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Floof

@hbean.bsky.social
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Writer/editor, parent, she/her. Old enough to probably have a lot of lead in me.

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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 6h
I knew gas cooking released pollutants that increase risks of cardiovascular diseases and cancers, but this was new to me: In a new study, 68% of gas-fired commercial kitchens exposed cooks to unsafe temperatures >90 °F, and 53% to temps >100 °F. All electric kitchens studied stayed at safe temps.
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Combustion-derived air pollution and heat from gas-fired appliances in commercial kitchens can exceed health-based guidelines
Combustion-derived air pollution and heat from gas-fired appliances in commercial kitchens can exceed health-based guidelines, Kashtan, Yannai S, Lebel, Eric D, Lucha, Nicole, Finnegan, Colin, Huang, Gan, Sparks, Tamara L, Shankute, Abenezer, Saporito, Antonio F, Galarza, Christopher A, Jackson, Robert B, Shonkoff, Seth B C, Michanowicz, Drew R
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Andy Rose @andyrose12.bsky.social · 1h
“i have appointed appropriation chairs” -Jackson knows all that inside budget ball. “she won’t use the power she has as CHAIR OF THE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE” speak it Troy she’s the velvet glove of the iron fist and he’s making it plain
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Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social · 10h
Carrie Tait on Alberta separatists calling her story fiction: "Considering that there was somebody saying it with their name on the record, it's a little bit hard to reel that back."
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Glyn Bowerman @glynbowerman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Yesterday the cafe I work at packed up its CafeTO patio. Immediately, someone parked where the patio used to be and the spot was basically occupied all day m. It made me think of the bike lane removal thing. All those “freed up” lanes will just be parking. It won’t ease car congestion at all.
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A Tea Walks Home Alone at Night @teaberryblue.net · 06/10/2026
Come work with me!!! BOOM! is hiring a full-time comic editor to the team! This role doesn’t report to me so I won’t be heavily involved in the hiring process, but our whole team is amazing and you’ll get to work with all of us! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/44...
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Editor, BOOM! Studios Open to Remote (Open to Remote) at Penguin Random House — New York, NY | LinkedIn Jobs
Apply for Editor, BOOM! Studios Open to Remote (Open to Remote) at Penguin Random House in New York, NY. Full-time Mid-Senior level role. See responsibilities, qualifications, and similar jobs on Link...
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Cartoon Brew @cartoonbrew.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hayao Miyazaki’s ‘Spirited Away’ is returning to U.S. theaters for five days this month to celebrate the Studio Ghibli classic’s 25th anniversary. Info here: www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film...
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Eye of the Duck @eyeoftheduckpod.com · 05/10/2026
Never flip a turtle! There might be a beautiful woman inside it!! This week we venture beyond Japan to celebrate a European (?!) co-production with Studio Ghibli – THE RED TURTLE!
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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 18h
Another useful comparison: if any "traditional industry" had seen job losses comparable to the UK games industry in the last few years, it'd be treated as a national crisis on the front of every newspaper for months and months, because those are considered Proper Jobs and making games is not.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.
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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’
Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Michael Froomkin @mfroomkin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Relative got a $500 check from US Treasury and a shocking letter full of lies signed by Trump and ending with "May God bless you". Basically a pre-electoral bribe. News reports say they're sending almost a million of these. Full text in alt below. (I told him to cash it quick before it bounces.)
Dear [name],

For years, the Biden Administration overcharged you to fund the operation of HealthCare.gov. That money belongs to hard-working Americans, not the Government, and now, I am returning it to you!

With this Historic Action, my Administration is taking the surplus funds that accumulated from the Obamacare ''Premium Tax" and issuing a one-time $500 REFUND to Americans who use the HealthCare.gov platform to purchase their health insurance, but who do not receive Taxpayer Subsidies to help pay for their Coverage. You have paid into this flawed System, and now you are finally getting something back.

Healthcare Dollars should benefit Patients, not Insurance Companies or Government Bureaucrats. Since returning to office, I have fought to lower Healthcare Costs, increase Accountability, and Put Patients First. Through TrumpRx, we are delivering massive discounts on Household Prescription Drugs, and my Most-Favored-Nation Pricing Agreements have already saved Americans more than 1 Billion Dollars on much-needed Medications. We also secured an unprecedented 50 Billion Dollar investment to transform Rural Healthcare, expanded access to Health Saving Accounts for millions of people on Obamacare, and restored Pnce Transparency, all while roofing out the Waste, Fraud, and abuse across our Healthcare System.

