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Barking Squirrel 🏳️‍🌈👩🏻‍🦰🇺🇸🇨🇦 @barkingsquirrel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
#Montana ballots have gone out to voters. DO NOT mail those. Once you fill it out take it to the elections office or a polling place in person. Beware the DOB on the back. It may get an appeal after being struck down.
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blythewoolston.bsky.social @blythewoolston.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Niobium and second-generation planets.
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Alani Bankhead for U.S. Senate (D-MT) @alanib.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Minimizing sexual violence at the Cornell 7 level is how you get Epstein-level corruption. #mtpol #cornell7 We can start holding powerful perpetrators and enablers accountable for their crimes by electing leaders with a history of bringing predators to justice.
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blythewoolston.bsky.social @blythewoolston.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Dire.
Blooming Lisianthus, first-year raspberry canes, unmown grass, my left foot, a black dress hem that has thoughts about blooming.
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Three panel comic. Panel 1: underwater ocean camera view of a whale fall on the sea floor, with various bottom feeders and weird fishes crawling around the decomposing remains. Off panel, someone says, “hang on a second…” Panel 2: the speaker is a member of a marine biologist crew, remotely viewing the video footage from a computer monitor. The biologist is leaning against his colleague’s chair. He continues, “pan the camera back.” Panel 3: Back underwater, the POV shifts to the other end of the whale carcass. There’s a large spider crab with a standing just off to the side. It has a human face in a neutral expression, and is wearing glasses. The marine biologist says, “I think I went to high school with that guy.”
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Alan Wessman @alanwessman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Regardless of the merits of data centers, this is not an appropriate use of public lands, because it monopolizes the land for a single private entity rather than keeping the land as multi-use, defeating the whole idea of public lands. Let Valar purchase its own land if it needs space.
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Barking Squirrel 🏳️‍🌈👩🏻‍🦰🇺🇸🇨🇦 @barkingsquirrel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The town of Columbia Falls, Montana rejected a $75M school bond for the second time. The state is failing miserably on funding public schools, forcing the costs on homeowners. The whole Republican controlled government in Montana is an epic failure! 🔥 We don’t have to continue down this path.
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Trent Bolger @trentbolger.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My post on the #mtpol Supreme Court race. trentbolger.substack.com/p/the-most-i...
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The most important race in all of Montana - Supreme Court #4
With all the yelling over the Senate race, I thought I would put out a note in the world about the other Statewide race on the ballot. The one that deserves more attention.
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Blue_Riverrrr @blueriverrrr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Ben Shapiro is financing a film that portrays the shooting and murder of Reneé Good from the perspective of ICE. It is currently being filmed in Livingston, Montana by Carter Boehm's Yellowstone Film Ranch. Local residents are protesting, while the film terrorizes the community.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You know, if you *really* cared about the wellbeing of women in college, instead of carping about the statistically insignificant number of trans athletes in sports minding their own business, you’d be railing against these Cornell fraternity cretins who drugged and gang-raped a passed-out women:
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Barking Squirrel 🏳️‍🌈👩🏻‍🦰🇺🇸🇨🇦 @barkingsquirrel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If we don’t make a stand against more data centers now, they are going to roll right over us.
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Karen Carpenter’s Halloween @kellylink.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
this was always my favorite of the “grey poupon” ads
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
forget context, people can't even read for fiction, the number of ppl who will read something a character said and insist they'd never say it if you the author didn't personally believe it is comically large
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Wallace Polsom @wallacepolsom.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
James Ensor (1860-1949), “Woman on a Breakwater” (1880), oil on canvas, 22.6 x 30.7 cm
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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Coding people invented a technology that writes code, and now they believe it solves every other aspect of life too. You don't see this with other industries, really. Imagine if somebody invented a new kind of saxophone and they were like "it's over for auto mechanics"
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blythewoolston.bsky.social @blythewoolston.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Upper Seven
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Schmidt Ocean Institute @schmidtocean.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Siphonophore — the grizzly bear of squishy things. ROV pilots recorded this footage at 1589 meters during the 2025 #AsgardArchaea expedition in the deep waters of Uruguay. (Sound on to learn more.)
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Autumn poem just dropped.
[The poem has been written in the shape of a deciduous tree with letters (or ‘leaves’) missing from the text]:
 
  comm   n pr  ble    whe    writin    p   ems
in the shape of decid o   s trees
is t  at once t   ere ar   ives
the fir   t sti   rings of    he new aut   mn breeze,  
  he       oems will begi    to shake    hemselves ge   tly  
  ntil their letters loos   n like leaves,
an they d start to float down
then
 
