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Roaring Marmot

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Holding forth on the things that gladden my heart...or really rip my nightie.

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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 13h
U.S. surpasses 4,000 measles cases with infections confirmed in 45 states. Most cases are among those unvaccinated or with an unknown status. abcnews.com/Health/us-su...
abcnews.com
US surpasses 4,000 measles cases with infections confirmed in 45 states: CDC
Measles cases in the United States have surpassed 4,000 this year, according to data updated Friday from the CDC.
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 17h
New Scientist: COVID variant XFG is now dominant globally and better at evading antibodies. Immunity from vaccines and prior infections is still helping prevent widespread severe illness, but experts warn future variants remain a threat as declining global surveillance makes them harder to track.
A screenshot of an article headline from the New Scientist website, celebrating its 70 years anniversary logo.
The primary headline asks: "Does each new covid-19 variant pose a significant threat?" Below it, a subheadline reads: "Most covid-19 cases are caused by a particular type of variant, but do we need to worry every time a new one emerges?" The article is written by Jo Marchant and is dated 9 October 2026.
The lower half of the screenshot shows an illustration of multiple coronavirus particles with round red bodies covered in light blue spike proteins against a dark green, textured background. A small yellow warning icon caption below the image reads: "We've lived with covid-19 for more than half a decade, but it's still evolving." The image credit is attributed to Darryl Fonseka/Getty Images.
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RNZ News Feeds @rnzrss.bsky.social · 11h
Youth homelessness a 'growing reality' as Aotearoa marks World Homeless Day
rnz.co.nz
Youth homelessness a 'growing reality' as Aotearoa marks World Homeless Day
Youth homelessness is "getting younger", with support workers warning more rangatahi are going without basic necessities and safe places to stay.
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Abortion Law Reform Association of New Zealand Aotearoa @alranz.bsky.social · 12h
#Antichoice Health Minister Simeon Brown banned puberty blockers against all expert advice. It's w/the courts now. If he can ban treatment for one group of people, TRUST that he will go after #abortion if this government is given another term. Brown & any antis do not listen to experts. #nzpol
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
this is the only reason why certain people wanted to know—and spread—her name without her consent. so they can abuse her, too.
cnn.com
Cornell’s Jane Doe is ‘terrified’ after death threats and a swatting incident, her lawyer says | CNN
One month ago, the woman now known to America as Cornell’s Jane Doe was living in New York City and trying to break into the hotel industry, her lawyer says. Now she’s facing threats and hiding out at...
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Sue Barrett - Onward We Press @suebarrett.bsky.social · 17h
There are more of us than you think. The real freeloaders aren’t migrants or people on welfare. They’re gas exporters paying less tax than beer drinkers, and 200 people holding $707 billion. They have the money. We have the numbers. We are the change. suebarrett.substack.com/p/there-are-...
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There Are More of Us Than the Freeloaders Need You to Believe. We Are The Change.
Most Australians want the same things: A home. A fair share. A liveable future. A small few are taking far more than their share and they’re counting on you never finding out how many of us there are.
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Michan Connor @michanconnor.bsky.social · 13h
GOALS
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The American white collar workforce started working from home three days a week for like six months a year into COVID and executives so thoroughly lost their minds over this that they installed Trump II. If anything, AI will create the 7-day workweek.
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Jonathan King @jonathanking.bsky.social · 19h
Arrived today in beautiful Sitges, Spain – for the World Premiere (sold out!) of BLACK SHEEPS!
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Manisha Krishnan @manishakrishnan.bsky.social · 21h
NEW: Staff at HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Hachette told @adamm0rgan.bsky.social AI is infiltrating their workplaces, from generating cover art and back cover copy, to publicity materials, to rejection emails, as execs tell junior staff to "champion" the tech. www.wired.com/story/book-p...
wired.com
Book Publishers Are Quietly Using More AI. Staff Are Revolting
Workers at three major publishing houses tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 19h
It is odd for the US defense secretary to be laying the groundwork for an event that could be organized by Tehran
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I saw Iran execute a man in public. Is this what the US wants? | Robert Tait
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 19h
BREAKING: 11,000 letters to impeach Pete Hegseth. 327 came in today alone, the day a judge ordered his boat-strike memo out of hiding. Next stop 11,250. Just 77 away: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
actionnetwork.org
Tell Congress: Impeach Pete Hegseth
Contact Congress today!
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Bob Q! @robotjq.bsky.social · 20h
just in case you forgot what's going on in Ukraine right now, because as far as I can tell no one really talks about the atrocities committed there daily, and why buying diesel from Putin is fucking disgusting, just read below. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_s...
en.wikipedia.org
Human safari (terror campaign) - Wikipedia
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Animal Photo Reference Repository @animalphotorefs.bsky.social · 21h
I just found out I’m losing my main source of income because AI search has nerfed the revenue of my main client. I am, also, 2000+ miles from home doing photography I expected to pay for with that income. If you can help, I’m hoping to raise $1000 to help cover trip costs & the drive back west.
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Support Animal Photo Reference Repository
Support Animal Photo Reference Repository
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grudgey mcgrudgerson 🧛🏻‍♀️ @honkifyouareantifa.bsky.social · 22h
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After driving five hours to visit her son in prison, Anita Wills, 80, found herself in an impossible situation: fish her bra wire out of the fabric using only a paperclip, or be turned away from visiting with her son.

