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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

This is the real America — the one we don't often see enough of online.

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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Very Well Said…. Let’s Do This!😊💙

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Why are ICE agents masked to begin with? Our law enforcement officers shouldn’t be anonymous. Ever.

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Democratic Wins Media @democraticwins.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

BREAKING: In a stunning moment, renowned journalist Scott Pelley just highlighted how Donald Trump is working to stifle free speech in America, and how he plans on fighting back. This is huge.

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zach blackburn @zachblackburn.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

In Newark, where Mayor Ras Baraka asked to enter a newly reopened ICE detention facility. Delaney Hall operators did not let the mayor into the facility. Newark is currently suing the operator of the facility for alleged permitting and inspections violations

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

To the world: We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom. —With love, Your American allies.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

We the people are taking action to stop a hostile government takeover. On April 5, 5.2 million people across the country stood up to say HANDS OFF our democracy! Save the date for our next national day of action on April 19th. #50501movement #PeoplesMovement #FiftyFiftyOne #April5 #HandsOff

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Pádraic Fogarty @whittledaway.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Despite the backlash in recent years (in Ireland anyway!), rewilding is now well established in academic and practical responses to the biodiversity crisis. w'thanks to @pettorelli.bsky.social & @landethics.bsky.social for their input to this article #rewidling www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

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Rewilding: A meaningful response to tackling the biodiversity crisis

The concept is an eco-centric approach which is nature-led and human-enabled

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Fran Friel @franfriel.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Swans chilling in Kilconnell. 💚 #Ireland

3 swans 3 swans in lake at dusk. Autumn in Ireland

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Perelandra Center for Nature Research @perelandraltd.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

How do we access the intelligence of nature? At Perelandra we have spent fifty years providing the answer to that question. We offer information and tools that anyone can use to address their health, home environment, gardens and projects. perelandra-ltd.com

Perelandra garden outer band with birdfeeders, windchimes, birdbath, comfrey plants and grass paths into main garden.

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Fran Friel @franfriel.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

🍂 Incredible mimicry! 🧡 Thanks, Frank!

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Shane Liddelow @liddelowsa.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

There are lots of us missing, but so many joining so quickly Please do share, and comment below to be added go.bsky.app/5f2V6L6 (microglia starter pack also here by @mancusorenzo.bsky.social - bsky.app/starter-pack...)

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Fran Friel @franfriel.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

At time of revealing. From the mist, hidden webs. 🕸️

Misty green pasture with sheep in the distance. In the foreground, a gorse bush with spider webs laden with mist, previously unseen.

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Rosie Nixon @rosienixon.com · 10/11/2024

Taken 2 weeks ago at Flagstaff Viewpoint, near Newry. As the sun slowly ascended from behind Rostrevor Mountain it painted the cloud above in fiery colours and Carlingford Lough began to be bathed in a warm, ethereal light. #landscape #photography #sunrise #carlingfordlough #ireland #naturewriting

Sunrise image with the warm glow coming from behind mountain and coloring the waters of the lough golden. While the clouds above are fiery orange. A Forest of conifers is in the foreground and mountains on left and right of image.

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Fran Friel @franfriel.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

When the weather reflects the mood. 😞

A foggy pasture with sheep beyond a barbed fence, a fence poll and a bit of tree in the foreground.

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Irish ME/CFS Association @irishmecfsassoc.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

#Ireland Our updated Christmas card page is now up irishmecfs.org/christmas_ca... Wide selection: 14 packs with English and English & Irish verse packs 10% of gross amount goes to our research fund. Shops don't get a cut so more goes to charity Please re-post +/or like #MEcfs #CFS #PwME

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Fran Friel @franfriel.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

It was a beautiful day in the neighborhood. #TreeHenge #Ireland

A golden, orange sunset behind a copse of trees in an Irish pasture.

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Fran Friel @franfriel.bsky.social · 22/11/2023

I watched The #AI Dilemma today. Made my blood run cold. Topics far beyond jobs and social media privacy are discussed. A discussion we should all be aware of. Watch in bits, but watch it! 🤯 #TheAIDilemma youtu.be/xoVJKj8lcNQ?...

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The A.I. Dilemma - March 9, 2023

Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin discuss how existing A.I. capabilities already pose catastrophic risks to a functional society, how A.I. companies are caught i...

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 19/11/2023

Statement from President Jimmy Carter on the passing of his beloved wife Rosalynn: “Rosalynn was my equal partner in everything I ever accomplished. She gave me wise guidance and encouragement when I needed it. As long as Rosalynn was in the world, I always knew somebody loved and supported me.”

