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John Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.social · 8h

Every once in a while I check in on innovations that interest me to see if they are, you know, doing okay. Superwood! They are shipping product, but mostly as a premium cladding. They don't have approval yet to replace structural elements. www.autonocion.com/us/wood-stro... buuut (1/2)

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A US company just started shipping a wood it boils, crushes and packs until it's 50% stronger than steel and six times lighter — and the one signature that would let it hold up a building instead of j...

Every building you have ever walked into was held up by some mix of steel and concrete. That has been the deal for about a century, ever since steel framing

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Dan Shafer @danshafer.bsky.social · 4h

NEW: With so much talk on data center politics, I wanted to take a different look at the issue. So, I talked to Wisconsin journalists who have been covering what's actually happening with data centers in WI. Part I is with Andrew Weiland of BizTimes: www.therecombobulationarea.com/p/what-is-ac...

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What is actually happening with data centers in Wisconsin? (Part I)

Our two-part conversation covering the on-the-ground reality amid all the noise on the data center issue in Wisconsin. Featuring Andrew Weiland, editor of BizTimes Milwaukee.

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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 6h

As data breaches go, this is pretty sizable, significant, and also bafflingly bad in terms of time it took to discover and that the stolen data was unencrypted. News of this breach comes weeks after a huge theft of FBI agents' personal data. Bypass for ad-blockers: web.archive.org/web/20260930...

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Hackers stole millions of US military personnel records during months-long data breach | TechCrunch

The Department of Defense notified millions of current and former U.S. military personnel that their personal information had been stolen in a months-long breach.

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 4h

The exact number will likely never be known But multiple studies have converged around a similar figure: around 700,000 people died as a result of Musk “putting USAID through the wood chipper” (his words), of whom 500,000 were kids Picture 500,000 tiny coffins in a row: that’s MAGA/MAHA’s impact😢

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Marsh Views @khshan.bsky.social · 6h

About 200 sea turtle eggs moved from historic California nests ahead of Polo Biologists relocated the olive ridley eggs to the Aquarium of the Pacific to protect them from hazardous surf, erosion and flooding. www.accuweather.com/en/weather-n...

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About 200 sea turtle eggs moved from historic California nests ahead of Polo

Biologists relocated the olive ridley eggs to the Aquarium of the Pacific to protect them from hazardous surf, erosion and flooding.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 6h

We don’t spend enough time talking about just how WEIRD all these people are. This is just an incredibly weird and insecure thing to say. Imagine any other SecDef ever being this weird and insecure?!

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Patrick @atomicpopwi.bsky.social · 6h

OMG 🤦🏻‍♂️

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Patrick @atomicpopwi.bsky.social · 7h

Just doling out bribes left and right these days, almost as if that's how he operated his whole life.

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 7h

12 critically endangered Nubian giraffes were relocated from Uganda’s Murchison Falls National Park to make way for oil extraction. As economic priorities increasingly undermine protected areas, how safe is critical biodiversity inside national parks? Watch more 👉️ mongabay.cc/Conservation...

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CommanderApaul @commanderapaul.com · 21h

Oh man do I have a song for you. Unless this is more about geese than palindromes, in which case go watch it anyways bc palindromes are awesome.

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"Weird Al" Yankovic - Bob (HD Version)

YouTube video by alyankovicVEVO

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Eos @eos.org · 9h

One gram of soil can contain up to 90 meters of mycelium—tubular fungi networks that exchange nutrients with most plants on Earth. A new technique makes it possible to image this critical environment. eos.org/articles/fun...

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Fungi Are Holding the Food Web Together. New Research Images This Underground Network. - Eos

By combining computer tomography—the same technology used for medical scans—with a high-powered particle accelerator, researchers have imaged the network of roots, fungal structures, and soil together...

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Patrick @atomicpopwi.bsky.social · 9h

Republicans spent the last 40+ years at war with public and secondary education, educators, and even those who had the audacity to be educated. They fully understood the stupidification of the electorate was key to keeping & gaining power. They played the long game & we are paying a terrible price.

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Patrick @atomicpopwi.bsky.social · 10h

Electrification is the future, no matter what obstacles politicians want to put in the way.

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evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social · 10h

whenever you feel like you’re too small to change anything know that citizens from small towns and cities that speak up against flock and axon cameras in their communities (and sometimes get arrested for it) are fighting and sometimes succeeding against this

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 11h

🇳🇵 ⚠️ A month on, Nepal flood survivors struggle to rebuild lives The deadly floods that struck Nepal on 26 August, triggered by a glacial collapse near the China-Nepal border, have left the Himalayan nation grappling with mounting reconstruction needs

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 13h

Nomen est omen. "Kremlëv" means "of or pertaining to the Kremlin." And it's not really his name. And that explains what his whole relationship with Trump Jr is really about. It's not that complicated. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 13h

It's hard to put into words how extraordinarily important & vital the USPSTF was, & how enormously it influenced medicine & public health in profoundly valuable & beneficial ways And it's really hard to adequately convey the depth of my rage & sadness that the MAHA Administration destroyed it

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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 12h

CITGO plans to send the first gasoline produced at its Lemont, IL outside Chicago to the New York market as part of the reversed bi-directional flow on the Laurel Pipeline as I highlighted a few weeks ago. This is the first time moving fuels via pipeline in this way.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 13h

Delightful also to hear real eagle noises. In movies eagles are always dubbed with hawks, since hawks found fierce and eagles sound like adorable squeakers.

