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Cakelin ~Offline for October~ @thecakelin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Idk if I can go from the exercise isn't fascist discourse to the lesbian masked bar discourse to the cornell 7... Is the internet trying to break my will to survive 😅🫠

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babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

i appreciate your kind words; while i personally shouldn’t be the main character in every depiction of Living Life With Mitigations—indeed like places, LA has unique pros&cons—i too am bothered when extremes are the main portayals with little to no context of what spaces preventing infection CAN be…

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Cakelin ~Offline for October~ @thecakelin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Literally wtf Babs You look like some kinda godex trickster that's gonna give me a sprig of hidden universe knowledge But only if I can resist being mesmerized The eyeshadow is so magical and then the mask AND the hair 😩🥹

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series of gj tubes @ozarkhowling.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

rly need a “we’re disabled, Daniel, not werewolves” but for the implication that we immunocompromised exist primarily in and around healthcare facilities and never need or want to access any other public or community space

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

thank you lesbian tractor witch

image with swirling green background of the lesbian tractor witch it says: congratulations if you are seeing this you have been chosen by the lesbian tractor witch, she has removed all curses have a wonderful day

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Squeaky Toy Dinosaur (brown-headed nuthatch) saw me seeing her and was not pleased

Little grey bird with a brown head guarding a crevice in an oak, staring you down

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

r/crafts has banned all Harry Potter-related crafts due to JK Rowling’s anti-trans bigotry, after a 53-41 vote

reddit.com

From the crafts community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the crafts community

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Riker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

what the hell is going on

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💖💄 Aoife ♿💖 @aoiferocksitout.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Please help our friend Mae avoid homelessness! Urgent! Be a blessing to Mae the way she is for others. If you can't help, please Cher everywhere! 💖🌺❤️🌸🍓✨

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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

A couple updates: Sanofi (Novavax) has begun shipping, and Walgreens will stop requiring prescriptions in Oregon after state officials took action. (I haven't heard back from CVS yet, but very possible they will do the same.) My article will be updated soon with this information.

nytimes.com

New Covid Vaccines Are Available. Here’s How to Get One. (Gift Article)

The shots have been approved for people 65 and older, and for younger people with underlying conditions. Others may be able to get them off label.

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Rich Lord @richelord.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Zinesters and would-be zinesters: There’s still time to participate in @publicsource.org and Children's Museum of Pittsburgh zine-making workshops and to submit your zine for potential public display and online publication. Here’s how: www.publicsource.org/open-call-fo...

publicsource.org

Open call: Turn your curiosity about people and places into a zine

Your zine could end up on display at the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh or published by Public Source.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 05/09/2026

I kid you not, our paper on spatial apartheid was reviewed by apartheid itself. Literally, the (extremely famous) journal sent it to white South African reviewers who pointed out all these "papers" written by white South Africans DURING apartheid, that we failed to cite.

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Cakelin ~Offline for October~ @thecakelin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Your sacrifices can become a guarantee for another being's survival. And you can learn in your bones that their survival is your own.

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Cakelin ~Offline for October~ @thecakelin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

You could say that only means more chances for being manipulated or used or defrauded, but a gift economy that lifts everyone up is our only chance at a true tangible freedom.

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Cakelin ~Offline for October~ @thecakelin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

When you've settled into restrictions, into moderation, you no longer feel deprived. There is no chase for you to race in. A life lived with less means more chances for generosity.

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Cakelin ~Offline for October~ @thecakelin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"There is a freedom in recognizing true needs. That you must eat, but don't need the fanciest meal.. That you must drink and clean water is the most priceless, precious beverage. That you must breath and we all share the air."

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Cakelin ~Offline for October~ @thecakelin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"Some of us chose limitations, even if it didn't arrive as a choice. We picked our mortal limitations and the planet's. We choose to recognize and respect vulnerability. A fulfilling life through constraint and commitment, to the land and interdependence."

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Cakelin ~Offline for October~ @thecakelin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"An idea that if you can do and see it all, you can run from the loneliness of existence. You can fill yourself up just like your gas tank and closet and sight seeing agenda."

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Cakelin ~Offline for October~ @thecakelin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"We were told and shown that a fulfilling life is one consumed with stuff and experiences and accomplishments that set us apart."

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Cakelin ~Offline for October~ @thecakelin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"Do you believe there is actually enough for everyone to live a decent life?" www.cakelin.com/mutuality-th...

cakelin.com

Mutuality Through Moderation

A life lived with less means more chances for generosity

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Cakelin ~Offline for October~ @thecakelin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Who is hiring SWEs/tech workers who don't use LLMs? Where are the companies and teams building reliable, usable, well designed software? We are going to need ways to archive and preserve our data and a place to migrate it to.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 02/09/2026

REALLY interesting study. Americans most alarmed about climate most strongly oppose data centres. Those most dismissive on climate have both *strong opposition* but also the *strongest support* for data centres (!!) climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications...

