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AppliedNewtonianOnEarth
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Professional P.I.T.A./more interesting IRL/post-menopausal but still immature/heavy construction/planting oak trees/geotechnical engineering & I might love you but I probably don't like you. Invited by @toddavies.bsky.social she/her/they/them
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Hi @bsky.app @support.bsky.team I really liked when I joined how nearly all pictures had AltText. I liked how I could set a reminder to add it. I don't usually need it, but, I like to make it easy for others. Can the default be to need it and someone has to go into settings to turn the reminder off?
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They KNOW his asylum case was granted under Trump. This is so irresponsible.
The Trump administration said on Thursday that it was reviewing all asylum cases that were approved under the Biden administration, signaling a broad crackdown in the wake of the shooting of two National Guard members.
U.S. Reviews Biden Asylum Cases After Shooting
A Homeland Security Department spokeswoman accused the previous administration of failing to vet asylum applicants “on a massive scale.”
nyti.ms
November 27, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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A *huge* vaccine victory. I've been writing on this for years; Australia has seen remarkable progress in cervical cancer prevention with the HPV vaccine. I love seeing science triumph like this.
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.

This is the power of vaccines.

The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.

Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Ye olde screenshottes.
Part 23 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg dnd

1845 daguerreotype of a daguerreotypist displaying daguerreotypes and daguerreotype accessories in an airtight daguerreotype frame
November 28, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Just a reminder that Britain was a prime moved in the creation of the State of Israel. I have met a significant number of Jews who had been in the British Army in WWII and were being volun-told for Palestine and left instead. Some ended up in the US, some in Canada, Jamaica, but, not Israel.
Yes. And this is why analyses that focus singularly on greed as a motivation for oppression fall short. This will flush millions down the toilet and to them it's worth it to uphold and empire and protect zionism.

Added alt text and link to full article is in OP's next post.
November 28, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen:

Count Basie & Joe Turner
The Clash
The Dead Kennedys
Kissing the Pink
Tom Tom Club
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen:

King Crimson (20x, 1981-2021)
Miles Davis
Leontyne Price
Astor Piazzolla
Butthole Surfers
November 28, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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UNION THANKSGIVING:

- TENTATIVE AGREEMENT turkey
-COLLECTIVE ACTION cranberry sauce
-PREPARED TO STRIKE pumpkin pie
-MATERIAL WINS mac n cheese
-WILDCAT STRIKE wreen bean casserole
-bread (& roses)
November 27, 2024 at 8:29 PM
AI is very, very bad for this world.
It's exactly what white America has been clamouring for since the start, black art and culture with no black people
November 27, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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In case you weren't aware:
It continues to be fucking maddening to me that we actually *do* have a technical solution to the problem of not being able to tell if an image is AI generated/edited (the Content Credentials standard that digitally signs content), but neither Apple or Google have bothered to properly implement it.
November 27, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Why on earth is it appropriate to have a CEO earning 10x the salary as the lowest paid employees?

Also, if you are a food bank, I think that all your employees to be making enough TO NOT NEED YOUR SERVICES!
This place always gets me. They just posted a PT job for a writer starting at $26.74 in Boston requiring a BA where the CEO brings in over $500K

www.gbfb.org/home/careers/
November 27, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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I didn’t know Reg Bloor was running a Kickstarter campaign to fund an important Glenn Branca archival recording with Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo in the band until Robert Fripp (!!) shared the news on Facebook. Get yourself a piece of the action here. www.kickstarter.com/projects/reg...
Release of Glenn Branca's Symphony No. 4 (Physics)
Much anticipated release of a long lost recording.
www.kickstarter.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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History reminder: the Prophet invited Christians to worship inside his mosque. Meanwhile, Christian nationalists are harassing Muslims simply for existing in public spaces. I launched Islam Today to push back with truth while corporate media ignores the rise in anti-Muslim hate entirely. Read now:
Humanity and Christian-Muslim Unity
A response to Nationalist Christians harassing American Muslims while they prayed
islamtoday.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Good grief!! How does someone DO that‽‽
nose down ass up
that's the way we cyberstuck
November 26, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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As holiday travel picks up, we have heard reports of travelers being detained by DHS.

If you are a NY-14 constituent worried about detention, consider filling out an ICE privacy release form. This form allows my office to contact ICE on your behalf ⬇️
bit.ly/dhsprivacyform
DHS Privacy Release Form
If you or a loved one has an open order of removal or are worried about getting picked up by ICE, consider filling out this
bit.ly
November 26, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s transition team — of more than 400 New Yorkers from every faith and background — truly looks like New York.

And we’re proud of the Jewish leaders (many of them @jfrejnyc.bsky.social members) that are part of 17 transition committees.

Here are some of them:
November 26, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Menin got over $100K spent on her by Uber, $1,600 donation from Tony Argento, $1,000 from Randy Mastro, no response to questions about it:
November 26, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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If you don't know who your City Council representative is, you can use this website to find out www.mygovnyc.org

Call them and tell them you do NOT want them to support Julie Menin for speaker.
November 26, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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This isn't a book - quick visual overview of dynamics in 20s/30s/40s from US newspaper clipping pov.

Re: timing- nationalist leaders' wives met in Germany by 1941 (Spain, Italy, Japan, Germany, etc).

Possible timing was influenced by int'l coordination.

open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...
A Jarring Montage of Dissonance: Glimpses of the Years that Shaped the Women Pastors of World War II
What [in the world] was going on?
open.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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Everyone forgets that the term "fake news," originally referred to made up stories about Hillary Clinton and the Democrats, spread by supposed Trump supporters for racist reasons. But it turned out to just be profit motive by non-US individuals looking to get racist American weirdos to click on ads🤷🏿‍♂️
Macedonia's Fake News Factories | AJ+
YouTube video by AJ+
m.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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ByHeart said it can't rule out that all of its baby formula across all product lots could be contaminated, citing recent test results.
ByHeart says all its baby formula could be tainted with botulism
ByHeart said it can't rule out that all of its baby formula across all product lots could be contaminated, citing recent test results.
cbsn.ws
November 26, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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A great intro to academic conferencing.
Not sure how I missed this one.

scienceforeveryone.science/getting-the-...
Getting the most of out a scientific conference
A slightly unconventional guide to your first time
scienceforeveryone.science
November 26, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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Solidarity with @teamsters.bsky.social , who sanctioned our strike nationwide and won't be delivering food, picking up trash, or bringing packages across picket lines! ✊🔥

#NoContractNoCoffee
November 25, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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They are from the St. Paul police department. We may not be able to hold ICE accountable as of yet, but we sure AF can do something about this. They are being paid by local property taxes. Any local can appear on public comment at a commission meeting and demand accountability from the Pol. Chief.
November 26, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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I'll go back to dressing like it's a nice restaurant when they go back to feeding me like it's a nice restaurant.
A roundtrip LAX-JFK flight in the late 60s was around $3K in today’s dollars. The people who wore suits on those flights were the people who regularly wore suits. Complaining about informally-dressed fliers is complaining that the wrong sorts of people are flying today.
November 26, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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"All lesbians are TERFs" is propaganda designed to divide the strongest allies in the spectrum of queer identities - don't fall for it.

A day without lesbians is like a day without sunshine 🌞 (IYKYK)
Reminder that lesbians have a more positive view of trans people than trans people do
November 25, 2025 at 5:50 PM