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ProfCB @cabs2000.bsky.social · 43m

Reading about Tierra’s fully preventable, slow walk towards death is beyond infuriating, beyond teeth-gnashing rage at the cruelty of conservatives who enabled the absolute FAILURE by the Supreme Court.

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Melissa Paints @melissavandiver.bsky.social · 1h

Yes what a convenient loophole! Look my dog is conscious but I'm still liable if she attacks someone...

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · -1197s

Pope Leo XIV 'held firm,' in other words refused to countenance the most ridiculous dolts ever You can 'wine and dine' U.S. senators and UK MPs into saying whatever you want, but that really does not work on everybody

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madmayday @madmayday.bsky.social · 1h

testing readiness to re-enter public space and gainful employment, yet frustrated by the feeling that I am being forced to participate in someone else's bullshit idea of an economy and also hear people defend it, like let me be, I have to buy books for my grandchildren and art supplies for my kids

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⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (Stina Marie) @stinasdemons.com · 15h

Couldn't decide on what to watch so in honor of it being October 1st, watched this which I haven't seen since my youth Not nearly as lyrical & eloquent as the novel, but still filled w memorable moments, lots of creative special FX, and genuine darkness, which is appreciated considering it's Disney

Movie poster for SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES. A man in a top hat shows off a carnival between his hands as two young boys are shown in silhouette in front of it all

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 20h

these are our pianos, not theirs! I know this stuff can feel secondary with all of the immediate pain this admin causes, but in the face of such personalism, it also feels important to assert the democratic principle that these cultural inheritances don't belong to the president, they belong to us

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Lazear-ly Departed @lazear.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"Sure Ken paxton looks like hes just coming off a 3 day bender and hasn't bothered to shower in a week, but he's our unslovenly mess of a candidate and by God we've got to stand by him." Donald Trump at every Texas campaign rally.

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madmayday @madmayday.bsky.social · 16h

can you go window? can you go trapeze?

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Fishing some 5,300 years ago: a Neolithic fishhook made of a wild boar tusk, wrapped with a fishing line. The size of the fishhook is 6.5 cm. It was used to catch pikes. Found in the lake-dwelling settlement of Arbon Bleiche 3, Switzerland. On display at Archäologisches Museum Frauenfeld 📷me 🏺

The picture shows a fishhook made of wild boar tusk. Only the curved, pointed end and the upper part are visible. The rest is wrapped in fishing line. The fishing line is made of twisted bast.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

show me one (1) article from the 24 cycle explaining in detail that “mass deportation” would mean kicking in doors and ripping people from their families. just a single article showing this would be impossible without using nazi tactics

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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 @moxiest.art · 01/10/2026

blue alerts (statewide texas emergency alerts, that blow up your phone the same way as a tornado warning any time a cop gets hurt) are fucking infuriating this is not an emergency you can not wake an *entire state* up because one of your boys got an ouchie fuck you. nobody fucking cares.

A screenshot of a blue alert with identification details censored

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Menestune @menestune.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Highly-endangered Hawksbill Turtle hatchlings emerging from the sand and marching to begin their life in the unimaginably vast ocean. One of the most amazing experiences of my life. As a volunteer, we do not divulge their whereabouts. My heart is melted. #herps #love #marinelife #nokings #turtle

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Ye Olde Punk @nehoc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One of the most heartwarming moments on Sesame Street.

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Scalawag Jack @scalawagjack.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I always loved when Kermit was trying to lead a little girl through the alphabet and she made several letters "Cookie Monster." And when Kermit got flustered she consoled him. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYIR...

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Sesame Street: Kermit and Joey Say the Alphabet

YouTube video by Sesame Street

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Borrowers spoke up. We spoke up. And the Ed Department listened, extending this deadline by 3 months. That matters. But borrowers are still facing higher payments and uncertainty. @usdeptofed.bsky.social must keep listening & deliver real, affordable relief. www.businessinsider.com/student-loan...

businessinsider.com

Student-loan borrowers have 3 more months to receive a repayment benefit

The Education Department extended the deadline for student-loan borrowers to enroll in autopay and get a 1-percentage-point interest rate reduction.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It feels genuinely ridiculous having to say this, but the point of art is to connect with another human. Someone thought of that painting or melodic line or scene or paragraph that is suddenly making you weep, and that means that they saw you and understood you without even meeting you.

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Oh really? When were their trials?

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Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Roses are red, These times are quite trying

A warning sign reading "danger not only will this kill you it will hurt the whole time youre dying"

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

Time for this classic again.

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Sam Brunson @smbrnsn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Any judge--sorry, immigration judge, not real judge--who requires a 2-year-old to represent themself and then deports them deserves to lose their license. And also rot in hell.

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madmayday @madmayday.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

goddammit i'm tired. can't find the words. pain. i want to be flat on the ground every few hours for 20 minutes or hours. books in piles around me, unread. i was feeling better, i had hope listening to podcasts in the dark listening to rain listening

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madmayday @madmayday.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

what is SI, wrong answers only

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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026

Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Trump’s rush to deport as many immigrants as possible is creating a new family-separation crisis. Whereas his first administration took children from their parents at the border to deter illegal crossings, the second is separating families living in the United States as part of a purge.”

