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Ash Higgins

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“From the ground, we stand; From our ships, we live; By the stars, we hope."

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Ash Higgins @ashhiggins.bsky.social · Jan 21

Just posting this again because I can: a new humanity, forged in the crucible of intergalactic war has spread throughout the galaxy; among them are millions of Muslims who must return to Earth for Hajj. Meet the crew: 🧵

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 5h

Today is World Homeless Day, and after years reporting on this crisis, I'll just say: homelessness is neither inevitable nor intractable. It's the result of choices—political, economic, moral—that can be unmade.

And this: how we treat the unhoused is a bellwether for the violence we will tolerate.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 5h

you go out to these protests, it's kids, old folks, grannies, all kinds of people, and they're still going with "professional protesters" which I guess maybe works on the fox news crowd? but nobody else

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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amy brown (spooky edition) @amybrown.xyz · 5h

you think moving to berkeley won't change you and then eight years later you're crying in the car because the public radio station raised so much money in the first hour of the pledge drive

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Ash Higgins @ashhiggins.bsky.social · 4h

Seriously. Room full of writers?

Leah from South Dakota @leahfromsd.bsky.social · 4h

After having sat through 2 different awards presentations this week, let me just say: please stop using AI to puke out your little intros and speeches.

We can tell.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 20h

I have to fan-girl for a minute here. My friend @rosvall-lab.bsky.social built an app to gather data on bird behavior during the 2024 solar eclipse. 10,000+ citizen scientists contributed (including my kids), and the resulting paper was published in Science today!

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Total solar eclipse triggers dawn behavior in birds: Insights from acoustic recordings and community science

On 8 April 2024, a total solar eclipse disrupted light-dark cycles for North American birds during the lead-up to spring reproduction. Compiling more than 10,000 community observations and artificial ...

www.science.org

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Ash Higgins @ashhiggins.bsky.social · 1d

Maculate | White Town - Your Woman (Dusty Tonez Remix)

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Anthony Iannaccio @mrtonynacho.bsky.social · 1d

Was so cool to be in the room and hear Jim Lee take a firm stand against AI. I cheered right after! @jimlee.bsky.social @newyorkcomiccon.bsky.social

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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 1d

Emergency Triad: The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next

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Emergency Triad: The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next

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Ash Higgins @ashhiggins.bsky.social · 1d

Frankenstein THE BALLET! archive.org/details/fran...

Frankenstein : The Royal Ballet : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

The Royal Ballet's 2016 production of Liam Scarlett's Frankenstein. Based on the world's most famous work of horror fiction, principal dancers include Fedrico...

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Ash Higgins @ashhiggins.bsky.social · 1d

الموت هو عدوي الوحيد

Ash Higgins @ashhiggins.bsky.social · 1d

John Booth, a 19-year-old apprentice who joined a Luddite attack on a textile mill in April 1812. He was injured, detained and died after being allegedly tortured to give up the identity of his fellow Luddites.
Booth's last words became a legend: "Can you keep a secret?" he whispered to the local priest, who attested that he could.
The dying Booth replied, "So can l."

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 1d

Big presence on the beaches of Normandy in 1944 too.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec