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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 2h

-West Texas Fertilizer Depot (2013)
-California Fireworks Depot (2025)
-Atlanta Chlorine Depot (2024)
-This incident

This and Countless other examples is a reminder that hazardous solids are exempt from RMP process safety rules, and deaths pile up every year. Shameful bipartisan fuckup

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 2h

A powerful explosion that tore through a central Tennessee ammunition plant on Friday morning has left 18 people missing, putting the small rural communities surrounding the facility on edge. Here’s what we know about the blast.

What We Know About the Explosion in Central Tennessee

The blast happened at a plant owned by Accurate Energetic Systems. Officials did not specify a death toll but said 18 people were missing.

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Chloe misses Link @chloeph.bsky.social · 3h

Agreed

Chloe misses Link @chloeph.bsky.social · 3h

I’ll let him speak for himself since I’m not sure I’d be correct in just saying “money issues”

Hello All,
I am sorry to say that Pie Time is going out of business. We will be winding down food production at the end of the month and moving o a cottee shop only model while we tind a lessee for the space. We vill be open 7 days from 7-12 with our drinks and coffee service biscuits, cookies, and parfaits.
The tood business is a hard, rewarding, and as wild as everyone says it is. You have to do everything right, have a great product, and a sprinkle of magic or luck. With business mistakes and a dollop of bad luck, here we are.
I want to thank our staff past and present for creating wonderful products and service, making Pie Time what it is at its best. I am SO roud of the products we made together; we made everything from scratch! We served the best darn lattes in the city! We ottered ful cafe service at farmers markets! We started as a farmers market operation in 2015 with $5k and an old pickup truck! We built a real community coffee shop! We have laughed and cried with our neighbors and regulars, fed and caffeinated them, and served this neighborhood the best we
could. Thank you SO much for being part of this time and story.
Thank you to my parents, extended family, friends, and my current and former partners. You believed in me, supported Pie Time, and held my hand through this chapter beginning to end. Thank you to our suppliers and coffee partners! It has been a privilege to work with such great ingredients and we have been proud to serve them.
Thank you to our farmers market customers (or "O C's" of Pie Time), getting to know you on the weekends and having the privilege of seing a market vendor in the Waverly and JFX communities was something that always kept me going. Thank you to our customers and neighbors in Patterson Park, I would not have wanted to open anywhere else or serve a different neighborhood. I always told our staff how lucky we are to have you as our customers, and they also found it to be true. I have told people for years: "we are SUPER lu…

My heart cannot help but kvell (overtlow) with joy and gratitude at being able to serve Patterson Park. Living in the apartment above Pie Time, I have been able to see people taking their babies home from the hospital, watched them grow up eating Pie Time, and laughed when I saw them mimicking steaming a latte.
The privilege and joy l have felt when people bump into each other or make new friends in this space cannot be understated.
Thank you for being you, and all you do.
While we search for a great business to take over this space, we will continue to operate our coffee service. We ask for your
the transition. I will still be living
be the sta te t committed to finding a
tenant that is as excited to serve this community as we have been.
I am sad and sorry that Pie Time didn't work out for the long term, and it will always break a piece of my heart to give up this space and what this community has turned it into. I am also relieved and excited for my own new chapter; the weight of a ayroll and everything a business needs not being on my shoulders when I swing my legs out of bed will be different and
maybe wonderful.
Your consumer dollars are a vote for what is around you, anc local coffee shops and restaurants are run by your friends anc neighbors. There is no magic behind small businesses, just peoplein need of your grace and support.
Peace, Love, Pie,
Max

Chloe misses Link @chloeph.bsky.social · 3h

Pie Time is closing :((

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Will Saletan @saletan.bsky.social · 14h

Here's a neat trick they teach in authoritarianism school: If you purge the people who measure the effects of your policies (BLS, MMWR), you can just claim everything's great, and nobody can prove how much damage you're doing.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 15h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 19h

We all wish democrats actually had this plan

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Super Nintendo Chalmers @snchalmers.bsky.social · 19h

Very cool we’re now doing “hide people from the nazis”

Gotta be coming up on Underground Railroad very soon

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 21h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Josh Luke Davis 🏳️‍🌈 @joshlukedavis.com · 1d

with the official IUCN listing for the slender-billed curlew now being Extinct here is the rather sad piece I wrote about what went into this decision

I tried to include everything we know about their behaviour and biology, which is tragically little 🪶🧪
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

A picture of two slender-billed curlews in the Natural History Museum's collections.

