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Queer, anti-fascist, progressive socialist. Support trans lives, Black lives, science, history, art, facts, the future. Free Palestine. No AI/LLMs. She/her. White.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 5h
This was a pretty small protest, but it honestly seemed incredibly effective. I don’t think that they’ve done this before, the only time I’ve been to a protest at this building was on a weekend. I really don’t think these workers liked being shamed!
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River Talesien🏳️‍🌈🖖🦉📖✒️ @rivertalesien.northsky.social · 6h
This is now available on YT and I hope folks watch, listen and sit with it: the anger, the heartbreak, all of it. I can't help but think, all the time, we could have a better world but for patriarchy and capitalism. www.youtube.com/watch?v=05gd...
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Jacob Geller, Cornell & the Future We Save for Men
YouTube video by Jessie Gender
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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 10h
Very sad to hear that Margaret Hamilton has passed away. Here's a short thread about her role in the Apollo mission, and her lesser-known work on the simulations that led to the discovery of Chaos Theory. 🧪 👩‍🔬 ⚛️
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Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.
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Balaeniceps tex 𓅣🌏🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️☭ @socialistpuffin.bsky.social · 8h
People tell me that socialism/communism doesn't work and yet we are seeing in real time the devastating consequences of a capitalist system. #Landback #CapitalismKills
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River Talesien🏳️‍🌈🖖🦉📖✒️ @rivertalesien.northsky.social · 8h
"Trump Account" Sponsored by billionaire donors. Hmm.
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River Talesien🏳️‍🌈🖖🦉📖✒️ @rivertalesien.northsky.social · 8h
Vancouver, if you're unaware, has a history with the so-called Tea Party and neo-Nazis and Proud Boys. I'd like to think this signals a change in a town that really doesn't like to.
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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 11h
City chambers shut down as #Memphis residents fight back against tech-fascist Elon Musk's data center. "...protesters chanted inside City Hall, police cleared the chamber and a fight broke out in the lobby." www.foxnews.com/politics/mem...
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Memphis City Council devolves into chaos after data center moratorium vote postponed
Memphis City Council delayed a vote on a data center moratorium as protesters chanted, police cleared the chamber and a fight broke out in the lobby.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 9h
At Monday's hearing, City Councilmember Eric Dinowitz repeatedly asked an OpenAI rep if this tech would write entire essays for students and she repeatedly avoided answering. The entire company is predatory trash run by obfuscators and liars.
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 13h
To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...
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One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center
A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 10h
"Dance is revolution. As dance sociologist Katrina Hazzard-Donald points out, every major uprising of the enslaved took place after a dance." - Alexis Pauline Gumbs Dance is also used as a way to rehearse tactics and maneuvers—and to harmonize spirits and courage— in preparation for battle. ✊🏾🎶🪘
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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 9h
Hundreds of infuriated parents and staff members descended on Portland Public Schools’ headquarters Tuesday night to protest far-reaching proposals to close up to 14 schools, shift grade configurations and programs and redraw attendance boundaries. www.oregonlive.com/education/20...
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 9h
This picture will always be iconic. RIP Margaret Hamilton who wrote the software that successfully guided NASA’s Apollo missions through the moon.
Margaret Hamilton with printed computer code in 1969. Credit: NASA/Alamy
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
People forget that J6 was successful. Everyone who participated was let out of jail and the guy who perpetrated it is President again. There were no consequences. They have plenty of incentive to do a much bigger and worse version.
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River Talesien🏳️‍🌈🖖🦉📖✒️ @rivertalesien.northsky.social · 07/10/2026
Union power is where it is at. When the workers do not show up, the boats cannot sail. That's a good lesson right now, America. It's not just "pay your people," it's "respect the people because we make it all happen and we can take it all away."
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AK Faulkner 🔜 NYCC @ravenswordpress.com · 07/10/2026
Seems like a good time to remind you that I maintain a moderation list for scammers who pester authors like this bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Whatever terrible impulses americans have, triple that for residents of Idaho.
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Trita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Wow! Senator @ChrisMurphyCT is denied entry to U.S. military facilities in the Persian Gulf. He wasn't even allowed to meet with military leaders! He believes this is on the order of Pete Hegseth, who is trying to hide the damage and the cost of this war of choice with Iran.
