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Brian Hioe @brianhioe.bsky.social · 13h

‪The actual event page is here: www.facebook.com/share/1CUhDT...

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Brian Hioe @brianhioe.bsky.social · 13h

There are plans for a protest of the raid outside of the police station at Ximen today afternoon at 1 PM. That the raid occurred shortly before Pride is likely to be outraging www.facebook.com/share/p/1Dik...

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Brian Hioe @brianhioe.bsky.social · 15h

On this point, other gay bars in the area as Locker Room have also seen raids in recent memory, never mind that this is right before Pride at the end of October. But this is probably because the Taipei city police wants to appeal to the public ahead of elections

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Milk Tea Alliance Calendar @mtacalendar.bsky.social · 13h

New event! 📆4th Oct 🕐13:00 Taiwan Time LGBTQIA Friends in Taipei will hold protest "Homophobic Cops in My City? It's More Likely Then You Think! Oppose Police Harassment of LGBTQ+ Venues!" At Ximen Red House Police Station Details: www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1...

[[ 緊急行動，敬請轉發參加 ]]
抗議北市警局不當執法！反對警察騷擾同志場所！
[[ 緊急行動，敬請轉發參加 ]]
地點：西門紅樓派出所前
時間：10/4 13:00 ~
十月三日下午，萬華分局西門町派出所突襲搜索台北市知名 BDSM 酒吧 Commander D。警方雖聲稱持有搜索票，但拒絕出示給現場民眾。對於現場有身心障礙人士甚至涉嫌歧視稱「殘障也可以做愛喔？」店長抗議警方行動結果遭「上銬」，甚至被要求下跪。記者也隨警察進入現場，視偵查不公開原則如敝屣。
搜索行動持續接近五小時，警方事後面對民眾質疑，卻聲稱「沒有搜索只是盤查」，更告訴民眾「有不滿就去提告」。
我們是一群在台北生活的酷兒。我們是一群在萬華讀書、戀愛、分手、做音樂、搞社運的人。我們反對臺北市警局之過激行動，並要求：
1. 針對萬華分局：交代行動原委，並且正式為員警執法行為時之態度與歧視性言論道歉。
2. 針對北市警局：應說明針對同志場所（Commander D、Hunt、Locker Room 等）進行歧視性執法之原委與正當性，並且咎責、道歉。
3. 針對北市府：針對今年多次歧視性執法，蔣萬安市長應說明其原委與意圖，同時應檢討北市府是否真的同志友善？
敬請各界朋友轉傳，並誠摯邀請各位酷兒與盟友，一起加入我們的抗議行動。

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Brian Hioe @brianhioe.bsky.social · 15h

Other reports state that 52 were arrested, who were apparently not allowed to put on their clothing, and marched to the police station. It is thought that this was due to drug allegations, as well as fearmongering about sexual activities in Taipei bars www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdIY...

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涉妨害風化! 萬華警突襲西門町酒吧帶回衣衫不整52人｜TVBS新聞 @TVBSNEWS01

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Brian Hioe @brianhioe.bsky.social · 15h

BREAKING: Taipei BDSM-themed gay bar Commander D raided by police this afternoon. According to this report, police claimed to have a warrant but didn't show it, and made discriminatory comments toward disabled individuals tw.news.yahoo.com/%E7%8D%A8-%E...

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獨／北市警突襲搜索同志酒吧！嗆不爽去告

[NOWNEWS今日新聞]台北市知名BDSM酒吧CommanderD今（3）下午遭北市警萬華分局西門町派出所突襲搜索，聲稱持搜索票但拒絕出示給現場民眾，對於現場有身心障礙人士甚至涉嫌歧視稱「殘障也可以...

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Better Know a Fish! / 曉得多魚！ @betterknowafish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

BONUS: #SciArtSeptember 2026 compilation. Gratitude again to @lizlagomorph.bsky.social and all my fellow #SciArt #SundayFishSketch kin who shared the love this past month! 🦑🐡🧪

Photo of sketch book page with crayon sketches of Sci Art September themes Malachite Violet Sanguine Azure Saffron Coral Fawn Ruby Ivory

Photo of sketch book page with crayon sketches of Sci Art September themes Woad Heart Teardrop Diamond Crescent Honeycomb Scallop Eyelet Almond

Photo of sketch book page with crayon sketches of Sci Art September themes Star Meander Kaolin Silk Copper Down Jade Cedar Quill

Photo of sketch book page with crayon sketches of Sci Art September themes Linen Pelt Carbon

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Liv Monahan @livmonahan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

That's me! Hope to see even more of y'all in Tucson next year.

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Ben Young Landis @younglandis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Natural environments attract attention without demanding it—a phenomenon sometimes called 'soft fascination.' Novelty in nature is especially potent neurologically... Put all of this together and wandering begins to look less and less like wasted time, and more like a sweet spot for cognition." 🧪

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Liz Butler @lizlagomorph.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I love this. 🌟❤️✨🌈

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AAAS Mass Media Fellowship @aaasmassmedia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

¿Es un científico o ingeniero interesado en periodismo! También puede completar este programa en español. Escribe y reporta ciencia en español durante diez semanas durante este verano. ¡Aplica ahora! bit.ly/3KugH6D #CienciaEnEspañol #SciComm

El plazo de solicitud para el programa Mass Media Science & Engineering de la AAAS se abre el 1 de octubre y cierra el 4 de enero de 2027.

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AAAS Mass Media Fellowship @aaasmassmedia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Are you ready to try something new and work in #SciComm? Apply now to be a part of the 2027 cohort of @aaas.org #MassMediaFellows! Spend the summer using your STEMM background as a journalist writing the news. English and Spanish language placements available. bit.ly/3KugH6D

The 2027 AAAS Mass Media Science & Engineering Fellowship Application opens on October 1 and closes January 4, 2027.

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The Xylom @thexylom.com · 02/10/2026

In 2003, the U.S. military bombed Iraq’s national seed bank in Abu Ghraib, effectively eliminating hundreds of varieties of indigenous seeds adapted to growing in the drought-prone desert climate. A year later, U.S. law prohibited Iraqi farmers from seed saving. (First published in 2025 by Prism)

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Saving Iraq’s Seeds, One Garden at a Time

Comprising a diverse range of backgrounds and ages, the collective fosters a space for voices of Jewish, Muslim, and Christian seed stewards from the Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA) region…

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Ben Young Landis @younglandis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Science friends in Taiwan 台灣, our next #TaipeiScienceCafe #台北科普咖啡 talk on October 21 will be “Every Turtle Has a Story: How Citizen Scientists Turn Photos Into Research and Conservation” featuring co-founder of TurtleSpot Taiwan 馮加伶 Dr. Chia-Ling Fong: www.facebook.com/events/14299... #SciComm #科普 🧪

Taipei Science Cafe poster with text “Every Turtle Has a Story: How Citizen Scientists Turn Photos Into Research and Conservation”
A photograph of a sea turtle can be more than a holiday memory! In this talk, we will dive into how thousands of photographs contributed by divers, tourists, and local residents can become scientific evidence, and help researchers identify individual turtles, monitoring the numbers of aggregation and understand how long they stay, and what threats they face. Join us as our speaker Dr. Chia-Ling Fong teaches us about Taiwan’s amazing sea turtles!

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Ashish Valentine @ashishval.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Glad you appreciated the piece Ben!

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Better Know a Fish! / 曉得多魚！ @betterknowafish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

And for Day 30 of #SciArtSeptember #Carbon, I give my thanks to the life around us — and to wonderful #SciArt friends like @lizlagomorph.bsky.social who bring us all together in creative joy. Live long and prosper, peace and long life, my fellow carbon-based lifeforms 🖖🧡🦑🐡🧪

Photo of a crayon sketch of a wreath pattern teeming with lifeforms from vines to kelp to flowers to sea stars to salps to butterflies and more

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Liz Butler @lizlagomorph.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Thanks for joining in by creating work, sharing posts & supporting artists during #SciArtSeptember! I love this yearly opportunity to reconnect with friends & meet new folks. 🌟 - While I’ll be posting less during the rest of the year, please reach out any time if you have ideas for collaborations. 🌱

An illustration of an azure jay, perched on a stick. The bird has its back to the viewer and its head turned to the left. The background is a light pink colour.

A photograph of a tiny sculpture of a fawn suspended in a small wooden box. The fawn appears to be leaping. The back of the box is lined with green and gold paper. The box rests on a wooden table.

A hand holding a small book made with a scallop shell cover. The book is fanned open, to show the pink pages inside the book. The background is a wooden table top.

A graphite drawing of a moon bear, also called an Asian black bear. The bear is sitting up, with its front paws near its chest. The bear looks towards the right. The bear is tinted in shades of purple.

