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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 12h
The Woman Whose Software Guided the Apollo Missions Has Died
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Margaret Hamilton, Whose Software Guided the Apollo Missions, Has Died (Gift Article)
Margaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the space project at M.I.T., was 90.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 5h
Trump announced a deal with Putin to sell 4.8 million tonnes of Russian diesel, potentially worth $7.24 billion, while easing US sanctions. The deal would boost Russia’s war finances and undermine Ukraine’s efforts to cut off revenues funding Russia’s invasion.
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Trump lifts sanctions on $7 billion of Russian diesel as Russian strikes kill at least 71 Ukrainians in three days
Trump announced a deal with Putin to sell 4.8 million tonnes of Russian diesel, worth nearly $7.24 billion, while easing US sanctions. The agreement would strengthen Russia’s war finances and undermin...
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Gizmodo @gizmodo.com · 5h
The Onion's First Video Game Is an Action-Packed Voting Simulator
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The Onion's First Video Game Is an Action-Packed Voting Simulator
Players can double-jump away from poll watchers to cast their ballot or simply stay at home and jerk off.
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Moniker @truffula1984.bsky.social · 5h
True reefer you pass it back and forth in our passionate kiss from my mouth to yours i like you
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Erik Hoffner @erikhoffner.bsky.social · 12h
“I'll say that the map looks pretty much just like the simulations we made, which is not a good thing!” - U of Regina astronomer Samantha Lawler Environmentalists also point to a surge in pollution from so many rocket launches, plus problems for migratory birds, or anyone who loves the night sky:
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Bigger Than Starlink: SpaceX Provides New Look at Orbital Data Center Plans
In a new video, the company shows what its 'Starmind' orbital data center constellation could look like around Earth with 1 million satellites.
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Moniker @truffula1984.bsky.social · 6h
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All the Percent - A Star Trek: TNG Supercut
YouTube video by Picard Looking
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 7h
“I’m the good Hitler.” gott im himmel
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NPR @npr.org · 7h
The Pentagon says it will livestream the firing squad execution of Nidal Hasan at Ford Hood, the site of his 2009 mass shooting. That would be the first public execution in the U.S. since the 1930s. n.pr/4jecy6g
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The U.S. last held a public execution in the 1930s. The Pentagon wants to change that
The Pentagon says it will livestream the firing squad execution of Nidal Hasan at Ford Hood, the site of his 2009 mass shooting. That would be the first public execution in the U.S. since the 1930s.
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 7h
"The simultaneous Tropical Storm Watch on the West Coast for Tropical Storm Rachel and the Hurricane Warning for Isaias on the Atlantic coast marks the first time NHC has ever issued watches/warnings simultaneously for both U.S. coastlines." yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/10/cate...
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Category 3 Hurricane Isaias closes in on the Florida Panhandle » Yale Climate Connections
The first major Atlantic hurricane of 2026 threatens the Gulf Coast with a storm surge of up to 9 feet, damaging winds, flooding, and tornadoes, with impacts spreading across the Southeast on Saturday...
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Moniker @truffula1984.bsky.social · 8h
Trans women are women like women are like donuts, there are ring donuts and long johns and donuts holes but they are all you know what nevermind teacher pick someone else!
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Wisconsin Examiner @wisconsinexaminer.com · 9h
BREAKING: Wisconsin Democrats sue Trump, federal agencies over taxpayer funded campaign ads buff.ly/eCnMTKY
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Wisconsin Democrats sue Trump, federal agencies over taxpayer funded campaign ads • Wisconsin Examiner
The lawsuit charges the administration violated the U.S. Constitution and several federal laws with the ads that ran in late September.
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 9h
Analysis Finds Up to 12 Million Americans Have Lost Their Health Coverage During Trump's Second Term
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Analysis Finds Up to 12 Million Americans Have Lost Their Health Coverage During Trump's Second Term
Independent healthcare analyst Charles Gaba reveals up to 12 million Americans lost healthcare coverage under Trump's second term. Medicaid, ACA, and CHIP enrollment all down significantly.
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Moniker @truffula1984.bsky.social · 9h
It explains as far as to say bilbos father built the house and only rich and very poor hobbits lived in holes, gandalf palled around with bilbos grandfather and i assume he had hand in procuring hobbit mansion large enough to shelter 13 odd dwarves.
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Inside Climate News @insideclimatenews.org · 10h
In the most landlocked region of the planet, aquaculture is booming. But fueling the industry’s rapid growth is forced labor.
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China’s Blue Mirage - Inside Climate News
Fish farming in Xinjiang is sold as proof that technology can overcome geography. The reality is a desert seafood boom built on political control and forced labor.
