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Hedy Burress (she/her) @hedyburress.bsky.social · 12d

You are so kind! Thank you, Brogan!

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Hedy Burress (she/her) @hedyburress.bsky.social · 14d

Same

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Hedy Burress (she/her) @hedyburress.bsky.social · 14d

This is very sad news. She was singular and irreplaceable.

Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 14d

“Dr. Goodall’s discoveries as an ethologist revolutionized science, and she was a tireless advocate for the protection and restoration of our natural world,” a statement from the Jane Goodall Institute read.

Celebrated Conservationist and Chimpanzee Expert Jane Goodall Is Dead at 91

“Dr. Goodall’s discoveries as an ethologist revolutionized science, and she was a tireless advocate for the protection and restoration of our natural world.”

www.teenvogue.com

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KupoCon @kupocon.com · 16d

✨ Included with every Invincible Ticket is a stylish Kupo-branded luggage tag! ✨ Additional tags will be available to purchase at the event.

✈️ Pom Voyage – Montréal
📅 October 25–26, 2025
🎟 Limited tickets remaining

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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 16d

🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶

🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈

#FollowTheRainbow

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Wolf Conservation Center 🐺 @nywolforg.bsky.social · 20d

10 wolves have already been killed in MT since hunting season opened last week.

Killing wolves is neither supported by science nor ethics, yet it becomes a reality when wolves lose federal ESA protections.

As the numbers climb, how many more wolves will be lost without reason?

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Hedy Burress (she/her) @hedyburress.bsky.social · Sep 12

THE HILTON VANCOUVER MELTDOWN~!

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · Aug 20

i thought this was a joke but it's not and now i'm a ghost, RIP me

Lauren OBrien @lobrien428.bsky.social · Aug 20

Lol - the sign for trump alone in asl is hilarious (and perfect)

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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · Aug 13

“Just tell me where you keep the cookies and I’ll be on my way.”

“And what if I don’t?”

“Those look like comfy slippers. It would be a shame if something happened to them.”

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Hedy Burress (she/her) @hedyburress.bsky.social · Aug 11

That's great news!

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Hedy Burress (she/her) @hedyburress.bsky.social · Aug 10

Yes, you did deliver! Served, even!! 🤩😍🤩😍

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Hedy Burress (she/her) @hedyburress.bsky.social · Aug 6

this all reminds me so much of Under the Dome

shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · Aug 6

oh good, that little girl who beat the shit outta Big Balls now has a career path

Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · Aug 6

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem just announced she's removing the age limit for ICE applicants, which allows literal teenagers to now apply. What could possibly go wrong?

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · Jul 31

i don’t know if rowlf singing “what a wonderful world” to a sleeping puppy is soothing or lie-on-the-floor-and-sob heartbreaking. maybe it’s both. i think I needed both.

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · Aug 3

The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand:

$678M raised through those spam tactics

$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.

$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)

The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.

The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine

How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

open.substack.com

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Woodrow Peel 🆗🆒 @woodyluvscoffee.bsky.social · Aug 2

Go for it. I don't even care any more.

Photo of a sketch of a Neanderthal. The headline reads:
Scientists Growing Neanderthal
'Minibrains', Will Connect Them to Crab Robots

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · Jul 29

few outcomes, except for 99% of FDA-approved drugs, 174 recipients of 104 Nobel Prizes, training ~30K MDs and ~10K PhDs per year to enter the workforce, and a 34% reduction in age-adjusted cancer deaths since 1990 -- the largest decrease in history

Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · Jul 29

Now do the Department of Defense budget, Andrew.

“Washington has thrown billions at NIH for decades with little accountability and few measurable outcomes,” HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon said in a statement to Future Pulse.

www.politico.com/newsletters/...

NIH spending battle’s ripple effect

www.politico.com

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Dante The K9 @dantethek9.bsky.social · Jul 27

Well, I'll be damned.

It's royalty free and there's already six, generic manufacturers lined up.

newatlas.com/infectious-d...

The first 100% effective HIV prevention drug is approved and going global

An epidemic that's been sustained for 44 years might finally be quelled, with the milestone approval of the first HIV drug that offers 100% protection with its twice-yearly injections. It's a landmark...

newatlas.com

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.bsky.social · Jul 26

my new ai device will sit in a beer garden that backs onto a small river and drink three to five pints on a sunny late summer afternoon for you, leaving you free for more meetings and business calls

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Hedy Burress (she/her) @hedyburress.bsky.social · Jul 26

I was there in 1997- lol - I'll bet it's so different!!

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Jul 21

It's become clear that this administration is just a protracted war on anybody who's read a book without pictures in it. It's a miracle we're all still getting up and going to work every morning. The psychological drain is the point, and I'm increasingly grateful to the people who are still decent.

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David Gura @davidgura.bsky.social · Jul 20

This will help you find a public radio or television station that stands to lose 50 percent or more of its revenue:

Adopt A Station

adoptastation.org

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Wim Meijer @wimgmeijer.bsky.social · Jul 19

The EPA will eliminate its scientific research arm, firing chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists..

As a result it can no longer assess impacts upon human health and the environment.

Its destruction will devastate public health in the US…

🧪

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/c...

E.P.A. Says It Will Eliminate Its Scientific Research Arm

www.nytimes.com

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onion person @junlper.beer · Jul 18

this is getting next to no media attention and it’s horrifying. transphobes weren’t going to stop at bathrooms, no hormones for minors, they are going to keep pushing until it’s entirely illegal and no one is standing up for us other than trans people

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · Jul 18

if you haven't learned a fun fact today you can borrow the one i learned: seymour cray, designer of cray supercomputers, attributed his success and groundbreaking ideas to "the elves (who) will often come to me with solutions to my problem" while digging in the tunnel he made under his house

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Dr. Raven the Science Maven @ravenscimaven.bsky.social · Jul 17

WAKE UP EVERYONE!!!!!!!! WAKE UP!!!

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