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@garfieldofdreams.bsky.social
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Ecology friend, Sci-comm curious. I escaped a tech career, and now I design PDFs for the state of Minnesota.

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 09/12/2025
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A felted mouse wearing a peaked hat carrying a bunch of red berries captioned 

I am plagued by concepts
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Jason Chavez @jchavezmpls.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
MPD said in a statement that they responded to an “officer needs help” call, but confirmed that no one was being assaulted & that no life-safety conditions warranted further officer involvement. Why did MPD assist in kidnapping our neighbors with controlling the space? This was just one example.
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Harriet - Pumpkin Spite @akaharriet.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
Headline: "Microsoft Scales Back AI Goals Because Almost Nobody Is Using Copilot" by Jan Martindale Dec. 10 2025
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Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Congratulations. I hope other judges do this.
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JF @garfieldofdreams.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Chief O'Hara - time to make good on your pledge to fire MPD officers that aid ICE
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Jason Chavez @jchavezmpls.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Dear neighbor, This morning, ICE surrounded a construction site with Latino workers in this dangerously cold weather. One worker had to leave in an ambulance because they were forced to stay on the roof of the construction site as ICE attempted to kidnap them. 1/
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JF @garfieldofdreams.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Hey #scicomm - what advice would you give to someone without a science degree interested in transitioning to science communication? I have a bfa in visual communication and spent the last decade as a UX designer.
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JF @garfieldofdreams.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
I think it's completely appropriate that times new roman signals the fall of the u.s. empire. It's just good branding 🤷‍♂️ www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda...
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Calibri designer hits back at Marco Rubio’s ‘woke’ font claims
The US secretary of state’s decision to revert to Times New Roman has been branded a ‘bad choice’ by the typeface creator
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/09/2025
In 2021, Javier Sanchez Mendoza Jr. pleaded guilty to conspiracy to engage in forced labor as part of a federal investigation that exposed widespread abuses of H-2A workers across Georgia. This is the story of what one of those workers endured. By @maxblau.bsky.social
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A Farmworkers Visa Promised Her a Better Life. It Was a Trap.
Sofi left behind her child in Mexico for the promise of providing him a better life. She ended up a victim of an operation that is alleged to have exploited the H-2A visa program — and the workers it…
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Wine grape workers who work under UFW contract are pleased with the nighttime safety gear negotiated for them. "Our vests are very illuminated & heavy duty and the lights we wear around our head are very bright. We don't need to worry about falling into gopher holes." #WeFeedYou
Workers in reflective gear and lights working in the night harvesting wine grapes
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
"Gaspar" says "it is a very windy day in Madera where I'm picking pomegranates. The work is already hard as I have to go up and down a ladder all day while getting pricked by thick thorns. Today to top it off, the wind blew a lot of dirt into the air and into my eyes." #WeFeedYou
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.” aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.
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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
We're snailposting, post your snails! #invertebrates #SciArt
grid of 3x2 white square, each one having either a single or a pair of snails, scaly foot snail in black, two banana slugs intertwined, two sea snails in a cream stripey shell poking underneath, two suspicious leopard slugs, two bright green very long shell snails, one lava looking slug with a black and red shell and a red foot.
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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
This week’s newsletter is about getting out of the boiling pot of water and deciding not to climb back in. buttondown.com/monteiro/arc...
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How to point at fascists and laugh
The last slide from my new talk. It plays a role below. Contribute to my eventual bail fund at $2 a pop. This week’s question comes from me, actually: How...
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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
The wonderful writers @sn-media-guild.bsky.social have been waiting on a fair contract almost long enough to gestate a baby elephant (620 days). They have neither a contract NOR a baby elephant. All they want is a contract, to be paid for their amazing expertise.
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Dan Savage @dansavage.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
If kids got raped by clowns as often as they get raped by preachers it would be against the law to take your kids to the circus. joemygod.com/2025/11/mo-y...
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MO Youth Pastor Gets 35 Years On Child Sex Charges - Joe.My.God.
Fort Smith’s Fox affiliate reports: A Missouri man has been convicted of trafficking minors in Benton County and sentenced to more than three decades in prison, according to authorities. A jury found ...
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JF @garfieldofdreams.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
JFK is a little baby bitch
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The NewsGuild-CWA @newsguild.org · 05/11/2025
🚨 STRIKE ALERT: Journalists at Science News are on strike and holding a 12-hour picket outside of the office! After 560 days of bargaining, the Science News Media Guild (@sn-media-guild.bsky.social) is demanding and fair contract NOW!
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
This is insane shit. Cops hate the people of Los Angeles and look for any excuse to injure people.
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beckytaylor927.bsky.social @beckytaylor927.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
If you come to my house on Halloween, kids will get candy and adults will get a candy with a free zine illustrated by @meganpiont.bsky.social
A pile of Maryland edition zines of How to Report Ice to Help Keep Your Neighbors Safe.
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Matt Serwe @serwewx.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
There’s no way around it: Hurricane Melissa will cause significant devastation in Jamaica. It will also have big impacts in southern Hispañola (Haiti and Dominican Republic). (1/2)
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JF @garfieldofdreams.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
And don't rank Frey!
