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san @shrikeseams.bsky.social · 2h

Snagged myself one from this drop as an early birthday present 💚

FearsomeBeast @fearsomebeast.bsky.social · 3h

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 20h

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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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 1d

This is true and they are super endangered by poachers who shovel them up by the hundreds and sell them at flea markets and shit. You should not buy the plants and if you happen to kick the poacher in the shins on accident, no one will hear about it from me.

mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 1d

still amazing to me the number of movies, games, etc. which have Venus Flytrap-based creatures in some form compared to the actual native range of Venus Flytrap, which is like, the great untamed jungles of a few wet pine savannas in North Carolina

map illustrating the native range of Venus Flytrap plants, just a little half circle around coastal North and South Carolina in USA

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Kevin Sonney @productivityalchemy.com · 1d

I have heard the metaphor as “turning an oil tanker” which requires similar logistics. Shep does a good job explaining it here.

Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 1d

Turning a battleship is such a great metaphor but one I feel people don't really understand viscerally so let's do a little mental exercise. We've all seen a semi turning right, yes? We can remember that?

Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 1d

There was never going to be a moment when everyone—everyone in government, everyone in media, everyone in the population—was roused to action at the same time. We're turning a battleship. And Pritzker understands that.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 1d

1. Last night, 26 Senate Dems helped pass a NDAA containing a military trans sports and surgery ban and dropped demands for protections against US troop deployments in the bill.

It is the latest in the national fight over must-pass bills during the shutdown.

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26 Senate Democrats Help Pass Military NDAA Containing Trans Sports, Surgery Ban, No Protection For US Troop Deployments

The bill passed by a wide margin in the Senate and will be the starting point for negotiations with the House, which contain more severe anti-trans riders.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 1d

I'm doing another print run of these "Biology is Bigger than Binaries" shirts!

Back, quite literally, by popular demand. Bullying works, sure, but so does a bunch of nice cutie patooties politely asking!

Order 'em now, I'll mail 'em in early November.

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a woman with short bown hair, glasses, and tassel earrings, wears a purple KN95 and looks cool as hell in her biology is bigger than binaries shirt, in orange

a woman with green glasses takes a selfie lookin' cool as hell in her pink biology is bigger than binaries shirt. She's also got ice cream, that lucky dog.

a woman with long brown hair and glasses hangs out in the back yard with her pink biology is bigger than binaries shirt

A man with a hat and sunglasses stands in hero-pose with his biology is bigger than binaires shirt (orange)

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san @shrikeseams.bsky.social · 1d

Black-crowned night herons have such immaculate evil advisor energy.

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san @shrikeseams.bsky.social · 2d

OSHA Maia, patron undergod of WEAR YOUR FUCKING PPE. (which is the text I will add to these once they dry, and then hang them conspicuously at eye level for myself. Mostly where i sand shit without a mask like an idiot.) (Idk why they're a sandhill crane.)

A photo of several lino prints spread across a table. They're of two slightly different designs, both of a sandhill crane printing in gray and green with a smokey speech bubble space and a neon green halo. One design is portrait orientation and the other is landscape.

A photo of a lino print carving of a sandhill crane in progress, surrounded by carving gouges.

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The Octopus Gallery @octopusgallery.bsky.social · 3d

Good news for sewists: the paper pattern company feared lost to bankruptcy has been saved as an independent company.

craftindustryalliance.org/sewing-patte...

Sewing Patterns Rise from DGA Bankruptcy Ashes - Craft Industry Alliance

The “Big 4” sewing patterns are saved. Simplicity, McCall’s, Vogue & Butterick get new life under Rubelmann Capital.

craftindustryalliance.org

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san @shrikeseams.bsky.social · 3d

...I thought baseball games got delays because the pitchers can to weird against-the-rules stuff with a wet baseball. Huh.

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 3d

Bloödcheëp shirt preorder! Want a metal-style shirt with a terrifying bald cardinal? Preorder here:
topatoco.com/collections/...

Blöödchëëp Shirt

Blöödchëëp Shirt - merch by Rosemary Mosco and Bird and Moon at TopatoCo!

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Chechula @chechula.bsky.social · 3d

friend challenged me into Tolkien-themed inktober, but I am to lazy to follow other themes so I'm just drawing Bilbo ♥

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 3d

You made it halfway through the week *and* we still have free shipping? Sounds like the perfect time to treat yourself to a new book and support indie bookstores in the process. 📚

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neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 5d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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Coach Jerry (referee 🔵) @gopher33j.bsky.social · 4d

As somebody with asthma who uses inhalers - SHUT THE FUCK UP. THIS ARTICLE IS SHAMING PEOPLE WITH A CHRONIC CONDITION.

"Significantly" My ass. You know what else does? AI Data centers - corporations - cows - asphalt - THOUSANDS OF OTHERS THINGS THAT ARE NOT MEDICINE.

Fuck you - fuck you again.

Inhalers contribute significantly to global warming, study finds

Millions of Americans using inhalers for chronic lung diseases like asthma may be unknowingly contributing to global warming, according to new research.

local12.com

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Maria Strutz @mariastrutz.bsky.social · 5d

In celebration of #NationalBadgerDay
'Under the Badger Moon' 🤍🌖🖤

2 badgers running towards each other, each badger reflected below, above and below the badgers crescent moons. There are stars above, and below the badgers, overall forming a figure 8. Linocut, dark blue and white, Maria Strutz

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Séance and Spooky Spood-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · Oct 6

Crab, and crab peets 🥹
One of our most stunning crab spider species (Misumenoides formosipes) is very large and pretty chill, and that makes getting shots of their little feet a bit easier.
#Invertebrates #Arachtober