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Blueberry Dale

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erstwhile librarian occasional numberwanger

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Also: look up Zhang Shan. She won gold at the Barcelona Olympics in 1993 in skeet shooting. Skeet shooting had been a mixed gender event since the 60s, but after her win, they segregated the genders. And in the next Olympic Games, they literally didn’t even have a women’s skeet shooting category.
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. What about painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
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Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA
Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.
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Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
The variety of German bees before the Industrial Revolution (187, top) vs after the introduction of pesticides (43, bottom), DHM
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.
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John Breen @breen.tech · 15/02/2026
If you’re a parent, your kid doesn’t need your permission to do a walkout or a protest. Your kid is not your property.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Jeffrey Epstein to Bill Gates in December 2016: “come to visit the island. new adminstration people visiting” (www.justice.gov/epstein/file...)
From: "jeffrey E." <jeevacation@gmail.com
To: Bill Gates
Subject:
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2016 10:14:35 +0000
come to visit the island. new adminstration people visiting
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Reminder when you watch the Intuit Super Bowl ads, they have Super Bowl ad money because they are a successful rent seekers who have worked for decades to kill free, quality, public tax preparation services donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-death-...
donmoynihan.substack.com
The Death of Direct File
Tech for good not welcome in the Trump administration
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Write it down. Tell the story of this time in your own words. All too soon, people will try to re-write history, their own complicity in these horrors will be scrubbed away. But take a pen, take to the keyboard. And write. Remember for the rest of us.
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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Will the world as you know it end this week? Well it is possible the world as you know it will end this week. But as of now it is Monday and you are probably just at work.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 25/01/2026
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Never forget that the reason they are so convinced you’re all getting paid is that they are all getting paid.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 25/01/2026
I’m begging lefties and liberals to stop posting things that erase the reality of how violent the US has been to Indigenous people and Black people (among other US populations) ever since its inception and along the way. PLEASE. Do not copy conservatives by erasing history.
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Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
One thing that irks me: people keep calling the folks on the streets in Minneapolis protestors. They are not generally there to protest, they are there to observe and document. This is the product of organizing and mutual aid. It is telling that these acts of citizenship are seen as protest!
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
You can’t tell if someone is disabled just by looking at them. There’s no such thing as the “genuinely disabled”. You are not entitled to a person’s entire medical history just so you can decide whether to believe them or not. People are not faking disability, most are trying to fake being well.
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Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Pantone really said MORE WHITE in trumps America
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Contrary to Trump's dangerous tirade, U.S. military service members have a right to refuse illegal orders and even a duty to do so. Everyone in the military swears an oath to the Constitution, not to a particular president of the United States or anyone else in the chain of command.
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Gory Thing @korybing.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
One of the strangest aspects of aging that they don't warn you about is watching as history gets rewritten right in front of your face and people 20 years younger than you confidently tell you about something you lived through and get it completely wrong.
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Last thing: if you’re in the position to need this advice, don’t deny yourself small pleasures. First, psychologically, restricting yourself makes it more likely you will have a fraught moment and spend more than you want. But more importantly: You are living through a shitshow.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/10/2025
dear US friends, when a sitting president (re)builds the seat of government, it almost always means the president has no intention of leaving at the end of term. your African friends with decades of experience
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wobblerocket 🎲🎮 @wobblerocket.com · 22/10/2025
I worked for a small food pantry for a while. The can of beans you paid $1 for would cost us 20 cents through our connections. Give money directly if you can. You can literally multiply the amount of food your donation can provide by 3-5x just by giving cash directly.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24/10/2025
Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.
bbc.co.uk
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC
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Michele Tobias, PhD @micheletobias.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
This is incompetence. Johnson is unable to do his job and should be removed.
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Kindra Cotton @kindracotton.com · 15/10/2025
Lack of weather data due to Tr_mp’s budget cuts impacted forecast for deadly Alaska storm: www.cnn.com/2025/10/14/w...
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Lack of weather data due to Trump’s budget cuts impacted forecast for deadly Alaska storm | CNN
The forecast for the powerful and deadly storm that battered small communities in western Alaska over the weekend was likely made worse by a lack of weather data triggered by the Trump administration’...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Old enough to remember when kids being anti-semitic was the basis for a federal government assault on higher education
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Hobby Drifter in Tokyo @hobbydrifter.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
White people who have spent decades thinking “Born in the USA” is patriotic and “Every Breath You Take” is a great wedding song are suddenly very concerned about not being able to understand lyrics to some songs at the Super Bowl halftime show.
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LanaQuest aka RosaSparks @lqlana.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
If a Black person commits a crime the Black community is demonized. Catch the alleged murderer of the Right’s mouthpiece, not one description mentioned he was white. He was described by age and name and living in Utah. Had he been Black he’d be labeled addict, thug, stop, he would have been dead.
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LunaLuvgood2020 @lunaluvgood2020.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Charlie Kirk was a private citizen Melissa Hortman was a seated lawmaker in MN No Flags were flown half staff at the WH for her death by gun violence
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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 11/09/2025
While you weren't looking, *seventeen* House Democrats just voted to strip basic rights from trans members of the military and helped the GOP pass their far-right version of the NDAA, similar to what we reported on. This is the most Dems voting for anti-trans legislation in Congress this year.
breakingdefense.com
House passes NDAA, with $848B topline and protections for Ukraine aid - Breaking Defense
Democrats by and large voted against the typically bipartisan measure due to the addition of several culture war amendments.
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
to my mind the woman who dies of sepsis because of antiabortion laws, or the person who dies because they can't afford insulin -- these are just as much victims of political violence as the man shot through the throat while making a racist speech
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Kayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Dolly Parton has sent my daughter a new book every month for years as she does for thousands of children. She help fund the development of the Covid vaccine. She’s not a billionaire. I think as non wealthy people it’s hard to even imagine how much billionaires *could* be doing with their money.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 02/08/2025
the problem with letting democrats backslide their support of trans rights whether it be trans in sports or using bathrooms is we’ve seen “compromise” in the UK labor party. they gave into “reasonable” TERF demands and it destroyed the labor party and all rights for trans people
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New Scientist @newscientist.com · 21/07/2025
Employees who trialled a four-day work week for six months said they slept better and felt that their ability to work improved
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Four-day working week may boost our health and performance at work
Employees who trialled a four-day work week for six months said they slept better and felt that their ability to work improved
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bubbe yaga @ellearmageddon.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
fwiw, i don’t personally think that either doomerism OR toxic positivity is what this moment calls for; i think what we actually need to be collectively looking towards is a secret third thing (hopepunk) it’s cool and important to give a shit, and to look for ways to help each other.
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Uncrewed @uncrewed.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
I feel like this is a massive fuckup even by NYT standards
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
This chart has been widely shared on here, it’s important to see the correction
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Mad Dr. Jimbosaur, Espooky. @jimbosaur.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
I have beaten the sex pest who was in the primary and who you were probably endorsing for Mayor Forgive me he was disgusting so perverted and so old
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 20/06/2025
Rich People And Pundits Really Do Not Want Zohran Mamdani to Be Mayor Allies of former NY Governor Andrew Cuomo are breaking New York City spending limits trying to make him mayor. Mamdani is still closing the gap.
rollingstone.com
Rich People, Pundits Really Do Not Want Zohran Mamdani to Be Mayor
Groups aligned with former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo have spent $24 million on his campaign to defeat Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani.
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Sarah Goodyear @sgoodyear.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
very stupid monsters
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Jacob Bogage @jacobbogage.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
👀 Scoop: Trump and Republicans want USPS to sell off its brand new EVs and chargers. That would mean literally **ripping up post office parking lots** to auction off assets with no private-sector value. It’s buried in the Senate’s “One Big Beautiful Bill.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
The Senate’s version of Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill would see the General Services Administration take possession of the nearly 7,200 new postal EVs and associated infrastructure and put the assets up for auction. The proposal is unlikely to generate much revenue for the government; there is almost no private-sector interest in the mail trucks, and used EV charging equipment — built specifically for the Postal Service and already installed in postal facilities — generally cannot be resold.

