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Hilding Neilson @astrojipjawej.bsky.social · 2d

Time for a new research project: monitoring light pollution/sky quality in St. John’s, Newfoundland, as part of a new project to support Dark Sky Preservation across the province. #DarkSkies

Portable sky quality monitors from Unihedron

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 4d

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

he also said that 80% of antifa's members are landlords and if you lower the cost of housing, you basically starve the network of its financing

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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 3d

Hey @wnba.com: pay them what you owe them!

We’re proud of our unions’ solidarity with the WNBPA as they fight for their fair share and a strong new contract ✊

The US’s biggest pro women’s sports unions have found strength together

For NWSL and WNBA players’ unions, collective actions have been key to their successes in wholly different sports

www.theguardian.com

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

As Trump guts workplace safety, rolls back worker protections, and empowers corporations to exploit workers, unions have never been more crucial.

Congratulations to these workers for winning their union. In these dark times, we can always find hope in the labor movement.

SEIU_ORG (@seiu.org)

Worker power in action! Let's get it!💜

bsky.app

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merschrod (she/they) @merschrod.bsky.social · 2d

I shouldn't be surprised anymore, but TIL that NL labour law is why we are always negotiating our collective agreement after it has already run out. (That and the fact that the employer seems to take the summers off, unlike instructors who are of course working year round.) @munfaculty.bsky.social

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Myriam Gurba (Serrano through my mom) @lesbrains.bsky.social · 3d

I know people are freaked out by the arrival of troops in blue cities but I can tell you that here in LA, the worst abuses that happened this summer didn’t come from them. They were mostly here for show. The big ugliness came from local law enforcement.

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merschrod (she/they) @merschrod.bsky.social · 6d

Be the celebrity for your doppelgänger!

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Bryson The Gaytive @brysonthegaytive.bsky.social · 6d

This is anti Indigenous. I’m tired of these maple magas coming up with these new ideas for stolen land. Check your privilege maple maga Margo

Margo McMahan @margomcm.bsky.social · 7d

We don't need a 4th territory, but we can look after the extended family for a while. Get it together, Americans.

#25thAmendment #USpolitics #DementedDonOld #Canpoli
#Never51 #Never51st #BoycottUSA #POTUS #ShitShow2 #StayAwayFromStupid #BuyCanadian #BuyEU #BuyMX
#Canada #CanadaSky #CarneyCan LEAD.🌎

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merschrod (she/they) @merschrod.bsky.social · 6d

I dreamt I found a Mozartkugel in my office. Alas, can confirm this is not based in reality.

merschrod (she/they) @merschrod.bsky.social · 18d

Come join us at the Election Town Hall in IIC2001 on the MUN campus, or join online:

mun.webex.com/weblink/regi...

Thanks to the Campus Coalition for organizing

Meet virtually with Cisco Webex. Anytime, anywhere, on any device.

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Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 27d

“We’re going to teach the truth,” Prof. Leonard Bright said. “We don’t know what the consequences of that may be...But we do know that if we were to censor the truth…that’s going to damage our society. That’s going to damage our students.” 👏👏

www.texastribune.org/2025/09/15/t...

Faculty, advocacy groups fear Texas A&M firing threatens academic freedom

The firing happened over two years after Texas A&M stressed its support for academic freedom and amid a changing higher education landscape.

www.texastribune.org

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Myriam Gurba (Serrano through my mom) @lesbrains.bsky.social · 28d

My school district drove me out of my position for being a whistleblower. I’m 2020, they sent 5 people to remove me from my classroom. When I called them cowards for following the orders of local tyrants, the liberals rolled their eyes. And now look where we are…

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 27d

what to do when a "let's all respectfully debate the intelligence of Black people" guy pops around is itself a political intelligence test and it's wild how poorly allegedly Serious Thinkers score on it

Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 27d

Maybe but then "let's all respectfully debate the intelligence of black people" was/is a part of that. And if he doesn't understand that then he has an enormous blind spot and I hope someone close to him sits him down for a talk.

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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 27d

Consider your site content that is routinely updated, like weather maps, Covid charts, or stock graphs. Screen reader users encounter maps and charts where the image has been updated but the alt text hasn't. This can lead to confusion. Always update alt text when updating images.

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merschrod (she/they) @merschrod.bsky.social · 27d

Congratulations!!!

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Jasmine P @jnp709.bsky.social · 27d

My NL NDP webpage is up now nl.ndp.ca/jasmine-paul...

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 29d

Look I think valuing human life is a phenomenal, wonderful, fantastic idea and also that’s why everyone opposes the genocide in Palestine and the colonial violence in Haiti and Sudan and Congo right?

Oh oh you didn’t mean those lives I see

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · Sep 13

This man will not be fired for calling for the murder of American citizens, yet multiple journalists/reporters/teachers lost their job for accurately reporting things Charlie Kirk actually said and stood for.

But it’s the “violent left” that’s the problem

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 13

Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."

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merschrod (she/they) @merschrod.bsky.social · Sep 13

Sending hugs <heart> <heart> <heart>

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merschrod (she/they) @merschrod.bsky.social · Sep 13

So many questions: "OCIO is pleased to announce the upcoming launch of Beacon, Memorial’s new and enhanced IT service request platform."
$$$$?
Are servers based in the US?
What else is Beacon "offering"?
@munfaculty.bsky.social @munsu35.bsky.social

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daanis @daanis.ca · Sep 10

"Bad Indians don’t play along when you expect them to think and act in a certain way... Bad Indians, when given the chance, offer revelatory ways of thinking about a world you assumed you understood."

An interview, and review, in Foreword Magazine.

mailchi.mp/forewordrevi...

Burgundy background. Painting of an Indigenous woman with long dark hair looks seriously straight ahead. Join the Bad Indians Book Club, and read radically.

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · Sep 10

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · Sep 10

A good reason for faculty to join the @aaup.org , which fights for academic freedom and works to defend against attacks like this.

Charlotte Garden @charlottegarden.bsky.social · Sep 10

100%. I'm sure the inboxes of every dep't chair, dean, and university president are currently full of complaints from students who dislike aspects of their classes. Those coming from right-wing students are coupled with threats that the next stop is DOJ.

Justin Zimmerman @jztidecat.bsky.social · Sep 10

A reminder that the DOJ wants to investigate the issue. The DOJ wasting time investigating our classrooms is an open invitation for any frivolous complaint from any student, anywhere with too much time on their hands.

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