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Arctic Velocipedist @arcticvelocipedist.bsky.social · 7h

If you are in Anchorage looking for a relaxing coffee shop downtown, please go check out my friend’s place. She has been really good to me lately. Brings me the best homemade soups once a week too.

Don’t usually plug businesses here, but Birgit’s place is really worth me bending that rule.

Home | Kaffee Klatsch

www.ak-kaffeeklatsch.com

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 13h

It's official — a court ruled that the public's interest in knowing if Elon Musk has a security clearance and access to classified information outweighs any potential privacy interests.

Great FOIA ruling in favor of the @nytimes.com.
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Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.com · 13h

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

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aederocher.bsky.social @aederocher.bsky.social · 13h

Hudson Bay polar bears are waiting for the ice to form. It's +18 C (64 F) right now in Churchill & way above normal so they'll be waiting for a while. Bears are now about 120 days on land & have lost about 120 kg (265 lb). Bears without enough energy risk dying: it's survival of the fattest.

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Alaska Public Media @alaskapublic.org · 15h

Dracula - reimagined.

Our story begins with Anchorage real estate agent Jonathan Harker making an unwitting deal in Transylvania with the compellingly dangerous countess Dracula 🫣

Listen to Episode 1 now or wherever you get your podcasts.

🎧: alaskapublic.org/dracula

Dracula

A bold four-part radio drama that reimagines Dracula in modern Alaska like you’ve never heard her before—where superstition falters, trauma confronts power, and Mina must choose whether vampirism is curse or liberation.Listen to Dracula as part of Hometown, Alaska on KSKA FM 91.1 in Anchorage, AK.Mondays at 10:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. this October.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 19h

Hundreds of Haitians came to Greeley, Colorado, looking for a place to stay and a good job at JBS, the largest meat producer in the world. Instead, they found squalid housing and an unsafe workplace. Now, they’re being deported.

Immigrants on the line

Haitian immigrants moved to Colorado on the promise of a good job and a place to stay—only to be mistreated. Now, they could be deported.

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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 19h

Tout le monde pleure, Oli. Le photojournaliste de La Presse Olivier Jean est mort à l’âge de 48 ans. www.lapresse.ca/actualites/c...
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La Presse | Le regard d’Olivier Jean s’éteint

Le photojournaliste de La Presse Olivier Jean est mort à l’âge de 48 ans. Figure respectée du milieu, il laisse le souvenir d’un professionnel d’un immense talent et d’un collègue d’une grande humanit...

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Jack Shoulder @jackshoulder.bsky.social · 1d

#TodayInQueerHistory
October 11 (1988)
Coming Out Day is launched #OTD by Jean O'Leary and Robert Eichberg. They aimed to tackle homophobia. Eichberg said:

"It is imperative that we come out and let people know who we are and disabuse them of their fears and stereotypes."

A bright Keith Haring work showing a person coming out

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Bumblebike @bumblebike.bsky.social · 1d

Gutting. I’m very sorry.

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drwendieberg.bsky.social @drwendieberg.bsky.social · 1d

Canadian women: Here is an opportunity to share your knowledge and experience regarding breast cancer risk and dense breasts and help influence screening policies and access!

Dense Breasts Canada @densebreastscanada.bsky.social · 9d

Have you had a mammogram and been told you have dense breasts?
Please take our short, anonymous survey to help push for earlier detection & life-saving change.
👉 www.surveymonkey.com/r/breastscre...

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Alaska Public Media @alaskapublic.org · 1d

Alaska’s congressional delegation said the Central Yukon Plan would've locked up too much land, while many in the region say it would've protected subsistence resources from mining and other resources extraction. https://akpub.io/4nM3HYY

Congress repeals plan for Central Yukon that Alaska delegation says was too restrictive

The Central Yukon Resource Management Plan took 12 years to craft. Many in the region say it would've protected subsistence resources from mining and other resources extraction.

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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 1d

Fall skies are showing off this week. From golden sunsets in Ottawa to warm morning light over Winnipeg, your photos have been stunning.

Thanks to Greg Scriver, Nancy Powderhorn and Jordan McKay for sharing these moments.

Got a view to show off? Email your pictures to [email protected]

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The Lever @levernews.com · 1d

The nation’s largest private prison company is asking the Supreme Court to give federal contractors blanket immunity from lawsuits — including human trafficking claims.

If they win, private contractors could operate with even less accountability than they do now.

