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Soil Scientist 🇺🇦 @dylanbeaudette.bsky.social · 4h

Hole isn’t deep enough

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4-word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Need a bigger boat.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Archives banned making copies.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 11h

A Dutch newspaper is literally holding a poll on if a colleague, another professor should be fired because he's pro Palestine. Academic freedom is dying many deaths here. www.gelderlander.nl/home/ontslag...

Poll results, 84% in favour of firing him

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13h

The federal food program helping more than 1 in 4 young children access fresh produce, milk, and formula will run out of funding next week.

Over 5 million children could lose food assistance — all thanks to the Trump-Republican shutdown.

The cruelty is endless.

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 12h

Reading Thiel, Yarvin, Peterson et al. makes you realise what passes for intellectual iconoclasm these days is all absolute bollocks. Why anyone gives any of these people the time of day let alone credibility is baffling.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 11h

3D printers: WE NEED YOU! If you have a printer, start making whistles for your community. Volunteers of ours have been printing and passing them out across communities, over 200 have been handed out so far!

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MS Kohut @mskohut.bsky.social · 18h

No one thought he could win once
No one thought he could win twice
No one believed he’d get away with it
No one believed he’d be on the ballot
No one accepted the grim reality
No one accepted he’d destroy humanity
No one was prepared for this
No one is stopping it

WE are the last line of defense

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ceej @ceej.online · 14h

someone with a billion dollars no longer experiences the world as 99% of humanity would recognize it, and so any “analysis” or critique of society they offer is fatally, irrevocably flawed. dracula complaining about the price of groceries

ceej @ceej.online · 17h

the disastrous refusal of the self-styled silicon valley technokings to keep anyone in their lives capable of questioning their increasingly incomprehensible politics has lead to a crisis of thinking so severe that a fifty-eight year old man believes something is important because he knows about it

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 19h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 1d

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 1d

Listen. Shit is crazy.

BUT three things indicate a reason for some hope:

1. Jim Cramer said AI isn’t a bubble.
2. Aerie committed to not using any AI in advertising. They don’t use photoshop, already.
3. You can now opt out of AI slip on your Pinterest!

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 1d

PRESSURE AND OUTRAGE WORK.

Whether this was a real error or the admin backtracking, outrage and press coverage highlighted the problems.

Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 1d

New reporting: many apparently fired at CDC in 'error'. This is a failure by design given that the admin does not care about fulfilling agency missions. This is the kind of error that should have political consequences.

Unserious people cause real-world harm.

🎁
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 1d

Google Cloud seems cool if you want stupid useless stats

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 1d

Hi! Hello!

I’m the leader of an organization called @standupforscience.bsky.social and I’ve said all these things…on repeat. For 8 months.

We aren’t taking ANY shit in our brownies. We aren’t looking to someone else, cozying up with fascists, or cowering.

WE ARE STANDING UP.

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2d

... they talk about backing away, routing around, looking to states or maybe overseas, cultivating relationships with Republicans, etc. etc.

You know what not a single one has said? "I'm going to fight him. I'm going to destroy him & his movement & salt the fucking earth where they lay." Zero.

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AI6YR Ben @ai6yr.m.ai6yr.org.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Oooh, found another place to get lists of launches of Space Nazi vehicles.

(FAA Operational Plan)

https://www.fly.faa.gov/adv/adv_otherdis?advn=73&adv_date=10112025&facId=ATCSCC&title=ATCSCC%20ADVZY%20073%20DCC%2010/11/2025%20OPERATIONS%20PLAN&titleDate=10/11/2025

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

Never forget this: The forces rigging our economy, undermining our democracy, polluting our planet, and stoking hatred are counting on you to give up. Cynicism is how they win. Stay clear-eyed and ready for the fight ahead.

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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 1d

So if Russ Vought and Bob Kennedy were deliberately trying on behalf of an enemy to sicken and kill Americans by destroying the public health structure - what would they be doing differently?

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The Pleasure Vice Principle (he/him/his) @hannibaltabu.bsky.social · 2d

I saw the dot coms crash from a front row seat. AI is running out of money way faster.

The evangelism is insecurity from people who made the wrong bet. I’ve seen it before. futurism.com/future-socie...

AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

futurism.com

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Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · 1d

They didn't /think/ that. They /did/ that. They literally murdered Disabled people. Cleared out asylums and murdered hundreds of thousands of Disabled people, including a large number of children. It's called Aktion T4.

And then they took what they learned and created extermination camps.

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 1d

I’m a mom.
I’m a scientist.
I’m an activist.

I’m not going to stand by while unqualified, Quack, fringe-ass conspiracy theorists make decisions about my family’s health that is going to kill people.

Join me outside of HHS on 10/16 at 3pm.
@standupforscience.bsky.social

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 2d

I give you: my billionaire former boss clapping his hands in delight at what has been better described as "Cocomelon for adults"

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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Soil Scientist 🇺🇦 @dylanbeaudette.bsky.social · 2d

It’s the having hammer / see a nail problem.

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Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 2d

Some rob you with a sixgun, some with a fountain pen
Some kidnap your neighbors, friends and family
Some destroy the vital government services you depend on

tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: It looks like the number of federal layoffs -- so far -- is over 4,000, we've learned from court documents

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

White House Signals Federal Layoffs Have Begun During Government Shutdown

www.nytimes.com

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Nikoda Fox @nikoda.bsky.social · 2d

Someone explain to me like I'm 5 how hating on the KKK is "political" instead of "the correct thing to do in a civilized world".

Also, for the people that invented the guillotine, this is real disappointing on quite a few levels.

www.polygon.com/assassins-cr...

The canceled Assassin's Creed Civil War game was a powder keg waiting to explode

Ubisoft was reportedly working on a game set after the Civil War era, but canceled it due to politics and Assassins Creed Shadows backlash.

www.polygon.com

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Soil Scientist 🇺🇦 @dylanbeaudette.bsky.social · 2d

Don’t worry, we invented a machine that can relive them of their chores, taxes, and other boring activities. Ask Mary Antoinette about it.

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