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@neonastronaut.bsky.social
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Jersey native in Mass. Interests include fog harvesting, food forestry and oyster farming. “Know your plant friends.”

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Rise Up Western Mass Indivisible ❌👑 @ruwmi.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Tell Beacon Hill: Don't Let ICE Buy Our Data
The Massachusetts House may be taking up a data privacy bill as soon as this month. Recent reporting has shown that ICE has been buying up cell phone location data in order to follow people from wor...
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Terri Resists @terriresists.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
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al @neonastronaut.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Spotted in Southbridge. Stay safe out there. #fuckice
Feel that chill?
I.C.E. In Massachusetts
Shipment of white/black ford explorers seen at Burlington ICE detention center 1/16/26
Dispersed cars throughout Brockton, Lawrence, Quincy and Revere 1/18/26
Ford Explorers will likely not have roof racks, will possibly have out of state plates due to being rented vehicle
MASSACHUSETTS PRIDE
WE KEEP US SAFE
LOVE THY NEIGHBOR
NO KIDNAPPED NEIGHBORS
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/01/2026
ICE are nasty ass child kidnappers, like after school special style
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Someone just tagged this post from November 2024. Maybe I should do a signed paperback giveaway? I'll pick one at 5 pm CST tomorrow at random from the likes. You don't even have to follow or repost ... but it would be nice if you did!
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Oathbreakers
“Fascinating.” — The Wall Street Journal “An enlightening portrait of the medieval mindset.” — Publishers Weekly The authors of The Bright Ages return with ...
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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 01/12/2025
If you run across a gen A.I. slop 🤖💩 diagram in an academic journal, I’d love to know about it! Please fill out this form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Slop in journals is illuminating about journals’ quality control. And journals would like you to forget their mistakes. #AcademicChatter
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Slop graphics in academic journals
Use this form to share graphics (e.g., figures, covers, graphical abstracts) made using generative A.I. that have appeared in academic journals. The plan is to compile these slop graphics in an ope...
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al @neonastronaut.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Scarlet begonias volunteering in my herb bucket 🌱
Two small, bright red blossoms with yellow centers surrounded by their own wide green leaves and those of lemon balm. One bloom directly faves the lens, while another looks to our left.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 30/09/2025
FINALLY I have time to sit down with this read on Black oyster farmers from @iamtabari.bsky.social that I have been looking forward to all day!!
ambrook.com
The Legacy of Black Oyster Farmers - Offrange
Steeped in a rich history, Black oystermen and women across U.S. coastal regions have been disappearing for decades — a revival may be underway.
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al @neonastronaut.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
What a marvelous little insect, sitting in the middle of a moonflower leaf #gardensky #bugsky
A small insect, no more than a centimeter in length, sits perched in the center of an emerald green, heinous moonflower leaf. Its bright, lime green, triangle-shaped head is facing the center of the leaf. It has two legs facing forward and two backwards, the same color as its head. It’s back is set in a brilliant periwinkle blue and bright pink, in an interlaid triangle pattern.
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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 20/06/2025
Nearly every trans person I know reading the summary of the decision picked up on this within the first 30 minutes of it dropping. Yet newsrooms think hiring trans people to report on our issues is biased.
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David Noll @david.noll.org · 12/06/2025
this is not legal advice but there are like twenty circuit court cases holding that you do in fact have a first amendment right to record the police
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Oysters @oysters.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
bgnes.com
In the United States, volunteers grow oysters to clean up the seas
Loved by foodies, the oyster can also be one of the soldiers the world needs to fight environmental degradation. Kimberly Price is convinced of this as she and other volunteers try to increase popu
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al @neonastronaut.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
First iris to bloom in the backyard this spring! 🌱
Yellow, purple and white iris blossom. There is some yellow pollen sprinkling the bottom petal.
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WitchyEmpath @witchyempath.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Just a friendly reminder/PSA that it helps those who have to have posts read to them by text reading services to capitalize each word in a tag. Like this #WitchSky #WitchMadness #OccultSky #PaganSky Otherwise it tries to pronounce the tags as just one word.
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Michael Deibert @michaeldeibert.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
After lawless & deranged ICE stormtroopers destroyed Juan Francisco Méndez's car & terrorized him & his family, the case against him was thrown out after Department of Homeland Security attorneys failed to even present a charging document turnto10.com/news/local/j...