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Why isn't this on every TV screen and not the fairy tale of killer robots
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Whenever someone says 'agents make me more productive' I quickly realize that I'm talking to someone who aspires to be middle management, in charge of a bunch of Digital Jenny McCarthys, and I feel like their soul must have left their body years ago and left behind an empty, joyless void.
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River Talesien🏳️‍🌈🖖🦉📖✒️ @rivertalesien.northsky.social · 06/10/2026
But Michael Bay gets a job. With Spielberg. 😒
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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Your daily affirmation: The story of your life is not yet written. There's still time to add sword skills and accidental ownership of a dilapidated castle on the coast to your narrative.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026
I’m ready to be a CEO. I promise to take on debt, fire anyone who seems better than me at anything, and insist you’re going to love my product that kills you
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River Talesien🏳️‍🌈🖖🦉📖✒️ @rivertalesien.northsky.social · 06/10/2026
Voting isn't going to be enough.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
More politicians could use the public library (with its limitations) to make an affirmative case of the kind of society people could live in.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 05/10/2026
None of the "A.i." companies sent anyone to testify in person. They're all on video. Disrespectful and unserious.
Empty chairs at City Hall where witnesses should be sitting.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 05/10/2026
The Meta rep is doing a little ad for Muse while saying "super intelligence" instead of "artificial intelligence." Deeply unserious.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 05/10/2026
At this "A.i." hearing at the NYC City Hall and so far it's all goofy talk about Skynet/Terminator "A.i." superintelligence scenarios and nothing about actual massive current harms of regular schmegular trash "A.i."
testimony table and packed audience at NYC city hallcity council members at their seats in city hall. full member hearing
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River Talesien🏳️‍🌈🖖🦉📖✒️ @rivertalesien.northsky.social · 05/10/2026
This might be one the best things you'll watch: a deep historic and political insight into how we got here and what it takes to get to the next level. It's two hours, but it holds you for every single minute.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 05/10/2026
buncha weirdo fascist cultists
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In other Bolsonaro family news: Carlos (Jair's son) was elected senator, Michelle (Jair's wife) was elected senator, and Jair Renan (Jair's son) was elected as federal deputy.
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The US (federal govt and corporations) has been meddling in Brazil's democracy and economy for a long time now, trying to tip the scales in favor of the far-right. bsky.app/profile/ians...
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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 04/10/2026
[1969] Clangers - Stop-motion children's series, created by Oliver Postgate, made of short films about a family of mouse-like creatures who live on, and inside, a small moon-like planet. In this episode the Soup Dragon gets broody, and gains a son.
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Ralph 🔞 @ralphgreymuzzle.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
There is an event horizon where admitting error means a complete rejection of one's self identity, an incomprehensible self-destruction. The injured narcissist is the most dangerous animal alive. Centrism for the left is less about recovery than mitigating damages; many Trumpers in government.
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burgen wrope @lokimes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I have 30 something Trump neighbors. They're lost. Utterly. For them to even admit any kind of mess up would be astronomically unprecedented. You can't sway their diseased ideas. You can't coerce a cancer.
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I'm not naive enough to actually believe this will happen, but Democrats could be preparing, right now, lists of impeachment charges against (at a bare minimum) Hegseth, Kennedy, Mullin, Patel, Blanche, & Trump, as well as Bondi, Bovino, & Noem (still worth doing!) that rely purely on public facts,
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River Talesien🏳️‍🌈🖖🦉📖✒️ @rivertalesien.northsky.social · 04/10/2026
Remind me, what was Trump given felony charges for? Why does he owe millions to E. Jean Carroll? What's he been associated with most of his adult life? I mean, this is His Time. And it deserves to be remembered as such.
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River Talesien🏳️‍🌈🖖🦉📖✒️ @rivertalesien.northsky.social · 03/10/2026
Armed and masked men with no uniform or insignia, who answer to no one, can pick up anyone, at any time, throw them in a van and we may never know what happens to their victims. There's a lot that has to stop and change, and I'd love to start right here.
