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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 3h

soul searching times are not all that fun eh

m o c h y @mochy.bsky.social · 3h

I didn't mean to imply anyone on the ground did anything wrong, the second story I found (linked below) tells the opposite for sure

I just meant that it looks like the pilot did everything he could in the emergency to get down safely

apnews.com/article/heli...

California fire captain enlists motorists to lift downed chopper after hearing trapped medic groan

A medical helicopter crashed on a highway in Sacramento on Monday evening, critically injuring three people aboard, including a woman who had to be rescued from underneath the aircraft, according to o...

apnews.com

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Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 7h

Bisou’s Halloween costume is sorted.

A small dog wearing a “kissing booth” costume.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 6h

We’ve reported extensively on how the FDA allowed foreign drugmakers to send generic medications to the U.S. from factories with filthy labs and contaminated equipment.

This month, we’re digging deeper and could use your help. THREAD/

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Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.com · 8h

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 14h

If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.

I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

www.pbs.org

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Ahorrible Assassin Ace 🏴‍☠️ @assassin-ace.wtf · 6h

life pro-tip: add cheese

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 6h

Fascinated by the shelves & shelves of nature writing in British bookshops, I bought The Golden Mole, by Katherine Rundell: prose poems of fantastical didja-know, draped in the antique finery of predecessors in the animal-describing trade from Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. An antidote book.

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SoCal Leslie @socalleslie.bsky.social · 6h

Costa’s hummingbird drinking from an ocotillo. 🪶

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Brooke @hangyodon.bsky.social · 6h

found a woolly bear caterpillar

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Michael P-ahhhhhhh-l 👻🐓 @michael.is-post.ing · 5h

waiting for one of those hypothetical “AI can make you a custom movie” services to let me replace jared leto in the new tron movie

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tru @thetrudz.photo · 5h

Photograph I made of a red-bellied woodpecker. The only one I’ve seen in the last idk decade. Always hear em but rarely actually see em. Got lucky one day.

Red-bellied woodpecker on top of a power lines against a clear blue sky on a bright day. It’s slightly nearer to the left side and has black and white feathers with red nape. Photograph by thetrudz.

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m o c h y @mochy.bsky.social · 6h

What a shame, I searched out video and for as fast as they came down it looked like the pilot did everything he could to minimize the impact; hit the embankment before the highway, tried to maintain some forward momentum instead of just straight down...

It's a wonder anyone survived really 💙

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@amyb88(8/8 is my🎂, nothing else)bsky.social 🍄🍄‍🟫 @amyb8888.bsky.social · 6h

If you need a calm minute, from today’s hike when the sun came out briefly while it was raining.

Daily hike 10/11/25: (SOUND UP) A moment of zen

YouTube video by Daily hikes in the PNW

youtu.be

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⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (StinaMarie) @stinasdemons.com · 6h

Day 11, #hARToween25
Creeping vine plant
😈🎨🦇

I did a better one in pencil but didn't feel like inking it after so I tried in gouache and then promptly fucked it up. Now I'm annoyed and don't want to work on them anymore, so here.
They can't all be winners 🤷‍♂️

A gouache illustration of a vine plant climbing up a brick wall. There are yellow flowers on the vine that have teeth.

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Constance Lee Menefee @conniemenefee.bsky.social · 6h

Leaf light ...

Spruce branches hokding oak leaf with light

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 6h

Techbro billionaires successfully hid their fascism even from the high-level people they worked with directly

Stephanie Rewis @stefsull.bsky.social · 1d

It’s fucking insane. I can not even tell you the amount of trainings we had to go through each year. DEI, equality, accessibility, etc. He pretended he was totally with us. He came to the Women’s March. We had gay parade floats.

I mean, I was a Sr Director and my mouth is on the floor. Grotesque!!

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Kaitlin Ruiz @kaitlinruiz.bsky.social · 6h

for your Saturday: photo update from Nibs and his family! our boy is growing so fast!!!

pale orange kitten looks at the camera, front paws kneading a pair of white sneakers

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Victorious Boo Bleue @bwellsmc.bsky.social · 7h

Finished piece from today's PAINT PARTY feat. JACKEY NEYMAN JONES:

"Rainbow Spice"

Acrylic paint & sharpie on paper

Sweet relaxing class today. Glad 4 simplicity of it. Great stress release

Thanks Jackey! @jackeyneymanjones.bsky.social
Thanks Dumb Indudtries.! @dumb-industries.com

#Art

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 7h

The English Revolution was in no small part sparked by King Charles I routing around parliament to find everything he wanted through non/legislative means, despite that being why Parliament exists. Over a century later, American colonists aware of this explicitly gave their Congress power to stop it

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 8h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 7h

Making people afraid to be affiliated with antifascism—making people afraid to be associated with groups and people that actively oppose fascism—is some bleak shit.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 7h

Eugenicists one and all.

USA TODAY @usatoday.com · 10h

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

bit.ly

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 8h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

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jay 🎃 (bluesky kazekage) 🇵🇸 🎃 @starpowerj.bsky.social · 7h

lfggg

Chicago Theater Marquee:

Stardew Valley

Symphony of Seasons

2 Shows Sold Out

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 8h

editorial assistant

Photo of a black cat sitting in a lap in front of a messy desk with a laptop. She is not doing anything remotely helpful

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