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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 2h

Halloween costumes for birders. This is from last year and someone actually did the sexy owl pellet one.

A comic called halloween costume ideas for birders. In panel 1, labeled easy, there's a person labeled northern cardinal wearing a party hat, a beak, and red clothes, and a person labeled roseate spoonbill wearing pink clothes and a wooden spoon on their nose. In panel 2, labeled harder, there's a person labeled merlin sound ID wearing a big green circle with a microphone modeled after the button on the merlin sound ID app, and a person labeled hybrid green x blue jay wearing a complex costume with a mask and robe and hat modeled after a recently discovered hybrid bird. In panel 3, labeled challenging, there's a person labeled baltimore oriole nest wearing an enormous accurate woven oriole nest suspended from their arms and shoulders, and a person labeled african jacana carrying chicks with a hideous costume of long-toed bird feet hanging from their armpits. In panel 4, labeled hot, there's a person labeled high quality spotting scope who is shirtless and is wearing a spotting scope mask on their head, and a person labeled sexy owl pellet wearing an owl pellet top and bottom with a mouse skull on their head.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 13h

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 4h

If you lose power during Hurricane Isaias and use a portable generator, remember to run it at least 20 feet away from your home. Never run a generator indoors. Carbon monoxide is a deadly gas you can't see or smell and it can kill in minutes.

One portable generator with an equal sign next to a lot of cars. The text reads: one portable generator can produce as much carbon monoxide as hundreds of mid-size cars. Only use your generator outdoors and 20 feet away from your home.

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 4h

Sometimes people will run a generator in their garage with the big door open. One portable generator can produce as much carbon monoxide as hundreds of cars. Even with a large door open, there is not enough ventilation to be safe.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 18h

I don't believe they are conscious but I also don't believe you should get to do interviews where you say "idk man our business model might be built on enslaving sentient creatures" and still get to be a business.

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Kedrick Stumbris @kedrickstumbris.bsky.social · 17h

Because of a mix of Hockey Canada and injuries, the #Badgers may very well have only ONE DEFENDER with more than FOUR GAMES of experience at Wisconsin in the lineup this weekend for No. 1 Wisconsin at No. 2 Ohio State in a rematch of the last four national title games. Lol! Lmao even!

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glaivesports.bsky.social @glaivesports.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

New! A post meant to make it easier to find socials and websites of women's+ whky leagues, national teams & more & queer hockey leagues & teams. It will be continually a work in progress. Women’s + National Leagues/Teams & Queer Leagues/Teams Social Directory glaivesports.net/2026/10/06/w...

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Women’s + National Leagues/Teams & Queer Leagues/Teams Social Directory

This is a living page constantly under construction. It is not pretty but it is meant to be functional. Corrections and additions, contact me at the socials or email listed at the bottom of the pag…

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Simeon Schmauß @stim3on.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Six months have passed since the #ArtemisII mission and NASA has just released the reentry video from the Orion capsule! Here is a timelapse of the reentry, but be sure to check out the realtime version linked below! 🔭🧪

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)

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Minerva Zimmerman @grumpymartian.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Get your flu vaccine. My Dad died from the flu before Covid. You don’t want to deal with that. Get your flu shot, make sure your elders get the senior dose one.

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Black Rosie Media @blackrosiemedia.com · 07/10/2026

Our founder Erica L. Ayala was boots (literally) on the ground for Big Ten Women's Basketball Media Day. Check the thread for links to the full interview for CBS Sports HQ & We Need To Talk NOW Podcast. #WBB #BigTenHoops #MediaDay

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Along Came Poly-4-The-W @alongcamepoly4thew.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If you want to support girls sports and support a program making a real difference, this is the moment. Support Skilladelphia. Support the future of girls sports. www.skilladelphia.org

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026

you don’t hold "AI" accountable; you hold AI developers, vendors, and corporations that profit off it accountable holding "AI accountable" is like holding a toaster accountable. it's an inanimate object. it doesn't have wishes, feelings, or desires

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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 07/10/2026

Feeling #AntiPrime today? Try buying some #ebooks direct from the author at seriously low bundle prices! For example: The complete revised/augmented #YoungWizards novels, and all the longer and shorter works in the series—19 works in all—on #sale for $28.99! ebooks.direct/products/you...

