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Roberts Court vs. Taney Court-- it's hard to say which will be more despised by history.

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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 3h

An emoji has a coded description that gets read aloud by screen readers. Putting emoji in between text could cause confusion or make content less clear. It's best to put emoji at the end of written content.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 13h

New Merch Alert!! Fish. The ocean's full of 'em. And protecting the ocean is a global job, so we better learn the word for fish in as many languages as we can fit on a tote bag. Support @skypeascientist.bsky.social by getting a *sturdy* tote bag with a zipper (with a zipper!!!) at SquidFacts.net

4 freak-ass fish illustrated on a tote bag. We got a barreleye, a mola mola, a gulper eel, and a viperfish

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Kirsti @kst.bsky.social · 2h

I personally know 4 people who've tested positive for COVID recently. One of them yesterday. I know several others who are sick with something, who knows what. Masking up everywhere is a good idea right now.

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Kirsti @kst.bsky.social · 3h

Solidarity. It's basically impossible to find clothing that's not made out of dead dinosaurs.

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Dael Norwood @dael.bsky.social · 5h

If you’re ever in Fort Greene Brooklyn, stop by the Prison Ship Martyrs’ Monument, which towers over the eponymous park, and memorializes the 11,500 Americans who died languishing in Britain’s mad king’s prison hulks during the War for Independence

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Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument - Wikipedia

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Kirsti @kst.bsky.social · 5h

Oh absolutely. That map was published in 1931.

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Attorney General Nick Brown @atg.wa.gov · 7h

As of Oct. 1, the Immigrant Worker Protection Act (IWPA) is now in effect in Washington State. This law requires employers to inform workers within five business days when federal agents have issued a notice to conduct an inspection of workers’ employment eligibility documents, known as I-9 forms.

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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 7h

A “Community Shrine” invites visitors to leave a photo of a deceased loved one. Below it sits a wooden chair with a sign: “Reserved. In memory of the millions of lives lost to genocide & violence by ICE & inhumane immigration policies.” No one is allowed to sit there.

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Houston's 'Living Archive' of Migration

At Fresh Arts, photographer Violeta Álvarez created a space where immigrant families in Houston can see their own histories reflected back to them.

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Kirsti @kst.bsky.social · 7h

Yesterday when I was crossing Highland someone blasted through the red doing at least 50mph. The light was so red I had the walk light. If I'd started across when I got the walk light he would have killed me.

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Kirsti @kst.bsky.social · 10h

Thank you! I was just about to ask.

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Kirsti @kst.bsky.social · 10h

Wales really stands out on that map, doesn't it? 😆

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Kirsti @kst.bsky.social · 14h

I'm guessing that I'll have to take a full day off work because of the travel time involved, for what will probably be a 30-minute appointment.

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Kirsti @kst.bsky.social · 14h

Because #WeekWithoutDriving is now every week for me-- Endodontist is referring me to a specialist for an MRI. Specialist has offices in Renton & West Seattle. I'll find out next week if either office is accessible via transit.

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Kirsti @kst.bsky.social · 14h

My brain could never really figure out finding the right focal point with progressives, but getting bi/trifocals with their clear line between each section was perfect. Congrats on your new lenses!

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Kirsti @kst.bsky.social · 15h

I went over Ballard Bridge for the 1st time ever while not in a car a week or so back & boy howdy I'm never doing that again. Transit access to Ballard is a bit better than it used to be if you take light rail to U-District & then the 44 bus. But they need a dedicated bus lane for the whole route.

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Anita 🧜🏽‍♀️🏴‍☠️🪐 @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 16h

Since it's International Cephalopod Awareness day, I remind you once again that I wrote this nearly-hard SF short story with a lovelorn cephalopodic alien. (which got an honorable mention at the back of the book in Gardner Dozois's last year's best collection) clarkesworldmagazine.com/harris_08_17/

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Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

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Kirsti @kst.bsky.social · 15h

Would you mind posting the text itself? I can't read an image.

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Frank Abe @frankabe.bsky.social · 22h

BLOG POST: Fifty years ago today we premiered HONEY BUCKET by Mel Escueta, the 1st play to reveal the contradictions felt by Asian Americans in the American war in Vietnam. It was also the 1st professional production of Frank Chin's Asian American Theater Workshop. resisters.com/2026/10/08/5...

