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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 23h

It's always good to remember that people hated cars so much in the early 20th century that the auto industry invented jaywalking to paint pedestrians as problematic

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josh boo-erman 👻 @bosh.worstpossible.world · 5h

seeing a few people label this a false flag and while there could very well be a few agitators in there, this is overall clearly the real deal. if it was a false flag everyone would be carrying signs that say “we love hamas and killing jews.” these people aren’t subtles

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Myriam Gurba (Serrano through my mom) @lesbrains.bsky.social · 5h

If you’re going to encourage survivors to publicly name and shame our abusers, then you better fucking be committed to keeping us alive when these men try to k*ll us for telling the truth.

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OB Cycler @obcycler.bsky.social · 4h

And instead of following thru with their Climate Action plan centered around reducing the city's largest source of GHGs: single occupancy vehicles, they fired the main engineer in charge of active transportation and letting public transit hit a funding crisis, raising fares and cutting service

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 18h

I'm familiar with a lot of techniques to repress protest. This is the first time I have heard of this. Border Patrol is forcing a land defender to breath truck exhaust.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I feel like we don’t talk about millennials in particular, hitting our 40s - in earlier generations many of us would be reaching the peak of our careers, but because of disaster after disaster, locust after locust eating our industries, many of us are on our 3rd or 4th fresh start.

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Sarah Hird, PhD @sarahhird.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

That time I put almost all the chipmunk species in the western USA on one map. Did you know there’s 1 species of chipmunk in Asia, 1 in eastern USA & >20 in western USA? (I’m not the crazy one here. The chipmunks are the crazy ones.)

Map of the western USA with 20 overlapping chipmunk species distributions in different colors.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A powerful statistic from @walkmass.bsky.social. When we talk about building safe streets for everyone, that must include older adults, who often have mobility challenges and difficulty navigating huge intersections or walking in areas with poor sidewalks. Data is here: walkmass.org/crash-reports/

A graphic from Walk Mass showing that 43% of people killed while walking in Massachusetts are 65+

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Robert Prinz @prinzrob.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Shades of the Bay Area Council’s campaign against the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge trail which also involved 1000s of form emails from “community members”. How many of these were faked too? The Bay Conservation & Development Commission didn’t ask & violated their charter to approve the closure.

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Nick @ecosozialismus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If you won’t throw down to protect your public schools, you’re letting the bastards make the future even more bleak.

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Indivisible Ventura @indivisiblevent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Prop. 40 forces CA's villain-aires pay their fair share after their BBB tax cuts smashed our safety nets. They've responded with Prop. 41 - a technical time-waster, and Prop. 42 - a flat-out lie that Granny's pension is in danger. #YESon40, #NOon41, #Noon42 (www.commondreams.org/opinion/repu...)

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Yes On Prop 40 @billionairetaxnow.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Just billionaire things 🤡 #YesOn40 #BillionaireTaxNow #NoOn41 #NoOn42

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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 07/10/2026

When even Starbucks shareholders are furious with the company’s treatment of workers 👀

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Nick @ecosozialismus.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Dunno who needs to hear this but it’s good to show joy in public. We’re alive and it’s a miracle.

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軽laura @keilaura.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

if an elite lobbying effort can convince you that you have to ban trans people from sports to survive in politics you straightforwardly do not have it in you to pass electoral reform, or stand up to the fossil fuel lobby, or do any of the difficult things that have to be done

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Bike Lane Uprising @bikelaneuprising.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

What in the actual fuck, Fedex

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Ryan's Hospice for Orchids🏳️‍🌈🪴 @orchid-hospice.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You're doing a lot of testicles a disservice when you call step-through frames "girls' bikes"

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Friends Of The Rail & Trail @railandtrail.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Our rail line connects to the rest of the state. Imagine all the places you could go with a connected rail system like this one. #CaliforniaRail #RailAndTrail

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Friends Of The Rail & Trail @railandtrail.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Get to Santa Cruz from Watsonville in 40 minutes Get to Santa Cruz from Aptos in 18 minutes Get to Santa Cruz from Capitola in 11 minutes #RailAndTrail Travel times: Rail Transit Feasibility Study—Final Report, RTC, 2015.

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🦇 bat 🦇 millman @mpoltonsimon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

That’s the thing about systemic violence. You’re part of that system whether you like it or not. You’re gonna be victim or perpetrator unless you actively jam the gears of that machine

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Dongmei Li @dongmei960.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Dahlia #photography #flowers #plants #blossom #BloomScrolling

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donoteat @donoteat.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

lotta people out here bragging about "training models" but why do that when you can model trains

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Daisy Pitkin @daisy-pitkin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Not one cent to Starbucks until they settle a union contract. Thank you, St. Louis and Philly!

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

As all the mechanics in my life I know hit their thirties they have either figured out how to get their way to running a shop/management, or their bodies are breaking. To make a living with manual labor in this country is to destroy your body and receive a societal shrug when you’re disabled.

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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There are reasons other than net take-home pay that generations of American parents steered their kids toward college. I don't see how "go into construction!" is helpful unless paired with more robust worker protections and a true safety net, especially in right to work states.

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Kevin Verhoff @kevinverhoff.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Reminder that the worst night of the year for pedestrian safety is Halloween. Let kids have fun. Walk or bike instead of driving.

