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@skbots.bsky.social

I’m not a bot; it’s a nickname.

created November 10, 2024

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Profile picture Andrew B. Watkins (@windjunky.bsky.social) reposted

If you were a user or admirer of NOAA’s amazing climate.gov website - which has had all the good stuff (e.g., actual data and climate monitoring indices) removed by government - some web and data gurus/guerrillas are about to launch a recreation at climate.us. Follow @climate.us for launch updates.

30/8/2025, 12:22:58 AM | 397 167 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture SKBots (@skbots.bsky.social) reply parent

Keep on laughing.

30/8/2025, 2:39:15 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Someone should run it anyway.

30/8/2025, 2:25:02 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Those dashes are a dead giveaway.

30/8/2025, 2:18:07 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tony Pennino (@beatnikprof.bsky.social) reposted

I’m a professor, and the semester begins on Tuesday. Part of my job is to prepare 18-22 for the world and their future. And honest to God - looking at the chaos, the cruelty, the insanity - I don’t know how to do that part of the job anymore. #AcademicSky

28/8/2025, 1:34:52 AM | 67 13 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture SKBots (@skbots.bsky.social) reply parent

Wow, that’s beautiful!

25/8/2025, 8:52:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture SKBots (@skbots.bsky.social) reply parent

That’s terrible. My daughter built mine. I would be devastated if someone destroyed it.

18/8/2025, 6:01:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture SKBots (@skbots.bsky.social) reply parent

Don’t you mean deli weapon?

17/8/2025, 10:03:07 PM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture SKBots (@skbots.bsky.social) reply parent

Yessss!

17/8/2025, 3:55:30 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture SKBots (@skbots.bsky.social) reply parent

Is Newsom throwing ketchup yet?

16/8/2025, 11:09:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture SKBots (@skbots.bsky.social)

I’m sick of summer. I want cool days and cooler nights.

16/8/2025, 11:07:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture SKBots (@skbots.bsky.social) reply parent

A Husky, of course.

16/8/2025, 7:27:32 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture SKBots (@skbots.bsky.social)

Everything is bleak. I’m not spending money, so I’m sewing my own clothes, and they’re ugly (haha), and now I’m shouting this into the void as if any of my wildly pathetic concerns even matter.

8/8/2025, 1:33:56 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture SKBots (@skbots.bsky.social) reply parent

Gaslight? Maybe just remind our neighbors we don’t share the orange turd’s ugliness.

3/8/2025, 3:36:24 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture SKBots (@skbots.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh they get it. That prominent American ran against the current shitshow.

2/8/2025, 5:24:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture SKBots (@skbots.bsky.social) reply parent

Wait until you try their optical. The best!

2/8/2025, 5:10:14 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture SKBots (@skbots.bsky.social)

Stop buying stuff.

1/8/2025, 3:32:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture SKBots (@skbots.bsky.social) reply parent

Look into their companies and parent companies. They’re all rotten to the core.

1/8/2025, 4:34:27 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture SKBots (@skbots.bsky.social) reply parent

Valid concern

28/7/2025, 1:34:42 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture SKBots (@skbots.bsky.social)

Me and my allergies this morning.

28/7/2025, 1:33:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture SKBots (@skbots.bsky.social)

Only brown sugar and blueberry. What’s Confetti?

28/7/2025, 1:31:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture SKBots (@skbots.bsky.social) reply parent

Critical thinking is emphasized in public schools which is why they dismantled the Dept. Of Education and are pushing vouchers. Go after the Republicans, the media, and megachurches.

28/7/2025, 1:28:35 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture SKBots (@skbots.bsky.social) reply parent

Wait until you read about animal shelters.

28/7/2025, 1:17:38 PM | 34 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture SKBots (@skbots.bsky.social) reply parent

This summer, I started watching the cost of my French perfume and French face lotion. Both went up by $40 two months ago. Yeah, I won’t be buying either anymore.

28/7/2025, 1:16:57 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture SKBots (@skbots.bsky.social)

Since it’s Sunday, here’s my rhetorical sermon: Maybe we should go back to teaching about the 7 Deadly Sins?!