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50th anniversary of “Honey Bucket” and the Asian American Theater Workshop | RESISTERS.COM: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration

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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 08/10/2026

🚨 Latest from the border wall blockade: tree sit is still up, one land defender is locked down to machinery, Border Patrol has wrapped a Mylar blanket around them and is running the truck and pumping the blanket full of exhaust to try to gas them out, potentially killing them.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 08/10/2026

Brutal scenes coming out of Lochiel, Arizona tonight. Border Patrol is moving a truck with a land defender locked to it while firing off pepper balls and tear gas: instagram.com/reel/DeODKqCt_BS/

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...

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One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center

A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.

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Kirsti @kst.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I rode along Highland Park Way SW (on the sidewalks) yesterday & I'm telling you, all Seattle needs to do to close the budget gap is put up a few traffic cameras to ticket speeding drivers. They can make even more if they include W Marginal Way SW.

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Kirsti @kst.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Oo! I just checked with my friend & she says she's up for it!

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Kirsti @kst.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

@deedotk.eurosky.social - Are there any FC Union games between Nov. 5 - 15?

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 07/10/2026

Social media reports and videos from late last night also show Rockford police arresting what appears to be a minor child at a demonstration outside the Radisson where locals have seen ICE vehicles. At least one other person also arrested; the child suffered injuries.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 07/10/2026

ICE is slamming far northern Illinois for a second day in a row. Rapid responders in Rockford say federal agents detained a group of roofing workers this morning—eight men all the way from Minnesota. Volunteers are currently trying to locate their families. From a local immigration attorney:

From Sara Dady Facebook page

Image of black pathfinder SUV

Sprayed plates like on this vehicle currently parked at the Radisson on Bell School Road in Rockford are illegal. FLOCK can't read ICE's sprayed plates but can read law-abiding drivers' plates.

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Kirsti @kst.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Spouse is barred from picking movies because he has a unique ability to find ones with dead babies.

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South Seattle Emerald @soseaemerald.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

OPINION | What can Seattle neighbors do about ICE's "shadow surge"? Roxy Robles outlines six ways to build awareness, prepare, and support people at-risk of detention. Read here: soseaem.org/4ybe5xR

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https://southseattleemerald.org/voices/2026/10/07/opinion-what-you-can-do-about-the-ice-shadow-surge-in-seattle

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Kirsti @kst.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Thanks for posting this! I tried a tea recently that I thought I might like better gongfu style with a shorter steep & now I know I can try it that way on my next visit. 😁🍵

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Kirsti @kst.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A friend with a rare disease is paying $24,000 a year for health insurance. In return, her insurer refuses to let her have any of the medications that keep her alive. She figures she could drop the insurance & use the $24,000 she saves to buy the meds directly herself.

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Shechemist @shechemist.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I just want to be able to trust my local newspaper, the publications I read for work related healthcare information and the weather report. I don’t have time to become a fucking counterspy. I have a full time job, a family and a life.

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The US government and its actors are engaged in a sustained attack to undermine Europe’s ability to protect our democracies, and society. Because we are holding both the US government and big tech accountable.

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is incredibly important. I feel deeply that curbing sexual violence will come from raising social expectations of men, not from ‘educating’ them. I fear this is an unpopular view, because people are afraid to face up to the scale of the issue.

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Dublin Inquirer @dublininquirer.com · 07/10/2026

Tech companies generate billions for the Irish exchequer in corporation tax, so they have a considerable amount of power and sway over the Irish government, writes illustrator Harry Burton. "This reminds me of the power and sway the Catholic Church had over previous governments and politicians."

In the illustration, we can see Micheál Martin and Simon Harris in the pews in a church bow before the behemoth that is Big Tech, represented by a stained-glass window with logos of various companies.

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Kirsti @kst.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

@pierrette1789.bsky.social was talking the other day about her daughter not having a driver's license, so not being able to drive & how this is making her daughter's job search difficult.

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Kirsti @kst.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I needed to drop off a form at the elections office. I did have the option of using a postage-paid return, but would you trust USPS with anything explicitly addressed to the elections office in a blue state right now?

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McBoo-lie @mcjulie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The lesson I choose to take is the existentialist one: all humans must surely die, and so the thing that really matters is what we do with the time we are alive.

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Kirsti @kst.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

That line about people looking at a line in a book and their kid's face & choosing the book instead of their kid hit hard. I never put my parents in a position where I asked them to make a choice because I always knew which they'd choose.

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Kirsti @kst.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

That can't really be said any better than the way you said it.

A painting of a corpse climbing out of a coffin. On top of the image on the lower right corner are the words "and another thing about John FUCKING Calvin"

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Kirsti @kst.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Knowing almost nothing about apples, I always appreciated your apple posts, but I can understand why the novelty would wear off for you.

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Kirsti @kst.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I've got a co-worker out with a fever. I hope you manage to avoid that!

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