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Former museum professional, current librarian. Interested in pretty much anything!

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Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · 21h
A fascinating little ring from the Punic necropolis on Ibiza. It depicts a bearded man in profile, but his hair and beard are composed of two birds (!), and his collar is a dolphin. 😮 The Punic inscription reads 'Belonging to Abdim'. 🏺 1/ 3rd-2nd c. BCE. #MuseoArqueológicoNacional 📸 me
A gold ring featuring a flat, circular shank that widens at the top to form an oval bezel with an engraving that may have served as a seal. The engraving depicts the profile of a bearded male head. The hair and beard are rendered as the images of two birds, and the neck terminates in a dolphin (looking like the collar of a garment). Beneath the figure, an inscription in Punic letters, displaying cursive traits, records the owner's name. The inscription can be transcribed as "Belonging to Abdim" (or Abdem).
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Brad Panovich @wxbrad.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
That’s not rain on radar tonight. It’s birds 🐦 About 630K migrants are flying south over the Carolinas, roughly 3× a normal mid-October night. Lights out 11 PM–6 AM helps them navigate. Data: @CornellBirds BirdCast #ncwx #scwx #cltwx
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
They put Indigenous People's Day & National Farmer's Day on the same day, good thing you can be boooooooth. Here's just some of the farm & food work NC-based tribes are doing! Corn+beans+squash plot, at the Catawba Nation. They recently pulled a corn variety back from almost-extinction 💪💪💪
Photo of a corn, squash, & beans plot run by the Catawba Nation.
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Lyn Heideman @heidelyn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Trump has tried to crush scientific research, clean energy—all that really made the US great. And yet... US producers of solar panels are on the cusp of a breakthrough that could upend the industry and threaten China’s grip on it. The panels generate 25% more energy to meet electricity demand...
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Nadia Niaz @nadianiaz.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"Billions of phones run on code looked after by a handful of people. We counted them from the code itself." sheets.works/data-viz/hol...
sheets.works
The people holding up the internet
Four billion phones ask one text file what time it is. One lecturer keeps it in his spare time. We counted the rest.
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SciGrl @jyrscigrl.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Wasn't in Florida, but we had someone come in with a 'service' monkey one time.
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/10/2026
At the VEXAG 2026 meeting in Boulder just now, we've learned that NASA's VERITAS mission has been scheduled for a November 2032 launch. Folks, this is CRAZY good news. Earlier this year we were concerned that NASA would *cancel* VERITAS!
An artist's impression of the VERITAS spacecraft above a stylised view of Venus.
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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Chief Poundmaker As a prominent Cree leader, he signed Treaty 6. During the Battle of Cut Knife in 1885, he saved the lives of many Canadian soldiers by stopping his warriors from pursuing them. He was still convicted of treason. In 2019, he was exonerated in a ceremony.
Sepia-toned portrait of Chief Poundmaker seated and looking to the right. His long hair falls over a studded vest worn over a light-coloured shirt. A striped blanket is draped over one shoulder and across his lap. He holds a pipe in his hands.
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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Chief Crowfoot A leader of the Siksika people, he was a celebrated warrior but also a man who often pursued peace instead of war. He ended decades of war with the Cree and adopted Cree leader Poundmaker as his son. He also met Chief Sitting Bull in the early 1870s.
Black-and-white portrait of Chief Crowfoot seated and looking to the left. He has long hair and wears a dark jacket, buttoned vest and a scarf tied at his neck. A rectangular pendant hangs from a chain across his chest, and a light-coloured blanket rests across his lap.
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SciGrl @jyrscigrl.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I can just imagine them telling the newbys - "guys, they're a little slow, keep it simple!"
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is Nigel the Eastern Screech-Owl at the Avian Behavior Conservancy in Escondido, CA. Screech-owls have fairly complex vocalizations & Nigel has specific mews & trills he uses with humans to direct them to give him mealworms. It's =highly effective=. Meaning: He's domesticated his humans.
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US National Gemini Office @usngo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is Pa 30, an explosive cloud of gas and dust bursting from a central hot blue star. Astronomers say it’s likely the remnant of a supernova that people on Earth saw in 1181. #astronomy
Gemini image of Pa 30 (IRAS 00500+6713), the remnant of the 1181 supernova in Cassiopeia. Hundreds of thin orange filaments radiate outward from a bright blue-white central star, the hot white dwarf WD J005311, forming a round, dandelion-like nebula roughly 8,000 light-years away. Blue and white foreground stars are scattered across the black sky.
