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Azure Jane Lunatic @azurelunatic.bsky.social · 9d

Oh nooooooooooooo

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 9d

Periodic reminder: sanitize your phone and phone case!

perclexed @perclexed.bsky.social · 9d

NTS: Remember to sterilize your phone more often. I ran an alcohol swab that I use to prep my Ozempic injection site over my phone, and was horrified at the results.

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Andrew Kornblatt @akornblatt.bsky.social · 10d

The world has lost an extraordinary scientist, advocate, and teacher. But her legacy lives on in every person she inspired to care about our planet and its inhabitants.

Rest in peace, Dr. Goodall. And thank you.

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 10d

now where i am from when someone in your office has an accuracy rate of 57.2 percent in editing spreadsheets we call them "fired"

Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 10d

Microsoft says its Agent Mode in Excel has an accuracy rate of 57.2 percent in SpreadsheetBench, a benchmark for evaluating an Al model's ability to edit real world spreadsheets. This result

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Halloween name @bootsmcgoot.bsky.social · 11d

"i just use it to generate ideas"

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Azure Jane Lunatic @azurelunatic.bsky.social · 10d

Have a meaningful fast, everyone who is able and permitted to! Have a meaningful holy day, everyone who observes!

Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 10d

To anyone disabled, pregnant, prone to eating disorders, blood sugar issues, on meds that require food etc: Yom Kippur rules are very clear. You must NOT fast if it will hurt your health. Don’t believe me? Believe Chabad, even they say so. Judaism doesn’t want you to endanger your health.

What is the procedure for one who must eat on Yom Kippur?

Just as a healthy person fulfills a mitzvah by fasting; an ill person does a mitzvah by eating.

www.chabad.org

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 10d

You know how a lot of big budget movies are bad because they're obviously actors in a greenscreen room talking to a cardboard cutout of a head on a stick that will be filled in later?

Imagine that, but for everything

NPR @npr.org · 10d

Tilly Norwood, an AI-generated avatar, is being compared by its creators to A-list human actors. SAG-AFTRA and others are pushing back.

Could 'the next Scarlett Johansson or Natalie Portman' be an AI avatar?

Tilly Norwood, an AI-generated avatar, is being compared by its creators to A-list human actors. SAG-AFTRA and others are pushing back.

n.pr

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Azure Jane Lunatic @azurelunatic.bsky.social · 10d

Gay Breakfast pins are always fabulous. I have so many of them via Patreon. This collection looks delicious!

Gay Breakfast @gaybreakfast.bsky.social · 10d

We’re floored to have unlocked all pins, plush, and dice on day one! Thank you!

We still have some Earlybird bundles so check it out.

Nobody is charged until Oct 23rd & Kickstarter now offers “payment over time” to split it into thirds over 3 months.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/gay...

Chaotic Queer

Plush, Dice, Pins, and more in 12+ flags!

www.kickstarter.com

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 10d

It's important to name the tools of authoritarianism so we can identify and condemn them with precision. I'm glad we now have a term for ICE's openly racist, degrading immigration arrests: Kavanaugh stops. slate.com/news-and-pol...

In the short time since Kavanaugh wrote that opinion, his assertions have been proved demonstrably, almost laughably false too many times to count. As Sherrilyn Ifill notes, the justice’s claims were already belied by the factual record in that case, which showed ICE agents violently harassing and detaining American citizens for extended periods simply because they are Latino. Now the agency, freed from constitutional restraints by SCOTUS, has stopped pretending to be engaged in anything other than racial profiling. Bovino’s admission only confirms what we already knew: These detentions, far from the “brief” inconvenience Kavanaugh described, are often lengthy, violent, and dangerous. Ifill and Anil Kalhan, a professor of law at Drexel University, have proposed calling these detainments “Kavanaugh stops,” a label that’s quickly catching on.

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Azure Jane Lunatic @azurelunatic.bsky.social · 10d

Do you like your zombies terrifying? Do you long for the days when an honest blogger could genuinely help save the world? Do you like your heroines damaged and codependent? Try Feed! Guaranteed to make you consider spray-painting the RSS logo on a sidewalk!

Sean Eric Fagan @kithrup.bsky.social · 10d

Heads up: Feed, by Mira "@seananmcguire.bsky.social" Grant is on US ebook sale for $2. I got some for random giveaway.