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Fully Automated @fullyautomatedluxury.com · 03/10/2026
final panel shows nancy looking behind the bushes but the text from r crumbs "lookit that stupid ass-hole!" meme panel placed atop it so that nancy is looking in disgust at sluggo saying 
"I loathe ever person i see on the street! Lookit that stupid ass-hole!"
with text saying "normal guy" pointing at sluggo.
the whistling from the original panel has been removed and the whistling from the r crumb panel has been placed there instead.
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 12h
Each pendulum swings at its own period and sings its own note, turning simple harmonic motion into a melody that rewrites itself every cycle before snapping back into sync.
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Valerie Raith @wraithstrike.bsky.social · 13h
I saw this and immediately thought "Imagine a one-take parkour chase scene on that."
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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 11h
"Glory to the youth" Seen in Paris during the ongoing student uprising across the country.
"Glory to the youth"
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Climate Desk @climatedesk.org · 11h
We probably wouldn't go it the water, though, because where you have giant, prehistoric-looking lilies, who knows what other giant prehistoric-looking critters might be swimming around in there?
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 12h
GREAT news for wildlife!! But highly toxic lead *rifle* ammunition isn't included, so this fight must go on.
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Guardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com · 17h
Animals crossing: the simple solution to stop roadkill in the Amazon
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Animals crossing: the simple solution to stop roadkill in the Amazon
Installation of eight canopy bridges in Alta Floresta has enabled 15,000 safe crossings by animals including spider monkeys and marmosets – and more bridges are planned elsewhere
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ICT News @ict-news.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The Ho-Chunk Gaming casino in Beloit, Wisconsin will open on October 23 featuring over 1,300 slot-machines.
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$705 million Ho-Chunk casino opens this month - ICT
‘We are going to be woven back into the community as we always should have been’
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This IS what this country is. It's not the only thing that it is but it is absolutely violent and barbaric. The US. is one of 55 countries that still maintain capital punishment. 140 countries have abolished it. This IS what this country is. Might as well televise the killings.
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Rep. Jim McGovern @repmcgovern.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A naval blockade is an act of war. Starving civilians is a war crime & can be a crime against humanity. We should not mince words with what the Trump Administration is inflicting on the people of Cuba. It's cruel, vindictive, shameful, & criminal. There must be accountability.
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US Coast Guard says it intercepted ship carrying fuel to Cuba
US says ship thought to be using common ‘dark fleet’ tactics was boarded and taken to Mexico as embargo continues
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Moniker @truffula1984.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
If youve ever taken what i say to mean gay people are a cult, thats fallacy, i mean sex cult people are in sex cults, nor would i say polyamory is a cult, there is just more to life than sex, sex is opium of masses i say as desperately lonely seekimg monogamy cis white man thinking a cult you say.
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Moniker @truffula1984.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
If something is disproportionately racist i take it as sign motive of oppressor isn't anti black racism, ABR more is political or classist than about skin color, if youve noticed they stick it to all of us for being anything but lemming GOP voters, were all being colletively punished for being right
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Grist @grist.org · 08/10/2026
Trump is gutting the Endangered Species Act. These 10 species show what’s at stake.
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Trump is gutting the Endangered Species Act. These 10 species show what’s at stake.
Hundreds of imperiled species, including North Atlantic right whales and rusty patched bumble bees, could face greater threats from industry and development.
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
For over a week, high school students and teachers in France have been protesting the state’s abandonment of the education system. The government response: send in police to subdue them.
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In France, High Schoolers are Beaten, Choked, and Gassed
For over a week, high school students and teachers in France have been protesting the state’s abandonment of the education system. The government response: send in police to subdue them.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/06/m...
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Protesters barricade road to Vermont ICE facility with ‘community gardens’ - The Boston Globe
About 40 protesters built flower boxes in the middle of a road to block access to ICE facilities in Williston on Tuesday.
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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Before they had gas chambers Nazis used to smother Jews with exhaust in the back of trucks.
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Andy Whitmore @more-whit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"The problem is that even with massive investments, the amount of rare-earth elements that can be extracted is extremely small ... There remains a significant gap between the amount of resources lying on the seafloor and the ability to extract them economically" earthjournalism.net/stories/japa...
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Japan Advances Deep-Sea Mining as Moratorium Support Grows
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2026
the funny thing about this of course is that "athenian democracy" was a cautionary tale to the framers, who saw it as unstable and prone to demagogues and tyrants like the one rubio works for
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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
So this has been known for awhile. It because we deplete the soil. This is also why a multivitamin, despite the debates on it, should be part of your routine. And if you're someone with a period, you should include iron. Your GP can and should also run blood tests to check.
independent.co.uk
Vegetables are half as nutritious than 60 years ago. Experts now know why
Fewer than a third of wheat varieties used in bread released since the 1960s meet the recommended zinc target, due to poor soil quality
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UN Environment Programme @unep.org · 08/10/2026
That’s the equivalent of 92M tonnes of textile waste pile up yearly. This wasteful system is harming people and the planet. It's time to rethink fashion and #BeatWastePollution. See how: www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story…
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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Telnet BBS Guide | Discussion
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Dinosaur Masks, Easels, 1,000 Top Hats: Inside NYC’s Free Store for Teachers www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/10/08/c...