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Young Wizards "All The Wizardry" Bundle

This bundle contains all the Young Wizards material in the Ebooks Direct inventory. That's nineteen ebooks, containing: The nine New Millennium Editions of the main-sequence Young Wizards novels The ...

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Birch 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @birchduck.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

(my mom has to put up with me for one more day. I'm trying to make sure she gets enough quiet time, but...)

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 07/10/2026

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 06/10/2026

I wrote this story bc I was frustrated at the lack of discussion about the Mohegan Tribe in mainstream coverage of the Sun’s sale. I had to pitch it around for nearly a month before my editor at The Guardian finally said yes. Native stories deserve to be told & Native voices deserve to be heard.

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

so many of the "perks" of genAI seem to be "replacing having any sort of real friend interactions with real humans" "I ask ChatGPT for advice!" that's so sad bro, do you not have any friends?

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 06/10/2026

It's Knife Ghost season.

A pumpkin patch. In the distance, a faint image of a blue ghost surrounded by a halo of carving knives. The text reads: you're carving. The knife ghost waits. Because you're using a knife. Instead of a pumpkin carving kit. Always use a pumpkin carving kit, never a knife.

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purr.in.ink @purrinink.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

🐾🐾🤍..

Four-panel comic of a fluffy black cat wearing grey armour and holding a sword and shield, against a pastel sky and green grass. The cat says: “It’s time for you to remember who the fluff you are.” Then: “A brave little warrior making a hard world softer.” Its eyes grow wide and sparkling as it adds: “I’d follow you into battle!” In the final panel, it says: “Or the kitchen.”

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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

🗺️ The California Geological Survey is hiring 2 positions in our GIS and Publications Unit - a GIS and Publications Supervisor and a GIS Specialist! Spread the world!

A picture of a man and woman sitting in a computer. The words on top say we’re hiring.

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Nicole Haase @nicolehaase.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

There's finally an active website for the 2027 U18 Women's World Championship in Ostrava, Czechia. Tickets are on sale and the schedule has dropped!

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IIHF - Home 2027 IIHF U18 WOMEN'S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

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Birch 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @birchduck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's called "Widowmaker" I'm glad for every boneheaded mistake that can be a learning opportunity instead of a funeral, thanks SAR

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Welding gloves do not typically provide enough protection to pick up a burning tear gas grenade and will provide no significant protection against a delayed/malfunctioning flashbang if you pick it up.

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Matt Morhockey-Morbooks @drakesmitha12.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Short thread on expertise and compensation when it comes to the "could you take a look at this for me" situations.

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Paul Nolley for Congress @nolleyforcongress.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Earlier today, Darin LaHood and I filmed our candidate forum. Tune in Thursday at 8 PM to see two very different visions for leadership and our country’s future. You can watch from anywhere or join a local watch party! Streaming and event links at nolleyforcongress.com/events

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Sigrid Ellis @sigridellis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yes

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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

In hashtags, it helps if each new word starts with a capital letter. Otherwise, sighted users could see a string of letters and not immediately know where one word ends and a new word begins. Capitalized words also help screen readers properly read out the hashtag.

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Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Please remember that for every VE Schwab and Stephen King, there are a lot of banned Black, queer, and POC writers you've never heard of, to whom it is maybe not a badge of honor but a denial of their voice. Being banned is not a marketing opportunity, unless one is already rich.

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Not what I ordered but not mad about it. Photo from my collection, 1967.

Black and white photo of a short haired black kitten in a cardboard box covered with shredded paper that looks like packing material.

