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rachaeltiddles.bsky.social
⚙️ arts & sciences worker bee ⚙️ won’t be surprised if it’s a dream 💭 🧷critical overthinker 🧷good time gal 🧷traveller 🧷polymath wannabe
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This is the guy! (gift article) In South Carolina, Wes Moore urges Democrats to be ‘impatient’ amid 2028 buzz wapo.st/3HfhcQj

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

The whole ball game🏅

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

This was inevitable. Grotesque.

submitted 20 days ago • 74 comments

“And so the Greeks send me this horse, we’re talking about one of the most beautiful horses you’ve ever seen. So big. So strong. Normally they keep this kind of horse for themselves but they were such big fans they said sir, please take our big wonderful horse we’ll even bring it to your house”

submitted 24 days ago • 162 comments

Jaw dropping & also entirely on brand 👑

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

🗳️ UK 🗳️ Canada 🗳️ Australia all resisting the lure of narrow, divisive, grievance politics. As the Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said, “kindness is not weakness”. #auspol

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

How I arrived on BlueSky

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“Can you keep a secret?” asked the person about to stop keeping a secret.

submitted 44 days ago • 6 comments

Shoutout to the wealthy who paid decent taxes, believed in art/science/education & built things for the common good ✨🪐 🔭 #noblesseoblige

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Fun climate fact of the day. Last time there was this much CO2 in the atmosphere there were no humans on Earth.

submitted 43 days ago • 5 comments

Good morning. Today I have an essay running in the New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/o...

submitted 44 days ago • 66 comments

Important orienting work here. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 50 days ago • 30 comments

Golden hour/dog 🌅🐕 #dogs #dogsofbluesky

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Dipworthy 💦 🐕 #dogs #dogsofbluesky

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Banger of a title. 🎁 gift article 🎁 Gift Link: Buy the Truth, Sell the News www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...

submitted 55 days ago • 2 comments

Carefully curated lil’ idiots™️

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Let's be clear about what is going on. The Trump administration is not combating antisemitism and university leaders are not protecting free speech. It is authoritarianism and capitulation all the way down. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/u...

submitted 65 days ago • 13 comments

Turns out Le Pen is not mightier than the fraud.

submitted 65 days ago • 420 comments

You really gotta read this story. Gift article link: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 72 days ago • 72 comments

Europe doesn’t need Trump to form a western alliance – and one is already taking shape | Martin Kettle

submitted 77 days ago • 20 comments

Uncomprehending laughter & horror: the rest of the world watching America right now

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Mine in today’s @newyorker.com

submitted 84 days ago • 23 comments

I’m not sure if he should run for President or a Netflix stand up special.

submitted 82 days ago • 25 comments

Five House Democrats have died in office in the past 11 months.

submitted 83 days ago • 52 comments

The whole thing is important, but listen until the end: the US depends a lot on the flow of capital into the country because it is perceived as the safest port in a storm. Once that is no longer true, a lot of things Americans take for granted go away.

submitted 85 days ago • 169 comments

Still sad about those accounts who followed me back at the bird site but who don’t here, even though I had a completely different handle, identity, personality & profile pic 😔

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull with some advice he probably could have used while he was in office: how to deal with a bully. Clip from last year courtesy @australiainstitute.org.au

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

They know this will have the reverse effect of the one they’re hoping for, right? Right?

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

New “Sell Your Car” flyer image just dropped

submitted 85 days ago • 181 comments

School’s in with @mcfaulmike.bsky.social

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

“Even if authoritarianism is averted, the damage that patrimonialism does to state capacity is severe. Governments’ best people leave or are driven out. Agencies’ missions are distorted and their practices corrupted. Procedures and norms are abandoned and forgotten.” Shorter version: ⬇️

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments