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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 12h

let’s get down to business to defeat the buns

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 3h

Here's the thing: most books that are banned don't make the lists that get circulated each #BannedBooksWeek. If you're a book creator and your book gets banned, please respond to this post with your book and its buy link on bookshop.org. That way we can support indies and banned books 💛

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Bookshop.org: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.

A better way to buy books online. Every purchase financially supports local independent bookstores.

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 3h

she’s working through some stuff

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 20h

this is why we don’t do “poor Melania” or write fanfic narratives where the wives of these men are victims. they wake up every day of their marriage and choose this

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 6h

Every time I think I’ve hit the bottom of my outrage, they find a new pocket…

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 7h

There's a reason why Somerville hasn't had a traffic death in 4 years. The city isn't perfect, but they've made a concerted effort to design many streets around people and not cars. You can still drive, but you're going to have to do so slowly and while paying attention.

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Somerville is intentionally making roads harder to drive on. It’s getting results. - The Boston Globe

To make roads safer, the city says, sometimes you have to put some obstacles in drivers' way.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 8h

The Branch Manager takes the lane

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 11h

I don't think I've made this point on this platform before it's no coincidence IMO that so much fash faux nostalgia AI slop is indistinguishable from the most gonzo dystopian "what the whole hep world would be doing Saturday night if the Nazis had won the war, this is the sixth Reich" parodies, IE:

its charlie kirk rting an obviously AI image of a 4th of july parade saying "this is what we're fighting for." indeed.

its the roswell level from wolfenstein new order. if you haven't played it, it's really something. before going into the cafe, make sure to explore the whole level, sticking around to listen to the npc dialogue in full. fucking dead on.

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 7h

A note re:grousing I'm seeing on the skyline: Ethical journalists conducing careful investigations need to interview a lot of people, do a lot of fact checking, and go through legal review. Not seeing reporting about the horrific sexual abuse in SV right now doesn't mean people aren't working on it.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 9h

If you're in these 3 states, *TODAY* is deadline to register to vote. Alaska Rhode Island South Carolina Even if you think you've registered: doesn't hurt to check everything is in order. Do it now. And there's a lot to vote for across them. A thread with stakes on each. ⬇️

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Ketracel Black @ketracelblack.blacksky.app · 8h

I did not know Pierre but everyone in my Haitian family was hurt when we heard about his suicide. Reading this, that throwing himself intro traffic was the only way to make this guy feel empathy for him and other Haitians - it hurts all over again in a new way.

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 8h

If you haven't read a recent author whose works have been banned? This is a great week to change that.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 19h

ALERTE: PUMPKIN WOLFE

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Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 04/10/2026

A spokesperson for the Maryland Department of the Environment said in a statement Friday that inspectors estimate nearly 11,000 fish died across 25 species, with preliminary findings suggesting the die-off was caused by an overflow at a Kilby Farms manure lagoon. buff.ly/9z3DdQV

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

With AI use, as with politics and public life in general: bring back shame (as @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social says)

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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 03/10/2026

Anyway here is local celebrity Derby, a dachshund. She has a generally positive outlook on life and enjoys her walks, though her legs are very short

A chubby dachshund with a red leash standing on the sidewalk, looking you expectantly at you

Derby again. Her length and girth are, somehow, even more glorious here

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Meowloween @queerkitty.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

WTF is the context of “we’re in the Old Testament right now”?

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 03/10/2026

the NEH is a ghost of an organization. the NEA's budget is $29 million. I'm not saying this to be pissy, but simply to say that when we rebuild - and we will rebuild - I expect solidarity from my STEM colleagues as we robustly expand research in the arts and humanities as well.

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Meowloween @queerkitty.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I may start using chippidimunk. Would a husky one be a chippidichonk?

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

look at this silly little shit

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 03/10/2026

“Spain doesn't have a problem of a lack of decrees. It has a problem of a lack of housing.” Many such cases!!!!!

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Meowloween @queerkitty.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Omg of course! Especially with how petroleum-based fabrics melt. Damn, I completely forgot cigarette smoking *existed* when I typed that, much less that people do it indoors.

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Meowloween @queerkitty.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

it is very odd how it can be inclusive and then very like, Tory or brexit-coded.

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Meowloween @queerkitty.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Yeah that’s ultimately what made us stop watching tbh. We tried a bit after Mel & Sue left but the way they are about foods from most nonwhite cultures is just too much—especially w/Paul randomly deciding to vote against ppl bc he doesn’t enjoy like, matcha or yuzu.

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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 03/10/2026

owls always look surprised but even with that this one looks pretty startled. "as God as my witness I thought squirrels could not fly"

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Meowloween @queerkitty.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

this lowers their risk of harm in case of say, a house fire spreading at night.

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Meowloween @queerkitty.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Yes, theres a lot of consumer/child protection built into children’s clothing (especially wrt safe dyes and fabrics), and sleepwear in particular is supposed to be flame retardant or reduce fire risk through fabrics and fit.

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My Minnesota friends have already seen this, but I keep thinking about it and want more people outside our state to, too.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/10/2026

It has been 118 years since the Supreme Court ruled the federal government owes tribes water, but Native American communities in northern Arizona are still fighting for their rights to the Colorado River. (Published June)

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Native American Tribes Came Together to Secure Their Rights to Colorado River Water. Four States Are Stalling the Deal.

Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming are resisting the deal because it would allow the Navajo and Hopi to lease water to cities downstream, likely the growing towns around Phoenix.

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Jännät @jaennaet.fi · 03/10/2026

"Either this is gross incompetence from Google’s Finnish project company, […] or gross disregard for Finnish legislation, or at worst both" Knowing Finns, the project company was probably more than happy to help Google break environmental laws, so this is probably not down to just incompetence

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Google Accused of Illegally Killing a Massive Forest for Its New Data Center Project

Google is under fire for clearing over 300 hectares of forest for new data centers in Finland without the required environmental assessments.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Wrote a thing Monday. Got held back and is a weekend read at the Guardian today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

While the criminal justice system should address reports of rape, we know that rates of conviction are appallingly low for a number of reasons. Although, thanks to feminist interventions, the legal system is better equipped to understand this crime and less prejudiced against victims, we will not change the world through that means.

After rape allegations at Cornell University, why are women again being urged to talk to their sons? Why not men?
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Sexual assault arises in part through both the entitlement and the desire to abuse and dehumanize women, which is in part about definitions of both masculinity and femininity: masculinity in that domination, violation and degradation are seen as status-enhancing, femininity in the perception that women’s bodies are for men to use, women’s voices and rights to be ignored.

The most compelling thing I’ve read in response to the Cornell case is in an essay by feminist writer Soraya Chemaly. She cites anthropologist Peggy Sanday, who told her that there are “rape-prone” and “rape-free” societies: “She found that in rape-free cultures, women have far more authority, status, safety and freedom.”

They’re societies in which women’s rights to bodily and social self-determination are respected, and a man who violates those rights would face severe consequences. “Rape-prone cultures, on the other hand, treat rape as an entitlement in a system that revolves around masculine contests and hierarchies.”

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Oh so all of New York is one of those consensual non-consent parties that we were all horrified about in Silicon Valley last week. You pick up a drink, you’re agreeing to whatever sexual violation is done to you. That seems like it should be changed immediately.

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 03/10/2026

Busan has a new resident named Bukangi, a shark who started chilling in the canals near the train station a couple weeks ago. The city has been trying all sorts of schemes to gently lead her back to the ocean but she foils every attempt and swims back and forth being admired by crowds of fans.

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nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 03/10/2026

i think this gets easier as you get older and grow into yourself, and i think it helps to remember that you don't owe loyalty to someone because they made media that touched you

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Republicans eagerly accept money from their largest donor, who generates and distributes nude fakes. He's welcome at the White House and he's welcome to run ads supporting their campaigns

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

it wouldn't be appropriate to ICE whistle people who aren't actually ICE because we don't want to scare our neighbors and make them feel unsafe. i move we get a second kind of noisemaker that means "come jeer this asshole"

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I would advise people not to talk to USA Today for any reason, about anything ever, based on this thread. It's bad enough that the whole profession is circling the drain, but for a remaining publication to feed interviews into a slopifier without telling sources? When it's about SA? I just.. 🌋

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And still, all of it could have been avoided if USA Today respected the experts they interview. They could have been one of the only publications to get it right *from the beginning* by platforming the concerns that sexual violence researchers had as soon as we saw the DA's statement.

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I've been a journalist for 35 yrs &never done anything like this. Esp in this area, I can't think of anyone reputable who'd do this. I hate this happened to you & IMO it's not ethical. IF it were possible they were going to share yr interview internally, you should have been told up front at MINIMUM

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Meowloween @queerkitty.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Dusting off this one again: now is the time to sign up for training as an advocate for survivors of sexual and intimate partner violence! look for volunteer advocacy trainings near you. surviving sexual violence is very hard, advocates help a great deal!

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John "Johnnyd2" Dolan @johnnyd2.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

no posting like Catposting! Bartleys a good zoomie boi!

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Trump's lawlessness is more pressing, but let's not forget: the GWBush admin was also overflowing with incompetent, corrupt Republicans who were pathologically hostile to the rule of law. None of this was necessary or helpful, but it made them feel manly and it was good money for gov't contractors.

“A detainee who is shackled, transported to a former C.I.A. black site, and intentionally kept ignorant of both his right to remain silent and the inadmissibility of his prior coerced confessions, cannot be said to be making an ‘essentially free and unconstrained choice,’” he wrote.

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Meowloween @queerkitty.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

off the chart levels of fuckboy

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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Your periodic reminder that the decision to pursue a professional ballet career happens at similar or earlier age to most youth gender affirming care and has significantly more lifetime impact on peer socialization, how the body looks and overall health than social transition and puberty blockers.

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Meowloween @queerkitty.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Respirators/masks have a lot of uses and it will always be a failure of 🇺🇸 society that their use is now scoffed at. 2020-2021 had the lowest number of flu cases & deaths since records began (*one* reported pediatric flu death), and last year—especially severe—we saw an estimated 45,000 deaths.

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About Estimated Flu Burden

Each year, CDC estimates the burden of flu in the U.S to understand the impact of flu each season

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