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Calliope

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A scholar and a gentle-flan. Ph.D. in Victorian studies, specialization: literary magic. Tarot reader. My games and tarot spreads: gconleymagicart.itch.io nonbinary: they/them

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Amanda Smith's avatar Amanda Smith @amandasmith.bsky.social
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If you haven’t called your senators and congressperson, take five minutes to ask them to support Liz Warren & AOC’s calls for impeachment of justices and expansion of the court.

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Cats of Yore's avatar Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social
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The White Cat, fairy tales translated by Marie Catherine La Mothe, Countess d’Aulnoy in 1698. This version was published in 1847 but unfortunately the illustrator is identified only as “J.W.”

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Filamena Young seeking Sophia -she/her's avatar Filamena Young seeking Sophia -she/her @filamena.bsky.social
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The only person I can sir are tall women I have sex with. If you think I’m going to use fancy titles for some weirdo leader of Terflandia I’m gonna toss you and your tea in a bay.

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Erin Biba's avatar Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social
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The new COVID variant seems to be evading immunity from vaccines and past infections. COVID cases are up 250% in NYC. Remember the more you get covid your risk for long covid increases significantly.

gothamist.com/news/nyc-cov...

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Dr. Lucky Tran's avatar Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.bsky.social
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New study by Linsey Marr:

“We aerosolized SARS-CoV-2 & pulled it through masks. After 1hr we were able to recover infectious virus from fabric masks but not an N95 or surgical mask. When we pressed artificial skin against the masks we found viral RNA but no infectious virus on the skin.” #MasksWork

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Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🥼🦟🧀's avatar Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🥼🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social
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"These data suggest that viral persistence and sustained immune activation are linked to Long COVID"

-Amazing. How could we ever have foreseen this possibility?

No, I mean apart from all the early data showing SARS-CoV-2 persistence. Sorry, I mean 'pieces of RNA'

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Hypervisible 's avatar Hypervisible @hypervisible.bsky.social
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“…Proton is launching the ability to create, edit, and collaborate on end-to-end encrypted documents within its online file storage systems.”

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Joan Arkham's avatar Joan Arkham @joanarkham.bsky.social
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This was our friend group’s 4th of July tradition for many years.

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Calliope's avatar Calliope @gdcalliope.bsky.social
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I came across it in the promo magazine that shipped with some LucasArts game. Rebel Assault I think. And then at some point later, with only the shows, I finally got the collection when I was I dunno 19 or 20 That collection still feels like I found it on the back of a spaceship

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John Kennedy's avatar John Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social
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When an article says "some scientists think" then remember this: I, a scientist, once thought I could fit a whole orange in my mouth. I could, it turns out, get it in there, but I hadn't given sufficient thought to the reverse operation.

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Calliope's avatar Calliope @gdcalliope.bsky.social
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I used to talk to my dad about how our hometown's local paper used to just cover every single bill up for vote in the state legislature as well as many national bills. We used to live in a real country but for local news and not fascism or whatever lol

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Y'all of Cthulhu's avatar Y'all of Cthulhu @kellylink.bsky.social
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Drove by this guy on the way home from Book Moon. Guessing he was around 600 lbs. Definitely the biggest bear I’ve seen around here. Just before this picture was taken he was on his back, bent forward, grooming his own butt fur like some giant house cat.

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Greg Pak's avatar Greg Pak @gregpak.bsky.social
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You could also call up your US rep and demand they join AOC in this move for impeachment. Can't pass the R House, but they HAVE to use their bully pulpit and rally the public. www.nydailynews.com/2024/07/01/a...

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Bree Lundberg ✨'s avatar Bree Lundberg ✨ @breelundberg.com
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This is really great news considering so many of the other major game companies jumped on board the genAI hype train. Once more companies like Nintendo start refusing it, we could hit a turning point.

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Michael Whelan's avatar Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social
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SHE (2004) Oil on Linen - 48" x 36" A private commission for the book by H. Rider Haggard. 1/4

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Calliope's avatar Calliope @gdcalliope.bsky.social
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Yeah that's a good one My actual serious thought is that comic book heroes are never really one thing and people who get mad about those movies think Batman should be one specific Guy

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Calliope's avatar Calliope @gdcalliope.bsky.social
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(Mask of the Phantasm is the actual best Batman film to be clear)

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Calliope's avatar Calliope @gdcalliope.bsky.social
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My favorite party trick continues to be loudly asserting Batman Forever is the best live action Batman film and watching cis white dudes emerge from the woodwork to shout at me. Then I just point at this and also remind them it's the only one where he's a detective

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Mr. Am I Being Detained 's avatar Mr. Am I Being Detained @gonebabygone.bsky.social
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Wanna feel old? This is what the Allegory of the Cave looks like today

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Geoff Engelstein's avatar Geoff Engelstein @gengelstein.bsky.social
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Designed by Kurt Vonnegut. Art by Bill Bricker & Ryan Goldsberry. Published by me. Coming in August.

