@stevenratiner.bsky.social

Linda Bamber's new poem (Red Letter #286), by turns sardonic and solemn, takes us back to Covid & our shared brush with mortality.

#LindaBamber #RedLetters #poetry

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Beltway Bull$hit

@beltwaybs.bsky.social

I know this will be pedantic and argued about.

Humans are apes, humans are primates.

He referred to them as non-human apes. He dehumanized people, whom are 100% better than him, using a racist trope.

Please be better in your language use

Michael Zimmerman

@mzclergyletter.bsky.social

Lies are all around us, #lies are destroying us, our #religion, our #science, our society. Simply put, #truth matters & #clergy are uniting to explain the value of truth; always but especially in a prevarication-filled environment. Join them and make the world a better place. https://tinyurl.com/4ppckhjc

@gibnnetwork.bsky.social

‘Army Disabled’: In Balochistan, Pakistan Blames Geography, Names India Again As 177 Killed

Tensions continue in Pakistan's restive Balochistan and the government has called for a large number of troops to be deployed amid the security situation in the province with its vast and mountainous…

Matt

@matttalksnews.bsky.social

I will deface all your shibboleths for my own amusement

Len

@lendot.bsky.social

New rule: just stamp the sell-by date on the goddamn label. Don't make me hold the bottle up to the phoenix-shaped opening in the sacred pyramid chamber at just the right angle at noon on the vernal equinox in order to cast the date hieroglyphs onto the wall like I'm Indiana Jones or some shit.

Aeryn Rudel

@aerynrudel.bsky.social

For #wound closure and blood coagulation vampire saliva is a true miracle treatment, prompting hospitals in certain areas to make deals with vampire cabals. This led to a resident vamp in most ERs as part of the controversial yet highly successful “Spit not Bit” program.

#vss365 #microfiction

Science X / Phys.org

@sciencex.bsky.social

The James Webb Space Telescope has identified a massive, quiescent red galaxy, dubbed "Red Potato," within a gas-rich cosmic web node at redshift 3.2, exhibiting low star formation activity. doi.org/hbnnvn

The Mighty Jungle💙💛

@ocanannain.bsky.social

Courts are about to unleash a 'tsunami' against Trump: Conservative ex-judge ... federal judges are finally standing up to Trump, and that is likely to increase as the administration continues to flout their orders

Yuran Saul

@supersaultysaul.bsky.social

“At once desperate for authenticity and in love with artifice, I know all the moments are ‘moments‘: staged and theatrical, shaped and thematized” this so sad, i think everyone struggles with trying to be genuine in the world but needing to play a part to fit into somebody’s narrative #realityhunger