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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3h

The "Party of Reagan" has the United States siding with Russian aggression against NATO allies and a brutal war on a European democratic US partner. Yes, the whole party. If they didn't, they would impeach and remove the president who is blatantly breaking US law to help fund Russia's war effort.

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Our so-called leaders have prostituted us to the Russians. Destroyed our culture. Our economies. Our honor. Our blood has been spilled on our soil. Our blood on their hands. They are the invaders.

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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“WE WILL BURN THEIR REFINERIES.”

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

- Attacking the ICC - Palling around with Russia - Broadcasting executions

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Are We The Baddies? Meme

ALT: Are We The Baddies? Meme

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Devastating 💔 Abolish ice www.instagram.com/reel/DePkMcN...

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

We need to incept the idea of Trump renaming the GOP to the Trump Party, and by “incept” I mean have a reporter mention it once within his earshot and he’ll become obsessed with it and not let it go

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 08/10/2026

Trump's pushing the term "super intelligence" is stupid for many reasons (not least because "superintelligence" was already a term with a specific meaning in semi-technical and policy/philosophical discussions about AI). But now his bullying about it is reaching an Orwellian pitch.

A Trump Truth Social post dated 8 October 2026, reading: "The White House considers anyone that uses the term, 'Artificial Intelligence,' as opposed to the highly accepted new and more accurate term, 'Super Intelligence,' THE ENEMY! President DONALD J. TRUMP" (https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/117406176604364910). That post is quote-tweeted by @josephpolitano.bsky.social on the same day with the message: "Again he’s really losing it with the AI stuff now." And that, in turn, is quote-tweeted by @sky.skymarchini.net also on the same day, in two messages that read (combined) as follows: "Yeah, so, I work for an organization with federal government contracts and, the White House is not actually joking about this. It’s (probably) not at an 'I will I get fired if I put "artificial intelligence" in an email' level but the WH is making clear that the expectation is to use Trump’s politically correct terminology in public communication."

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It's because the phrase is used to identify those loyal to the in-group, and identify those members of the out-group who need to be targeted and attacked.

Donald J Trump Truth Social post "The White House considers anyone that uses the term, “Artificial Intelligence,” as opposed to the highly accepted new and more accurate term, “Super Intelligence,” THE ENEMY! President DONALD J. TRUMP"

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is just a relentlessly horrific story. It’s hard to adequately contextualize the moral desolation of this unfolding in the midst of a midterms against a ruling party helmed by inveterate rapists and rape apologists. www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/congres...

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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs

Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing. A Phoenix New Times exclusive.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We are spending this much money, not for some vital national interest, but in order to secure oil shipments from the Gulf Monarchies to China so that oil prices don't spike before the midterms. There are Navy guys who haven't seen their family in 8 months doing it so the GOP can maybe win KS-SEN

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Periodic reminder that guillotines are the moderate solution

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Thomas Barbin @thomasbarbin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Taracus carmanah!!! Known only from its type localities and specimens. Somehow we found one individual during a bioblitz last weekend. These are the first photos of a live individual, and is the first individual seen alive! Still buzzing from this find. #arachtober #harvestmen #opiliones

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invertebrate @crevicedwelling.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ever seen an earthworm swim?

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Paul Gilster @gilster.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Using photosynthesis to answer Fermi. Interesting paper argues that planets billions of years older than ours may still be in microbial life stage because of surface conditions, particularly around red dwarfs. Is advanced life limited to G-class systems? www.centauri-dreams.org/2026/10/02/p...

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Photosynthesis: A New Angle into Fermi’s Paradox? | Centauri Dreams

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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 02/10/2026

Imagine if Elon were rotting away in a maximum security prison with poor conditions instead of helping to shape the future of technofascist warfare

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

America today is a country where regulators won't allow private companies to air interviews of the opposition on TV, but declare that taxpayer funded propaganda is fine.

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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The entire interior U.S. should be alarmed as Canada fast tracks a new crude oil pipeline from Alberta to Canada's West Coast that will push more of Canada's oil away from U.S. refineries that rely on it, and could negatively impact U.S. refineries.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is good but still presents an implementation challenge because Throw polling at 60% is misleading when Take polls at 5%.

A dog asks his human to throw his ball without taking the ball from him.

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Climatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

September 2026 was the warmest September on record for the Contiguous U.S. since 1895 according to PRISM climate data. 🔥🔥🔥

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Dan Savage @dansavage.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is the least boggling thing I’ve read in weeks.

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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Governor just signed my bill to allow people to sue ICE, Border Patrol, and other federal agents for violating people’s constitutional rights. Starting immediately, people can sue federal agents retroactive to abuse occurring in March 2025.

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invertebrate @crevicedwelling.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Some Eurypauropus for your viewing pleasure. They are small armored loaves a few millimeters long that scoot around eating something under logs.

Two five-segmented loaf shaped brown bugs on a log amidst some fungus

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Moth 5/12 - Ashinaga #Art #SciArt

illustration of a dark brown moth with triangular wings going backwards, long legs with fluff that look like baggy jeans, and a pair of long, featherlike antennae in bright red/orange.

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

You're losing the war you started for no reason, dumbass.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Laugh at Eric Schmitt and Co. for Hawkeyes/Hawks, sure. Their screw up is funny and they deserve the mockery. But also, this was the GOP and allied media geared up to defend a coup attempt with lies and jail a prosecutor because he tried to enforce the law against a criminal. How far we've fallen.

