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Lise M. Dyckman @lisedyckman.bsky.social · 2h

Those small oval eggplants are the ones used in Hyderabad eggplant curry (sauce is mostly ground toasted seeds & tamarind) . Lots of recipes online (use “bagara baingan” &/or “Hyderabadi” as search terms.) I adore this stuff!

Lise M. Dyckman @lisedyckman.bsky.social · 3h

We have a sweetheart pink variety that comes up every year in a pavement crack. I can’t bear to rip it out until it dies back for the winter.

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Lise M. Dyckman @lisedyckman.bsky.social · 3h

Lovely!
Is this an Australian native? (Have seen it often in California nurseries as a landscape plant.)

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 19h

How Canadian steelmakers are 'greening' their steel amid tariffs, global challenges

Ontario steel plants moving toward electric furnaces and hydrogen #Canada

www.cbc.ca/news/climate...

How Canadian steelmakers are 'greening' their steel | CBC Climate Change News

Steelmaker Algoma says U.S. tariffs on steel are pushing it to more quickly transition to electric steelmaking. Here's why decarbonizing steel is such a big deal, how it's being done in Canada and wha...

www.cbc.ca

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Lise M. Dyckman @lisedyckman.bsky.social · 3h

(Cool guy, btw. He had been pursuing a graduate degree in biology (zoology?) when he had to take over the multigenerational family biz. Started making sausages when some of his National of Islam customers were hankering after the pork they’d grown up with, so he created halal versions for them.

Lise M. Dyckman @lisedyckman.bsky.social · 3h

Once upon a time our communal house shopped with a butcher who made his own sausages. The Penna.Dept.Agr. Came after him for calling it “sausage”, because there was too much meat, not enough filler, to meet their regs. Instead he labeled them boudin, bangers, andouille, chorizo, etc.

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Lise M. Dyckman @lisedyckman.bsky.social · 4h

How to file a complaint in CA: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

How to File a Privacy Complaint in California

Seeing something sketchy when it comes to your online privacy? Here’s how to file a complaint under California’s consumer data privacy law.

www.eff.org

Lise M. Dyckman @lisedyckman.bsky.social · 4h

“highlights why it's important for people like you to submit complaints to regulators. As the agency itself said, ‘The CPPA opened an investigation into Tractor Supply’s privacy practices after receiving a complaint from a consumer’. Your complaints matter—so keep speaking up. “

Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 8h

Shot: www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

California Targets Tractor Supply's Tricky Tracking

The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) fined Tractor Supply, the country's self-proclaimed largest "rural lifestyle" retailer, $1,350,000 for apparently ducking its responsibilities to

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 10h

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Lise M. Dyckman @lisedyckman.bsky.social · 4h

This smells of “you noticed what we were doing & complained”. Nope, they don’t get to cry oopsie.

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Lise M. Dyckman @lisedyckman.bsky.social · 5h

Successful strategies (so fat) to push back against building ICE camps in your neighborhood;

progressive.org/magazine/ice...

Iced Out

Communities across the United States are shutting down detention facilities and refusing to cooperate with immigration enforcement.

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Lise M. Dyckman @lisedyckman.bsky.social · 12h

Ok, so now I’m flashing on the main character of T. Kingfisher’s marvelous _A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Breadbaking_. Brava!

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 14h

Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...

Until It's Done: Sylvia Rivera

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 15h

1. This is illegal as it makes enforcement of the Fair Housing Act of 1968 effectively impossible.

2. Congress appropriates more than $300M each year for enforcement because housing discrimination has one of the ugliest legacies in American history after slavery and Native American genocide.

◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 16h

HUD laid off so many fair housing investigators on Friday that it shuttered the regional offices that oversee discrimination cases in 9 states: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

HUD Issues Layoff Notices, Targeting Fair Housing Staff With Deep Cuts

Fair housing staffers who investigate claims of housing discrimination at field offices nationwide were among the hundreds of HUD staffers who received layoff notices.

www.bloomberg.com

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Rachel Hoopsick, PhD, MS, MPH, MCHES @rachelhoopsick.bsky.social · 18h

No pizza party or company swag is going to fix the reality of what it’s like to be a healthcare worker in the US. Our pilot data suggest that moral injury is prevalent among HCWs and may affect suicidal thoughts and behaviors doi.org/10.1080/1555...