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Liz Butler @lizlagomorph.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

An Abyssinian roller that is also a little book. It begins: “Why is a roller like a writing desk? The need for fire and acacia, both. One for blood - the other, ink.” Written in India ink. - #SciArtSeptember Day 30: Carbon

A painted, cut-out paper bird in the shape of an Abyssinian roller. The bird has one wing folded back, which reveals a small booklet of pages under the wing. The underwing is brown and has uneven letters painted on it in another shade of brown reading, “Some small words about the medium of carbon.” The booklet pages are bright blue, like the bird, and the words inside are unclear. The bird rests on a wooden table top.

A painted, cut-out paper bird in the shape of an Abyssinian roller. The bird appears to be in flight, with the wings positioned in a downward flap. The bird is bright blue, with a brown back and long, black tail. The bird rests on a wooden table top.

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Ben Young Landis @younglandis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The irony of this ad from "Propane Education & Research Council" is *hilarious*. Airing during NHL games, even as real hockey communities are lamenting the loss of pond hockey and outdoor ice skating traditions due to climate change and warming: www.ispot.tv/ad/gCqP/prop... #SciComm #ClimateComms 🧪

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Propane Education & Research Council TV Spot, 'Professional Power Plays: Thin Ice'

Check out Propane Education & Research Council's 30 second TV commercial, 'Professional Power Plays: Thin Ice' from the Gardening & Outdoor industry. Keep an eye on this page t...

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

BREAKING: Newsom signed a bunch of clean energy bills! Californians can now install balcony solar. Plus big wins for virtual power plants, reining in utility profits and converting farmland to solar. One loser: community solar. Really stings. Details: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/newsom-cle...

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Breaking: Newsom green-lights balcony solar

The governor finished strong on clean energy — with one big exception.

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Ben Young Landis @younglandis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"On September 28, the building home to Ukraine's National Academy of Sciences in Kyiv was struck by a Russian jet-powered drone and caught fire. At least one person died and a few more were injured, with many escaping through windows to avoid the blaze." (@aaas.org Policy Alert - 29 September 2026)

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Liz Butler @lizlagomorph.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🙏🙏🙏

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Better Know a Fish! / 曉得多魚！ @betterknowafish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As #SciArtSeptember draws to a close, what great #BestKidsFishBooks #FishBooksForKids with #TeamFish #SciArt can you recommend? Add your favorites below so we can make #BookSky #KidLit a fishier place everywhere 😍🐟🦑🐡🧪📚 List So Far: bit.ly/FishBooksForKids Add a Title: bit.ly/BestKidsFishBooks

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BKAF Crowdsourcing Dossier: Best Fish Books for Kids (of All Ages)! (Responses)

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Ben Young Landis @younglandis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is what #SciArtSeptember is all about. Just a marvel to see all the amazing art like this absolutely stunning piece from our ringleader @lizlagomorph.bsky.social. Wow!!! 🥹🧪

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Liz Butler @lizlagomorph.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A tiny shadowbox about animals with blue blood. In these animals, oxygen binds to copper-based molecules, not iron. The turquoise beads also get their blue colour from copper. - #SciArtSeptember Day 23: Copper

A small, shallow box containing copper foil art of a horseshoe crab, an octopus, and a cuttlefish. The foil art is mounted on blue fabric. Around the foil animals are eight blue beads.

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Better Know a Fish! / 曉得多魚！ @betterknowafish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

For Day 29 of #SciArtSeptember #Pelt I took some liberties and went with a baby California kingsnake—Lampropeltis californiae. "Lampropeltis" apparently means "shiny shield": λαμπρός (shiny) and πέλτη (shield), "in reference to their smooth, enamel-like dorsal scales." 🐡🦑🧪 (One more day to go!)

Photo of a crayon sketch of a the barred color morph of California king snake

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Better Know a Fish! / 曉得多魚！ @betterknowafish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

For Day 28 of #SciArtSeptember #Linen I tried to commemorate this epic hammerhead shirt that I used to see @whysharksmatter.bsky.social wear at conferences. It probably wasn't linen — but it was lit. (This one still in your closet, David?) 🐡🦑🧪

Photo of crayon sketch of a short sleeve island shirt with repeating hammerhead shark patterns

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New Bloom @newbloommag.net · 28/09/2026

Wednesday night! Join us for the latest session of our Taiwan History 101 reading group!. Moved up a day from the original date! www.facebook.com/events/17516...

