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Misanthropic Humanist | pronouns: sche/her/azade "What you think is the point is not the point at all but only the beginning of the sharpness." –Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman (1967) FYHOD

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Keith Smith @drkeithsmith.bsky.social · 6h
“We’re forgetting what darkness feels like” Tove Danovich describes multiple facets of light pollution, in the Guardian (citing a @science.org paper for the 10% per year increase in sky brightness, featured in the headline) 🧪🔭 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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The night sky is getting 10% brighter every year. We’re forgetting what darkness feels like
If more cities start regulating outdoor lighting, we humans could make the environment better for all living creatures
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 5h
The VA lost about 700 social workers and 500 psychologists and psychiatrists over the course of 2025 — a significant change for an agency that was adding mental health staffers nearly every month leading up to Trump’s return to office. (Published March)
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Veterans Who Depend on Mental Health Care Keep Losing Their Therapists Under Trump
Hundreds of mental health professionals have left the Department of Veterans Affairs since President Donald Trump took office, leaving staff “at a breaking point” and some veterans waiting as long as ...
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Taylor McKinnon @publiccarbon.bsky.social · 9h
Now: A Center for Biological Diversity lawsuit today targets approval of mining in the Patagonia Mountains, including habitat for jaguar, ocelot, Mexican spotted owl, western yellow-billed cuckoo, and four other threatened and endangered plants and animals. Read more: tinyurl.com/y73ya44b
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pannonica @acinonnap.bsky.social · 11h
Disgusting. There's nothing appealing and it encourages people to be inconsiderate in multiple ways, some with long-term ramifications.
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Ralph Martin @ralphmartin.bsky.social · 11h
“Since the 1970s, an area roughly the size of Spain has been deforested — 94 per cent of which sits within 3 miles of a road” www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/29/n...
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A trip down the road that will determine the fate of the Amazon
The BR-319 runs through a largely untouched stretch of the rainforest. A new initiative to pave it could put the Amazon and the global climate at risk.
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 13h
Scotland reintroduced 50 wild cats into the Highlands marking an important milestone for their conservation work.
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Lydia Hekataia @frogmother.net · 29/09/2026
Discrimination against us isn't just bad because the hypothetical issue is tiny. The entire basis people have for believing it is an issue is false. Plenty of people think the bans are too discriminatory but that they are based in "common sense", and that's wrong, and should be pushed back against.
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
What's happening is that Republicans are priming Democrats and Democratic voters for more violent forms of transphobia. They're manipulating people into caring about something that is most likely never going to affect them.
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
The trans women in sports panic has got to be one of the GOP's most successful manufactured culture war campaigns. Somehow they got a lot of people who would otherwise say they support trans rights to somehow fear "fairness" in sports. It's a non-issue.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 14h
And imagine if the media turned this kind of scrutiny and skepticism against police, politicians, and powerful interests instead of vulnerable victims of gang rape? What a world we could have
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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 14h
"Science has always depended on people sharing ideas across institutions, disciplines, communities, and borders. Protecting the people who make that exchange possible is part of protecting science, too," writes UCS's Tosin Fadeyi in her latest post.
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The United States Will Be Worse off for Losing International Scientists
The U.S. has long benefited from the scholarship of international scientists. The Trump administration's policies are forcing many to reconsider their careers here.
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Fr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 @kalanthropos.bsky.social · 16h
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
45 million acres of roadless national forest. Trump wants bulldozers and logging trucks on all of it. Once a road goes in, the wild is gone for good. Tell Congress to stop him: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Tell Congress: Stop Trump from destroying 45 million acres of our National forests
Contact Congress today!
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 16h
I give up. I’m moving into a cave.
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Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 17h
Oregon promises safe homes for LGBTQ+ foster kids, but just dropped a requirement to support their identities www.advocate.com/pol... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
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Oregon promises safe homes for LGBTQ+ foster kids, but just dropped a requirement to support their identities
The state removed its affirmation requirement after settling a case brought by a prospective adoptive parent.
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pannonica @acinonnap.bsky.social · 17h
Another monster
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 18h
You have to wait until the sixth paragraph of this piece before you learn, in the New York Times reporting on the murder of THEIR OWN EMPLOYEE, that the victim was a trans man who had been abused for being trans by the in-laws who murdered him. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...
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Couple Accused of Killing Their Son-in-Law in Bay Area Park (Gift Article)
Jonathan McKinsey, an engineer who worked in the games department for The New York Times, was fatally shot Saturday in a San Francisco suburb. The police have accused his parents-in-law, both 76.
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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You know what's messed up is this is like the fourth time in twenty years I've read this exact headline
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 20/09/2026
Anti-trans dems aren't event talking about sports anymore. They're just being anti-trans, period.
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pannonica @acinonnap.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
help me I'm being compelled to drink chardonnay
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pannonica @acinonnap.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Y'know how people admonish others to back up important data? I'm here to join that chorus Last month the NAS hard drive containing all my media balked and I was unable to access any of it BUT! somehow it was all backed up to a secondary drive on the NAS, even though I'd been unable to set that up
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pannonica @acinonnap.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
ugh ugh ugh
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pannonica @acinonnap.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Gen X thred
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pannonica @acinonnap.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
@sumsung.bsky.social Hey #Samsung 1: Criterion Channel app update when? 2: You're calling your account here the official Twitter of Samsung? 3: AI gaga-ing in the banner?? What the hell are you doing?
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pannonica @acinonnap.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
tracks
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Paul Kingsley @paulkingsley7.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Literally Attacking Science 🧪 “A Russian jet-powered drone hit Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences, the source of almost all of the country’s major scientific discoveries.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/w...
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Russian Drone Strikes Ukraine’s Science Academy, Causing Fire in City Center (Gift Article)
A Russian jet-powered drone hit Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences, the source of almost all of the country’s major scientific discoveries.
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pannonica @acinonnap.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My torrent download has been stuck on 2.1% for the better part of a week. It's a niche item.
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pannonica @acinonnap.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Some (not all) Brits understanding US history:
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The option to do this, all day, every day, has been readily available for every media outlet in the country since 2015. Including & especially just using the word "lies."
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Aleksandra Vaca @transiticsnews.com · 29/09/2026
The Democrat here, Blake Gendebien, is facing off against Sticker Mule CEO Anthony Constantino. Constantino is literally running on "detransitioning America" and generally just hating trans people. Gendebien could've called Constantino out for being insane. Instead, he chose bigotry. Shame.
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Republican Wins Competitive New York House Primary—and Likely a Seat in Congress—After Running on ‘Detransitioning America’
With Trump’s backing, Anthony Constantino won the primary to succeed outgoing Rep. Elise Stefanik. His repeated calls to ‘detransition America’ must be a warning to us all.
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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 29/09/2026
Any day, #SpaceX could send in bulldozers to destroy the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge. Musk’s company wants to build a rocket test site and road through this vital wildlife habitat in south #Texas. We’re in court to stop this public land giveaway. Please support our fight ⬇️
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Give Now to Save the Wild
Join the fight to protect wildlife and wild places with a gift to the Center for Biological Diversity.
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pannonica @acinonnap.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
trump kills™
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The rape and pedophile party specifically use transphobia as a wedge to make *all* their intended victims more vulnerable, and Jeff Epstein literally advised them in many, many, many barely literate emails to do this.
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible.
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Zee (missing life's little cues) @miscue.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My dad was a mail carrier for THIRTY YEARS. I grew up loving the post office and seeing it as a valuable essential community service (not a goddamn business.) So when I say PUT YOUR BALLOT IN A BALLOT BOX this year WA state, it breaks my heart a little. But it's that serious.
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jadehawk "FREE ŁINK" @jadehawk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
quite sure that's actually also how you radicalize people, to begin with. i don't know why it works, but for some reason people will assess the conclusions of an argument critically, but not its premises. so you can get ppl to believe dire shit by putting it in the premises instead the conclusions
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pannonica @acinonnap.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#RobertPins h/t @markhurst.bsky.social and techtonic.fm concentrated satire
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Lockheed Martin Goes Green
YouTube video by Robert Pins
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 28/09/2026
I don't want this election rely on intelligence, there isn't much of that going around. I want it to rely on screams of the people with faces eaten by the leopard.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's kind of crazy that the Natalie Harp news cycle raised some extremely valid questions about the extent of her influence on our octogenarian narcoleptic, none were answered and the press just stopped wondering.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 27/09/2026
Remember the random dude who got 49020939 articles of uncritical media coverage in the space of two days because he quit anthropic based on his fears of existential AI risk? Yeah..........he's a climate denier. So is the whole AI industry. www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/22/a...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 28/09/2026
Wary of Trumpian tampering, scientists have taken matters into their own hands. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Germany is building a digital Noah’s Ark for US climate data
Wary of Trumpian tampering, scientists have taken matters into their own hands.
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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Siri, show me the deliberate destruction of eight decades of American-led international diplomacy and cooperation in one photograph:
Screenshot of a September 28, 2026, post on ex-Twitter by right-wing foreign policy analyst, professor, author and former Trump Department of Defense senior policy adviser Matthew Koenig, showing the lobby of the US State Department adorned with 200 American flags:

