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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 7h

I feel so bad for laughing, but this bear posting up under this man's house for a good month boosted my serotonin levels like nobody's business. And the fact that they tagged him and dragged him back out to the wilderness and he came right back a year later like, "Now what, bitch?" is sending me.

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500-pound bear returns to Altadena neighborhood months after taking up residence under home

YouTube video by CBS LA

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 10h

The Trump administration has delayed a final decision on Endangered Species Act protections for monarch butterflies, with a new deadline of June 6, 2030. Monarchs remain without protections while the decision is pending. The agency could act sooner, but this agreement allows years more of waiting. 😔

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Every nationally broadcast Yankees game needs an anti-Yankees audio option

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum @baseballhall.org · 28/09/2026

Jacob Misiorowski held opposing hitters to a .157 average – the lowest in a full season on record – while helping the Brewers win a franchise-best 103 games. Miz’s cap and spikes from his final regular season start are headed to Cooperstown.

Jacob Misiorowski stands at his locker, holding a pair of navy New Balance cleats in his right hand and a Brewers cap in his left hand.

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Skye McDavid @skyemcdavid.com · 28/09/2026

I'm one of the scientists here. Sternberg Museum holds one of the most important pterosaur collections in the world. It is extremely important that the collection remains accessible for research, and it would be a tragedy for Kansas if it has to be transferred out of state.

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Another museum in trouble

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my ordinary life @calne.ca · 27/09/2026

im very busy

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

new favorite baker just dropped (I am finally watching the new ep of Bake Off)

screenshots from the latest season of British Bake Off of a chef named Mo, he's a tan skinned young man. He's got dark hair falling over his forehead and a beard. He's saying, "I come with a lot of baggage, but it's, like, the good baggage."

Mo continued, "Like Louis Vuitton baggage."

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Every SpongeBob Frame In Order @esfio.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Season 3 Episode 16 - Frame 345 out of 2747

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If you want to understand how Jeffrey Epstein was able to abuse so many just read about the fraternity brothers in the group chat who knew what was happening and chose to say nothing.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"the law has spoken on Palestine. The question is whether states will act.. the Maldives calls for concrete action. We call for a full arms embargo on Israel & a complete boycott on trade" The Maldives foreign minister at yesterdays Hague Group meeting on defending international law. Well said.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?

Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?

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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i saw a tiktok about how sucking on chili dogs outside the Tasty Freeze in childhood is a sign of violence and i can't stop thinking about it

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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

You may not be aware that the latest NSF proposal for funding specifically cuts out all page charges from grants, i.e. they will not absolutely not pay for articles to be open access. Given a choice between buying two laptops for students or one open-access article ($3000)...

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 25/09/2026

This is why I want the judge to rule on First Amendment grounds and not just due process grounds - because trump can "fix" due process by giving journalists advanced (albeit bogus) notice that they're being banned. The truth of the matter is that it's viewpoint discrimination violative of 1A.

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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026

Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.

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https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d

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Fallon | [see pinned!] @fallonturing.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Between that Boston Globe article, and that "Sickfluencers" article, and RFK, Jr. openly wanting to send us to camps, and Mehmet Oz gleefully taking our health insurance while directly slandering the chronically ill, the best abled leftists can manage is "disabled queer women are cringe." Cooked.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I was asked about by a pro-life student why he should support me…

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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Libertarian Party of New Hampshire has called for the assassination of every elected Democrat in the state on their official social media account just before telling voters to choose GOP. In normal times, this would be front page news and treated as a terrorist threat by law enforcement.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A recent survey found that 92% of U.S. adults have delayed or avoided medical care due to high costs. Meanwhile, a new study from Yale estimates that Medicare for All would save over 114,000 lives and $1 trillion a year. If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have universal healthcare.

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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#ResistanceRoots Today in history, 1919: The Great Steel Strike begins. More than 350,000 steelworkers walked off the job to protest harsh post-WWI working conditions. The media narrative played up public anxiety following the 1917 Russian Revolution, feeding directly into the First Red Scare. /1

Steel mill workers in Chicago hold bulletins with the headline “STRIKE!” during the Great Steel Strike of 1919. The Great Steel Strike of 1919 stands as one of the largest and most bitterly fought industrial conflicts in American history. Steelworkers faced brutal conditions and poverty-level. By mobilizing more than 350,000 workers across 50 cities, the strike paralyzed half of the nation’s steel infrastructure all at once. However, the steel companies broke the strike with a three-pronged strategy: stoking fears of Bolshevik radicals, exploiting racial and ethnic division, and securing martial law to physically crush picket lines and suspend civil liberties. Ultimately, the strike ended in a devastating, total defeat for organized labor, shaping the American economic and political landscape for decades. Photo credit: Bettmann Archive / Getty Images.

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Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is not deporting people. Literally. Legally. There is a deportation process and this isn't it. This is rendition. This is disappearing people.

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westerner @lanelmorgan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"One of the most pathetic sounds in the world is the bleat of a millionaire wounded by the expenditure of public money in a way which does not yield him an immediate profit." Murray Morgan (my dad) Tacoma radio broadcast in 1958.

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it's Halloween name charloh! (it/its) @charloh.online · 21/09/2026

seems irresponsible to launch a new mouse right after new cat was released but we're no biologist

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Roger Cormier @themetsnewsletter.com · 20/09/2026

Citi Field played the end of "The End" by The Beatles, Howie Rose's favorite band, as Howie signed off for the final time.

