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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 5m

like if u were to tell me a neurologically damaging virus arrived and children were infected with it over and and over what would happen half a decade later, would it not be this
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NPR @npr.org · 4h

New 2025 testing data shows third- through eighth-graders scored far below 2019 levels in reading. In math, some grades have made gains, but all are lagging compared to before the pandemic. n.pr/473xAwC

In reading, the nation's students are still stuck in a pandemic slump

New 2025 testing data shows third- through eighth-graders scored far below 2019 levels in reading. In math, some grades have made gains, but all are lagging compared to before the pandemic.

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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 7m

The roads are also different in the rain tho. Much more slippery. Im not sure why.

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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 13m

Ah well.

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NPR @npr.org · 4h

New 2025 testing data shows third- through eighth-graders scored far below 2019 levels in reading. In math, some grades have made gains, but all are lagging compared to before the pandemic. n.pr/473xAwC

In reading, the nation's students are still stuck in a pandemic slump

New 2025 testing data shows third- through eighth-graders scored far below 2019 levels in reading. In math, some grades have made gains, but all are lagging compared to before the pandemic.

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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 17m

Why would u trust any source to distinguish

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 11h

Congress no longer holds the power of the purse, the executive can just do whatever they want with federal monies

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 11h

The executive is usurping a core Article I function, this should be treated with the same amount of alarm as if he declared he's disbanding Congress, because that's functionally what he's doing/done

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 11h

We are living through the most consequential shift in the constitutional government of the United States in over a hundred and fifty years and nobody seems to have even noticed yet.

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 11h

Congress no longer holds the power of the purse, the executive can just do whatever they want with federal monies

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 21h

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fined Rueben Antonio Cruz $130 for not having his papers with him.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 11h

See the next one in the thread.

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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 11h

Dont i know it.

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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 18d

At a party of people I didn't know at all tonight someone said that the the rattlesnake venom vaccine for dogs was discontinued, and I said, "why, because it causes autism?" just to cut to the chase and clock who laughed.

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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 11h

Closing in on a decade now.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 12h

You're living through one of the biggest technological transformations in world history and it has nothing to do with AI

Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 1d

Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved.

Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.

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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 11h

Except maybe pets i guess.

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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 11h

Not a single one of those topics is not also politics.

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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 12h

Tired: The Bell Riots of 2024
Inspired: The Voyage home of 2286

Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 1d

Republicans are aiming next to dismantle the marine mammal protection act, which protects whales, dolphins, manatees, polar bears, and sea otters.. among other ocean wildlife. 🦦

Horror Tor, friend of Union ghosts @splitrailfence.bsky.social · 1d

I love it. Makes me happy.
Weird that I'm now seeing your post here after I just read about the bill to end the 1970s marine mammal legislation to protect these beautiful creatures.
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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 13h

New England Mojave Desert
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Spooky weather

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 19h

me after attending a protest

Jeff Goldblum running out of a store with a bunch of shopping bags in his hand. He's dressed fashionably in a tan jacket, black shirt, gray trousers, and black loafers.

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Yellow Dot Studios @weareyellowdot.bsky.social · 19h

Leading economist: Continuing fossil fuels is "futile" because it leads to mass-death and economic collapse.

The fossil fuel industry's product isn't oil, or gas, or energy — it's murder and theft. Full stop.

Climate investment is only growth opportunity of 21st century, says leading economist

Lord Stern says fossil-fuelled growth is futile as the damage it causes ends in economic self-destruction

www.theguardian.com

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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 19h

I sold some to a local farmer who runs a market but i got like $25 for 2 giant cratefuls

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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 19h

Is that how much theyre offering for them?

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Kevin 🚀🤠 @astro-cowboy.bsky.social · 19h

Tomorrow about a third of Perseverance rover staff will be laid off, despite the mission being the penultimate step in a decades long effort to bring samples back from mars.

Reckless, needless budget cuts intended to hinder the pursuit of knowledge.

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 2d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 1d

There’s an extra click.

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 4d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 1d

I think hard work and perseverance are the application of smartness. Its the difference between money sitting in a checking account and money applied as an investment and compounding.

Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 1d

And people as objects as opposed to people.

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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 1d

Jenka @babiejenks
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It is a particular cultural lens to see the systems of the natural universe in constant, hierarchical competition. A different view sees ecosystems in constant, cyclical spirals of harmony & disharmony. Darwinism is an interpretation. And not even the most interesting or salient.
9:04 PM • Mar 12, 2021

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