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William Jones

@mrwilliamjones.bsky.social
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Elementary STEM teacher with a professional account.

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omgisme @omgisme.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Never tell your cat your pin number .
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
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Citizen Cohn / Jonathan Cohn @citizencohn.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
SCOOP The Trump administration is preparing to take yet another run at Head Start www.thebulwark.com/p/exclusive-...
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Exclusive: Trump Preparing a New Attack on Head Start
The administration is considering a proposal to gut the program’s instructional standards while adding new restrictions tied to immigration.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 20/07/2026
School closures have spiked 35 percent across the country over the past four years, propelled by a shrinking youth population and the end of covid-19 relief funds that had propped up education funding in some places.
washingtonpost.com
Shrinking student populations cause spike in public school closures across U.S.
Limited funds and low enrollment forced districts to close more than 1,000 schools in 2025-26.
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Lenticulus @lenticulus.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Humans now being asked to use less electricity in favor of data centers. www.newsweek.com/teachers-ask...
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Teachers asked to "turn off lights" in county packed with data centers
An email seen by media outlets said the adjustments in Henrico County are being made due to "the impact of higher electric costs."
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Tens of thousands celebrated Budapest Pride, the first since Viktor Orbán’s ousting.
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Tens of thousands march in the first Budapest Pride since Viktor Orbán was voted out
Saturday's Pride march came a little more than a year after Orbán's nationalist-populist government passed legislation and a constitutional amendment to outlaw the event, drawing criticism from human ...
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The Onion @theonion.com · 23/06/2026
Archaeologists: D.C. Capitol May Have Once Been Used For Legislating
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Archaeologists: D.C. Capitol May Have Once Been Used For Legislating
WASHINGTON—Calling the discovery the “clearest proof yet” of how the U.S. government was originally designed to function, archaeologists published new evidence Thursday that suggests the Capitol build...
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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
AI has started blocking the Wayback Machine from chronicling the web. Considering that nearly 40% of websites disappear after 10 years, this will enforce a giant loss in collective memory.
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AI’s biggest casualty could be history itself
The Internet Archive is a vital resource that has helped the search for truth in more than one global event, writes Anthony Cuthbertson, but it is in danger of becoming the latest collateral damage of...
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
I do love that AI inadvertently confirms that our brains work like a muscle, too — use it or lose it. In this way relying on AI is like using a robot to lift weights, like running a marathon in a Honda Civic. You get nothing out of it.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Nation’s largest wind farm just came on line, powering a million homes in California www.latimes.com/environment/...
latimes.com
After nearly two decades, this massive New Mexico wind project is now powering California
One of the largest clean energy projects in United States history is now online, delivering electricity from a massive wind farm in New Mexico to Arizona and California.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Spain’s electricity bills have decreased due to its commitment to renewable energy, reducing the influence of fossil fuels on electricity prices.
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Why Spain’s electricity bills have fallen during an energy crisis
Homes and business are benefitting from Spain's commitment to clean energy.
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William Jones @mrwilliamjones.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
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This Is Fine Meme
Alt: This Is Fine Meme
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Fresh new American dystopia headline just dropped www.thegamer.com/grammacracke...
An 81-Year-Old Grandma Streaming Minecraft To Pay For Grandson’s Cancer Treatment Has Been Swatted
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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 19/05/2026
the fuck it will
A white man in a business suit pointing a handgun at an open laptop
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15/05/2026
Grid-scale batteries are going in an absolutely wild pace. Every whingey objection to renewables you've ever heard is basically solved by batteries. This is happening whether any of the hopeless dipshits running the US want it or not.
canarymedia.com
The world is installing grid batteries at a blistering pace
A total of 112 gigawatts of batteries were deployed around the world in 2025 — 10 times the amount added just four years prior.
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Mark Sumner 🌒 @devilstower.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
For several years, it has been cheaper to build new solar and wind capacity than just to maintain a coal plant — even if the coal was free. But gas plants were twice as efficient and much cheaper to operate. Now solar and wind, complete with battery storage, are cheaper than gas.
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Solar plus batteries cheaper than gas — IRENA report - Gas Outlook
A new IRENA report finds that 24/7 “firm” clean energy is cheaper than coal and gas in many parts of the world.
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WIRED @wired.com · 08/05/2026
Researchers have developed three new antibiotics from scorpion venom and habanero peppers to combat tuberculosis and other drug-resistant pathogens. www.wired.com/story/mexica...
wired.com
Venom and Hot Peppers Offer a Key to Killing Resistant Bacteria
Researchers have developed three new antibiotics from scorpion venom and habanero peppers to combat tuberculosis and other drug-resistant pathogens.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Amazon will pay $20.5 million to settle allegations that two of its Oregon data centers helped contaminate groundwater. This is exactly why communities across the country are organizing to stop data centers — and winning. Never doubt your power to change the system.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 15/04/2026
Data centers enjoyed bipartisan support from Virginians as recently as 2023, but that has flipped to dismay throughout the state. That shift suggests Virginians now consider data centers almost as undesirable as nuclear power plants.
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In this U.S. hot spot for data centers, voters have turned against them
Virginians previously embraced the facilities, but a Post-Schar School poll finds they are now almost as undesirable as nuclear power plants.
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Siobhan Beeman @siobhan.northsky.social · 13/04/2026
The “Calvin’s dad explains two types” meme, inspired by a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon.