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WA Orchids @wa-orchids.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Caladenia paludosa - Swamp Spider Orchid Often found growing in dense coastal heathland in areas that are swampy in winter, hence its common name. Endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. #orchids #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #inaturalist #bloomscrolling 🌿

Picture of a single orchid flower that has long, thin petals and sepals that are greenish yellow in colour with a deep red tip to the central labellum. The labellum has long red-tipped fringing. The ends of the three sepals have think brown tips.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 29/09/2026

Very funny this happened right after Axios was like "lots of buzz about Schmitt for VP" this morning.

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Another body of a victim has been recovered from under the rubble of the National Academy of Sciences in Kyiv, Mayor Klitschko reported. Death tall rises to 2 people. Russis killed 2 people for no reason other then being Ukrainians on ordinary Monday...

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A parasitic Apocephalus ant-decapitating fly closes in on her target, a Camponotus chromaiodes carpenter ant. Sand Ridge State Forest, Illinois.

Macro photo of a large black and red ant, slightly backlight, standing with antennae raised as a small black and yellow striped fly approaches from the right.

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Climatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Month-to-date temperature departure for the Contiguous U.S. Still on track for the warmest September on record (+3.0F in 1998). 🔥

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Shoe-per Intelligence @shoe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Mississippi's Black population is 38% and they haven't had a Black Senator since Reconstruction but Justice Roberts would like you to know that we don't need racial protections in voting because that's all in the past.

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026

Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

it’s forbidden content but i have watched this video of the AI songs a man made for his mistress after murdering his wife being played in court maybe 20 times today. It is one of the most compelling things i have ever seen

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I struggle to articulate the severity of that second point - the kind of civic sacrilege it represents. The arch would be impious in the sot of way that calls for rituals of public humiliation like tarring and feathering.

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🌴 Scott Zona, Ph.D. 🌴 @scottzona.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Nectar chemistry & floral shape are important adaptations to bird pollination. Some plants add another assurance: viscin threads that stick pollen together & attach to feathers. Here’s the pollen of Delonix regia demonstrating viscin’s role. #Fabaceae #ornithophily #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

Close-up photo of a feather drawing away from a stamen with a pollen-laden anther. The pollen is clumped together by threads of viscin. Photo by Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0.

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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's been remarked that one definition of an honest man is that, when you buy him, he stays bought. This has always sort of been the pillar of Trump's own particular dishonesty: you can't actually buy him, not because he's principled, but because he'll pocket the money and fuck you over anyway

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

WSJ: The AI build-out is on track to become the biggest economic bet in US history, dwarfing the investments made to fund other huge US infrastructure projects — such as the railroads, the highway system and the plumbing for the internet.” (via Jefferies)

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The Nature Conservancy @nature.org · 23/09/2026

One of these is a fish. The Amazon leaf fish is so well camouflaged that it can drift among fallen leaves unnoticed, until it's time to strike. See what other surprises are hiding beneath the surface of the Amazon: nature.ly/3TeeuRw

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Army ants (Eciton mexicanum) are specialist predators of other ants. Here, a group of workers take down a Neoponera huntress ant in an Ecuadorian cloud forest.

Macro photo of four dark red ants with orange casters surrounding a larger metallic blue/black ant on a mossy rock.

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Dakota Smith @weatherdak.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The incredible full day, high resolution view of Hurricane Polo today.

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cira-csu.bsky.social @cira-csu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

An extraordinary high-resolution view of a Category 5 Hurricane Polo this afternoon, seen from NOAA-20.

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Climatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Current C02 reading at the American Samoa GML monitoring station - one of 4 official sites on Earth (Utqiagvik, Mauna Loa, American Samoa, and the South Pole) is 426.06 ppm.

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Dakota Smith @weatherdak.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The beast that is Hurricane Polo.

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🌴 Scott Zona, Ph.D. 🌴 @scottzona.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Hummingbirds have a special talent: the ability to hover. They can access flowers that have no perch or landing pad. It makes for photogenic feeding! 📷: Sappho sparganurus on Iochroma (or relative) by Naturalist Tours CC0 #ornithophily #Salvia #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

Photo of a colorful (green, orange and black) hummingbird feeding from pendulous, tubular blue flowers. The photo catches the bird with its beak pointing straight up and its wings outstretched. The broad, long tail is pointing downward.

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invertebrate @crevicedwelling.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

impressive capture by this hangingthief robber fly

A gangly orange fly with a long abdomen, a short boxy thorax, huge eyes and a comically pointy set of mouthparts carries a wasp of about the same mass across my hand

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Ian Austen @ianausten.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The metropolitan area of Brockville, Ontario. (Rolleiflex Wide, Zeiss 55mm f4 Distagon, Y filter, Kodak Tri-X)

A Bell phone booth flanked by precast stone planter boxes. A tree and the shadow of its leaves are framing it. A mailbox is in the distance.

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Nathan 🎃 @never-say-die.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Not only did the ICE goons shoot a man for likely no good reason, they left Texas DPS and Austin PD to render aid on a patient that looks to have a front to rear GSW an inch off of his spine.

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🌴 Scott Zona, Ph.D. 🌴 @scottzona.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Most of the 375 hummingbird spp. are found in the American Tropics. Their taste in flowers is the same as in the US: nectar-rich, tubular flowers, often red. #ornithophily #Botany 🌾🧪🌱 1. Aglaiocercus kingii on Fuchsia Derek Spencer CCBY4 2. Saucerottia cyanura on Megaskepasma Marc Gonger CCBYNC4

Photo of a metallic green hummingbird with an extraordinarily long tail visiting the purple and red flower of a hybrid fuchsia.

Photo of a metallic green, blue and orange hummingbird visiting white flowers surrounded by bright red bracts.

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