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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 2h

Twenty books, one series, endless possibilities for your long weekend. Dive into the Radium Age collection: mitpress.mit.edu/series/radiu... 💙 📚

Radium Age books "Yankees in Petrograd" and "Before Superman" on an AI-generated background of a wooden desk.

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The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation @xercessociety.bsky.social · 2h

Join us for a free 3-day virtual symposium on firefly research & conservation! Each day will include 6 presentations & time for networking. Everyone interested in fireflies is invited! 🪲💡
🗓️Oct 28-30 at 9am PT / 12pm ET
🔗Register for this free event: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

“Virtual Firefly Symposium: Science, Conservation, and Education” A female Florida intertidal firefly perched on a red mangrove leaf at a nature center in Broward County, Florida.

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Rep. Suhas Subramanyam @repsuhas.bsky.social · 6h

Shutdown day 10.

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 2h

Roses are red
The wind makes the trees jostle
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The 126,000-Year-Old Butt-Drag That Rewrote What Counts as a Fossil - Climate Ages

Image Created with CANVA and Adobe Express Image Created with CANVA and Adobe Express How a small animal’s odd habit turned into one of the...

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ummm digipres @mutanthumb.bsky.social · 2h

I read this as NYC Department of Corruption

ummm digipres @mutanthumb.bsky.social · 3h

Waiting for 🛞 doing some 📖 love my cool 🔖 from @letterformarchive.org and mitpress.mit.edu/978026254505...

Image of cover for “How to talk to a Science Denier” which consists of large black and white quotation marks with red text

ummm digipres @mutanthumb.bsky.social · 4h

Nice work!!

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The Onion @theonion.com · 5h

Forget everything you already know about America's most notorious dead person. Watch Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjhSoGcQhWU.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 6h

So Trump gave Argentina a $20 billion bailout and is now building a Qatari military facility in Idaho.

While Americans can’t afford groceries.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 4d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 1d

The First-Ever Fossilized Butt Scooting Came From a Rock Hyrax 126,000 Years Ago www.discovermagazine.com/the-first-ev...

The First-Ever Fossilized Butt Scooting Came From a Rock Hyrax 126,000 Years Ago

Learn about a new world’s first: a South African rock hyrax that scooted its way into the fossil record and is highlighting the importance of paleoichnology.

www.discovermagazine.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

yeah, trump has made very clear that he doesn’t think black people deserve to be in jobs of influence! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

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Data Rescue Project #DataRescue @datarescueproject.org · 2d

Data rescue efforts keep us from sliding into #1984. ⚓ Celebrate #BannedBooksWeek with us and join the efforts.

Volunteer with the DRP: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Sign up to help with DR efforts

If you are interested in staying in touch or trying to organize a DR event or otherwise, please let us know.

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AltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲 @altspaceforce.altgov.info · 2d

"We took the freedom of speech away..." needs to be blasted across the nation.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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ummm digipres @mutanthumb.bsky.social · 2d

My life with the thrill kill kult youtu.be/uZ62SWoR6AM?...

My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult " A Daisy Chain for Satan"

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2d

A new Nature study on the four horsemen of the climate-tipping-points apocalypse: "the Greenland Ice Sheet, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, the South American monsoon system and the Amazon rainforest."

Destabilization of Earth system tipping elements - Nature Geoscience

A review of observation-based evidence suggests that four interconnected Earth system tipping elements have moved towards their critical thresholds, highlighting the need for better monitoring and increased mitigation efforts.

www.nature.com

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ummm digipres @mutanthumb.bsky.social · 2d

We could definitely use some happy trees these days 🌳

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NPR @npr.org · 2d

Thirty of Ross' trademark landscapes will be sold at a series of auctions starting in November. He painted many of them live on The Joy of Painting, which started airing on PBS in the 1980s. n.pr/474wJvJ

Dozens of Bob Ross paintings will be auctioned to help public TV after funding cuts

Thirty of Ross' trademark landscapes will be sold at a series of auctions starting in November. He painted many of them live on The Joy of Painting, which started airing on PBS in the 1980s.

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ummm digipres @mutanthumb.bsky.social · 2d

Why is anyone agreeing to be interviewed by 60 min anymore?! I will be taking a lengthy break from watching. I say this as a lifelong 60 minutes viewer, starting in childhood.

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ffrf.org @ffrf.org · 3d

The Freedom From Religion Foundation, the largest association of freethinkers in North America, is pushing back against President Trump’s recent remarks suggesting that people cannot be good without God. ffrf.us/4nBXQ8h