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Melissa Vandiver (she/her), artist & illustrator in New Orleans. Board member New Orleans Women and Children's Shelter. Noted loudmouth. Follow my art account for art and less loudmouth: @mvandiverart.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/mvandiverart

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So their whole thing is "we are only governed by Swiss law so you don't have to worry" but the Swiss government is collaborating with ours so πŸ€·β€β™€οΈ

06.03.2026 16:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I just saw a video on TikTok of someone claiming his former friend who is now in ICE got notified that he's being deployed to Iran. Obviously I can't verify that's true but I really really want it to be

06.03.2026 15:53 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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World Monitor - Real-Time Global Intelligence Dashboard Real-time global intelligence dashboard with live news, markets, military tracking, infrastructure monitoring, and geopolitical data. OSINT in one view.

I probably shouldn't have saved this for my own sanity but I found a place where you can know all the news at one time www.worldmonitor.app

06.03.2026 08:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I mean I care more about how many are fairly close, I can remember every country either. I would love to see if Trump knows where it is

06.03.2026 05:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Good thing we're running out of munitions

06.03.2026 05:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh I just remembered I'm also related to an Arlen and a Merle

06.03.2026 05:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Uncle Brother!!

06.03.2026 05:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Losing the Plot: The β€œLeftists” Who Turn Right What do we make of former friends who fell down the rabbit hole of the Right?

Hi! Do you think Tucker Carlson β€œhas a point”? Do think Platner platforming Holocaust deniers isn’t really a big deal? Do you think the β€œEpstein class” is short for β€œgood w/ $$”? Well, my pal @kathrynajoyce.bsky.social and I wrote an article just for you! inthesetimes.com/article/form...

06.03.2026 01:50 πŸ‘ 403 πŸ” 137 πŸ’¬ 25 πŸ“Œ 13

congress needs to stop this madman

05.03.2026 22:18 πŸ‘ 3722 πŸ” 713 πŸ’¬ 130 πŸ“Œ 31

Oh sorry thought you were taking to me πŸ˜‰

05.03.2026 22:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I know a machelle who pronounces it Michelle!

05.03.2026 22:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Haha no, bumblefuck Arkansas

05.03.2026 22:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

DELMER I love it

05.03.2026 22:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

(originally he was Lloyd-Wayne but his parents, my great grandparents, couldn't read so whoever wrote it down first probably just heard them slurring it which is just how they sounded when they talked)

05.03.2026 21:10 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I come from a long line of rednecks and Markwayne is one of most redneck names I've ever heard.

I'm related to people named Loye-Wayne and Lloydelle

05.03.2026 21:10 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

A corporation that the government will now pay to surveil them!

05.03.2026 20:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Store aisle shelves stuffed on one side with inflatable ducks faces the other, stuffed with inflatable flamingos.

Store aisle shelves stuffed on one side with inflatable ducks faces the other, stuffed with inflatable flamingos.

some shit is about to go down

05.03.2026 14:05 πŸ‘ 2169 πŸ” 434 πŸ’¬ 75 πŸ“Œ 53

This is it. It wasn’t the murders. It was the ads.

05.03.2026 20:42 πŸ‘ 220 πŸ” 37 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2

You say that as if a handful of Dems (or more) won't vote to confirm him. They tend to rally around senators

05.03.2026 20:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Trying to do some lunch time fetch to "get the gremlins out" as we say and this is all she'll do

05.03.2026 19:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

*To have (argh need edit button!!)

05.03.2026 19:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yes this is a good point, it's basically mutually exclusive in our system to hasn't both low prices and ethics. Since I am on a budget but much less so than many, so I try not to buy ANYTHING as much as I can but I'm privileged enough that leaves me room for paying a little more for necessities

05.03.2026 19:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
A small black dog with tan paws looks quizzically at the camera while standing on a hardwood floor.

A small black dog with tan paws looks quizzically at the camera while standing on a hardwood floor.

I have my hair in a braid today (additional context: hair very long, braid very long) and someone seems to think it is a rope toy!! πŸ₯΄πŸ₯΄πŸ₯΄

Large Marge here is like "who, me?"

05.03.2026 19:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Thinking back to when people here were in hiding from ICE, I was helping purchase baby supplies and we really couldn't justify not using Walmart because like what are we gonna give people FEWER diapers? LESS baby formula? This is the result of decades of these stores consolidating the market

05.03.2026 18:59 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

in the best case scenario, everyone else can do the same things with gAI tools you can do

any unique value you can add comes outside the prompt box

and that's true for any automation tool, not just gAI. learning one tool does not make you employable!

05.03.2026 14:37 πŸ‘ 145 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

These tools are made so any idiot can use them; do you want to be the any idiot or do you want to be the one guy left with the expertise? If ppl are getting laid off bc AI can do their job, who are they keeping? The guy whose job was being done, or the one knows the material and can learn the tools?

05.03.2026 17:59 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"you need to learn how to use gAI or you'll get left behind!"

counterpoint!

the absolute fastest way to render yourself unemployable is to build your skillset around a tool that does your thinking for you, that everyone has access to, and that one company can change or take away at any time

05.03.2026 14:27 πŸ‘ 4626 πŸ” 1588 πŸ’¬ 40 πŸ“Œ 45

it's never an echo chamber when creeps on the right isolate themselves from woke, only when woke shuns creeps.

05.03.2026 17:40 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

On Twitter they were saying iran accidentally hit the school themselves πŸ™„

05.03.2026 16:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Additionally what so many of the "No one's talking on Bluesky" people are actually saying is "I am lost and confused when there's not an algorithm to shove content into my eyeballs with no effort on my part"

05.03.2026 15:36 πŸ‘ 1651 πŸ” 221 πŸ’¬ 53 πŸ“Œ 7