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Chloe misses Link @chloeph.bsky.social · 23h

Hot soup tip for you: Italian wedding soup at Soup’s On is on point today

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Jordan Grimes @cafedujord.bsky.social · 1d

I've spent the last 8 months of my life working to pass #SB79. It will be transformative for housing in California, and is one of the best things I'll probably ever get to do.

As of this morning, it's officially law; now it's time to drink!

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Chloe misses Link @chloeph.bsky.social · 1d

“The mansion boy” ????

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Cannonball Adderall @leupp.bsky.social · 1d

Kristi Noem: “They [“antifa”] are just as sophisticated as MS-13, as TDA [Tren de Aragua], as Isis, as Hezbollah, as Hamas, as all of them, they are just as dangerous. They have an agenda to destroy us, just like the other terrorists we’ve dealt with for many, many years.”

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 1d

When in doubt, dumplings for dinner is never the wrong choice

Chengdu style dumplings from The Dumpling Lady's stand in Charlotte. Half of them have already been eaten.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 2d

Incredibly alarming—after the whole ridiculous antifa roundtable at the White House, as Mark was moving with his family to Europe after threats…

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Chloe misses Link @chloeph.bsky.social · 2d

After a bad few days at work, treated myself to a book and Taharka Bros (not pictured), chased a butterfly and walked the cat.

Hardcover copy of Shadow Ticket, obtained from Atomic Books

Lovely dahlias in front of a blue painted rowhouse in Hampden

My cat Chester on a leash in the backyard. He looks a little perturbed.

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Chloe misses Link @chloeph.bsky.social · 2d

Noah was already totally out on it, but I’m definitely not doing RAGBRAI now

Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 2d

This is getting wild.

The states of Iowa, Montana, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and 14 others have just asked for permission to file THEIR amicus brief in IL v. Trump.

The States of Iowa, Montana, Oklahoma, South Carolina and 14 additional States
respectfully move for leave to submit the attached amicus curiae brief in support of Defendants
and their opposition to Plaintiffs’ requested temporary restraining order and preliminary
injunction. Proposed amici are States with a vested interest in federalism, the relationship between
States and the federal government, and deploying the National Guard. We also each have a vital
interest in supporting the President and Congress in enacting and enforcing valid immigration
laws. Every State has a responsibility to protect our citizens.
The federalization of States’ National Guard units is a matter of profound public
importance, as it directly implicates the delicate balance of power between state and federal
governments—a true cornerstone of Federalism. States generally maintain authority over their
National Guard units, allowing governors to deploy them for state-specific needs, such as disaster
response or public safety. Federalization of state National Guard units without gubernatorial

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Chloe misses Link @chloeph.bsky.social · 2d

He never listens…. Smdh

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Banthaskull @banthaskull.bsky.social · 2d

Sunday October 18th. Let’s not hear any complaining. You’ve got 11 days to work it out!

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Chloe misses Link @chloeph.bsky.social · 3d

He also went to Riyadh to get Saudi money for his Horizon movies… which he failed to do. Big time loser energy, and I say that as someone who still enjoys Bull Durham

Chloe misses Link @chloeph.bsky.social · 4d

Brain not work good today

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Chloe misses Link @chloeph.bsky.social · 4d

That’s so sad :( did he say what happened to Buffy?

Chloe misses Link @chloeph.bsky.social · 4d

I tried to comment on their IG to see what they had to say… no response

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 5d

Guys. I just had a crazy idea. What if the President DIDN’T deploy troops in American cities. Just a thought. Have we tried that before?

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Chloe misses Link @chloeph.bsky.social · 4d

If cars could try to look a little more like this, maybe I wouldn’t hate them so much

Gale @galewindy.bsky.social · 4d

#rarecars #coolfinds #cars
Yeah sorry this is Commutavan, not a Citivan, but fairly similarly rare. only 376 out of an order of 500 were built for the USPS after issues with the US government and builder company. As of 2020 it's believed only 26 are still around.

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Shabazz Stuart @shabazzstuart.bsky.social · 5d

Today on Flatbush/Clarkson. This kind of wreckage should not be possible on residential streets.

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