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Who says they “don’t make enough money”? Compared to what? You don’t need to grant the far right authoritarian party’s premise. You can write that they’re using arbitrary numbers based on no standards that should not be taken seriously, & you can just say that plainly instead of stenographizing

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bighorse06.bsky.social @bighorse06.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A conservative Christian I knew on a forum 6 years ago said he was fine with everything trump had done because it got them more SC seats for abortion. I told him that Satan showed him the world from a mountain top and he thought it looked really good. He got really angry.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 27/09/2026

Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/kQdKbY1

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Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees

Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 29/09/2026

Buried lede: among those speaking out against this is Gregory Baylor, senior counsel at Alliance Defending Freedom, a major conservative Christian legal group: “The government shouldn’t punish people who pursue socially valuable callings just because in its judgment they don’t earn enough money.”

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 29/09/2026

Side note: *Just this weekend* I was trying to grab some data on liberal arts majors, but the metrics I could easily find were all “how much money does the degree make you” and not “how much do these graduates benefit society in ways that are hard to replicate, specifically” and I feel that was odd.

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madmayday @madmayday.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

we're going to find out he's the human suit for some primordial oily pestilence

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Can you tell texas republicans are not used to competitive races bsky.app/profile/head...

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I love it when my reading interests collide, as Alan Moore & Swamp Thing turn up rather unexpectedly in the final chapter of @rowhoop.bsky.social’s important look at the symbiotic interconnected nature of life in Togetherness!

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CHAPTER 22
Our symbiotic future
As a teenager, my favourite DC superhero wasn't Batman or Superman or Wonder Woman, it was Swamp Thing. A plane-based sentient monster modelled on a man who died in a swamp in Louisiana, he — they would be a better pronoun - they are the personification of the wood wide web, the vast network of connections between life forms in a forest. Swamp Thing's superpower is the ability to connect with all other forms of plant life, to interface, to mesh with them, and swap information. When! first went to New Orleans, on my own as a teenager, I was drawn partly by the desire to hear jazz on Bourbon Street, but also by the ecological pull of the Mississippi Delta, by the fertility, the exuberance of life that I read about in Alan Moore's Swamp Ibing: Until then l'd seen only European ecosystems, and Louisiana was a startling new experience. The heat, the steam, the trees draped with Spanish moss, the grinning caiman slipping into the water, the scrape, the buzz, the bite of the insects! The place seemed more full of life, with more niches crammed with more life forms than I was used to.
This book has been about these life forms and their con-nections. We've learned of the sheer extent of the mycorrhizal network, in forests and graslands, and the mind-boggling amount of information that travels through the network. As we ve seen, scientists have been able to measure that information

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on a small scale. They have tound that warnings about her-bivory, for example, can be transmitted through the network, and perhaps information about drought and other environmental conditions. What if, like Swamp Thing, we could tap into this symbiotic network, this alliance between plant, fungi and bacteria, and learn something? In this final chapter we will look ahead to our symbiotic future, starting with the concept of a programmable land.
Andrew Adamatzky runs the Unconventional Computing Lab. He is in the right place. When I spoke with him almost the first thing he said, as an aside, was that most people over eighty are tired of life. Why, for example, do fungi or slime moulds - theoretically immortal - never get tired? Or do they?' Well, I thought, the sexual and social lives of fungi and slime moulds are far more active than those of most humans of any age, let alone those over eighty. Perhaps this keeps them going? Whether ancient life forms - slime moulds, Pando the polytree, elderly lichens, slow-growing stromatolites - get tired of life is something I'd never considered.
But I wanted to talk to Adamatzky about interfacing with fungi. In effect tapping into their network with electronic com-puters. He has shown that electrical activity is transmitted in fungal networks in the lab; he thinks about whether we can take this further. Manipulate that activity, and build a funga computer." Adamatzky grows oyster mushrooms in the lab and connects them to electrodes; he has wired up a decaying stick gathered from a nearby woodland. The sight of this piece of wood, sprouting mushrooms and covered in lichen, in a lab connected to wires and electrodes and connected to machines - it's incongru-ous. Adamatzky thinks we could not only interface with fungal networks, but that we could weave them into wearable computers

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Basketball Fan, of the Sixers and LeBron James lmao! @drewhamm5.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ahahahahaha the audio on ABC is horrific thanks to the Large Wet Sleepy Lad being there. Trump take football audio!

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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 26/09/2026

Dude I’m just trying to watch a football game and Trump has somehow managed to ruin the audio. Literally destroys everything he gets near.

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brandon @flurryfrom30.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

trump takes football broadcast

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The fact that we've gotten to the point where this man feels comfortable speaking his mind in public is such an indictment of the 21st century as a whole

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madmayday @madmayday.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

we need audits and election monitors, this is ridiculous

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Enough to alter the result of a close election.

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In what world is it the purview of the President/Executive branch “to force conservative cultural changes on academia‘? And why end the paragraph without noting that there is no legal justification whatsoever for Trump and his minions to “force cultural change” on institutions of higher education.

Inside the White House, some of Mr. Trump’s top lieutenants have expressed frustration about a perceive slowdown in the adminstration’s attempts to force conservative cultural changes on academia.

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madmayday @madmayday.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

he probably paid them not to run the ads or promised some sort of pushback if they do.

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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We watched CDC staff be ousted or suddenly decide it was time for retirement; provisional employees were fired en masse last year, and in some cases, trainings have been frozen so no one new can fully engage. CDC has been a ghost ship this year. Thanks to Apoorva for her reporting on this.

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