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When I checked this week, my registration was gone. Durham County, NC voter in good standing for many years, and I was no longer a registered voter.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 5h

What's great about this is - Yes. Germany was in fact a source of great scientific knowledge in the end of the 19th century. If you wanted to do science, you learned German. And then the Nazis destroyed the German scientific establishment. Because that's what Nazis do.

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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 7h

EVEN IF YOU THINK YOU’RE REGISTERED, check to make sure. Trumpists are purging the rolls. www.vote.org/am-i-registe... Deadline is TOMORROW in Alaska, Rhode Island, South Carolina. And MONDAY in Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, and *Texas*.

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Check Your Voter Registration Status - Vote.org

It takes less than 30 seconds to check your registration status with our free 50-state tool. And if you're not registered, we'll help you take care of that too. Fast, free, secure, non-partisan.

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Nick in NC @nicknc.bsky.social · 13h

Science fiction authors designing aliens need to aspire to at least the level of weirdness of a real bucket orchid. Coryanthes macrantha in my greenhouse this morning. Flower is approx 15 cm wide, 10 cm tall. 🌴🌱

A bucket orchid in shades of orange and yellow. The bucket is formed from the distal end of the labellum and the column. Glands drip liquid into the bucket. Bees falling into the bucket can only escape through a hole at one side where they will be forced into contact with the pollen and stigma at the end of the column. The hole is pretty large, so the bees must be equally big. The sepals look like big wings made of tissue paper that counterbalance the bucket. The base of the labellum where it connects to the rest of the flower looks like a weirdly ridged orange alien penis.

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Athenaknits @theparthecraft.bsky.social · 23h

Maps. You used to be able to buy a map book for Metro areas.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you are part of an academic society or a professor of any kind, public statements that you do not condone Drexel cutting off the academy of natural sciences from the public of Philadelphia is very important right now. We need your voices. Urgently.

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FrontRangeWildflowers @frwildflowers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

…When he says he believes in genetics he plainly means that he believes in eugenics. This “Extraordinarily brilliant person” said that:

I have the highest of IQs. I have the highest.
I'm fine, and I understand that stuff. You know, my uncle was at MIT for 41 years, and you know, I'm a-I believe in genetics, frankly, and I understand. I understand it much more than I think any president would, because I do have an ability on this. I have an ability on those things that were the new frontiers.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Just generally the story of the last 5 years is Revenge of The Bosses, including Trump's win in 2024

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Athenaknits @theparthecraft.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Infinite diversity in infinite combinations, ftw. I am sad that she had to be stealth but still happy that she is there.

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Athenaknits @theparthecraft.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's like they cannot imagine a manual labor based job. I am in a garden all day, my dude. Your mad libs machines can't pull weeds for me.

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Emily Doolittle @emilydoolittle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Very much enjoying my new hobby of making #crochet #mushrooms and photographing them in their natural habitat. Here are some collared earthstars! (Is there a month where people share mushroom art like there is for invertebrates?)

Crocheted collared earthstar mushrooms, photographed on a forest floor.

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Athenaknits @theparthecraft.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Muahagahahaha. It is time #crochet 🧶

A skein of grey and silver yarn from Big Twist

A crochet amigurumi figure of Kit from Willow

Kit from Willow (Disney Plus) at the end of the show, wearing shiny metal srmor

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I am one of the fire survivors he's trying to screw over. If you want to help me rebuild, you can buy something from my Etsy shop: www.etsy.com/shop/thenigh...

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thenightwellforge - Etsy

Shop items by thenightwellforge.

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

ICE’s courthouse arrests were always illegal—as we said from the start. Finally, they’re prohibited nationwide. Thank you to The Door @africansus.bsky.social @nyclu.org @aclu.org @maketheroadny.bsky.social @ecbawm.com & Judge Castel for upholding the rule of law. www.nyclu.org/press-releas...

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Federal Court Strikes Down ICE’s Courthouse Arrest Policy Nationwide - NYCLU

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

these are our pianos, not theirs! I know this stuff can feel secondary with all of the immediate pain this admin causes, but in the face of such personalism, it also feels important to assert the democratic principle that these cultural inheritances don't belong to the president, they belong to us

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

INNOCENT

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Tim 🎃wens @attimowens.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Never getting over how good these blade-splashing VFX are. Never getting over the imagination behind "Night"'s daring storytelling, and the creative freedom that encouraged it.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s also really clear to me this week that the people telling us that AI will transform work…haven’t seen a lot of jobs where people work.

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Athenaknits @theparthecraft.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For context around Title IX and how students try to navigate it, Something Was Wrong did a season on it. The stories shared are rough but it shed a lot of light on a deeply flawed system.

