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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 05/10/2026

Two of our reporters were pepper sprayed at yesterday's shitshow. As always—it's only your voluntary contributions that keep us going and fund their work and aftercare. Please consider us today:

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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

1/ Over the weekend, there was a reported case of plague in Russia. I’m seeing a lot of rumors about the event being spread without facts to back it up, so I wanted to jump on here to break down what we do and don’t know about this situation and whether or not you should be concerned.

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Lauren (STT) She/Her @lobo92345.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Today's win - I am officially up to 20lb dumbbells for both my Romanian deadlifts and my bench press. So close to using the actual bar!!!

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 03/10/2026

Here's the original, to put in the context how much of a crop it was. This was still shot at 400mm, so if I want much better I'd need a 600+ maybe in 10 years 😂

A squirrel behind a tree behind a tree with a giant peanut in their mouth

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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you refuse to get ebooks from Jeff Bezos, you can still pick up Wild Faith for $2.99 from BN.com or Kobo or… let’s check… yep, Google Play also has the discounted price! If you want to learn about the multifaceted dangers of Christian nationalism, you should read this book.

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Lauren (STT) She/Her @lobo92345.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This entire tribute to PAC is so beautiful. And such a fucking great example of healthy masculinity. Give me more big men crying and holding each other in this world.

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Lauren (STT) She/Her @lobo92345.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Knitters/crocheters of BlueSky! Does anyone have any good nonfiction book suggestions related to the history of fiber arts??? Any book searches I've been doing have come up with pattern books or how to's with anecdotes.

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Susan @suzl4.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

@refaubrey.bsky.social My favorite photo from last night!

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain.

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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Bryn Mawr Historic District is officially a Chicago landmark. buff.ly/tOCg724

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

BREAKING: Over 400 New Yorkers are risking arrest in a mass anti-war sit-in outside the United Nations during Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's speech to say: Stop the genocide and stop arming Israel.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Okay, this is an incredibly, incredibly cool discovery. The brain stem is a different organ?

The researchers' breakthrough came from studying the earliest moments of embryonic
development, during a stage called gastrulation when the body first takes shape. Jokhai and Dundes discovered that the hindbrain follows a separate developmental path, running in parallel to - rather than branching off from — the pathway that creates the forebrain and midbrain.

The researchers learned this from examining developing mouse embryos. They identified two different brain progenitor cells.
One, which expresses a gene called Otx2, is destined to become the forebrain and midbrain. The other, which expresses a gene called Gbx2, is committed to forming the hindbrain. They showed that these two cell populations never overlap; they are mutually exclusive from the earliest stages of development.

The team then examined the DNA packaging, or chromatin, in these cells. Chromatin is a way cells determine which genes can be easily accessed and which are bundled away out of reach. What they found was striking: The anterior neural ectoderm (future forebrain and midbrain) and posterior neural ectoderm (future hindbrain) have fundamentally different chromatin configurations.
These differences essentially locked each progenitor cell into its respective fate, like travelers on parallel tracks that never cross.

Finally, the researchers looked back over 550 million years of evolutionary time. They found the same two-origin brain pattern in chickens; zebrafish; and,
remarkably, in acorn worms, tiny creatures living on the ocean floor that share a distant common ancestor with humans. Jellyfish, which diverged from humans about 600 to 700 million years ago, have two nervous systems at different ends of their body.
"Our research suggests that evolution took two existing neural systems and pushed them together spatially," Loh said. "Having the brain as one organ would probably be more efficient, but we rely on this primordial way to make the brain as two separate pieces."

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

honestly laughing so hard. we're doomed. but we'll be able to laugh at his fails a lot as we swirl the bowl

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Lauren (STT) She/Her @lobo92345.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Aaaaand HBOMax is now joining paramount+ for blacklisted streaming services in our household.

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Lauren (STT) She/Her @lobo92345.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I'm too lazy to find images but: Pokemon Winds/Waves Resident Evil: Veronica Final Fantasy Resonance Cairn

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It was wonderful to spend Rosh Hashanah last week with Missy and Elaine, two lifelong Michiganders who welcomed me into their home and taught me about the sweet and joyous meaning of Rosh Hashanah.

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Lauren (STT) She/Her @lobo92345.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Playing Resident Evil 3 for the first time and the amount of times I've gone "bro" as they find more and more ways to make XXXX come after you.

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Lauren (STT) She/Her @lobo92345.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Watching the traitors premiere and I am so mad at that first murder. I was so looking forward to how that person would play.

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Lauren (STT) She/Her @lobo92345.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Trying so hard to not dig into any fire emblem spoilers or details until I can start playing it. Cannot wait!