Survey stacked bars show majority opposition to local data centers among Alarmed (70%), Concerned (58%), and Dismissive (57%) groups; overall 56% of Americans oppose building data centers locally, with smaller shares expressing support.

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Jess Rose @jesslynnrose.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Everything is stressful and a lot of you are looking for work, so I found some open remote tech roles where your work would make the world better (or hopefully just not make things worse?) threaded here!

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

“Six current and former Forest Service officials said the response was greater than what is typical for a fire of that scale that did not pose a significant threat to life or property.”

In total, about nine aircraft, including helicopters, air tankers and tactical planes, responded to the blaze on July 12, according to a Post analysis of flight paths, part of an effort that lasted a few hours and cost nearly $115,000 in federal money. The Post analysis found these assets traveled from across the West to Idaho's Alturas Lake, pear where the Cabin Creek Fire was burning.
At least some
of the aircraft were diverted from efforts to contain fires elsewhere in the state, according to two agency officials and the Post analysis of the flight paths.

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Dr. Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒 @marspidermonkey.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Also, what really sucks is up until a month ago, I really liked Crowley. I thought he was doing a good job as county executive! But the way he ran his campaign was a mess, and I fear there’s just going to more of that dysfunction.

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Cakelin ~Offline for October~ @thecakelin.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

"Incrementalism is irresponsible" - Francesca Hong

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Cakelin ~Offline for October~ @thecakelin.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

And now we are supposed to vote for a guy who's like "data centers are okay, as long as we regulate them enough!" Electoral politics aren't enough for everything we are facing, but we were so close to having a chance at real change. And I would take that over the status quo any day.

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Cakelin ~Offline for October~ @thecakelin.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Obama won Wisconsin in 2008 by 14% because he ran on a campaign of hope and change. He ran on ending the Iraq war, universal healthcare, renewable energy, and middle class tax relief during an economic crisis.

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Cakelin ~Offline for October~ @thecakelin.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

And now Wisconsinites will have to pay for it. Because for all this talk about Hong being unelectable for being too far left.. they aren't acknowledging corporate moderate Democrats are unelectable. Who wants to keep voting for the lesser of 2 evils?

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Cakelin ~Offline for October~ @thecakelin.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I'm going to hold a grudge against Tony Evers for the rest of my life for how he meddled in this primary. If he wanted to just endorse Crowley to begin with, fine. But to convince a dropped-out candidate to get back in the race, simply because he wanted Hong to lose is despicable.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

A reminder: The US, by being the largest historical CO₂ emitter, has caused $10 trillion in global climate damage since 1990. A quarter of this impact is felt domestically, but it disproportionately affects poorer countries.

theguardian.com

US has caused $10tn worth of climate damage since 1990, research finds

US, top carbon emitter in history, has ‘a lot of responsibility’ for causing ‘substantial’ harm globally, scientist says

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

If you are in a smoke affected area rn the most common place to find respirators asap is gonna be a hardware store. The bigger stores wil have 3m auras, which will be more comfortable. But the smaller stores will still have the cup shaped n95s that people wear in construction & they are fine too.

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Annie Heffernan @annieheff.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Neither the NYT nor Oster (of *course* it's Oster) saw fit to mention that Oster is not, in fact, a public health expert. Rather, she's an economics professor most known for aggressively pushing in-person learning at the height of the pandemic

nytimes.com

Opinion | How Worried Should You Be About Cyclospora?

We didn’t need an outbreak of a nightmare stomach bug. But here we are.

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Alexa L @ekaterin.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

More context for you: www.koat.com/article/chac... This is such a horrible reduction of the value of this place, to merely the petrochemicals underneath. Please tell the BLM not to do this! (Link in both article & original thread.)

koat.com

Chaco Canyon public comment period opens, as BLM proposes reopening 336,000 acres to mineral leasing

A new federal assessment could reshape the future of development near Chaco Canyon. Here’s what’s in the plan and how long the public has to weigh in.

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Cakelin ~Offline for October~ @thecakelin.bsky.social · 25/01/2024

Every image has an image alt/description and at the back of the book there is an appendix with all the image descriptions. Including the cover, which I designed. Yep, my testimonial is the best internet insult I've gotten. I am great value Malfoy, when I'm blonde.

Full cover of print book, front in next image alt

Back:

Mid Gaussian is about the consequences of normal and hierarchy. The freedom of abnormal: integrating all of our parts and choosing alignment. Humans are unique among species for our ability to manipulate our environment and condition ourselves through that manipulation. Our survival requires breaking out of our capitalistic conditioning and establishing new norms of radical care and creativity for each other and the planet.

