PublicTransit #PSA #SaveBusService https://www.theurbanist.org/kettle-proposes-slashing-seattle-transit-measure-halting-city-funded-bus-service-growth/

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  #Libraries #Pride This is the fuck WHY. (have tissues handy)

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  Epidemiologist Elizabeth Jabobs on Bluesky: "Hegseth proudly announced that the flu vaccine would no longer be required for people serving in the military. A flu outbreak is now happening at Lackland Air Force Base, and flu vaccinations are again required. The AF has now been forced to admit that a 25-year-old recruit has died of influenza." #USPolitics #FlueDeath #FluOutbreak #Antivaxx #Vaccines #LacklandTX https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/air-force-confirms-first-death-221...

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  Note that women overwhelmingly kill their partners to escape their abuse, while men overwhelmingly kill their partners because a) their partners want to escape them, b) they want to marry someone else without loss of money/property/control of offspring, or c) both the above. (this is from 2020--it's only gotten worse since) #IntimatePartnerViolence #IntimatePartnerAbuse #Misogyny https://www.domesticshelters.org/articles/in-the-news/women-serve-longer-prison-sentences-after-killing-a...

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  2Cellos in concert: "We Found Love" (Rihanna) #JoyScrolling #2Cellos #Music #Rihanna https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Am_VZFps9o

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  You know you've grown as a person when, instead of spending your day educating the kid who has a whole ass YT video explaining how, "before social media there was no media fandom, or indeed, no lasting media discussion at all", you hit "don't recommend channel" and move on with your day.

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  “When Barnett rails against the ‘didacticism’ of some books, we wonder who defines didactic? For Black and brown authors, for queer and trans authors, we have seen that very word used as a cudgel and dog whistle to decry the necessary diversification of children’s literature.” #Writing #KidLit #ChildrensLit #Racism https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-authors/article/100361-children-s-book-community-responds-in-outrage-to-comment-by-national-ambassador-mac-barnett.h...

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  #JoyScrolling #Music #TapDance An oldie but goldie: Christopher Rice dancing to Anna Kendricks' "Cups" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4FYNF02yEM