“The funds realized by auctioning the vehicles and infrastructure would be negligible. Much of infrastructure is literally buried under parking lots, and there is no market for used charging equipment,” Peter Pastre, the Postal Service’s vice president for government relations and public policy, wrote to senators this month.
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 18/06/2025
The world is an increasingly volatile place and the amount of disinformation on social media is staggering. Take the time to verify what you see online before sharing it. We all need to be more vigilant.
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
All I want right now is for someone to pick up a guitar sometime this week and write at least three simple, memorable, and musically pleasing songs which thousands of people at a time can sing together in unison while marching against fascism this summer
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phylan @phylan.website · 09/04/2025
I don't think people who DO have a criminal record should be disappeared to a Salvadoran prison either
the guy standing up to say a thing meme
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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 09/04/2025
This was such a great idea, with excellent implementation. I feel so sorry for those who would have applied, BUT infinitely more sorrow for Scott and his team who worked for YEARS to put this in place. All violently thrown down the drain at a whim of cultural barbarians who never read.
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👻 oct-BOO-cryptid 🎃 🜬 @octocryptid.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Could ICE just lose your documents and deport you anyway and no one will know before you're in a country you never seen before? YES
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Indivisible Santa Barbara @indivisiblesb.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Here's how you end a Hands Off! demonstration, Santa Barbara style. Thanks to the Society of Fearless Grandmothers, who organized the human alphabet and took the drone shots! #indivisible #handsoff
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
I really, really need people to learn to say “not for me” rather than “thing bad.” Usually that refers to media you disliked, but in this day and age unless that thing is actively currently causing harm, thing is not bad, you just don’t like thing.
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Danny Danger Oz @dannyoz.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
When you don't drink alcohol, it's amazing how hard other people will push you to have a drink just to make themselves feel more comfortable.
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Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com · 23/03/2025
Did you know that in the 1940s, Ray Bradbury earned about 8¢ per word? In the 21st century, an SF writer also makes about 8¢ per word.
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