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Chris Bogle @chrisbogle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

7. Here's what makes certain people uneasy: To accept reality of ADHD is to accept the system itself is disabling, which means the structures must change, & that threatens those who benefit most from them. Easier to deny ADHD than to accept structural change

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The magic of an Irish rainforest 🌍

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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

this is fantastic and I learned something new

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José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Unintended consequenes of AI destroying human relationality -- the market of humans from the global south helping privileged college students cheat is getting decimated by non human AI. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/t...

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Kenyans Did College Students’ Homework for Years. Then A.I. Arrived.

Thousands of Kenyans made a living writing essays for overseas students. With A.I., the work has dried up, a warning for online gig work that has been a global lifeline.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/09/2026

i am incredibly excited to share our research about how paying people’s rent through mutual aid made an impact on minnesota this year we accidentally collected more data than anyone ever has for an effort like this, and can very seriously say we prevented an eviction bubble that everyone expected

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

41 years ago, Carl Sagan gave a clear and elegant explanation of the science behind global warming.

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@Above96th @above96th.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I've always appreciated photos of birds torpedoing straight at the camera, partly because I've rarely gotten them myself. So it was quite a thrill when this Prothonotary Warbler flew right at me! 🎉🎉🎉 #Prothonotary #Wisconsinbirding #birdsseenin2026

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Being listened to, and being with somebody who takes genuine pleasure in listening, is really powerful. It really has an eﬀect…. [I]f it was a “cure”– it’s a listening cure, not a talking cure. And it’s amazing what people will say if they think they’re being listened to." ~Rod Tweedy

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Thea Euryphaessa @theaeuryphaessa.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

As someone once pointed out to me, when you become conscious, the first thing you discover is why you stayed unconscious all those years. Being conscious means you really have to feel what you feel, which is frequently very vulnerable and raw. — Pema Chödrön

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I prefer to save talking till I know what I’m talking about.

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 26/07/2026

This is my goal here: Cultivate joy, vengefully. 💜

the milky way over the bonneville salt flats, the foreground taken at blue hour so everything is blue, the sky is teal instead of black. This was an artistic choice rather than how it actually looked. The milky way was an entire arch shot that I stacked vertically, I think about 11 individual shots.

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Paul Willson @pauljwillson.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The Lakes

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 22/07/2026

Cool black skimmer moments tonight. Possibly some of the best of my life so far. 🪶

A black skimmer dipping its beak into a lake as it flies by. A pretty good reflection on the Green Lake

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Wow. "A Cartographer named Kim Jeong-ho walked the entirety of the Korean peninsula through every mountain and valley for years to produce an extremely precise, gigantic map of Korea (대동여지도) in 1861." Source: buff.ly/36qVGno

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

This clever map shows us what time it is across the world, which regions are awake, working or sleeping, all rotating in sync with the Earth. Go to the source where the image only rotates by 3.75 degrees every 15 minutes to remain up to date. Source: buff.ly/tyQ2Z3g

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Cosmin Stan @cosminstan.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Dreamland Apuseni Mountains - Romania www.cosminstan.ro

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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

The founder we should talk more about is Thomas Paine, who will fuck your shit up every time. Here he is in The Rights of Man just ripping into any ideas of "originalism" and that kind of garbage.

Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself, in all cases, as the ages and generations which preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave, is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies. Man has no property in man; neither has any generation a property in the generations which are to follow. The parliament or the people of 1688, or of any other period, had no more right to dispose of the people of the present day, or to bind or to controul them in any shape whatever, than the parliament or the people of the present day have to dispose of, bind or controul those who are to live a hundred or a thousand years hence. Every generation is, and must be, competent to all the purposes which its occasions require. It is the living, and not the dead, that are to be accommodated.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

DR Congo goalkeeper all half:

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 30/06/2026

Here it is, after years of having this shot in my head, chasing the murder the night before the full Moon: dozens of crows flying in front of the Moon, my first edit. 🪶

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 10/06/2026

It's not every day your FIRST academic publication lands a @forbes.com FEATURE! Absolutely WILD. 🤯 Thank you to Dr. Gassam Asare for interviewing @emmarackstraw.bsky.social and I about our new study where we show why Black supervisors matter in the workplace and beyond. #blacksky #econsky #news

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A New Harvard Study Makes A Powerful Case For Black Supervisors

New research reveals that when a Black supervisor is watching, it can shift workplace bias and change how Black workers are seen at work.

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Tim LeRoy @dirtmeetsthewater.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

This is the twelfth and final portrait of a slow-art work called Season Clock. [link in bio] #Trees #photography #art #eastcoastkin #shotonfairphone #ClassicMono

A group of twelve back and white pictures of the same solitary oak tree taken every month in 2025, showing the evolution of the seasons and the tree's folliage. The pictures are dated and arranged in three rows of four from January to December.

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MyPet Health by Vetcation @vetcation.com · 04/05/2026

Swans have one off the coolest landing technique ever.. 😊

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Hiro Ohta @xlix.me · 09/04/2026

Sometimes, what matters most is not the light or the dark, but the in-between moment.

PHOTO by James Wheeler. A vivid sunset ignites the sky with streaks of lavender, coral, and gold, casting their hues across a blanket of scattered clouds. Below, a perfectly still lake mirrors the dramatic canvas above, creating a seamless reflection of color and light. A narrow strip of land with silhouetted trees and distant mountains separates sky from water, anchoring the surreal scene in quiet solitude.

