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Diana Gill @dianagilleditorial.com · 28/09/2026

Apparently people are deleting the eBird & Merlin apps bc of the horrific frat news at Cornell? WTAF. Both apps were created by ornithologists (inc. my dad) based on bird tracking & ID programs created by my father & colleagues, then the program admin moved to Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

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Just Mike @abolitionorbust.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Deleting the Merlin Bird app "in solidarity with rape victims" is peak liberal nonsense Yes, let's take actions that are detrimental to ornithologists in their fight to save bird populations by doing something that literally does nothing to harm those in power at Cornell or the rapists

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Rhonda Lea Kirk Fries @rhondalea.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This right here. You folks who are deleting the app have lost your critical thinking faculties and your common sense. Seriously, what are you hoping to accomplish by penalizing researchers for the actions of others who are not them?

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 15/09/2026

This is one of the funniest threads I’ve read in ages. At no point does OP break, and the landlords, well, www.reddit.com/r/Landlord/c...

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Jenny Schwartz @jennyschwartz.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I'm asking for a huge favor. If you're in the US & have an Amazon Prime subscription, my cozy dystopian fantasy novel "Stray Magic" has just entered Prime Reads. If enough people claim a copy this first week, Amazon's algorithms should give it some love. That would be amazing! 🙏📚💖 a.co/d/0bqpTdT8

The cover of stray Magic featuring a woman and a griffin, and the words a prime free read Sep to Nov 2026

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Rhonda Lea Kirk Fries @rhondalea.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I can think of a few people I'd feed this to.

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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Miller: "It's not a coincidence that when you look at these violent Antifa demonstrations not one of the people that is demonstrating looks like a normal person. Not one looks normal. They're all deformed in some way in their appearance, in their dress, in their mannerism." #cdnpoli

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Rhonda Lea Kirk Fries @rhondalea.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Not really, but it ought to be. (Cloud Dancer (Pantone 11-4201) is the color for 2026.)

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Rhonda Lea Kirk Fries @rhondalea.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Years back, a usenet loon got mad at me and signed me up for mailing lists. A lot of mailing lists, most of them obscure and offensive. More recently, my email address has been in breaches beyond count, so the effect on my spam folder is like that of last century's mailing list debacle.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 29/04/2026

🧵1️⃣/4️⃣ Government information is public memory – and it needs protecting. The Preservation of Government Information: A Call to Action urges institutions and individuals to commit to preserving the public record. Read it. Sign it. Share it. 📝 publicinformationtrust.org

A hand-drawn sketchnote recorded by Jasmin Pamukcu summarizing a featured session on A Stewardship Manifesto by James R. Jacobs, including goals around data preservation, policy advocacy, and activating a shared ecosystem, with a James Madison quote on government and public information as the problem statement.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

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Rhonda Lea Kirk Fries @rhondalea.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

And for the second time in too short a time, I find myself in sympathy with an individual I don't especially care for. Trump and his minions make my head hurt.

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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

We have ONE WEEK left to tell the Senate to #FundLibraries in next year's federal budget. Are you ready to take action? Call your Senators TODAY and remind them how important libraries are to your community - and how important it is that they provide robust federal funding: ala.org/showup

Fund Libraries: Tell Congress to invest in libraries. ALA 150, American Library Association, #FundLibraries

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 20/03/2026

Through the end of March, CREDO Mobile customers can vote for EFF and two other organizations to receive a generous donation from the CREDO community. Vote for EFF today to support our work defending civil liberties in the digital world! www.credodonations.com/

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MAinNC @martyd409.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

CONGRATS @bsky.app @rose.bsky.team THE SUNDAY NYT PUZZLE 😊

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

The sort of people who support ICE and the Trump Administration are fine with this because she’s black, because she’s a woman, because she‘s Somali-American, and because THEY are shitty people with shitty values from a shitty culture.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Hegseth sucks. The Qataris suck. But we aren’t giving Qatar an airbase in Idaho. It’s building dorms etc. at an existing base to train them on F-15s we sold them, just like Singapore already has there. Common arrangement we have with lots of countries. This one was already being planned under Biden.

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Rhonda Lea Kirk Fries @rhondalea.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Cats are my favorite creatures, but I've never let a rat I didn't like. They're smart and they can be trained to do almost anything. apnews.com/video/meet-t...

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Meet the rats sniffing out landmines in Cambodia

African giant pouched rats have such a keen sense of smell, they are being used to detect landmines across Cambodia.

