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Remember: Wealth cannot be separated from power. We're seeing in real time how the extreme concentration of wealth is distorting our politics, rigging markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of people. Taxing the rich isn't just an economic issue, it's a defense of our democracy.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 8h

New zine just dropped at the science library

Sarah's got a little free library in front of her house and she's holding up a zine that is called Philly Nightlife a coloring zine with a silly raccoon on it

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 8h

*so important*: if you’re voting by mail, assume the USPS will delay because it’s its policy. You can: —put it in drop box —go to counter to watch them postmark in front of you —if you’re dropping it in a mailbox, do it VERY EARLY.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 9h

More than 500 U.S. citizens have been detained by ICE, according to ProPublica. 70% of ICE detainees have no criminal conviction. Trump’s promise to go after the “worst of the worst” was always a lie. It was always a pretext to terrorize Black and brown communities. Remember this.

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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica

The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more th

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 10h

anyway, more generally, I'm really concerned that folks are turning to algorithms (designed to be agreeable and reinforce users' perspectives) for tasks that really instead require a good friend who could push back on harmful ideas

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 10h

my very-not-into football sister is in a league and she just picked players based on whether she knew their names and then only later realized that she, as a lifelong Ohioan, is just basically playing a squad of OSU alums

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John Rairdin NWR @jtsknight92.bsky.social · 10h

Since it's out today I'll mention that Kaytee and I have been playing through Quern on Nintendo Switch and really enjoying it. A little ugly compared to the original PC version but still a really solid Myst-like. I'll have a full review once we finish it.

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Kairon @caired.bsky.social · 10h

Honestly, I feel like we need an entire line of Mario Sports this gen, like the N64 had. We've got the AAA 3rd party versions, let's get the more casual sports games to train people on too. Also, I AM very interested in the return of the Backyard ___ series which I think would fill a similar niche.

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Kairon @caired.bsky.social · 10h

Omg I had an entire response typed out to this before I realized you meant AMERICAN football 🏈 😅

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 10h

This should be considered a 5-alarm democracy fire.

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Kairon @caired.bsky.social · 10h

*shrug* We've genderbent Hamlet, so the objective act of it is artistic license. But if anyone thinks this has any material effect on other complaints about the property then they're dead wrong. The recent Dune movie made Liet Kynes into a woman, one of the least drastic things it did to the book.

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 13h

Hahahha just a little tuft of your earliest hair, no big deal, not at all like something a witch would ask for 😅

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 13h

Ahhhhh hahahhaha omg! So for others who don’t get why Kim saved her kids hair for me: Developmental biologists manipulate very tiny embryos under microscopes, and baby hair (particularly Norwegian paper hair) is the perfect mix of flexible yet firm. It’s a treasured commodity among some labs 🫠

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Justin D. Berube @jusdberube.bsky.social · 14h

There are lots of new Exclusive Mario Kart, Zelda, and Animal Crossing items for sale in the North American Nintendo Online Store. www.nintendo.com/us/store/mer...

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Kairon @caired.bsky.social · 13h

I saw a lot of these at the Nintendo SF Store! (memories hazy on how many, or if all) Unfortunately last time we tried they couldn't figure out a way for me to pay at the physical retail location with my eShop funds 😅

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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 15h

The Complete Calvin and Hobbes [Box Set] hardcover is $99.01 on Amazon Prime (1440 pages, 56% off) amzn.to/3IXmRf8 #ad

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Kairon @caired.bsky.social · 15h

Yeah, despite headwinds of longer development cycles and financial pressures on their customers, thiere does seem to be potential in this gen for Nintendo to offer a lot of variety and expansion in their first party offerings.

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Marc Deschamps @marcdachamp.bsky.social · 16h

Switch 2 offers Nintendo a great opportunity to dig deeper into its back catalog to find stuff that hasn’t been offered in a while, or to come up with new spin-offs that can co-exist with previous Switch 1 games. That’s why Splatoon Raiders was so smart. And Mario Baseball is a good call.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 16h

I attended a seminar by freshly minted Nobel Laureate Francis Halzen many years ago and something he said stuck with me, but it takes some explaining, so this will be a (short) thread. The talk was about neutrino telescopes, and he started by explaining how rarely neutrinos interact with anything.

