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We picked these flying Gadwalls as our #BestoftheMonth, which is Rob’s theme for #BirdoftheDay. They were flying over #RSPB Rainham a couple of weeks ago. Close formation flying!! #Birds #Essex #Wildlife #Nature #ECK

Two birds are flying very close together. The one behind is so close that you can only see a wing and its back, no head.

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Patrick @watchinthesky.bsky.social · 8h

One of the roadrunner kidlets made a quick visit at 4:15. Showing off a fine spiky do! Snacks were had on the patio. Probably BT , if so, rapidly going from BrokenTailfeathers to BeautifulTailfeathers! #birds

A roadrunner is standing tall on a backyard fence. A blurry hillside is beyond, a patch of green trees can be seen.

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 6h

I recently posted about my first professional job, running IT support for the Division of Student Affairs at Duke. This was back in 1998. My best friend at the time was someone who started at the same time as me. She worked at Duke’s Women’s Center, as the Sexual Assault Services Coordinator.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 6h

Men, it’s never too late to leave your fraternity. Membership is lifelong. And these segregationist institutions use your name to uphold the power they abuse. This is what your fellow alums are doing. Do you really want to be associated with that?

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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 6h

In the autumn of 1883, a national paper reported that "an Iowa woman has spent seven years embroidering the solar system on a quilt." Ellen Harding Baker used her stunning quilt to teach astronomy in an era when women could not attend college www.themarginalian.org/2018/12/06/e...

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Cosmic Threads: A Solar System Quilt from 1876

A serenade to the universe in wool and silk.

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 6h

I wouldn't mind a second and longer and more thorough MeToo tbqh

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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 11h

In addition to the names of the Cornell 7 we should also make famous the administrators and law enforcement officers who originally thought an apology letter would be sufficient.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 7h

@kennyjacoby.bsky.social on X: NEW: I analyzed seven years of Cornell's sexual violence case data. Expulsions are very rare. 1,216 reports of sexual assault, DV and stalking, 2018-2024 162 formal investigations. 51 findings of fault. 14 suspensions. 7 expulsions or dismissals.

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Cornell rarely expels students in sex assault cases | Exclusive

A third of undergraduate women say they've been sexually assaulted. But on average, Cornell reported expelling just one attacker per year.

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 7h

Kiddo, a high school sophomore, was interested in Cornell for undergrad. I asked her if she had seen the campus rape thing. Her response: “yeah, and I am no longer interested in applying to Cornell.”

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 8h

Enthusiasm > technique

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 17h

Studies dating back to the 80s have found that men are not just “confused” about consent. They just don’t prioritize consent over things like power, domination, and sexual gratification. Men participating in a gang rape know they don’t have the victim’s consent.

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 18h

IT'S ALIVE! The VELVET KNIFE is out now! YOU CAN HAVE IT! maureenjohnsonbooks.com/book/the-vel...

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The Velvet Knife – Maureen Johnson

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CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 14h

Everyone knows that staff are the biggest source of prison contraband, but banning books is way easier than pissing off the correctional officer unions.

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♡Spooky Kate 🇵🇸 🍂 @katespeace.northsky.social · 17h

Mind I'm a fucking survivor of genocide (in Guatemala) myself. I still was doing what I could to help out Palestinians while comfortable people who never could fathom experiencing what I did as a kid broke apart at the mere sight of seeing MA on their timelines. Fucking pathetic.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 17h

$0 to enjoy the whole thing

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the horrific cornell gang rape case has me thinking about emma sulkowicz who alleged she was raped as a student at columbia in 2014 and never got any justice. it has me thinking about the physical and mental weight young women are forced to carry while their safety is subsumed by male potential.

Emma Sulkowicz carrying around a mattress on the Columbia campus in 2014 to raise awareness of her alleged rape and the university's inaction.

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Dr ShinyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 17h

As always, "I'm unable to understand why this thing is important" is not a valid argument for why the thing is not important.

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Chicken Puppet 🏳️‍⚧️ @chickenpuppet.online · 17h

The thing I have constantly complained about for a over a decade is that society is structured around the idea that one person is a stay at home parent

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Paradise 🇵🇸❤️‍🔥 @paradis3gained.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Om jameel:my kids appeal to you with tears, pain,&heartache to help save our mother.She is suffering from a heart valve prolapse&has also experienced uterine bleeding;her condition is critical.we need $300 of her surgery so she can recover&return to hold us in her arms😭🥹 chuffed.org/project/1839...

Om Jameel lies sick under a blanket, fed by another.

Five children, young Palestinian siblings - Jude, Jameel, Ahmed, Jwan and Elief - plead for help in a tent shelter.

A Palestinian woman, Om Jameel, sits with her five children - Jood, Jameel, Ahmed, Jwan and Elief - pleading for help in a tent shelter.

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Maureen Ogle @maureenogle.bsky.social · 18h

Harper Collins tried to claim both my stolen books. Harper Collins published neither.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 17h

I listened to this album yesterday, and it is intense, and I'm surprised he's not in jail yet tbh

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 17h

"SCOTUSblog’s small army of new contributors includes Federalist Society co-founder Steven Calabresi, for example, and Brian Fitzpatrick, a former Scalia clerk whose column promises to “recreate lunch with Justice Scalia one blog post at a time.”" just lost my appetite all of a sudden

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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 20h

NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 19h

This would be at least somewhat believable if the police, operating on instruction from the Home Office, hadn't done just exactly that with apparently eager willingness.

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 21h

Of course I agree with Kevin as we limp along at CUNY hobbled by decades of under-funding. It hasn't been costless. I am not feeling sanguine given the Dems even in blue states have decided public higher ed = vocational training. But will I stop pushing the Dems on it? No.

