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Solid Pawn @solidpawn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Doctor Teeth and the Electric Mayhem have dropped out of the Ed Sheeran tour

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Janice, Zoot & The Electric Mayhem Rock Out

ALT: Janice, Zoot & The Electric Mayhem Rock Out

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Corry Frydlewicz 🏳️‍⚧️ @corry.us · 13/09/2026

As always, somehow Octavia knows where I’m at from 33 years ago. #octaviaButler

Embrace diversity. Unite — or be divided, robbed, ruled, killed by those who see you as prey. Embrace diversity or be destroyed. A screenshot from chapter 17 of Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

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KQED Forum @kqedforum.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

🎙️ON AIR: California voters may decide whether to tax billionaires 5% this fall. We’ll talk with economists who support and oppose the tax about what it could mean for the state. ❓Do you support a billionaire tax in California? Why or why not? 📻Listen:

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Áine Bethany (she/they) @ainebet.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Hey #AdopteeSky I am trying to find a book I saw a while ago, written by a transracial (& I think international) adoptee about what she wishes her adopters knew before adopting her. I believe the author is Latina and in her 20s or 30s. If you happen to know this book please help me find it! 🥚

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Thinking about how a girl at Christian summer camp asked me if my dad was in Al Qaeda and I got in trouble for asking if her dad was a Klansman bc “her question was understandable”

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Corry Frydlewicz 🏳️‍⚧️ @corry.us · 09/09/2026

@jamiejoyce.bsky.social came to @replsimon.bsky.social ‘s official town hall with her own amp and microphone and cut in line in front of every other Emeryville resident who have real questions. Then she used the mic to pitch her campaign. I was already not a fan, but wow, what a bad look. 🙄

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Áine Bethany (she/they) @ainebet.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I regret looking at the news today. Holy f@<#. 😬

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Janine Baer 🌈 ☮️ 🕊️ 🌁 🌻 🔯 @janinebaer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"Some adoptees search their entire lives and they never get the answers and it's just tragic that all they could have had to do was open a file to get all those answers and they never did.... Most people don't know adoptees have two birth certificates." They are still sealed in California. 🌊 ☀️ 🌊

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Alfred Twu @alfredtwu.com · 05/09/2026

Was thinking a bit and there's a remarkable number of fashion choices I make due to transit, walking, and biking being how I get around. First one is big hats! While impractical for driving, hats are useful for staying warm when it's cold, cool when it's sunny, and dry when it's raining. 1/

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Uh oh, Berkeley. What's on fire?

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Dave Kartunen @davekartunen.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

No rule of thumb is ironclad, but if you starred with Muppets, you're probably a real one.

Tim Curry with Gonzo, Miss Piggy, Kermit, and Rizzo.

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Bay Area Reporter, America's LGBTQ Newspaper since 1971 @bayareareporter.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The annual waiting game has begun to see if California Gov. Gavin Newsom will sign into law or veto a slew of bills dealing with various matters of concern to the state’s LGBTQ community expected to be sent to him in the coming days. www.ebar.com/story/169642

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Transgender bills sent to CA Gov Newsom

The annual waiting game has begun to see if California Governor Gavin Newsom will sign into law or veto a slew of bills dealing with various matters of concern to the state’s LGBTQ community expected ...

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com

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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.

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Kill Tim Faust 💀 @tbone.malware-virus.biz · 26/08/2026

my wife has a friend who sent Dolly Parton a painting she made & a letter explaining how much Dolly's music meant to her while she was transitioning. Dolly responded to it personally & paid for her top surgery. Sounds like an urban legend but it's real. I think we're going to more stories like this.

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rosa californica @baymama.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

If you’re in the S.F. Bay Area and want to experience pro baseball that is truly fun and accessible and feels like it’s done for the love of the game, check out a Ballers game in West Oakland. The Prescott Market is a couple blocks away and is great for catching a meal or snack before or after.

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Corry Frydlewicz 🏳️‍⚧️ @corry.us · 16/08/2026

It’s not one of _those bad data centers_ that hurts the environment, stores personal data gathered without consent, sells that data to the worst creeps and predators on Earth, and makes your utility bills higher. No, it’s one of “the good data centers” that does all those things. 😬 #noDataCenter

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Hey if you, like me, love Oakland and hate data centers, please consider signing up to help spread the word about a proposed one by the 19th st BART station. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Petition to Oakland City Council: NO DATA CENTER IN OAKLAND

Billionaires and their tech companies are trying to build data centers everywhere they can. They want to make billions by building the infrastructure of AI - regardless of the toxic pollution and cont...

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Corry Frydlewicz 🏳️‍⚧️ @corry.us · 31/07/2026

We're on the ballot for #Emeryville City Council this November! 🗳️ Thanks for all your support getting me the signatures I needed. I'm excited to have your support, especially the many of you I've only recently met! ( I'm also _exhausted_ and ready to move onto the next phase of this fight 🦋 )

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I’m on the ballot for the November 2026 #election! 🗳️ #emeryville #corry4emeryville

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Autumn the Red Sage, Past & Future Pope @redsage.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Bay Area NIMBY folks should read this article on supermarket vacancies. There are allegations that Albertson's (Safeway, etc.) is keeping some stores empty to block competitors, and may be proposing housing when they close stores to prevent grocery competition. www.sfgate.com/food/article...

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Albertsons is infuriating Bay Area shoppers over vacant grocery stores

The company is focusing on housing projects, but not all include grocery stores.

