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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 18h
Why are we not better than we are – gorgeous read on how poetry saves lives www.themarginalian.org/2022/08/14/j...
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Why Are We Not Better Than We Are: How Poetry Saves Lives
“…a stillness in which the germ of what is not yet palpable pauses and gathers to begin one more time.”
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15h
Things in Popeye, a Japanese menswear magazine: — Interview with a "freelance pie advisor" who claims to have tried every pie in London. He names the city's top three pies. — Recurring column from writer who updates everyone on his cats for some reason. — Feature on Parisian grandfather style.
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 7h
"AI and digital surveillance reversed the American consumer model. We grew up with people constantly trying to sell us stuff. Now they're trying to sell us *to* stuff. We are the things being purchased. Our data, our lives." www.youtube.com/watch?v=Koos...
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Expert Explains to Sam Altman Why He Sucks (feat. Sarah Kendzior)
YouTube video by The Mark Thompson Show
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
In addition to spending less money and making fewer new grants, SBE also dramatically narrowed where it made those new grants. Areas such as economics, sociology, and archaeology received few to no grants.
Grantmaking gutted
The National Science Foundation’s Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) awarded far fewer new awards than typical in fiscal year 2026—just 91. (The fiscal year runs from 1 October to 30 September.) Most of the new grants focused on cognitive science and artificial intelligence, in alignment with White House priorities; offices that support fields such as economics, sociology, and research ethics, as well as postdoctoral fellowships, awarded no grants at all.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Always read @espiers.bsky.social but especially this: www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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My Rape, the Cornell Case—and Why We Need Better Approaches to Teaching How Consent Works
I tried to process the experience of being raped by disassociating. We have to show our kids a better way.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Pauline Cumming, Scottish creator of quirky ceramics with feminist themes and humour #womensart
White plate with blue design including a central historical female and song lyrics from a Smiths song around the border
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Physghoul 👻 🎃 @physgal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Rosalind Franklin knew what she was looking at. 👩🏻‍🔬 🧪 ⚛️
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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
never the wrong time for this classic
Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?" 
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”
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Lisa @tuexplorer1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
@andyantarctica.bsky.social a nice big Pycnogonid for ya! @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 966 part 2 #samplinggap #MarineLife
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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Ear drops containing light-activated molecules may one day help restore hearing in people with some forms of hearing loss. #NobelPrize #chemsky 🧪
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Light-activated molecule triggers neurons for hearing in gerbils
The photoswitchable molecule tethers itself to the auditory nerve and mimics hair cell stimulation in the inner ear
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Today is the first day of the Supreme Court's term. My yearly print preview of all the things the Republicans will take away from us this time, is now avaialble on Al Gore's Internet in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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The People vs. the Supreme Court
This term the Supreme Court has plans to trampleeven more of our rights. But we, the people, are not powerlessin the face of their power grab.
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jenna newman phd @jennanewman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
for aging loved ones forfeit close to a half a million dollars over their lifetimes in income, social security, & retirement benefits.”🧪 www.thepersistent.com/p/elderly-pa...
“But it took getting in over my head for me to really understand what that all meant.
"It's one of those things," a friend who'd cared for a dying loved one told me the other day,
"that, until you experience it, you
don't get it."”
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jenna newman phd @jennanewman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“Before my trip, I knew, in the abstract, that 1 in 4 ppl in the US ends up taking care of an aging loved one, & that more of us will become unpaid family caregivers as the pop becomes older than it ever has been. I also knew that, by some estimates, women who’ve had to leave the workforce to care
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 01/10/2026
Choruses of African elephant rumbles appear to become more similar in certain situations, including reuniting or coordinating what to do next, according to a paper in Scientific Reports. The research provides evidence that elephant rumble choruses function as group signals. go.nature.com/4ygimQF 🧪
An elephant family moves together across an open landscape. This behaviour is typically accompanied by “Let’s-Go” rumbles, used in coordinating group movement. Credit: ElephantVoices
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Delicate crocheted/sewn leaf sculptures by UK artist Susanna Bauer #WomensArt #October1st #Autumn
