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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 2h

I do think part of the vibecession is the fact that a LOT of businesses don't currently run as well as they should because the cost of labor is too high for instance, I spent almost an hour in line at the pharmacy tonight, after being unable to get them on the phone.

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Vincent Ledvina @vincentledvina.bsky.social · 10h

Here it comes... the large coronal hole is almost directly facing Earth now, which means fast solar wind is 3-4 days away. In fact, NOAA SWPC has just issued a G1/minor storm watch for Oct 2. This means there are chances for mid-latitude auroral displays Thu and Fri nights. #heliophysics

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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 6h

It is amazing, and sobering, to realize that had Trump not chosen to start this war for no good reason and against the advice of many of his senior ppl, Trump and the GOP would probably be doing... Ok. Not awesome, maybe losing the house, but ok.

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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 23h

Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 5h

I believe that Dr. Ellora Derenoncourt is the first Black woman economist EVER to be named a MacArthur Genius. My heart is bursting. I am OVERJOYED.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 8h

A man replied to this saying in earnest that women need to get organized and fight for our rights and men will follow. We did that. We do that. We mobilized the largest single day protest in global history on every continent and yet I have fewer rights than my mom did at my age.

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Pleuni Pennings @pleunipennings.bsky.social · 12h

I am hiring a postdoc! Are you interested to work on population genetics/ drug resistance/ data? Want to work in Montpellier, France? Fastq files don't scare you? PhD required, start date hopefully Nov 1! (end date Sep 30 2028) Please share! abetterscientist.wordpress.com/2026/09/29/p...

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Postdoc position on drug resistance evolution in Montpellier, France

I have some exciting news (again!). I got money from the region (Occitanie) to hire a postdoc (and later an engineer / technician) to work on drug resistance evolution in malaria (P. faciparum) and…

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Euan MacDonald @euanmacdonald.bsky.social · 10h

As was entirely predictable, in the absence of full support for Ukraine from the West, the war is intensifying and getting closer to the EU border. The West's response should be to increase aid to democratic Ukraine to help it fight back against and then defeat fascist Russia.

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 13h

A tremendous thread- how we are raising our son. He was having a bad evening a few nights ago, I asked him if it was OK for me to hug him or comfort him, he said "no" and I respected his request for boundaries. Later when he was better he said "I could use a hug now." Build trust! It works.

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 13h

We have such slices to show you.

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Jordan Hoffman @jhoffman.bsky.social · 13h

Reading Alan Sepinwall's biography of Rod Serling is s-l-o-w g-o-i-n-g. Because it is boring? No, absolutely not. Because it gets me jazzed up to rewatch old episodes of THE TWILIGHT ZONE, and next thing you know it is 1am.

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The Washington Sun Metro @washsunmetro.bsky.social · 13h

Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) blocked a bipartisan bill that would have prohibited the destruction of any national memorial honoring a U.S. president — a measure meant to protect the Kennedy Center from a full demolition — without congressional approval.

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Lone Republican Senator Derails a Bill to Prevent Demolition of the Kennedy Center

Sen. Mike Lee blocked a bill that would have prohibited the demolition of any national memorial honoring a U.S. president.

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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 13h

Over a year ago I ruined a different job interview by describing how I got Surinam toads to fuck when asked what challenges I overcame that year. But for a job as an aquarist, that would be a net positive.

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Center for Large Landscape Conservation @largelandscapes.org · 28/09/2026

The largest wildlife overpass in North America was completed in 2025 spanning I-25 in CO. According to Colorado Governor Jared Polis, the crossing, and nearby crossing infrastructure, has reduced wildlife-vehicle collisions on the stretch of I-25 by 91%. www.denvergazette.com/outtherecolo...

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Massive wildlife overpass has helped reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions by 91% in Colorado

In December 2025, it was announced that the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) had completed the construction of the I-25 wildlife overpass in the area of Greenland, between Denver and Color...

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 17h

Jamie Raskin calls out the shitty ads as a crime (this was cited by CNN and other stories). This is the kind of Xitter post that I beg of @raskin.house.gov or other MoCs to cross-post over here -- not least bc more people over here are likely to magnify it.

