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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 44m

1. Last night, 26 Senate Dems helped pass a NDAA containing a military trans sports and surgery ban and dropped demands for protections against US troop deployments in the bill.

It is the latest in the national fight over must-pass bills during the shutdown.

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26 Senate Democrats Help Pass Military NDAA Containing Trans Sports, Surgery Ban, No Protection For US Troop Deployments

The bill passed by a wide margin in the Senate and will be the starting point for negotiations with the House, which contain more severe anti-trans riders.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 15h

I'm doing another print run of these "Biology is Bigger than Binaries" shirts!

Back, quite literally, by popular demand. Bullying works, sure, but so does a bunch of nice cutie patooties politely asking!

Order 'em now, I'll mail 'em in early November.

SquidFacts.net

a woman with short bown hair, glasses, and tassel earrings, wears a purple KN95 and looks cool as hell in her biology is bigger than binaries shirt, in orange

a woman with green glasses takes a selfie lookin' cool as hell in her pink biology is bigger than binaries shirt. She's also got ice cream, that lucky dog.

a woman with long brown hair and glasses hangs out in the back yard with her pink biology is bigger than binaries shirt

A man with a hat and sunglasses stands in hero-pose with his biology is bigger than binaires shirt (orange)

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san @shrikeseams.bsky.social · 12h

Black-crowned night herons have such immaculate evil advisor energy.

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san @shrikeseams.bsky.social · 1d

OSHA Maia, patron undergod of WEAR YOUR FUCKING PPE. (which is the text I will add to these once they dry, and then hang them conspicuously at eye level for myself. Mostly where i sand shit without a mask like an idiot.) (Idk why they're a sandhill crane.)

A photo of several lino prints spread across a table. They're of two slightly different designs, both of a sandhill crane printing in gray and green with a smokey speech bubble space and a neon green halo. One design is portrait orientation and the other is landscape.

A photo of a lino print carving of a sandhill crane in progress, surrounded by carving gouges.

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The Octopus Gallery @octopusgallery.bsky.social · 1d

Good news for sewists: the paper pattern company feared lost to bankruptcy has been saved as an independent company.

craftindustryalliance.org/sewing-patte...

Sewing Patterns Rise from DGA Bankruptcy Ashes - Craft Industry Alliance

The “Big 4” sewing patterns are saved. Simplicity, McCall’s, Vogue & Butterick get new life under Rubelmann Capital.

craftindustryalliance.org

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san @shrikeseams.bsky.social · 1d

...I thought baseball games got delays because the pitchers can to weird against-the-rules stuff with a wet baseball. Huh.

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 1d

Bloödcheëp shirt preorder! Want a metal-style shirt with a terrifying bald cardinal? Preorder here:
topatoco.com/collections/...

Blöödchëëp Shirt

Blöödchëëp Shirt - merch by Rosemary Mosco and Bird and Moon at TopatoCo!

topatoco.com

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Chechula @chechula.bsky.social · 1d

friend challenged me into Tolkien-themed inktober, but I am to lazy to follow other themes so I'm just drawing Bilbo ♥

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 2d

You made it halfway through the week *and* we still have free shipping? Sounds like the perfect time to treat yourself to a new book and support indie bookstores in the process. 📚

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neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 3d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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Coach Jerry (referee 🔵) @gopher33j.bsky.social · 3d

As somebody with asthma who uses inhalers - SHUT THE FUCK UP. THIS ARTICLE IS SHAMING PEOPLE WITH A CHRONIC CONDITION.

"Significantly" My ass. You know what else does? AI Data centers - corporations - cows - asphalt - THOUSANDS OF OTHERS THINGS THAT ARE NOT MEDICINE.

Fuck you - fuck you again.

Inhalers contribute significantly to global warming, study finds

Millions of Americans using inhalers for chronic lung diseases like asthma may be unknowingly contributing to global warming, according to new research.

local12.com

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Maria Strutz @mariastrutz.bsky.social · 3d

In celebration of #NationalBadgerDay
'Under the Badger Moon' 🤍🌖🖤

2 badgers running towards each other, each badger reflected below, above and below the badgers crescent moons. There are stars above, and below the badgers, overall forming a figure 8. Linocut, dark blue and white, Maria Strutz

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Séance and Spooky Spood-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · Oct 6

Crab, and crab peets 🥹
One of our most stunning crab spider species (Misumenoides formosipes) is very large and pretty chill, and that makes getting shots of their little feet a bit easier.
#Invertebrates #Arachtober

Magnificent pale white and pink crab spider on a cluster of purple chaffhead flowers, her large front leg pairs spread wide like bird wings

Close shot of two of her little feet, with 2 tiny claws on each

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Holly Oddly @hollyoddly.bsky.social · 5d

There are only 5 decks left, and for 24hrs only they are 40% off! Happy spooky season!

