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Not The Brain @notthebrain.bsky.social · 6d

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I’ve been wondering where my drive and motivation went. Baffled as to why I used to have it and now I don’t, haven’t for years. But, it went at the end of 2018. After sexual assau…

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onion person @junlper.beer · 8d

if you needed another reason to stop using spotify:

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 8d

Spotify is partnering with ChatGPT

• Will personalize music and podcast recommendations

• Available on an opt-in basis

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Not The Brain @notthebrain.bsky.social · 8d

I don't know how much longer I'm going to bother with this site

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 8d

Really quite bad that it *appears* that @jay.bsky.team wsnted someone banned because she found him annoying and had @support.bsky.team invent a completely Orwellian excuse based on a nonsense reading of his BSky posts

This is the kind of behavior we expect from the Twitter leadership ….

Aveta👾🇭🇹 @aliafonzy.blacksky.app · 8d

Unfortunate update: Link reached out to BlueSky and got email back now on reason.

His appeal is denied. He will remain permanently banned on BlueSky’s side.

Here are the screenshots he just sent me as of 8:22 AM EST(my time)

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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 8d

A painting of a bird beside the text "where in the fuck is your brain"

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Not The Brain @notthebrain.bsky.social · 8d

Had a nice break away from reality for the weekend.
Today has been miserable

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 8d

A perfect Squirrel of the Day for October 6, 2025 #sqrlpix
(that paw tuck! 12/10)

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 8d

The number of parents who gasped when we told them no, we could not tell them what their kids checked out because their kids have a right to privacy!

We offered “one book cards” to kids whose parents wouldn’t agree to let them have a card. They could take out a book at a time. The FURY.

Helena Greer @blumagaincurios.bsky.social · 8d

My feelings about Banned Books Week are that no indeedy parents do NOT have the right to decide what their own children read, because children are human beings with the right to dignity and privacy.

Agreeing w the parents rights premise shifts the Overton window in the wrong ass direction.

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 8d

If you keep voting for politicians who want to cut public services and roll back human rights, eventually you end up desperate but powerless because if you so much as squeak in protest the government is free to do what it wants to you.

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 11d

Medieval sandal, from 14th century, found preserved in vultures nest on a cliff in southern Spain, a rough sandal woven from grasses and twigs

I'm not saying that vultures might also steal single socks from your laundry basket, but y'know...?

www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

Found: 650-year-old shoe, in vulture nest

Many unexpected human artifacts have been preserved, for centuries, in vulture nests.

www.nationalgeographic.com

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 11d

"just upload a scanned image of your drivers license no big deal"

The Verge @theverge.com · 11d

Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs

An “unauthorized party” may have accessed the names of users, the last four digits of credit card numbers, and more.

buff.ly

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Not The Brain @notthebrain.bsky.social · 11d

Someone in front of me has loads of patches on their jacket, including ones of dinosaur skulls. I've ID'd all of them #MigbtBeANerd

Not The Brain @notthebrain.bsky.social · 11d

Is the embodiment of anxiety, panic, hyper vigilance, stupidity, crying at stupid things and wanting to crawl into myself and disappear

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 12d

This is partly my point - Get involved in local activism. Help work to notify activists in your area of ICE patrols. Build community outreach programs. There is a TON to be done between the binaries of boycotting & physical violence - its just hard for us to imagine it because we aren't show in.

𝓡𝓸𝓻𝔂 🏳️‍⚧️ @supadeviljuice.bsky.social · 12d

Well I don't know what else would be working besides violence in this case.
Just denouncing these things won't make them stop. Showing people how horrible companies are, doesn't make them stop. So the ONLY thing people can do besides literally trashing places that these companies own is not pay.

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Keith Frankish @keithfrankish.com · 12d

We need heroes. People to respect and emulate. People who inspire us to do our best and be our best. Jane Goodall was a hero, and she will remain one.

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Kool Karyn @koolkaryn.bsky.social · 12d

Jane Goodall spent her life advocating for the humane treatment of people and animals.

