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@nthorngate.bsky.social
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Nature lover, Physical Therapist Assistant, leftist (and leftie!). Atheist animist buddhist biologist. Movement optimist.

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nthorngate.bsky.social @nthorngate.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Yay!!!
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🏳️‍⚧️ Decomposing Princess Jackie @jackiesupernova.northsky.social · 12/10/2026
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
#Sacramento
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 09/10/2026
"Are my migraines hormonal, or am I thinking too hard about how Peter Thiel has more money than all nurses on Earth combined?" buff.ly/oLdL54C
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Is It Perimenopause or the Fascist Death Knell of Late-Stage Capitalism?
“Is my hair thinning, or am I ripping it out because a thirty-four-time convicted, sexually abusive steak salesman with a Hannibal Lecter fetish is five poin...
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
“One source told the outlet that officers were “told to go after anybody, they can pick up anybody.” newrepublic.com/post/216405/...
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“Go After Anybody”: ICE Gets Terrifying Marching Orders in California
ICE has launched a new crackdown just weeks before the midterms.
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KQED News @kqednews.kqed.org · 08/10/2026
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Midterms 2026: Read This Before You Fill Out Your California Ballot (or Need to Correct a Mistake)
From the signature on your envelope to what happens if you make a mistake on your ballot, here's how to correctly cast your vote in the 2026 California midterm elections.
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nthorngate.bsky.social @nthorngate.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Physio assistant here; when I saw this my first thought was “sir, if your ACL is making that much noise, you probably need knee surgery STAT!” 🤪
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“GOTTA LEARN AI OR BE LEFT BEHIND.” Good. Fuck off! Leave me behind! Enjoy your artbarf rapture, your janky Temu future. I’ll be back here looking at real birds and writing weird, also real, books.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/10/2026
The post-war "peace dividend" owed its existence to three factors: industrial capacity, political freedom and pent-up demand.
The Earth from space; it is covered in scaffolding that is crawling with little rude mechanicals ganked from 17th century engravings of people operating machines.
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nthorngate.bsky.social @nthorngate.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Yup, same.
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nthorngate.bsky.social @nthorngate.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Once while reading over another physiotherapist’s documentation for a patient eval I found a doozy… patient apparently had “osteopenis”… 😬🫣.
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Cirrus @sarahdptearth.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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The Spectrum of Allies is Better than Pessimistic Binaries
A theory and tool that can help you rethink the work ahead
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 22/09/2026
Well, *fuck*. California AG Rob Bonta just surrendered to the Trump-aligned billionaires who want to take over and destroy Warners, merging it with the chudded-out husk of Paramount, leaving these two corrupt assholes to control Warners, Paramount *and* Tiktok: www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

The Warner Brothers tower. It has been tinted orange and is leaning at a 30-40' angle. It is surmounted by Trump's hair. The tower is wavering. The background is ominous, red-tinged clouds, through which peek a marching army of banner-waving demons.

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Todd Dwyer (modified)
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is the most masculine video on the internet right now
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 18/09/2026
I'll to come right out and say it: statistical extrapolation is *fine*. One of the most useful ways to understand the present and anticipate the future is measuring the things that happened in the past, find the correlations among them, and extrapolate likely future outcomes from those correlations.
A series of high-magnification views of a seemingly smooth human heart valve, revealing the rough texture under extreme close-up.


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Zhaoxing Wang, Kunpeng Wang & Yan Xu (modified)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-56485-5

