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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 2h

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a cancer vaccine that has shown STUNNING results, PREVENTING up to 88% of MULTIPLE aggressive cancers by harnessing dual-pathway nanoparticles that train the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. In some cases, it COMPLETELY prevented metastasis.

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T&E @transportenvironment.org · 3d

NEW: Biofuels globally emit more than the fossil fuels they replace, our latest study shows.

The first-of-a-kind study looks at global biofuels production today and the potential impacts of government biofuel targets.
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Charon's Ferry 🏳️‍⚧️ @building470.bsky.social · 1h

🍃 ten years ago most discourse about bronies was about how "they're grown men into a show for little girls" now many of those "grown men" are little girls

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she jack on my lantern til i o' @rhena.bsky.social · 1h

i would do anything for my friends except watch that one show they've been wanting me to watch for years

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Alexandria ⛯ @ash243x.bsky.social · 1h

i'm still not sure if i want to date someone again, but i think at minimum they need to be some kind of academic or technical professional, with their own opinions and goals in life.

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Alexandria ⛯ @ash243x.bsky.social · 1h

i cant relate to wanting sycophantic partners tbh. the longest and most meaningful relationship i had involved frequent arguments and pressuring each other to become better and more successful.

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Alexandria ⛯ @ash243x.bsky.social · 1h

seeing people so confidently parrot lies, that have been so thoroughly debunked, makes me think i should dismiss everything else they say as untrustworthy, even if i thought we had similar politics.

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ai liker @avengingfemme.bsky.social · 11h

beginning to despair for our collective sense-making, and it’s entirely because so many people on here enjoy recreational lying about people they don’t like.

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Boo!-story (disturbingly absent) @withouthistoryband.bsky.social · 8h

(stolen from a friend)
Gender affirming train ticket

Screenshot from a train app with the date and the journey Nottingham to Manchester Piccadilly. The abbreviation reads NOT -> MAN

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6h

CARTOON OF THE DAY

(From @jesseduquette.bsky.social )

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 19h

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13h

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 16h

Mamdani promises to deploy *hundreds* if lawyers to fight for trans rights, create a new office of LGBTQ affairs, and allocate millions of dollars to fund housing and healthcare for trans kids and adults

This is what fighting back looks like--elevating activists to materually support trans people.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Alexandria ⛯ @ash243x.bsky.social · 12h

i'm fine. it was just unexpected.

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Bulldog @harpua.bsky.social · 13h

feds rioting yet again

Kevin Foster @kevinhfoster.bsky.social · 13h

Massive escalation at the Portland ICE facility. Worst I’ve ever seen. More pepper balls than I can count. Teargas in the middle of crowd. Violent arrests. Some type of either noise or rubber bullet shotgun fired into the air then later aimed at protesters chests/heads at near point blank range.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 4d

"Black people are tired. Not metaphorically tired—actually tired. The kind of tired that turns every group chat into a mix of gallows humor and emotional triage."

I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.

White People’s Performative Ignorance Is Exhausting—Opinion

Disbelief over authoritarianism in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait. It’s a confession: You haven’t been paying attention.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 3d

This is the lesson of 2025

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 3d

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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Alexandria ⛯ @ash243x.bsky.social · 13h

got blocked by oomf. could have been over a few things but i really have no idea. bye i guess.

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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 3d

In Super Smash Bros., the skeletons visible when characters are hurt by electric attacks are not tied to specific animations, and instead are a form that can be toggled on and off at any time, including in cutscenes. Below are excerpts of the game's intro, with skeletons.

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 23h

(forgetting the word for antibiotics) do i need cancel culture

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Alexandria ⛯ @ash243x.bsky.social · 22h

on route to a third undisclosed location

photo from on a ship of the ocean with land in the distance.

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 22h

"protests don't work" is one of the most toxic imaginable takes for someone on this site to have right now and anyone advocating it should be blocked

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 1d

They like what Trump is doing, this really isn't hard. It's not both-sideism, it's running cover for the regime by choice in order to reach a desired outcome. Can we please stop cutting this institution slack it does not deserve?

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 1d

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 1d

There are few more chilling phrases than “Children’s Detention Center.”

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 1d

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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daryl "shut down, ass up'" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 1d

one of the most not the onion but the onion headlines I've ever seen

Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 1d

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fortune.com/2025/10/10/p...

Lay's drastically rebrands after disturbing finding: 42% of consumers didn't know their chips were made out of potatoes | Fortune

New bags—matte-ified and designed to look like wood planks (like a potato crate)—will hold the chips with revamped ingredient lists.

fortune.com

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