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🌸Bibi🌸♿'s avatar 🌸Bibi🌸♿ @bibicosplays.bsky.social
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The IV Hoodies have shipped to me! I should receive them sometime in early August! They have forearm double slider zippers for IVs, etc. Chest zippers for Ports, etc. They can be worn by anyone! 100% cotton. Oversized fit. Thick. Which one do you like best? Please share!!

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Lyse-Beast's avatar Lyse-Beast @lyse.bsky.social
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One of my favorite memes is the “woman yelling at cat” one, so when I saw this I almost choked on my drink

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Fishtopher and Friends's avatar Fishtopher and Friends @fishtopher.bsky.social
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big fan of the sun and the sky and all the creatures that stop by the front yard

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Blue Heron Farm's avatar Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social
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I wrote to the Tractor Supply board today. Here is what I sent. Even if you've only ever bought one thing there, I encourage you to write, as a customer.

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Hannah Who 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar Hannah Who 🏳️‍⚧️ @notablyuncool.bsky.social
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You don’t have to be out to be trans You don’t have to be on HRT to be trans You don’t need to have had surgery to be trans You don’t have to dress a certain way to be trans You don’t have to behave a certain way to be trans You really can just be trans and that’s all that matters

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Matthew Cortland (they)'s avatar Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land
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btw, most clinicians aren't using metformin for covid because public health authorities aren't recommending the use of metformin to treat acute covid infection because they do NOT consider long covid to be an outcome worth caring about

www.patreon.com/posts/105590...

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Jack Feerick's avatar Jack Feerick @jackfeerick.bsky.social
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It's a play on Enid Blyton, an extremely popular writer of children's fiction in the first half of the 20thC., and Enoch Powell, a notoriously bigoted and reactionary politician of the 1960s.

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Andrew Hickey's avatar Andrew Hickey @andrewhickey.bsky.social
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Apparently people have started referring to Rowling as Enoch Blyton. Seems appropriate in multiple ways.

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Patrick 's avatar Patrick @watchinthesky.bsky.social
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SCOOTIE!! 🤯 😅 Some birds are known for doing this - reducing pests and parasites by laying down, wings spread out, tail and head on the ground. The key is that the ground, in this case small gravel, needs to be hot. This ‘bakes out’ the pests from the feathers. I’ve seen previous ‘runners do it 🪶

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bowdie's avatar bowdie @bowdie.bsky.social
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Years ago I made some combustible lemons.

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Elle's avatar Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social
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loving this happy gargoyle guy who's being moved to a new spot and is clearly having the time of his life

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Ian Coldwater 📦💥's avatar Ian Coldwater 📦💥 @lookitup.baby
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perhaps my most cancelable take is that intergenerational movements are good, older people and younger people have a lot to learn from each other, and the idea that people of different ages should never interact for any reason because it’s somehow always nefarious to do so is weird and bad, actually

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andy™'s avatar andy™ @andylevy.net
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every day it becomes more and more clear that philip k dick was completely sane

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BlackJew 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar BlackJew 🏳️‍⚧️ @blackjew.bsky.social
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This is my consistent reminder that you should cancel your subscription to the NY Times that includes (as sad as it was for me - wordle) put the money into good journalism I pay for journalism so I don't give money to the NYT. help.nytimes.com/hc/en-us/art...

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Anya Taylor-Ham's avatar Anya Taylor-Ham @griph.bsky.social
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It's cool that googling a recently released book now returns in the search results two hundred places to buy it, a locked New York Times or Washington post review, Goodreads and maybe an episode of a podcast and probably not a single website where you can read a decent essay about the book for free

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Foxfeather Zenkova's avatar Foxfeather Zenkova @foxfeather.bsky.social
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A very uncommon patient for us! Only a few turkey vultures come into rehabilitation each year from across the whole state! Hopefully this poor wayward kid can be renested, but if not will be raised by foster parents.🪶

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kishi's avatar kishi @kishi0093.bsky.social
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Hey Big Bird, do you read me? (outfit request from my art twitter)

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Calliope's avatar Calliope @gdcalliope.bsky.social
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Like real TV show or YouTube series? Because Final Fantasy 14 Defunctland is pretty funny

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Melinda Magpie 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸💍's avatar Melinda Magpie 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸💍 @melindamagpie.bsky.social
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Remembering our foremothers Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera on the 55th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising. 🧵

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Calliope's avatar Calliope @gdcalliope.bsky.social
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I was just filling a friend in on the whole Situation and now there's *more* Situation? Dang it

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Umbire's avatar Umbire @umbire.bsky.social
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learning more about kairi against my will and taking 100 HP of poison damage every 12 frames

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The Loch Ness Monster's avatar The Loch Ness Monster @nessiopeia.bsky.social
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People talk a lot about “second puberty” in terms of the physical transformation and hormonal sensitivity / turbulence, which are of course both important. But, less is said about the social adjustment and personal realization sides of this experience. (1/14)

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cait 's avatar cait @cait.bsky.social
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happy flat fuck friday

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