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Corry Frydlewicz 🏳️‍⚧️ @corry.us · 14/07/2026

This morning, I received my paperwork for gathering signatures to be on the #ballot for #emeryville city council in the November election! If you're a voter living in Emeryville (check you address on your voter registration!) come find me to sign! I'll do right by you. #corry4emeryville

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Corry Frydlewicz signs her paperwork for being on the ballot for Emeryville city council at city hall

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Devin Lavelle @devinlavelle.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Emeryville increased to $20.34, making it the highest general minimum wage locality in the state. San Francisco and Berkeley also moved into a tie for 4th highest at $19.61.

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Áine Bethany (she/they) @ainebet.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

This seems a perfect first repost for my return to Bluesky. It was a nice break, but I'm back and ready to know what's happening in the world again, I guess 😬🤞

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Wil Eelsing @wileelsing.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Bethan's Rock is a small grey stone on display at Poole Museum in Poole, England. It was donated to the museum in 2019 by a five-year-old girl named Bethan, and it has since attracted significant attention on social media and become the museum's most famous object. - Wikipedia

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

I like this site and I think people who have a really hard time here are kind of babies. Sometimes I get yelled at on here and some of those times people don’t have a point, but who cares? If anything, I should evangelize for this site more as the last place on the internet I still learn stuff.

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Alex Elizabeth Byrne McMillan @undeniablyalex.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 23/05/2026

We love making cool swag for EFF’s members each year. It’s our way of saying thanks for supporting the mission for your rights online, and we hope it’s your way of starting a conversation about internet freedom with people in your life. Snag some new swag for yourself today! eff.org/spring

Three people wearing new EFF apparel. The new Claw Back t-shirt, Motherboard Hooded Sweatshirt, and Privacy Badger Crewneck

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Yesterday, charges were dismissed for myself and five others protesting ICE. Yes, it was a win. But it’s not justice. And it’s not over yet.

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Áine Bethany (she/they) @ainebet.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I haven't posted about the CA governor race in a bit... I've changed my mind from a few weeks ago. I'm voting for #Steyer. His main drawback for me was I didn't know if I could trust him, but now that I feel that I can't trust #Bacerra or #Porter either, I'm voting on policy only, and he fits. 🗳

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Oakland Ballers @oaklandballers.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Big Baller Win 😮‍💨

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

My hottest parenting take is that Raffi is not only the great to ever do it, but he’ll probably never be bested. Michael Phelps-ass children’s songwriter.

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🦇 Harper 🔜 HHN35 🦇 @2manystripes.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Why are cybertruck drivers the WORST at parking

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Kate Sloan (she/her) @katesloan.com · 15/05/2026

cannot overstate how much it has helped my social life, as a person w/ brain fog/energy limitations due to chronic illness, to have a ‘3rd place’ that hosts events every week that several of my pals always attend some of us are bad at scheduling with our friends & appreciate it being done for us!!

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 15/05/2026

As long as you are respectful of the place you’re visiting & those around you there is no wrong way to do a tourism. You can go to all the museums or walk aimlessly through the streets or veg out or do a big package vacation. Your experiences make you & when you’re on vacation you get to choose them

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 15/05/2026

how is there a pirate flag emoji 🏴‍☠️ but no bi flag emoji, Captain Stede would be outraged

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Cameron Campbell @camerondotca.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

This "bluesky is a bubble" conversation is strange. Like, I'm not on Twitter because I don't like hanging out where large numbers of people I don't like are. Like, is my house a bubble? I don't invite people I don't like around ours. I choose to go to concerts by musicians, or ...

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 14/05/2026

Everyone deserves the sort of privacy that end-to-end encryption offers for their conversations, and we’re happy to see Google and Apple recognized that with this release. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

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Victory! End-to-End Encrypted RCS Comes to Apple and Android Chats

With the support of end-to-end encryption for RCS messages, Apple and Google have taken the steps to Encrypt it Already!

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 14/05/2026

This is Natty. He's the first official team dog for the Washington Nationals. He makes his big-league debut on Friday and will learn basic skills and socialization with the team before he goes on to formal service dog training with Canine Companions. 13/10

a blond lab puppy about three baseballs tall wears a yellow and blue vest and sits on a wooden bench in the Washington Nationals' dugout. he looks at the camera with a tongue-out smile.

Natty, the blond lab puppy, sits in the infield of a baseball stadium wearing a Washington Nationals jersey that swallows him up. he looks seriously at the camera and has his front paw raised.

Natty is fast asleep with his chin resting on a baseball glove that is about twice the size of his head. there's a baseball inside the glove. it's exhausting work being a puppy.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Zohran says NYC has erased a $12 billion budget deficit in part by taxing the rich

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JayJBird94 @jayjbird94.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

My dog is pretty much the cutest thing alive.

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City of Emeryville @emeryville.org · 12/05/2026

The Call-to-Entry Is Ready! The Emeryville Celebration of the Arts is now accepting submissions for the 40th Annual Exhibition. For more info, please visit www.emeryville.org/News/The-Cal...

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Áine Bethany (she/they) @ainebet.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Based on my small sample size of my clientele, these things are happening culturally right now: - Straight women are DONE. With men, w/ marriage, w/ the patriarchy. - Fun hair color is back cuz they want something for them, not men (see ⬆️) - People are getting off their phones. Real books are back.

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Áine Bethany (she/they) @ainebet.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

I'm feeling quite #neurodivergent this week. My phone is full of texts that I haven't replied to, and it feels like the digital equivalent of a very noisy room full of people I really like all talking at once, but I am overwhelmed and decide to go hang out in the corner by myself and some plants. 😬🪴

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