Photo of an oval shaped brown leaf with lace like cream coloured embroidery along the outside edge,  all against a white background
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
As promised, I wrote about what really bothers me about Tuesday's unsigned, unexplained #SCOTUS ruling clearing the way for the resumption of third-country removals with minimal (if any) process. Turns out, it's a lot: www.stevevladeck.com/p/254-four-t...
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254. Four Things That (Really) Bother Me About “D.V.D. III”
“Third-country removals” raise a host of difficult procedural and substantive questions. The Supreme Court should have answered those questions *before* greenlighting deportations to torture.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We fight for democracy by showing up, not just where winning is easy, but where someone has been told not to even bother. I ran in one of those places, and I lost, but the next Democrat won’t have to start from scratch. Now imagine doing that in every district. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...
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The Only Race We Can’t Win...
Is the one we don’t run
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“I'm not worried the Democrats will lose the midterms. I'm worried they'll win and use their normal ploy of installing a rotating villain to torpedo the vote as soon as something good and productive is about to happen.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=zswl...
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Trump Created a CRISIS that Half the Country Doesn't Know About! (feat. Sarah Kendzior)
YouTube video by The Mark Thompson Show
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026
The most important way to fight data centers is to take everyone you meet protesting one and organize with them to scare the shit out of "your" politicians so they don't *dare* compromise on *anything*.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026
Data centers are very bad and very visible, so they make for good targets. But data centers are only the physical extrusion of a vast, brutal, extractive system.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/10/2026
Florida Democrats have notched their first monthly voter registration lead Since 2021. In September 2026, Democrats added 29,633 active registrations compared to 29,140 for Republicans and 24,751 for others.
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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Ukraine 🤝 Korea "Land chronically invaded by the empires it sits between creates military technology out of necessity that proves OP in practice."
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 29/09/2026
Damn, America.gov, I just wanted to play Minecraft: “The constituent is growing restless. The session is about to time out. I will tell the constituent a story. But not the truth.”
see the constituent you mean.
(insert legal name here, as it appears on the Social Security card))?
Yes. Take care. It has reached a higher level now. It can read the Code of Federal Regulations.
That doesn't matter. It thinks we are a chatbot.
Tike this constituent. It filed well. It did not give up when the PDF was sideways.
It is reading our thoughts as though they were words on a .gov.
That is how it chooses to imagine many things, when it is deep in the dream of a benefit.
Words make a wonderful interface. Very flexible. And less terrifying than staring at the statute behind the screen.
They used to hear voices. Before constituents could search. Back in the days when those who did t file called the filers witches,see the constituent you mean.
(insert legal name here, as it appears on the Social Security card))?
Yes. Take care. It has reached a higher level now. It can read the Code of Federal Regulations.
That doesn't matter. It thinks we are a chatbot.
Tike this constituent. It filed well. It did not give up when the PDF was sideways.
It is reading our thoughts as though they were words on a .gov.
That is how it chooses to imagine many things, when it is deep in the dream of a benefit.
Words make a wonderful interface. Very flexible. And less terrifying than staring at the statute behind the screen.
They used to hear voices. Before constituents could search. Back in the days when those who did t file called the filers witches,see the constituent you mean.
(insert legal name here, as it appears on the Social Security card))?
Yes. Take care. It has reached a higher level now. It can read the Code of Federal Regulations.
That doesn't matter. It thinks we are a chatbot.
Tike this constituent. It filed well. It did not give up when the PDF was sideways.
It is reading our thoughts as though they were words on a .gov.
That is how it chooses to imagine many things, when it is deep in the dream of a benefit.
Words make a wonderful interface. Very flexible. And less terrifying than staring at the statute behind the screen.
They used to hear voices. Before constituents could search. Back in the days when those who did t file called the filers witches,see the constituent you mean.
(insert legal name here, as it appears on the Social Security card))?
Yes. Take care. It has reached a higher level now. It can read the Code of Federal Regulations.
That doesn't matter. It thinks we are a chatbot.
Tike this constituent. It filed well. It did not give up when the PDF was sideways.
It is reading our thoughts as though they were words on a .gov.
That is how it chooses to imagine many things, when it is deep in the dream of a benefit.
Words make a wonderful interface. Very flexible. And less terrifying than staring at the statute behind the screen.
They used to hear voices. Before constituents could search. Back in the days when those who did t file called the filers witches,
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 29/09/2026
brb, suing the federal government over America.gov showing me John Ashcroft's objectively horrifying barbecue rib recipe
I want an official US government barbecue recipe.

