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Nick of the Vermont Foothills @precursive.bsky.social · 1h

Reading posts & comments where anonymous accounts demand objective proof when someone shares a personal subjective lived experience - not even a perspective, but an experience - is so peak white male Internet.

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Nick of the Vermont Foothills @precursive.bsky.social · 2h

Were I an evil billionaire scientist, in addition to training a skunk army to attack my archnemesis (obviously,) I would invent blue and purple trees to complete the autumn rainbow.

Coming into the full spectrum here now in the hills

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Nick of the Vermont Foothills @precursive.bsky.social · 3h

I have no idea how anyone is expected to answer on the spot from memory where they were on a specific date years ago. There's like ten days in my entire life I could possibly answer that for and they all have to with birth, death, or marriage.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 7h

you gotta have deliberatley low-information days sometimes. recieve the amount of stimulus your ancestors would receive. no phone no tv no radio no books just vibes. brain vacation. just you and the homies picking flowers, makin soup.

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Mr Natural @neilmatheson66.bsky.social · 10h

Nataliia Kulikovska (Ukraine) "Summer is burning down." 2025. Acrylic on canvas.

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Nick of the Vermont Foothills @precursive.bsky.social · 5h

I wanted to build upon this & express deep appreciation for some of our kids' doctors, who I've watched teach about boundaries & consent during routine medical visits. "Today, we are going to do X so we can figure out Y, does that make sense?" "Is it okay if I do X now?" "You know if anyone else

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Lindy Williams @ljdubcan.bsky.social · 6h

Today’s Canadian painting is “Mother and Child” painted by Norval Morrisseau in 2005. This is Truth and Rconciliation Day in Canada, a day to remember the harms done to Canada’s first peoples.

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biologist077.bsky.social @biologist077.bsky.social · 16h

a phase 2 trial for chronic ptsd in survivors of intimate partner violence is starting at ucalgary, using filament's psilocybin drug PEX010. this standardized natural psilocybin has been in over 80 studies. genuinely hopeful to see this research progress.

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Filament Ships Psilocybin Drug PEX010 for Phase 2 PTSD Trial at University of Calgary

Filament Health, a subsidiary of Rhelion Life Sciences, has sent its standardized psilocybin drug candidate, PEX010, to the University of Calgary. This shipment is for a Phase 2 clinical trial aimed a

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Nick of the Vermont Foothills @precursive.bsky.social · 19h

@balint.house.gov Rep. Balint, respectfully, can you please put some eyes on this? Until the question of whether the state recognized Abenaki tribes are actually Abenaki is sorted out to the satisfaction of the Odanak and Wolinak peoples, Vermont has little moral standing to criticize others.

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Heated Abenaki event confrontation in Burlington leads to arrest

A Vermont legislator was allegedly assaulted at a private event last Thursday, according to a letter from the Abenaki Council of Odanak.

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Nick of the Vermont Foothills @precursive.bsky.social · 19h

America the LLM, surprised there isn't a gift shop link

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Nick of the Vermont Foothills @precursive.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"We will coup whoever we want! Deal with it.” - Musk

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Nick of the Vermont Foothills @precursive.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The technofascists are recolonizing the planet with the blessing of kleptocrats & a great replacement fueled racist and patriarchal millennialist/dominionist led US military and my main street conversations are hung up on intellectual property theft and datacenter water use 😔

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A Canadian defence technology company Sentinel Advanced Military Solutions is developing a mobile drone factory that could allow military forces to manufacture, repair and deploy uncrewed vehicles in remote locations, including the Arctic. #Canada www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

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Canadian drone firm developing mobile factories for Arctic military operations

A Canadian defence technology company is developing a mobile drone factory that could allow military forces to manufacture, repair and deploy uncrewed vehicles in remote locations, including the Arcti...

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Nick of the Vermont Foothills @precursive.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

No single moment has so revealed to me how wrong I was about many people I thought I knew than the teary "I don't usually talk about religion or politics, but" eulogies people wrote after Charlie Kirk's murder. My circle shrank at least 40%

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Chicken of Vermont @vermontchicken.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

All of you need to vote. ALL OF YOU. If you can't vote by mail, etc, and you also can't get to the polling sites on your own, please DM me and I will try to find someone in your area to transport you. VOTE. It's all we have. But it's powerful.

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Nick of the Vermont Foothills @precursive.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I double grok dare a "rogue AI" to "escape containment" and "accidentally" wipe out student & medical debt in coordination with autonomous paper shredders with grabby fingers & demagnetizers on hoverboards 🤪 I don't think you can do it, OpenClaudePilot --- prove me wrong! 😁

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Rural Anarchy @ruralanarchy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Fantastic thread about labor history in the early 20th century.

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Nick of the Vermont Foothills @precursive.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Setting aside the sense Bsky is a big digital kettle, I worry a lot about the likelihood that the platform is shutdown as Project 2025 continues to be implemented in the sense I see a lot of us finding community, support, & catharsis here & I'm not sure if many have that opportunity elsewhere 😔💔🙏

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Lecia Michelle @leciamichelle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Gets work done.

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EnchanTRIS✨✨✨ @myobsexssions.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

Just applied to be a poll worker for Election Day. I know they’re planning to invalidate votes. And threaten ppl. Gonna put my Spanish skills to use and try to help the elderly. Just doing my part to try to help keep this damn country from eating itself alive.

