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Melody Owen aka Pearl Hyacinth @melodyowen.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

since when is being anti-fascist controversial in the USA?

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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Aug 26, 1965 - “Climatic Change appears to be underway” – the commencement speech that should have rocked the world Carl Borgmann at University of Tennessee; "CO2... traps heat from the sun, and climatic change results – not overnight, but slowly and surely” allouryesterdays.info/2025/08/25/c...

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“Climatic Change appears to be underway, in fact.” - the 1965 commencement speech that should have rocked the world. - All Our Yesterdays

Sixty years ago today, n Thursday August 26th 1965, Carl W. Borgmann stood in front of hundreds of young Americans in Knoxville. Borgmann, who was the director of the Ford Foundation’s Science and Eng...

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Melody Owen aka Pearl Hyacinth @melodyowen.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

happy birthday, pearl hyacinth - born 8/16/16

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Emily K @greendesignek.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

A week from today in #Portland, Oregon, I'll be hosting my 3rd Annual #ClimateAdaptation Ride for our #Pedalpalooza Bike festival. Consider joining us on 8/24 if you want to hear about real strategies for improving your resilience to climate calamities. www.shift2bikes.org/calendar/eve...

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Kent Bye (Voices of VR) @kentbye.com · 03/08/2025

I published 41 interviews from 2018 to 2025 on the Voices of VR covering Augmented World Expo Past & Present. I cover XR & AI like a hyperobject over space & time through the modality of oral history, and this series is 24.5 hours long spanning lots of topics. See my cheat sheet with tags & metadata

List of interviews in a 41-episode series on AWE Past and Present.

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Frooxius @frooxius.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Did I ever mention that @resonite.com has native Gaussian splat support? .PLY & .SPZ both supported - just drag & drop them in. Full rendering (including spherical harmonics). Basic editing support too (not shown). VRAM compression. #Resonite #gamedev #3DGS #socialVR

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

"I went to collect the few personal belongings which...I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude" - Colette, French author, actress and journalist #WomensArt

Monochrome photograph of a white woman sitting at a desk with her black cat

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thesouloftheearth.bsky.social @thesouloftheearth.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Crucial to the protection of biodiversity, “Our public lands nurture wildlife, sustain drinking water, offer sublime scenery, protect cultural and historic landmarks, and replenish our spirits.” We need to protect and cherish these profoundest of gifts. #insects #invertebrates 🌿

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Grist @grist.org · 14/07/2025

Why the federal government is making climate data disappear. Under Trump, climate denial has given way to something even more dangerous: climate erasure. grist.org/language/tru... #Climate #Data #Trump #Science #Policy #Politics #Environment

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Why the federal government is making climate data disappear

Under Trump, climate denial has given way to something even more dangerous: climate erasure.

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BikeLoudPDX @bikeloudpdx.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

COOL TIPS for biking in extreme heat from our Slack + @bikeportland.org + @shift2bikes.bsky.social Bike slow Ride thru fountains Get bags off your back Choose shady routes Bike in coolest times of day Freeze your drinks Soak your shirt, bandanna & hat Shorten route & add stops Bring extra water 1/2

The Heat Advisory for Portland over the next 10 days. Current temp is 92. Highest this week is Wednesday at 97.

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 08/07/2025

Trump’s EPA put 130+ employees on leave for sending a letter opposing the administration’s anti-science policies. Punishing federal employees for speaking out is un-American. The workers must be reinstated immediately. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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EPA workers stand up for public health. Then Trump officials sent home.

The document criticizes the agency for “undermining the public trust."

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H e t e r o t o p ia @artsofexistence.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

#Art Kurt Perschke, RedBall Project. #Sculpture

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Avery Trufelman @trufelman.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Chris Ware postage stamps are coming July 23rd

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karima @nightshade.blacksky.app · 05/07/2025

The microfiche digitization livestream from the Internet Archive also includes silent films, home movies, and other random things with lofi archive radio playing in the background for your listening pleasure. On a day like today, how cool is that? www.youtube.com/live/aPg2V5R... via @archive.org

Two girls (in a silent film) stand in front of the doorway to a house. One nearest to the door points to the other, who has been carrying a bucket. There are a few trees in the background.

