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Reader, writer, painter (plein air watercolor). Gimme them Western skies. Servant of The Mighty Mustang. Elder. She/her. chimaera004@gmail.com

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David Petts @davidpetts1.bsky.social · 10h
Upcoming conference from the Society for Church Archaeology. Why not join the society? I'm chair of this society, and we're always looking for new members. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/society-fo...
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Society for Church Archaeology Annual Conference and AGM 2026
Join us as we celebrate the latest developments in church archaeology in the city of Chester
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Passing Strange At Present @chimaera.bsky.social · 10h
Elderly woman, evicted, gets her apartment back after massive protests, legal changes. www.npr.org/2026/09/30/n...
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An 87-year-old woman whose eviction sparked protests in Spain is returning home
María del Carmen Abascal's case has drawn tens of thousands of people to the streets in recent days and led the Spanish government to present measures to address the country's housing crisis.
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Sarah Kite 🪁 @sarahkite.bsky.social · 15h
This hit home for me even harder when I read a thread on Instagram posted by a nurse who has special training in assisting the victims of rape. Because our malicious healthcare system in the US is stacked so that the victim ends up paying for the labor & laboratory expenses of processing a rape kit
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Vincent O'Malley @vomalley.bsky.social · 14h
An advance copy of this turned up the other day and it looks great. Due out from @bwbnz.bsky.social in November.
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David T./D.T. Brandt - Settler on Stolen Land @queerpointyears.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
It's the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in "Canada." 🧵 If you are unfamiliar with the Calls to Action from the commission, a short pdf is at the bottom of the page here: nctr.ca/publications... If you'd like to donate some of your stat pay to assist efforts across Canada: payyourrent.ca
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Reports - NCTR
Table of Contents Highlighted ReportsTruth and Reconciliation Commission ReportsNational Centre for Truth and Reconciliation ReportsCreating an Engagement Plan with Indigenous Communities:Modern Repor...
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Dr. Paulette Steeves @indigarc.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I have a new book coming out next year with my co-editor Ranjan Datta, 12 chapters from Indigenous scholars from around the world and one settler scholar, working with women in Greenland @anthropologie @archeology @TEK
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Passing Strange At Present @chimaera.bsky.social · 13h
Heading out tomorrow after our month on the preserve. We got a lot done. The steward always starts us with a list, but other stuff comes up along the way. Like, runaway cows, and stolen fences.
A long to-do list. About half is word-processed, the rest is hand written. Lots of work on gates, fences, and exclosures.
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Stars and Sabers @starsandsabers.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
You can find more about Of Enchantment, Enigma, and the Infinite, our magical fantasy and horror anthology, here: www.starsandsabers.com/books/of-enc...
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Of Enchantment, Enigma, and the Infinite – Stars and Sabers
Of Enchantment, Enigma, and the Infinite is a magic-themed anthology featuring 31 authors of fantasy and horror, edited by Jendia Gammon, Gareth L. Powell, and Scarlett R. Algee.
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Katra Ariello, Golden Apple Audio 🏳️‍⚧️ @katrafiy.bsky.social · 21h
Hey everyone, I'm really in a bind. I was just told earlier today that my job will be terminating me on October 13th, exactly one day before my upcoming requested paid medical leave to recover from bottom surgery. I intend to fight this in court, but I could really use some help in the meantime.
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Donate to Support Katra Through Bottom Surgery Recovery, organized by Katra Ariello
Hi, my name is Katra, and I’ve just been notified that I’ll be let go of… Katra Ariello needs your support for Support Katra Through Bottom Surgery Recovery
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is genuinely true. Epstein perpetrators had a heavy hand in developing today’s campus sexual violence response.
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Jeffrey Epstein Loved Trump’s Changes to the Title IX Rule. That Tells You All You Need to Know. - National Women's Law Center
Content warning: reported sexual violence, reported homicide As an attorney who focuses on gender-based violence, I wasn’t surprised that the “Epstein files” confirmed what my gender justice comrades ...