Rep. Jamie Raskin

@RepRaskin
This may be felony criminal theft and conversion of government property for political campaign purposes. 18 U.S.C. § 1641. It is a Hatch Act violation for any government employees who worked on it or used government resources to make it. It is blatantly unethical under numerous federal ethics provisions proscribing the use of government resources for political campaigns.
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The White House is currently airing this video as an ad during commercial breaks on Fox News.

It looks and sounds like a political spot and includes a disclaimer stating that it is paid for by the U.S. government.

The soundtrack: as images of Trump flash across the screen,

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satbshow.bsky.social @satbshow.bsky.social · 14h

I did a presentation on this very subject for the conference in New Jersey last year: "Yesterday" being the major advance on many levels that "scared John into doing something decent" i.e. his songs on Rubber Soul and afterwards haunting him as potentially a standard he could not live up to.

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every usps @everylot-usps.bsky.social · 14h

NEW KENT: 12109 NEW KENT HWY, NEW KENT VA 23124-9907

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Gaurav @mrvaidya.bsky.social · 14h

It is so interesting to me that LLMs have been unlocking new functionality in unexpected and wondrous ways while failing in exactly the ways we've been predicting they would for years.

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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 16h

NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t.

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freecialis @freecialis.bsky.social · 15h

American media: time to come up with the dumbest possible discourse about a Billboard hit British media: You are like a little baby. Watch this

Opinion - UK politics

What ‘Choosin’ Texas’ tells us about Burngam’s social care obstacles

Stephen Bush

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Mike Johnson on what Republicans will do if they hold the House: "What we would do in the next two years is exactly what we have been doing already"

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Beefcake Dad @jeffsreturn.bsky.social · 17h

Googling Tony Blair Arms Deal to find out what the deal is with those arms

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 23h

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Luna @lunalore.bsky.social · 23h

I get the feeling that Meta tried SO HARD to make this mascot thing the cuddliest lil’ guy ever but all I see is an unholy amalgamation of the Snuggle fabric softener teddy bear & the Adipose Babies from Doctor Who. Its an echo of both but not either, and feels viscerally WRONG

Adipose Fat Babies flying up to the mother ship in series 4 of Doctor Who

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Velour Shirt @object.works · 29/09/2026

This is a metaphor for so many things these days that I couldn't choose

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 22h

How is this from 2014

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 21h

oh I forgot a critical bit-- I also tell my classes that because I'm away from my office desktop I can't do any of my own research work, so they're not imposing on me during office hours but actually keeping me from boredom a bit of a lie (I have a laptop) but that seems to help some students

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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 21h

I assumed this was some desert mountain Nope

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Kimberly Beatty @beattylab.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Please share: OHSU is hiring an Assistant Prof. in the Dept. of Chemical Physiology & Biochemistry. We are looking for a chemical biologist who will apply novel chemical tools in physiological systems. Apply online: www.ohsu.edu/human-resour... (Job # 2026-41667).

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OHSU Faculty, Physician and Academic Jobs in Oregon

Find higher education faculty, physician and research jobs and build your academic health career at OHSU in Portland, Oregon.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The tweet that immediately came to mind:

We're a modest company with modest goals:
1: sell a quality product at a fair price
2: drain the world's oceans so we can find and kill god
6:19 PM • Oct 21, 2014 • Twitter for iPhone
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Uh... okay? I don't know anything about computers or this guy personally, but I'll be begging for a job soon too enough. So, in the vague hopes of some form of karmic reward, please hire this guy to do computer things if you need computer things and are in the position to hire.

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Gaurav @mrvaidya.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"I can’t just go on with a kit of drums doing ‘Yesterday’ or ‘Photograph,’ Starr says" (from www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...) -- I'm fascinated by how often a Beatle (John, Ringo and Paul for sure) will bring up "Yesterday" as a random example of a Beatles song.

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Why is Ringo Starr still performing at 86? Because he can.

The drummer is onstage again, with death-defying energy and feel-good vibes.