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S25 Ep1: Chapter 1: Something is Terribly Wrong

YouTube video by Something Was Wrong Official

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Athenaknits @theparthecraft.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Late season Kniphofia. I think it is called Limelight. I might divide this patch since I haven't seen these in years. #bloomscrolling 🌱

A bright light yellow spire of narrow tubular flowers on a thick flower stalk

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/10/2026

🚨 BREAKING: The family of Renee Good and her partner, Rebecca Good, have filed two federal lawsuits over Good’s January killing by ICE agent Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis. 1/

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Athenaknits @theparthecraft.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A really cute game perfect to play in October

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Bugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

PLEASE help Katra if you can, she's been a pillar of trans spaces for fucking ever and deserves the world. the whole situation is fucked, any donations or shares are incredibly appreciated

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Angri Bundel @anibundel.com · 01/10/2026

Has he considered releasing successful TV series annually? With episodes debuting weekly? Maybe with fixed premiere times? And marketing?

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Ted Sarandos Admits Netflix Is “Not Growing as Fast as I Want Us To”

The streamer's co-CEO also clarifies: "We're not in the [user-generated content] business."

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yesterday, community groups and immigrant advocates started a 96-mile pilgrimage from the Adelanto ICE Processing Center to the Metropolitan Detention Center in DTLA to call for an end to all detention centers and an end to cruel immigration policy. 🎥: Erwin Recinos and Aisha Wallace-Palomares

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Athenaknits @theparthecraft.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Do you still have an assigned polling place? Will they have some kind of id scanner?

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Athenaknits @theparthecraft.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Okay. lets imagine the best case scenario. You get a free voter id at 18. You then have to keep track of it for the rest of your life. Assuming you don't ever move states. Since elections are state run, each state would probably need a new id. How does the id work for mail in ballots? this is dumb

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's disgusting the way people look past someone refusing to stand up for trans people or women or people of color or immigrants or victims of genocide. It is an ethical and moral line and once you stand on the wrong side you have revealed yourself to either be a coward or undeserving of power.

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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 30/09/2026

Gendered violence is a systemic cultural and societal problem. And when one of these cases boils to the top, you can see that in how many survivors come forward to explain how similar their experiences are, in ways both big and small.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

do men understand the extent to which women are ready to burn it all down right now

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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 30/09/2026

The princess took an earring off and held it out. The raven looked at it. "Whatever for?" "You are wise and clever. Many princesses have dragons, but none has a raven friend." The raven picked up the earring. "Say no more." "Friends?" she asked when it returned the next day. "Forevermore."

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I've gotten a lot of requests from faculty about how to talk to their students about the Cornell 7. I'll post a few resources I've built over the years that I've heard are the most helpful:

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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 30/09/2026

A friend of mine was raped by football players at one of our college’s frat house in 1998. She went through the internal system, which exonerated the men and accused and blamed her. We wanted her to bring charges and a court case… but she was so broken by then. She dropped out. Burn it all down.

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Claire Leach @claireleach.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In A Tangle, 21cm x 15cm, pen on paper. 🌿🌳🍂

Black and white detailed pen drawing of a woodland landscape.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 29/09/2026

Riley Gaines, famous for turning her 5th place tie with transgender swimmer Lia Thomas into a far-right career agianst transgender people, has officially had her lawsuit against the NCAA thrown out by a judge today. The judge found no evidence for her claims. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Riley Gaines' Title IX Lawsuit Against The NCAA Struck Down After Judge Finds "No Evidence" Of Funding Claims

Gaines’ attorneys argued her civil rights were violated because she competed against a transgender athlete.

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I wouldn't mind a second and longer and more thorough MeToo tbqh

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I am an AI doomer inasmuch as I feel strongly that AI is doomed and that it is our responsibility to accelerate that doom.

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Athenaknits @theparthecraft.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I ignored my "to read" pile to read the @tkingfisher.com book, Swordheart. It was worth it. I loved all the characters, even the bad guys.

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mariah-rose 𓃦 ✦ 𓅛 @mariahrosemarie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

a nearly 8 year old comic with some updated numbers... 💀 ft. my semi-retired character, proletariat pug. (lettering's a lil rough, dialogue is in the alt description!)

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Texas, the voter registration deadline is coming up next week. If you live in Texas and want to vote, be sure to check that you are registered properly — even if you you think you did what you had to. A statewide database to check: goelect.txelections.civixapps.com/ivis-mvp-ui/...

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🚨🚨Emergency protest🚨🚨 The Drexel board will be at the constitution center in Old City (525 Arch St, Philadelphia, PA 19106) from 5-6. We're asking Drexel to disaffiliate from the Academy of Nat Sci to allow them to negotiate what's best for them w/o Drexel interference. Be there.

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

With alt text. I yelled

INTRODUCTION

The equities here could not be more one-sided. Defendants admit that they
provide a service without fully knowing how it works.

This is not just any service. It is one that Defendants themselves concede poses an existential risk to the continued
survival of humankind.

Defendants claim they cannot stop barreling forward with their potentially civilization-ending endeavors unless they are forced to do so by the
government. They have asked the government to tie them to the mast.

Plaintiff brings good news to the Defendants: The Florida Attorney General is answering your
cry for help with a motion to enjoin you from harming Floridians with your reckless, unacceptably risky product.

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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t.

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