Cakelin Fable is a multidisciplinary artist, scientist, and technologist. Disabled, immunocompromised, queer, trans, white, and a rural to urban transplant: they bring all of these lived experiences to their work. They are here to ask questions, explore the unexpected, embrace friction, and welcome the abandoned. Their 2022 visual art collection Nucleation Invitation accompanies these poems.

"Why is great value Malfoy so upset?" - mmmmbop875

Octopus beaker + cakelin (cake with circuits) logos

Mid Gaussian: Flatten the Hierarchy
By Cakelin Fable
Middle of page has a normal distribution of black circles under a red curve. Some circles are squished or odd shapes, especially near the edges of the distribution. Two circles have escaped the top of the distribution and are much larger than the others. One of those circles is a gear with color inside of it. Above these escaped circles is the word "MID" "Gaussian" is underneath the distribution and following the curve is "Flatten the Hierarchy".
There are gears throughout the distribution in different sizes. Some of the gears look like flowers or viruses or even a ship steering wheel. The gears escape the bottom of the distribution and grow, breaking out of the bands holding them in place. They become odd amorphous shapes in several colors and then align and integrate into one multi-colored shape.
Background of the top has colored moon, stars, and hexagons in a swirl.

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Cakelin ~Offline for October~ @thecakelin.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

What a limited view of a country that's the size of Europe and has so many of our own regional cuisines that we are often fighting amongst ourselves. I hope you never experience the joy of Wisconsin cheese, all 350 varieties that don't come in a spray can 🤣

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Cakelin ~Offline for October~ @thecakelin.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Less than 0.3% of injured Canadian patients receive any compensation now. What will this be like with AI hallucinations? In the US, there's already insurance, doctors, and hospitals as potential responsible parties. Then add the tech companies creating genAI tools.

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Runalong Womble @runalongwomble.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Alt text for images is available on this platform and you can set it up via settings to remind you to ensure they are added

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Diversify Tech @diversifytech.com · 18/05/2026

📣 Job Alert: B Lab is looking for a Senior Product Design Manager! ➡️ Apply now: buff.ly/ZHlJFLY #DiversifyTech #WomenInTech

B Lab is hiring: Senior Product Design Manager. New York, NY, USA. Full-time.

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Amendment @amendment.app · 18/05/2026

Maryland just became the first state to make data centers pay for the grid upgrades they drive—instead of spreading those costs across every household. Gov. Wes Moore signed the Utility RELIEF Act last week. Expected savings: ~$640 million for ratepayers over three years.

amendment.app

HB1532: Utility RELIEF (Reducing Energy Load Inflation for Everyday Families) Act (Passed)

Maryland HB1532 modifies energy efficiency and conservation plans, rate schedules, and nuclear energy generation projects.

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Bryanna/Brioche, Angry Noodle @theangrynoodle.com · 24/04/2026

It’s fascinating and downright disturbing to see the racist undertones (or just outright racism) in so many of these AI generated “skits,” and “reality shows.” This creator does an amazing video covering it. Basically boils down to a new form of minstrelsy. youtu.be/V6u_fgeWxS0?...

youtu.be

This Black Person is Not Real

YouTube video by Pillboy

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

I know we're long past the point where this should be shocking anymore, but I still can't get over official government accounts stating that Jesus is "our Savior."

Tweet from the Department of Homeland Security: "“But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.” 2 Peter 3:18

May our nation continue to be guided by the light of our Savior."

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Reasons for rewilding your yard: you might get weird little guys deep in the grass! I'd only ever seen one Neon plutonus before, 5 years ago, but apparently all I needed was to let the swampy grass grow and remove some invasives from my own yard to see them again 🖤 #EmotionalSupportSpood

Tiny black boxy little jumping spider with big palps, waving a leg at you as he peers

The little man waving his 1st leg pair as he peers at something to left of frame

A lass of the species, a little dark orange nugget with a darker head and 1st leg pair; she's chilling on a bit of dry grass

Top view of the lass on her bit of grass. She's very stubby

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Nugget Classic™ One of the more common encyrtid wasp forms out there: stubby, dark orange, big grey eyes, and stripy little clubbed antennae. Out tirelessly doing important biocontrol work. ❤️

Little orange and winged encyrtid wasp as described in the post text, running along a bright fence board

Face of the creature, little black false pupils showing cross-eyed in her big grey eyes

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

this is infuriating. utterly infuriating

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Very hot contender for worst headline of the week award, what with at least 350 suspected cases and 91 deaths among other (likely predominantly African) humans.

bbc.co.uk

At least six Americans exposed to Ebola during DR Congo outbreak

One of the six Americans believed to have been exposed is experiencing symptoms, according to media reports.

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Cakelin ~Offline for October~ @thecakelin.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I love Farscape, I just rewatched it a couple months ago. But I am assuming it's mainly for diehard scifi/fantasy fans? Maybe I'm wrong though.

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