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Game Changer @gamechanger.dropout.tv · 10/06/2025

I know what's going on here... 🥚

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Cat Graffam @catgraffam.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

I recreated Edward Hopper's "Nighthawks" using uDraw for the Nintendo Wii (and also turned all the people into Miis)

a digital recreation of edward hopper's "nighthawks" featuring four characters inside of a diner, all in the style of Nintendo Miis

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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/05/2025

the fundamental disconnect between the manosphere and reality is that they are incapable of understanding that this is - according to every woman I’ve ever met - the sexiest thing a man has ever done

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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Happy Light Jacket Day to all who celebrate

Joke

Describe your perfect date.
That's a tough one. I'd have to say April 25th.
Because it's not too cold.
All you need is a light jacket.

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Jaime Green @jaimealyse.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

This B&N preorder sale, which cOnVeNiEnTLy falls just before Indie Bookstore Day, consider making one (or more!) of your preorders at your local indie. Invest in your own community 💕

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 17/04/2025

Everything is terrible but here is one thing that isn't: the Rebel Spirit podcast, a labor of incredible love from @akilahhughes.com and me about trying to make real change in the face of history, is up for a Webby and I NEED your vote. ENDS TODAY. PLEASE VOTE. vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting...

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Vote for the best of the internet

I just voted in The Webby People's Voice Awards and checked my voter registration.

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 14/04/2025

this Webby Award shit is way too tight and I am basically funneling ALL MY STRESS about *waves hands in all directions* into this one goofy award. Please vote Rebel Spirit if you have a moment: vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting...

vote.webbyawards.com

Vote for the best of the internet

I just voted in The Webby People's Voice Awards and checked my voter registration.

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

concept: one of those special-edition book subscription boxes but their editions are cheap mass market paperbacks with lovingly airbrushed 90s cover art

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

With age, I am understanding things I never understood when I was younger. ONE of those things, is the value of doing Fucking Anything™. Taking ANY action, inspires other people to take action. This ripple effect is more powerful than the original Anything™ you do.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 18/03/2025

Who wants some good news? The overwintering monarch population, which had plummeted last winter, has doubled this winter! www.worldwildlife.org/stories/east...

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Eastern Monarch Butterfly Population Nearly Doubles

The population wintering in central Mexico's forests occupied 4.42 acres, up from 2.22 acres during the previous winter.

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Adriana Guatame-García @adriguatame.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.” Absurd we still need to go through this 🧪👩‍🔬

There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience.
No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent.
And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted.
... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

The Democratic Party is going to lose a lot of people, and for the first time I feel like I could be one of them.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Everybody (me included) is getting bogged down on the details of events at NIH et al. Fatal mistake. The big picture is Musk/Trump are trying to shut down all gov-funded Medical/Disease research in the US. Have to understand that to have any hope of stopping it. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/act-now

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Act Now

I may do a longer, maybe several longer versions of this post....

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

As with so many other things, there’s no official explanation for Trump’s “shutting down government-funded cancer research” policy. But with Trump pretending to care about cancer treatment at his joint address, we can rule out woowoo nonsense as a rationale. The only available explanations are evil.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

thebetter.news

Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me

In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

In the US alone, each year, norovirus causes ~20 million acute gastroenteritis cases, 70,000 hospitalizations, up to 800 deaths, at a cost of ~$10.6 billion annually. An pill vaccine shows considerable promise in a clinical trial, establishing mucosal immunity www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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An oral norovirus vaccine tablet was safe and elicited mucosal immunity in older adults in a phase 1b clinical trial

An oral norovirus vaccine tablet is safe and induces strong mucosal and systemic immune responses in adults aged 55 to 80 years.

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 06/03/2025

If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 30, the number is 100%.

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 05/03/2025

In Oversight today, my colleagues stuck to their usual script: blaming immigrants for all crime & claiming Dem mayors are too soft. Well, I was curious to know if they’ve ever had an immigrant with a criminal record that they could recall. Tune in!

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frankenstonk's monster @stonkers.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

more seen than I care to be, if I’m honest

ADHD people screenshotting and bookmarking everything because they’re afraid of losing ideas only to never look at them again because the archive is now its own overwhelming problem:
[the meme image of Pedro Pascal lying on the floor looking at his phone with a funny little smile on his face]

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EarthSky @earthskyscience.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

This week, Stand Up For Science. Click in for more details: buff.ly/r2C36p3 And for an explainer as to why science needs defending, watch our recent video: buff.ly/Gu1dkGV

Drawing of the Statue of Liberty in blue and red rectangles with white text in them.