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Kairon @caired.bsky.social · 16h

The ONN Walmart Store brand is $84 it sounds like! bsky.app/profile/nint...

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Nintendeal @nintendeal.com · 17h

Samsung 512GB microSD Express Switch 2 storage expansion card is $104.48 on Amazon Prime: amzn.to/4pKORlN #ad Walmart's onn brand card is $84.77 bit.ly/47zkGqO

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Marc Deschamps @marcdachamp.bsky.social · 16h

Mario Tennis Fever is an interesting case in that it’s basically the only first-party Switch 2 game that’s a traditional follow-up to a Switch 1 game. With so many S1 games still selling years after launch, Nintendo has to think hard about cannibalizing sales, and how to avoid it.

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Nintendeal @nintendeal.com · 06/10/2026

$10 off Switch 2 physical release pre-orders on Amazon Zelda Ocarina of Time: amzn.to/4r1aKiE $59.88 Metroid Ravenous: amzn.to/4xngbdf #ad $59.88 Switch Sports Resort: amzn.to/4y1jQha $49.94

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Imran Khan @imrankhan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A big part of growing up is realizing that society really wants you to mock and deride media girls like for that reason and you really don’t have to. Pop music and boy bands weren’t the cancer you were told they were. It was and is fine to just let that stuff exist.

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Friday Afternoon Tea @fridaytea.com · 06/10/2026

For those of you asking if we have a donation link, we do have an open-ended “financial health fund.” This is for folks who don’t want more tea at the moment and have some cash they just want to throw at us. Think of it as a CommuniTea angel investment option! checkout.square.site/merchant/49P...

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Friday Tea Financial Health Fund - Friday Afternoon

Things are hard for small businesses, and the absence of our usual Pride Month busy season has added more to our operations & cash flow stress. You: have spare cash but no real need or space for more...

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 05/10/2026

Lots of gratitude to @carlbergstrom.com for quoting probably my favorite of my own sentences about AI at @arl.org

Carl Bergstrom stands onstage at an Association of Research Libraries meeting, beside large projection screens displaying a quotation from Ted Underwood: “As in any fairytale, accepting magical assistance comes with risks.” Underwood’s name and University of Illinois affiliation appear beneath the quotation. The ballroom is dark, with blue accent lighting on the ceiling and stage curtains; a lectern and conference signage stand near Bergstrom, and the main slide fills most of the left side of the image. The quotation comes from Underwood’s essay “Will AI make us overconfident?” at tedunderwood.com.

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Nucleated red blood cells makes it possible for a fetus, growing like a weed, to get all the O2 it needs, and this blood doesn't even need to be next to air to do it. While our adult blood gets O2 from oxygen in our lungs, early blood gets it FROM POOLS OF OTHER BLOOD...

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Is composed of robot blood cells. They don't make decisions. They just carrying oxygen. That's it. But not early human blood. Your blood was totally different when it first formed. This totally different form of blood is made of...

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Fun fact: because of this, every single person on earth has a different pattern of blood vessels. The big themes (veins, arteries) are the same, but the branching pattern of your blood? Totally unique. No one else on EARTH has blood vessels like yours. This is because...

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We've gotta go back. WAY back. To around 5 weeks into human development, when blood starts to form in the body. But it doesn't form just anywhere, it GROWS IN BLOOD ISLANDS (seriously, 'blood islands' is the real scientific term). And where do these flood islands form? The human yolk sac...

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The spooky season has arrived, and that means Creepy Biology is upon us. It's time to talk origins. It's time to talk gore. It's time to talk about BLOOD. Specifically, YOUR blood 🩸 [a thread]

A blood splatter by Luis Moraga 17, from wikimedia commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EFECTOS_(SANGRE)_(93).png

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 05/10/2026

Exactly this. And in fact, many models *have* been created this way, and decades of prior machine learning systems *were* created this way, consensually. These things are choices! People are STILL working this way! It’s not just that a better world is possible — it already EXISTS. We can nurture it.

