Reposted by Gary Bauer🙏🍁💉Mr Natural @neilmatheson66.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Mihai Criste (b.1975, Romania) Remembering the Flight. Oil on canvas. 212368384
Reposted by Gary Bauer🙏🍁💉Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/09/2026Renee Good's mom: "I am a registered Republican. I voted for President Trump under the impression that these agents were here to protect citizens -- innocents like our family and the others here. Certainly not to accuse those of us here of being terrorists and take precious lives. This is madness." 63651911463
Reposted by Gary Bauer🙏🍁💉Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026A third of today's Americans are too young to have any memory of 9/11. For them, the 9/11 Memorial is making a new digital learning experience available starting tomorrow. We said we'd never forget—and part of that charge is making sure the next generation remembers too. 911memorial.org/DLE 355117243008
Reposted by Gary Bauer🙏🍁💉Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 09/09/2026K1: so is Alexa AI? Me: errrr that's kind of complicated. Let's start with defining what an LLM is K1: ok, and is Alexa AI? Me: well parts of it are an LLM, but not everything K1: that's complicated Me: that's because what we call AI isn't actually SFF AI--it's a probabilitistic word spitter 3656
Reposted by Gary Bauer🙏🍁💉Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Criselda Vasquez, American, The New American Gothic, 2017, oil on canvas, 72 x 48 in, private collection The artist's father, portrayed in the painting, was kidnapped by ICE on 31 March 2026 200308665020
Reposted by Gary Bauer🙏🍁💉Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 09/09/2026How can anyone choose to get pregnant when there's a chance the embryo implants in the wrong spot--something you can't control, influence, or prevent--and then you get to die a horrible, miserable, inescapable death? 1330076
Reposted by Gary Bauer🙏🍁💉Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Sen. @mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social understands the stakes. Mike Rogers moved to Florida and got rich off the corporations he was supposed to be regulating while in Congress. Now he expects us to let him take another turn through the revolving door. 10081292837
Reposted by Gary Bauer🙏🍁💉John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 07/09/2026This was waiting for me when I got home from Tampa. Thank you @laworldcon.bsky.social for the prompt shipping! Lots of awards I've had shipped have taken, shall we say, the scenic route to get to me. 4295618
Reposted by Gary Bauer🙏🍁💉jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/09/2026the literal position of the trump administration is that any school that has any more than a smattering of black students is engaged in illegal racial discrimination against whites www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/b...nytimes.comTrump Moves to Strip Tax Exemption From Schools That Aid Minority Students (Gift Article)The Treasury Department released rules that would prevent schools with race-based programs from qualifying for tax-exempt status, a threat to both higher education and other private schools. 9041621392
Reposted by Gary Bauer🙏🍁💉Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined. 34895814674
Reposted by Gary Bauer🙏🍁💉Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 02/09/2026🚨BREAKING: A newly disclosed U.S. Postal Service (USPS) whistleblower report is quickly becoming evidence in multiple lawsuits challenging President Donald Trump’s sweeping mail voting restrictions. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...democracydocket.comUSPS whistleblower report bolsters challenges to Trump’s anti-mail voting orderVoting rights groups are pointing judges to the allegations as fresh support for their warnings that the administration’s rushed new system could disrupt the delivery of thousands of ballots before No... 442752975
Reposted by Gary Bauer🙏🍁💉Andrew B. Watkins @windjunky.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Likely hottest winter on record (1910-2026) in Vic, Tas and possibly NSW. Latest video from BoM also shows emerging dry. No wonder the snow season was so short… Video at www.bom.gov.au/climate/outl... 54925
Reposted by Gary Bauer🙏🍁💉Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Thank you. 1842241904024
Reposted by Gary Bauer🙏🍁💉David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Trump started two wars of economic intimidation on Monday, and in both the American consumer will feel the shrapnel. His feeble attempts to lower some prices are destroying entire domestic industries. I feel like we're the ones being sanctioned here. prospect.org/2026/08/25/t...prospect.orgHow Trump Declared Economic War on His Own People - The American ProspectThe simultaneous economic sanctions on Iran and Canada will make everything you buy cost more—if we’re lucky. 59026
Reposted by Gary Bauer🙏🍁💉Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 25/08/2026This is tragic. Vaccines work. They save lives. Please get the measles vaccine. For yourself, your family, and your community. 328827