“The US State Department lobby used to display the flags of the roughly 200 countries with which the US maintains diplomatic relations. Now, it displays 200 American flags, to remind State Department employees who they work for.”
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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood." UN Declaration of Human Rights, which the United States violates.
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pannonica @acinonnap.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Is there any punishment too severe for him?
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Isaac (proud small hat wearer) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
this is why i’m not interested in “Bibi told Trump to do this war so it’s Bibi’s fault.” Bibi had told every president since Clinton to bomb Iran. It’s the President’s job to know when a foreign leader is being a bloodthirsty idiot and NOT LISTEN TO THAT GUY. This war is because of Trump.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Whenever you see a pollster or consultant give a take like this, it’s always worth following the money. In this case, Emanuel has paid Anzalone’s firm nearly $300k (maybe more but that’s what I found so far). A consultant class is devouring the Dem Party www.elections.il.gov/CampaignDisc...
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Underestimate @RahmEmanuel at your own risk.
He knows how to win. He knows how to fight.
And he knows how to message.
And no one will out work him. Regardless of whether he wins the Democratic nomination in 2028 he will make an impact on the race. You can be sure of that. Don't take your eyes off of him. At the minimum, learn from him.
Rahm Emanuel Makes His 2026 Play
Rahm Emanuel Makes His 2026 Play
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pannonica @acinonnap.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yeah, 'rebuke' isn't nearly strong enough, Jon.
m-w.com definition of REBUKE

transitive verb
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: to criticize sharply : reprimand
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: to serve as a rebuke to
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archaic : to turn back or keep down : check
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