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ren (*monster noises*) @it-r3n.bsky.social · 2d

asking the autozone guy to align my chakras. telling him I love him. pressing a tiny coin, about half the size of a dime, into his left palm. it's strangely warm. he finds that he can't set it down. stealing a jug of synthetic oil on my way out. drinking it in the parking lot. throwing up.

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ren (*monster noises*) @it-r3n.bsky.social · 1d

report: crow repeatedly picking up and putting down plastic lid on sidewalk. seems to be considering it carefully

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

this man's name is written in the book of life

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Guillaume Charras @gcharras.bsky.social · 12d

Can pressure gradients persist over long timescales in animal cells? We induced intracellular pressure gradients and examined the resulting flows in single cells. We reveal surprisingly long lasting pressure gradients.

More here: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

elifesciences.org

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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 5d

𝗔𝗻 𝗘𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆
This short book by Moreno and Pereto' looks very interesting. One more on the understanding of biological agency.
And it's open access!
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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bioRxiv Biophysics @biorxiv-biophys.bsky.social · 6d

A Dynamical Density Functional Theory Framework for Non-Equilibrium Phase Dynamics in Biomolecular Condensates https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.02.680159v1

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MAGENTA💜💀SKULL🔪 @magentaskull.bsky.social · 6d

get frogged on

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 7d

wizard frog is insane

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Bo Bolander @bbolander.bsky.social · 6d

people saving people legitimately gets me choked up every fucking time. it's the only way out of this

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 6d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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MurkyConsequences 🏳️‍🌈 @murkyconsequences.bsky.social · 10d

tapping liberalism's strategic horniness reserve [tumblr]

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Mike Henderson @mhender.bsky.social · 27d

Always wondered why they wrote thermodynamics equations as differentials. Of course Navier Stokes writes a temperature equation as a PDE, but ..

Am reading www.fys.ku.dk/~andresen/BA... and trying to get my head around work and heat flow being differential forms on the manifold of state (???!)

Maxwell's relations (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell_relations). Four relations between the first partial derivatives of T (temperature),P (pressure),V (volume) and S (entropy) along coordinate directions and the second partials of U (internal energy),H (enthalpy),F (Helmholtz free energy), and G (Gibbs free energy) with respect to T,P,V,S.

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Nico Müller @nicodmueller.bsky.social · Feb 3

@joshmilburn.bsky.social just alerted me to this review, which covers my book "Kantianism for Animals", his own "Food, Justice, and Animals", and two more books about postanthropocentric political theory.

Thanks to @andrewbiro.bsky.social!

Andrew Biro @andrewbiro.bsky.social · Jan 23

My review of four recent books in post-anthropocentric political theories is now out (open access) in Review of Politics

doi.org/10.1017/S003...

Review Essay: Postanthropocentric Political Theories | The Review of Politics | Cambridge Core

Review Essay: Postanthropocentric Political Theories

doi.org

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 10d

it is either international solidarity or barbarism

elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 10d

Sophia reporting from the Conscience

Both Italy and Spain have withdrawn their ships, abandoning the Global Sumud Flotilla to be intercepted by the Israelis

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 10d

Musée des Beaux Arts
BY W. H. AUDEN

About suffering they were never wrong,
The Old Masters: how well they understood
Its human position; how it takes place
While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along

How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting
For the miraculous birth, there always must be
Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating
On a pond at the edge of the wood:
They never forgot
That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course
Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot
Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse
Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.

In Brueghel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away
Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may
Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,
But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone
As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green
Water; and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen
Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,
Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.

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reni 🦌🫜 @reniadeb.com · 11d

truth coming out of her well to shame mankind

a frog holds itself upright while poking its upper body out of a manhole cover set in a pavement or road

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pork, cheese, broccoli rabe @garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz · 13d

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Mattia Serra @mattiaserra.bsky.social · 22d

📣 New preprint: Mechanochemical feedback, tissue geometry & rigid-body dynamics initiate rotational migration in Drosophila via spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking. A mechanism generalizable to closed epithelia.
@sreejithsanthosh.bsky.social
biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Ed Baggs @edbaggs.bsky.social · May 29

Our special issue of Topoi on "Progress in radical embodiment" can be found here

I'll post the articles in the thread below as they are published

link.springer.com/collections/...

Progress in Radical Embodiment

Paper submissions are invited for the special issue/collection of Topoi entitled: Progress in radical embodiment. The special issue aims to explore progress ...

link.springer.com

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 17d

In my life I've seen treatments for AIDs developed, vaccines for Ebola and malaria, and now this. Medical science is one is the areas that still consistently seems to make these miraculous advances and I'm genuinely grateful to everyone involved.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time

One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Cool Zone Media @coolzonemedia.bsky.social · 19d

@jamesstout.bsky.social sits down with Frances to hear firsthand what it is like for families of people in the asylum system right now and how even U.S. citizens can have their families torn apart by the Trump administration’s anti-asylum policies.

www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...

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max 🌌 and 7 others @sneptech.bsky.social · 21d

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Mariel Goddu @marielgoddu.bsky.social · 22d

Check out our chapter (led by @beakr.bsky.social) on cognitive ontology here! : philpapers.org/archive/KRIC...

We propose a developmental approach to 'cognitive homologies' –– (cognitive capacities that are "the same across species") –– as a means for carving up cognition.

Our approach adopts...

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Pete Wolfendale @deontologistics.bsky.social · 26d

A short excerpt for those who are interested.

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MurkyConsequences 🏳️‍🌈 @murkyconsequences.bsky.social · 27d

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 27d

Trans ppl need to intentionally check in on one another in ways that involves getting each other off the internet, call it phone calls, picnics, dates, we could call it going to the movies, going for hikes, making time for one another, I'd ask cis ppl to invite their trans friends to things but

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MurkyConsequences 🏳️‍🌈 @murkyconsequences.bsky.social · 27d

also her article www.liberalcurrents.com/the-biopolit...

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MurkyConsequences 🏳️‍🌈 @murkyconsequences.bsky.social · 27d

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Mallorie Malcontent ✨ @sweetbeanscomix.bsky.social · 28d

Don’t let the internet fool you. I was at a protest for trans kids yesterday an HOUR south of Seattle, and it was HUGE. And there was a cacophony of drivers beeping in support.

I could not believe it. Because I spend too much online and figured it’s a lost cause.

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