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Judge dismisses ICE case against New Bedford man
A federal immigration judge has dismissed the case against a New Bedford man whose dramatic detainment by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents was c
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al @neonastronaut.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Protect yourselves and loved ones. Keep phones charged and ready to record. Don’t talk to strangers. They’re spying on targeted people before kidnapping them. Massachusetts is under siege.
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al @neonastronaut.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
They are coming for us. Don’t talk to strangers. Don’t trust a cop. Where are our elected officials? Massachusetts is under siege by masked federal goons.
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al @neonastronaut.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Read this account of unidentified federal agents terrorizing a Worcester community, with WPD’s support. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is under siege. Happy Mother’s Day
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 09/05/2025
Rümeysa Öztürk has been freed!!
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Tufts student detained by ICE in viral video is released, thanks supporters
Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk was released from ICE detention on Friday, offering brief words of thanks to supporters gathered outside the Louisiana facility.
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Governor Phil Murphy @govmurphy.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
I am outraged by the unjust arrest of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka earlier this afternoon outside of Delaney Hall in Newark. I am calling for his immediate release by federal law enforcement.
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al @neonastronaut.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
I have lots of thoughts on everything re: Harvard these days, but I think this Crimson reporting from last month needs to be reupped— www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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Trump Admin’s $9 Billion Review of Harvard’s Grants Could Hit Boston’s Hospitals Hardest | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Trump administration’s sweeping federal review of nearly $9 billion in multi-year research funding tied to Harvard has sparked uncertainty across the University — but the brunt of the planned cuts will be felt by Boston hospitals, not the University.
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al @neonastronaut.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Meet Shelley 🤗🐢
Photo of a tiny painted turtle with webbed feet, a coral-colored belly, beautiful orange markings on the underside of her dark gray shell. Her gray head juts forth proudly with yellow stripes and accents. She stands atop lichen growing on a branch of a white birch tree.
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Deep Sea Conservation Coalition @deepseaconserve.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Our Legal Advisor Duncan Currie also warns that the ramifications of this decision could resonate beyond deep-sea mining, affecting agreements on fishing, shipping, navigation and marine research! 📣 It’s time for governments to stand up-for people, for planet, for the ocean. #DefendTheDeep
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
ACTION ITEM-----ACTION ITEM Implementation of Schedule F This is what a lot of us have been worried about. This allows for many civil service positions to replaced with political appointees. This could include NIH institute directors and even POs. BUT THERE IS A COMMENT PERIOD... 1/n
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al @neonastronaut.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
The federal government is illegally disappearing more people from Massachusetts than anywhere else: public.tableau.com/app/profile/...
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Christine Wiedinmyer @cwiedinm.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Here is an article and a list of NOAA datasets expected to end and be unavailable in the next few weeks. Please make sure you get in and download what you need!! eos.org/research-and...
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NOAA Datasets Will Soon Disappear - Eos
NOAA has quietly reported that they will soon decommission 14 datasets, products, and catalogs related to earthquakes and marine, coastal, and estuary science.
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 15/04/2025
Donation link. No excuses. Just run the money.
evergreen.humanitru.com
Museum of African American History: Protecting the Museum and the Integrity of Our Work
Protecting the Museum and the Integrity of Our Work
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al @neonastronaut.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Growing our own sponges this year! 🌱 #seedlings #luffa #gardening
A tray of luffa seedlings in homemade containers made of brown paper and a produce container
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al @neonastronaut.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Just imagine the other timeline in which Waltz admits to adding Jeffrey Goldberg to the chat intentionally bc this shit can’t go on anymore and congress + the public need to know
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al @neonastronaut.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
TIL most medical insurance companies have been flatly denying coverage for ice therapy machines for patients post-op since the beginning of the year. Too inspired by Trump, et al., not inspired enough by Luigi. #medsky
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al @neonastronaut.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Today, I see the 6th doctor in 5 weeks to talk about possible skeleton-altering surgery. Can somebody beer me strength, please?
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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 20/01/2025
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al @neonastronaut.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Oysters ftw!
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al @neonastronaut.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
I had a hankering to read back up on our girl, Hildy de Bingen. Thrilled to nab from the local library “The Once and Future Sex” by the brilliant @goingmedieval.bsky.social which had been on my to-read list. #booksky 📚 #medievalsky #historysky #feministsky
Book cover of Dr. Eleanor Janega’s “The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women’s Roles in Society” featuring figures such as Mary and Eve amongst the faithful(?) and some mementorum mori, as depicted in Berthold Furtmeyer’s 15th century “the tree of death and the wood of life” from The Salzburg Missal
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TheSnarkyFarmer @thesnarkyfarmer.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Let's grow some food! An OutPost: A last stop before heading on an adventure. A place to find sustainable goods and advice. Add the tag #TheOutpost to help create a searchable database we can all use for the next 4 years! Building, cooking, growing, healing! Upload it all!