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Liz Butler @lizlagomorph.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A quillback rockfish. Not quite a drawing with a quill but with a dip pen, which feels of-a-sort. - #SundayFishSketch + #SciArtSeptember Day 27: Quill

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New Bloom @newbloommag.net · 27/09/2026

Tomorrow afternoon! Join the New Bloom community for a pilgrimage to the Jing-Mei White Terror Memorial Park— the preserved grounds of the Jingmei Military Detention Center for political dissidents. We will meet directly at the memorial park www.facebook.com/events/15747...

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Better Know a Fish! / 曉得多魚！ @betterknowafish.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

For #SundayFishSketch x Day 27 of #SciArtSeptember #Quill here is Ariopsis felis, the hardhead catfish. Which anyone who has fished the southeastern U.S. coast will have caught and cursed at loudly at least once. Those fin spines *HURT* 🐡🦑🧪

Photo of a crayon sketch of a hard head catfish

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Amanda Heidt @scattercushion.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

🧪Today, the PsychAD Consortium published EIGHT papers across Nature journals detailing their efforts to create the largest map of the human prefrontal cortex. It's hard to overstate the amount of work here, nor the absolute treasure trove this team has created for researchers.

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Landmark map of human brain’s gene activity holds clues to Alzheimer’s disease and more

The atlas of gene expression in the prefrontal cortex was created using samples from almost 1,500 donors of all ages — from infants to centenarians.

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Better Know a Fish! / 曉得多魚！ @betterknowafish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

For Day 26 of #SciArtSeptember #Cedar here is an inset of Calocedrus formosana, the Taiwan incense-cedar 臺灣肖楠，and endangered endemic here on our beautiful island. 🦑🐡🧪

Photo of a crayon sketch of a frond of Taiwan incense cedar

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Better Know a Fish! / 曉得多魚！ @betterknowafish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

For Day 25 of #SciArtSeptember #Jade here is the Taiwan barbet (Psilopogon nuchalis) 五色鳥，one of our incredible endemic birds here on Formosa. 🦑🐡🧪

Photo of a crayon sketch of a Taiwan Barbet

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Better Know a Fish! / 曉得多魚！ @betterknowafish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

For Day 24 of #SciArtSeptember #Down I imagined a fuzzy hatchling Anurognathus pterosaur. Essentially a Pokémon. 🦑🐡🧪

Photo of a crayon sketch of a fuzzy frog faced pterosaur chick waiting to be fed (or eaten)

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Dr. Rene P. Martin @lampichthys.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Our last, but not least, #SundayFishSketch and #SciartSeptember #Fishytheme is this weekend. Thank you @lizlagomorph.bsky.social for an awesome month of sciart. This Sunday use the prompt word ‘Quill’. There’s literally fish that have quill in their name!! Looking forward to seeing those fishes. 🦑

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Liz Butler @lizlagomorph.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A small book, made using Atlantic bay scallop shells. The book features tiny drawings of estuary plants and animals from Nova Scotia. - #SciArtSeptember Day 16: Scallop

An open book made of paper pages and a scallop shell cover. The book is open to a simple ink drawing of a duck. The book's pages and cover are pink. The book rests on a wooden table.

A hand holding a pink and purple scallop shell. The shell is bound along one side with green thread, making it the cover to a small book. The background is a wooden table top.

A pink and purple scallop shell resting on a wooden table top. The shell is bound along one side with green thread, making it the cover to a small book.

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Better Know a Fish! / 曉得多魚！ @betterknowafish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

(Nature nerds all know the correct-wrong-correct answer to this prompt🐦‍⬛🏝️📖) Repost with an image of your favourite James Bond (wrong answers only):

Photo from Abe's Books displaying an older edition copy of Field Guide of Birds of the West Indies by ornithologist James Bond.

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"Boo!"-ver Street Rag @hooverstreetrag.org · 23/09/2026

Repost with an image of your favorite James Bond (wrong answers only)

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Better Know a Fish! / 曉得多魚！ @betterknowafish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

For Day 23 of #SciArtSeptember #Copper here is a blood-soaked lirpa from Vulcan's violent past. (They should give it some canon backstory like how it was once a farm tool, like Japanese kunai etc.) #StarTrek60 #LLAP(?) 🦑🐡🧪

Photo of a crayon sketch of a Vulcan lirpa with copper-oxidized blood dripping from the blade side.

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is solarpunk art

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The Advocate @advocate.com · 23/09/2026

LGBTQ+ journalists have a duty to create a record that other media outlets will not.

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New Bloom @newbloommag.net · 23/09/2026

Tomorrow! Join us to discuss the post-war period in Taiwanese history in the latest Taiwan History 101 reading group! www.facebook.com/share/1DNZ4E...

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