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It’s worth pointing out that Cornell students receive consent training. Schools pivoted to primarily informal responses to sexual violence years ago. This gang rape happened because those solutions didn’t work. Survivors and their advocates have been raising an alarm about that for almost a decade.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Studies dating back to the 80s have found that men are not just “confused” about consent. They just don’t prioritize consent over things like power, domination, and sexual gratification. Men participating in a gang rape know they don’t have the victim’s consent.
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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 16h
i wrote and drew this one before i decided to take a real swing at pip and gunko as a big boy webcomic, so it isn’t up on the site yet and won’t be for a while, but regardless! i drew it while dragging myself out of the lowest point of burnout and i think it’s one of the best comics i’ve done so far
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 29/09/2026
Here's a $20 million order, paid for by CBP's Office of Public Affairs, awarded to LMD Agency for a national media campaign starting on Sept. 20. The first pro-Trump ad aired on Sept. 23. www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_A...
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5950 SYMPHONY WOODS RD STE 500
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Genial Black Man @trecoolx.bsky.social · 15h
Also bad:
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DraftKings Is Using AI to Supercharge the Harms of Online Behavioral Advertising
Online sports betting company DraftKings is using AI to target customers who are most likely to place losing bets and respond to gambling promotions. This kind of targeting is a form of online behavio...
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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 18h
they DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION?????
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 16h
1 in 8 students experiences sexual violence in college, incl 1 in 4 undergrad women (26%)+ 1 in 14 undergrad men (7%) University administrators: "Imagine if we had to refund all that tuition! Could you imagine!?!" Everyone else: "Imagine if you made systemic fucking changes to prevent rape!"
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 22h
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 22h
Shoutout to the 🐐GOAT🐐, respect greatness www.macfound.org/videos/2026-...
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Ellora Derenoncourt - 2026 MacArthur Fellow
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David W (aka Flex NP) @rnflex.bsky.social · 19h
Full Retatrutide phase 3 obesity data published today. It's gonna take a minute to fill dissect this. The appendix alone has 70 pages of data. Long story short we created a drug that's almost too good. Huge chunks of people stopped or reduced doses from excess weight reductions.
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Retatrutide, a Triple Hormone Receptor Agonist, for Treatment of Obesity | NEJM
Retatrutide is a triple-receptor agonist of glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide, glucagon-like peptide-1, and glucagon receptors. In this phase 3, randomized, double-blind trial, we assign...
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Adrienne @adrienneleigh.bsky.social · 19h
Help Lizbet, who is awesome and spends her days helping other people!
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 19h
I posted in my newsletter about an incarcerated comrade named Kenneth who is running a mobile library in prison. He needed a new cart and some readers generously donated. Here's the new cart! Thanks to those who supported him.
Two men in striped pants and white shirts stand by a cart with books, under a colorful “Perfection” sign on a white brick wall. One holds up two fingers in a peace sign, the other displays a book.
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Eric Alper @thatericalper.com · 20h
Stevie Wonder celebrates 50 years of 'Songs in the Key of Life' with four previously unreleased recordings from the landmark album's sessions, personally curated by Wonder and newly mixed for release. zurl.co/cmuNj
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Stevie Wonder Unearths Four Unreleased Songs For 'Songs In The Key Of Life' 50th Anniversary - That Eric Alper
Fifty years after Stevie Wonder finished work on ‘Songs in the Key of Life,’ four recordings from those legendary sessions are finally getting their turn. Wonder is celebrating the album’s 50th anniversary with a four-song EP featuring the previously unreleased “It’s Easier,” “My Life Story of Love,” “I Can See the Sun In Late December” […]
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Effie Seiberg @effies.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's my birthday! My birthday wish is for you to share your favorite work from this year and I'll boost it. Here's mine, "The Metamorphosis". Becoming disabled might feel like Kafkaesque horror, but there's a beautiful path to acceptance and a good life. Also there's sloths. gavagai.com/posts/3894
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Heather M. Haley @heatherhaleyphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
⚓️It’s publication day!📕 Feeling deeply humbled that my research appears in Ed Marolda’s edited volume with John Hattendorf, Richard Mobley, and Norman Friedman—scholars whose work shaped my understanding of Navy history and strategy. Grateful for the chance to contribute to a field built by giants.
