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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 29/09/2026

In 2027 Seattle's minimum wage will be $22.14 per hour. That's more than THREE TIMES the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour—a rate that hasn't been raised since 2009. And yet somehow we're not the jobless wasteland orthodox economics would predict. Weird.

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Seattle announces 2027 minimum wage

The minimum wage in Seattle will increase 3.9% next year.

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Rook Killjoy (dirtyhands the ninth) @foxrook.bsky.social · 4h

This is so hard for me because I am such a HUGE hair metal fan but also NWOBHM (new wave of British heavy metal), and general 80s metal. But Hair Metal has been my love since I was a child. Too many favorites!!

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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 6h

back my book kickstarter 💦 kickstarter.com/projects/mrlovenstein/mr-lovenstein-presents-fun

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Dr. Amy Acton @amyactonoh.bsky.social · 13h

I don’t own individual stocks, and I won’t own them as governor. The only thing I am invested in is lowering costs for Ohioans. Vivek Ramaswamy has over $5 million invested in the data center industry and millions more in many other industries that Ohio’s governor would be in charge of regulating.

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Rook Killjoy (dirtyhands the ninth) @foxrook.bsky.social · 6h

Oh, my bad I should have said that it was $14. I was so excited about the good health news that I just completely blanked. LOL

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 12h

Our response to the State Department using Smokey last night.

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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 14h

The sign being used in stores across Canada, thanks to Trump. =====================

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Clayton Tucker @claytontuckertx.com · 3h

Agriculture isn’t a campaign prop to me. It’s my life. I grew up baling hay, mending fences, and working livestock on my family’s ranch. Texas law requires real agricultural experience for a reason. Texans deserve answers about whether Data Nate meets those requirements.

Press release graphic from Clayton Tucker for Texas Agriculture Commissioner over a photo of a rural barn. The graphic quotes Tucker saying Texans deserve an Agriculture Commissioner who meets Texas law’s requirements, describing his experience working on his family’s ranch, and arguing that Nate Sheets likely does not meet the legal qualifications for the office based on his agricultural experience. It concludes: “Texas law is clear: the Commissioner who oversees Texas Agriculture should be of, by, and for those who are actually in the industry.”

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Kaitlyn Page @theinnerobserver.bsky.social · 13h

Although small in size, it is mighty in detail. My first painting since March after having a bad mental health year... 🌿 The original is looking for a home & prints are here; www.the-inner-observer.com #illustration #gouacheart #cat

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4h

“Well, you see, I have to stay on the White Supremacist Child Porn Rape Victim Doxxing site because that’s where my community is”

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Sean GMC @seangmc.bsky.social · 7h

Perhaps I'm alone on this one but chicken thigh meat? Pretty good.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 6h

THIS WAS MONEY FOR CHILDREN’S HEALTHCARE. A Florida grand jury found $10 MILLION meant to help provide health insurance for poor children was misappropriated for political purposes. Moody & DeSantis took money meant for kids. #GOPWarOnHealthcare

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Rob Kenton @robkenton.bsky.social · 10h

The Premier League have to take the nuclear option and expel them. Everything they've achieved is based on huge financial fraud.

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Oceana UK @oceanauk.bsky.social · 11h

🌊 One year ago, UK Govt closed its consultation on whether to ban bottom trawling in some English marine protected areas We're STILL waiting for change ⏱️ 🪸 Act now to demand that marine protected areas properly PROTECT ocean life: bit.ly/4ce5x0G

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Reina (she/her) @reinamwilliams.bsky.social · 4h

Last day to use your #library Hoopla borrows if you have them!

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Marlene Robertson🍁🇨🇦 @marlenerobertson.bsky.social · 9h

This is historical fact, and all the gaslighting in the world will not change that. Instead of jailing the treasonous fuck, you handed him the very Office he attempted to steal.

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King & Queen Sculptures @kqsculptures.bsky.social · 12h

My hatred for Gen AI knows no bounds. If your game has gen AI I will not play it, if your store has AI flyers I will not shop there, if your con does not have a strong stance against AI I will not attend. If everyone who was truly against gen AI was the same, it would be gone by now.

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Dr. K. Lotterhos @drk-lo.bsky.social · 11h

Position: 6 month, full-time molecular genetics and aquatics lab tech in Rhinelander, WI at USDA Forest Service Research & Development Application open until 10/05/2026 Start date: Winter 2026/2027 Apply via USAJobs and select Location as Rhinelander, WI. www.usajobs.gov/job/886148100 #popGen 🧪💻🧬

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Forestry Technician (Recreation, Timber, Range)

This position is located within a National Forest. This position is established to perform a variety of routine and frequently complex tasks involving techniques and practices relating to natural reso...

