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Fraid o' da Pirate🏴‍☠️👻🎃 @xochiptx.bsky.social · 16h

Gotta love all the anti-fascist amphibians!
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Drawing of said Portland frog, with the word 'Resist' on the top

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Gabriel Ugueto @serpenillus.bsky.social · 1d

The huge Deinocheirus in its habitat. Illustration I did for the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum in Japan

In this illustration you can see a scene set in Late Cretaceous Asia where an adult Deinocheirus is scaring away a pair of young Tarbosaurus

#paleoart #dinosaur #art

Illustration depicting three Deinocheirus in a Late Cretaceous swamp. The one of the front is chasing a way a pair of juvenile Tarbosaurus in the foreground

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 3d

Look at her go!
#invertebrates 🌿

Screen shot of Project Monarch app map of progress of a monarch butterfly from southern Ontario to Oklahoma.

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Grist @grist.org · 15h

Inside the Indonesian boomtowns powering the world’s electric vehicles.

Thousands of miles from home, Chinese migrant workers run the nickel-processing plants that do the dirty work of the clean energy transition.

grist.org/labor/indone...

#Indonesia #China #Chinese #Nickle #EV #Batteries

Inside the Indonesian boomtowns powering the world’s electric vehicles

Thousands of miles from home, Chinese migrant workers run the nickel-processing plants that do the dirty work of the clean energy transition.

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Data Report @datareport.bsky.social · 1d

Here is something to think about. The US National weather service is tracking a major nor'easter that will bring heavy rains winds and coastal flooding with beach erosion to the east coast. The US Government is currently shut down, meaning they are NOT being paid to track a major storm.

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Holly Brockwell @hollyqueenofspayeds.com · 20h

One thing that might make me hate self checkouts less would be if they used my loyalty card to record my preferences, so if I scan my card at the start, it turns the beeps down & knows I want a receipt

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Ferrett Steinmetz @theferrett.bsky.social · 20h

I'm really getting that sickening feeling I had during the late-90s tech bubble where all the smart folks were going, "The finances make sense!" and I was going "Can you explain it to me in a way that doesn't feel like you're pulling numbers out of your ass? Can you tell me what this is BASED on?"

Dennis Detwiller @drgonzo123.bsky.social · 20h

Oh, is it because the entire “economy” is 4 companies moving money around in a circle while 99.9% of all the other companies have made as little as 0.1% and the dollar has plummeted 11% in that same period?

Dow drops 500 points, S&P 500 falls the most since April after Trump's China tariff threat: Live updates

The Trump post sparked a rapid sell-off in stocks Friday.

www.cnbc.com

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Kragar @kragar.bsky.social · 20h

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 20h

📉Trump's WLFI crypto token—which is not backed by any underlying assets and does not convey ownership in anything other than the token itself—hit an all-time low today of $0.146156 amidst an overall market downturn.

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Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 20h

Once again, we should've never backed off the weirdness train. And a good way to keep winning is to make all of these fascists feel weird by confronting them with weirdness that shows how weird they are. Portland gets this. Everyone else needs to catch up.

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Grist @grist.org · 20h

New research shows there’s a simple way to protect workers. Is OSHA listening?

The U.S. workplace regulator is considering a federal heat rule — if the shutdown doesn’t delay it further.

grist.org/business/sim...

#Climate #Heat #Health #OSHA #Unions

New research shows there’s a simple way to protect workers. Is OSHA listening?

New research shows there's a simple way to protect workers. Is OSHA listening?

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Penelope Wang @pennywriter.bsky.social · 23h

Normally, 2026 increases for Social Security checks, 401(k) contributions, and more would be available next week. Now they may be delayed. (gift link)
www.wsj.com/personal-fin...

Why the Next CPI Report Is Important for Social Security Checks, Bonds and 401(k)s

Furloughed federal workers are being recalled to issue the monthly inflation report that was due out next week.

www.wsj.com

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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · 20h

“Putting your political opponents in jail because they are your opponents—not because of what they did—is the heart of tyranny. It is an obviously impeachable offense.”
@chrislhayes.bsky.social

@allinwithchris.bsky.social
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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 20h

Ditto.