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Yvette Cendes @whereisyvette.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Today is the 6th anniversary of what my mom still insists is the best landscape photograph I’ve ever done. (We had just settled down in rural New Hampshire for the pandemic- little did we know how many months we’d be there!)

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Dani Donovan 👩🏻‍🎨 ADHD Comics @danidonovan.com · 10/03/2026

Now That’s What I Call ADHD 🎶🔂

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

I continue to be fascinated by the phenomenon whereby an expert engages with any of the LLMs on their field of expertise and is instantly horrified by the wrong answers, and then goes on to use it for things they are not experts in as though it won’t be just as bad for those.

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

American adults with a four-year college degree Hindus 70% Episcopalians 67% Jews 65% Agnostics 53% Atheists 48% Muslims 44% Buddhists 41% Catholics 35% National average 35% Evangelicals 29% www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/202…

Hindus and Jews are much more likely to have a four-year college degree than Americans in other religious groups, according to Pew Research Center’s 2023-24 Religious Landscape Study (RLS). Seven-in-ten Hindus and 65% of Jews have a bachelor’s degree or more education. That compares with 35% of U.S. adults overall. On the other end of the spectrum, lower shares of evangelical Protestants (29%) and members of historically Black Protestant denominations (24%) hold college degrees. The shares of college graduates for several other religious groups range from 35% to 45%.

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 08/02/2026

Hate-filled fake videos about London are everywhere. We've obtained a recording of a TikToker confessing to secretly filming Londoners in their homes for clicks. He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger. Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

It’s like people have been “raptured” to hell: “Leon sends a "chase" car to check out where these abandoned vehicles are located and arranges discreet drop-offs. Since late December, he estimated they have dropped off 250 cars. The drop-offs are often emotional for the families and Leon's crew.”

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 26/01/2026

"behind the violence in Minneapolis—captured in so many chilling photographs in recent weeks—is a different reality: a meticulous urban choreography of civic protest." from Robert worth, @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

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Welcome to the American Winter

In the frozen streets of Minneapolis, something profound is happening.

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Armand Sarlangue @armandsarlangue.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

The Mont Blanc range, as seen from the other side of Swiss border… #photography #nature #art #landscape

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

“Once, after the group bought out a tamale vendor’s cart, that man found them days later to say immigration agents were spotted on his block just hours after. ‘You saved my life,’ Rosales said the man told them.” apnews.com/article/chic...

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Chicagoans buy out street vendors amid a federal immigration crackdown

Across Chicago’s Latino neighborhoods, fear of a federal immigration crackdown has emptied the streets.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 04/09/2024

4 yrs ago today, a family member managed a truly spectacular own goal, splintered his domestic bliss, & in the process, united the world for a day. On popular request, I shall now recreate the livetweet thread from that day So gather around children, for this is the tale of The Rice Truck Saga

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 19/11/2025

New article from me about the Marshall Islands becoming the first country with a Universal Basic Income, what the details are, how it came to be, and what may come next. Side note: It's hard to express how big a deal this is, especially for me personally. I hope this is the first of many dominoes.

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The Marshall Islands Just Quietly Implemented the First National Universal Basic Income (UBI)

How the Marshall Islands built the first nationwide universal basic income, funded by a US-capitalized Compact Trust Fund, and what it means for UBI everywhere.

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Damian Shields @damianshields.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Loch Lubnaig #Scotland #Trossachs #Stirling www.damianshields.com

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

This new study in Nature provides a comprehensive update to the "doughnut" framework.

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Matthew D. Sacchet @matthewsacchet.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Powerful scientific clues to the mystery of consciousness are emerging from its very absence. Advanced meditation research seeks to scientifically understand profound and powerful shifts in consciousness that can arise from contemplative mastery. One such shift, which we call...

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

This is such a nuanced and big-hearted piece on the evolution of autism as a diagnosis, by an anthropologist of mental health who is also the dad of a now-grown daughter on the spectrum. Great reading (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

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Opinion | Autism Has Always Existed. We Haven’t Always Called It Autism.

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Domestique @domestiquecycling.com · 22/09/2025

The Rwandans should not be underestimated this weekend 😏 📹 IG 🇸🇮 Tadej Pogacar

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Philosophical Psychology @journalphp.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Latest papers: Shahieda Jansen traces the resolution of mental health practitioners’ concerns with affliliation to psychology as they revitalise their communal personhood with the hep of the African multidimensional personhood in this open access article doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philpsy

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

We can't even play basketball 🏀 🤬

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Sam Wetherell @samwetherell.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Not to be that guy always but a better thing to critically reflect on when thinking about the postwar British state and about the logic of protest/arrest/detention might be the 150,000 rural Kenyan forced into concentration camps between 1952 and 1960.

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Ben Byerly, PhD @benbyerly.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Loosen/lighten the sheets/blankets at the foot of the bed so feet feel free to do whatever they want.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

In a moment when institutions are capitulating to the administration over diversity and race— Im thinking of offering a condensed version of my short Columbia course on race, media and global history for this moment. Would y’all sign up?

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Crystal Fleming is on sabbatical @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Another obvious point that can’t be overstated: all of this is happening in the ongoing wake (see Christina Sharpe) of the centuries long legacy of transatlantic slavery, the largest forced mass displacement and imprisonment of human beings in the history of the planet.

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 17/04/2025

We live in a country where about half the population thinks the other half must be FORCED TO WORK with the threat of starvation and homelessness. After universal basic income is achieved, we will live in a country where each of us knows that none need to be forced and that we all WANT TO CONTRIBUTE.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 15/04/2025

So we had an earthquake today, and something amazing happened…

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