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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 3h

Two things can be true at the same time and they are this: Dominique Pelicot is an obvious example that the underlying problem is by no means anything uniquely American, but also, as someone who didn't grow up in America, I found US college drinking culture incomprehesible, shocking, and abhorrent.

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🌒💀 evelynn 💀🌘 @ladyartaud.bsky.social · 3h

man fuck this school. I got an email from them today, they finally issued a statement on the gang rape. you know, the crime that occured TWO YEARS AGO. Cornell absolutely does not give a single fuck about sexual assault and simply wants to make the issue disappear from the news.

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Piper Furiosa 🇵🇸🏴🌲🏴‍☠️ @piperfuriosa.bsky.social · 3h

It's very important that none of us share her name. Not even in "awareness" of what has been done to her. Not in sharing images of her doxxing. She's Jane Doe unless *she* chooses not to be. Then, we pursue vengeance against all rapists & their enablers until none of them are fucking left.

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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 6h

Seriously #SickOfIt 😡

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 3h

A White House plan to cut hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding approved by Congress using a controversial budgeting maneuver faces a legal challenge on the eve of the end of the fiscal year, when the money is set to expire

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Trump Sued Over Move to Claw Back Federal Funds Set to Expire

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paulseesequasis @pseesequasis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The utter brilliance of Chee Chee’s minimalism: ‘When I draw fish or birds or animals they have no symbolic meaning from the past. For me they are animals of the present and I draw them because I like their clean lines and beautiful shapes.” - Temagami artist Benjamin Chee Chee (1944-1977)

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 3h

I finally found a clip of the whole thing, which is serving "original UK 'The Office'" levels of cringe, though the one in The Daily Beast that zooms in on his horrified chief of staff like she is Jim Halpert is the best version

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WATCH: Schmitt suggested Jack Smith perjured himself about a basketball game, but mixed up 2 teams

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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Daniel Álvarez @dalvarez-01.bsky.social · 13h

A Maya zoomorphic vessel. The sculptural details make this vessel fascinating. #Maya #Archaeology #Ceramics

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 10h

Debuted on CBS 63yrs ago today THE JUDY GARLAND SHOW (1963-66)

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End Citizens United @endcitizensunited.bsky.social · 9h

For once, Ken Paxton is being honest: if it weren't for our broken campaign finance system, he'd have no shot. #UnrigWashington candidate @jamestalarico.bsky.social is running to reform our system and fight for Texans. Ken Paxton can't say the same. #TXSEN

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 9h

chips: we put more air in the bag cookies: we put fewer cookies in the box fruit cups: we have bent the laws of time and space to fit 4 litres of juice in this 250ml cup. God himself told us "stop, that's too much juice" and then we flipped him off and added more juice.

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Paul Corsham @paulcorsham.bsky.social · 10h

A red kite image taken today at Langford lakes UK. #redkite #bird #wildlife #🪶

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Br. Dr. Ken Homan, SJ @kenhomansj.bsky.social · 4h

When I taught at an all-boys prep school, we'd do an activity where I had them list every sexual term they could think of. They'd often laugh, as many were absurd things meant for Urban Dictionary. We'd then go through how many terms were violent (~85%) and how many were male-dominant (~90%).

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 14h

Nicki Minaj isn’t a U.S. citizen, so she can’t even vote herself. For a network that pushed false claims about noncitizens voting, you’d think they’d mention that. If this is about getting Black women to vote red, I’m here to tell you that black women are smarter than all of us.

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David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social · 11h

Firstly, I love the title of this poem Secondly, followers know I love a sonnet. This subverts the traditional sonnet, written to a single lover, to a lament to the many – and though forgotten the emotional imprint of their kisses remain ‘the rain is full of ghosts tonight’ #poetry #poemoftheday

Poem - 'What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why' by Edna St Vincent Millay

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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 17h

Part 1 Cornell Knew. Cornell Punished. So Why Did the Criminal Case Die? By Tony Pentimalli I am sick to death of reading some version of this story because we have been here before, frankly far too many times,

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 6h

Last week the Portland Police made a huge deal about a K9 killed in the line of duty apprehending a dangerous suspect. Turns out that K9 was shot and killed by...the Portland Police www.kgw.com/article/news...

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