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The WEBBIX @webbix.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Trump has always been envious of the performing arts community. And has no sense of how to fit in. It is another source of rejection for him. Now the office he occupies affords the capacity to try and force acceptance from everyone. Or, destroy the things important to others. Trump is a sociopath.

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Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ @padresj.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It's strange how Democratic Socialists - who are being denounced by both parties - turned major deficits into balanced budgets in both New York and Seattle.

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AntiFa General 📎 @ddekhard.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I don't know if any active duty follow me (probably not,) but maybe this will reach them somehow. Brothers and sisters, now is the time to make your choice. The fight is coming. Which side will you be on? Don't wait until you are squared off against the citizens you are sworn to protect. Act now.

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Liz Renner, Ph.D. @lizrenner.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I sat down at my sewing machine to finish the border on a quilt and my partner's cat, Stinky Boy, jumped up on my lap to assist me. And by assist, I mean knocking all my spools of thread and seam rippers and pins onto the floor. All cats harbor at least a touch of psychopathy. The culprit:

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Caroleeena @caroleeena.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

As a long, long, long, long, long time Converse buyer, I will never buy a Converse product ever again. I am sick of the virtue signalling to racists. I see this and I see a man hanged, a white robe that could be a klansman's robe and light shaped like a KKK hat. What the actual hell!?!

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/09/2026

When we talk about the costs that LLMs impose on society we should not forget the fact that nothing works anymore because everyone is so scared of getting their shit scraped. I can't even use google scholar from my university or starlink because they send too much traffic.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

As an American political historian, I can confirm that this Congress has been "almost unmatched in history" in several categories -- sad abdication of its war powers, craven surrender of the power of the purse, weird refusal to conduct meaningful oversight, and an utter failure to pass actual laws.

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Dave Willner @dwillner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

No one gets a PhD in "what if the people in charge of the Pentagon are chud idiots and they collapse the world economy because caring about strategy is Woke and Gay". But that is (self-evidently) a far more likely thing to happen, simply because it only requires stupidity to accomplish.

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Liz Renner, Ph.D. @lizrenner.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Faculty contract counteroffer #2 has been submitted. I'm practically shaking, but I know my worth. I woke up with enough steel in my spine and strength in my resolve to threaten to walk away if they can't make a single concession on startup funding, course releases, salary, profesh dev, anything. 🫠

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“I hope against hope that a better world is possible. Except everything keeps getting worse. The wars, the brutality, the racism, the authoritarianism, the planetary destruction. We are being pushed to the precipice. With no option but to jump and no one to watch us and remember.”

arunnews.substack.com

I Watched People Jump

On 9/11, memory, and crimes against history

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Every news outlet shames itself by using the word “skeptic.” Skeptic implies someone waiting for evidence, not someone committed to ignoring it. Vaccine denialism does not deserve to be lent the prestige of critical thinking.

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Mike Gianella @mikegianella.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

part of the problem is I know a lot of Americans who believe voting in the next president will be like flipping a light switch off and everything will be fine but there is significant systemic rot and malfeasance that will need to be addressed quickly

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Liz Renner, Ph.D. @lizrenner.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Update: I survived another day of subbing 7th & 8th grade social studies while also juggling my 1st round of faculty contract negotiations during my prep/lunch period & bus duty. The preteens were abnormally feral (perhaps it's the lunar phase?) and negotiations hit an impasse in Round 1. Uff da! 😮‍💨

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ALT: Tmnt Michelangelo

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

NSF has reduced the research budget for all atmospheric, ocean, and earth sciences by ~80%. 80%! A lot of us will not be conducting new research or training new students for the foreseeable future.

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Liz Renner, Ph.D. @lizrenner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Speaking of good news, I just received my first faculty job offer! From finishing my PhD during a pandemic to cutting my teeth as a biologist w/state & fed agencies, from brain surgery to getting DOGE'd, then losing all my postdoc grant funding, it's been a long, strange trip. NEVER GIVE UP! 💪🎉😭🐟♥️

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Liz Renner, Ph.D. @lizrenner.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In other news, I o-fishally incorporated my small business! Your girl's now the proud owner, chief freshwater scientist, and head sewist behind Liz's Limnological Consulting and Fish Witch Studios, two subsidiaries of Fish Witch Enterprises, LLC. Need to mend your pants? Or a lake? I gotchu!

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Liz Renner, Ph.D. @lizrenner.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My brave ol' buddy, Banjo, seen here waiting patiently to have his anal glands expressed by the vet tech in exchange for a chicken treat. So brave!

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 16/09/2026

While new things hit the fan every day in America, let's take a moment to remember that when we fight back, we win. The Senate paused the Science-Destroying OMB Proposal's implementation till December. The proposal will put ALL federal grant funding in the hands of Trump's political appointees. 🧵

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AGU (American Geophysical Union) @agu.org · 16/09/2026

AGU is documenting the real-world impacts of recent U.S. Administration actions that have resulted in cuts, delays, and disruptions at NSF and other science agencies. 🔗 Take the AGU Survey today: spklr.io/63321ETeec

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

We are living in the dumbest time. A friend in the Pentagon budgeting office was telling me that this would absolutely happen. That DOGE would cost us far more to terminate the positions than just to keep doing what they were supposed to be doing for the American people.

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