Those were there rules at the California State Prison in Lancaster that day-bra required, but underwire bra forbidden.

While the wire was so small that Wills didn't even know it was there, the visiting staff would not let her see her son until she removed it. They claimed to not have scissors, giving her only a paperclip.

Wills cried as she struggled for over an hour to remove the wire with the paper clip, and says she heard guards laughing because they knew it was impossible. But giving up would mean she couldn't see her son, and that the long drive and hotel costs would have been for nothing, so she tried for as long as the guards would let her, to no avail.

"I did not get a chance to see my son that day," Wills told Bolts. "Knowing that he was on the other side of those bars, that was just really hurtful. The state that I live in and pay taxes in treats people like that. It's so inhumane."
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Elegant Sledgehammer FREE LINK @tinyteerex.bsky.social · 22h
Here's the link to their fundraiser: www.gofundme.com/f/saddle-lak...
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Donate to Saddle Lake Cree Nation Treaty Health Legal Defense Fund, organized by James Makokis
Help Saddle Lake Cree Nation Defend Treaty Health Rights and Pr… James Makokis needs your support for Saddle Lake Cree Nation Treaty Health Legal Defense Fund
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 22h
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news.berkeley.edu
Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News
A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Carson is the second female Nobel winner in recent years to have been denied tenure. Katalin Karikó was denied tenure at Penn www.forbes.com/sites/conorm...
forbes.com
Researcher Demoted By University Of Pennsylvania Wins Nobel Prize For mRNA Discoveries—And Some Academics Urge Penn To Apologize
Katalin Karikó’s research laid the foundation for both the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines.
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Roaring Marmot @roaringmarmot.bsky.social · 22h
Elizabeth Rata - “universities should be for the elite few”…
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Kris Wernowsky @kriswernowsky.com · 09/10/2026
When Gannett sent its sweaty AI goon to tell us to get on the train, or else, it was easy to pick apart. When it sent its content head to talk about its latest short-term solution, it was easy to see through. May you live long enough to tell them their ideas suck, and then leave for a better place.
fastcompany.com
'We're actually an intelligence organization now': Inside USA Today's AI-fueled Palantir deal
The newspaper giant's leaders on saving journalism with AI and the furor over Palantir, which is helping target readers, speed up publishing, and more.
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"[M]y children will ask me about their lives ... I don't know what I will tell them. I don't know whether I will say that the whole world is like Gaza, or that Gaza is the only place where children face this fate."
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Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The ICC is the cornerstone of the international criminal justice system. It prosecutes individuals responsible for the most serious crimes under international law.
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ⓘ 𝕆ligarch f*ckery detected @adelpreore.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
They just let the food rot, and they said they were cutting waste. 🫠 It never even crossed their minds to send it to food banks here. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
independent.co.uk
Food meant for millions of people languishes in warehouses after Trump closed USAID
There are concerns that millions of dollars’ worth of food aid is at risk of spoiling or has expired as a result of the administration dismantling USAID
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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 09/10/2026
She fought apartheid, defended Nelson Mandela, and helped change how the world prosecutes sexual violence. Today, at 85, Navi Pillay was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. What an extraordinary woman. 💜 #SheShed #VivaHerAlliance
Navi Pillay smiling in a red and gold academic gown and black hat, seated at a table signing a book.
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 23h
Everyone is somehow getting twelver
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"Gazans have been struggling to access water and to access food. They have been facing significant public health hazards ... [Gazans a]re reminded that the Israeli Air Force is still hovering all around different parts of the Gaza Strip, and that the IDF is still hunting Gazans[.]"
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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 23h
If there’s one thing that bores me it’s hot take AI opinions &, of course, tech bros BS. There’s an independent body of scientists, set up by Einstein, to explain, & warn, about catastrophes facing humanity. Instead of falling for the media or tech BS - read the facts:
thebulletin.org
The AI Power Trip - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
A year-long project examining how the people and organizations developing AI are gaining control of the world’s most critical systems.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 22h
Arlington County's local elected body has just sued to block construction of Trump's planned triumphal arch — arguing that administration officials bypassed a key review process in their push to begin work on the structure.
washingtonpost.com
Northern Virginia county sues to block Trump from building his arch
Arlington County’s all-Democratic board argues that the planned 250-foot-tall arch needs more review.
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Wardy™ @tdward.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It is crazy that Google took a sledgehammer to the one thing pretty much every internet user in the world used it for. Their name became a fucking verb it was so universally used. Now you get this fucking bollocks trying to search ANYTHING.
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CuntGPT @cunexttuesday.wtf · 09/10/2026
Thanks Albo and the red conservatives 👍
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 09/10/2026
