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@ejstark.bsky.social
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I live in a one hundred-year-old house with my sweetie and our cat. We garden in a tree-shaded yard. I have opinions, just like everyone else.

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 07/10/2026
A lawyer for ABC asked a federal judge to prevent the Trump administration from conducting an early review of its broadcast licenses, likening it to a looming execution by guillotine that was already chilling the network's editorial decisions weeks before the midterms. to.pbs.org/4j99PuU
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ABC and Trump's FCC battle in federal court over free speech and jurisdiction issues
A lawyer for ABC on Tuesday asked a federal judge to prevent the Trump administration from conducting an unusual, early review of its broadcast licenses, likening it to a looming execution by guilloti...
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United Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This morning, the D&D team and Magic's Studio X informed our leadership of our intent to unionize. We love the games we make and the work we do, and unionizing is how we protect that work. unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/dnd-stu...
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Dungeons & Dragons and Studio X Join United Wizards of the Coast - CWA
Today, October 6, 2026, the designers, artists, writers, producers, and workers behind Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, Duel Masters, D&D Beyond, and countless other games are uniting in soli...
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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
the tech industry is about to invent books
Andrew Yeung 
@andruyeung
X.com
We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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David Brin @davidbrin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Every year on this date I think of Fred Hoyle's great novel and wonder if this is the year... But it's not too late to register to vote or (If in a red state) CHECK your registration and of every friend. Every week for the next 5 weeks. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October...
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October the First Is Too Late - Wikipedia
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Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is an hugely important point. But I'd go farther & state that the fate of the hostages, were at best, an afterthought. As I've written here before in 2024, Israel (should've) had 4 strategic objectives in the wake of the 7 OCT 2023 attacks. 1/
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Jordan Kurella @jordankurella.com · 01/10/2026
waking up every day in 2026 like:
a construction sign on the side of the highway that says "IT'S COMING IT'S BAD"
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 01/10/2026
🧵 1/ Our service members accept risks in service to this country. Their health should not be one of them. Eight sailors in the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group attempted suicide during its extended deployment. Mental health. Safe living conditions. Adequate food. Sanitation. Sleep.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Cutting this much from the university budget will mean that some of the core functions of the university will be lost. It’s not possible to just do more with less — to work smarter, to trim around the edges. We’re going to have to do less with less.” Gift link: www.startribune.com/umn-cuts-sta...
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Perry: What we lose if the U cuts $225 million
"Austerity doesn’t work. Instead, it creates a death spiral, where reduction in services leads to reductions in revenue, which lead to reductions in services, which leads to reduction in revenue, whic...
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ejstark.bsky.social @ejstark.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🤔 Oh, that mental image..
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ejstark.bsky.social @ejstark.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
They do entertain my cat, she has several windows she likes to watch them from. But they also dig up the native plants I'm trying to establish. I've had to switch over to starting from seed. So yes, I still say they are little, cute, jerks. 🙂
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ejstark.bsky.social @ejstark.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Not so much hate speech, more like severely irritated speech. I don't mind when a chipmunk eats one of the tomatoes. They eat the whole thing and leave a tiny piece of skin. When a gray squirrel take one or two bites and dumps it on the ground, it pisses me off. I like sharing, but waste upsets me.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
So many of the same “intellectuals” who are obsessed with undermining the existence of trans people are also obsessed with undermining the Cornell rape victim’s testimony. It’s almost like they don’t believe people have a right to bodily autonomy
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ejstark.bsky.social @ejstark.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes, that's the point. If you're going to comment, you should read the entire post and consider the message first.
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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 01/10/2026
If only our nation's press had accurately reported on Trump's catastrophic cognitive decline, when it mattered - during the election campaign. ... But they had their hands full handwringing about Biden.
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ejstark.bsky.social @ejstark.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Oh, believe me, I am aware of the squirrels in my yard. They're jerks! Well, OK, that gray squirrel with the reddish tail is pretty cute.
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ejstark.bsky.social @ejstark.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"This has been going around a lot. And I'm not saying if it's true or not, but a lot of people have been saying." Wow. The weasel worded denialability is strong in this one.
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ejstark.bsky.social @ejstark.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"This has been going around a lot. And I'm not saying if it's true or not, but a lot of people have been saying." Wow. The weasel worded denialability is strong in this one.
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Lisa Messeri @lmesseri.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
one of the reasons that I warn researchers away from adapting commercial LLMs into their pipeline is that Big Tech has a history of sunsetting popular, usable products and replacing them with worse ones. (i'm trying to ween myself off of google scholar, but it is hard).
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Jim Lokay @jimlokay.com · 29/09/2026
If you want to really know how the outrage machine gets fired up: 1. Schmitt plans to drop “bombshell” on Smith 2. Someone plants story that Schmitt is a Vance VP contender to run same day 3. Right-wing Twittersphere gets talking points 4. Schmitt steps in it 5. Scheduled tweets go out anyway
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PizzaCake @pizzacakecomic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
lol
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 29/09/2026
I have definitely reframed this in my head because of my lack of object permanence. If I block someone I will forget they existed within like 37 seconds but it has become clear they will often die mad about it. Forgetting they were ever there is the true flex, I win every time. lol
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/09/2026
The VA lost about 700 social workers and 500 psychologists and psychiatrists over the course of 2025 — a significant change for an agency that was adding mental health staffers nearly every month leading up to Trump’s return to office. (Published March)
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Veterans Who Depend on Mental Health Care Keep Losing Their Therapists Under Trump
Hundreds of mental health professionals have left the Department of Veterans Affairs since President Donald Trump took office, leaving staff “at a breaking point” and some veterans waiting as long as ...
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026
(pounces on you at a cocktail party) Did you hear the good news about crabapples! #PlantSky 🌱 #ScienceSky 🧪 #Apples 🍏🍎 source.washu.edu/2026/09/wild...
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Wild crabapples have genetic potential to improve domestic varieties
A plant scientist at Washington University in St. Louis studies genetics of native crabapple species to identify traits that will help production of domestic apple crops.
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Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It's bad enough that Hegseth is a bigoted meathead. Turning every senior leader & their staffs into meatheads is an even worse outcome. And it's a clear and present danger to the security of the United States and the safety of every American, as well as everyone everywhere in the world. 14 & end/
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/09/2026
Speaker Mike Johnson is warning of a “nightmare scenario” if Republicans lose the House: Democrats could investigate Trump, his family, his Cabinet, GOP donors and powerful business figures.
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MAGA Speaker Johnson Calls Trump Family Investigations a ‘Nightmare’ Ahead of Midterms
With control of Congress at stake in November, Johnson warned that Democratic committees would investigate Trump, his family, cabinet officials and major donors—and claimed that accountability would t...
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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I posit as a trans man that the reward is that you get to fall peacefully asleep at night instead of lying there mortifyingly aware you could have intervened and did not.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
We talk a lot about the importance of voting but in doing so, we romanticize it, and I've come to believe that's a mistake. It's not romantic, it's not glorious, it's not an expression of your ideals or your identity. It's selecting the best outcome for the most people. That's all it is. Do that.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 06/09/2026
A sundowning old man, addicted to AI slop, surrounded by supplicants and apparatchiks, with control over the US nuclear arsenal.
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 03/09/2026
I really think our current societal outcomes at the end of the day come down to what one side was willing to do an insurrection over as compared to the things that the other side is unwilling to do one over.
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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Nice to have a citation for the stuff we all sort of assume to be true but question if it's just our own biases making it look that way
Screenshot from the article in the quoted post, saying "Piff and his colleagues found that upper-class drivers were more likely to cut other cars off at junctions and ignore pedestrians at crossings. Wealthier people also appeared more willing to lie at work. In one experiment, volunteers were left alone with a jar of sweets ostensibly meant for children. When the researchers returned, upper-class people had snaffled nearly twice as many candies as lower-class people.