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tas - FANGS AND ALL out NOW!!! @vampireharpy.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

a couple years ago, my partner and I collabed on making a classic playing card deck but with dinosaurs (specifically theropods) as the face cards!! Here are the spades: Tyrannosaurus, Velociraptor and Dilophosaurus (aka the Jurassic Park trio lol)

a set of three playing card faces with illustrative dinosaurs.

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Eric Holthaus @ericholthaus.com · 05/03/2025

Scooplet: The NWS office in Boston is now down to just seven meteorologists, four fewer than are needed to run it around the clock with even minimal staffing. These seven meteorologists will now need to perform the duties of multiple staff members at once. www.fastcompany.com/91291167/ins...

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Jennifer Prokop @jenreadsromance.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

ROMANCE! IN! SPACE!

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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

I mean, it’s not great that only 5 of 9 Supreme Court justices believe in the Constitution, but a win is a win.

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Florida Freedom to Read Project @flfreedomread.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

FL House Rep @ritaforflorida.bsky.social has filed HB 6037. This bill would return local control to our library curation practices by repealing the language that was added to statute 1006.28 by HB 1467 (2022) and HB 1069 (2023). www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill...

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House Bill 6037 (2025) - The Florida Senate

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

I AM FORTY FUCKING FOUR I HAVE BEEN AN ADULT FOR DECADES DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHAT A MILLENNIAL IS

Screenshot of an instagram post of a small man in a giant suit.

insider and businessinsider
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Millennials are now adulting full-time - and it's freaking them out

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 05/03/2025

This is what private equity did to Red Lobster. They sold the land the franchises sat on to a holding company, then started charging each restaurant rent. Unsurprisingly Red Lobster went bankrupt.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

“We urge the Administration to rescind this guidance…” www.childrenshospitals.org/news/newsroo...

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JB Pritzker @jbpritzker.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Donald Trump is lying to you.

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MarcoMaps Bernardini @marcomaps.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

I finally decided to start cultivating more and more this platform since Twitter has become a major contributor to the worsening of my mental health sooo... can I ask you to help me building back here some visibility? I make colorful maps with lots of detail, thanks if you want to share them! 🙏

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Josephine Riesman @josie.zone · 05/03/2025

🎶Closing tabs Time for me to click "X" And be rid of my to-read pile Closing tabs "No, I won't restore them" I say out loud to my PC and smile I breathe a little deeper I step a little lighter I know That my tabs are dead Closing tabs Every new beginning Comes from starting another thread YEAH

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Karen S Wilcox, PhD (she/her) @karenswilcoxphd.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Time for another doom scrolling palate cleanser in support of our amazing and sacred national parks... #GlacierNationalPark. In solidarity with the fine federal employees at the #NPS. Consummate professionals who care deeply for these wild spaces. I am privileged to spend many hours in parks.

My attempt at photographing Little Wild Goose Island in St. Mary's Lake at fabulous Glacier National Park. There are amazing mountains in the background and dramatic white/blue clouds.

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

I tweeted about this guy last night and got all these replies from random people who said he'd saved their baby's life. Fuck being rich I would love to have been this guy, imagine how cool it would be to know you'd helped so many people. We need to name an airport after him or something

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Nicole Hemmer @pastpunditry.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

"medical freedom" = criminalizing vaccines, in the same way that "free speech" = banning words and books

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Tori Herridge @toriherridge.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Once upon a time, in the late 1800s, people in Japan got really into breeding mice. Coloured mice. Patterned mice. Even mice that danced. They became known as Japanese Fancy Mice, and that caught the attention of researchers in Europe and America, who imported them for study. 2/n

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 05/03/2025

The thing about decorum is it’s very much not what this country was founded on. Is a little righteous heckling too much to ask? A shout or a scuffle for the guy trying to burn down the edifice you’re standing in?

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

White House, via GSA, announces plans to sell off most of the central buildings which constitute the HQs of the American republic, including FBI HQs, HQs of DOJ, HHS, Dept of Labor and many others. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/looti...

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Looting Watch

In case you didn’t hear the GSA today announced it’s going to...

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