What a lady! What a human!
Priceless! She will be missed. 💔😢💙

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Olivia of Troye @oliviaoftroye.com · 12d

Jane Goodall didn’t just change how we see animals. She changed how we see ourselves.
Amid government shutdowns and attempts at silencing, her lesson feels urgent: what we do matters.

In the Footsteps of Jane Goodall

Science, compassion, and courage in an age of government shutdowns and silencing.

www.livingitwitholiviatroye.com

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Isabel Santos @isabelsantos.bsky.social · 12d

🕯️🦍 Jane Goodall, you showed us that animals are not objects but kin—feeling, thinking, loving beings. Through your courage and compassion, you taught the world to protect life with reverence. May your spirit forever roam the forests you cherished, guiding us to live with care and hope.

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Wolf Conservation Center 🐺 @nywolforg.bsky.social · 12d

Remembering a fierce friend to wolves and all wildlife. Thank you, Dr. Goodall.

Photo: Dr. Jane Goodall, WCC Volunteer Sue, and Ambassador wolf Atka.

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EerilyPhD 👻 @ejwillingham.bsky.social · 12d

So tonight’s episode is about how rich dudes are buying up newspapers, killing most of them and politicizing the ones they leave alive with a total disregard for facts so really, truly, we are reliving the ‘80s w/a man in the Oval Office who’s stuck there permanently

EerilyPhD 👻 @ejwillingham.bsky.social · 13d

Murder She Wrote ep has smarmy character offering to get Jessica software called “Novelrite” that has “500 bestselling plots downloaded from published works from Shakespeare to Sidney Sheldon” and “takes the work out of being creative”

From the 1980s

No new scams under the sun

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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 13d

People are crowdfunding to send respirator masks to Latin America - and historically those fundraisers have not gotten much if any traction compared to the US etc ones, chip in if you can

demian 😷☭⚧ (he/they) @camaradademian.bsky.social · 14d

there are 6 comrades in Latin America who need masks! help us send masks!

[email protected]
linktr.ee/HealthSelfDe...

#MaskUp #WearAMask #CovidRealist #CovidIsAirbone #LongCovid #YallMasking #DisabledLiberation #DisabilityJustice

there are 6 comrades in Latin America who need masks! help us send masks!
Four of them are firefighters that will use those masks to protect themselves and distribute to neighbors affected by fires!
1. Donate directly to us through PayPal and Kofi
2. You can purchase the masks directly (send an email and we will send you the address and you can buy the masks directly from the web PPEO)
3. Share and help us fundraise if you can !
AutoDefensaSanitaria@proton.me
linktr.ee/healthselfdefense_

qr code with the ko-fi and paypal: ADSinternacional

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Candace the Magnificent 🔜 PAXU @thecandacemarie.bsky.social · 13d

Oh hello!!!

Are you or someone you know a BIPOC analog game dev? Sign up to get your project more visibility below!! This is such a cool program, I’m pumped to discover new games next month 🤩🤩🤩

Cassie aka Lamia @intersectionscch.bsky.social · 13d

GOOD NEWS! the PAX Together Demo Days Program has found funding and is returning to PAX Unplugged 2025!

Are you a BIPOC Indie Game Dev (analog) with a game kickstarting or coming out? Would you like space and support to demo and market your game on the expo floor?
Apply tinyurl.com/PAXDemoDays25

PAX Unplugged 2025 :: Leap Conventions

tinyurl.com

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Not The Brain @notthebrain.bsky.social · 12d

8.30am physio classes should be illegal

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Not The Brain @notthebrain.bsky.social · 13d

Thank you 💖

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Dr. Caelan Conrad PhD CPI @caelan.bsky.social · 13d

I didn't realize she was rambling on about how poor she was again until I saw my analytics spike on this video. If you want to know what Joanne used to say about her poverty before she started stretching the truth - this is it.

youtu.be/NeFUqCrmPC0

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Not The Brain @notthebrain.bsky.social · 13d

Also broke the handle off my teapot 😢