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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 5h

The approved 2026 Chicago Public Library (CPL) total budget request is $169,257,813, which includes an operating budget of $103,966,346. [Just thought I would leave this here]

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 7h

I’d missed this: Annie Altman, Sam Altman’s sister who alleges in civil lawsuits that he sexually abused her repeatedly — starting when she was 3 years old — uploaded the first hour of her deposition to Instagram (and YouTube) this weekend. It has about 38k likes. www.instagram.com/reels/DeAx3h...

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Annie Altman (she/her/human) on Instagram: "First Hour of My Deposition - Ann Altman v Sam Altman 4:25-cv-00017-ZMB Wearing my Dad’s fleece ❤️ Grateful to share this and also upset to once again hav...

39K likes, 916 comments - anniealtman108 on October 2, 2026: "First Hour of My Deposition - Ann Altman v Sam Altman 4:25-cv-00017-ZMB Wearing my Dad’s fleece ❤️ Grateful to share this and also upset...

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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 4h

I hate everything

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 4h

When some of you say "there's no money for public libraries etc..." I hope you know that there always is and it's just not prioritized.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 4h

To clarify, the bright star in the system is obscured (intentionally) to allow for imaging of the circumstellar dust & debris that orbits it. Here's what it (probably) really looks like. The shape suggests a hidden mass, maybe a shepherd planet sweeping dust into neat piles like a cosmic Roomba.

The bright star Fomalhaut and its ancient debris disk. Over the years, some research has supported the existence of a planet in the disk, while other research has not. The newest ALMA observations support the idea of an exoplanet around the young star. Image Credit: NSF/AUI/NSF NRAO/B.Saxton
Fomalhaut is one of the brightest stars in the night sky and is about 25 light-years away, making it a galaxy amenable to detailed observations. It's also a young star, only about 440 million years old. At that age, stars like Fomalhaut are surrounded by active debris disks made of rock and dust from collisions between planetesimals. Exoplanets form in these disks, and one of the hot topics in exoplanet science concerns how planets form in these circumstellar disks.

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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 6h

What if the ground beneath your feet remembers? Bogs aren’t wastelands. They're time capsules; beautiful living systems that preserve food, rituals, travel, climate, and human stories for thousands of years. Today, I wrote about the muck that keeps our history. The New York Times, October 5, 2026

Image of a New York Times article called "The Muck that keeps our History".

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 6h

Begging people to understand this.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 6h

NEW: Oil companies face a skeptical SCOTUS in their effort to stop Boulder’s climate change lawsuit. With Justice Alito recused, eight justices questioned if they should be hearing the case and pushed back on Suncor Energy and Exxon Mobil’s broad constitutional arguments. Today, at Law Dork:

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Oil companies face a skeptical SCOTUS in their effort to stop Boulder’s climate change lawsuit

With Justice Alito recused, eight justices questioned if they should be hearing the case and pushed back on Suncor Energy and Exxon Mobil’s broad constitutional arguments.

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Shayna MoooOOOooon (she/they) @themoonis.gay · 15h

I moved to boston this year and drive through Somerville a lot, every time I come to some strange conflagration of an intersection I think to myself “ah, this must be to keep people from dying” and then I affectionately think to myself “these fucking liberals” and then I keep driving.

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 14h

During a 2022 Red Sea heat wave, beneficial bacteria treatments successfully protected wild corals from bleaching. A study shows both live probiotics and heat-killed "postbiotics" preserved coral health, offering a tool to help reefs survive rising sea temperatures. Allessandra DiCorato reports.

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Probiotics prevented coral bleaching during a Red Sea heat wave: Study

As a heat wave settled on the Red Sea in 2022, a patch of corals in a reef 15 kilometers (9.3 miles) off the coast of Saudi Arabia reacted differently than other corals. They’d been treated with…

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 15h

Anyone here have an abstract interest in not bleeding to death in a hospital parking lot?

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John Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Slowly filling with rage as I think about how none of the people who blocked another solar farm last week are going to say a damn word about the asthma factory reopening by my kid's school.

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Scott Stein @sstein.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I am not going to lunch at a Jewish delicatessen with Nick Fuentes to talk over our disagreement about values. But if my reasonably sane neighbor and I disagree about the minimum wage or the speed limit, I might have a good-faith discussion over a sandwich.

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I feel like it’s time once again for this old riddle: If four Nazis are sitting at a table eating lunch together and you join them, how many Nazis are sitting at the table? Five Nazis FIVE. NAZIS.

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Edd Coates | Game UI Database @eddcoates.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yet again, the Game UI Database is being scraped to the point that it's getting knocked offline. Even Cloudflare's "I'm under attack" mode isn't working. I just wanted to create a resource for real designers. I'm getting so fucking sick of this.

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

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Liz Ard @macrophyllum.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Polecats are sacred to Hekate, so extra haloweeny

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The marbled polecat (Vormela peregusna) looks like a ferret dressing up as a cheetah for Halloween. They're native to a semi-desert grassland strip from Eastern Europe to Central Asia. Like a skunk, they can spray a foul-smelling fluid from anal glands. Let's talk about them. (📷: Petra Prager)

A marbled polecat photo from Petra Prager. It looks almost exactly like a ferret, but the arched back is sort of orange with brown dots on it similar to a cheetah, and the head has a white stripe that reminds me of a skunk, with a long floofy tail and dark limbs. This one looks alert and at rest.

