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I never want to hear another man say “why didn’t she report it” in response to a rape. The men online are determined to destroy Jane Doe’s life. They’ve attempted to doxx her. They’ve threatened her. Matthew Ingalls is claiming she raped him. The abuse never stops.

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

WHAT DID I TELL YOU ABOUT THE BATS DON'T TOUCH THE BATS DON'T PET THE BATS DON'T BREASTFEED THE BATS TELL YOUR FRIENDS ESPECIALLY IF THEY'RE WHITE WOMEN

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20h

Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.

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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’

Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.

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God @thegodshow.com · 04/10/2026

I don’t give a damn if Theo Von and Joe Rogan change their tune and become full-out Democratic socialists. They will say whatever is deemed widely popular in the moment to retain their podcast audiences. They gave you Donald Trump.

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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Did you know each emoji has a coded description that gets read aloud by screen readers? This demo by Alexa Heinrich shows what happens when a screen reader encounters a post that uses an emoji to function as a bullet point. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSMs...

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Taylor Nation Emoji Bullet Point Tweet

Demonstration of what a tweet with emoji used as bullet points sounds like when read by a screen reader. The tweet also uses a "show more" cut, which isn't accessible when the tweet is seen in the…

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This. I'm seeing a lot of "Yeah! Social media just let the idiots find each other!" in the replies/QTs. That is FALSE. Believe me- fools, jerks, & conspiracy nuts were already finding each other! Polite society just didn't have to hear about it!

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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 04/10/2026

Brain: Do you have enough underwear? Me, stopping dead in the middle of watering plants: ...wut? Brain: Underwear. Because when the economy tanks, you can get everything else secondhand, but...you know. Underwear. Me: You're either the best brain or the worst. Brain: ¿Por qué no los dos?

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 04/10/2026

Six Charts That Show Just How Much We Need Improv Comedy Groups

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GeClef @geclef12.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Nothing is cooler than nature

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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Idk anything about beans but these are the most beautiful beans I’ve seen in my whole life. And I’d bet that like purple carrots and purple potatoes, they are delicately delicious. 💜

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Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Wow pretty

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Willard @climateball.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

would

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Helena 🏝️ HELULV Ullmark @helenaullmark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Because BLOMSTERBÖNOR 😍

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Dr Darren Abbey @thebiologistisn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My lima bean harvest for the day. The later harvested magenta type in the middle look more of a lavender tone. A few pods had distinctly brighter seeds. I'll compare these to earlier harvested seeds from the same type.

Lima beans sorted by color. At the top is a pile of bright yellow seeds. In the middle is a pile of lavender seeds. At the bottom are two small piles of brighter magenta-red seeds.

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Dr Darren Abbey @thebiologistisn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Today's tomato harvest. There will be at least one further harvest before the first frosts.

Blue wicker basket filled with tomatoes in various shapes and colors.

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Jack Graham @timescarcass.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

YouTube is absolutely choked with AI-wriiten, AI-illustrated, AI-read sludge; cliche-ridden, replete with stereotypes, pandering to envy, spite, victimhood, schadefreude, and prejudice, yet purporting to be real. And I'm here to tell you: people, especially older people, BELIEVE IT’S ALL TRUE.

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AK Faulkner 🔜 NYCC @ravenswordpress.com · 01/10/2026

I promise you don't want this 🤣

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I wish all science teams who advertise their work with GenAI a very pleasant emergency meeting to mitigate the damage to public trust.

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Dr Darren Abbey @thebiologistisn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I've got five pawpaws growing in the garden. The odds are not in their favor to survive the upcoming winter, but hopefully, I will eventually find a few that do.

Five pawpaw seedlings growing in a garden. Each has been circled in red.

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Martyn Warren (he/him) @martynwarren.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Another great day at the annual AES bug event. I will never take people buying my drawings for granted.

A table showing some of my insect postcards and greeting cards. Oh, and me. Smiling like a loon.