Clockwise from top left:
1) Calvin’s dad walks into frame to find Calvin trying to operate a record player. The dad says: “There are only two industries left in America: gambling, and fraud.”

2) The dad shows where the record goes, and how to turn on the player, while Calvin watches. Dad says “Derivatives? Gambling. AI? Fraud. Video games? Gambling. Social media? Fraud.” Calvin says “yeah”.

3) With one hand open palm up, Calvin’s dad cheerfully explains to Calvin out of frame below him, “The stock market looks like gambling, but it’s actually fraud.”

4) In bed in a dark room, Calvin clutches at his pillow, eyes wide in existential terror. There is no text in the panel.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 06/04/2026
Navajo Nation: the fight for cultural survival – photo essay
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Navajo Nation: the fight for cultural survival – photo essay
Rick Findler, photographer and Joan Wakelin bursary recipient, speaks to Navajo communities attempting to save a language and traditions that are being diluted by modern life
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Dr. Skylar Grayson @skylargrayson.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 03/04/2026
Two lost 1965 Doctor Who episodes released after being found in private collection
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Two lost 1965 Doctor Who episodes released after being found in private collection
Episodes from William Hartnell era are from mostly lost 12-part adventure called The Daleks’ Master Plan Two episodes of Doctor Who from the William Hartnell era, which have not been seen since 1965, have been released after being discovered in a private film collection. The two episodes, released on Friday and starring Peter Purves as the Doctor’s companion, are parts one and three of a mostly lost 12-part adventure called The Daleks’ Master Plan, written by the Dalek creator Terry Nation and broadcast as part of the third series of Doctor Who in November 1965. Continue reading...
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 22/03/2026
This is bad: Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, the busiest airport in the world, has *turned off* its official wait time tracker www.atl.com/times/
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport

Passenger Security

Due to current federal conditions, passengers are advised to allow at least 3 hours or more for domestic and 4 or hours or more for international screenings.

Allow additional time for checked baggage.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Holy shit we might have a cure for sickle cell anemia
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
The Houthis started firing into the Red Sea, disrupting shipping traffic, in 2023. In 2025, Trump/Hegseth launched an aerial campaign against the Houthis, promising to open the waterway. Then they quit after 2 months, lying about a deal. Red Sea and Suez Canal traffic is still lower than in 2023.
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🇲🇽🕷️rustbelt rebel🕷️🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
This is in Michigan and I know about 500 kids that spent their summers up there and there have been near constant rumors. Those kids knew what was going on, there’s no way that interlochen didnt.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Joanne Bland, one of the youngest people to march on “Bloody Sunday,” has died. She was 72. "By the time I was 11-years-old, I had been arrested at least 13 documented times”
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Joanne Bland, lifelong Civil Rights activist and founder of Selma's Foot Soldiers Park, dies
Bland grew up in Selma and became involved in the Civil Rights Movement as a child foot soldier in the 1960s, participating in the historic Selma voting rights marches, including Bloody Sunday.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 07/02/2026
Trump lawyers aim to deport five-year-old boy after judge ordered his release
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Trump lawyers aim to deport five-year-old boy after judge ordered his release
Liam Conejo Ramos and his father were seized by ICE in Minneapolis last month before a judge ordered their release Attorneys for the Trump administration are aiming to deport Liam Conejo Ramos, the five-year-old boy whose photograph wearing a bunny hat in snowy Minneapolis circulated globally after his detention last month by federal officials during the aggressive anti-immigration crackdown there. The child, Liam returned home to Minnesota earlier this week after being taken into custody alongside his father last month and transferred to a notorious family detention facility in Texas. Continue reading...
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
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'Reminds me of Anne Frank': Jewish seniors are offering to hide their Haitian caregivers as Trump's TPS end looms - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
The end of Temporary Protected Status has Holocaust survivors offering to hide Haitian staffers, according to the CEO of a senior-living center in Florida.
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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Messages to ICE from students at Liam Conejo Ramos's elementary school. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/o...
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Opinion | ICE Took Their Classmate. They Started Writing Letters.
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 30/01/2026
Kids got off at the bus drop-off in Ypsilanti and their parents weren't there to pick them up because ICE kidnaped them
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Federal officials confirm taking 4 people into ICE custody in Ypsilanti - CBS Detroit
Federal authorities have confirmed that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement took four people into custody earlier this week in Ypsilanti.
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Disco @discosaurus.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.
Kid in a hat and backpack, maybe 5, getting detained
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Eliza 7777777🌟 @eliza7777777thstar.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Just dropping this here.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 19/01/2026
Fairly sure it’s unintentional, but the end date on this mug being sold by the Smithsonian does make it sound a little like they’re saying America dies in 2026…
A dark blue mug with an American flag reads “AMERICA 1776 – 2026”
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.
thezebra.org
Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95
ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away
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