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Carole Bruce @cabruce.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

Ed Yong is a tremendous, erudite writer who has made it his business to really understand #ME # MECFS

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Brian Hughes @bmhughes.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

This opinion piece in Time magazine argues strongly for a "war-on-cancer" style effort to deal with #LongCovid. According to the authors, "logic and reason dictate" that LC and #MECFS are one and the same post-infectious syndrome. "The implications of this hypothesis should be addressed head-on"

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How to End the Futile Long COVID Blame Game

A radical new paradigm is needed.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 11/11/2023

And for those interested, the Hard Right takeover of the National Trust has failed *again* in a record turnout election. It shows once more that these people only win when people are complacent and not paying attention.

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Fran Friel @franfriel.bsky.social · 11/11/2023

The fungus among us. In the Woodlawn Forest and my back garden. 🍄 Tje ribboned fungus growing on a fallen tree. #Galway #Ireland. Stereum hirsutum, also called false turkey tail. Any ID on the tiny grey mushroom from my back garden?

A ribboned fungus growing on a fallen tree. Ireland. Stereum hirsutum, also called false turkey tail.

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Fran Friel @franfriel.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

A surprising project for the ambitious Re-Use and Recycler! 🛸👽🪐🐓

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 16/10/2023

If you're interested in hearing me talk more about GPTs and "AI" and the problems they create for the project of shared knowledge and consensus reality and even just, y'know, living, Join me and the Sonoma State University Center for Ethics, Law, and Society today at 12pm PDT/3pm EDT:

Event poster: A dark purple & maroon background w/ the Sonoma State University Center for Ethics, Law, & Society in the top right corner, text reading
"16 October, 2023, 12-12:50PM [PDT]
Stevenson 1400, Free Public Lecture
On Bullshit Engines: The Socioethical & Epistemic Status of GPT & other 'AI'
W/
Dr. Damien Patrick Williams
University of North Carolina [at] Charlotte
—What do these tools and systems actually do?
—Why are we so willing if not downright eager to integrate them into every facet of our daily lives, even when we know their content bears little to no relationship to facts or truth?
For more info visit [QR code to https://philosophy.sonoma.edu/cels-lecture-series]"
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Fran Friel @franfriel.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

What are you reading? 📚 Me? I am a little late to the party, but I am reading #ChuckWendig, second in series, #WAYWARD. Really enjoyed the first book, #WANDERERS and so far, book 2 is delivering, as well. Thought provoking, well-written, prescient. #reading #WhatAreYouReading #Wendig

Sign reads: FICTION…because real life is terrible.

Book cover, lighted cabin at night in a snowy forest. Man looking at the cabin.: Chuck Wendig - Wayward

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

Not too sure about our new courier

Photo of a rook on a box, on a doorstep.

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Jeri Ryan (official account) @jerilryan.bsky.social · 08/10/2023

COME ON, people! This isn’t hard!!! It’s common sense and common courtesy. WEAR. A FUCKING. MASK.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

The WGA has “established regulations for the use of artificial intelligence (“AI”) on MBA-covered projects in the following ways:” www.wgacontract2023.org/the-campaign...

Artificial Intelligence

We have established regulations for the use of artificial intelligence (“AI”) on MBA-covered projects in the following ways:

AI can’t write or rewrite literary material, and AI-generated material will not be considered source material under the MBA, meaning that AI-generated material can’t be used to undermine a writer’s credit or separated rights.
A writer can choose to use AI when performing writing services, if the company consents and provided that the writer follows applicable company policies, but the company can’t require the writer to use AI software (e.g., ChatGPT) when performing writing services.
The Company must disclose to the writer if any materials given to the writer have been generated by AI or incorporate AI-generated material.
The WGA reserves the right to assert that exploitation of writers’ material to train AI is prohibited by MBA or other law.

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Bernoid @bernoid.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

Stunning little chunk of cladonia & moss.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 07/10/2023

Forty or fifty year old box turtle in our yard this week. Grackles have made the birdfeeder area a mess.

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

A twisted old arbutus tree, and a living sculpture. One of Ireland's anomalous 'Lusitanian group' of species, the natural range of arbutus is otherwise mostly around the Mediterranean basin. 🌎

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Fran Friel @franfriel.bsky.social · 01/10/2023

Some rare Blue Sky in Co Galway. 💙

The rare but exquisite blue sky of Ireland.

Blue sky in Ireland? Yep. And we have some of the best clouds, as well. 💙

Mister Rocky enjoying an especially lovely Galway day. 💚

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