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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 16h

Hello folks, and here's a new thing I'll be doing weekly (if the ol' ADHD allows) - a list of seasonal deals from the usual suspects! ::throws confetti::

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Spooky Season Deals — The Haunt*

I’ve been meaning to do something like this for awhile but I keep forgetting - and now, here on a weekend, I finally have some time to sit down and queue up some promotions from around the book-sellin...

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 17h

Some of us have the privilege to just ignore/refuse to use AI in teaching. Others have so little time it's obvious why it will sneak in. But our institutions pushing LLMs as learning resources to students? Strikes me as untenable if they can be easily tuned by anti-academic sentiment and grievance.

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 22h

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 18h

Granny would grin, teeth like neglected gravestones, activating all her laugh lines. “Don’t get old, I wouldn’t recommend it.”

So begins Wen Wen Yang's story, "Granny's Spider," which goes places very quickly.

Granny’s Spider - Small Wonders

Granny would grin, teeth like neglected gravestones, activating all her laugh lines. “Don’t get old, I wouldn’t recommend it.”

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Bilbo Yaga @bilboyaga.bsky.social · 17h

Yet again I am adding a recipe to the soup thread and saying:

🥰 Come enjoy cozy soups!

👹 GIMME MORE RECIPES!!

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Ginger Miso Brothy Soup with Crispy Shredded Sesame Tofu - Plant Based RD

This Ginger Miso Brothy Soup uses a comforting and gut-friendly broth served with rice and crispy sesame tofu. Easy to make and satisfying! Why You'll Love This Ginger Miso Brothy Soup Simple ingredie...

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 17h

A very good thread on masking, especially in these hellish times when the systems meant to protect us are being spitefully destroyed by evil little power hungry gremlins. Mask up! Protect yourselves and your community! 😷😷😷

bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 18h

if you are rightfully concerned if not frightened about the continued dissolution of U.S. healthcare infrastructure, would you take an action every day to resist it?

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

The mass firings at the CDC tonight drive home the fact that no one is coming to save us

But we can save each other

Wear a mask. Ideally a respirator like an N95

Even if you’re vaccinated. Even if you’re “not worried”

It protects you but it also protects everyone else

Bonus? Less colds & flus!

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 1d

“What did you write in the letter?”

Frog said,"I wrote, ‘Dear Toad, I am glad that you are my best friend.

Your best friend, Frog.'”

Toad's mailbox awaits...something.

From "The Letter"
In *Frog and Toad Are Friends*

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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 1d

Two large accounts have done fake alt text today, and I've muted them both.

C'mon, folks, it's bad enough to not use alt; it's worse to pretend you have so you get the original Bsky community to share.

It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · Nov 11

Muting/blocking larger accounts who don't use alt, unfortunately.

Fake alt, like "a picture" are really disappointing, too.

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Stimpunks Foundation @stimpunks.org · 1d

We’re here for a revival of Living Colour’s “Cult of Personality”. Install this in your soul.

Vernon still shreds. Corey still bellows. The band is tight.

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Living Colour – Cult of Personality

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Free Łink - Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 1d

one enduring legacy of GW Bush

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 1d

"free speech zone" is such a bullshit phrase

according to the constitution, the entire country is a free speech zone

Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 1d

Found this just incredibly depressing, more than anything.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 1d

Racist, fascist billionaires control consumer-facing "A.i." Do not use this propaganda tech.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

The administration “is currently pressuring OpenAI and other AI companies to make their models more conservative-friendly.”

OpenAI is trying to clamp down on ‘bias’ in ChatGPT

GPT-5 is better at resisting liberal ‘pressure,’ the company says.

www.theverge.com

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Steve Waycott Wildlife Photography 🍁 @stevewaycott.bsky.social · 1d

[Young Harbour Seal pup, in its best Joey Tribbiani voice]: "How you doin'?"

Bay of Fundy, #NewBrunswick, Canada
September 2025

📸 #mammals #marinelife #seal #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf

A young (adolescent?) seal pup with short brownish-greyish fur is lying on its back on a rocky ledge covered with drak green and brown rockweed (seaweed). If the seal were a human, we would say that it is striking a sultry pose.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1d

like seriously team, I know y'all are working on both improving Discover and on better reply sentiment filtering and all, but it's going to take a while to tune it properly and a "never show my post on Discover" setting would be a 10 minute fix that would get 65% of why people want private accounts

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 1d

I had a post reach the Discover feed today and was once again reminded of how many people on this site are not house trained.

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old fruit pictures @pomological.xor.blue · 23h

lobo apples, painted by mary daisy arnold, 1929

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Bilbo Yaga @bilboyaga.bsky.social · 23h

Wearing an n95 is BY FAR the single most impactful act of resistance a person can do right now.

Your maskless face is the bullet in a fascist’s gun.

Mask up to resist eugenics by protecting vulnerable groups like kids, BIPOC, trans, disability and immigrant communities.

Give/get mask mutual aid:

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Constance Lee Menefee @conniemenefee.bsky.social · 22h

Bullfrog of the day!
Saturday, 11 Oct 2025

Bullfrog sitting up like a puppy in pond with leaves and other vegetative matter

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Free Łink - Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 22h

I am so tired of explaining to people why they shouldn't generate text or images or video with "AI", why they shouldn't share "AI"-generated content from other people, and why none of this is "inevitable".

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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 21h

You have a choice to make: will you help Trump or will you take steps to prevent the spread of disease? We need systemic change, but we can each start by masking when we share air, using HEPA air filters etc.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21h

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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old fruit pictures @pomological.xor.blue · 20h

ingram apples, painted by deborah griscom passmore, 1898

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Free Łink - Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 21h

Diana Ross - I'm Coming Out

YouTube video by Marinko

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 20h

We have the timidity of countless corporate and university GCs to thank for the fact DEI is treated as though it were illegal.

Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 21h

lol gentle reminder that DEI is not illegal. Supporting marginalized groups is not illegal. Anyone reneging on support is making a CHOICE to do so.

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 20h

This news is yet another reason to mask up in public spaces to protect yourself and your neighbors

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 20h

Important piece by Prof. Kate Andrias. This is why treating SCOTUS as the only word on the Constitution gives away our power as citizens.

As I frequently say “we are founders and framers” of the next iteration of democracy in this country.
GIFT LINK
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

Opinion | The Constitution Doesn’t Belong to Trump or the Supreme Court

www.nytimes.com

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 19h

Amazing opportunity!

Claire Phillips @clairephillips.bsky.social · 21h

N+1 is looking for a managing editor. Who's got the time? The talent? Healthcare is a definite plus!!

www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

n+1 Seeks Managing Editor

n+1 is seeking a full-time Managing Editor to work in our Brooklyn office. Compensation will range from $58,000 to $64,000 and includes health and dental insurance. n+1 is a print magazine of literatu...

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