“The general pattern seems to be that with wealth and rising power, you become less engaged with the needs of others and less burdened by the needs of social relationships,” Piff said. “Taking candy from children might be the least of our worries but it’s emblematic of the tendency to prioritise one’s own needs over those of others.”
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"In Springfield, the heightened level of fear is so widespread, and the state-imposed terror against a vulnerable minority so constant, that it is impossible to see this as anything but Trump's proof of concept for the president’s militarized vision of what America should be." Nails the stakes:
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
That is an incidence rate of… 0.00547% The voter fraud allegations you’ve been sold are blatantly and provably false.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
For the one millionth time: THIS IS FASCISM. IT'S MORE THAN JUST GRANT FUNDING. SCIENCE IS A CRITICAL PILLAR OF DEMOCRACY. democrats-appropriations.house.gov/news/press-r...
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Defense Officials Attempt to Raid NIH Funds to Cover Department of Defense Activities
House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) has learned that officials at the Department of Defense (DoD) are working to divert billions of dollars from the National Institute...
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Given rising interest in the rapidly strengthening El Niño event in the tropical Pacific Ocean, I've created a one-page fact sheet succinctly describing what El Niño is, this year's (remarkable) forecast, and potential impacts from California to global scales. [Thread]
JPEG version of a 1-page Factsheet: El Niño 2026-2027: A Potentially Historic Global Climate Event
By Daniel Swain, PhD | August 2026

There is a banner image depicting projected warming of the Pacific Ocean by early winter.