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Dinosaur Masks, Easels, 1,000 Top Hats: Inside NYC’s Free Store for Teachers
A visit to the Queens warehouse for the Materials for the Arts program has become a ritual for many local educators.
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 08/10/2026
~33% of israeli men and ~45% of israeli women are exempt from idf service and the kibbutz that suffered the heaviest losses was filled with anti-occupation activists and war resisters.
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Vox @vox.com · 08/10/2026
What are kratom and 7-OH, the opioid-like drugs that you can buy at the gas station? www.vox.com/podcasts/505...
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The rise of gas station opioids
What are kratom and 7-OH, the opioid-like drugs that you can buy at the gas station?
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rose m. honeyboy @boxofhamsters.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
if you haven't lost someone to overdose or addiction, i don't want to hear criticism about any harm reduction devices "not solving the problem". i hope this technology helps people, even just one person is worth saving
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Moniker @truffula1984.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Love itself is the shibboleth of a true christian, you can't knock love with a stick, mostly Christianity has come to mean colonizer nativist practices and traditions, what anti- Christians make it about, those with newfound respect for the pope fail to appreciate this is how papacy always was.
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Jonathan Watts @jonathan-watts.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
More fire, more crime, more death and a globally important ecosystem driven ever more rapidly towards a point of no return. That’s the prospect for the Amazon rainforest if Flávio Bolsonaro wins Brazil’s election My take www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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Flávio Bolsonaro’s advance in Brazil’s election is grim jolt for climate campaigners
Inquest under way into why President Lula’s success in curbing Amazon deforestation has not led to success at polls
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Reuters @reuters.com · 08/10/2026
US states label abortion drugs a 'public nuisance' in bid to curb access reut.rs/4zm5Mjp
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US states label abortion drugs a 'public nuisance' in bid to curb access
Three Republican-led US states are testing a novel legal argument as they seek to stem the flow of abortion pills to residents who can still obtain them from out-of-state providers despite their abortion bans.
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Middle East Monitor @middleeastmonitor.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Palestinian Education Ministry says more than 90% of Gaza schools destroyed during three years of war
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Palestinian Education Ministry says more than 90% of Gaza schools destroyed during three years of war
Palestinian Minister of Education Amjad Barham said on Wednesday that more than 90 percent of schools and over 85 percent of universities and higher education institutions in the Gaza Strip have be…
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Robin Whitlock @robinwhitlock66.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Linux Foundation launches OpenGrid to build open, shared, infrastructure for the world’s electricity grid www.renewableenergymagazine.com/miscellaneou...
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Linux Foundation launches OpenGrid to build open, shared, infrastructure for the world?s electricity grid
The nonprofit Linux Foundation, promoting mass innovation through open source, has announced the launch of OpenGrid, a new initiative building open source infrastructure to modernise...
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The Independent @the-independent.com · 08/10/2026
Woman sues after she was seriously hurt on mechanical genitals ride in Las Vegas bar
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Woman sues after she was seriously hurt on mechanical genitals ride in Las Vegas bar
The woman said some of her injuries could be permanent
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Guardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com · 08/10/2026
World must change way it produces food to avoid biodiversity collapse, says WWF
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World must change way it produces food to avoid biodiversity collapse, says WWF
Recovery of tigers, tuna and green sea turtles show nature loss can be reversed when action taken, charity says
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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
INSANE MIDDLE EAST HEAT 46C DAY 33C NIGHT The most extreme event in world history gets worse 46.3 Sharjah Uni. EMIRATES HOTTEST OCTOBER DAY EVER 44.7 Abu Dhabi 44.2 Dubai 44.0 Al Ain 43.9 Sharjah 42.6 Bateen IRAN 46.3 Omidieh OMAN 45.1 Sunaynah 43.5 Buraimi RECORD HOT NIGHTS👎
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Daily Kos @dailykos.com · 07/10/2026
Fox News turns 30 today. Its anniversary gift to itself? Three decades of misinformation, smears, and Republican propaganda. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Fox News celebrates 30 years of lies, racism, and smears
Since launching on Oct. 7, 1996, Fox News has aired a nonstop stream of bile, misinformation, bigotry, and stupidity.
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The Independent @the-independent.com · 07/10/2026
Riverdance star Michael Flatley says his ‘heart is broken’ after wife Niamh dies aged 52
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Riverdance star Michael Flatley says his ‘heart is broken’ after wife Niamh dies
The couple were married for 20 years and had performed together in Lord Of The Dance
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Vox @vox.com · 07/10/2026
The humane myth of catch and release fishing. www.vox.com/future-perfe...
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The cruelty of a beloved American pastime
The humane myth of catch and release fishing.
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