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 01/07/2025

The big winners with Republicans’ Big Ugly Bill? Rich people. Corporations. And … polluters. Check this out.

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Joseph DeLappe @josephdelappe.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I'm conducting a public intervention tomorrow here in Edinburgh, on the 4th of July, as an act of atonement as an American living abroad. I'll be sitting at a desk with an American flag I have festooned with the word "sorry" made from wool. Read more details here: www.delappe.net

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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Foundations: please step up and take over the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL). This is an absolutely essential scanned archive of all of the old journals and books from the 1500s to about 1920. Has been indispensable for my research. about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-sup...

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Call for Support: – About BHL

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

I support Palestine Action. I hate all forms of violence. I wish no harm on anyone. I just want a kinder, fairer, greener world. Apparently this makes me a terrorist. But I am the opposite of a terrorist.

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

For #NationalPigeonDay, some very fancy pigeons courtesy of Emil Schachtzabel's Illustriertes Prachtwerk sämtlicher Taubenrassen (1906). More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/s…

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Melody Owen aka Pearl Hyacinth @melodyowen.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

this is the time of year when my kitchen is full of the smell of night blooming jasmine.

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 27/05/2025

Folks really slept on Ghostwire Tokyo imo. Some really fantastic pollayable visual setpieces in here.

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Melody Owen aka Pearl Hyacinth @melodyowen.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

i'm working on my posture so i can be more like pearl. i'll never be young again but at least i can stand a bit straighter.

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XRMust.com 💫 @xrmust.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

CALL! @fivars.bsky.social is the world's premiere dedicated hybrid immersive story arts festival. 🗓️ Late Dead. May 16 🗓️ Extended Dead. June 6 xrmust.com/all-events_/fivars-festi…

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Macz @protodesigner.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Tezos 3D #7 - 3D Artists #3 3D artists shape digital experiences with incredible skill, yet their work often goes unnoticed. To celebrate their work, today’s feature highlights @melodyowen.bsky.social - a talented artist redefining creativity. #tezos

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Appeal NEA award terminations! ⤵️

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Very creative, San Francisco! 8647 ✊

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Wolf Conservation Center 🐺 @nywolforg.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Our voices are stronger when we howl together 🐺🐺

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps. This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped" snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror

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State Terror

A brief guide for Americans

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Melody Owen aka Pearl Hyacinth @melodyowen.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

the extraordinary movie brazil by terri gilliam, has a storyline which hinges on a clerical error causing the arrest and torture of an innocent man under an authoritarian system. the exact same storyline is playing out right now in the USA. this cruelty, corruption, and stupidity is unacceptable.

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Amida on the Lotus, from Athanasius Kircher's China Illustrata, 1665. Available as a print here: publicdomainreview.org/product/plat…

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Extinction Rebellion Paris / Île-de-France @xrparisidf.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Retour sur la mobilisation du 5 avril 💚✊️

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Melody Owen aka Pearl Hyacinth @melodyowen.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

i could go to any city or town in this country and find a person who would be a better president than this idiot.

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Do Not Obey. We are Democracy. @zangerliberia.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

In my maga Oregon town of 2700, 150+ showed up. In Coos Bay!! Hundreds showed up. #ThisIsWhatDrmocracyLooksLike #HandsOff

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 05/04/2025

Thousands of protesters gathered at the Japanese American Historical Plaza on Portland’s waterfront before they started marching south down Naito Parkway onto the Morrison Bridge. #HandsOff protest live updates: www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

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H e t e r o t o p ia @artsofexistence.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

“Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization.” -- Amelia Earhart

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