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san @shrikeseams.bsky.social · 7d

Consider: if a noldo cannot see jewelry on you, they just assume you have some ridonk genital piercings and go on with their day.

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Emily L'Orange 🦆🍊 @emilylorange.bsky.social · 8d

It's finally time for Skinktober!

What's that? No, I'm pretty sure it was never called anything else.
#art 🦢

a digital painting of a juvenile five-lined skink sitting on a decorative pumpkin. it is surrounded by vine and leaves. the lizard is striped lengthwise down its body in white and black, transitioning to a bright blue tail about halfway down. the colors have been very saturated, and the shapes are abstracted to be rigid angles.

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Ellen Kushner @ellenkushner.bsky.social · 8d

🇺🇸🤬🇺🇸

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Rath Mercury @rathmercury.com · 9d

This post it just the prompt; there's a story in the replies from @howsweetthewords.bsky.social that I loved

Rath Mercury @rathmercury.com · 29d

A mismatched tea set in a box on the corner. 🫖

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Jessie Mihalik @jessiemihalik.com · 10d

We put a camera under our deck to see if the rock squirrels were living there and INSTEAD:

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Aimee Steinberger @aimeekitty.bsky.social · 11d

Instead of inktober, I propose just doing whatever creative project you really want to do and have been meaning to do. Don’t be afraid of people judging you or it not being good enough. As often as you’re able, set aside dedicated time to work on it like it’s school or a job. Goodluck.

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Cat Kimbriel @catkimbriel.bsky.social · 12d

Several old favorites here, like @pameladean.bsky.social's TAM LIN and DW Jones strange and wonderful FIRE AND HEMLOCK.

Also a fan of THE PERILOUS GARD by Pope, which Terri mentions later in this link of comments.

New-to-me stories inspired by faerie tales and folklore!

Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 14d

Rachel Ayers highlights six of the many fine retellings of the fairy ballad Tam Lin. I was honoured to publish @pameladean.bsky.social's extraordinary Tam Lin in the Fairy Tale Series (Tor Books), and I'm delighted to see it listed as one of the greats. It truly is. reactormag.com/a-knight-to-...

A Knight to Remember: Six Retellings of the Story of Tam Lin - Reactor

A gripping tale about a woman determined to hold on to what she wants.

reactormag.com

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☀️Houndsaint☀️🤕 @houndsaint.bsky.social · 12d

After Janet’s death in a 1979 housefire, her heartbroken sister Anne made good on all of their outstanding commissions, and mastered many subjects which had been her sister’s speciality, particularly horses. She worked until 2 days before her death, at the age of 69 in 1998.

#historyofillustration

a group of boys in fanciful medieval/renaissance clothing light a christmas lantern.

A magazine cover for “Finding Out,” featuring a circular border which contains a young Achilles with his centaur mentor Chiron and a hunting hound.

The cover of “Tales of Ancient Greece” which shows a hero mounted on the backs of a black bull and a white bull.

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☀️Houndsaint☀️🤕 @houndsaint.bsky.social · 12d

Works by Janet and Anne Grahame Johnstone, a pair of identical twin sisters who worked (primarily in gouache) by passing their shared illustrations back and forth. Together they illustrated hundreds of ads, logos, and over 100 books, including Dodie Smith’s 101 Dalmations.

#historyofillustration

A knight mounted on a black horse in the lower right corner stabs his lance into the flank of a large and intricately detailed dragon.

A boy dressed in flamboyant garb is mounted on a dappled gray horse, carrying a large banner

An illustration of Achilles kneeling over Patroclus in a vivid green wood.

Jason in a flamboyant trojan helmet, holding the golden fleece aloft on his spear.

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Sarah Tuttle @niais.bsky.social · 12d

This is the most excellent local headline writing.

"DID YOU GIVE WATER TO A BAT NEAR THE ARBORETUM? IT HAD RABIES."

(this is explicitly for @andreagrimes.com )

Did you give water to a bat near the Arboretum? It had rabies

A rabid bat was found in Seattle near the Washington Park Arboretum. Here's what to know, and what to do if you think you might have been exposed.

www.seattletimes.com

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