Reposted by Gary Bauer🙏🍁💉Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Watters: Do you think men should play in women’s sports? El-Sayed: I'm running for U.S. Senate. I'm out here trying to take on the health care crisis and big pharma, and you're asking me about who gets to play what sports 1228190053915
Reposted by Gary Bauer🙏🍁💉Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 25/08/2026This is absolutely how you answer this kind of question (which is also clearly not kindly or compassionately phrased, it's inflammatory and biased and the journalist knows it) 08021
Reposted by Gary Bauer🙏🍁💉The Alchemist 🇨🇦 @alchemistsstudio.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Canada has two official languages, and I give that my seal of approval 🍁 I give a phoque! 🦭 And I made one to prove it. #iykyk #canada #francais #francaise 430250
Reposted by Gary Bauer🙏🍁💉Cranky Professional Organizer Bitch @totallydonna.kitrocha.com · 25/08/202630 gd years ago, there was a storyline on ER where an unvaccinated kid died of measles. The young doctors had not actually ever SEEN measles in person. This was in the bag, y'all, and we've dropped it. 335390
Reposted by Gary Bauer🙏🍁💉Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 25/08/2026Basically Musk hijacked billions of taxpayer dollars that was supposed to go to affordable fiber optic broadband, and instead gave it to himself for slower, more congested satellite broadband he had ALREADY PLANNED TO DEPLOY anyway My June piece in The Verge, if you missed it:theverge.comElon Musk and the plot to hijack America’s broadband“We’re fed up … The BEAD program has failed us.” 7265121
Reposted by Gary Bauer🙏🍁💉Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/08/2026"I was not shocked that he helped somebody. My shock is that he was murdered. And no one has given us the complete truth or anyone has been held accountable. And it's been 7 months! ... there was more effort in vilifying him than pursuing justice" -- Alex Pretti's parents 474236438096
Reposted by Gary Bauer🙏🍁💉Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Whatever you call it, you just made all the goods we buy that come across our border more expensive. Michigan, he’s asking us to pay for his vanity trade war with our money. 1254178514722
Reposted by Gary Bauer🙏🍁💉Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Hey folks! There's an alllllmost total lunar eclipse this Thursday night, and it's visible to all of America. I wrote about it in today's newsletter, and put that article above the fold so everyone can see it. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/watch-the-...badastronomy.beehiiv.comWatch the (nearly total) lunar eclipse Thursday night!Also: An eclipse from Mars… of Earth. Kinda. 417972
Reposted by Gary Bauer🙏🍁💉Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 19/08/2026Finally! You have no idea how long I’ve had to pretend I didn’t know all this! #murderbot #murderbotseason2 #booksky 1372187411
Reposted by Gary Bauer🙏🍁💉Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Exclusive: A rare bookseller suspected his books were being bought by AI companies. He stuck an AirTag in a book and we tracked it to a secretive Amazon facility in Las Vegas where they scan and destroy books called VGT3: www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...404media.coWe Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training FacilityWe placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. 341305681
Reposted by Gary Bauer🙏🍁💉Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Davey Hearn was hit w/ a felony over failing paint the gov's own engineer flagged 8 days earlier Now @raskin.house.gov wants every doc. behind that decision, including the grand jury transcripts We welcome any oversight that seeks the truth More @washingtonpost.com👇 -TNwashingtonpost.comHouse Democrats seek records in dropped Reflecting Pool case against ex-OlympianRep. Jamie Raskin sent a letter to the Justice and Interior departments pressing for more information on the felony prosecution of David Hearn. 12523135
Reposted by Gary Bauer🙏🍁💉Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 11/08/2026It’s rough being a billionaire. First nobody thanks you for ruining search, and then you have to spend your own millions to prevent the serfs from having decent schoolsfortune.comGoogle co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses | FortuneThe state’s ultrawealthy, including Larry Page and Peter Thiel, have similarly donated to efforts opposing the wealth tax. 802792754
Reposted by Gary Bauer🙏🍁💉Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 11/08/2026You'd have to supersize it to fit...oh, somebody else. Apropos of nothing. 5755
Reposted by Gary Bauer🙏🍁💉John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 11/08/2026November 3 in North America, November 5 in UK/Ireland/Commonwealth, and every other country in the world gets whichever English language version their local bookstore decides to stock whenever it gets there (The audio version is also Nov. 3, and I think that's worldwide) 91554