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Bree Fram @breefram.bsky.social · 1d

To my LGBTQ+ friends - If you've ever thought about running for office or just wondered what it might be like, this is a great opportunity. The LGBTQ+ Victory Institute is running a FREE one-day workshop, Dec 4th in D.C.

Register:
victoryinstitute.org/event/candid...

Candidate & Campaign 101 Training

Curious about what it means to run for office as an LGBTQ+ person? Join us for a FREE one-day Candidate & Campaign 101 Training to cover the basics of campaigning, messaging, fundraising, and so much ...

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Sarah Tuttle @niais.bsky.social · 1d

Are you someone who is interested in astronomy graduate school? This is a list of many/most departments and their expectations for admissions this year. Please feel free to spread it far and wide. If you are doing admissions and you'd like to update your entry, reach out as per the form!

US Astronomy Graduate Admissions, AY 2025-2026

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Bumblebike @bumblebike.bsky.social · 1d

AGFE is suing to prevent it, hearing is this afternoon (California time).

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RCP museum @rcpmuseum.bsky.social · 1d

To celebrate the launch of exhibition 'A Body of Knowledge', lead curator & rare books librarian Katie Birkwood shares her thoughts reflecting upon a career in libraries, the RCP library specifically & the exhibition:

👉 history.rcp.ac.uk/blog/librari...

@rcphysicians.bsky.social #BodyOfKnowledge

Katie Birkwood delivering a speech in the Dorchester Library.

An open book showing illustrations of roosters in a display case.

The smallest book in the RCP library open showing an illustration of a skeleton.

Katie Birkwood standing next to the famous displayed anatomical text by Andreas Vesalius in the exhibition.

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Dominique Berteaux @dominiqueberteaux.bsky.social · 2d

We publish in Ecology 30 years of Arctic wildlife monitoring on Bylot Island (Nunavut, Canada)! Our long-term dataset tracks 35 species across 400 km² of tundra, providing rare insights into community dynamics, food webs, and climate responses. Open data for all at bitly.cx/OnOI2 🌍🦊🦉🦑 🧪🌿🌐

Arctic fox on Bylot Island (Nunavut, Canada). Picture by Louis-Pierre Ouellet.

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 2d

It's also not "just another" extinction, it's the first from mainland Europe in centuries. CENTURIES.

And there will be others within our lifetime.

That's biodiversity loss.

We'll never hear this sound, ever again xeno-canto.org/398794

XC398794 Slender-billed Curlew (Numenius tenuirostris)

Awful wind noise in the original! See sonogram and notes of the recording circumstances on p12 of Gretton A. (1991) The ecology and conservation of the Slender-billed Curlew (Numenius tenuirostris). ...

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Lisa Smith @historybeagle.bsky.social · 2d

Such very sad news.

Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 2d

Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today.

Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology

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Bumblebike @bumblebike.bsky.social · 2d

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Allie Alvis 🌷 @book-historia.bsky.social · 2d

Which leads me to an absolutely desperate plea: is there anyone in Japan who can collect this bag (not from Oshima [probably from Kyoto]) for us and send us the contents?

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 2d

If you're watching the situation in Chicago from afar & want to help, on the off chance you have spare $$, you can give to the Midwest Immigrant Bond Fund, which posts "bond for individuals held in the custody of ICE w ties to IL, IN, KY & WI who cannot afford to pay"
www.mibfc.org/helpusgrow

How to Help MIBFC — Midwest Immigration Bond Fund

www.mibfc.org

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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 2d

Alberta RCMP are asking the public for help finding a 25-year-old man who has been missing for more than five months.

Joshua Francis Saulteaux was last seen May 5 in the area of Goodfish Lake and Whitefish Lake First Nations, according to Goodfish Lake RCMP.

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 2d

That is, of course, unless you're talking about private schools...

Then it becomes one of the most important things that the Alberta Government recommends parents pay attention to while choosing a private school.

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Bumblebike @bumblebike.bsky.social · 2d

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 2d

"Officials from Australia, Wales, South Korea, Canada, Norway, Lithuania, Estonia, “northern European arts councils and the Belgian presidency of the Council of the EU” have sought briefings on the scheme, the Minister said."

www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Numerous countries express interest in Government’s basic income for artists pilot scheme

Minister for Culture committed to making the scheme permanent if funding is secured in budget

www.irishtimes.com

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