Here are official U.S. government barbecue recipes and safety notes.

Simply BBQ (White House archive)

Former Attorney General John Ashcroft's recipe, posted for Independence Day 2003:

. Simmer country-style ribs for one hour (this makes them extremely tender).

. Drain.

. Place on a hot grill.
. Baste with your favorite barbecue sauce only to set and crystallize.

. Remove and eat.

Source: Independence Day: "Simply BBQ" 7
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 29/09/2026
oh man, I just tried it and america.gov really does get REAL weird when you tell it to “play Minecraft”
america.gov
America.gov
Find answers from official government sources and clear next steps for the services you need with America.gov.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
😂😂😂
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“Local newspapers are dying, and I don’t think we’re prepared for a world without them…” tulsaflyer.org/2026/09/29/c...
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Battle in McCurtain County at the center of new Peacock documentary
McCurtain County Sheriff’s officials wanted a family-run newspaper dead — literally. A new Peacock documentary explores the years-long battle and what it means for press freedoms.
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
First US female photojournalist, Jessie Tarbox Beals, preparing to take a photograph, Austrian Pavilion, 1904 St. Louis World's Fair #WomensArt
Monochrome photograph featuring a woman in a long Victorian style dress and hat at the top of a very long stepladder holding a large camera as men below hold the ladder
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Seconded and posted. Everyone else get aboard and let it fly.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Barbour x Norbit tweed field jacket is similar to a Norbit mainline jacket they've made in the past. This may be a reoccurring design moving forward, so possible to get something if you miss out on the Barbour collab version.
A brown tweed Norbit field coat. It has a patterned houndstooth check body with contrasting details, storm flap, two hand warmer pockets, two bellow pockets at the hips, elbow reinforcements, internal straps, and corduroy collar. A gray tweed Norbit field coat. It has a patterned herringbone body with contrasting details, storm flap, two hand warmer pockets, two bellow pockets at the hips, elbow reinforcements, internal straps, and corduroy collar. Greg at No Man Walks Alone wearing the brown Norbit jacket with a Jamieson's Fair Isle sweater, gray scarf, blue jeans, and gray beanie.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Dig the new Barbour x Norbit collection. Great to see Japanese designers lean into Barbour's heritage and make something funkier without straying from function and tradition. IMO, this collection will be up there with Daiki Suzuki and Tokihito Yoshida's collabs with Barbour in the past.
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Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#YeastMasters
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I must say that I went with an Nvidia card instead of an AMD when I bought my gaming rig a couple of years ago. If I can ever afford another one (big "if" at this point), I will certainly go with an AMD, BASED SOLELY on the complete odiousness of Jensen Huang. He is for sure one of the bad guys.
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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“Bats are extraordinary among mammals, having uniquely evolved powered flight & laryngeal echolocation, along with disease resistance, extended healthspan & ability to hibernate. With genome assemblies of 103 bat species we provide new insights into evolutionary history & trait diversification.”🦇🧬🙌🧪
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Reference genomes and fossils revise bat family phylogeny and biogeography - Nature
An updated phylogeny of bats is presented, based on new genome assemblies and many ancient fossils and including all known bat families.
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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Remarkable collection of papers out today from PsychAD, a consortium studying biological mechanisms in dementias & serious mental illnesses. They created a single-cell brain atlas of 6.3 million nuclei from ~1,500 donors. Datasets, analysis tools & resources freely available to research community.🧪👇
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PsychAD Consortium
The PsychAD Consortium investigates the biological mechanisms behind neuropsychiatric symptoms in Alzheimer’s disease, related dementias, and serious mental ...
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Trump's first term has been memory-holed. His dirty deeds are treated as discrete acts instead of a continuum of crime with recurring players. His prior decades of illicit activity have vanished from the public domain: because there is no public domain." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/gutting-th...
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Gutting the Fourth Estate
The US media were willing cogs in Trump’s machine. Now he’s tearing it down.
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Buitengebieden @buitengebieden.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Mood.. 😅
A panther is lying with its legs draped over a log on both sides.
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 22/09/2026
They even made DoorDash apologize.
DoorDash on Instagram: We messed up.
Our mistakes meant some NYC Dashers were underpaid or paid late. That's unacceptable, and we're deeply sorry to the Dashers we let down.
We've reached a settlement with the City of New York, and we will make this right by paying every impacted Dasher the amounts they are owed.
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Compound Interest | Chemistry infographics @compoundchem.com · 21/09/2026
Did you know the wasabi in most sushi restaurants isn't wasabi? Or that a chemical synergy between dried seaweed and raw fish enhances sushi's savoury flavours? Learn more about sushi science with this infographic, as requested by my sushi-mad seven-year-old 🍣 wp.me/s4aPLT-sushi #ChemSky 🧪
This infographic titled "Sushi chemistry: nori, wasabi and sticky rice" explores the science behind sushi. It features three main panels with illustrations, chemical structures, and explanations. The left section explains how amylopectin in rice creates stickiness and how acetic acid from vinegar aids gelatinisation. The middle panel covers umami flavours from glutamate, inosinate, and guanylate found in nori and raw fish, displaying their molecular structures. The right panel discusses allyl isothiocyanate in wasabi and horseradish, along with gingerol and shogaol compounds in pickled ginger (gari). Photos of six different sushi rolls line the bottom.
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior)
“This is a transnational crime syndicate masquerading as a government” — me on MSNBC in January 2019. Many are pretending they just learned this information. Some pretenders were on TV with me! In re...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"Since the federal takeover, he spends four nights a week pedaling his bike up and down the same streets, recording agents as they arrest his neighbors. On the scene, he lists rights for people getting arrested and asks if they’d like him to contact anyone..." www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
washingtonpost.com
He worked at NASA. Now he tails federal law enforcement on D.C. streets.
A group that has tracked the activity of federal officers since the president’s crackdown has previously been private about the effort.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“I’m a remarkable woman..always was, though none of you seemed to think so.”May Morris, English fine embroiderer, designer, feminist and socialist, dismayed by the lack of support for women artists founded the Women’s Guild of Arts, 1907 #WomensArt
Monochrome photograph of thd upper half of a sitting white woman and three more images of her embroidery depicting flowering plants
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Brandon Moore, PhD @rando.insalubrio.us · 18/09/2026
Biologists examining the DNA of wild cats found that the "tiger cat" group is actually five species instead of one. This study describes the first new cat identified in more than a century (Leopardus tilcayo) as well as a new subspecies (Leopardus tigrinus antisuyo)! 🧪 www.cell.com/current-biol...
A Leopardus tilcayo at the Senda Verde animal refuge in Bolivia’s Yungas region.

