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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 1h

I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning.

A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.

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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 1d

Mark Twain Makes a List of 60 American Comfort Foods He Missed While Traveling Abroad (1880)

Thinking of taking a trip abroad? Or maybe relocating for good? Americans would do well, even 150 years hence, to attend to Mark Twain’s satirical account of U.S. travelers journeying through Europe a...

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Davis Bickford @davis.social · 12h

Basically, toddlers are running the country.

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Davis Bickford @davis.social · 12h

Reminds me of a story my wife told from when she was a preschool teacher. She told a little girl to put on her shoes because it was snowy. The girl refused, went outside, and said, “my feet are cold.” They told her, “that’s consequences.” She threw a fit, yelling, “I don’t like consequences!”

Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 2d

you don't get to count on votes from people you are letting get exterminated. if you let a fox kill the chickens, should you still expect eggs in the morning?

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Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · 12h

At this point, the only thing GenAI people and their 'early adopters'/dupes can say is 'HERE TO STAY. HERE TO STAY.' over and over again, because if they repeat it enough times, it will make it true. They have no other argument left other than to say that they've already won, resistance is futile

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 16h

I have to fan-girl for a minute here. My friend @rosvall-lab.bsky.social built an app to gather data on bird behavior during the 2024 solar eclipse. 10,000+ citizen scientists contributed (including my kids), and the resulting paper was published in Science today!

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Total solar eclipse triggers dawn behavior in birds: Insights from acoustic recordings and community science

On 8 April 2024, a total solar eclipse disrupted light-dark cycles for North American birds during the lead-up to spring reproduction. Compiling more than 10,000 community observations and artificial ...

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The Tonearm @thetonearm.com · 13h

"For decades, college radio championed underground artists before they hit the mainstream. Against all odds—COVID shutdowns, FCC regulations, and the long decline of FM radio—college radio is thriving again."

Gen Z's College Radio Revival:

Gen Z's College Radio Revival

Reports say Gen Z isn't discovering new artists. But college radio stations are overflowing with new DJs. As young listeners reject algorithms for analog—the industry should pay attention.

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 13h

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12h

VA Gov debate:

Spanberger: my opponent has previously said that she does not think that gay couples should be allowed to marry

Earle-Sears: That's not discrimination

Spanberger: she thinks it's okay for someone to be fired from their job for being gay

Earle-Sears: that's not discrimination

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Them @them.us · 21h

Even during a government shutdown and a high-stakes international meeting, Donald Trump still can’t get trans people off his mind.

Read more: www.them.us/story/trump-...

Trump Rants About Anti-Trans Polices to Canadian Prime Minister, Father of Nonbinary Child

Mark Carney has previously defended pro-LGBTQ+ policies.

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Scott Edelman @scottedelman.bsky.social · 13h

What’s for dinner at tonight”s Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame induction banquet.

Menu on a black and silver plate reading —

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9M, 2025
Hall of Fame Dinner first Course
A SOUP MOST SINISTER
GINGERED YAM & PUMPKIN SOUP
TOASTED PEPITAS • CRISPED SAGE
CRÈME FRAICHE & PUMPKIN OIL
Choice of Entrées
THE TENDER DEMISE
HERBED & ROASTED TENDERLOIN OF BEEF
CABERNET DEMI-GLACE
POTATO & PARSNIP PUREE CRISPED LARDON
CHIVE TIED BUNDLE OF HARICOTS VERT
THE SOLE SURVIVOR
DOVER SOLE MEUNIÈRE
CHIVE BEURRE-BLANC
MINCED SHALLOTS, CAPERS & PARSLEY BABY CARROTS & SNAP PEAS
A MOST CURIOUS FORAGE (VEGAN)
ROASTED FARRO WITH MUSHROOM JUS
BALSAMIC-BRAISED BRUSSELS SPROUTS & PEARL ONIONS
CHESTNUT & BLACK TRUMPET MUSHROOMS
SEARED TEMPEH GREEN SALAD WITH VEGAN CHEESE
Dessert
THE VANISHING PEAR
CHAMPAGNE-POACHED PEARS SABAYON
SAUTÉED STRAWBERRY & QUINCE MIRE POIX
LANGUES DE CHAT

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Aidan Walker @aidanwalker.bsky.social · 13h

the defining image of the early 21st century is an agent of the state pointing a gun at a person, and a citizen pointing a smartphone camera back at them

we see this scene reenacted every day, around the world

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No Mods, No Masters @julieofthespirits.bsky.social · 14h

is this like in twin peaks: the return where he's like the evil tulpa of trent reznor and trent reznor has to destroy him

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 14h

Canvas, donate, counter disinfo among friends and family when you hear it, print and distribute @meganpiont.bsky.social 's anti-ICE zines, refuse to comply, film. That all counts.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 14h

And FYI, just cuz you can't contributed LOTS doesn't mean you shouldn't bother.

Some people are going to picket ICE holding facilities, get arrested over and over, brave tear gas and beatings. But not everyone can, and not everyone's expected to.

Helping in small ways is still helping.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 15h

See also: "Why isn't anyone DOING ANYTHING"

Translation: "I'm not doing anything"

People are doing things. They are doing a LOT. It's up to you to plug in and participate.

The Enigma of Amandagara Fault @amandalafrenais.com · 3d

"why is nobody talking abou--" EVERYONE is talkin about it BRO. You just never stick around to listen to ANYONE ELSE, you're just here to TALK

aaaaaaaaaaa

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14h

since we’re here, i am a big fan of king arthur’s organic all-purpose and bread flours, but when it comes to whole wheat flours, i like to go local and we have a mill that does spelt, rye and buckwheat, as well as various heirloom cornmeals and grits

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14h

there are breads that i enjoy making myself — any quickbread, sourdough boules and batards, flatbreads, biscuits etc. — but you’ll never catch me making a baguette or croissant at home. i live a short bike ride from three boulangeries!

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 15h

a big thing i learned about myself during covid is that i just want to buy a goddamned baguette from the store or the bakery, i literally never want to make the damned thing myself

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 14h

Finale of Peacemaker was great! @jamesgunn.bsky.social stuck the landing

High Five Vigilante GIF

ALT: High Five Vigilante GIF

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 15h

Donald Trump: Stop trying to incite Illinoisans into violence. Pack up and go home.

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R. Thornton (“No planet B”) @rthornton777.bsky.social · 14h

i have finally bailed on Xitter. my feed has nothing but right-wing lies now.

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Charm City Art Spice @rahnealexander.com · 14h

apropos of nothing, i feel compelled to say that johnny marr's set at cbgb fest was so engaging and moving, and his interpretations of the smiths catalog he performed were so much more heartfelt than any of the renditions i've seen morrissey do, and i found that fact incredibly enlightening

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 16h

Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.

Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls while praying outside an ICE facility.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14h

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

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I Heart Noise @iheartnoise.bsky.social · 14h

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From the BeAmazed community on Reddit: He turns scrap metal into sculptures that move

Explore this post and more from the BeAmazed community

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