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Rhonda Lea Kirk Fries @rhondalea.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

apnews.com/article/trum... “I mean, nobody knows what I’m going to do.” Nine words to define a presidency.

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Hypoautonomic, BS @hypoautonomic.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

The Alt National Park Service account calls itself the official "resistance" team of the US National Park Service. With 887k followers, is one of the biggest accounts on Bluesky. It is the 11 most followed account according to some trackers. This thread will dive into its activity. 🧵 1/x.

The Alt National Park Service account. 887 thousand followers.
"The officla 'Resistance' team of the U.S. National Park Service. Our Website: www.ourparks.org

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Rhonda Lea Kirk Fries @rhondalea.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

I never knew they were gone, but the song is adorable.

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Rhonda Lea Kirk Fries @rhondalea.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

@jeffreyherderson22.bsky.social Why are you using a photo of Barry Du Bois as your profile picture?

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Frieren, 🏳️‍⚧️ Tiefling Princess @fes4ever.northsky.social · 02/06/2025

For those that need alt text

Post says: Statement from Tristan Kern de Gonzales
Husband of Jonathan Joss
My husband Jonathan Joss and I were involved in a shooting while checking the mail at the site of our former home. That home was burned down after over two years of threats from people in the area who repeatedly told us they would set it on fire. We reported these threats to law enforcement multiple times and nothing was done.
Throughout that time we were harassed regularly by individuals who made it clear they did not accept our relationship. Much of the harassment was openly homophobic.
When we returned to the site to check our mail we discovered the skull of one of our dogs and its harness placed in clear view. This caused both of us severe emotional distress. We began yelling and crying in response to the pain of what we saw.
While we were doing this a man approached us. He started yelling violent homophobic slurs at us. He then raised the gun in his lap and fired.

Jonathan and I had no weapons. We were not threatening anyone. We were grieving. We were standing side by side. When the man fired Jonathan pushed me out of the way. He saved my life.
Jonathan is my husband. He gave me more love in our time together than most people ever get. We were newlyweds. We picked Valentines Day. We were in the process of looking for a trailer and planning our future.
He was murdered by someone who could not stand the sight of two men loving each other.
I was with him when he passed. I told him how much he was loved.
To everyone who supported him, his fans, his friends, know that he valued you deeply. He saw you as family.
My focus now is on protecting Jonathan's legacy and honoring the life we built together.
If your concern is how someone coped with trauma or how loudly they speak when recounting injustice and being ignored by authorities then you never truly cared about my husband.
Jonathan saved my life. I will carry that forward. I will protect what he built.

- Tristan Kern de Gonzales

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Dean Devlin @electricentertainment.com · 26/05/2025

Thank you to everyone for watching with me tonight! Another episode tomorrow on @tntdrama #TheLibrarians #TheLibrariansTNC - if you missed it, you can see it On Demand and in the TNT app. If you don’t have your subscription yet, you can see the first episode for free on ElectricNOW!

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The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 24/05/2025

British surgeon at mother’s hospital says the Gaza-based family had no political connections

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Israeli airstrike kills nine of doctor’s ten children

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Rhonda Lea Kirk Fries @rhondalea.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

x.com/EllenBarkin/... I experienced cognitive impairment because of cancer and its treatment. People like me may think and speak a bit slowly, but we're still coherent. In contrast, word salad is a common feature of dementia, and it's what comes out whenever Trump opens his mouth to speak.

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Rhonda Lea Kirk Fries @rhondalea.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

@washingtonpost.com I'd planned to keep my sub; then I read Thiessen's fictitious account of Zelenskyy's meeting with Trump and Vance. After that, I reread the meeting transcript. If what the Post intends to publish is that which flies in the face of actual fact, I have no use for it.

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Bill Holbrook @billholbrook.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

www.kevinandkell.com/2025/kk0114....

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Bill Holbrook @billholbrook.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

www.kevinandkell.com/2025/kk0113....

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Bill Holbrook @billholbrook.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

www.kevinandkell.com/2025/kk0110....

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Rhonda Lea Kirk Fries @rhondalea.bsky.social · 07/07/2024

Really, @googlenews? In my news feed? These headlines are patently false, and there is no danger. Such notifications feed conspiracy theories. Here are the facts. www.nasa.gov/solar-system...

Google News notification that says "NASA has warned of a massive asteroid...."

Results of Google News notification from subpar publications whose headlines make it seem that Earth is about to be hot by an asteroid.

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