Book cover for COLD WAR STORM: the u.S. NAVY AT TGE FALL OF VIETNAM AND THE LOOMING SOVIET THREAT. The background features a dramatic, dark toned scene with USS Kirk (DE 1087) under heavy clouds. The overall design uses red tones to convey urgency and the geopolitical stakes.
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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 24/09/2026
ALSO is it that time of year again?? Is the air getting crisp?? Are ghosts beginning to whisper from the dark corner behind the bookshelf?? ("Actually we're roasting" OK I can't help where you live, ignore the above) Time to read THE APPLE-TREE THRONE! www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/...
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The Apple-Tree Throne ebook by Premee Mohamed - Rakuten Kobo
Read "The Apple-Tree Throne" by Premee Mohamed available from Rakuten Kobo. It is the turn of the century in an England that never was. Bright new aqua-plants are generating electricity for the st...
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Texas Public Radio @texaspublicradio.bsky.social · 20h
Fifty New World screwworm infestations have been confirmed in the U.S. since the outbreak began, including 48 in Texas and two in New Mexico. Learn which animals are at risk, what symptoms to watch for and how officials are working to contain the spread. Read More👉 ebx.sh/0Bo0ks
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 23h
I repeat:
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 20h
Ahem
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 20h
According to a press release from Kebaowek First Nation, CNSC and CNL announced they would “no longer fund the Nation’s participation costs as previously understood,” and “end their participation in the co-development of a consent-based agreement.” | Story: @jbstaniforth.bsky.social
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Kebaowek Nation suspends consultations, saying other parties failed
Kebaowek First Nation pulled out of consultations with federal nuclear organizations, saying they failed to uphold agreed upon terms.
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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 21h
It's another exposition of why these isolated men are not the ones who should be making decisions about AI.
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 22h
Newsom vetoed two laws that make it easier for fire survivors to get their money from insurance companies that refuse to pay out www.sacbee.com/news/politic...
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Newsom veto of wildfire insurance bills leads supporters to ask: Was it payback?
Supporters of the measures searched for answers as to why the governor rejected them.
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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 29/09/2026
Just imagine: when everyone who works in your city earns a decent amount of money, everyone has money to spend!
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 22h
A man replied to this saying in earnest that women need to get organized and fight for our rights and men will follow. We did that. We do that. We mobilized the largest single day protest in global history on every continent and yet I have fewer rights than my mom did at my age.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.
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Mari Ness, writer of things @mariness.bsky.social · 21h
Quoting with two recent reads: Ursula Whitcher, NORTH CONTINENT RIBBON. This is a genre I'd love to see more of - individual but interlocking stories. Can be read in a gulp, or as individual shorts: www.neonhemlock.com/books/north-...
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North Continent Ribbon by Ursula Whitcher — neon hemlock
A collection of linked short stories. Publication date: August 20th, 2024. An 8” x 5” paperback. 172 pages. On Nakharat, every contract is a ribbon and every ribbon is a secret, braided tight and tu...
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Passing Strange At Present @chimaera.bsky.social · 21h
"dilute lethality" such an ignoramus thehill.com/policy/defen...
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Hegseth freezes hiring of civilian tenured faculty at US military academies
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directed departments on Tuesday to halt appointments of civilian staff to tenured positions at U.S. military service academies and develop hiring plans that prioritiz…
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Passing Strange At Present @chimaera.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Eugene & Springfield had a terrific crisis team that got gutted & has not been fully replaced. Huge impact on 911 and all the people formerly served by that trusted team. Bigger impact than previously documented. www.opb.org/article/2026...