I am proud to return your money to you, and I will never stop fighting to put the American People FIRST, restore Affordability, protect your hard-earned money, and lower the Cost of Healthcare.

May God bless you, and may He continue to bless the United States of America!

Sincerely,

[signed] 

DONALD J. TRUMP
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
never the wrong time for this classic
Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?" 
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If you're in these states, *TODAY* is deadline to register to vote. Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas. Even if you think you've registered: doesn't hurt to check! And there's a lot happening across them. A thread with stakes on each. ⬇️
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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I have been a guest at conventions where, during the pre-con walk through, my handler has pointed out the bar and mentioned how some guests are "more fun" and "get asked back," then names only men. Because a lot of female guests aren't comfortable hanging out around alcohol with strangers.
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 02/10/2026
thank you to the Fauntleroy Institute for Soft-Handedness for planting this timely article about the value of other people doing hard work
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 05/10/2026
“Democracy has been hailed as, like, the holy grail for the last couple hundred years, but democracies are inefficient,” said the crypto billionaire. “If you get a benevolent dictator, it’s actually extremely efficient." Hmm, where have I heard this before? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/b...
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Inside a Billionaire’s Paradise With Crypto’s Most Powerful Ex-Convict (Gift Article)
Changpeng Zhao, jailed in the United States for a financial crime and pardoned by President Trump, is now living a gilded life in the United Arab Emirates.
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Carole King @carolekingofficial.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The best way to be sure your vote counts is to vote early and in person. www.vote.org
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026
This guy just kind of being erased from popular US political history is still wild to me.
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Disgraced former House Speaker Dennis Hastert dies at 84
The Illinois Republican, the longest-serving GOP speaker in U.S. history, was sentenced to 15 months in prison after leaving Congress for scheming to cover up child molestation accusations.
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Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hard to think of anything less abstract and more materially consequential than being pregnant
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Drew Engelhardt @amengel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Have seen some new work demonstrating this. For instance, this paper links loneliness to AfD voting: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... I've also seen work in progress that loneliness predicts lower political trust, stronger populist attitudes, and greater likelihood of Trump vote.
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Lloyd Alter @lloydalter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I wondered how people who sell engineered stone countertops deal with the problem of fabricators dying or needing lung transplants after inhaling silica dust. They were oblivious. lloydalter.substack.com/p/nobody-at-...
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Nobody at the home show knows or cares about killer countertops
Engineered stone countertops are the most popular, but making them is killing workers,
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
He isn’t old. He isn’t out of touch. He isn’t confused. He is choosing who will rule. Men — even those who love men — are citizens and everyone else isn’t. Thats it.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026
for reference, in the Dobbs opinion, Alito was like, women generally don't _plan_ to get an abortion, so how could they have a reliance interest in abortion? which is kind of an extension of 'you want health insurance? what, you plan on being sick?'
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 05/10/2026
Do you know why I think every prisoner should get to vote in prison? Not only are prisoners counted in the census and are most affected by policies (check out prison gerrymandering), but also if you don't, regimes could simply round up 1,000s of dissidents and minorities to reshape the electorate
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Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“Winners will be paid $80,000 a year for four years, twice the current minimum base funding for PhD candidates at U of T. Half of the $100-million endowment comes from an anonymous donation, the rest from the university.” www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
theglobeandmail.com
University of Toronto launching $100-million scholarship fund to attract PhD students
New program aims to help school compete for bright minds at a time when elite U.S. universities are under attack by the Trump administration
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paulseesequasis @pseesequasis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Galignani, 224 Rue de Rivoli, another English language bookstore in Paris, the first actually, and if you’re into books you should add it your must visit list. In my opinion it has the best curated selection of English titles in Paris.
Galignani, 224 Rue de Rivoli, another English language bookstore in Paris, the first actually, and if you’re into books you should add it your must visit list. In my opinion it has the best curated selection of English titles in Paris.
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Bolsonaro Jr winning the Brazil election, or at least being in the drivers seat for the runoff, reminds me that the GOP can still prevail in the midterms even if it looks like they can’t possibly win
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Think about the core tenets of American conservatism: a government serving 300 million people and leading the world should be “small” and that we should orient all policy around servicing the rich so that they throw us gruel. It’s fucking stupid and we should say so.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
