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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 1d

I've been wondering why Dominion Voting Systems suddenly reached settlements with Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and One America News.

Turns out, it's been purchased by a Republican-owned election tech firm that insisted on it, per Axios.

www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...

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foxfirefey @foxfirefey.bsky.social · 13h

I thought about natural disaster response which uh in a climate change lashed world makes redirecting them into federal gestapo roles pretty egregious

Natural disasters are a rising burden for the National Guard

New Pentagon data show climate impacts shaping reservists’ mission.

arstechnica.com

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 1d

oh hell yeah youtu.be/nGZOFyLrCwk?...

Slug Eating Spaghetti Time Lapse (With Stopwatch Timer)

YouTube video by Nature's Fantastic

youtu.be

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 16h

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 16h

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17h

Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 19h

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Catmint Studios 💚 Shop update 10/10 🎃✨ @catmintstudios.bsky.social · 20h

Calling all corn maze enthusiasts 🌽🖤

[ #cuteart #artshop ]

A sticker design of a cute black cat walking through a corn field. There is a green banner beneath his feet with the words “get lost” - the sticker has a clear border around the edge

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 21h

I love Capitol Hill.

A garbage can has art plastered on it, a prehistoric scene with featuring a wooly mammoth. It reads: "Meanwhile 12,600 years ago...in the Pleistocene epoch!"

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foxfirefey @foxfirefey.bsky.social · 21h

Is he a mighty hunter! None of my cats have been very dedicated to it compared to their toys beyond watching it like cat TV. I wonder if you could test the waters with a robotic fish…

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foxfirefey @foxfirefey.bsky.social · 21h

I love putting a betta fish in a five gallon aquarium, some of them are sooooo exquisite

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foxfirefey @foxfirefey.bsky.social · 1d

Joanna Russ did a novella about this in the 70s and they did nooooot appreciate it enough

en.wikipedia.org

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foxfirefey @foxfirefey.bsky.social · 1d

They’re saying the exposure WAS from cleaning out his late father’s basement. I don’t know if he wore a respirator or not bit they’re a really good idea for anything like that!

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 1d

Many sea stars begin life as young fairy-like creature (called a brachiolaria) that float through the open ocean. Eventually, a small star forms within them (here in yellow). The fairy-like brachiolaria sinks under the star’s weight, and the star pops out!
🎥@the_story_of_a_biologist (on Insta)

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 1d

Wilson notes that the police department appears to be filling ICE records requests far faster than they are for journalists (I'm still waiting on records requested more than two years ago, for instance.) www.hardpressed-info.com/seattle-poli...

Seattle Police Prioritizing ICE’s Records Requests Over Citizens’

While many journalists and Seattleites wait years for the Seattle Police Department (SPD) to fulfill languishing public records requests, the SPD is fulfilling Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (I...

www.hardpressed-info.com

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 1d

October in Seattle.

Downtown waterfront looking north from Colman Dock with a fireboat at the dock and wispy clouds over the water

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.

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foxfirefey @foxfirefey.bsky.social · 2d

Last year the Post lost 100 million dollars. Bezo’s net worth is currently estimated at around 233.7 billion dollars. Keeping the Post around producing the content he wants to see is cheaper for him than a normal household’s yearly subscription to Netflix.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 2d

Extremely relevant numbers! (And this is *low traffic* by modern standards.)

hailey @hailey.at · 2d

an interesting note re: scaling image moderation. in the past 24 hours:

at least 500 thousand images in posts (not considering # of images, just if an image was in the post)
86 thousand avatars
500 thousand url thumbnails
58 thousand videos.

that's a lot to moderate!

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 2d

The one that always gets me is that the last American born into slavery died the year John Lennon released “Imagine.”

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 2d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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beka valentine @bekavalentine.bsky.social · 2d

its really hard to overstate the extent to which WW2 shaped both American society and the world as a whole, and how we're still living in its shadow in ways that most people just don't understand

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 3d

'A nationwide survey commissioned by Henry VIII on the property and wealth of 16th century England and Wales is to be made publicly accessible for the first time.

The survey, known as the Valor Ecclesiasticus, set out to discover the financial state of the Church'.

National project launched to rediscover Henry VIII’s long-forgotten ‘Tudor Domesday Book’

A nationwide survey commissioned by Henry VIII on the property and wealth of 16th century England and Wales is to be made publicly accessible for the first time. The survey, known as the Valor Ecclesi...

news.exeter.ac.uk

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 2d

A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly

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foxfirefey @foxfirefey.bsky.social · 2d

The extra 5k words of exasperated swears are just a bonus.

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foxfirefey @foxfirefey.bsky.social · 2d

Yes—he collates and cites his sources extensively so even if you don’t agree with him he’s an excellent source of what reporters are writing about.

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Kristen Arnett @kristenarnett.bsky.social · 2d

thought to myself “what if there was smaller skeleton trapped inside a larger skeleton, that would be pretty spooky” and then realized i was describing a pregnancy

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MBA Library @nmbluk.bsky.social · 3d

From our rare books collection we have this illustration of Vampyroteuthis infernalis, also known as the vampire squid from hell. In an order of its own, we don't really think the vampiric moniker is fair either as they actually feed on detritus and not blood #EYAMonsters

A colour illustration of Vampyroteuthis infernalis. The main body is painted black, with eyes painted to look bioluminescent

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