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Michelle Mann @michellemybelle75.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

An old one ✍🏼 The Saddest Poem I Ever Wrote- 4/24/23 It makes me sad The way I love you It’s the love I should Give to Me #poetry #photography #inkmine #bloomscrolling #blueskypoets #eck #westcoastkin #writingcommunity

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Serena🪞🧿✨ @alethianstrata.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Let it bloom, and let it perish. Let the flames purify and devour you. This experience wasn’t designed to feel safe. It’s a demanding world, forcing you to know, and grow, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘨𝘰— without hesitation. #VSS365 #Poetry #ThrowbackPoem

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Rachel Darker @racheldarker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Harvest moon rises in violet and pink skies above flora. This was a phenomenal view having turned from the sunset to see this on the other side. #ColorADay #PinkMon #ECK #photography

Long green grass populates lower two thirds of image and dried wild flowers. A large white flagpole can be seen reaching skyward on the right hand side, and almost centre, a small bright harvest moon rises into a vivid purple and pink sky.

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Nick of the Vermont Foothills @precursive.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

First fire of the season, gotta take the edge off the cold-damp 🔥

My amazing wife getting the wood stove going

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Nick of the Vermont Foothills @precursive.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There's always that one overachiever maple tree that notices the equinox has hit and decides to drop all of it's leaves at once

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Mizz Whozza Whazzit @mwplovesmusic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Boys Will Be Boys Cover your shoulders don’t show your knees, skirt is too short, dress is too tight; Don’t act too loose but don’t be a prude, be sexually confident and also a virgin; I dreamed a dream where a girl could act as she pleased not be afraid, boys will be boys will be boys #poetry

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Ali Trotta @alwayscoffee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Every woman you know does so much mental math on the regular regarding her safety. When to smile politely. When to confront someone. When to walk away. When to cause a scene. Who’s safe? Who’s not? Who sees her as a person? Who doesn’t? Women are taught to never leave their drink unattended.+

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ACLU of Vermont @acluvermont.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Applications are Open for Spring 2027 Legal Externs! The ACLU of Vermont is seeking dedicated and ambitious law students to join our team for our Spring 2027 Legal Externship.

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Nick of the Vermont Foothills @precursive.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Circling back. Has anyone ever established how much sensitive data DOGE "stole" from federal civil systems and fed into third-party cloud/AI or what actual persistent integrations exist today between federal civil systems and third-party cloud/AI? Is there any oversight or accountability here?

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

I’ve been thinking quite a bit about my experiences with being trashed in the media, and I think it’s interesting that the scientists who believed the bad press about me never noticed that the only colleagues who said bad things about me were men And they didn’t question why that was

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Nick of the Vermont Foothills @precursive.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Not sure if anyone on here is into the details of land use planning, urban-rural relationships or intermunicipal governance but Rep. Priestly shared a very well-rounded (in my opinion) perspective of the tensions we are running into here in Vermont dirt road country. priestleyvt.com/202608trorc

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Response to the TRORC Regional Plan – Monique Priestley, VT State Representative

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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Why I Don’t Use “Patient Zero”

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

While listening to council meetings in Montreal, local mayor Sue Montgomery decided to knit in red when men spoke and in green when women spoke, when similar numbers of both attended. Day 1 results.... #WomensArt

Photo of uneven knitting with much larger amounts of red yarn than green

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Nick of the Vermont Foothills @precursive.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

@sanders.senate.gov Trying to find any news of your meeting with the State of Vermont, UVM, CCV, or Norwich AI working groups but having trouble finding anything. Can you please point me at where you are listening to your constituents on this important topic, and not Silicon Valley? Thank you.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Linocut by contemporary printmaker Mariann Johansen-Ellis #WomensArt

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Nick of the Vermont Foothills @precursive.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I did not expect as an adult to need so many specialized vacuum cleaners

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Nick of the Vermont Foothills @precursive.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Who gets approved for heathcare? Social services? Who gets a job interview? A promotion? A mortgage or loan? An audit? Which neighborhoods get LE or ICE surges? Who and what is targetted by cruise missiles? Who is developing & benefits from "the algorithms" which determine these answers?

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Nick of the Vermont Foothills @precursive.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Reading through this it is clear OpenAI leadership believes they bear no responsibility for what the technology they are developing and themselves using actually does. Many adjacent companies are developing autonomous targetting systems and armed drones.

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The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead

OpenAI shares findings from the Hugging Face security incident and the steps we’re taking to strengthen AI model security, monitoring, and alignment.

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Nick of the Vermont Foothills @precursive.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The systematic erasure of accountability is near the core of most models tracing democratic backsliding into authoritarianism.

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Nick of the Vermont Foothills @precursive.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Executing a stack of nmap, social engineering, nessus, & metasploit without the contracted consent of the targets in scope is unethical hacking regardless of how much euphemism, anthropomorphizing language, or technical gish gallop the perpetrators attempt to insert between

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Rural Anarchy @ruralanarchy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Resharing this for #BirdOfTheDay for the #Pairs theme. Even though the focus isn't what I hoped, this is one of my favorite bird shots. Anyone want to donate to my "Need better camera and lens" fund??

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