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Sustainable Farming @sustainablefarming.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
This short excerpt from the video shows how impressive the results are after only 4 years:
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al @neonastronaut.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Sooooo, is our soon-to-be draft-dodger-in-chief going to reinstate the draft? Who’s first?
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Conservation Law Foundation @theclf.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
There are a lot of different types of aquaculture taking place in New England, but one of the most common isn't sustainable at all:
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Your Question Answered: Is Aquaculture Sustainable?
Open-ocean aquaculture might seem like an efficient alternative to traditional commercial fishing but can cause tremendous damage.
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𝙎𝙋𝙍𝙀𝘼𝘿 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙒𝙊𝙍𝘿!!! FOOD FOREST ALL UNUSED LAND!!!! (🚫 Politics) @foodforests4life.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Hey there!!!!! I'm trying to spread the word about "food forest-ing" all unused land, it would... Moderate extreme weather (more than you think) Reverse ALL the Planetary Tipping Points that are tipping Convert solar energy into biomass instead of heat
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al @neonastronaut.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Reading for everyone!!
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al @neonastronaut.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Jennifer Saint’s “Hera” — explorations of the construction of patriarchy, the violence of misogyny & complicity. Captivating with an unexpected, imaginative and satisfying ending. 📚 #booksky #modernmyth #mythologyretold #greekmythology
Book cover of Jennifer Saint’s “Hera” featuring an illustration of the goddess on a red background.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
An incredible 30 days in Georgia’s history. The people have stood courageously, in the face of extreme regime violence. 100s have been arrested, beaten & hospitalised. But still they march, day after day, fighting for a future without Russia & with the EU. #GeorgiaProtests 🇬🇪🇪🇺 (🎥 Ezz Gaber)
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al @neonastronaut.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Without downloading any new pics what’s your energy going into 2025
A curious insect (grasshopper? Cricket?) with what looks like gray, green, brown and black camouflage on top of a fallen, brown rhododendron leaf and brown pine needles, looking right into the camera with its big black eyes
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al @neonastronaut.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
While spouse and child made gingersnaps for Santa, I got our first batch of fire cider this season brewing! A happy Xmas Eve to those who celebrate! 🌱🔥🎄❄️
Atop a butcherblock-style tabletop, there is fire cider in a rectangular, translucent, glass jar with oranges, limes, onion, garlic, ginger, sage, cloves, rosemary, cinnamon sticks, mullein, goldenrod, ginkgo biloba. To the left of the fire cider jar is a nutcracker cookie jar.
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al @neonastronaut.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Wishing you all a merry solstice! Enjoy this ankh from aten. Even on the sun’s lowest day, it gives us beauty and life. Time to get cozy, hibernation nation. 🌞🫶🤌🌲🌿❄️✨
A view of forest with a couple inches of snow covering the ground and branches. Juniper and rhodedendron in the foreground, pine/oak mid midground, pines galore way back. The 2pm winter solstice sun looks like it’s making a rush for the tree line. A glimpse of sunbeam is captured as a glimmer of light turquoise on a lichen-laden, oak tree bark backdrop. From the perspective of the viewer, there is a bit of a path leading from the immediate foreground, through the middle of the trees in the center of the photo, though it ends at a black, wrought-iron fence in the midground. Just a quick snapshot of my solstice afternoon.
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Angie @angiep.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Libby lets you borrow books from your library, folks. And libraries in their “we borrow books from other libraries” program that I forget the name of. I have a SUPER small library and have four libraries listed from which to borrow ebooks, including a “suburban co-op” that has most I want.
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al @neonastronaut.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Everyone just got watered with the collected rain I could haul inside before temps drop well below freezing tonight. So dramatic 🌱
Set in a greenhouse at night. Close-up shot of spider plant shoot in the foreground, aloe in the mid ground, fern in the background, all in front of windowed walls.
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Quise @marquisedavon.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
i hope i die warmed by the life that i tried to live — Nikki Giovanni
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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 10/12/2024
Here’s a great overview of the phenomenal Nikki Giovanni. Truly a legend. 💔
poetryfoundation.org
Nikki Giovanni
Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.
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