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Elizabeth Lanphier @ethicselizabeth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Tools allegedly used to reduce administrative burden for doctors (the evidence for which is pretty mixed) end up displacing the admin burden on to the patients who now need to read their charts in detail to check and correct the record.
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Last night I did something I haven’t done since I was a child. I went down and sat still by the river and just listened to all the things that didn’t concern me. And wondered how I’d grown so afraid of such a blessed tongue.
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Agreed. I increasingly see this kind of argument invoked to argue against interventions like air conditioning in places where extreme heat events are increasingly leading to mass mortality. We no longer get to choose between adaptation & mitigation--we have to do both at an accelerating pace.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.
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Luke Farrell @lukef.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This work was based on a @lpeblog.bsky.social piece I wrote earlier this year if you're curious to read a slightly wonkier / less well produced version of the argument :) lpeproject.org/blog/the-mea...
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The Means-Testing Industrial Complex
As Republicans tightened work requirements and eligibility rules for Medicaid and SNAP last year, Equifax’s CEO openly celebrated the profits to be made from administering this deprivation.
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nthorngate.bsky.social @nthorngate.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A sign saying “No People” in black writing on a white background, and a red circle with a line through it in front of a human silhouette.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Something has really bothered me about the Gloria Steinem discourse—something that's not really about Gloria Steinem. So, I wrote about it.
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Grief Is Not a Verdict: This Is Not Really an Essay About Gloria Steinem
We grieve the worlds we’ve known and what it felt like to live in them.
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nthorngate.bsky.social @nthorngate.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Went birding this morning, found a mama trash panda teaching her kids to be absolutely unafraid of humans.
A mama raccoon standing on her hind legs, looking to her left, as one of her kits snuffles in the grass by her back feet.
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
War as a moral metaphor is limited, limiting, and dangerous. By reducing the choices of action to “a war against” whatever-it-is, you divide the world into Me or Us (good) and Them or It (bad) and reduce the ethical complexity and moral richness of our life to Yes/No, On/Off.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Please repost! Drexel announced that it will close the Academy of Natural Sciences public museum- the oldest nat history museum in the US. There are 2 petitions to support the academy. Please sign both & come to our rally Tues. actionnetwork.org/petitions/pe... www.change.org/p/the-academ...
A poster featuring the T-Rex at the cognitive natural sciences, which says save the Academy natural sciences, museum rally in front of the academy 1900 Ben Franklin Parkway, Tuesday, September 8 10 AM. The T-Rex is saying tell Drexel keep the museum open. There’s an RSVP QR code and then the logos of Philly Science Action Skype scientist In Philly on the bottom.
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nthorngate.bsky.social @nthorngate.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Legit was like, what happened to that kestrel’s beak?!? Lol birds are so weird.
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Rewire News Group @rewirenewsgroup.com · 03/09/2026
Feminist icon Gloria Steinem, who spent decades fighting for reproductive rights and pay equality, died yesterday at 92, her Instagram page announced. In 2013, she said she shared her Presidential Medal of Freedom with "the entire women’s movement."
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‘If We Each Have a Torch, There’s a Lot More Light’: Gloria Steinem Accepts the Presidential Medal of Freedom – Rewire News Group
"I'd be crazy if I didn't understand that this is a medal for the entire women’s movement," Steinem told a gathering at the National Press Club Monday.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/09/2026
After half a century of neoliberalism, we are all drenched in capitalism's established religion, the worship of property rights. 1/

A car's frosted-over back windscreen, being scraped by a person's hand holding an ice-scraper. The person has scraped a Canadian maple leaf into the windscreen. In the background we see the capitol dome and a depressed caricature of Uncle Sam holding a sign reading 'I am busted.'



