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Bunnicula'd berries @frozen-cranberry.bsky.social · 22h

This is going to end up killing cc-by unless there's a carve out for AI stuff. This sucks.

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

NEW: In March the White House released an FY27 budget request that zeroed out the National Science Foundation's directorate of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE). For months it was unclear what would happen. Now, with FY26 over, the damage to SBE is coming to light. My reporting:

science.org

‘Complete devastation’: How NSF gutted its social sciences research

Agency body that funds sociology, linguistics, and archaeology studies in U.S. gave 90% fewer new grants this year

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

~Approximately no one in the general public knows because the leaders of the R1 research universities - whose budgets, programs, & personnel are entirely or significantly dependent on federal funding - have been totally absent from the public square in explaining & collectively protesting this.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

After an Outcry, Ocean Monitors the Trump Administration Tried to Scrap Return to Sea By Eric Niiler Trump admin has been dismantling a $368 million ocean monitoring system that provides vital data to meteorologists, climate scientists, oceanographers and fishers. Some monitors are being put back.

nytimes.com

After Outcry, Monitors the Trump Administration Tried to Scrap Return to Sea (Gift Article)

Under pressure from Congress, a network of ocean monitors that provides vital data to meteorologists, climate scientists, oceanographers and the fishing industry is being restored.

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andré, but scarier @andre-carlisle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

no one's doing it like college woso

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Elizabeth @kitabet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

oh wow I bet you have to say extra big stretch when she does a big stretch on account of those enormous mitts

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Elizabeth @kitabet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

my grandparents' dogs were named Holly (golden retriever) and Ivy (corgi) for this reason and I would absolutely be unable to remember Hazel in this context (despite it being a lovely name)

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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I haven't seen any news coverage yet of Cameron Hamilton's announcement that he has re-defined the entire field of emergency management to include only preparedness and response activities related to coordinating police, fire, and EMS. Seems like something that should get some attention.

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Washington Emergency Management Division @emd.wa.gov · 30/09/2026

Wild to see a video of fish reacting to the earthquake yesterday! Thanks @ptdefiancezoo.bsky.social! How did YOU react? Did you Drop, Cover, and Hold On?

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Elizabeth @kitabet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

this rules! are you planning on getting involved in one of the aux comms disaster response orgs? been meaning to get trained up for that here (WA)

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Elizabeth @kitabet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

also I should note that a lot of that theatre and music was only possible thanks to student/youth/discount ticket options—shoutout to Roundabout Theatre Company’s under-35 access program Hiptix (now looks like it’s ages 18-40!) in particular

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Elizabeth @kitabet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

get your bread and get your roses! I saw a lot of great theatre & live music during my NYC years but I never did make it to the Met Opera and I regret that

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Elizabeth @kitabet.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

!!! thrilled to see some of this writing appear; I’ve been thinking about it since you told me the outlines

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Elizabeth @kitabet.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

CRS is another affliction that used to be far more common and is now extremely rare in this country because most people who get pregnant had the MMR vaccine as children. While not as immediately frightening as the measles outbreaks, I fear that changing as the cohort of unvaxed kids today get older.

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Elizabeth @kitabet.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

my mom was born with significant hearing loss because my grandmother got rubella during her pregnancy—luckily, she was spared the more severe forms of congenital rubella syndrome. by the time she was a young adult there was a vaccine, and she didn't have to fear the same thing happening to her kids.

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

morning sermon

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Elizabeth @kitabet.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

not me watching Sherman and thinking about this poem again

the text of the poem What Resembles the Grave But Isn't by Anne Boyer which is too long for the alt text character limit but can be read here: https://billmoyers.com/story/poetry-month-what-resembles-the-grave-but-isnt/

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Happy Brothers-henge to all who celebrate.

The sun sets in the crook between The Brothers, a pair of peaks in the Olympic Mountains. The view is framed by a Seattle street lined with parked cars, trees and power lines, and over the nearby hill of the Magnolia neighborhood.

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Elizabeth @kitabet.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

thank you! and I should have guessed, having been a regular customer in Oakland

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Elizabeth @kitabet.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

please share a link/cite for the recipe if you are willing—this looks gorgeous (especially since I've relocated to a city with no Burmese restaurants)

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Elizabeth @kitabet.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

let this be my annual reminder

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

25 years ago today, George W. Bush signed the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force into law. Barbara Lee was the only member of Congress to vote against it, warning it would be a blank check for forever wars. History has proven her lonely and courageous vote right.

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Elizabeth @kitabet.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A second Cascades volcano tissue box has hit my possession. Lawetlat’la will stay at home since Tahoma is on my desk in the office. Thanks @phaneritic.bsky.social !

A rainbow striped 3D printed tissue box with the top shaped like Lawetlat’la (Mt St Helens) and tissues erupting out of the crater

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Elizabeth @kitabet.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Homs, according to the follow-up post, and some part of my brain is playing Sarout singing Jannah Jannah as I watch this

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Elizabeth @kitabet.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

two other acts have also withdrawn 🫡

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06jank.bsky.social @06jank.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Turkey's anti-LGBT "My Family is Safe" campaign includes prosecuting journalists who have written on LGBT issues

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Elizabeth @kitabet.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This is a genuinely frightening escalation (after a decade of increasingly vicious homophobic/transphobic rhetoric and more scattershot bursts of crackdown repression) and it’s not getting enough international attention

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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I managed to catch the close pass J pod made at Lime Kiln lighthouse today. Enjoy! #srkw #orcas #sanjuanisland #folks

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Arife Kose @arifekose.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

LGBTQ+ people's houses, associations and workplaces were raided by the police last night in Turkey. So far 26 people have been taken into custody. Strikingly the operation is called "My Family is Safe.' Legal proceedings were launched against 162 people, 9 associations, and 13 businesses in+

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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Petition condemning the raid on LGBT individuals, communities and press in Turkey over the last few days. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

google.com

Redirecting

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Elizabeth @kitabet.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

his trajectory from "that tall dude I used to see open for the Blue Scholars" has really been a wild ride. full respect.

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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The list of detained and raided here is all the LGBTQ movement groups I can think of at least, which despite everything have been working in Turkey for decades

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

a Sunday reminder for Washingtonians out there Washington is the only state where a MAJORITY of the state Supreme Court is on the ballot, all at once a very rare situation no party label on the ballot but candidates are still aligned with parties! important to learn: boltsmag.org/your-state-b...

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

JUST IN: A federal judge concludes that DHS leaders arbitrarily decided to cut FEMA staff by 50% even though it damaged the agency's ability to fulfill its mission — and leaders hid their comms about it on auto-delete Signal chains. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Elizabeth @kitabet.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

(which I now see is linked at the very end of the thread)

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Elizabeth @kitabet.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

there's a good short documentary about this online!

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

On 9/11, hundreds of boxes of historical artifacts from New York's African Burial Ground and Five Points were in Sherrill Wilson's research lab at 6 World Trade Center. While most of the African Burial Ground artifacts were later recovered, the Five Points artifacts (~850,000) were destroyed.

nationalgeographic.com

The Archaeological Treasures That Survived 9/11

Nearly a million artifacts spanning four centuries of New York history were stored at the World Trade Center. These are the stories they told.

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Elizabeth @kitabet.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I’ve said this before, but growing up around Nisei neighbors and elders was in many ways my most formative political education; they prepared me to recognize what I was seeing unfold after 9/11

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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The political and cultural response to 9/11 was to briefly mouth some "Islam is not to blame" platitudes and then declare total war on Muslim people and the Muslim world and we're entering the 25th year of it with no end in sight.

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