27/7/2025, 2:59:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture SKBots (@skbots.bsky.social) reply parent

Don’t you think the kids know? He isn’t a horrible person in public without being bad at home, too.

14/7/2025, 3:52:28 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture SKBots (@skbots.bsky.social)

I had work to do today, so I whipped up a batch of homemade falafel instead.

11/7/2025, 3:36:25 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture SKBots (@skbots.bsky.social) reply parent

Remember when Dean Phillips tried to run for president, and everyone in Minnesota was like, “Dean who?!”

11/7/2025, 3:34:58 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture SKBots (@skbots.bsky.social) reply parent

She’s done this way too many times to be a coward. She’s a horrible person who somehow plays the victim.

2/7/2025, 12:53:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Elphaba approves.

Side view of a long-haired German Shepherd dog resting on a couch.
29/6/2025, 8:16:59 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture SKBots (@skbots.bsky.social)

While some people are arguing the headline (?), the rest of us are trying to get this damn song out of our heads!

29/6/2025, 5:16:49 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Nobody cares.

28/6/2025, 1:45:06 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture SKBots (@skbots.bsky.social) reply parent

This is already happening in rural areas, where religious schools are popping up next to public schools. Kids get church release time, and they skip science class. This has been happening for years, but we’re fly-over areas that America ignored.

27/6/2025, 10:17:35 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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How much did he spend on his birthday party that no one attended?!

20/6/2025, 12:37:04 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ProfKFH (@profkfh.bsky.social) reposted

Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting

Colorful quilt of a nighttime scene with Harriet Tubman in an orange jacket and purple dress carrying a rifle. She is leading other figures who walk behind her.
19/6/2025, 12:19:22 PM | 32120 6321 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture SKBots (@skbots.bsky.social)

Minnesota people go outside when it’s 40 below and blizzarding or when tornado sirens are blaring and twisters are touching down. They won’t stay home out of fear today, trust me on this.

14/6/2025, 7:49:00 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted

absolutely horrifying: "Minnesota state senator John Hoffman in Champlin and Minnesota state representative Melissa Hortman in Brooklyn Park were reportedly shot in their homes by a gunman impersonating a police officer."

14/6/2025, 1:54:47 PM | 13064 4813 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture SKBots (@skbots.bsky.social)

I went to Jean Kasem’s garage sale in Beverly Hills and bought a gold brocade dress from her. I still haven’t worn it.

14/6/2025, 1:17:15 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They thought he was an attacker but also a politician acting (political theater)?! They’re not even smart enough to get the lies straight.

12/6/2025, 11:28:55 PM | 10 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’m sorry. :(

12/6/2025, 3:07:25 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wouldn’t it be great if they could just send FEMA to the areas that need assistance?

10/6/2025, 2:55:05 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture SKBots (@skbots.bsky.social) reply parent

Ha ha. Andrea McArdle.

10/6/2025, 2:47:49 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture SKBots (@skbots.bsky.social) reply parent

Property on rural MN lakes went way up during Covid. Metro people making 2X (or more) the salaries of rural residents bought up the lakeshore (for remote work or Airbnbs). It made buying lake property unaffordable for those of us who work here. It still annoys me.

6/6/2025, 4:57:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Maybe she enjoys making them? It’s a valid response.

5/6/2025, 5:09:08 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dream for America (@dreamforamerica.bsky.social) reposted

How To Spot An Idiot, according to @jbpritzker.bsky.social:

3/6/2025, 5:36:10 AM | 252 85 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture SKBots (@skbots.bsky.social)

I haven’t been to Target in ages. I used to go almost daily. I don’t miss it. Same with Amazon, Starbucks, McDonalds…etc., etc. Bye bad people.

27/5/2025, 11:44:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wow, these people are clueless.

27/5/2025, 11:41:25 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture SKBots (@skbots.bsky.social) reply parent

I see he hasn’t taken his meds for his bone spurs today.

26/5/2025, 2:27:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture scha·den·freu·de (@blisterpearl.bsky.social) reposted

This Memorial Weekend, we honor those who died fighting for the freedoms which we’re now losing.
25/5/2025, 4:51:37 AM | 748 241 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture SKBots (@skbots.bsky.social) reply parent

Long story, but I’ve had the mumps and THREE MMR vaccines. I’m fine. :)

23/5/2025, 4:45:45 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture SKBots (@skbots.bsky.social) reply parent

No, no, no, these republicans need their freedome. 🙄

23/5/2025, 4:32:09 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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She’s the best!