Reposted by Gary Bauer🙏🍁💉Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11/08/2026“The fake news New York Slime is reporting that your favorite president (ME!) hid in a “food truck” due to threat of from the scumbags in Iran. FAKE NEWS! There was no hiding! I very powerfully “borrowed” a food truck and sent the new “Air Force One” to be toured by the troops.” 54064621509
Reposted by Gary Bauer🙏🍁💉Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 11/08/2026I’ll see your diarrhea lettuce and raise you some flesh-eating bacteria. 1527177
Reposted by Gary Bauer🙏🍁💉John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 11/08/2026Also, you know, just fuckin' read a book, it ain't gonna kill you and you might even have fun with it 2371153
Reposted by Gary Bauer🙏🍁💉John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 11/08/2026I know for a fact - because I check these things - that "AI" will give you an inaccurate summation of my work as often as it will get things right, because, all together now, "AI" is an autocomplete, not an actual intelligence. It doesn't read anything. It guesses from its training data. 51868128
Reposted by Gary Bauer🙏🍁💉Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 11/08/2026This was so fucking good and heartfelt. You need this. 1277
Reposted by Gary Bauer🙏🍁💉Lucienne Diver @luciennediver.bsky.social · 11/08/2026!!!Now hear this!!! 053
Reposted by Gary Bauer🙏🍁💉The Alchemist 🇨🇦 @alchemistsstudio.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Purrrebus in progress 619535
Reposted by Gary Bauer🙏🍁💉Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 11/08/2026As a note, human urine will not generally trouble a komodo dragon. But the dragon in question will absolutely trouble the source of the urine immediately after it has been identified. 1017215
Reposted by Gary Bauer🙏🍁💉Christoph Fischer Photography @beautysurroundsyou.com · 02/08/2026Namibia is not all desert, it's coast line has huge flamingo, pelican & seal populations. So many flamingos, it's difficult to isolate them, but the morning's fog helped, & created a magical mood! #photography #nature #naturephotography #bluesky #birds #birdtherapy #wildlife #wildlifephotography 1450854
Reposted by Gary Bauer🙏🍁💉Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 02/08/2026I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty. 22672983710339
Reposted by Gary Bauer🙏🍁💉Dutchy Patrick @dutchiepatrick.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Trump wants to sue people who call him a pedophile, but he can’t because the discovery process would expose him as a pedophile. Conclusion: he is a pedophile. Period. 17646761563
Reposted by Gary Bauer🙏🍁💉Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 03/08/2026In Samuel van Hoogstraten's incredible perspective box you look in from 2 different angles & see 7 rooms & 3 outdoor areas of this house. Such an ingenious feat of painting. Today is Hoogstraten's day. 118939
Reposted by Gary Bauer🙏🍁💉The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 31/07/2026Since 2020, Nupqu, Canada’s largest Indigenous-led plant nursery, has distributed about 700,000 seedlings a year at reclamation sites and conservation lands, replenishing mountainsides that have been altered, or are in the midst of being altered, by development. thetyee.ca/WhatWorks/20...thetyee.caThe Ktunaxa Nursery Restoring BC’s Interior | The TyeeNupqu distributes 700,000 seedlings a year to land reclamation projects in their traditional territory. 28631
Reposted by Gary Bauer🙏🍁💉Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 31/07/2026It's been two weeks since Taylor Farms initiated a recall and cases are still rising. One in 940 Michiganders have *tested positive*, and that's definitely an undercount. 25524
Reposted by Gary Bauer🙏🍁💉Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz responds to Trump: “DOGE took an axe to CISA and left the U.S. exposed to cyber attacks."gizmodo.comTrump Claims Minnesota Is Behind Cyberattack on Its Own Water Systems, Not Iran"Iran's got bigger problems than worrying about Minnesota," said Trump. 18533154
Reposted by Gary Bauer🙏🍁💉Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Update: Google just sent me a statement saying it is “rolling back” this AI feature that let anyone make completely bullshit satellite images. Comes after our demos of the tool and those from OSINT researchers. One of the worst AI tools I’ve ever seen bsky.app/profile/jose... 6936571216
Reposted by Gary Bauer🙏🍁💉Jen the Feisty Librarian @feistywaters.com · 31/07/2026The most infuriating thing about all the Fauci stuff this week is that everyone is past tensing a pandemic that is still happening. Covid is still disabling and killing people. 20700190
Reposted by Gary Bauer🙏🍁💉Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 30/07/2026Ooh, different genres make it hard. For a fantasy romance panel, I would like a metal cover of “Holding Out For A Hero.” But for horror, it’d have to be totally different. Possibly Firewater’s “When I Burn This Place Down.” 81812