The content begins:
"What is El Niño?
El Niño is the warm phase of a natural cycle, known as El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO), that occurs roughly every 2-7 years in the tropical Pacific Ocean. During El Niño events, the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean warms to well above typical levels. El Niño directly affects local climate in the countries closest to the unusually warm ocean waters, but can also indirectly influence the climate of distant regions thousands of miles away. During the strongest events, El Niño can profoundly affect climate even on global scales, causing temporary planetary warming and disrupting large-scale precipitation patterns..."
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Genie Lauren @moreandagain.me · 09/08/2026
Well! Now, I'm gonna post the image without you, and WITH alt-text, hater-ass Author. 😤
Someone using a Blade DVD to cut the tape that's sealing a box with the message "Do Not Use Blade To Open" printed on the top.
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ejstark.bsky.social @ejstark.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I watched this twice while trying to see what the danger was, then I realized it was just some suburbanite being neurotic. Then watched it several more times for the couch and the chairs. 👍
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Highly usable post from last year
@weedle.bsky.social: Pete Hegseth is not going to remember his soldiers need food.
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Leaf~ @leaftilde.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Okay we all have criticism for the hegemonic goliath that is American culture but one thing that I love is the continued practice of treating the Muppets, including the denizens of Sesame Street, as if they are real, living entities. I dunno I think it's a charming bit of collective whimsy.
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Joanne Hammond @joannehammond.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Is it the cutest arrowhead I’ve ever found? Yes! Is it light, lethal and still sharp af? Also yes! Such skilled technique and artistry to make this charming killer from a single flake of volcanic stone 😍 Recovered in Tl'kemtsin / Lytton, Nlaka'pamux territory.
A teeny tiny arrowhead held between my finger and thumb. It’s a glossy grey black chipped stone triangle the size of a fingernail. A teeny tiny arrowhead held between my finger and thumb. It’s a glossy grey black chipped stone triangle with a notch on either side near the base, for attaching it to an arrow shaft. It’s a little silty.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 31/07/2026
The State Department said ​it takes "full responsibility" for "hastily" altering and then presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted. An analysis by Reuters found a watermark in the map image that suggests it was made with OpenAI.
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Requesting your library acquire copies of a book is one of the best ways to uplift the authors you love.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Not the biggest issue with mainstream media coverage but not the smallest: There was no plan. There never was a plan. Trump just says shit. An unbiased headline would read, “Trump’s Hormuz Bluster Turns Out to Be Total Nonsense, As Usual.”
The New York Times Breaking News

Trump Drops Plan to Tax Ships in Strait of Hormuz but Will Restore Blockade
The United States and Iran exchanged attacks, reigniting their war over the waterway. As the U.S. prepared to restart its naval blockade on Iranian ports, President Trump’s path out of the conflict remained unclear.
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SETI Institute @setiinstitute.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
#PPOD: NASA's Juno mission provides new maps of the giant planet Jupiter. This is a cylindrical composite map from Juno's 9th close pass by Jupiter. Juno is in a highly elliptical, near-polar orbit, so on each orbit JunoCam takes well-resolved images... 🧪 🔭
Cylindrical map of Jupiter's atmosphere showing striped brown, orange, and blue cloud bands with numerous oval storms and the prominent Great Red Spot near the left.
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Cara Lopez Lee @caralopezlee.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Fans of the Indiana Jones franchise, if you haven’t seen this yet, it’s a fun one: #filmsky
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Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The transfer of climate change responsibility to individuals continues. BRB just going to create a 2-3m firebreak around the edge of my property ensuring my garden shed is away is also 2-3m from the house and the fence (check most garden sizes) www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
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Create firebreaks around gardens to protect homes from wildfires, Londoners told
Cut back long grass, shrubs and trees, fire chiefs advise as capital hit by unprecedented heatwaves and major blazes
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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 14/07/2026
FINALLY! (And I bet the seismographs at the USGS can pick up the grinding of his teeth...) 😄
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Hey @heinrich.senate.gov, when you voted to advance the nomination of Markwayne Mullin out of committee and again voted to confirm him, was it with the understanding that he would command ICE to stop executing fathers in front of their children in our streets? www.pressherald.com/2026/07/13/i...
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ICE agent kills man in Biddeford, spurring protests
Joan Sebastian Guerrero, 26, was not the target of the warrant agents were trying to execute, federal officials said.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026
This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
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Monique AC @moniqueac.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
So, "Vandals" -- like this?
Vandal cavalryman, c. AD 500, from a mosaic pavement at Bordj Djedid near Carthage
There is an image of a man on a horse on the right side of the picture, moving away from a castle or fort.
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