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Sarah Grey @sarahgrey513.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Turns out the fancy bird camera lens can also be pointed at moons!
Highly detailed photo of the moon
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Sarah Grey @sarahgrey513.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Just an #EasternPhoebe being tiny at Beechwood Farm Nature Reserve #birds #pittsburgh
Small grey and white bird on a branch Small grey and white bird
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Sarah Grey @sarahgrey513.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
A few mornings ago I got to hang out with this #RedTailedHawk hunter, mistook this #AmericanGoldenPlover for a sandpiper, and had this #BlueJay pose for me, all in one walk #birds #Pittsburgh
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Sarah Grey @sarahgrey513.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
I hung out in the park with this absolute stunner a few days ago #RedTailedHawk #AlleghenyRiver
Red-tailed hawk perched on the edge of a stone wall, looking intently at the ground ahead
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Sarah Grey @sarahgrey513.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Check out the paint job on this dragonfly!
Dragonfly perched on a flower, with an electric blue body with black stripes
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Sarah Grey @sarahgrey513.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
This groundhog looks like me every time I watch the news
Groundhog standing on its back legs with an “oh shit” look on its face
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Sarah Grey @sarahgrey513.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Double-Crested Cormorants under the Highland Park Bridge #birds
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Sarah Grey @sarahgrey513.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
I think I found a Northern Flicker nest #birds
Tail feathers sticking out of a hollow in a tree trunkA Northern Flicker hiding on the side of a tree trunk
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Sarah Grey @sarahgrey513.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
So I’m photographing this Great Blue Heron in the water and then I turn around to find another one looming in a treetop far above me. I jumped!
Great Blue Heron standing in shallow water with wings foldedCloseup of GBH standing at full height in a treeGBH standing in tree but zoomed out to show much more of the tree
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David Palumbo-Liu @palumboliu.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
The Refaat Alareer Camp - by The Sameer Project chuffed.org/project/1133.... Please give generously.
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The Refaat Alareer Camp - by The Sameer Project
The Sameer Project, a mutual aid organization led by three Palestinians in the diaspora, are the proud directors and funders of a tent encampment in Central Gaza that provides shelter and specialized ...
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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 17/07/2025
There is only one good surveillance app and it’s the Merlin bird app.
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Sarah Grey @sarahgrey513.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
I saw this Red-Tailed hawk twice yesterday. The Red-Winged Blackbirds were dive-bombing him relentlessly #birds #pittsburgh #aspinwall
A red-winged blackbird attacking a red-tailed hawk perched on a telephone pole, eating A red-winged blackbird attacking a red-tailed hawk perched on a telephone pole, eating A red-winged blackbird attacking a red-tailed hawk perched on a telephone pole, eating Red-tailed hawk in profile, looking down from a building on Brilliant Ave after finishing its meal and fleeing an angry mob of birds in the park
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Sarah Grey @sarahgrey513.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
I’ve been off social media lately for the sake of my mental health, but I finally saw (not just heard) a rose-breasted grosbeak and a wood thrush in the same trip to the dog park, and I needed to let you all know. It was cool. #TouchingGrass #birds
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Sarah Grey @sarahgrey513.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
It’s a gorgeous warm May evening at the height of migration season in our corner of Appalachia, and all sorts of #birds are passing through #AlleghenyRiver #FlightWeek
Sunset view of the Allegheny River and Highland Park BridgeSunset view of the Allegheny River and Brilliant Railroad Bridge Sunset view of the river and Brilliant bridge from the Allegheny Rivertrail pier
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WESA @wesa.fm · 30/04/2025
A severe thunderstorm blasted through WPA Tuesday, leaving damaged buildings, felled trees and powerlines, and causing the deaths of at least 2 individuals. While it took just minutes for the storm to rage here, it may take up to a week for utility service to be fully restored for many residents.
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As Pittsburgh area recovers from storm, may take 5-7 days to restore power to all customers
A severe thunderstorm rolled through Western Pennsylvania early Tuesday evening, leaving downed power lines, damaged roofs and felled trees across the region.
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Sarah Grey @sarahgrey513.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Great blue herons! #birds #birbs
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Faces along the bar Cling to their average day: The lights must never go out, The music must always play... Lest we should see where we are, Lost in a haunted wood, Children afraid of the night Who have never been happy or good. poets.org/poem/septemb...
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September 1, 1939
I sit in one of the dives
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Sarah Grey @sarahgrey513.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Been getting into #birds as a way of coping with (gestures broadly) all this and wow, do binoculars ever make a difference. Life list is up to 71 species! New this week: 3 kinds of sparrows and a wild turkey. Dog loves the extra walks. He’ll be smelling some scent trail while I look up.