I've seen two posts on LinkedIn in the last few hours sharing a new article (one was from a #medlibs) using, for no real reason, an AI generated image, basically as a way to help get eyes on it.

If you want random images to get eyes, there are literally millions of non-AI options out there.

Coleen Murphy @ctmurphy1.bsky.social · 1d

Begging scientists (and media posts about science) to stop using ChatGPT-generated images

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Reuters @reuters.com · 20h

Apple sued over use of copyrighted books to train Apple Intelligence reut.rs/4h2JXgV

Apple sued over use of copyrighted books to train Apple Intelligence

Apple was hit with a lawsuit in California federal court by a pair of neuroscientists who say that the tech company misused thousands of copyrighted books to train its Apple Intelligence artificial intelligence model.

reut.rs

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 20h

⚡️Ukraine, Netherlands sign memorandum on joint drone production.

President Volodymyr Zelensky met with Dutch Defense Minister Ruben Brekelmans to finalize the agreement, describing drone production as "one of the most promising areas of our bilateral cooperation."

Ukraine, Netherlands sign memorandum on joint drone production

President Volodymyr Zelensky met with Dutch Defense Minister Ruben Brekelmans to finalize the agreement, describing drone production as "one of the most promising areas of our bilateral cooperation."

kyivindependent.com

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 22h

What middle and upper class cis het white people need to understand is that they only have as many rights as the most vulnerable do. You have only the rights trans people and immigrants do.

Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 1d

Do you really have any rights if they are openly saying they will just make up reasons to detain you?

thematthill.bsky.social @thematthill.bsky.social · 3d

Wow. Greg Bovino admits on camera that his agents can detain people if you look scared, change your demeanor, or grip a steering wheel too tight.

As his unmasked agents walk around with large guns to scare you, they may arrest you just for that — even if you're a U.S. citizen.

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Fighting Liberal Texas Dem🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 @fightingliberal.bsky.social · 20h

Military Spouse Caller On C-SPAN Begs Mike Johnson To Pay Troops Amid Shutdown https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/military-spouse-caller-c-span-161050022.html

Military Spouse Caller On C-SPAN Begs Mike Johnson To Pay Troops Amid Shutdown

“As a Republican, I’m very disappointed ... in you, because you do have the power to call the House back,” a Virginia woman fumed at the speaker.

www.yahoo.com

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 20h

I like how it looks like a bunch of happy cartoon animals have chased the goons up a tree

Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 23h

This is awesome.

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 20h

Come the fuck on

Indian immigrant fights deportation after police mistake perfume labeled 'Opium' for the narcotic

Kapil Raghu, 28, was arrested in May after an officer in central Arkansas spotted the rollerball perfume bottle in his car during a routine traffic stop.

www.nbcnews.com

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Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 22h

An illustrator alerted me to the attached email. Someone is impersonating me! Offering #kidlit illustrators fake deals!

This is not me! The deal-structure/schedule is insane. The deadline is quite friendly?! 10 picture books in 3 years?!

Please let me know if you receive an email like this!

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 19h

www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...

UPS is 'disposing of' U.S.-bound packages over customs paperwork problems

Shifting Trump tariffs have created a nightmare for UPS, as thousands of packages from overseas pile up at its hubs while they await customs clearance.

www.nbcnews.com

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trickyNOtreat 🎃 @trickykat.bsky.social · 1d

real shitposters only use lower case because we are anti-capitalism

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 21h

We pick up the work, we continue the work, we do not give up the work 🫡

Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 22h

Since Link is banned, his mutual aid Fridays have gone with him. This was one of the most altruistic things I’ve seen anyone on this site do.

In light of this, I’m gonna try to fill the gap.

Drop your mutual aid requests under this thread and I will repost them for as long as I can.

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 1d

“This is a movement…This is an achievement of a whole society…I am just one person.”

The beautiful humility of Venezuelan pro-democracy leader, Maria Corina Machado, the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize recipient.

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