[The missing letters from the tree have landed on the last line to form the phrase]

turntomushuponthegroun

[The final ‘d’ is floating down to complete the phrase.]
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Alani Bankhead for U.S. Senate (D-MT) @alanib.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
You can't hold corrupt officials accountable if your campaign is funded by corruption. #mtpol Full conversation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=atD5... [Indivisible Missoula Candidate Forum | 9.20.26]
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Jennifer Laughran @literaticat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Heads up, Bookworms: There will likely be💀supply chain issues💀 this holiday season. So if there are specific books you have your heart set on for holiday gifting, I strongly suggest you buy/order them ahead of time (✨like now✨) rather than waiting until November/December.
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Gail Waldby ❌👑 @gailwaldby.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I'm voting for Alani Bankhead for US Senate from Montana. #MTPol
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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 21/09/2026
Updating the "AI" community's own words for short fiction marketing: Short stories won’t replace humans, but humans who read short stories will replace those who don’t. The true power of short stories lies not in replacing humans, but in working alongside us to achieve what neither can do alone.
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blythewoolston.bsky.social @blythewoolston.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Ingwe @ingwee.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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blythewoolston.bsky.social @blythewoolston.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Data centers consumed 25% of the energy used in Oregon.
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blythewoolston.bsky.social @blythewoolston.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Anthropic has a wet lab A company spokesperson said the facility is “not for drug discovery specifically” but declined to disclose its size, staffing, opening date, biosafety level or the precise nature of the experiments being conducted there." thealaskastory.com/anthropic-op...
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Anthropic opens secretive 'wet lab' as company employees pour hundreds of thousands into Kreiss-Tomkins campaign - Alaska Story
Anthropic has opened a secretive biology lab as employees of the AI giant pour $372,000 into Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins’ Alaska campaign.
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blythewoolston.bsky.social @blythewoolston.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Don't read this poem if you are heart-broken and fragile.
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Pen, watercolor, black & white charcoal pencil.

Another featured piece from the Spooky Pants book.

A man in a sweater stands with his hands on his hips looking out of a large window with the curtains open. Things aren’t looking good outside, reader. A massive winged demon is emerging from the clouds as dozens of little ghosts and bone demons rip through the sky. On the ground below we see townsfolk running through the grass. Our man in the window is in no mood for this. He lets us know, “Oh, I am in no mood for this.” His dog looks out the window as well, wagging its tail. 