20/5/2025, 11:40:09 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture SKBots (@skbots.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah, this guy clearly hasn’t read tons of passive voice AI papers.

20/5/2025, 5:30:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture SKBots (@skbots.bsky.social) reply parent

Great. 🙄 Can’t wait to see how this impacts schools and teachers. Be prepared for multiple sick days and subs in every classroom. Your kids might not need the vaccine, but their teachers do!

20/5/2025, 5:27:59 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture SKBots (@skbots.bsky.social) reply parent

AI

16/5/2025, 5:32:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture SKBots (@skbots.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes, because Thomas’ corruption, Alito’s distain for our flag, and Kavanaugh’s “I like beer,” is because the kids don’t know civics. Oh, the “wink, wink, thanks for your help” was about the kids, too. Teach this: the Supreme Court ain’t so supreme.

13/5/2025, 12:15:48 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture SKBots (@skbots.bsky.social) reply parent

Thank you for this post. It’s a ⭐️.

10/5/2025, 1:29:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture SKBots (@skbots.bsky.social) reply parent

Thank you! Me, too!

10/5/2025, 2:53:46 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture SKBots (@skbots.bsky.social) reply parent

Cowards. They know what they’re doing is wrong.

9/5/2025, 8:09:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Hope she didn’t have to pee on the plane. Weirdo.

7/5/2025, 8:29:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture SKBots (@skbots.bsky.social) reply parent

In K-14, yes.

7/5/2025, 6:51:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture SKBots (@skbots.bsky.social) reply parent

There are ways to discourage students from using generative AI, and there are many students who don’t use it. There are some who use it regardless of the consequences. The biggest issues for faculty: time and morale.

7/5/2025, 6:49:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture SKBots (@skbots.bsky.social) reply parent

Another unintended consequence of AI cheating: faculty feel demoralized.

7/5/2025, 6:43:19 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture SKBots (@skbots.bsky.social) reply parent

A multifaceted, critical response!

7/5/2025, 3:30:58 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture SKBots (@skbots.bsky.social) reply parent

I call them all out.

5/5/2025, 12:18:56 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture SKBots (@skbots.bsky.social) reply parent

Why not call out Republicans? Why do we expect it’s okay from them?

4/5/2025, 6:11:52 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture SKBots (@skbots.bsky.social) reply parent

👏

2/5/2025, 4:09:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture SKBots (@skbots.bsky.social) reply parent

There are days when I’m still upset about this. I had students hospitalized. I knew people who denied it and died of pneumonia. People carried on like we were the crazy ones for taking it seriously.

30/4/2025, 1:10:36 PM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture SKBots (@skbots.bsky.social) reply parent

Duffy’s from a town in Wisconsin that has about 2000 people, Hayseed, I mean Hayward.

29/4/2025, 9:43:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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@nbcnews.com Trump can’t serve a third term. Do better with your headlines or hire new writers.

26/4/2025, 12:49:42 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture SKBots (@skbots.bsky.social) reply parent

…and everyone who still supports him.

26/4/2025, 2:32:06 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yeah, a lifetime of drug use will create lapses in memory, I’m guessing.

23/4/2025, 1:42:18 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It forever will be associated with destroying our country.

23/4/2025, 1:40:10 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture SKBots (@skbots.bsky.social) reply parent

True.

22/4/2025, 1:42:52 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture SKBots (@skbots.bsky.social) reply parent

This is all setting the stage so no one complains about that condo project he was “joking” about.

15/4/2025, 10:59:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture SKBots (@skbots.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah, and how’d that work out for Target? Ask about their foot traffic. MN said no.

15/4/2025, 4:34:03 AM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture SKBots (@skbots.bsky.social) reply parent

Maybe they should talk to Target first.

15/4/2025, 4:30:20 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We must all be elephants.

