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Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 8h

The students have been incredible. Student journalism is LIT.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · Jul 11

In the 90's, there was one random Anne Rice or Dean Koontz within 3 meters of you, no matter where you were. They were what you had nearby to read, so you read em.

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Scoiattolo @offline.mountainherder.xyz · 12h

The frogs have landed in Chicago! (2025)

YOU ARE NOT

ALONE IN THIS

ABYSSAL DARKNESS.

I AM HERE, AND WE

SHALL FACE THE

CHASM AS

BROTHERS.

Here comes that fellow
"My goodness, how do you do?"

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Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 8h

Truly you cannot. And during applications last year the group chat was very lively with which universities sent in cops after their students vs which did almost literally anything else.

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Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 8h

You know, I never thought of that! And now I wonder if they never did - or if they DID, and research showed people were more likely to remember if they’d been asked to figure it out for themselves. Because there has been A LOT of human factors research in aviation safety…

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Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 8h

I’ve definitely been talking with parent friends about how, supporting our kids’ dreams notwithstanding, we might have to draw a line at Columbia

(Conveniently Mx18 was never interested in that one anyway)

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Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 9h

Skill issue tbqh

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 10h

CHICAGO: REBUILD is providing therapy to folks detained by ICE. Please feel free to let people know.

findmeatherapist.org

Find Me A Therapist

findmeatherapist.org

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 10h

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 10h

I am now deeply disappointed that there will be no Saucy Week

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Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 10h

Some of these GBBO baked goods are kinda blurred because I'm watching on iffy airplane wifi, and 100% it makes it look like the bakers are making carefully censored dirty pastry sculptures

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Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 15h

I am traveling but....maybe DCA has pie

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Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 15h

dammit now I want pie

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Maud Pauncefoot 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇱🐧 @maudpauncefoot.bsky.social · 15h

This! Even if you can't or don't want to march, showing up is important. Come to the start of the march or hang out on the route to support those who are marching. Some locations may just be holding a rally of solidarity rather than a march. Your presence and voice are power.

Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 15h

I would like to reiterate that everyone - even those of us who don't usually protest - should go to a No Kings March on Saturday, October 18th. Find one near you at this link. You do not have to register to participate.

www.nokings.org

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 19h

By contrast, JB Pritzker told me that people should flood the No Kings protests precisely in order to let the American people know that something is deeply amiss.

More Dems should be doing this, to send the message widely that we are in real trouble right now.

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 16h

I was just thinking about that with the obit I posted yesterday, this 100-year-old activist who'd started out in 1930s labor movement stuff when she must've been a teenager. But OF COURSE, a teen girl being passionate about social justice is like....the most believable thing ever.

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Laura McGrath @lbmcgrath.bsky.social · 16h

Feels like days until Philly is subject to the same fate as Chicago/Portland, and my students are diving headlong into big questions with enthusiasm and curiosity and compassion. I have never had a more engaged group.

Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 20h

week 7, in a city under siege for 32 days and counting, and the students who are able to come to class despite the blitz are showing up like their lives depend on those 50 minutes of togetherness, poetry, and big questions

Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 20h

IDK, man. School started 2 weeks ago for us, and once again students remind me that they’re so curious and interested in the world and anxious to ask big questions. We hear that these questions are no longer useful or relevant, but wherever that’s coming from, it’s not what students believe.

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 19h

If you can show up on October 18, you should. The country is shifting. The battleship is turning. And while, yes, usually mass street protests don't do much, there are exceptions.

And sometimes those exceptions go down in history.

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Monica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 18h

So this IL Hospital Association memo describes an incident where ICE detained a US citizen, gave them HEART PROBLEMS, took them to a hospital where the fought with medical personnel, then left when they realized they detained a CITIZEN.

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Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 20h

This sounds like a problem for @soren.bsky.social

Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 20h

Oh thank goodness.

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Josh Moody @byjoshmoody.bsky.social · 21h

MIT rejects "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.
MIT prez wrote: it "would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution" and "is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."
orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart

orgchart.mit.edu

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 1d

I think there’s also a super problematic thing about how a lot of the research is by neurotypicals & interventions focus on performing NT well, which has nothing to do with how autistics experience autism & what supports they would find helpful, but hugely impacts how NTs frame their understanding

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Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 1d

I think neurodivergence that specifically affects social skills makes people read to neurotypicals as part of the out group, & people get weird and paranoid about out group members, & don’t know how to deal with having them in the ultimate in group, the family

(I don’t have much patience for this)

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 1d

ME: Now Mom, just remember, there's a lot of disinformation and AI in your social feed and your friends' Facebook.
MOM: I know! My friend sent me this crazy post where someone used AI to make an image of a giant frog fighting Army troops!
ME: ... okay, no, that one's ... goddamit, Portland.

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