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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Hypothesis: park rangers are the librarians of our outdoor spaces send post

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

are there any charts that go up for any thing

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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

“If you are a citizen and you are casting doubt on the importance of due process, remember this: you need due process in order to prove that you are a citizen.” snyder.substack.com/p/the-evil-a...

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The evil at your door

The deportation action as regime change

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

The people Attorney General Bondi is calling “terrorists” have had no trial and no chance to defend themselves. We do not know who they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

I want every child to have as much food as they need for free and be vaccinated against fatal diseases. If that makes me a crazy radical, then so fucking be it.

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Only 16 percent of Americans think Elon Musk should have a lot of influence in the Trump administration. Only 29 percent of Republicans think so. today.yougov.com/politics/art...

Bar graph showing percentages of US adults, Democrats, and Republicans who think Musk has "a lot of influence" on Trump administration (purple) and percentage who think he should (green)

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Carmen Yount @carmenyount.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

I live in that 100-mile “we can check your papers” zone south of Canadian border. If it’s okay with Canada, I’ll go for a drive… have some lunch, get a flu (and Covid?) vaccine… make a day of it. It’ll be fun (sob).

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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

If you empower a dictator to crush your opponents they’ll be no one left to keep him from crushing you.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Congratulations to Trump on securing a $1.3 billion border security deal from Canada.... which was already negotiated in December 2024.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/02/2025

simply repeating the straight reporting of what is happening in the executive branch makes you sound like you have lost your mind.

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Carmen Yount @carmenyount.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

This weekend I made bread pudding and masala chai. Also made tentative plans to vacation in Banff this summer. This morning I called my congressman and senators.

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Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Tomorrow is a potential off-ramp for America. Watch the S&P 500. I've got some thoughts on what to look for here: www.thebulwark.com/p/follow-the...

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Follow the Money

The financial markets are the only thing that can stop Trump’s reign of chaos.

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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 23/01/2025

In the Situation, @benjaminwittes.bsky.social provides "seven principles for following the rest of the news emerging from the first week of the second Trump presidency—and, more generally, the flood of news that emerges from a presidency that is all about attention."

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The Situation: A User's Guide to Following the News

Seven principles for navigating the chaos

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 13/01/2025

Blame is cathartic and problem-solving is hard so it’s no surprise which approach is dominant

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Carmen Yount @carmenyount.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

An excellent (chef’s kiss) argument for the value of therapy.

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Kat La Ronde @katlaronde.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

There is something so sweet about the human capacity for enthusiasm. For a few days everyone in LA has been glued to Watch Duty and getting in the weeds of how water drops work. Now there are people out here who honestly have a favorite water plane that they are following closely and rooting for.

An Instagram post of a screenshot someone took of a water planes “stats” i.e. how many drops it’s made and its ground speed etc.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

I’m the daughter of a fighter pilot and even I’m in awe of these pilots because JAYSUS

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 10/01/2025

NEW: Firefighters from Mexico are en route to the #EatonFire — joining more than 10,000 personnel already on the ground. California is deeply grateful for President @claudiasheinbaum.bsky.social's support as we work to suppress the Los Angeles wildfires.

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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Do me a kindness! Share this if you love and support your local library & librarians (and remember: that includes your school library & school librarian) 😊📚 Thank you libraries & library workers… for everything ✨💚

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

These anti-Trans, anti-CRT, anti-DEI people are eugenicists, so attacking people with disabilities is ideologically consistent.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/01/2025

i don’t understand how, psychologically, a person gets to a place where they interpret sign language as some kind of attack or imposition on their life. like, what the fuck is wrong with you?

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Someone quoted my post about Pasadena Humane's good work to criticize people who are dropping off their pets at the shelter. It's clear that some of you have never tried to survive a catastrophe or worked w folks who have. Dig deep and find some humility. You have no idea what people are going thru.

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Carmen Yount @carmenyount.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

I’m requesting that any reporter who has access to him follow up on *everything* he says. “What do you mean by that? Please elaborate.” Report what he said, and then report on the implications of what he said. Do not guess what he might mean. Do not interpret for him.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 08/01/2025

The moderation changes Meta is making across its platforms is another opportunity for me to remind you that having your own actively maintained site is one of the best ways to assure that people will always be able to find you, no matter what happens to the social media sites you don't control.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/01/2025

A lot of the “free speech!” people seem to think their speech stops being free as soon as someone else is free to call BS

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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Jeff Bezos never wanted this cartoon to become public. He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit. Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

I can’t believe there are people who are like: “Do you still think AI is stupid now that it can make an ad for Coca-Cola that’s a mashup of their previous ads that looks worse and all it costs is an acre of forest?”