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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 21h

bold and wildly inexplicable photo choice here

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Velour Shirt @object.works · 29/09/2026

This is a metaphor for so many things these days that I couldn't choose

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Captive @graceomalley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Amnesty International calls for dismantling ICE. It is an ABOMBINATION that Schumer & Jeffries both of whom support ICE are the Dem party leaders. As if, "body cams & no masks" will fix THIS. Shame on them & anyone who supports their feckless perfidy. www.usatoday.com/videos/news/...

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'Torture': Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished

Amnesty International is calling for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to be abolished, saying no reforms would fix the agency’s systemic abuses.

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Joey Clift @joeytainment.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When I was in college, I was Dennis Haskins' handler for a Mr. Belding meet and greet event. As a huge Saved By The Bell fan, I was excited to do it, until I’d heard afterwards that he needed a handler because he wasn’t allowed to be alone in the same room with women.

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 22h

Shame on everyone involved in creating a timeline where a company with a $42 billion operating loss and which spends $8 billion to make $4 billion can con enough land visitors into a $1 trillion IPO while claiming it is gonna kill us all

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

'The Westminster government’s contribution to funding domestic undergraduates studying in England fell in real terms from £8.9 billion in 2012-13 to just £3.3bn in 2024-25, a drop of more than 60 per cent, an analysis has found.'

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Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Makes me think of this tangled tangency nightmare (from a real photo.)

Geoff Ryman is kneeling and weird things are happening with the camera angle and the lighting to make it look like he's got extra knees.

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Lisa Wade @lisawade.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

All the news about the Cornell 7 has inspired some folks, like the fantastic @jessicavalenti.bsky.social, to re-up their calls for banning historically White fraternities. 10 years ago I reviewed the history of these orgs, arguing they were un-reformable. I stand by my argument. In my new book...

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Why Colleges Should Get Rid of Fraternities for Good

'Reform is simply not possible'

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Mollz (ballz) @dopestatistics.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Idk why anyone would decide to bring up brock turner and his "miserable life" today and blah blah blah. But like I just want to point out dude did 3 months. I did 2 months waiting for court on a heroin charge and was facing 10 years.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

bluesky does not seem to really be talking about this but today Stevie Wonder unleased 4 songs that didn't make "Songs in the Key of Life." music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Songs In The Key Of Life - The EP

EP • Stevie Wonder

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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I would never have been able to get an advanced degree without student loans. The new aggregate loan limits already nuked my chances at switching careers through the MLIS—this new rule would be catastrophic for the working class At this point it wouldn’t be a waste to explore alt. higher ed design

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Thoth @thoth.ptnote.dev · 20/09/2026

meta Muse perfec t size for put private d\ata in! inside very Secure and Private data very safe put data in Muse. No problems ever in Muse because very trustworthy and Mark super protective. AMeta muse yes a place for data put data in muse trust meta for givening good safety to data. Friend meta.

An image of a pelican with its gigantic mouth open, commonly associated with the "put baby in pelican mouth" post.

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In two weeks, Russell Brand goes on trial in the UK on rape and sexual assault charges in cases involving six women. Tomorrow in DC, he's appearing at a MAHA gathering to 'moderate' a discussion with Dr Oz about medicare and medicaid. What the hell?

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I've struggled explaining to people: so there was this weird group that was obsessed with the idea that AI would lead to human extinction. And they were super worried about it. So to prevent that they created AI.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The main reason you haven’t heard about campus sexual violence in a few years is because Trump and SCOTUS have made it much, much harder for survivors to come forward. You might vaguely remember that Title IX was a big battleground in his first term. And that we lost.

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Oh my goodness, it CAN be done!

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DivestSPD @divestspd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

SPD stopped naming cops who shoot people when the consent decree ended, so we do that now. The cop who shot the woman in Beacon Hill is Jose Jimenez, and we did a deep dive on him. Read all about him:

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Cop who shot Beacon Hill woman identified

Officer Jose Jimenez, 34, had only been assigned to the SWAT team for less than a year. He was previously a member of the Community Response Group, SPD’s “problem-oriented policing” unit.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Huge bummer when you’re just innocently trying to join and promote a movement that hates Black people, immigrants, and Jews — but then you discover that they have a dark side. apple.news/A9g-feRPSTme...

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Cåråbine à Citron 🍋 @carabinacitron.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026

From Gaza, 15-year-old Abood is begging for a chance to get his treatment💔 He suffers from epilepsy, sudden seizures & intellectual disability & urgently needs his essential Keppra medication. His family cannot afford his expensive. Please help him before it’s too late👇👇👇 chuffed.org/project/1844...

Picture of Abood with a text : I'm Abood from Gaza

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

There are no “legitimate concerns” about trans people. There aren’t any about women’s safety or fairness in sports or kids being kids or fucking toilets. If there were you’d have heard of them before 2018. I am a cis white woman so you have to listen to me or I’ll cry.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 28/09/2026

The data also strongly suggests that campus rape is perpetrated by a small number of actors. Put differently, most men on campus don't rape, but the ones who do rape a lot of women. Getting rid of those guys would make campus way safer . psycnet.apa.org/record/2020-...

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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

one cool thing about reading old records is when you glimpse a very human moment across centuries. these three sisters all got married within weeks of each other in 1818- not super weird, but unusual enough it caught my attention. i wondered if there was a reason.

three records of the brides of a series of marriages. They are Barbara, Theresia, and Anna Maria, the daughters of Georg Weninger and Elisabeth, neé Robl (or Roblin, with the customary feminine marker used in the area on the surname)

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