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Sarah Grey @sarahgrey513.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Tonight I made a stained-glass suncatcher at @pghglasscenter.bsky.social! Bought the class way back on Black Friday as a present for Future Sarah. It was great—hoping to take the 8wk course someday. They do great work over there and are so welcoming. #GlassArt #Pittsburgh #Joymaxing
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Sarah Grey @sarahgrey513.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
I had a joke about Theseus, but that ship has sailed
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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
"Hundreds of military children who are students at Defense Department schools across the globe walked out of class to protest book bans, curriculum changes and restrictions on extracurricular activities that have resulted from Trump's crackdown on diversity." www.military.com/daily-news/2...
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Hundreds of Students at Military Base Schools Walk Out to Protest Trump Administration’s Anti-Diversity Policies
The walkouts, which included about a dozen schools on U.S. military bases in Europe, Asia and at least one stateside, represent the biggest collective action military children have taken since the sta...
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
You know who we’re talking about here.
Tweet from 'Michael O'Neill Burns', "Dedicating my life to fascism because I tied for 5th at a swim meet."
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Sarah Grey @sarahgrey513.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Withholding gender-affirming care is illegal in Pittsburgh, if we're still doing that whole rule-of-law thing #ProtectTransKids
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UPMC curbs on gender-affirming care for patients under 19 faulted
Facing Trump order, Pittsburgh's health care system has said that it is monitoring federal directives on care while empathizing with affected patients and families.
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Sarah Grey @sarahgrey513.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
About that #fencing transphobe…
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
What a summary of the anti-trans movement: March 23rd: female fencer competes in mixed-gender event, beating several male competitors, finishing 8th March 30th: same fencer films herself telling trans competitor “I am refusing to fence you, because I am a woman and you are a man,” collects $5000
The Fencingtracker.com page for Stephanie Turner, who competed in a mixed gender foil event on 3/23 and finished 8th of 32 competitors The video shows Turner taking her position on the fencing strip-blade ready, uniform on— only for her to toss her mask aside and take a knee. Sullivan approached her, thinking she might be injured, and asked if Turner was okay.
"No," Turner recalls telling Sullivan. "I am refusing to fence you, because I am a woman and you are a man."
The video of Turner and Sullivan went viral after it was posted to Twitter on April 2 by the Independent Council on Women's Sports
(ICONS), a far-right organization which aligns itself with known hate groups such as the Alliance Defending Freedom. It is not immediately clear how ICONS first acquired the video, but it catapulted Turner into the national anti-trans media ecosystem.
Less than a week after the post, the XX-XY Athletics Fund-the non-profit arm of an anti-trans clothing brand by the same name— dubbed Turner a "Courage Wins Champion," awarding her $5,000 and mentorship through a
"leadership program."
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
The 2025 Terzani Prize was awarded in memory of the 210 Palestinian journalists killed in Gaza. The award declaration: “Never in history has the toll paid by journalism been so heavy, in flagrant violation of humanitarian law and freedom of the press”. 🇮🇹🇵🇸
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 96: Nothing you write is ever wasted. It’s all part of your training. That’s why you should never feel bad about the work you cut, or the hours you spend on work that stays unpublished. Every part of the process makes you a stronger writer.
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
"why is any of this happening" is a question largely answered by my book btw!!!! in case you were wondering!!! bookshop.org/p/books/wild...
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Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America
How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
I know high profile political targets On Here aren't beating down my door for advice necessarily, but if you are for any reason potentially on the radar of the MAGA or other far right as a dissident, consider a Eufy door camera and door chain, if you can afford it.
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Cool Zone Media @coolzonemedia.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
New Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff 🇫🇷 Margaret talks with Allison Raskin about the antifascist asylum in France that armed partisans and reinvented psychiatry. @margaret.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
BREAKING — The family abducted by ICE is returning home, per email from Sackets Harbor Superintendent:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Sackets Harbor, NY – My colleagues and I are relieved and grateful to share that, after eleven days of uncertainty, our students and their mother are returning home.

We remain committed to providing the care, understanding, and sensitivity necessary for all students and staff as we begin the healing process from this traumatic experience.

In the midst of this difficult time, the strength, compassion, and resilience of our community have shone through. We are very thankful to everyone who has reached out with kindness and offered support.

At this time, we respectfully ask both the media and the community to honor the family’s privac
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
An extraordinary separate dissent from Justice Jackson accuses the majority of trying to pass off its dirty work under the cover of the shadow docket and explicitly invokes Korematsu, the Japanese internment case. Wow. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
I lament that the Court appears to have embarked on a
new era of procedural variability, and that it has done so in
such a casual, inequitable, and, in my view, inappropriate
manner. See Department of Education v. California, 604
U. S. ___ , ___ (2025) (JACKSON, J., dissenting) (slip op., at
1–2). At least when the Court went off base in the past, it
left a record so posterity could see how it went wrong. See,
e.g., Korematsu v. United States, 323 U. S. 214 (1944). With
more and more of our most significant rulings taking place
in the shadows of our emergency docket, today’s Court
leaves less and less of a trace. But make no mistake: We
are just as wrong now as we have been in the past, with
similarly devastating consequences. It just seems we are
now less willing to face it.