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Foxfeather Zenkova @foxfeather.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The geese always seem have the expression of someone about to write a strongly worded email. 🪶
A bar-headed goose staring directly at the viewer and one giving side-eye
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 08/10/2026
Artificial light at night (ALAN) is a substantial, growing and largely unregulated threat to biodiversity worldwide. A Review in Nature Reviews Biodiversity examines the state of knowledge regarding the measurement, impacts and mitigation of ALAN. go.nature.com/4yglFr2 🌎🧪
This is figure 2, which shows biodiversity responses to ALAN across levels of biological organization.
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Paige Madison @fossilhistory.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Neanderthal woodworking 🏺🧪
science.org
Neanderthals were skilled woodworkers, first-of-its-kind tool trove reveals
Find in Spanish cave provides rare window into the domestic lives of our closest relatives
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No Such Thing as a Seagull @nosuchseagull.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Not having a stomach means you're always hungry... 🦑🌍 🧠 Learn more from @projectseahorse.bsky.social: projectseahorse.org/saving-seaho...
A northern seahorse, coloured bright red, on the sandy seafloor.
Photo by: Pauline Walsh Jacobson (CC BY 4.0), iNaturalist
Text: Seahorses only have a simple tube-like gut without a stomach. Food passes through their digestive system very quickly. Because of this, they need to eat almost constantly — up to 3000 tiny crustaceans a day.
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🌴 Scott Zona, Ph.D. 🌴 @scottzona.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Here’s another revolver flower: Oxalis acetosella (📷: sabine-g CCBYNC4). The nectar is in the tiny pores at the base of each petal. The pollinator must move around the flower to get it, and in doing so contacts the anthers & stigmas. #Oxalidaceae #pollination #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Close-up photo of a single 5-petaled flower. Each petal is white with a fine network of purple veins. The base of each petal, near the center of the flower, is yellow, and bears a small opening, which leads to the nectar.
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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
you'll want to see THIS: the dyed (red) diesel order sounds big, but most drivers won't benefit. states still enforce their own rules, it's not truly tax-free, and it doesn't add a single gallon of supply. I broke down why in my latest article (link below)
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SciGrl @jyrscigrl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I actually remember this album. (I may still have it!)
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Discontinued FoOoOods! 👻🎃 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This thing was doing Michael Jordan numbers
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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"
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Trump's Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than Stonehenge
Arizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026.
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Jesse Sheidlower @jessesword.com · 01/10/2026
Attention everyone I know! Perfectly accurate, no notes. (Forwarded to me; ultimate source unclear.)
Image headlined "WHAT YOUR FAVORITE OBSOLETE ENGLISH LETTER SAYS ABOUT YOU", with thumbnails of MSS focusing on thorn, eth, wynn, yogh, ash, insular G, and long S; each one has the label "You are a nerd."
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow
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Nereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Oct. 1, 1847, Nantucket (MA). That evening, 29-year-old #MariaMitchell went to the roof of their home above the Pacific Bank. With a small 2-inch telescope she spotted a fuzzy object 5° above Polaris, the North Star. It wasn't on the charts. It was moving. A telescopic #comet. 🔭🧪⚛️ #HistSci
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Ocean Census @oceancensus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
57 new species discovered by scientists from the Ocean Census Science Network, in partnership with @schmidtocean.bsky.social, CONICET Dialoga and Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales. Read the press release: oceancensus.org/press-releas...
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57 new marine species discovered in Argentina’s submarine canyons
Ocean Census and Schmidt Ocean Institute fast-track South Atlantic discoveries in Buenos Aires, as a viral deep-sea expedition leads to new species breakthroughs.
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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 01/10/2026
A crash course on planet-shattering collisions, from Webb 🌏💥 A Mars-sized world called Theia once smashed into Earth, leading to the creation of our Moon. Now, Webb has examined a class of young stellar systems that show signs of similar upheavals 👉 esawebb.org/news/weic2618/ 🔭 🧪
Artist’s concept of a star and its debris disc against the black background of space. The star is in the background, right of center, and depicted as a small, luminous sphere. The debris disc is a large blue ring that encircles the star. The debris disc is angled toward the viewer, so that the portion nearest to the viewer extends beyond the bottom frame of the illustration. Many dark, rocky fragments are scattered throughout the debris disc. In the foreground, toward the left, is a small planetary embryo colliding into the left side of a larger spherical object. The impact site glows bright yellow and orange and has a mottled appearance, as though chunks of both colliding bodies are breaking up and being destroyed. Orange-yellow streams of vapor extend outward from the collision area. Behind the debris disc and its star are many small stars in the background. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, J. Olmsted (STScI)
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You've seen fireworks that look like jellyfish, but what about a jellyfish that looks like fireworks? The E/V Nautilus filmed this rare Halitrephes maasi jellyfish glowing like a firework at a depth of 4,019 feet (1,225 meters) off the coast of Baja California, Mexico. (📷: Ocean Exploration Trust)
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The smallest bat in North America is the canyon bat (Parastrellus hesperus), also called the western pipistrelle or American parastrelle. They weigh about 3–6 grams, the weight of a US penny, sheet of paper, or teaspoon of sugar. In flight, they're sometimes confused for moths or butterflies.