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Dr Darren Abbey @thebiologistisn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Here's some pods and seeds to American Hog-peanut (Amphicarpaea bracteata) that was growing at my place.

Seven small spotted bean seeds and six small bean pods.

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Dr Darren Abbey @thebiologistisn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

At my garden yesterday, I found a pepper from my larger pod population had been knocked to the ground and stepped on some time before. The pod was cracked on both sides and flattened, but it showed no signs of rot at all. The cracks had dried and scarred over.

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Dr Darren Abbey @thebiologistisn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I grew several F2 scarlet eggplants this year, derived from a cross between "Pumpkin-on-a-stick" and a variety of mine that has white unripe fruit.

Scarlet eggplant plant with several ripe red fruit and a few unripe green fruit.

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Everyone stop, this is important

A black and white drawing of three dachshunds arranged vertically, each holding a different optical illusion object in its mouth, and the dogs themselves drawn as if a single line optical illusion. The top dog holds a Penrose triangle, the middle dog holds a Necker cube, and the bottom dog holds a Penrose trident. The dogs’ bodies are elongated in an exaggerated cartoon style. The artwork is signed “@IndieTheIntrovert” in the bottom right corner.

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Kevin Riggle @kevinr.free-dissociation.com · 21/09/2026

I really wish that people would stop saying "the technology works" WRT LLMs without specifying what exact use-cases it "works" for. The technology sure does emit tokens! Whether it "works" or not for a specific use-case depends on a lot more than just that fact!

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Glen Ryan @silverdory.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Grevillea macleayana flowering in coastal heathland near Ulladulla, NSW. These coastal plants with mostly entire, elliptic leaves + semi-prostrate habit when young offer a lot as garden plants - but I'm not sure when I last saw one available in a nursery or native plant sale. #grevilleas #ozplants

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Dr Darren Abbey @thebiologistisn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

White squash (Curcurbita pepo) is a trait due to either a dominant or recessive mutations depending on which varieties you're working with. Squash shape genetics is similarly complicated, with multiple differently inherited mutations leading to the same effect.

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Dr Darren Abbey @thebiologistisn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Here's some flowers from my blue-seeded dry bean. In real life of the left photo, the upper petal is more of a magenta/hot-pink shade while the lower petals are more purple-blue. The photo at right shows a better representation of the visual color of the lower petals.

Open bean flower, showing slightly different shade of color between the upper and lower petals.

Two closed flower buds, showing blue-tinted outer petals.

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Dr Darren Abbey @thebiologistisn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There are two ways to make a tomato larger. Make the existing locules (seed/gel volumes) larger, or make the locules much more numerous. Some large tomatoes use the first approach, yielding very wet and messy slices. I've been working with the other approach in my tomatoes.

Two tomato slices. The slice at left is yellow-orange and has four large seed/gel volumes. The slice at right is orange and has about a dozen small seed/gel volumes, with a much larger proportion of dense fruit flesh.

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“The greatest danger facing society isn’t that software will awaken and overthrow its human masters. It is that we will allow the creators of the software to abdicate human responsibility for the systems they choose to build and help them pull up the ladder” Fuck. Shut up being right

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FrontRangeWildflowers @frwildflowers.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Russula aeruginea, a Green Brittlegill, identified by iNat on the Upper Beaver Brook Watershed Trail today 🌿

White-gilled and stemmed mushroom with a green-tinged cap

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I’m sure the technology that can’t tell you how many r’s are in strawberry and tells the military to attack boats based on its hallucinations thus damn near starting a world war will TOTALLY DO GREAT with air traffic, so it’s fine

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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 21/09/2026

Early voting has started in some states! Vote as early as you can. In person, if you can. Be as obnoxious as possible about spreading this message. Get everyone you know to the polls. Be That Friend but for voting.

vote.gov

Find the information you need to make registration and voting easy. Official voter registration website of the United States government.