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Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century @revsoc21.uk · 07/04/2025
How can we describe the politics of the Trump regime? What does Trump’s track record tell us about how his administration might develop? Drawing on the far-right histories of Mussolini and Hitler in the 1920s and 30s, @davidkr.bsky.social provides an in-depth analysis. revsoc21.uk/2025/04/07/t...
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Trump, Fascism and the authoritarian turn
rs21 - revolutionary socialism in the 21st century
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DK Renton @davidkr.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
"When we say Musk is a fascist, we’re saying we won’t let the cruelty return. Let fascism stay locked up in the past. We won’t let Musk, or Trump, take us back." livesrunning.wordpress.com/2025/04/05/s...
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Speech at the Tesla Takedown protest, 5 April
“What do we mean when we call Elon Musk a fascist? We’re not saying he understands everything that fascism stood for. Benito Mussolini said he believed in the Corporate state. Does Musk compr…
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James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
This is bad or whatever, but we need to lead every discussion on this with the fact that it doesn’t matter what you do, you shouldn’t be sent to a foreign gulag from where you can never return by the US government!
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Sarah Grey @sarahgrey513.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Some days you just gotta photograph, trace, and digitally watercolor the neighborhood flowers #joymaxing #copingskills
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 07/04/2025
Everyone raised on the AP Style Guide is having a moment with this one, thank you @ellecordova.bsky.social
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Jennifer Ziegler @jennyziegler.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Excellent turnout for “Hands Off” Heard and McDonald Islands!
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Sarah Grey @sarahgrey513.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
God bless scrappy little low-budget high-school theater productions. They save lives. (And yes, I absolutely will pay $12 to come see your kid’s performance as Townsperson #2.)
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Meghin Moore @meghin.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
This fencing event was the cherry blossom open that takes place every year in Maryland. It’s an OPEN, meaning folks fence off against everyone of all ages and it’s not divided by gender. My brother made a grown woman cry at this event one year when he fenced her.
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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
A harrowing story of a USAID employee who was stranded in the the Democratic Republic of the Congo: “Carol feels a sense of deep betrayal, loss and anger. Our own government has treated her and the entire USAID workforce as if they were criminals.” www.thebulwark.com/p/abandoned-...
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Abandoned in a Foreign War Zone
One USAID employee’s experience in Kinshasa as the agency was dismantled.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 31/03/2025
One by one www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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Israel killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers one by one, says UN
Workers on a mission to help colleagues were buried in mass grave in southern Gaza, says humanitarian office
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
“Starting in the early 1600s, [LANDOWNERS] in the United States began bringing [UNPAID INTERNS] from [THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ATLANTIC OCEAN], to work on their farms.” The interns “[WERE GIVEN FOOD, LODGING, AND VALUABLE JOB EXPERIENCE THAT WOULD LOOK GREAT ON THEIR RÉSUMÉS].”
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American History Lessons Edited to Comply with Anti-DEI Standards
“Images of ‘Enola Gay,’ the aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima in Japan are among those targeted by the U.S. military in an initiati...
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Andrew Simon @simongandrew.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.
There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they will come to your doorstep one day; to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they'll come for next. But this appeal cannot, in matter of fact, work. If the people well served by a system that condones such butchery ever truly believed the same butchery could one day be inflicted on them, they'd tear the system down tomorrow. And anyway, by the time such a thing happens, the rest of us will already be dead.
No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience.
Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children? Who cares if great distance from the bloodstained middle allows obliviousness. Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul.
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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
This report should break something in all of us. 15,613 children. The first 27 pages of the report list children whose ages are 0. 26% were under the age of 5
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On Monday, the ministry published a list of names of 15,613 children under the age of 18 who it said had been killed in Israeli military operations in Gaza.
Among them, 890 children were under the age of 1, and 274 were born and died during the war. Almost a quarter, 26%, were under the age of 5.
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Sarah Grey @sarahgrey513.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Post a warning
A line of young people in an entrance hall labeled Ford’s Theatre National Historic Site, viewed through a door with a sign on it: WARNING: FIREARMS PROHIBITED
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
without encouraging any theorizing beyond the evidence available this is a story people should keep an eye on
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Sarah Grey @sarahgrey513.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
We saw the #Polkamaniacs! They were indeed zany to the max. And they gave us all birthday cake! #joymaxing #livemusic #blawnox #pittsburgh #yinzers
Photo of the band Polkamaniacs playing accordions and guitars onstage, all dressed in blue and yellow plaid Four smiling white people posing: two 40 something women, two 60 something men Two women in blue plaid kilts hold a giant plush kielbasa in the air while people limbo under it and the band plays in the background
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