A tiny smoke-grey furry bat with darker face, ears and wings.  The big story is the tiny size.  The entire bat fits on a portion of a human's thumb, a tee-weeny tiny little guy.

This is a viral photo that's circulated for years, but I found it on r/BatFacts posted by u/Pardusco.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.
From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water.  I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there?  God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"
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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
look at this
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paulseesequasis @pseesequasis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The utter brilliance of Chee Chee’s minimalism: ‘When I draw fish or birds or animals they have no symbolic meaning from the past. For me they are animals of the present and I draw them because I like their clean lines and beautiful shapes.” - Temagami artist Benjamin Chee Chee (1944-1977)
The utter brilliance of Chee Chee’s minimalism: ‘When I draw fish or birds or animals they have no symbolic meaning from the past. For me they are animals of the present and I draw them because I like their clean lines and beautiful shapes.” - Temagami artist Benjamin Chee Chee (1944-1977)

Swallows in flight | Photo of Chee Chee © Ernie BiesThe utter brilliance of Chee Chee’s minimalism: ‘When I draw fish or birds or animals they have no symbolic meaning from the past. For me they are animals of the present and I draw them because I like their clean lines and beautiful shapes.” - Temagami artist Benjamin Chee Chee (1944-1977)

Swallows in flight | Photo of Chee Chee © Ernie Bies
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 30/09/2026
i have had many genuinely delightful experiences with trying to rescue baby tokay geckos from dangerous places while said tiny little baby tokay gecko tries to rip off my face while screaming in satanic tongues I have never identified with an animal more
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
1/x Have you heard of the SS Richard Montgomery, often dubbed the "Doomsday Wreck"? This shipwreck is considered one of the most dangerous in the world, resting in the Thames Estuary near Sheerness, Kent, just a mere 30 miles (48 km) from the outskirts of London. A small🧵
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SciGrl @jyrscigrl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I helped take care of my grandfather is his 80s-90s, and he listened to big band. I thought How could he not want to listen to anything after that? I understand now. It's not everyone, but the majority of us? Yeah, not looking for the most current popular music in our 50s.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Sperm whales blow bubbles to stay afloat while resting, research shows 🧪🌎🦑
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Sperm whales blow bubbles to stay afloat while resting, research shows
Sperm whales are the only whales known to rest vertically, floating steadily just below the ocean’s surface. Scientists have hypothesized that the whales release air bubbles to help them stay…
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bree bird 🇨🇦 @goose.ski · 22/09/2026
reminder to turn off exterior lights and draw curtains and blinds to block interior light! the children of the sky need to be able to see the stars to navigate safely :)
birdcast forecasting 336 million birds on the move tonight
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
From the Fort Worth Zoo: Raani the Indian gharial (Gavialis gangeticus) admires her baby, newly hatched. The Fort Worth Zoo had 8 (!) babies hatch this season. The population of these critically endangered crocs is less than 1000 globally, so every hatchling matters. (📷: Fort Worth Zoo)
From a 2023 Facebook post by the Fort Worth Zoo:
"HISTORY IS MADE🚨
The Zoo is thrilled to announce this monumental conservation success - the hatchings of four critically endangered gharial crocodiles. The Fort Worth Zoo is the only institution in the United States to have produced multiple offspring of this critically endangered species. (To date, only one other institution has produced a single offspring in 2016.) In the wild, it is estimated that only about 200 reproducing adults remain. We are so proud of our ectotherms team for this historic achievement!"
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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 25/09/2026
NEW How large were ancient ports? New methods reveal the true sizes of Mediterranean harbours, finding their capacities were much greater than we imagined and uncovering the reality of extensive maritime trade in the past. A seaworthy #AntiquityThread 1/11 🧵 🏺 #Archaeology
Vehicle with treads on the seashore. A coring device on its front takes a sediment core from the sand at the water's edge.
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A Philadelphia family just bought their first home with a $10,000 first-time homebuyer grant funded by a group of Quakers It’s part of the congregation’s racial justice plan to redistribute wealth to Black residents in the Germantown area as a form of reparations
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A Philly family bought their first home thanks to reparations from Quakers in Germantown
Green Street Friends Meeting, a Quaker congregation in Germantown, pledged to spend $50,000 a year for 10 years as part of its reparations work. It’s helping Black Philadelphians become homeowners.