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Rachel Leggett @rleggos.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

"You'll be visited by three spirits" The three spirits… #birds

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💥 @dynamoe.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!

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Christy Tucker @christytucker.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Did you know that you should end your alt text with a period? "End alt text with a period, even if it isn’t a full sentence. The period ensures that the screen reader pauses after reading the alt text." This was a new tip for me. Glad to learn something new! www.nngroup.com/articles/wri...

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Alt Text: What to Write

Images are decorative, functional, or informative. Skip alt text for decorative. Describe the action for functional. Convey the message for informative.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 18/12/2024

Health Insurance CEO Reveals Key To Company’s Success Is Not Paying For Customers’ Medical Care theonion.com/health-insur...

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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

DOGE caucus is coming out hard for massive cuts to veterans healthcare, infrastructure repair, and disaster relief. These are core functions of the federal government, but they aren't profit generators. So they get cut, and those who suffer should simply grind harder.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 17/12/2024

Saw someone upbraiding someone else for having a hobby while the world is on fire, and, my friends: 1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration; 2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you; 3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.

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Patrick S. Tomlinson @stealthygeek.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Vaccines are why 1 of every 4 of us didn't die in infancy. Fluoride is why most of us keep our teeth into old age. The ACA is why 21 million of us can see a doctor. The FDIC is why we don't lose our life savings. And a handful of GOP billionaires want to take it all away.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Writing is thinking. It’s not a part of the process that can be skipped; it’s the entire point.

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Aubrey Hirsch @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

I heard we were talking about the American healthcare system. If yo'd like a dose of my particular brand of rage, it's here! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/american-h...

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

We humbly interrupt your scroll to bring you the news that Wisdom—the world's oldest known wild bird—is breeding again, age 74. Go on girl. 😍

A screenshot of a social media post from USFWSPacific that reads:

"SHE DID IT AGAIN!

Wisdom, the world’s oldest known wild bird, is back with a new partner and just laid yet another egg.

At an approximate age of 74, the queen of seabirds returned to Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge last week and began interacting with a male."

This tweet is paired with an image of two Laysan Albatrosses at Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge. Wisdom, the oldest known wild bird, is shown alongside her new partner, demonstrating her enduring legacy as a remarkable seabird.

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Kai The Fish Guy @kaithefishguy.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Ok I’m gonna need you all to repost today’s #EtymologyEpithet far and wide because this is one of my fav fishes I’ve ever described.

A bright aquamarine blue fish with a red and yellow head.

Photo by Fenton Walsh.

A bright aquamarine blue fish with a red and yellow head.

Photo by Mark Rosenstein.

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

The meanings of the word for a wren, from eight different languages... 8. Little walnut (Bulgarian) 7. Little bird in the ditch (Japanese) 6. Thumbling (Finnish) 5. Fence-skedaddler (Danish) 4. Fence-master (Hebrew) 3. Druid bird (Irish) 2. Mouse-brother (Faroese) 1. Little king of winter (Dutch)

Photo of a tubby little wren (what I like to call a "little dumpling birb") perched on an icy branch, taken by Jeff Cohen

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

The deep goal of bluesky is to decentralize the social internet so that every individual controls their experience of it rather than having it be controlled by 5 random billionaires. Everyone thinks they signed up for a demuskified twitter...we actually signed an exciting and bizarre experiment.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

As someone who studies evidence-based data-driven environmental activism and policymaking, a thing I really need everyone to know is that "does this actually help" is an answerable, and often already answered, question. We don't need you to reinvent the wheel poorly. We don't need you to guess.

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Sophie Bacchus-Waterman @sophiebwaterman.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Beware the image of the lone historian, making new discoveries completely by themselves in the archives. There's a romanticised notion in the popular imagination that historians work alone. But, in my experience, this isn't true. Research is collaborative (🧵)

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/12/2024

the frenzy over the hunter biden pardon is a good reminder that the press knows how to make something a scandal and has decided that nothing trump does is truly deserving of that treatment

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Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Could you use some tips to make your pie dough a little flakier? In today’s episode, we offer some helpful suggestions based on cooking chemistry. Listen here 🎧: pod.link/73329284

Preparing a fluted pie crust on a marble countertop Quote says: How can your pie dough be both soft and easy to handle?
Use science—and a splash of vodka.

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