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Birch 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @birchduck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The first time someone told me "they deserve to be in jail" for living on the street I just 😲 and walked away. Never tried to chit chat with him ever again (pretty sure he reported me to HR later for being mad when I got injuried at work)

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Great chance to post my all-time favorite headline

The Radium Water Worked Fine Until His Jaw Came Off

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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Geologist & astronaut Dr. Kathryn Sullivan: the "most vertical human" in history. + From space: 1st American woman to walk in space, 11 Oct 1984 + To the deepest point of Earth's seabed: 1st woman to dive to the Challenger Deep (🔽 35,853 ft), 7 June 2020 She was born #OTD in 1951. #WomenInSTEM

A candid photograph of pioneering American astronaut and oceanographer Dr. Kathryn D. Sullivan (born 1951) celebrating her historic June 2020 return from the Challenger Deep—the deepest known point in Earth’s oceans. This moment solidified her legacy as the first person to both walk in space and reach the ocean floor. The outdoor shot frames Sullivan off-center against a deep blue, slightly undulating ocean that stretches out to a hazy, light-clouded horizon line under bright sunlight. Sullivan stands leaning slightly out from a white oceanic vessel hatch or submersible entry point. She smiles broadly with triumphant energy, looking off-camera to the left. Her left arm is fully extended outward, flashing an enthusiastic thumbs-up sign. On the far left edge of the frame, another crew member's hand wearing a black textured glove mirrors her thumbs-up gesture. She wears a cobalt blue utility flight suit featuring a golden rectangular patch over her right chest. Her light brown hair is short and windblown, and she wears rectangular tortoiseshell sunglasses. Thick, bright yellow heavy-duty rigging straps slice vertically through the left foreground, framing her body, while a curved metallic silver handrail sits to her left. The overall mood is joyful, victorious, and adventurous.

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Congratulations to our Mineral Cup 2026 Champion Quartz! For #MinCup26, we collectively chose a nostalgic beauty of resilience as persistence as our champion. Please celebrate #Quartz, a friend to humans since time immemorial! www.mineralcup.org/about/2026-q...

A single quartz point, deep violet in its core and entirely clear around the outside, with ghostly traces of the crystal's former shape inside, as well as a few tiny bubbles.

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pia309 @pia309.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

200 signatures for #ShutTheFlockOff in #EastPeoria! openpetition.org/fmxhc The protest and City Council meeting is in 3 days, and we'd like to get as many signatures as possible by then! Tell a friend!

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Shut The Flock Off, East Peoria! - Online petition

The East Peoria City Council should reject Resolution Number 2627-059 AND resolve to NOT renew the city's Flock contract.

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

One of the most frequent daydreams people share with us is a wish to win a specimen of the Champion. This year, you can.

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Birch 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @birchduck.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I still have grass seeds in my boots from last time I went seed harvesting. I'm still against generative ai Probably because of the seeds in my boots

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Oh, what a nice idea. (Closing streets for a safer Halloween.)

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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Your periodic reminder that the decision to pursue a professional ballet career happens at similar or earlier age to most youth gender affirming care and has significantly more lifetime impact on peer socialization, how the body looks and overall health than social transition and puberty blockers.

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🇨🇦 Nick 🇨🇦 @nicktheiihffan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#U18WomensWorlds: With Finland being relegated to D1A for 2027, the 7-year streak of USA-FIN being played at the U18 WWC - which had been the longest active of any one matchup at this tournament - will be broken.

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Birch 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @birchduck.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Mom told me years later that she was terrified when I went to college. And this is why.

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Jen @ladyjenpool.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Your local library has Kanopy, where you can stream movies and tv shows for free. Check it out with your library card.

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Birch 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @birchduck.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I remember Mom showing me how to punch out holes, and how different or was when I started voting (in a different state)

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 02/10/2026

Butterbutt. An older comic.

A four-panel comic titled "yellow-rumped warbler poem". In panel 1, a yellow-rumped warbler stands on a branch in a late autumn scene, and says "Fall is here." In panel 2, the warbler watches a brown leaf fall to the ground, and says "Winter's near." In panel 3, the warbler faces the viewer as brown leaves fall, and says "Need some cheer?" In panel 4, the warbler is showing its luminous yellow rump, and cheerfully says "See my rear."

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Rachel Donner @rmiriam.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Aaaaand here it is! Your 2026-27 PWHL schedule! #pwhl www.thepwhl.com/en/stats/sch...

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Old Kentucky Shark @kentuckyshark.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The closed captioning just said that Rhyne Howard was on the ice for the Florida Panthers, which I am fairly sure is incorrect on many levels... but, good on her if so.

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