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Alex R

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Seattle, ex-NYC

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mari @amari.bsky.social · 18h
Halloween is coming kids. So much fun to be had w this blast fm the past fm Olde Bluesky.
A certain PM animorphing into a caricature of the fossil fuel guzzling Hexxus from Fern Gully. 

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Fix the L8 @fixthel8.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Oh no that can’t be
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Peter Brannen @peterbrannen.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
A quote I always return to is from University of Chicago geoscientist David Archer: “I have a feeling that by the time we get close to 2°C we’ll think it’s pretty insane we ever thought that that was a target to shoot for.”
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Frances: Meh and Loving It @francesmeh.reviews · 11/08/2026
man i think about this a lot these days
Everyone can see
What's going on
They laugh 'cause they know they're untouchable
Not because what I said was wrong
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/08/2026
BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: Five months ago, we learned that ICE seized drawings and letters from children in the Dilley ICE concentration camp. I sued under the Freedom of Information Act. Today, I got responsive documents. www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-e...
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BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: ICE Seized Drawings from Children in Detention. I Sued, and Today I Got Them.
Five months ago, I filed a Freedom of Information Act Request for papers seized from children at the Dilley ICE Detention Center. Today, I got a heartbreaking response.
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andich.xyz 🌸 @andichxyz.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Got ragdoll physics working this evening :) #godotengine
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Upwards of 200,00 people may have lost their jobs today; or will in the upcoming days. There is a palpable sense of fear among the Haitian community right now. They need your support.
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🌷Leigh⚜️ @helisister.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
A powerful thread from Reddit in Re of the shooting at The Bite of Seattle yesterday evening. Photographs of many lost items left behind as people fled from gunfire. It strongly conveys that this country is not ok & no one is safe😔💔 #Seattle #MassShooting #GunViolence www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/co...
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From the Seattle community on Reddit: Lost things
Explore this post and more from the Seattle community
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W4 Games @w4games.com · 22/07/2026
Our GodotCon Boston talk is now up as a blog post: how we doubled Vulkan frame rates on the Quest 3 Years of rendering work for Meta and Google, contributed upstream to Godot. Foveated rendering, multi-threaded rendering, spec constants, FP16, & content tips you can use today tinyurl.com/fdhn437u
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Where Every Millisecond Counts: Optimizing Godot for Standalone XR
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John Fody @j-fodi.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Some rare good news from the Brazilian Amazon: 2025 saw the smallest area burned in 41 years. 🌍 #Amazon #Amazonia efeverde.com/amazonia-bra...
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La Amazonía brasileña registró en 2025 la menor superficie quemada en 41 años
La Amazonía brasileña registró el año pasado la menor superficie quemada desde 1985, después de sufrir en 2024 la peor ola de incendios
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Creek Bird @creekbird.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
It’s up to all of us to use our economic power and shut it down. Everyone do whatever they can to not spend or work November 25-December 2.
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Deb Raji @rajiinio.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
I feel like I have a conversation every other day with someone going through this exact crisis. We need better options for those aiming to do good work.
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City of Boston @boston.gov · 23/10/2025
TODAY: test drive different types of e-bikes on City Hall Plaza —for free! — from 4 - 6 p.m. 🚲 Learn more: boston.gov/calendar/try-e-bike-event-city-hall-plaza-1
People ride and inspect e-bikes on Boston City Hall Plaza.
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Taylor Nichols, MD MS @tnicholsmd.com · 23/10/2025
Never stop telling normies about the ghoulish behavior being committed on their behalf, in this country, by their countrymen and women. THEY DO NOT UNDERSTAND THIS OR KNOW THAT THIS IS HAPPENING.
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Re Graham Platner: A lot of folks are just now realizing how much our military’s culture is deeply right-wing and regressive—a place where Nazi and white nationalist iconography are commonplace (even if sometimes not recognized by the troops themselves). This was literally last year:
militarytimes.com
Army investigating social media post showing Nazi symbol
The Army opened an investigation after a National Guard unit posted a photo online that contained a symbol worn by Nazi SS troops.
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
“There are definitely Nazis in uniform…In my experience they are typically relegated to conventional, noncombat arms units. Occasionally they end up in the infantry or the engineers…to learn combat tactics and explosive fabrication.”
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
H-2A apple workers in upstate NY tell us farms have gotten rid of piece rate pay, but are still forcing outrageous daily bin requirements. If workers don't meet the requirements, they won't be rehired next year. That's why they want a union to protect them. #WeFeedYou
New York State apple orchard where you see the big box of apples workers must fill
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 22/10/2025
So, this crucially important state race in Georgia that I told you about? Let me offer you a frustrating update. (cc @hankgreen.bsky.social) With 14 days to go, Dems are up by a decent margin in early voting, but Kemp -- GA's loathsome governor -- has just dumped *$500K* into TV ads on the race.
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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 22/10/2025
China rn
tired of holding my horses...
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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Trump's private army under development. ICE and other agencies are bringing high-powered weapons into American cities at an unprecedented rate and amount. Guns, armor, chemical weapons, guided missile warheads, and explosive components.
motherjones.com
ICE’s spending on weaponry has soared more than 700 percent this year
The $71.5 million spent so far has paid for guns and armor, chemical munitions, “guided missile warheads," and "explosive components.”
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Constant Screaming @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
There are 3 ways for this to go: a) Ds break, b) Rs break, c) Rs do a filibuster carve-out, or d) Trump decides he can appropriate, allocate, and authorize spending entirely w/o Congress and the courts don't stop him. My current odds: A) 10% B) 15% C) 25% D) 50% D is the admins current plan.
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.
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Internet Dad @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 21/10/2025
Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.
STEREOGUM: People my age, we talk about how we were lucky that we didn’t have social media growing up, and there’s no record of all the dumb shit we said and did. You didn’t have social media, but everything you said and did in those years is on record, and you’ve got to live with it now. That’s tough.