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Todd Braje @tbraje.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
"On October 12, 1492, a stranger landed on the sandy shores of an island in the Bahamas. And the world changed." That's the first line of my new book. But it isn't about that day. It's about what came before. Out January 5th. Preorder here: www.amazon.com/dp/B0H58VLS3...
amazon.com
Mammoths and Empires: A History of Indigenous Discovery, Civilization, and Adaptation in the Americas: Braje, Todd J.: 9798897102556: Amazon.com: Books
Mammoths and Empires: A History of Indigenous Discovery, Civilization, and Adaptation in the Americas [Braje, Todd J.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Mammoths and Empires: A Hist...
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Ryan Stauffer @ryanswx.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Montreal Protocol was signed on this date in 1987. The greatest environmental treaty in history. With the current intense polar vortex, 25 years ago we would be observing one of the largest ozone holes on record. Today, a sizable ozone hole, and a sign of slow healing. ozonewatch.gsfc.nasa.gov
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WhinterWeen @whinterqueen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
JFC. the hand soap was distributed to NC, MS, ND, NE, NC, MD, SC, WI, GA, PA, CA, IL, IA, NY, TX, & WA
wsmv.com
Hand soap recalled for potential contamination of antibiotic-resistant bacteria
Six hand soaps distributed across 15 states have been recalled over possible bacterial contamination. See the brands, lot codes and affected products.
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SciGrl @jyrscigrl.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Completely agree! I used to weave for a living history museum, and I would never do less than 10 yards, really rather do 12-15. Way too much set-up time otherwise. (Not to mention that it was easier to interpret while weaving vs warping!)
An 18th century style warping board for counting thread for a loom. The space between the pegs is about 3 feet, making for a 15 yard warp. The top and bottom has threads crossing each other, which allows for keeping them in order for the warping process.A set of warp threads laid out on a loom. Threads are passing through a comb, which keeps them the right width during the warping process. Two sticks at the front hold the crossed threads in place, so the order of warp threads is maintained.A large loom with fully warped threads tied to the beginning stick, with the first 12 inches or so of woven cloth. A shuttle sits on top of the loom's breast beam to the right, holding the weft thread. The pattern is a stripe of blue, white and orange/brown threads.
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SciGrl @jyrscigrl.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Also, why are the cool hand carved wooden spoons just $10 each, but the wooden box is $480, and the wooden knife is $18? I'd buy a spoon!
Same RYE webpage with a wooden storage box, apparently for your $60 loaf of bread, costing $480, 3 sizes of 'hand carved' wooden spoons for $10 (each I would suppose), a basic wooden knife (presumably for the spreads they sell for the bread) for $18, and a wooden cutting board for your bread loaf costing $180.
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SciGrl @jyrscigrl.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
So, not really that large?
picture from the webpage with the $60 rye loaf, showing a baker pulling out or putting in (hard to tell) rye loaves of bread into a bake oven using a wooden peel. They look fairly ordinary for 60 bucks.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 13/09/2026
$5000 midterm bribe for 330M Americans costs $1.6 Trillion GOP:¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Meanwhile: •Insulin for diabetics: $40B •Universal Pre-K: $60B •Universal 4-yr-college: $70B •SNAP for 40M Americans: $80B •Cancel all medical debt: $150B •$1.2T REMAINS GOP: HoW wE gOnNa AfForD iT? SOCIALISM COMMUNISM NOO!
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SciGrl @jyrscigrl.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Most cities have city directories that include everyone's address. Check the NYPL, they should have a copy there. We still order them each year at my library. We do have phone books as well, but not all libraries keep those.
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Dr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This broke my heart because it gets to the part of this moment that is hardest to confront. The danger was never just the con man. It was the hunger for what he was selling, and the willingness to sacrifice compassion, decency and other people’s humanity to get it. Read this.
You know what truly breaks my heart?
It's not that America fell for a brilliant con-man. He isn't. And they weren't fooled.
What I find devastating is how many people were absolutely desperate to believe the lies.
How many ached for permission to dress their cruelty in patriotism. How many clung to racist. Homophobic. Transphobic.
Ethnocentric stereotypes. Because they thought the lies were promising them a shortcut to power. A way to profit.
Personally and politically. From the suffering of millions of absolutely innocent people.
The tragedy isn't the con. It's the hunger for it.
The willingness to trade compassion for the cheap thrill of feeling superior. The way hate sells because too many people show up already desperate to buy. —KALEN DION
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