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just jukka

@justjukka.bsky.social

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Elder millennial. Army brat. Wisconsinite. Nerdfighter. Nerfherder. Writer. Singer. Animation/VGM enthusiast. Foster of animals. #BLM #TransLivesMatter #DFTBA #GoPackGo

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just jukka @justjukka.bsky.social · Aug 17

“Shallow understanding from people of goodwill is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.”

~ MLK Jr.

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Letter from Birmingham Jail, by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s letter to 8 white church leaders, written from a jail cell in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963.

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just jukka @justjukka.bsky.social · 4h

He has tassels! I bet he was swinging them around like a little kid before switching to badass mode for the catwalk.

just jukka @justjukka.bsky.social · 4h

More embarrassment for the US 😔

just jukka @justjukka.bsky.social · 4h

I suppose 79 is respectable, but still 😿

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Dave Kamper @dskamper.bsky.social · 5h

Simon Sparklepants update: King of the Mountain

An orange cat is settled, seemingly content, on the small platform on top of a scratching post.

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TrustedReveler @trustedreveler.bsky.social · 2d

This isn’t a protest! It’s a USO show!

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just jukka @justjukka.bsky.social · 5h

Good news helps.

Ferdinand F. Zebua @ferdizebua.bsky.social · 5h

Today I learned that Elon Musk had just lost (in a court decision on Oct. 8th) the lawsuit brought forth by former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, along with several other former Twitter C-suite executives, over wrongful termination and unpaid severance obligations.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Musk settles former Twitter executives' suit over severance

Elon Musk has agreed to settle a $128m lawsuit brought by four former top executives over unpaid severance.

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Frank Cvetkovic @gofrankgo.bsky.social · 5h

Get it, girl.

A panel from a Batman Beyond comic with Terry McGinnis, Barbara Gordon, and old man Bruce Wayne. Barbara's word balloons say "Stop. Both of you. We need to focus on the issue at hand. Finding Dick."

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 6h

I came back today on my way home from bad comet photography to get some adorable leucistic California Towhee foraging footage 🥰🥰 🪶

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ProTip (AKA alt_localgov) @protip.altgov.info · 10h

Why there isn’t a restaurant or food truck already called Auntie Phở idfk

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Alt Library of Congress @altlofc.altgov.info · 9h

Stay Woke or Croak!

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Lynn Stahl @msbtterswrth.altgov.info · 11h

GIVE ME RIBBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH.

Alt Acadia National Park @altacadia.bsky.social · 11h

We 💯 support Amphifa! Give me ribbety, or give me death. 🐸

A poster for "Amphifa: amphibians against fascism" showing a black and green flag with a green frog

Three protestors dressed in inflatable frog costumes holding a sign that says "Portland frog brigade"

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Lynn Stahl @msbtterswrth.altgov.info · 7h

Hot off the presses! If you need a bigger size to print your stickers let me know!

The Portland frog as a founding father, surround by the words "give me ribberty or give me death"

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Charlotte. @charlotteirene.bsky.social · 6h

Lunchtime Update: Still sitting at $670 needed immediately for this week's rent payment. I'm on a payment plan, I have two weeks to get my entire balance paid off, I really don't want to fuck this up and get evicted again. #MutualAidRequest

Charlotte. @charlotteirene.bsky.social · 12d

GoFundMe: gofund.me/083af9ca
CashApp: $charlotteirene
PayPal: PayPal.me/charlotteirene
Venmo: charlotte-irene8

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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 6h

As a professor I would like to say that this prof should be yeeted into the sea.

What a lazy and insulting breach of responsibility to the students they teach.

Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 7h

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.

She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!

Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

A diagram of the bones and (some) deep muscles of the hand and forearm. AI says that we only have four digits. It’s also identified a tendon as the median nerve, another tendon as the ulnar nerve, among other issues.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the neck. It hallucinated the “ennocleidomasid” muscle, and the “anterior scalpalin muscle”.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the lateral thigh. It says that the gluteus Maximus (the big juicy butt muscle) is on the anterior side. It also points to the quadriceps muscle and says “attattment”. It also says that the same structure is the tibia AND the deep fascia of the leg.

An AI generated diagram of the bones of the hand and forearm. This time AI says we have 6 digits. It also says that the radius is the ulnar artery. Among other many issues.

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 6h

New Orleans residents are heading to the polls today—voting for a range of offices including mayor and sheriff. The elections will be resolved today if someone clears 50 percent.

Read our guide for context on these races and many more that are coming up. boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...

Your Cheat Sheet to the 2025 General Elections - Bolts

Four contests have come to largely define the 2025 elections this fall: the elections to lead New Jersey, Virginia, and New York City, plus California’s redistricting measure. But there’s so... Read M...

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just jukka @justjukka.bsky.social · 5h

It feels icky to bring commercialism into it, but having inventory like this shows our customer base what matters to us.

Example: We carry obvious LGBTQIA+ items, and then make sure that Luigi is in all of our Mario products for subtlety.

Except for Yoshi exclusives, because Yoshi is adorable. 🙈

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Riley Black 🦕 🏳️‍⚧️ @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 6h

There are no carnivorous plants big enough to eat you, and there’s a good reason for that. Check out this piece I wrote for Smithsonian Magazine to learn why. 🌱

Riley Black 🦕 🏳️‍⚧️ @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 1d

It's part of why I wrote this piece, dipping into some of the pop culture aspects to highlight why carnivorous plants grow where they do. Amazing plants.

Carnivorous Plants Have Been Trapping Animals for Millions of Years. So Why Have They Never Grown Larger?

Plants that feed on meat and animal droppings have evolved at least ten times through evolutionary history

www.smithsonianmag.com

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just jukka @justjukka.bsky.social · 6h

I looked up this image, and now I want the series as a fabric collection for my shop. Many layers of science, culture, and solidarity.

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Brent M. Diskin @diskin.bsky.social · 2d

I Support Our Troupes

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just jukka @justjukka.bsky.social · 6h

“The man with the most power has expended enormous energy targeting those with the least.”

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 11h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

just jukka @justjukka.bsky.social · 6h

She should not have been fired, but we can celebrate this win.

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 8h

A library director in Wyoming who was fired two years ago because she refused to remove books with sexual content and LGBTQ themes from a library's children and young adult sections has just been awarded $700,000 in a settlement. t.co/EA5L1kOZfV

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/us/wyoming-library-settlement-book-bans-terri-lesley.html?smtyp=cur&smid=fb-nytimes&fbclid=IwdGRjcANWLXdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHhlnY6nKj_j4zuP3VjNSstXWBaV1t8-sPQ5C3b_jS6WN...

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just jukka @justjukka.bsky.social · 6h

My first time hearing about this.

Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 6h

It's been a brilliant first day here at Everything Electric in Farnborough... the tech to make your travel/home cleaner & greener is getting better and easier all the time. So much is on show here and available now. More tomorrow - do join us! uk.everythingelectric.show/south

Photo of four of the Everything Electric presenters: Jack Scarlett, Imogen Bhogal, Robert Llewellyn and Helen Czerski

just jukka @justjukka.bsky.social · 6h

Reminder.

Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 6h

We are not subjects of a State founded upon law, but members of a society formed upon revolution. Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution.

just jukka @justjukka.bsky.social · 15h

I’m an army brat, so there are many.

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 3d

For Black History Month, a reminder that forgotten history also includes the inability of even science fiction to imagine the possibility of African futurity, where she emerges not as a low-budget version of Europe, but a true picture of herself. folukeafrica.com/african-futu...

African Futurity as Forgotten History

On the unimagined possibilities of Blackness

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