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

For the last 34 years I have been on the faculty of the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Biology and have never regretted that decision. This year we are hiring TWO new Assistant Professors in the broad area of Molecular, Cell, Developmental Biology 1/n bio.unc.edu

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Z. Mann Zilla, Semi-Pro Goofball @pandangit.com · 28/09/2026

If I had one of these I would use it as a charcuterie board. Just serve little slices of meat & cheese on various layers. Although I could see the case for putting chess pieces on several of the slices to do like a surreal "Kirk & Spock play 3D chess" thing.

A medical model of a person's head and torso, designed to be opened in slices.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sure, the 2024 election was one too, but 2026 might be the clearest intelligence test ever presented to the American electorate. Taken at face value, he's saying he stole hundreds of billions from the gov't, hid it somewhere Congress can't reach, and he pinky swears he will give you a piece. Really.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

fargo is a panorama of different types of evil contrasted against ordinary good; the petty loserdom of Lundegaard and Carl Showalter on different sides of the legit/criminal divide, the dull-eyed sociopath of Grimsrud, the mania/delusional stalkerdom of Mike Yanagita.

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Please help if you can! Queen City Cat Lounge is an adoption center I visit frequently here in Vermont and their window was vandalized last night. Fortunately they had double glass for the cats' safety, but the broken outer window needs to be fixed ASAP. www.gofundme.com/f/repair-and...

Poster with a black and white screenshot of security footage showing a man peering into the front window of a cat adoption center. Text says "please help Queen City cat lounge recover. last night someone broke the window at Queen City cat lounge - an adoption center that has placed hundreds of cats in loving homes. the cats are all safe but the window needs to be replaced quickly!"

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Whelp. After 15 years of me saying “every shark swimming through a flooded city street after a storm photo on social media is fake,” we may finally have a real one. I’m awaiting confirmation from folks with better eyes than mine. abcnews.com/video/136803...

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Shark spotted in New Jersey floodwaters during nor'easter

A dogfish shark was spotted swimming through floodwaters in Surf City, New Jersey, heading up a resident's driveway and then toward Barnegat Bay on Saturday.

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𝔻𝕖𝕖𝕡 𝕋𝕙𝕠𝕥 @thatsgoodweb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

David Schleinkofer, cover art for Sim City 2000, 1993

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

13/ A single Joint venture Chinese-European owned plant will make Spain one of the world's top battery manufacturing countries by capacity. Stellantis and CATL €4.1 bn JV investment in a 50 GWh battery plant is a route to technology transfer. cmfdi.netzeropolicylab.com bsky.app/profile/fber...

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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We can learn from our queer elders 🫶🏻

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when my masc lesbian aunt died, women just kept coming, screaming, crying, and saying they were her wives. Eventually we just had to start telling them to join the others. They were all devastated to learn about each other. Except for one who came in, kissed her dead mouth and showed us all that they had matching tattoos. She actually won all the mourning wives over and they all agreed she was the wife. It was so weird.

Did not expect more than a few people to see this but yes it really happened, yes it was insane

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They also ALL read love letters at the podium. It was painful and awkward but the final gift my aunt gave the family

from my mom

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How many crying wives were at
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I need a final count
I think 5 maybe 7 why

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And a couple girlfriends she was a popular and very liked lol

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Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

BARNARDO Last night of all, When yond same star that’s westward from the pole Had made his course t’ illume that part of heaven Where now it burns, Marcellus and myself, The bell then beating one— [Enter Ghost.] BARNARDO Fuck!

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Velvet Rose @jdustinwilliams.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

AP reported deadly Russian strikes in Ukraine and Ukrainian attacks on Russian refineries ahead of September's New York diplomacy. Behind each update are people trying to live ordinary lives. Civilian protection should remain central to every discussion.

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Velvet Rose @jdustinwilliams.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

September reporting on Ukraine again puts energy infrastructure in focus. When I read those stories, I think about families needing heat light and a working kitchen. Rebuilding a normal day deserves as much attention as the military headlines.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 28/09/2026

If you leave butter out anywhere he WILL find it and he WILL eat some

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today is the 40th anniversary of Cleveland's epic Balloonfest debacle. Second only to Ten Cent Beer Night in the great list of Cleveland WTFs. Cheers to all who celebrate.

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The Doomed Cleveland Balloonfest of '86

YouTube video by The Atlantic

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