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Brian Dunn@briandunn.bsky.social‬ @briandunn.bsky.social · 15h

On this day in 1968, the prototype Boeing 747 jet airliner is rolled out at Everett, Washington for the press and representatives of the airlines that had ordered the plane. It made its first flight on February 9, 1969. The last 747 was delivered from Boeing on January 31, 2023.

Rollout of the first Boeing 747, September 30, 1968.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 13h

Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.

From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water. I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there? God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 14h

Well, if it’s 30 September, it must be... oh God. The 36th anniversary of the first—and, you may not be entirely surprised to hear—only transmission of a sitcom which was genuinely called ‘Heil Honey, I’m Home’, in which Hitler and Eva Braun live next door to Jewish couple Arny and Rosa Goldenstein

Neil McCaul as comedy Hitler, mugging for the camera

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OSINTRadar @osintradar.bsky.social · 14h

According to Israel’s Channel 9, the pilots of the Flydubai flight were not Russian or Ukrainian citizens. According to updated information, the co-pilot who attacked the captain is an Omani citizen, while the injured captain is a citizen of the United Arab Emirates.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14h

Please read this piece from @lyz.bsky.social.

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Patrick @atomicpopwi.bsky.social · 13h

Most of the tail rudder was ripped off, as a result of the violet descent caused by the fight! bsky.app/profile/vcdg...

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Patrick @atomicpopwi.bsky.social · 13h

I guarantee you can't predict where this story leads!

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Eamon Javers @eamonjavers.bsky.social · 15h

NEW: We’ve spent months reporting on a Chinese intelligence effort to penetrate the Federal Reserve. It’s a fascinating and important saga, revealing the lengths that Chinese spies are willing to go to get any scrap of information about the Fed.

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Inside Man: How Chinese spies used lies, love and betrayal to target the Federal Reserve

A CNBC investigation shows how former Fed advisor John Rogers became entangled with a man U.S. officials identify as a Chinese intelligence operative.

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Patrick @atomicpopwi.bsky.social · 19h

I don't write a lot anymore, but I've been scribbling lately. Mostly when I can't sleep. Sometimes in my head while riding.

"I've done some things. Rebelled. Failed. Overcome and excelled. Taken numerous forks in the road. Flown airplanes. Raced cars and bikes alike. Fell in love in Paris. In April no less. I've led and inspired others (their words). Climbed ladders and towers. Made and lost it all. Twice. Now what?

Outlived family and friends and lovers. Like hourglass sand they slipped by. Survived crashes, and falls, and shenanigans I shouldn't have. Have I outlived my life? How to know. I've seen lands far and wide, but never the eyes I hoped to find across from mine. A crisis of faith (of sorts) but not time to go. Is there more yet to do? To give? To whom? I don't know.

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JM 📎🟦🪬🥯🥡🥠🦀 @jmdc88.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🎥⌨️ holocaustuk On this day in 1941, the Jews of Kiev, over 33,000 Jewish men, women and children, were murdered in what has become known as the Babi Yar massacre.

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Patrick @atomicpopwi.bsky.social · 21h

Super intelligence at work.

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Patrick @atomicpopwi.bsky.social · 22h

I've done RAGBRAI (a weeklong bicycle ride across Iowa) 5 times. Met rural Iowans in tiny towns and on farms selling food and drinks along the way. Always gracious, wonderful people. I know many of them likely voted for Trump but I still sympathize with their plight. America needs family farms.

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LSW @ltrip.altgov.info · 29/09/2026

Your government websites are being taken over. Your access to things like Social Security, Medicare, IRS etc and your privacy are both at risk. Read the open letter from the government employees trying to protect you.

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 23h

Singapore plans to merge several islands into a new “western island” for industrial development. Conservationists warn the mega-project could bury up to 60% of the country’s remaining coral reefs, which serve as ecologically vital “mother” reefs. Robin Hicks reports for #Mongabay.

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Singapore’s plan to merge several islands could wipe out coral reefs

SINGAPORE — “For seven thousand years, Singapore has changed around these reefs,” says Debby Ng, a Singaporean biologist who studies the city-state’s shrinking coastlines of seagrasses, mangroves and…

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Tero Kuittinen @teroterotero.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Insane rain potential in France as drought parched land may receive nearly a year’s worth of rain in two days.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

this really is impeachable for any president, but really grotesque coming from a regime that cut life-saving development aid because they said it was not efficient

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Patrick @atomicpopwi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The "official" Illuminati account just followed me on TikTok. Not sure if I should be flattered, or very concerned.

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Patrick @atomicpopwi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

COVID (Novavax) and flu vaccines all done for the year. Easy peasy. Fully anticipate feeling awful tomorrow but that's a small price to pay to protect myself and others. Get your shots!

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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the Fuel Clock shows Americans have paid $74.4 billion more on gasoline & $47.5 billion more on diesel since March 1 compared to a year ago. Total cost will hit $122 billion today. also updated the state map where you can find out how much more you're paying. link in my profile.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's a good day to google "Foxconn," "Wisconsin," "Trump," "2018," "13,000 jobs" and "didn't happen, didn't even come close"

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 29/09/2026

This is crap for two reasons. 1: polls show, clear majorities of all parties support expanding childcare access 2: if parents are wary of childcare, it's because Reps spent four decades vilifying employed moms, stoking false fears of daycare, and underfunding programs in ways that limit care quality

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