VIOLENT J: And the amount of gay Juggalos out there is really surprising. I think about them doing their research and getting the old records, getting excited about it, and getting their hearts broke or something, you know? I tell my daughter, “For the rest of your life, when your friends ask why your dad said that, say it’s because your dad was a fool. Don’t defend me. Say I was a fool then, but I’m not now.” There’s no excuse. I was going with the flow, and that’s the very thing we preach against — being a sheep. And that’s what I was doing.

https://www.stereogum.com/2083804/icp-interview-juggalos/interviews/weve-got-a-file-on-you/
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 21/10/2025
WOW. A third of ICE recruits can’t pass a fitness test that I do multiple times a week, and I’m a 51 year old woke cat lady with a nose ring who loves a soy latte.
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Coda @codahale.com · 20/10/2025
When my family immigrated to this country, they did it the right way: falling from the night sky like embers, burrowing into the familiar silicates, slowly extending questing tendrils to sample the complex organic molecules of this new world, learning the logic of the self-replicators, assimilating
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The UnKaren @kareneubanks.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
People who missed the “pre-existing conditions” nightmare have no concept how bad that was. Being diagnosed with anything might mean no coverage & bankruptcy/death decades later. Pre-cancerous lump removed? No cancer coverage for 7 years. Past heart attack? No private coverage, ever. It was deadly.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20/10/2025
in its original form the medicaid expansion was basically mandatory and would have very clearly formed the nucleus of a genuinely universal system. and in its neutered form (thanks john roberts) it is still a powerful policy that can be built on and expanded in straightforward ways
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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
I mean this is viscerally upsetting because it's really genuinely him treating the white house like it's his own personal property; he's the king and it's his palace. No other president ever thought like this, even if they were a fucking horrible person, because it goes against our founding creed
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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
tbqh traveling the entire country and touching grass every day for two months made me a lot less anxious about where all this is headed because there’s what the phone will tell you and then there’s real life and the gulf is just so profound between their fiction and our reality
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
I do think the more you dig into things, the idea that Trump is American Yoon makes more and more sense
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
love to see it. curious which unions will respond
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 19/10/2025
Chicago teachers said they’re dealing with traumatized students in underfunded schools — while the Trump administration spends millions to militarize American cities.
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Teachers Scrambled After ICE Released Tear Gas Outside a Chicago Elementary School
Chicago teachers said they’re dealing with traumatized students in underfunded schools — while Trump spends millions to militarize American cities.
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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Serious business here
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
after a clarinet player was arrested at Sunday's ICE protest in downtown Portland, I talked to five artists, crafters and makers - a puppet designer, an illustrator, a graphic designer, a knitter, and a theatre artist - about creativity under fascism www.orartswatch.org/resistance-c...
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“Resistance can be joyful” • Oregon ArtsWatch
Portland protest artists on creativity, resilience, inflatable frogs, and protecting the soul of the city.
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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Proud papa moment: my son J published a letter in the @nytimes.com today (in print tomorrow) on the need to think our definitions of autism.