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UO researchers: CAHOOTS call diversion rate ‘substantially greater’ than first estimated
University of Oregon researchers have a new study that says the mobile crisis counseling service CAHOOTS — Crisis Assistance Helping Out On The Streets — diverted far more calls from the Eugene Police...
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Robert Boessenecker, Dr. of Whaleontology ™️ @coastalpaleo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I wrote a bit about the two university museums slated for closure. There is *still* time to do something about each! 🧪🦖
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A tale of two university museums: there is still time to save the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and the Sternberg Museum
September 2026 has been a pretty dispiriting month for American paleontologists. In early September, Drexel University gave a surprise annou...
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ndlela @ndlela.com · 28/09/2026
What a treat! I loved it. It was beautiful. Thanks @chenjerai.bsky.social for the reminder. Go see it in the movie theaters if you can. This might be the last week in theaters in bigger markets.
"if I go will they miss me" poster
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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 28/09/2026
An unelected political appointee is disobeying the will of Congress & the rule of law by withholding funds for programs approved with bipartisan support. Blatantly unconstitutional. Flagrantly anti-science. The latest example of authoritarianism from the Trump admin.
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What to know about the $810 million in spending canceled by President Trump
President Trump announced plans to cancel $810 million in Congressionally approved spending, a move that some in his own party are calling illegal.
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Thomas [DARK MODE], DO @tom.medsky.social · 28/09/2026
Morty you need to 👇 bsky.app/profile/wara...
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DivestSPD @divestspd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
SPD stopped naming cops who shoot people when the consent decree ended, so we do that now. The cop who shot the woman in Beacon Hill is Jose Jimenez, and we did a deep dive on him. Read all about him:
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Cop who shot Beacon Hill woman identified
Officer Jose Jimenez, 34, had only been assigned to the SWAT team for less than a year. He was previously a member of the Community Response Group, SPD’s “problem-oriented policing” unit.
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Passing Strange At Present @chimaera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hillary is a treasure and I will defend her, always. Ignore societal expectations for your shape and your clothes and your face. Define yourself. Their boxes are just wrong-sized, always have been, always will be. Women are more than male expectations. Always will be.
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bfitzinAR @bfitzinar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@annelouiseavery.bsky.social's Patreon - "Old Fox's Grand List of Thirty Things to Do in September. Number Twenty-eight: Composing Poetry by the Sea" #OldFoxCommunity (Ermine) Today is a good day to subscribe. www.patreon.com/annelouiseav...
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Old Fox's Grand List of Thirty Things to Do in September. Number Twenty-eight: Composing Poetry by the Sea | Anne Louise Avery
Michaelmas Eve and a brisk northeasterly was scouring the sky and scattering leaves in Ermine's garden. The clouds were moving like a fleet
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Jack - Oi, Shiny! @oishinythings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Just the silver pearl stack and the yellow pearl (#2 and #3) left from this upload - oishiny.etsy.com/listing/4502... Who wants to snap them up before they get lonely? (Listing expires Wednesday, all their friends have already flown...) #Handmade #ShopSmall
Row of 5 black stone and silver spiral pendants with various dangling pearl accents - rainbow, stack of silver, large gold, large white, stack of peacock.
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Bruce Shark @bruceshark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Gud mornin Peeps Sparkle nuggets for yas.
Momma sparkle chikkin with her peeps, the sparkle nuggets
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Sam J Miller @sentencebender.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I love these two and I love their love, so - any support you can give would go a long way!
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Paul Voosen @voosen.me · 28/09/2026
New Horizons is now *three days away* from shutting off its two heliophysics instruments, simply because NASA has not provided the $2M in funding it had promised to the mission last year or this year. There is no science basis for shutting these off. Our earlier coverage:
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NASA’s New Horizons mission may shut down two instruments over lack of funding
Decision risks “incalculable loss” of data from the edge of the Sun’s influence, scientists say
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