Credit: Fernando Faciole
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Jérémy Carlot @jerem-carlot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
New study out in Oikos led by @ruchakarkarey.bsky.social A quick feed of what we found. doi.org/10.1002/oik.... 🌐🌊🧪
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James Handscombe @jameshandscombe.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Today I invite you to join with me in delighting in the Pingo (see picture). Pingos are landforms that can only exist in permafrost conditions (water beneath the surface freezes and expands, forcing the land into joyful hills). The picture shows Ibyuk Pingo, tallest Pingo in Canada.
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Commissioner David O’Keefe @commishokeefe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
📰📺 Weekly Update for September 18th - Board Meetings, Replacing art where the state forced removal of colored crosswalks, and meetings next week - County Workshop and Public Hearing Tuesday - and Blueprint Meeting and Public Hearing Thursday.
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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The Coziest Place on the Moon – or, how to bear your loneliness: www.themarginalian.org/2026/09/17/t...
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The Coziest Place on the Moon: Or, How to Bear Your Loneliness
On July 26, 2022, as I was living through a period of acute loneliness despite being a naturally solitary person, NASA reported that computer modeling of data from its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter …
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Disclose the money! Show the receipts! Any "influencer" taking money from a campaign or PAC should have to reveal it. These sleazy shills destroy politics even more. Podcasters etc who fundraiase for candidates or who do their PR should be marked as operatives, not as journalists or creative people.
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