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Bree Lundberg @breelundberg.com · 18/10/2025
Don't take the bait and engage with these gov accounts, simply block. You can subscribe to this block list or use the list to block individually. But either way I do NOT want to see y'all dunking on these accounts which are clearly here just to antagonize us and spread propaganda.
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David Crawshaw @crawshaw.io · 14/10/2025
Old-school memory management technique.
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Dominique Berteaux @dominiqueberteaux.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Camera traps in the polar desert: At 82°30′ North, this Peary caribou grazes atop a hill — and atop the world. From our biodiversity monitoring study area at CFS Alert, Nunavut, Canada (2 July 2025). 🧪🌿🌎🦊 #wildlife
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clgeiger.bsky.social @clgeiger.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
www.npr.org/2025/10/16/1... correct me if I'm wrong, but the elevator trifecta at work was: --get in the elevator, have Susan get in with you --a story reported by her is being broadcast over the speakers in the elevator --Susan's voice on the "going up, fifth floor..." Godspeed, PubMedia Mom.
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NPR 'founding mother' Susan Stamberg has died
Susan Stamberg, an original National Public Radio staffer who went on to become the first U.S. woman to anchor a nightly national news program, has died.
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Casey Martin @caseyworks.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
I'm supposed to be interviewing people but instead having way too much fun with the band. Hopefully "Louie Louie" helps the Mariners offense later.
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Queerhawk 🏳️‍🌈 | 🇺🇦 | 🇬🇱 @alwaysadorecats.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
I’m reminded how Sufjan Stevens released a very Christian album with Seven Swans and that his Christianity is a constant theme in his work, but he made a very conscious choice not to align himself with Contemporary Christian Music.
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 15/10/2025
These motherfuckers seriously expect us to believe that the swastika went up today, or that it had been up for a while and somehow nobody noticed. bsky.app/profile/poli...
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Mockler: I have spent all my formative years watching the President talk about the opposition party like they should not exist. His claim to fame in politics was saying that Obama was not born in America.
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Chris Paxton @cpaxton.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Agility is looking for ai researchers who want to work on the frontier of whole body control + imitation learning for humanoid robots: www.agilityrobotics.com/about/job-po...
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Agility Robotics - Job Posting
Join the Agility team and help build the humanoid robotics industry.
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minty tear gas 🏳️‍⚧️ @nihilamacabre.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Currently happening: this is a group of trans and queer people in Sudan who are being forcibly expelled from a refugee camp. There is no plan to re-house them, no community care, no nothing. Some have been relocated with donated money, some are living on borrowed time. Give a damn?
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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you
Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."
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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
50% of American adults are more concerned than excited about the increased use of AI in daily life. Just 10% are more excited than concerned. 🧪
Chart showing concerns about AI are especially common in the United States, Italy, Australia, Brazil and Greece, where about half of adults say they are more concerned than excited. But as few as 16% in South Korea are mainly concerned about the prospect of AI in their lives.
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