15/4/2025, 4:15:15 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Daniel Boris (@danboriscreates.bsky.social) reposted

Harvard Responds. ✊

The Harvard University crest shown. Their usual Latin motto replaced by the words, “UP YOURS.”
15/4/2025, 2:00:25 AM | 126 32 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture SKBots (@skbots.bsky.social) reply parent

Gen X here. Thought I could retire soon…nope.

15/4/2025, 3:55:55 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erik Vorhes (@erikvorhes.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Alt text for folks who can’t see images: “If you are National Guard or Active Duty military and you are being ordered to violate the Constitutional rights of US citizens then this is the number to the Gl Rights Hotline. There is support, you don't have to go through with it. tel:1-877-447-4487”

15/4/2025, 12:05:36 AM | 204 122 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture SKBots (@skbots.bsky.social)

How gross is our country that women are going to space on Bezos’ toys while real American working women are wondering how to afford a vegetarian diet purchased from Aldi?

14/4/2025, 11:23:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’m old enough to remember when we bailed out the banks!

14/4/2025, 11:04:37 PM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Gross.

13/4/2025, 2:01:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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…says the guy who’s anti-vaccines!

11/4/2025, 6:15:29 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Don’t we find it suspicious that the same people claiming to bring manufacturing back are installing AI into everything?!

11/4/2025, 6:12:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture SKBots (@skbots.bsky.social) reply parent

Reich Johnson won’t do it. He’s a coward.

10/4/2025, 1:16:07 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Here’s the deal: He can tariff or not tariff; I’m still not spending.

9/4/2025, 6:08:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture SKBots (@skbots.bsky.social) reply parent

Takes one to know one, right Emmer?!

9/4/2025, 12:56:10 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Cox (@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social) reposted

A little while ago, my parents' cat Bridget went missing. As the weeks dragged on, they became extremely worried. My dad devised a way to distract himself: he began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up in some of art and music's most iconic scenes.

Bridget with The Beatles on Abbey Road. Bridget hanging out in Grant Wood's American Gothic. Bridget in Bruegel's Hunters In The Snow (with a freshly caught mouse). The Cat With The Pearl Earring.
6/4/2025, 10:23:59 AM | 21661 4060 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 (@chanda.bsky.social) reposted

You guys, they're not stupid They're doing propaganda When they lie through their teeth, they are doing propaganda Do you think the people behind Big Brother in 1984 were stupid? Big Brother says lots of nonsensical shit. It's called p r o p a g a n d a

6/4/2025, 5:36:11 PM | 9141 1981 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture SKBots (@skbots.bsky.social) reply parent

Beautiful!

6/4/2025, 4:33:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It was sold out.

6/4/2025, 3:24:54 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Minnesota Star Tribune (@startribune.com) reposted

From parents and grandparents to retirees and educators, thousands of Minnesotans rallied at the state Capitol and more than a dozen cities across the state as part of a nationwide protest against President Donald Trump and senior adviser Elon Musk.

5/4/2025, 9:34:30 PM | 491 120 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dr. Lucky Tran (@luckytran.com) reposted

100,000+ people marched at the #HandsOff rally in New York!

5/4/2025, 8:21:33 PM | 37989 7995 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture SKBots (@skbots.bsky.social) reply parent

You jest, but he did think people seeking asylum were…crazy.

5/4/2025, 9:57:54 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Art Candee 🍿🥤 (@artcandee.bsky.social) reposted

This is absolutely incredible! The aerial video captured just how many protesters were at the Hands Off! protest in New York City. Bravo, NYC!!!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

5/4/2025, 9:43:27 PM | 1037 269 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture SKBots (@skbots.bsky.social) reply parent

St Cloud, MN (Tom Emmer’s district)-> 2300 + people protesting. So many cars honking in support! Showing up matters!

5/4/2025, 9:47:53 PM | 13 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture SKBots (@skbots.bsky.social) reply parent

👋 Living in farm country…farmers all voted for him because they thought he gave them $. 🥴

4/4/2025, 2:55:24 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture SKBots (@skbots.bsky.social) reply parent

I understand that. I lived abroad for 17 years, as a child whose parents worked internationally. I am privileged, but I’ll stay in the US and fight this. Most of us didn’t vote for this insanity.

3/4/2025, 12:07:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view