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Research suggests that moral injury (i.e., perpetrating, witness-ing, or failing to prevent acts that transgress one's moral beliefs, values, or ethics) is associated with a range of adverse psychological sequelae among military-connected populations, including suicidality. However, little is known about how moral injury is associated with suicidality among healthcare workers or if these associations differ by gender. We collected self-reported data from a sample of United States healthcare workers (N= 200), including a modified Moral Injury Events Scale and items related to suicidality (i.e., past-year suicide thoughts, suicide plans, suicide attempts). We examined the cross-sectional relationships between moral injury and these measures of suicidality using separate logistic regression models and examined for differences by gender. Greater moral injury was significantly associated with higher odds of past-
year suicidal thoughts (aOR = 1.05, 95% CI: 1.01, 1.09) and
associated with suicide planning (aOR = 1.06, 95% CI: 1.00, 1.12) and suicide attempt at a trend-level (aOR = 1.07, 95%
Cl: 0.99, 1.16). There were no statistically significant differences in these associations by gender. Results suggest that suicidal thoughts, plans, and attempts of healthcare workers may be driven, in part, by morally injurious events experienced in the workplace.

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Julia Raifman, ScD @juliaraifman.bsky.social · 15h

“Workers continued to see elevated health-related absences linked to COVID-19…

[which] has likely raised the value to workers of paid-leave policies & existing social safety net programs.

Measures to reduce COVID-19 transmission in the workplace may also mitigate these new exposure risks”

Enduring Outcomes of COVID-19 Work Absences on the US Labor Market

This cohort study examines the extent to which COVID-19 continues to generate work absences and decrease labor force participation beyond the pandemic period in the US.

jamanetwork.com

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Lise M. Dyckman @lisedyckman.bsky.social · 14h

One of the many things I admire about my good friend Tom is that his RenFaire persona is Wat, a wood turner (he builds human-powered lathes).

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Lise M. Dyckman @lisedyckman.bsky.social · 16h

Public higher ed, here’s your counterargument to White House extortion. State governments, time to go on record.

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

Lise M. Dyckman @lisedyckman.bsky.social · 16h

A direct, intentional violation of a restraining order against harassing journalists, issued just the day before.

Who’s gonna enforce the law against ICE? Not just Nuremberg-like trials some unspecified time “afterwards”, but right now? Portland police? The “federalized” Oregon National Guard?

Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 1d

WGN, this woman’s employer, is now reporting she was not charged with any crimes and was released.

DHS said earlier she was arrested for assault for throwing objects at agents.

Lise M. Dyckman @lisedyckman.bsky.social · 16h

This was a direct, intentional violation of Thursday’s restraining order against knowingly targeting journalists. WHO’s going to prosecute that? (Portland police?)

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 17h

This is a whole sermon here:

“We have been more defeated by narrative than we have been defeated in the courts.”

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 17h

A note and a caution about “planting season.”

@visionandjustice

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 1d

If I were actively trying to destroy the United States from within, going after and dismantling its public health would be like the first thing I’d do.

Just pointing that out.

This is beyond dangerous. It’s leaving us vulnerable in a way we can’t really fathom until it’s too late.

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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Lise M. Dyckman @lisedyckman.bsky.social · 16h

Whole divisions fired.

“CDC leaders instructed their staffers to inform them if they received a RIF notice …. The choices about who was terminated today were, once again, made outside of the CDC leadership structure—that is, by faceless bureaucrats not actually involved in the CDC’s mission.”

Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 1d

More on the CDC tonight: @jeremyfaust.bsky.social , who is impeccably sourced there (physician, Harvard faculty) has details on the divisions hit by the apparently illegal RIFS. insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

BREAKING NEWS: CDC employees terminated in apparent Friday night massacre.

The Trump administration is using the shutdown to further weaken the our national public health infrastructure.

insidemedicine.substack.com

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Lise M. Dyckman @lisedyckman.bsky.social · 1d

Yes!
“War torn” = Noem on the balcony staring at 8 guys, 5 journalists, 2 protesters, & someone in a chicken suit.

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 3d

🎵 They did the Monster Slash 😭 @ellecordova.bsky.social

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