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Nick in NC @nicknc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Science fiction authors designing aliens need to aspire to at least the level of weirdness of a real bucket orchid. Coryanthes macrantha in my greenhouse this morning. Flower is approx 15 cm wide, 10 cm tall. 🌴🌱

A bucket orchid in shades of orange and yellow. The bucket is formed from the distal end of the labellum and the column. Glands drip liquid into the bucket. Bees falling into the bucket can only escape through a hole at one side where they will be forced into contact with the pollen and stigma at the end of the column. The hole is pretty large, so the bees must be equally big. The sepals look like big wings made of tissue paper that counterbalance the bucket. The base of the labellum where it connects to the rest of the flower looks like a weirdly ridged orange alien penis.

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"A man riding a bicycle was struck by a Waymo on 4th & Market in San Francisco today. First responders arrived and treated him at the scene before he was taken to the hospital with injuries." OP: tiktok.tl2active Waymo has reported 39 crashes w cyclists to NHTSA, inc at least 12 w injuries.

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The Xylom @thexylom.com · 02/10/2026

In 2003, the U.S. military bombed Iraq’s national seed bank in Abu Ghraib, effectively eliminating hundreds of varieties of indigenous seeds adapted to growing in the drought-prone desert climate. A year later, U.S. law prohibited Iraqi farmers from seed saving. (First published in 2025 by Prism)

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Saving Iraq’s Seeds, One Garden at a Time

Comprising a diverse range of backgrounds and ages, the collective fosters a space for voices of Jewish, Muslim, and Christian seed stewards from the Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA) region…

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James ⛰️🌾🇵🇸 @plantbard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Krameria erecta my beloved

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers

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Anza-Borrego Desert Research Center @anzaborrego.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A ram looking down into Borrego Palm Canyon from a rocky perch on a slope of Pá•at Téewenet (Indianhead Peak) on 9-20-26 (Photo: Sicco Rood).

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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 01/10/2026

not helping, @theonion.com

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Ava" says, "I’ve worked in the broccoli fields since early 2000. I enjoy every part of my job from cutting to packaging. I can do it all w/my eyes closed. I have years of experience, but I'm not paid for it. I don’t get incentives, benefits & just earn minimum wage." #WeFeedYou

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International Journal of Plant Sciences @ijpsjournal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Folks, FTR this is a breach of publication ethics. @ijpsjournal.bsky.social has a policy that forbids it and we are nowhere near the only ones.

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Erik Noonan @eriknoonan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Bike/pedestrian networks don't take 30 years to build. Stop accepting those timelines in your community. The best practices have been proven & they already exist. Safety should already be the #1 priority. The ROI is unbeatable. The timeline is a moral document and it shouldn't be generational.

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Mohamad Bazzi @mbazzi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Show This to Anyone Denying Genocide” — front page of @scotnational.bsky.social

“Show This to Anyone Denying Genocide” — front page headline of The National, Scotland

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Rob L @robll.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Israel is basically trying to make Gaza an impossible place to be able to live. It's collective punishment and mass displacement. We should be applying the same sanctions to Israel as we do to Russia.

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IntrepidGirlSleuth @annakeesey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Neighborhoods. Schools. Hospitals. Markets. Farms. Universities. Family after family after family after family after family after family after family after family after family after family

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Sundance @sundance.bikesky.social · 29/09/2026

If you are ever feeling down about the injustices in the world, It’s because there is an enormous propaganda machine trying to make you numb to the truth… and it didn’t work on you.

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Alex Scott Fairley @alexscottfairley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yet more stunning #spring #orchids from #Tasmania; I am very lucky to be able to go walking on my days off to find these beautiful little jewels. #flower #flora #botany #nature #Australia #bloomscrolling

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Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It’s so bad that I consider the driver who slowed down to wave me through the crosswalk before running the red light to be one of the best driver encounters I’ve had.

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Tab C @drtcombs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

we happily add lanes to roads in anticipation of future drivers, but when there are more people walking, bicycling, and scootering than fit into the leftover space available to them today, we do PSAs and shame campaigns

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WA Orchids @wa-orchids.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Wildflower season is well and truly underway now in the southwest of Western Australia… the native bushland is quite literally full of colour 💛🧡🩷💜🌿 (IDs in ALT) #ozflora #wildoz #orchids #nativeplants #bloomscrolling #Dunsborough #spring

Caladenia flava flava - Cowslip Orchid - cluster of 4 yellow orchid flowers with red markings on the top sepal and petals

Chorizema diversifolium - cluster of orange pea like flowers with yellow centres

Pimelea rosea - Rosy Rice Flower - cluster of deep pink flowers in a spherical flower head

Agrostocrinum hirsutum - purple/blue flower with 6 delicate petals

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Greg Casar @gregcasar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The CEO of Starbucks makes 1,700 times what the baristas make. He commutes by private jet. In other words, Starbucks can afford a fair contract. I'm boycotting Starbucks until they sign one. No contract, no coffee.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026

Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...

Summary
Companies
• Anthropic IPO could value the company at more than $2
trillion
• Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025
• Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year
• Operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025 from $2.98 billion in 2024
• Execs, industry analysts have expressed concerns over harms of Al tech
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic is making a massive bet that Al will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year, according to the
prospectus.

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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.