Fantasia (1940) inspired drawing. I think I could’ve gone a little heavier with the chaos outside but we’ll try again with fresh drawings this October. I like how the clouds turned out. Trying to balance my sloppy lines with more detail can be tricky but I think we achieved a good result.
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
You can tell this is a real statistic because it includes measurable variables like “vitality” and “a little longer”
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Anthropic set up a wet lab in San Francisco to start automating biological and if you think that’s scary and want to know what they’ve already been up to…no you don’t.
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It's not just menhirs that enjoy continuing veneration. Many glacial erratics are on the routes of modern lithic pilgrims and assorted stone botherers. The deposited rocks serve to anchor folklore whether it's tales of Old Clip's anvil or boulders thrown by giants. – Dr. M. Benn
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Artificial Intelligence is less likely to kill us than Donald Trump's lack of *any* intelligence.
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
SOCRATES: Picture the following in your mind. Imagine human beings living in an underground cave-like residence. Shadows are cast on the wall by a fire Glaucon: so the shadows are like people! Have we discovered a new intelligence?!? SOCRATES: Glaucon: I, for one, welcome our new Shadow Lords!
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Gail Waldby ❌👑 @gailwaldby.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The Trump administration is pushing to fast-track permitting for oil and gas drilling that could threaten the health, lives, and livelihoods of local communities and Arctic wildlife while accelerating the climate crisis.
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Alani Bankhead for U.S. Senate (D-MT) @alanib.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We need an investigator in Congress. If traffickers and abusers are allowed to escape justice because they’re wealthy or powerful, then the rule of law means nothing. For 20 years, I’ve hunted terrorists, arrested p*dophiles and put corrupt government officials behind bars. #mtpol
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David Montana 🇺🇸🇨🇦🌈🇺🇦🇲🇽🇻🇪🇵🇸 @mountainman14.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
GOP doing a fantastic job running this state and this country. 💀
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Yvette 🪷 @yvet406.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This asshole is part of the DC insider MONEY going to the “independent” in the Montana US Senate race. Tell me how independent that guy is again.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 17/09/2026
HHS wants to relax regulations on human subject research (The Common Rule). For example, they want to redefine “undue influence” on vulnerable human research subjects (children, prisoners, disabled, culturally disadvantaged). 1/
From the federal register: The foundational framework for human subjects protection in the United States was established by the National Research Act of 1974 in response to widespread public concern over unethical biomedical and behavioral research practices. Following its passage, the then-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare issued the first version of 45 CFR part 46. These regulations established institutional review boards (IRBs) as the key mechanism for oversight and ethical review of human subjects research. While these protections remain vital, the current regulatory framework no longer reflects the realities of modern research.
In 1991 the Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects, known as the Common Rule, was formally adopted by HHS and 15 other federal departments and agencies. Although the last major revision in 2017 introduced several changes to modernize human subject protections while reducing unnecessary regulatory burden, investigators and institutions have continued to report that the Common Rule imposes unnecessary burdens and unclear requirements, particularly for minimal-risk studies. For example, the Department has received feedback that applying the Common Rule remains cumbersome for research within Learning Healthcare Systems and for other research methods that are integrated into clinical care settings and are intended to improve the quality and safety of medical care.
Without additional changes intended to clarify ambiguities, expand flexibilities, and redirect protective measures toward high-risk activities, the rights and safety of research participants as well as scientific breakthroughs can be impeded. Examples of how this rulemaking will address these issues include expanding exemptions for certain additional types of low-risk research, incorporating flexibilities for de minimis protocol changes, and clarifying key terms such as the definition of undue influence. These reforms will reduce ambiguity and undue administr…
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blythewoolston.bsky.social @blythewoolston.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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blythewoolston.bsky.social @blythewoolston.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I'm ded.
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blythewoolston.bsky.social @blythewoolston.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Greg withdraws, cowed by science of all things. Bison belong here.
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Billings Gazette @billingsgazette.com · 15/09/2026
On Monday, Sept. 14, Gov. Greg Gianforte’s administration filed a motion in federal court to dismiss its lawsuit against Yellowstone National Park’s 2024 Bison Management Plan.
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Montana files motion to drop Yellowstone bison lawsuit
On Monday, Sept. 14, Gov. Greg Gianforte’s administration filed a motion in federal court to dismiss its lawsuit against Yellowstone National Park’s 2024 Bison Management Plan.
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blythewoolston.bsky.social @blythewoolston.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Alme's record on child sexual abuse proves his bona fides as a defender of the pedophilic GOP.
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Good question
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Gail Waldby ❌👑 @gailwaldby.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
#DataCenters #Pollution #WaterPollution #AI
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Yvette 🪷 @yvet406.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Thank you to @stephruhle.bsky.social for interviewing Montana’s duly elected Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, Alani Bankhead. You’re a real one, Stephanie. youtu.be/WKOiAfc7v78?...
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MSNOW: Money, Power, Politics with Stephanie Ruhle. Aug 26, 2026. Alani Bankhead.
YouTube video by Alani Bankhead for U.S. Senate
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Down Here For Your Soul @bombsfall.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
ah the original latin
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Pausing doomscrolling to read Gerard Manley Hopkins has been found to decrease heart rate and increase life expectancy by 15-20 years
As Kingfishers Catch Fire
By Gerard Manley Hopkins

As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame;
As tumbled over rim in roundy wells
Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell's
Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name;
Each mortal thing does one thing and the same:
Deals out that being indoors each one dwells;
Selves — goes itself; myself it speaks and spells,
Crying Whát I dó is me: for that I came.

I say móre: the just man justices;
Keeps grace: thát keeps all his goings graces;
Acts in God's eye what in God's eye he is —
Chríst — for Christ plays in ten thousand places,
Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his
To the Father through the features of men's faces.
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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This beautiful object is a fragment from the base of a 13th-century Syrian bowl. It is decorated with a hare in an ‘arrested’ stance, that is with one of their front paws raised, and their head turned to the rear.
A fritware fragment from a bowl featuring a black hare and decorative design.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 31/08/2026
macabre = “muh-KAHB” Worcestershire = “WOOSS-ter-sheer” omnipotent = “ahm-NI-puh-tunt” reticent = “RET-uh-sunt” epitome = “ih-PIT-uh-mee” myriad = "MEER-ee-ud" Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.
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