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Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.bsky.social · 10h

Seriously, folks, we are staring down the barrel of a #ClimateEmergency of our own creating.

Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 15h

High resolution images from satellite and from eddy-resolving ocean circulation models point to an ongoing decline of the Atlantic overturning circulation, a key ocean current for our climate. Read more about it in my new blog article. 🌊
www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

RealClimate: High-resolution ‘fingerprint’ images reveal a weakening Atlantic Ocean circulation (AMOC)

The #AMOC is the reason for Europe’s mild climate. Evidence that it is slowing has been piling up over the years – it now is likely at its weakest in at least a millennium, and it may even be approach...

www.realclimate.org

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 3h

NY and NJ people! I'll be talking about concentration camp history and how mass civilian detention without trial took root all over the world more than a century ago. Join us at 5:30pm on Tuesday October 21 at Ramapo College in Mahwah.
www.ramapo.edu/holocaust/ce...

Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Ramapo College of NJ @chgs-ramapo.bsky.social · 2d

This is going to be an incredible event. Please join us in person!

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AddleBONES @addleben.bsky.social · 4h

I'm a doctor and recommend everyone get immunized against COVID and influence unless they know they're allergic to some vaccine component. If anyone needs a recommendation (standard caveat, I'm not *your* doctor).

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GibbertiFlibbet @thecorrection.bsky.social · 4h

and yet somehow, even with Nate's scolding endorsement, I managed not to touch this humanity killing technology at least voluntarily

my computer keeps whispering

COME AND SEE

in a sepulchral voice

Chris Towers is in Offseason Mode @cptowers.bsky.social · 8h

How it started: How it’s going:

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NPR @npr.org · 4h

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 4h

Now here is an artist. Abdul. Red blanket, beneath it a yellow construction sign. He wore a blue hoodie. I asked to take a portrait. Yes. I raised camera; he raised hand. Down went camera. “I’m sorry.” “No, take it.” Up went camera; up went hand. Down & up again. This is the portrait he wanted.

A bright red blanket drapes the shoulder of a man in a red t and a blue hoodie. Behind him the black metal bars of an Underground entrance railing. Center: the palm of his light brown hand, obscuring his face.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 17h

“You’re so lucky! I wish I didn’t have to work!”

People act like we’re getting a permanent vacation.

The reality is we are forced to live in legislated poverty.

Barred from earning or marrying without losing our meagre benefits.

Denied autonomy.

And we’re sick & in pain.

It’s a 24/7 job.

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 8h

What they want is to have the troops shoot homeless people. That's the goal here, that's what they want.

San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 8h

The remarks from the tech leaders come as city officials tout falling crime rates even as overdose deaths continue to climb.

‘The only solution’: Elon Musk backs call to deploy federal troops to San Francisco

The remarks from the tech leaders come as city officials tout falling crime rates even as overdose deaths continue to climb.

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Amanda Follett Hosgood @amandafollett.bsky.social · 4h

The journalist previously told Al Jazeera that he had received numerous threats from Israel due to his work.

More than 270 media workers have now been killed in Gaza in the past two years.

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 5h

Sources say the 28-year-old was killed by members of Israel-linked 'militia' fighting Hamas in the Sabra neighbourhood.

Palestinian journalist Saleh Aljafarawi shot dead in Gaza City clashes

Sources say the 28-year-old was killed by members of Israel-linked 'militia' fighting Hamas in the Sabra neighbourhood.

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 4h

A lot of white people are mourning this woman which is funny since she was a stalwart defender of a sexual abuser. And Annie Hall was boring as fuck
It’s funny how people gloss over the truth for the performance of morality in death
www.independent.co.uk/life-style/d...

Diane Keaton says ‘victim culture’ is a ‘horrible shame’

The star also spoke gushingly about controversial filmmaker Woody Allen

www.independent.co.uk

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 6h

People are spontaneously posting up near any laborers or street vendors they spot. Just saw a rapid responder guarding a man working on a building exterior. Many things are terrible today but lord, this stuff matters.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 7h

There are a tremendous number of ICE watchers out in Rogers Park this afternoon after some early morning abductions.

People are guarding churches and patrolling alleyways. Ran into Alderperson Hadden. First timers tell us they're primed and ready to use their whistles.

Know your rights flyer in Spanish on street pole

Alderperson Maria Hadden on street corner

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Jennifer Prokop @jenreadsromance.bsky.social · 4h

here's a school in Rogers Park looking for books for the kids doing Battle of the Books.... all the videos you have seen today of ICE activity in Chicago and been in and around Rogers Park. Only $250 left to fully fund this.

www.donorschoose.org/project/read...

Ready to Battle!, a project from Mr. Goldberg

Help me give my students the "Battle of the Books" texts to read. I coach an academic team at my school called Battle of the Books. The Battle of the Books is a city wide competition for st...

www.donorschoose.org

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 4h

Don’t forget to get vaxxed in all the ways you can if you’re remotely able.

Herd immunity is community care!

Some states will ask if you’re part of the “recommended demographic”; if you’re not in a state that requires a doctors note, you can just say yes & walk in. If you are—> see your doctor.

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Cangal 😷 @cangal.bsky.social · 4h

"Luffy is Jesus" was not on my bingo card...

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 14h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 21d

a group of people were like "i found a way to live my life as a truer version of myself" and instead of being like "that's beautiful, how can i help" people were like "i don't think schools should have books in them anymore"

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sqooky from:me @skeet.best · 1d

jokes aside, can you imagine how you would handle it if you asked a human assistant "did you make all this up instead of actually doing any of the work", and that person responded to you with "good catch"

Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 1d

girl are you chatgpt because your KPIs are crazy

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Shared row data file with GPT5 to analyze, the result KPIs were crazy, so I naively asked, and innocently it responded.
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Did you make up these numbers?
Good catch - I wasn't able to actually open and parse your CSV file yet,
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Cangal 😷 @cangal.bsky.social · 5h

Yeah, they have a long history of awful. 🙁

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Cangal 😷 @cangal.bsky.social · 5h

They were breeding them to sell to other aquariums.

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🎃 Iva Cheung 🍗 @ivacheung.com · 22h

Print copies are here! They've escaped Canada Post strike purgatory!

I'm keeping a paperback 'cause even though I cook these recipes a lot, I don't have them all memorized.

Sending 2 each to Library and Archives Canada and will scatter some among the Little Free Libraries in #NewWest.

A pile of paperback copies next to a pile of hardcover copies of the book *After the Feast*, which has a green cover and an illustration of a partly carved turkey on a wooden cutting board.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 5h

6 people were killed and 12 injured in two separate homecoming shootings in Mississippi yesterday.

Today 4 people are dead and 20 injured after a shooter opened fire on Willie’s Bar and Grill in South Carolina.

No flags will be lowered. No speeches will be given. The gun laws won’t change

4 people were killed and 20 more were injured in a shooting at a bar in South Carolina, sheriff says

BEAUFORT, S.C. (AP) — A mass shooting at a crowded bar on an idyllic South Carolina island has left four people dead and at least 20 injured, officials said.

www.wral.com

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1WAG @1wag.bsky.social · 6h

In this case, they attacked the press the day after a federal restraining order telling them to stop attacking the press.

Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 21h

Chicago journalist Debbie Brockman, who was thrown to the ground & handcuffed by ICE, has been released without charges

DHS said she assaulted an officer, but eye witnesses claim she didn’t

The lack of charges makes it clear that ICE is lying to try and cover up the fact that they attack the press