So you make him and the gop kill it. Pass good stuff that people want and make it explicit that the only thing standing between us and paradise is the gop
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
People like Elon Musk who view human beings as a “biological boot loader for digital superintelligence” should not be in decision-making positions that affect the future of humanity.
Elon Musk @elonmusk
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Hope we're not just the biological boot loader for digital superintelligence.
Unfortunately, that is increasingly probable
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Propagating super intelligence to the stars is a great success condition for a biological bootloader
@ ALX (x/acc) 
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Elon was calling it SI in 2014
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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Neo-Nazis have apparently established a Canada-wide chain of fascist men’s fitness clubs as a formally incorporated business but screen members based on family history & political beliefs (aka are they white nationalists), use NDAs to threaten whistleblowers, check recruits for wires & praise Hitler
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Former soldier exposes how Canadian white supremacist group recruits members | CBC News
Second Sons Canada describes itself as a "men's nationalist club" dedicated to fitness and preserving Canada's heritage, but a former military member who attempted to join the group says he only learn...
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it's an uncivil war @lucyksy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This makes it sound like it was an isolated event, when Cornell was well aware of the problem. Kotlikoff has absolutely no credibility. www.wibw.com/2026/10/01/3...
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35% of undergraduate women at Cornell University say they have been sexually assaulted on campus
A new Cornell University survey shows 35% of undergraduate women report nonconsensual sexual contact, up from 11% in 2023.
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Heather Campbell @thatheatherc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Quote: "Women can experience heart attack symptoms that are less likely to be recognized as a heart attack, including nausea, indigestion, and shortness of breath. That can contribute to delays in diagnosis and treatment."
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does: If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026
Happy 21st birthday to one of my all-time favourite Fiona Apple albums (spoiler alert: they're all my all-time favourites): www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Extraordinary Machine - YouTube
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Sameer Ashar @sameer-ashar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is my nephew, please forward to your networks, esp any University of Maryland students.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 04/10/2026
I knew about all the racism but not the 88 bit.
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Alex Boyd @alexboyd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Tyler Dawson, author of a recent book on the history of separation, columnizing in the Globe about this story: www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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Opinion: Alberta’s separatists would sell us out to the Americans
New reporting by The Globe and Mail detail the influence of Republican-aligned interests on the referendum campaign
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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"First time Trump voter" five days after the January 6th Coup attempt:
Jack Buhring: Donald Trump we all stand with you. You have more people on your side than you know. If you can't get it done its hard to tell where this country will end up. Keep fighting!!!
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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Riefenslop
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Exactly. This is such a lie. Email had a purpose. The internet had a purpose. Search had a purpose. Everybody loved Silicon Valley in the 90s because they made shit that did what it promised. Now 3 guys who never made SHIT have ALL the money in SV. They're scam artists. Not engineers.
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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Lots of stuff to do with leftover chicken or a store bought rotisserie one
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47 Ridiculously Easy Recipes That Use Up Rotisserie Chicken
These are perfect for lazy nights.
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“GOTTA LEARN AI OR BE LEFT BEHIND.” Good. Fuck off! Leave me behind! Enjoy your artbarf rapture, your janky Temu future. I’ll be back here looking at real birds and writing weird, also real, books.
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Stewart Prest @stewartprest.ca · 04/10/2026
As a fun thought experiment, imagine the reaction if, say, Ontario created a property tax that applies to Americans but not Canadians.
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Kasey Kagawa @punkey.org · 04/10/2026
Just saw a preteen girl run across the floor towards a model of the JWST shouting "JAMES WEBB JAMES WEBB JAMES WEBB" if you need a big shot of hope for the future
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Floof @hbean.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I take it no electricity access out there? In the past I've jerry-rigged a string of incandescent Christmas lights and a long extension cord to protect a covered hoop tunnel...
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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 04/10/2026
A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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A Reckoning in Springfield
A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Abolish ICE.
Haitian Bridge Alliance President Guerline Jozef said that Pierre Damas Bel had complained of heat emanating from the ankle monitor and needing to wear a sock between the device and his leg to protect his skin. She said when Pierre Damas Bel brought those concerns to ICE at an appointment asking for it to be removed, they instead tightened the monitor, saying it should not be lose enough for a sock to fit underneath it.

This revelation was met with horrified gasps among those in the sanctuary.
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