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Madame Hardy @madamehardy.bsky.social · 10d

There's a nationwide recall of frozen pasta dishes sold at Trader Joe's and Walmart. So far, four people have died from listeria. Check your freezer.

www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...

Trader Joe’s recalls frozen pasta meals linked to deadly listeria outbreak

Federal health officials have expanded a nationwide warning about frozen pasta meals sold at Walmart and Trader Joe’s, linking the products to an outbreak of listeria that has killed four people.

www.sfchronicle.com

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 10d

It won't be long till only old people like us get this joke.
It's brilliant.

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James Davis Nicoll @jdnicoll.bsky.social · 10d

Every wild animal can be hugged! In some cases, just the once.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 10d

jane goodall made me believe i could just go up and hug any wild animal

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R. Riekkinen ✦ @artvaris.bsky.social · 10d

The birch trees are so pretty now

A birch tree with golden yellow autumn leaves photographed from a frog's-eye view, with some bright blue sky peeking through the leaves

A narrow footpath framed by birch trees with golden yellow leaves

An autumnal scenery with a bright blue sky

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sarahquaint @sarahquaint.bsky.social · 16d

This is so brilliant. It's a concrete action with immediate benefits that can be performed incrementally

Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 19d

A small but growing movement has sprung up in Nashville that is radical in its simplicity: People are building wooden benches and placing them at bus stops where there is no other place to sit. nashvillebanner.com/2025/09/22/g...

Activists build benches for Nashville bus stops - Nashville Banner

A small movement in Nashville is building wooden benches and placing them at bus stops without seating, providing a simple solution for the elderly, unhoused and others.

nashvillebanner.com

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 13d

4. IF YOU SEE A BAT DO NOT GO NEAR IT. CONTACT A PROFESSIONAL. If you don't touch it, there's a chance it will be okay. If you do touch it, no matter what its condition, it WILL be euthanized and tested for rabies. If you want to help it, CALL SOMEONE. You interfering with it IS ITS DEATH WARRANT.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 14d

This IS a great headline and also: Seattle! Get the word out! Someone was exposed to rabies and needs to seek medical care IMMEDIATELY!

Sarah Tuttle @niais.bsky.social · 14d

This is the most excellent local headline writing.

"DID YOU GIVE WATER TO A BAT NEAR THE ARBORETUM? IT HAD RABIES."

(this is explicitly for @andreagrimes.com )

Did you give water to a bat near the Arboretum? It had rabies

A rabid bat was found in Seattle near the Washington Park Arboretum. Here's what to know, and what to do if you think you might have been exposed.

www.seattletimes.com

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Azure Jane Lunatic @azurelunatic.bsky.social · 11d

"So we need to stock up on cheesecake" is what I say to to @norabombay.bsky.social when the relevant signs seem favorable.

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Encyclopaedia Britannica @britannica.com · 11d

(solemnly) You've had mail.

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Azure Jane Lunatic @azurelunatic.bsky.social · 11d

So that puts my first use date of "caucusing with women" sometime between Feb 14 2012 - Feb 14 2016, and we could probably narrow down the date by going through back episodes; I remember it was sometime around when Rachel explained the origin of red vs. blue as political colors as well.

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Azure Jane Lunatic @azurelunatic.bsky.social · 11d

I had finally found communities of geek women, and realized that no, I didn't quite fit there either. Simultaneously, @maddow.msnbc.com had a few pieces on the caucus process. So I explained it that way to @norabombay.bsky.social because she also listened to Rachel Maddow.

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Blue sky nice guy @rajandelman.bsky.social · 12d

The bees have discovered Brutalism

Cube Enthusiast @killhamster.bsky.social · 14d

Nature is healing

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Azure Jane Lunatic @azurelunatic.bsky.social · 15d

I barely notice them, whatever they are. It's a nice change from chemo. (And that was mostly the side effects from the industrial strength anti-nausea meds.)

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LukeBMTB @lukebmtb.bsky.social · 17d

Evening walk. Kingfisher. Made my day getting this shot :)

River Adur near Upper Beeding, Sussex.

OM1 mk1, lens@560mm (1120mm 35mm equivalent) , F9, 1/2000s, ISO 1600

#birds #nature #wildlife #sussexbirds

Kingfisher in flight, wings down and forward showing it's metallic blue feathers to good advantage.

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Azure Jane Lunatic @azurelunatic.bsky.social · 17d

CT machine, not MRI.