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Bearas (modified)
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
In this Weather West post, I offer an update on my most recent thoughts re: tropical storm/soon-to-be-hurricane Marie and potential impacts (or not!) in California this weekend. Also: I assess record-breaking coastal SoCal humidity in summer 2026.
weatherwest.com
Early-season trough will bring cooler weather and beneficial early-season rain to wildfire-stricken PacNW, and may also bring soon-to-be Hurricane Marie’s remnants toward SoCal over Labor Day - Weather West
September 2, 2026 - Daniel Swain - A brutally hot and humid Southern California August and a record-breaking wildfire season across interior PacNW & beyond August ended up being an exceptionally hot month across nearly the entire Southwestern U.S., including across nearly all of SoCal (even coastal areas). In fact, August was (yet again) a record warm month in many locations; in #
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nthorngate.bsky.social @nthorngate.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Oh no, a napcident!
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nthorngate.bsky.social @nthorngate.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
🐆
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nthorngate.bsky.social @nthorngate.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Puffling! 🥹
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nthorngate.bsky.social @nthorngate.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Thank you for having the patience, knowledge, and kindness to post this info; I def got my nose out of joint re: changes to Gulf of Mexico, not realizing that wasn’t a case of capitulation.
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nthorngate.bsky.social @nthorngate.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
That was my thought, too! Just a little something to take the edge off.
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nthorngate.bsky.social @nthorngate.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I would be interested in understanding more about how vaccines work against cancers; from a very layperson perspective, cancers seem pretty different to viruses?
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Nature Reviews Neurology @natrevneurol.nature.com · 26/08/2026
Dysregulated adult hippocampal neurogenesis in major depressive disorders idp.nature.com/authorize?re...
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Dysregulated adult hippocampal neurogenesis in major depressive disorders - Nature Medicine
The largest multiomic atlas of the adult human hippocampus identifies disrupted neurogenesis, gene regulation and neural circuits in major depressive disorder, revealing molecular pathways and potenti...
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Chris Weston @westonfront.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
RIP Tim Curry.
Rocky Horror Poster by Chris Weston
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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Dolly Parton's scientific, public health, and educational philanthropy was so significant that @nature.com is running a piece on the impact she had.
nature.com
Dolly Parton dies aged 80 – researchers celebrate her contributions to science
The country singer was an advocate for vaccines, public health, literacy and marginalized communities.
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nthorngate.bsky.social @nthorngate.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Goddamit!
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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/08/2026
boy this week is a real fucking kick in the teeth
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Tough day yesterday. And I know I’m not the only one. But it’s a brand new morning today, so pour yourself a cup of ambition. On your feet. Time to shine. If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain, and god knows it’s raining. We got this. Courage.
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nthorngate.bsky.social @nthorngate.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
😭😭😭
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Meredith McClaren @iniquitousfish.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Okay. Here's the deal. We have lost... pretty much the unanimous moral foundation of our nation. The imperative now. The only way forward. Is to be the kind of person Dolly would have been proud of.
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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library has gifted over 150 million books (yes, 150 million) around the world. This is what goodness looks like. She ALSO brought us Buffy. She ALSO funded the Covid vaccine. She ALSO wrote “Jolene”. The most remarkable person. donate.imaginationlibrary.com
donate.imaginationlibrary.com
Home
Make a donation and support Dolly Parton's Imagination Library in communities around the world and help put more books into the hands of more children.
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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 25/08/2026
donating to the Imagination Library made me feel just a little bit better imaginationlibrary.com
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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.
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J. Kathleen Cheney @jkcheney.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I'm having fun imagining Dolly, Carrie, and Betty on the other side, having adventures together... Art by Lindsay van Ekelenburg(www.lindsayvanek.com)
Paintings of Dolly Parton, Carrie Fisher, and Betty White portrayed as saints (sort of)
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nthorngate.bsky.social @nthorngate.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Sweet being, thank you for continuing to try. I’m glad you are safe. See you tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow.
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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
It’s a traditional Japanese instrument called shamisen. It has only three strings. 🤯🎸🎶🎵
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 19/08/2026
Maybe it seems weird that AI bosses won't stop rending their garments about the terrible potential of their bots, from the jobspocalypse that'll ensue when AI does our jobs, to the impending moment when the word-guessing programs learn too many words, wake up and turn us into paperclips. 1/
A giant killer pulp robot bestriding a 17th century map of the world, against an illustrated backdrop of the stars and planets and spaceships from an early 20th century picture-book.
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The witch walks the woods not just to fill her garnering bag, not just to talk with her favourite Wood Sprites. She walks to enter the trance of green communion. She walks to shade and silence her mind of all the accumulated bullshit beyond the woods. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky
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