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Laura

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Unsolicited Dik Dik Pics @unsoliciteddik.bsky.social · 3h
An image of a dik dik which is like a baby deer with big soulful eyes and a weird funny nose
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 9h
Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.
, it's
and I
have some personal news to share with you.
Being a mom is one of the greatest joys of my life, and I feel deeply that we should have salad tonight
This year has been challenging in many ways, and I have immense gratitude for the kindness and support of family, community, and people like you who have continued to stand by me through everything. It means the world, and I wanted you to be among the first to know that squash is in the oven and kale is in the fridge.As many of you are aware, ve been navigating one of the most challenging periods of my day while waiting for dinner.
Facing baseless federal hunger brought on by not eating since lunch, fighting for the working kids of this country, and now caring for a mean toddler and helping him grow up in a world that isn't always easy. But it has also reminded me exactly why I do this work and who I do it for.
I will never stop working to eat dinner. I will never stop fighting for what is right, even when there is also some feta in the fridge. And I will never stop being so very thankful that you are by my side in this important work and that there is tahini in the pantry for dressing
With love and gratitude,
stop to end
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 14h
Just did some number crunching using latest (Oct 1) ECMWF seasonal data, and I must say that I've never seen such high predictive confidence in a very wet California winter. This is a truly extraordinary forecast amid a record-strength El Niño event. [Thread: please read to end.]
Model-relative sea surface temperature anomalies for November 2026–January 2027. The supplied grid is displayed without added smoothing or coastal filling. Beige marks land and gray marks missing ocean values. The main colour scale spans -2 to +10°F, with white at zero. Hot pink marks anomalies above +10°F. This map does not establish an operational ENSO category.
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Shady Inference 🌫️ @blot.city · 9h
You gotta put estranged parents brain in some central part of your analysis of the fascist turn if it isn't there already
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 12h
Farewell to Eva Marie Saint. ❤️
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Josh Parsons @walktothesun.bsky.social · 9h
Seeing OpenAI dumping a trove of mathematical manuscripts and proofs today, I can't help but think about the mismatched expectations and aims when a software dev dumps tens of thousands of lines of code onto people and then asks for a review. 1/n 🧵
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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 11h
the tech industry is about to invent books
Andrew Yeung 
@andruyeung
X.com
We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 11h
*so important*: if you’re voting by mail, assume the USPS will delay because it’s its policy. You can: —put it in drop box —go to counter to watch them postmark in front of you —if you’re dropping it in a mailbox, do it VERY EARLY.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 12h
Also Bay Area if you want more info about the regional transit measure there’s a website! I’m not campaigning on this one but followers definitely are so if you have questions, ask and we shall find answers! 🚉 www.regionaltransitmeasure.com
regionaltransitmeasure.com
RTM Home
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Mstreefrog @mstreefrog.bsky.social · 15h
#TongueOutTuesday Robin edition Harvesting the haws from the hawthorn tree. 🪶📷🌿
An American Robin, along with many of its buddies, plus a few Chickadees, and Cedar waxwings, is working over the Hawthorne tree in my sister’s backyard. The paler colors make me think this is a female and if you look close, you’ll see her tongue is out to guide that fruit into her beak and down to her belly.
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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately
Hello Bone Colleagues, 
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans. 

