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Paper- and digital collage, no AI. Poetry, prose, essays & hybrid stuff. Wildlife & climate. Small but furious. Still masking, still persisting. 🅥 cbauder.com

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Aud Auder @cbauder.bsky.social · Nov 3

We really need to start having conversations about Typhoid Mary. She wasn't a fictional character for god's sake.

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Aud Auder @cbauder.bsky.social · 1h

a handy trick I just learned is to put the water into the mug before putting the mug into the microwave 🫠

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Jeremy Ghost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 17h

Meet my newest creation Edith the Moth Phantom! I designed and hand-sewed her. She enjoys singing sea shanties with her cryptid band. They perform primarily for the moon. She also likes appearing to travelers as good or bad omens, depending on her mood.

jeremycreature.bigcartel.com

Here's a lovely photo of my fabric art moth phantom. She's a white moth phantom with a gray face, large twinkly black eyes, and a little frown. She has curly white antennae. There are black and gray oval markings on her wings. There's a beautiful galaxy print fabric in the background.

Here's another lovely pic of Edith. In this one, she's resting on my palm.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 14h

I'm doing another print run of these "Biology is Bigger than Binaries" shirts!

Back, quite literally, by popular demand. Bullying works, sure, but so does a bunch of nice cutie patooties politely asking!

Order 'em now, I'll mail 'em in early November.

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a woman with short bown hair, glasses, and tassel earrings, wears a purple KN95 and looks cool as hell in her biology is bigger than binaries shirt, in orange

a woman with green glasses takes a selfie lookin' cool as hell in her pink biology is bigger than binaries shirt. She's also got ice cream, that lucky dog.

a woman with long brown hair and glasses hangs out in the back yard with her pink biology is bigger than binaries shirt

A man with a hat and sunglasses stands in hero-pose with his biology is bigger than binaires shirt (orange)

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Aud Auder @cbauder.bsky.social · 1h

this is a good interview

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13h

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

Aud Auder @cbauder.bsky.social · 1h

Wonderful! 💞💖

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Aud Auder @cbauder.bsky.social · 2h

Beautiful cover! Such lovely news, Melissa! 🥳🎉

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Melissa Llanes Brownlee @lumchanmfa.bsky.social · 15h

weekly talk story about Bitter Over Sweet out in the world...

www.melissallanesbrownlee.com/talk-story/2...

The Preordered Copies of Bitter Over Sweet Are Out In The World — Melissa Llanes Brownlee

I just want to celebrate that my book is officially/unofficially out in the world! Pictures have been rolling in and I am so excited. It’s so wonderful to see people sharing their books with me! Thank...

www.melissallanesbrownlee.com

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 12h

I donated some copies of Let This Radicalize You for distribution at an ICE watch training for folks who want to join school patrols in a nearby neighborhood. Not everyone got a copy, because 120 people showed up for that training tonight. I am endlessly proud of Chicago.

A display of copies of Let This Radicalize You on a table in front of a sign that reads: "Let This Radicalize You offers stories, strategy and heart for the kind of collective care and resistance we're building together today. It helps us move from reacting to organizing. Showing how ordinary people protect each other, build power, and keep hope alive. Take a copy. Read it. Stay connected."

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Aud Auder @cbauder.bsky.social · 2h

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ceej @ceej.online · 10h

damn. hoping it at least signifies something

William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 11h

It is a tale
Told by an idiot

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 9h

logging on

slowhed @slowhed-comics.bsky.social · 10h

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 10h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Aud Auder @cbauder.bsky.social · 2h

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 5h

White House staff should just make and show him an AI-generated video where he wins, fly him to Duluth and tell him it’s Oslo, and dare the New York Times to say anything more than “Experts disagree about whether Mr Trump was awarded the Nobel Prize”.

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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 22h

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Aud Auder @cbauder.bsky.social · 17h

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Aud Auder @cbauder.bsky.social · 17h

it's wearing skater shoes! 🥹

Nash Turley @nashturley.bsky.social · 19h

Big fan of this weevil's color scheme, pointy snoot, and huge feet!

www.inaturalist.org/observations...

black and yellow weevil on a green leaf with long thin rostrum and very large foot pads

Aud Auder @cbauder.bsky.social · 17h

My husband designs and sells mathematical images that reflect the nature of the world and our place in it. He does not use AI. Shares are most welcome--please check out his shop at diffgeom.com! 🥰

Original Math Designs @diffgeom.com · 18h

Six new poster/wall decor designs at Differential Geometry:

www.diffgeom.com/product-cate...

#MathSky #MathArt

A gallery of six mathematical posters:
A sphere resembling an underwater life form with a glowing nucleus;
A purple and green conformal hexagon tiling of a torus, seen from inside;
A white wireframe torus casting a shadow on a virtual calm tropical sea;
A dramatic side-lit red and black form resembling a melted heart;
A blue mollusk shell with a gold coordinate grid looming in a twilit sky;
A field of sky-blue foreground-background arrows masking underlying reality.

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Laura Haynes👩‍🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social · 1d

This is great news: Annual COVID Vaccines Protect People against Severe Disease, Even with Prior Immunity

www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-...

Annual COVID Vaccines Save Lives, New Study Shows

A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

www.scientificamerican.com

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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 2d

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 2d

A haunted house but it’s so nice inside, let’s just stay in here

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Aud Auder @cbauder.bsky.social · 2d

i don't pray but i'm prayin for dolly 💕💕

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Melissa Llanes Brownlee @lumchanmfa.bsky.social · 2d

Yes!! Please join us!! I am so excited 😍❤️🥰

SFWP @sfwp.bsky.social · 2d

Make sure to register for @lumchanmfa.bsky.social's book launch event with @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social and @avitusbcarle.bsky.social over Zoom on November 7th at 7pm EST! buff.ly/CtKtA0k

Preorder BITTER OVER SWEET right here: buff.ly/3pPOviA
@susanschulman.bsky.social

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 3d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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National Weather Service @nws.noaa.gov · 2d

Most flood fatalities occur in vehicles. It only takes 12in of water to sweep a car away.

Small decisions like turning around, not driving through a flooded roadway, around barricades, & delaying travel until conditions improve, can make a big impact.

Turn Around, Don’t Drown.

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