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Omar Fateh @omarfatehmn.com · 14/10/2025
I'm proud to have the broadest coalition of support from elected officials, community members, and organizations, of any candidate in this race. We deserve a Mayor that's ready to collaborate, work across differences, and deliver for residents of Minneapolis.
Photo of Omar Fateh and all his endorsers.
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Jeanine 💙 @madammaleficent.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
A Native woman giving the middle finger and it reads This Monday, don't forget:
Fuck Christopher Columbus.
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
LMAOOOOO A bunch of comedians tried to make up for their participation in the Riyadh comedy festival by donating their pay to Human Rights Watch and Human rights Watch was like “nah bitch we don’t want your dirty blood money” 😂😂 I’m dying
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Human Rights Watch Doesn’t Want Any Riyadh Comedy Festival Money
Taking money from those who took money from Saudi Arabia would impact perception of the org’s independence.
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JF @garfieldofdreams.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Donated - Let's help Anas rebuild what the occupation steals.
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JF @garfieldofdreams.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
ICE has an open contract for social media surveillance that closes on Oct 16. You have until then to secure your data. Thankfully, activistchecklist.org exists. Take the time to safeguard your device and any personally identifying information. Keep speaking out both in person and online.
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Digital Security Checklists for Activists
Plain language steps for digital security, because protecting yourself helps keep your whole community safer. Built by activists, for activists with field-tested, community-verified guides.
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Dr. Maya @drdrmaya.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Friends, get your flu shot in the next couple of weeks. It's an easy way to keep yourself and your family healthy and reduce your risk of being hospitalized with the flu this season.
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JF @garfieldofdreams.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
I'm FINALLY seeing some national coverage about the terrorism inflicted on the south and west sides of Chicago. An entire apartment complex of people were pull out of their homes in the middle of the night. Children zip tied. Disapeared. Please share widely. m.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...
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‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building
YouTube video by MSNBC
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The Marshall Project @themarshallproject.org · 04/10/2025
Becoming ever more common in Missouri, heat emergencies create dangerous conditions inside prisons with limited or no air conditioning. Untreated heat exhaustion and heatstroke can lead to organ failure, permanent neurological damage, and even death.
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These Missouri Prisons Get ‘Brutally Hot.’ In Solitary, It’s Even Worse.
A recent class action lawsuit from the MacArthur Justice Center sheds light on how extreme heat creates life-threatening conditions for those in solitary confinement.
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Omar Fateh @omarfatehmn.com · 28/09/2025
For 7 years, Mayor Frey has lied. He lied about no-knock warrants and Amir Locke died. He lied and said there were only 27 unhoused people in the city—facts prove him wrong. He even vetoed the Uber/Lyft wage bill after vowing to support it. Minneapolis needs a leader, not a liar.
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Old_Sasha @jvdv01.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
The IDF are not an army in any civilised sense, they're savages and the rest of the world does nothing, shame on them all.
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Israel kills 53 in Gaza, flattens more towers as toll from famine rises
Israel intensifies its bombardment of Gaza City, levelling 16 buildings, including three towers, and killing dozens.
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Rolf Meier 🌐 @openeysdown.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
It's called Palestine. All of it.
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EUwatch 🇪🇺 @euwatch.live · 14/09/2025
Oscar-winning Palestinian director Basel Adra says Israeli soldiers raided his home in West Bank
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Israeli army raids Oscar-winning Palestinian director West Bank home
Basel Adra co-directed the film No Other Land, a joint Palestinian-Israeli production that chronicles the struggle by residents to stop the Israeli military from demolishing the occupied West Bank's Masafer Yatta.
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Middle-East Tracker @me.skyfleet.blue · 14/09/2025
Israeli forces destroy residential block in Gaza City
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Israeli forces destroy residential block in Gaza City
Israeli forces destroy residential block in Gaza City Israeli forces have flattened a residential tower in Gaza City's al-Rimal neighbourhood, less than two hours after issuing expulsion orders to residents, Al Jazeera is reporting. The army claimed in a post on Telegram that Hamas were using the al-Kawthar tower as an information gathering base, without presenting any evidence.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
You will never be able to make "data driven" decisions until you realize just how much your decisions are driven by emotions: fear of missing out, defensiveness of your favorite idea, apprehension over something unusual. That's because there's no such thing as "the data" - only interpretations.
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Jason Chavez @jchavezmpls.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Please share widely! www.gofundme.com/f/8q268-reco...
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Donate to Recovery & Care for Greyson!, organized by Nichole Page
Greyson is an amazing 6-year old with so much personality & character, now faced with some d… Nichole Page needs your support for Recovery & Care for Greyson!
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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
You have more in common with someone outside Tampa who just got laid off and really needs to go to the doctor than you have with Chuck Schumer. It’s not red vs blue. It’s the rich vs everybody.
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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
🧵🇵🇸 An updating list of Protests taken in solidarity with Gaza and Palestine 🇮🇪 In front of the US Embassy in Ireland
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Adil @adilredivy.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Israeli forces shot and killed an American citizen point blank at a West Bank protest and Biden defended them and denied that she was a citizen. You’re waist deep in this racism. bsky.app/profile/prem...
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