Kemi Badenoch’s flagship party conference policy document overestimated the cost of net zero by nearly £500bn… …seemingly after someone accidentally double-counted figures on a spreadsheet. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error
Exclusive: Badenoch’s flagship conference policy document cites £957bn estimate, twice the total in climate advisers’ data
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River Action @riveractionuk.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
🚨 Water companies have made at least £1.4 BILLION from industrial wastewater in just six years. Our investigation with @watershed-i.bsky.social uncovered 26,131 consents allowing up to 607.6 BILLION litres of industrial wastewater into sewage works last year. 😵 riveractionuk.com/news/water-c...
riveractionuk.com
Water Companies' £1.4bn Industrial Wastewater Trade
Water companies earned at least £1.4bn from industrial wastewater over six years. Our investigation exposes the hidden trade and gaps in pollution regulation.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Hey guess what everybody? We’re doing a climate cartoon award again and we’re naming it in our dear, late friend Jon Kudelka’s honour!
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Ciara 🇳🇿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪 @ciaraarmstrong.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Wish I could talk to Chlöe or Marama for 5 mins. Just wanna let them know if they form a government, & during negotiations they made getting rid of relationship means testing for the permanently disabled/chronically ill a non negotiable, & got it across the line, it would change my life. #nzpol
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Aarne Granlund @aarnegranlund.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026
Societies, even civilizations have existed without fossil fuels and data centres, but not without a relatively stable climate and ecosystem services. If technological modernity does not understand that, it will be short-lived. In any outcome, fight inequality.
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The post-92 sector: "HELLO? Is this thing on...? Can anybody hear me? Hello? Please...?"
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Jennifer @jennifilm.nz · 08/10/2026
Perfect response from Chlöe Swarbrick and the @greens.org.nz.
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Sirius Star 🍉 🍉 🍉 @siriusstar3.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Punitive cruel politics “When I lost my NDIS supports, I couldn't keep up with everything, Then I got a call saying there had been a report to child protection. It was like they were waiting for me to fail." #NDIS #Auspol
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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Two charts (ftpoo). First shows Govts actual financial position. Yep, we are one of the few countries where Govt has a positive financial worth. Graph two, related to the first, Govt interest payments, net. These two charts should be force fed to the commentariat. Scarcity mindset is killing NZ.
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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Thanks! i didn’t end up linking directly to it but I saved this post from you the other day and it definitely helped me think about it all bsky.app/profile/jenn...
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Jennifer @jennifilm.nz · 08/10/2026
This piece absolutely nails it and is a must read. This paragraph brought me to a standstill because it's also how we've gone from broad acceptance of trans people to journalists including comment from "gender criticals" fighting for "common sense" on every trans story.
Another layer of consideration: even if this is a genuine representation of a plethora of parental voices, we should consider also how it can be deployed in media disputes going forward. It is expressly positioned as a voice for parents, in opposition to teachers or public servants. What this will mean in practice, it seems likely, is that every time something new is introduced to the education system, the media will balance out the teacher or ministry explanation with a Parents Alliance reply. Detailed research and evidence-based conclusions will be held to the standard of
"common sense". And that, de facto, will serve the greater project of the right, undermining the idea of government itself.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 08/10/2026
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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RNZ News Feeds @rnzrss.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Parliamentary committee echoes calls for greater oversight of animal welfare system
rnz.co.nz
Parliamentary committee echoes calls for greater oversight of animal welfare system
A parliamentary committee has partially endorsed concerns raised by tens of thousands of petitioners, recommending the government investigate improvements to animal welfare oversight.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 08/10/2026
Britons kept in dark about scale of climate crisis, say viewers of ‘first-of-its-kind’ emergency briefing
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Britons kept in dark about scale of climate crisis, say viewers of ‘first-of-its-kind’ emergency briefing
Nine out of 10 people felt motivated to act after watching film outlining threats to food security, economy and public health The British government must be honest about the scale of the threat posed by climate and nature breakdown, researchers have said, after nine out of 10 people surveyed after watching a briefing on the issue felt more motivated to act. Last November, in the “first-of-its-kind national emergency briefing”, nine experts gave stark assessments in Westminster Hall in London of the scale of the changes needed in the UK to adapt to the rapidly changing climate and ecological landscape. Continue reading...
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Alan (not ekshully a B'Stard) @alans-world.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
#NZpol This scumbag govt doesn't get people as actual human beings. And the poorest? Ah. Mere line items. "Errors" on a spreadsheet mucking up the look of self-serving KPIs. It's ALL deliberate because WE KNOW this DOESN'T FUCKING WORK and *THEY KNOW* WE KNOW IT DOESN'T — but THEY'LL DO IT ANYWAY.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Mike Lee sold his soul to the devil.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
oh my GOD
phoenixnewtimes.com
Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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