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River Talesien🏳️‍🌈🖖🦉📖✒️ @rivertalesien.northsky.social · 02/10/2026
Maybe they could start with trans folks and help safeguard their humanity, first.
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Zoe TunnHELL ➡️ NYCC @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The idea that Newsom is even remotely a serious candidate for president is so goddamn clown shoes at this point In the past month he's vetoed LGBTQ+ rights measures, pushed the Paramount merger through, further cozied up to AI barons and now this. Dude couldn't even win a Governor reelection now
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 01/10/2026
"An ambulance was seen arriving at the prison where Pike was to be executed and then leaving. Medical aid was being administered, according to online federal court records." The utter absurdity of the state trying twice to kill someone and then calling an ambulance. We must end the death penalty.
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Tennessee inmate still alive after being administered two lethal injections, her lawyer says
Christa Pike, 50, was 18 when she murdered a classmate. She would be the first woman the state has executed in more than 200 years.
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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
How the joy of helping Princess a little bit on this video go check it out. It’s great.
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River Talesien🏳️‍🌈🖖🦉📖✒️ @rivertalesien.northsky.social · 01/10/2026
Do not pull this shit, Oregon.
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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 30/09/2026
I really do think tech crossed a line at some point between "helping you do the things you want to do" on the one hand, and "helping you do the things tech wants you to do" on the other. At this point, we're all contorting ourselves to live how the tech industry thinks we should be living.
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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 30/09/2026
From 2023 to 2026, Google Earth's updated satellite imagery shows what's left of Gaza. The images reflect what Human Rights Watch has already found: Israel has caused deliberate, widespread destruction throughout Gaza ⤵️
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NASA's MESSENGER Satellite Captures Spectacular Color Mosaic of Mercury - From Goddard Space Flight Center - flic.kr/p/9uD599
NASA image acquired: January 14, 2008

This spectacular color mosaic shows the eastern limb of Mercury as seen by MESSENGER as the spacecraft departed the planet following the mission's first Mercury flyby in January 2008. The colors of this image are not those that would be seen by the human eye but instead convey information about the distribution of different rock types on Mercury's surface. The different rock types result in subtle color variations across all of the 11 WAC narrow-band color filters. The Caloris basin, visible as a large bright yellow circular area in this image due to its infill of volcanic plains, dominates the northern region. A similar image was published in Science magazine in July 2008, but it only covered the northern half of the region shown here. To create this larger color mosaic, MESSENGER Science Team members had to also devise a method to deal with scattered light in the 11 different WAC filters. MESSENGER has obtained color imaging at this resolution only for the portions of Mercury seen on departure from Mercury flybys 1 and 2. 

As spectacular as this color image is, it is just a taste of what is yet to come. In 2011, MESSENGER will become the first spacecraft ever to orbit Mercury and begin a year-long observing campaign that includes imaging all of Mercury's surface in color at an average resolution of about 1 kilometer/pixel (0.6 miles/pixel), a resolution that is about a factor of three better than this already impressive image.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It feels genuinely ridiculous having to say this, but the point of art is to connect with another human. Someone thought of that painting or melodic line or scene or paragraph that is suddenly making you weep, and that means that they saw you and understood you without even meeting you.
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River Talesien🏳️‍🌈🖖🦉📖✒️ @rivertalesien.northsky.social · 30/09/2026
Take some heart: systems degrade over time. Entropy will have it. When Clod has gone the way of the dodo, vinyl will probably remain.
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Scholars for a New Deal for Higher Ed @sfndhe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Same in CT. It's cuts cuts cuts ideology at extreme. Society way past 1980s tax/welfare revolt, past peak neolib austerity of early 2000s. Now completely culturally+socially submerged and political-economically engaged in race of cuts. No space for other creative thinking. Only cuts. @aaup.org
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 30/09/2026
“That, to me, was an implicit threat. It feels very Palantir. Very Big Brother”: MP @labourlewis.bsky.social reveals Tom Watson has warned him over criticising Palantir By @carolecadwalla.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/clive-lewi...
‘We’re watching you’: MP Clive Lewis reveals Tom Watson has warned him over criticising Palantir. (l-r): Clive Lewis, Tom Watson and the Palantir logo, against a pink background
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