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

NEW HAMPSHIRE Deadlines for Absentee Ballot: REQUEST *Post - received by Nov 2, 12:00PM *In-Person - received by Nov 2, 5:00PM RETURN *Post - received by Nov 3, 5:00PM *In Person - received by Nov 3, 5:00PM Requirements for requesting an absentee ballot in New Hampshire: 3/

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

ALABAMA Deadlines for Absentee Ballot: REQUEST *Post - received by Oct 27 *In-Person - received by Oct 29 RETURN *Post - received by Nov 3, 12:00PM *Hand delivered - received by Nov 2, 5:00PM Requirements for requesting an absentee ballot in Alabama: 2/

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/09/2026

we tracked months of rent payments to an estimated 13,000 families. the expected cost of rehousing those families, had they entered eviction, would be north of $218 million dollars. keeping them housed cost around $38-40 million

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/09/2026

Yusra, the super genius who is working with fellow PhD students to turn this into real research, and I are very excited to talk to other places, foundations, and governments, about how funding rent in a time of crisis is one of the most impactful investments you can make

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/09/2026

during OMS we formed a group of rent funds called Keep Minnesota Housed and tracked, between Feb and May, exactly how much rent was being paid and where, and what/where the unmet needs were the documentation allowed us to move money from foundations who had sworn they couldn’t pay rent

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/09/2026

i am incredibly excited to share our research about how paying people’s rent through mutual aid made an impact on minnesota this year we accidentally collected more data than anyone ever has for an effort like this, and can very seriously say we prevented an eviction bubble that everyone expected

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Today on 9/11, we remember and honor the lives that were taken from us in a terrible act of terrorism. Nothing can justify the murder of innocent civilians. Nothing. 1/

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

20 hours a day

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Chris Kerr @kerrblimey.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

BREAKING: Blizzard union workers have ratified a historic contract that has secured guardrails around AI usage, layoff protections, remote/hybrid work benefits, and much more.

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Blizzard union workers ratify contract covering 1,900 employees

Union members have secured guardrails around generative AI usage, layoff protections, remote and hybrid work benefits, and more.

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I'm always, every single day, very happy I'm Jewish. Increasingly, I'm especially happy that the meat I eat is kosher. (If you want to *not* risk eating Trump's Mystery Meat, you, too, can buy kosher meat. It's not cheap! But random foreign beef will definitionally not be mixed into it.)

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Lauren (STT) She/Her @lobo92345.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

In less serious news I'm curious what will be on the Nintendo Direct tomorrow. Looks like it's maybe for games that have been announced with a Treehouse to follow. I know it won't happen but I will take any animal crossing scraps they will throw my way.

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Lauren (STT) She/Her @lobo92345.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

God I love reading historical nonfiction and essays but they are so depressing seeing how little we've learned and how much people choose to ignore.

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Lauren (STT) She/Her @lobo92345.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It's that time of year again where I do postcards to swing states to try and make any difference at all with my limited availability and spoons. They send the postcards themselves for you to write and the list of recipients, but you do have to cover the cost of postage. turnoutpac.org/postcards/

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Postcards | Progressive Turnout Project

Postcards to Swing States Save Democracy. Write Postcards. PROGRAM 1 Get Out the Vote Postcards Sign up to write postcards to key states and US House districts for the Nov. 3 midterm elections. Democr...

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

📢MIDTERMS ARE TUES, NOV 3 🧵Thread of easy (really!) ways to help Democrats win back the House & Senate. LOTS of ppl aren't group-joiners, don't have spare time, &/or have never done anything around elections & are stymied. All of these ideas are *simple* & most can be done from home. Pls share!

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Lauren (STT) She/Her @lobo92345.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

How dare they as I have paralysis even starting the code for my neocities page.

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Sky Burkson @skyburkson.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

it’s a living

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 05/09/2026

At the Antimatter Factory at CERN there are vacuum cleaners in cages. Those cages are there because when you vacuum the experiment hall, you might pick up some radioactive material, and so the vacuum has to be in a time out until enough half-lives of the contaminant have elapsed.

A bright yellow cage marked RADIATION with vacuum cleaners inside it

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Lauren (STT) She/Her @lobo92345.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Fun conspiracy theory for today. The Mitch McConnell Weekend at Bernie's situation is a dry run to see how long the average American will ignore the obvious when 47 passes.

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Jeff Greco @jeffgreco.com · 03/09/2026

Hey check out this cool new thing we built!

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Lauren (STT) She/Her @lobo92345.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The best friendships are where you can carry on chats across more than one platform and still keep track of what's happening.

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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

It’s this plus authenticity. The moment voters feel you’re just saying what you think they want to hear—even if it’s ’I’ll fight for you, I swear!’—you’re done. It’s past time, but a lot of people are finally realizing the stakes and if you register as inauthentic you’re likely, rightly, cooked.

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ReadJack🇺🇸 @readjack.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Grid Day readalong text

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