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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Fellas, is it edgy to munch?

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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 04/10/2026

Brain: Do you have enough underwear? Me, stopping dead in the middle of watering plants: ...wut? Brain: Underwear. Because when the economy tanks, you can get everything else secondhand, but...you know. Underwear. Me: You're either the best brain or the worst. Brain: ¿Por qué no los dos?

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 04/10/2026

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Oct LGBTQnation Op-ed by activist/scholar Warren Blumenfeld notes how oppressed groups often strike out those closest and asks if pressure from the Right's war on trans is pushing us to attack one another and "eat our own" instead of focusing who's really at fault.

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The LGBTQ+ rights movement can only move forward if we learn to stop eating our own - LGBTQ Nation

Our internalized oppression is not our fault, but it's on us to take steps to reduce or even eliminate it.

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

YES! HPV vaccine protects against cervical, vaginal, anal, penile, vulvar, & head/neck cancers I recently chatted with a mom who told me she wasn't planning to give the vaccine to her young teen son; she thought, wrongly, it was "only to prevent cervical cancer" We chatted and.....

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My daughter texts. She and her friends are going to the bar down the street from me and she's stopping in for a minute first. Allison: Why do they want to go there on Saturday night? It's crazy. Me: They're 22. They're the reason we don't go out on Saturday night.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Great chance to post my all-time favorite headline

The Radium Water Worked Fine Until His Jaw Came Off

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Mia Mingus @miamingus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Recently pulled together an emergency preparedness pod with people who live near me because of the many (worsening) crises that we are in or are heading our way. Can't stress enough for others to do this asap. Even just having a couple of conversations about it is better than nothing and will help.

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Liz Ard @macrophyllum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I would really love to see what effect Universal Basic Income has on tradespeople Working construction or landscaping for like 30/week, with good healthcare and an attitude towards safety that is NOT primarily informed by work speed and machismo, I think many people would be genuinely happier

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elizabeth is apparently a witchy vamp? @thatelizabeth.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Brand consultant sharks circling the bloated corpse of the ai industry

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If Jonestown is going to teach us anything, let it be how human needs can be weaponized, and how power destroys the possibility of refusal. Remember the victims as people instead of cheap synonyms for being an idiot.

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That’s what disgusts me almost beyond reason — the casual assurance that these people died because they were foolish, and that our cleverness would have saved us. Like murdered families are a compliment we pay ourselves for being so smart.

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There are serious things to say about authoritarianism, manipulation, and cults of personality, but “lol, drink the Kool-Aid” does none of that work. It makes the victims’ supposed gullibility the memorable part and lets the machinery of their captivity and agonizing death disappear.

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

At the end, children were poisoned and armed guards surrounded the pavilion. People objected because they wanted to live. They were shot for it. Whatever individual adults believed or chose, calling the whole thing blind devotion erases coercion, and children cannot consent to their own murder.

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

People were isolated in a remote settlement in Guyana, subjected to surveillance, threats, and intense punishment. Leaving was dangerous. Some escaped, and others desperately sought help getting out. “Why didn’t they just leave?” is remarkably easy to ask from somewhere you’re free to leave.

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Peoples Temple drew members through promises of racial equality, material support, and community. Most were poor, many were elderly. 70% of its members (and victims) were Black. Wanting somewhere to live with dignity and joy was the vulnerability Jones exploited.

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I am so tired of Jonestown being a stock reference for “haha, you’re in a cult.” 918 people died, most against their will, and still it has become shorthand for how stupid you think someone is. It's the McDonald's hot coffee incident of mass death — universally referenced, entirely misremembered.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/10/2026

But after a forest fire, the canopy opens; and when it does, the seedlings that were overshadowed for centuries by the old growth can sprout in the ashes and the sun.

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Liz Ard @macrophyllum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Love this optimistic take. We HAVE to make this happen

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JoGo @mywitsend.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Eight years ago today the Saudi government murdered WaPo columnist Jamaal Khashoggi. Today they own 49.5% of the biggest media/news company in America.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Post them on social media. Tag Drexel in those posts. Send to President Merlo president@drexel.edu And Trish Wellenbach tw958@drexel.edu The pressure is working and we need to push it over the edge. It’s not enough, but it’s getting better. Please please take action this weekend, academics.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you are part of an academic society or a professor of any kind, public statements that you do not condone Drexel cutting off the academy of natural sciences from the public of Philadelphia is very important right now. We need your voices. Urgently.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I cannot overemphasize that this is a fight we can win, but we need as many voices as possible here. The kids of Philly cannot afford to lose our flagship biodiversity museum. The Philly school district closed 17 schools this year. We need to turn this around for our kids and the culture of Philly.

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MST3Katie @mst3katie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Great interview, I especially appreciate Sarah Kendzior pointing out that enshittification is just a shakedown

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David Lee @davidly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Worked for my daughter at the Redmond Watershed Preserve last week.

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 02/10/2026

This is a purposeful conflation, imo, done as marketing & to ride the pop culture idea of AI. In doing so they've basically wrecked the public conception of AI so completely Trump just had to sign an order saying NO NOW IT HAS A DIFFERENT NAME and pre-existing AI research is left in the wreckage

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