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Dr Darren Abbey @thebiologistisn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I rarely talk about those with multiple PhDs because it is very unusual for a real person to do that, but I will henceforth be using their PhD count as an exponent on their title.

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Dr Darren Abbey @thebiologistisn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Make sure your computer's backup system is working the way you expect. Oh, you don't have a backup system? You really should get one. Recovering data from a hard drive that died suddenly is frustrating, slow, and expensive.

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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The FAA has grounded flights at New York, Boston, New Jersey, and Philadelphia airports after Trump's Department of Transportation accidentally cut a fiber line during Air Traffic Control system renovations.

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Katie Hodges-Kluck, PhD @klhkhistorian.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

**Lights Out Alert Sunday & Monday Nights** Birdcast is estimating 300-400 million birds will be in flight.

From meteorologist Eric Snitil

**Lights Out Alert Sunday & Monday Nights**

"Heads up birders, I would not be surprised if the biggest bird migration night of the year happens over the next 2 nights. Birdcast is estimating 300-400 million birds will be in flight. That is a lot, but the pattern could not be better for migratory birds. A massive area of high pressure will turn the low level winds from the northeast to the southwest across most of the US. The last time we had anything similar to this in the fall was early October last year when a record 1.25 billion birds were in flight. I doubt we get to that level, but I suspect the number will top 500 million especially Monday night which looks to be the bigger of the two nights. You can help by turning off those outdoor lights on big migration nights, and the next 2 nights is about as big as it gets."

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 20/09/2026

Apropos of the campus-setting novel I’m currently reading, I’d just like to put out there that I am available to authors to consult on what grad students and researchers and professors actually do and act like and my rates are reasonable.

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Dr. Brendan Anderson @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

While thinking about arthropods at PRI, I'll also note that the eurypterid body pillows are back in stock and if you want one but aren't one of the 87 lucky folks who already had back orders or recent orders, its a good time to order! ⚒️🦑 #fossilfriday pri-gift-shop.myshopify.com/collections/...

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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 19/09/2026

What's the rule? DO NOT. PICK UP. OR TOUCH. THE BATS.

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Dr Darren Abbey @thebiologistisn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I was chatting with my dental hygienist one time about wasps and other pollinators, as one does. They asked, "What's the difference between a wasp and a hornet?" My response was, "It's a hornet if you're angry at it."

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

One of the underappreciated perks of having a PhD is how much it *annoys* a certain type of person. The title is “Doctor”. Don’t like it? You can fuck off into the *sun*.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 15/09/2023

Fun fact: Europa is tiny, about 10% smaller than the moon. Its gravity is 13% of earth's. Its ocean is 60 to 150 kilometers deep, compared to earth's deepest spot, the Challenger Deep, at 11km. Due to its low gravity, the bottom of Europa's ocean is about the same pressure as that of Earth's.

Comparison of the earth, moon, and europa. Europa looks about half the size of the moon (it's 90% the size), and is much much smaller than the earth.

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Dr Darren Abbey @thebiologistisn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

One of my F2 tomatoes this year has a surprising amount of anthocyanin expression. This line doesn't have any of the specific mutations leading to high anthocyanin expression as seen in Indigo Rose or the more recent GMO purple tomatoes.

Three medium-sized orange tomatoes with purple-brown pigment over the top surface.

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Dr Darren Abbey @thebiologistisn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Annoying sci-fi tropes: 1. The Adam & Eve incest colony. 2. It's okay if -I- break quarantine. 3. ?

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

W/o getting drawn into the "seriously or literally" / "it'll never happen" trap, we need to stomp *hard* on the continuing effort to undermine Article 1 power of the purse by saying that this or that revenue stream makes something outside the normal budget process. 1/ www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...

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Lutnick says Trump’s $5,000 checks for Americans wouldn’t rely on taxpayer funds

A top White House official suggested Congress would use a budget process to fund them. Vice President JD Vance had said tariff revenues.

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