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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

i was just so delighted that some older person in my neighborhood sat down and recorded this message and it didn't sound canned and it wasn't AI and they gave me a phone number and told me to call back if I could volunteer and that they'd call again and remind me later in the week too

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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

just got the most charming phone call. pre-recorded message delivered by what sounded like an older person cheerfully telling me about a neighborhood event this weekend and saying they are looking for volunteers, especially men, because they need more positive male figures for kids to see out there

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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

fuck HOAs. instead I pay $26 a year to be a member of a neighborhood association that puts on little street fairs and has a summer camp for kids and occasionally offers to haul away excess lawn waste and occasionally holds little talks and cleans up the nearby park.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In Austin, a 9-year-old watched ICE detain and drive away with his mother, leaving community members to scramble to find him care. Senate Republicans just blocked a bill that would bar ICE from making arrests at school bus stops. Their cruelty is endless.

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'It Has to Stop': Community Members Condemn ICE Arrests at Bus Stops After GOP Blocks Bill to Protect Kids | Common Dreams

Republicans in the US Senate blocked a bill to protect school bus stops from ICE arrests, leading to outrage in Pennsylv

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Kairon @caired.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Saying AI will destroy all humans is much more accurate than the other side of the argument. Irresponsible AI, and AI in the hands of irresponsible or malicious humans, will bring about death and suffering. This is the nuance in the Dune SciFi lore: AI didn't enslave humanity, people with AI did.

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Spiderweb Software @spiderwebsoftware.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

New Blog Post: Another long post of musings and mockery about AI, which is more and less important than everyone says, will and won't kill us all, and is an ensouled intelligence that has never done anything a human couldn't do. It's fun! LINK: bottomfeeder.substack.com/publish/post...

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A Bunch More Thoughts On Algebra-That-Thinks

“it will end all desk jobs freeing you to go work in a factory LOL” (Send tweet.)

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Early voting is already underway in some states. From now until Nov 3, I urge you all to... 1) Help get out the vote 2) Protect our electoral machinery from interference 3) Not succumb to complacency, defeatism, or cynicism We are the only ones who can end this nightmare.

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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Nintendo eShop/PSN gift card codes sale at Costco (20% off): buff.ly/UuP9DHL -$100/$200 eShop for $80/$160 -$100/$150 PSN for $80/$120 $400 eShop for $340 at Newegg buff.ly/f1ek1tt #ad eShop balance works on Nintendo Store (hardware, consoles, physical games, etc.)

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Neal Ronaghan @nron10.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Remember when Xbox announced a new game from this studio in June for 2027 and then almost immediately announced they were trying to sell them? And now they’re basically getting shut down? That all happened in 4 months.

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Kairon @caired.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yeah, as someone who hasn't played any Souls-likes, I have to keep reminding myself to bite my tongue on the topic. I remain curious however because the genre seems to have a significant impact in current console game discourse and mindshare.

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E N @eribuster.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Pho with Rare Steak and Fatty Brisket (US$17.95) at Pho This Way

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Kairon @caired.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Monster Hunter combat has an element of persistence hunting to it 😅

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Kairon @caired.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Thanks! For what it's worth, I do think that helps me understand things a bit better 🙂 I think MH games can feel MMO-style loot dependent, so I understand the impression that fights can seem like a 45 minute campaign to deliver impart enough damage to a very cool/dangerous dino/dragon sponge.

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Kairon @caired.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Aside from parry timing, that sounds like Monster Hunter... maybe it's a matter of degrees, where Dark Souls is a magnitude higher difficulty in what it asks of you whereas MH is less demanding? So MH is superficially built on similar ideas, but definitely nowhere near as far as Dark Souls takes it?

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Kairon @caired.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Had this question for a long time as someone who's played ZERO Dark Souls/souls-likes, but has enjoyed playing all the Monster Hunter games on Nintendo platforms (and only those) (just solo/local, not G-Rank): Is the combat between Monster Hunter and Dark Souls roughly comparable?

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Kairon @caired.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Hmmm maybe I've just trained my Instagram algo to be much healthier?

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