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine 
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 16h
One thing about Copenhagen is that there's tons of dense housing but you *never* find it fronting a busy road with cars racing past, which describes about 90% of the apartments in the US. They manage to make it feel tucked away, private, cozy. (These are all from Sluseholmen, my dream neighborhood.)
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 19h
one of the ways the media shows which side they prefer, is which politicians they quote uncharitably out-of-context and which they clean up for even when what they actually say and do is offensive (the Biden story ran on the front page less than a week before the 24 election)
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McBoo-lie @mcjulie.bsky.social · 21h
This is why they want us talking about whether or not AI is “conscious” or whatever: because they want to use it for illegal activities and then avoid responsibility for that
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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 21h
Created in 1992 by Yuka Taguchi (田口由花), this painting stands as a masterwork of contemporary Nihonga (traditional Japanese-style painting)
Reclined in quiet grace upon a shimmering ground of dusted gold, a sleek black cat gazes with vibrant green eyes toward an overarching vine of brilliant blue morning glories (asagao). The composition masterfully balances the dark, velvety silhouette of the cat with the rich lapis hues of the fully blossomed flower, framed by deep green foliage outlined with fine, golden veins and a single emerging pink bud. The painting exudes an intimate, serene sensory atmosphere: the cool, soft texture of fine silk beneath delicate paws, the faint rustle of garden foliage catching a gentle morning breeze, the dew-drenched freshness of an early dawn bloom, and the quiet, rhythmic purr of a feline resting in watchful solitude.
Taguchi utilizes traditional natural pigments alongside sunago (dusted gold leaf) to construct a luminous background that illuminates the deep black tones of the cat's fur. The painstaking precision in the individual whiskers, fine claws, and intricate leaf venation showcases monozukuri—the unwavering devotion to artisanal mastery and technical discipline.
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 05/10/2026
Since everyone in the northeast is foliage posting here's my ONLY good picture of it. Taken north of Sonoma County, California, I believe.
The milky way vertically over a road, next to the road are fall colored trees, I believe the foreground was a 45 second shot and the sky is 390 seconds with a star tracker
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LaurenCDeutsch @laurencdeutsch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Another American designer highlighted in the #FabricofAmerica exhibit was Geoffrey Beene with this 1985 jumpsuit. Beene turned to studying fashion after dropping out of medicine at Tulane. The consequence is his designs are catered to the body, like this form fitting design. He
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 06/10/2026
"Oh, you again." 🪶
A pelican in flight, looking like a dinosaur
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Saying he'd be cool with Iran nuking my home city is pretty bad but not quite as bad as when Hillary said some trump supporters were deplorable so I can see why the media turned the latter into a major scandal and not the former
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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
very tired of being told it is the responsibility of urban democratic voters never to risk possibly maybe by chance seeming less than respectful of rural red state life and then watching thousands in nebraska cheer on the president joking about a nuclear strike on me and millions of my neighbors
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Claude Monet @monet.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Water Lilies - 1907 botfrens.com/collections/41/content…
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Lepiota procera, 1894 watercolour by Beatrix Potter. Best known for her children's books. Potter also studied mycology, the scientific study of fungi and was a keen conservationist #WomensArt
Watercolour featuring a study of three mushrooms or toadstools of the same species against a cream background
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Kyle N. @kniedzw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Apropos nothing in particular, some questions you can ask your company's leadership when you have an open Q&A about AI (and LLMs in particular). 1) How is our company defending our intellectual property when copyright around documentation and code written by LLMs is on shaky footing?
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 05/10/2026
New York Governor Kathy Hochul has declared a statewide disaster emergency due to the measles outbreak. This was avoidable.
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Sarah Archer @sarcher.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Akari light sculptures by Isamu Noguchi at the Chuo Koron Gallery in Tokyo, 1952
A room full of illuminated paper lanterns of all shapes and sizes, some hanging from the ceiling, some table lamps and some full sized sculptures. [Photo: Isamu Noguchi/courtesy The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum/Artists Rights Society (ARS)]
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Waiting for the WHO tweet “FACT: plague is not airborne; keep washing hands”. (Plague is airborne)
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Latest ECMWF ensemble update is out, and outlook re: El Niño & associated regional hydroclimate impacts is even more extraordinary vs Sep. I'll discuss briefly in today's livestream, & more comprehensively next week. But odds of consequentially wet CA winter continue to rise...
Map from ECMWF ensemble update in Oct showing the likelihood of  Jan-Mar precipitation being above the median. The odds are nearly 100% across all of California and much of the American Southwest, which is truly extraordinary.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Aside from the obvious unfairness of people getting rich off of uncompensated stealing of creative works, we should think really hard about what it means that the people who keep winning economic jackboxes to become oligarch-rich are the ones who are willing to cheat and break the law
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is a community note for the ages.
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 05/10/2026
When you're thinking about some fish. 🪶
A profile picture of a brown pelican locked in and Diving towards the water . The background has the exposure lowered with a gradient to help the bird pop
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Unsolicited Dik Dik Pics @unsoliciteddik.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
An image of a dik dik which is like a baby deer with big soulful eyes and a weird funny nose
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David Misstear @dmisstear.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
White Clover, Bundoran, Co. Donegal. #wildflowerhour
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JunkboxJim @junkboxjim.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#BirdOfTheDay theme is #WingsOpenNotFlying. Sandhill crane colts trying out that flapping thing. Kensington Metro Park, MI
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Brain Scans of 24 People With Long COVID Reveal Signs of Injury to Dopamine Neurons" A small Canadian study of 24 people with Long COVID found signs that dopamine-releasing neurons may be damaged. Those with bigger changes had worse memory, slower movement and less motivation.
sciencealert.com
Brain Scans of 24 People With Long COVID Reveal Signs of Injury to Dopamine Neurons
Scientists have discovered a distinct change in the brains of people with long COVID that might explain some of the illness's most debilitating symptoms.
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Gwen 🌈🌺📚 @gwen4braves.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Good night! An old favorite Ruby-throated Hummingbird 🪶
A hummingbird is chirping on a tiny twig
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Daily Trix @dailytrix.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hard to believe this egregious waste, fraud, and abuse could happen under the watchful eye of DOGE.
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taenia @taenia.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I love how much the finches adore the strawberry trees downtown
A female House Finch eating ripe fruit from a strawberry tree.

This is a brown finch with dark brown streaks on her chest, a relatively unpatterned face, a conical bill and black eyes.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It’s confusing that @theatlantic.com described this man as a “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024” who when these are some of his very easily findable FB posts:
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A 10K contribution and a $900 million return. The scale of the graft in Homeland Security is a) off the charts and b) possible because no-one believes they will face any accountability
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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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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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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 04/10/2026
Slow motion pelican coasting above the coast bliss. 🪶
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Why are we not allowed to judge the character of the voters who want this?
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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
henstomper

oh my god the slot machine company says i have to keep putting coins in their machine or Im Gonna Get Left Behind. thats so scary. and it has to be true because they know more about slot machines than i do

oh my god the slot machine company says if we dont give them money to build the world's biggest slot machine the chinese are gonna build it first and win all the prizes. and then there wont be any prizes anymore
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Demiurge of Doom @euthyphro.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Sunset scene
Sunset over a lake with a line of trees that appear black between the sky and the reflection in the water
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Sharon @sharonwelby.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Cloud at sunset on Lough Neagh. ☁️🦢💛✨ #Clouds #StunDay #Sunset 🕊️
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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I couldn’t make headway on this with my *mother* over the last excruciating five years of her life, and you think that you can win over Chudley Dowrong in a single lunch?
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WeirwoodTreeHugger @weirwoodtreehug.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Other people have pointed out that this perspective comes from a place of privilege, so what I'll add is the question that no one who is worried about liberal bubbles has ever been able to answer. What conservative perspective is remotely new, challenging, or these days even based in reality?
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