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WEATHER IS HAPPENING @weatherishappening.com · 2h

/ BOSTON
/ UR SUNSET THIS THURSDAY WAS @ 6:00 PM
/ THATS RITE
/ THE LAST SUNSET @ OR AFTER 6 PM UNTIL MARCH 8TH 2026
/ THATS NOT ALL
/ THE TIMESHIFT IS COMING
/ SUNSET SATURDAY NOVEMBER 1: 5:37 PM
/ SUNSET SUNDAY NOVEMBER 2: 4:35 IN UR AFTERNOON
/ UR CORPORATOCRACY WILL AUTOMATICALLY CHANGE UR TIME

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LanguageNerd24601 (Can’t donate) @languagenerd24601.bsky.social · 2h

Please help these families! #MutualAid #HelpSky

Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 3h

Final hour ⚠️ Six families & a displacement camp are still in life & death conditions.

We can and we must help. No matter what world leaders shove in our faces. Help with: food (still a famine, no aid), shelter, return north to rebuild, baby supplies, winter blankets & clothes.

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Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

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Reuters @reuters.com · 2h

Exclusive: US carries out new strike in Caribbean and there are survivors, US official says reut.rs/42HwlC6

Exclusive: US carries out new strike in Caribbean and there are survivors, US official says

The U.S. military carried out a new strike on Thursday against a drug vessel in the Caribbean, and there were survivors among the crew, a U.S. official told Reuters.

reut.rs

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Wes Burdine @wesburdine.bsky.social · 4h

$100 for…
Index cards. I had to click the article because SURELY they aren’t trying to sell an expensive to do list. Yes, yes they are

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 1h

“The e-bike makes the hills go away,” Worthen said, “and it doesn’t use gas. But it’s fun and easy and replaces the car.” She even uses the bike to tote her cello.

Why electric bikes are everywhere in Berkeley

Residents of all ages and abilities are taking to electric bikes — used for commutes, school drop-offs, grocery trips and joy rides.

www.berkeleyside.org

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 6h

Today in Jeremy's salad: romaine, hibiscus, zinnia, cucumber and aloe vera

Pale green lettuce topped with chunks of cucumber and aloe and two whole flowers

Large tortoise enjoying his salad. A bright orange hibiscus hangs from his mouth

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 2h

Pretty fucking grim that "if you elect someone the President doesn't like he'll occupy your city by force" has taken less than a year to just become a standard and accepted part of US politics.

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 2h

Cuomo says: if Mamdani wins, "Trump will take over the city, and it will be Mayor Trump who runs the city."

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 4h

*Talking to a Wired reporter who is writing down what I say* I am the proud owner of a Cybertruck, it has an AI in it that I talk to for therapy, I am now divorced and yes it's because of the truck

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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 7h

I wonder how often they met with climate scientists

Labour ministers met fossil fuel lobbyists 500 times in first year of power, analysis shows

Lobbyists attended 48% more meetings than Tories, as Labour accused of giving them ‘backstage pass’

www.theguardian.com

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Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 2d

The thing that gets me about actors responding like this whenever they’re asking about JKR is that they always say “we need to learn to agree to disagree ^_^” as if trans people are the ones leading the campaign, when we’re just trying to live our lives while JKR posts about trans hate 24/7

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Minister W.T. Welch🇨🇵🏳️‍🌈 @willytwelch.bsky.social · 10h

I'm not the first to say it and I won't be the last, but watching White men guilty of something abhorrent be protected as "kids" and innocent murdered Black boys treated as "men" is what people mean when they say America is a deeply racist country

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

JD Vance dismisses Young Republicans who in a group chat said "I love Hitler" and joked about slavery and rape as "a bunch of kids" who "told stupid jokes" and adds that "most of the stupid things I did when I was a teenager and young adult, they're not on the internet."

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Mary Beth Campbell @mbcampbell360.bsky.social · 10h

Yeah, they are acting like a Hitler phase is just something all kids go through when, no, not typical kid behavior.

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EarthSky @earthskyscience.bsky.social · 10h

In 2024, paleontologists excavated a quarry in Oxfordshire, U.K., to reveal a stunning "dinosaur highway" made up of hundreds of #dinosaur footprints. And now they’ve found 4 more trackways, comprising around 200 footprints from 166 million years ago. 🦕
buff.ly/Sj2uHzO

📸 Univ. of Birmingham.

On level, stony ground, 2 tracks of large footprints cross. 13 scientists are working on the tracks.

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SoCal Leslie @socalleslie.bsky.social · 10h

Lawrence’s goldfinch foraging on the ground. 🌿🪶 This is a California bird that will occasionally wander down into Baja or over to AZ.

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 23h

Because the civil rights movement WASN'T A MARCH. It wasn't a series of marches. That's just factually, empirically, fundamentally not what the civil rights movement was.

To say No Kings is "bigger" because of crowd size, you must first adopt an incorrect definition of the civil rights movement.

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 10h

while it may not seem like it to someone scrolling by with a cursory look, what i am creating is not ‘ironic’ nor a ‘get rich quick scheme’ and it is certainly not AI GENERATED. it is a genuine expression of my heart and my beliefs about sexuality and art and love and freedom and curiosity and joy

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 21h

doing journalism

me emailing Tori Amos to ask if she invented the pumpkin spice latte

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Arcasian @arcasian.bsky.social · 19h

Time for tea 🫰

Artwork of a brown bear peaking out of the top of a white ceramic teapot with blue leaves and dot patterns on it. The bear in the teapot is set up on a blue gingham background.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 11h

Oh, some of you are like, NEW new.

1. They’re called skeets. No, you will not change that.
2. Use alt text.
3. This isn’t Twitter. If you act like a fool, you will get blocked so hard you cease to exist to some folks. If you really act a fool you get put in the Louvre.

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Jessica Elena @byjessicaelena.bsky.social · 20h

Goose on the loose!!

#art #illustration

A digital drawing of a goose sticking up its head among a bunch of flowers.

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grace 🏡 🍃 @daisleis.bsky.social · 22h

thinking back to the aquarium i had in animal crossing 💭 🐟

#peachtober25 #peachtober25aquarium

a repeat pattern of fish in various sizes, shapes, and colors

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 2d

I was just looking into tear gas canisters again today. That's the injury I worry about the most for people documenting protests.

Donavan LaBella has permanent brain damage. His injury has been "equated by medical professionals to a frontal lobotomy.” (OPB, Nov. 20, 2024 )

Portland protester disabled by 2020 incident with US Marshal gets $7.65 million

A deputy U.S. Marshal shot Donavan LaBella in the head with a less-than-lethal munition outside the federal courthouse in downtown Portland on July 11, 2020. The incident has left LaBella, who at the ...

www.opb.org

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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 2d

Those of us who covered Occupy might remember this:

www.motherjones.com/politics/201...

Scott Olsen, Iraq Vet Hurt by OPD Projectile: “I’m Not Alright.”

But that's not stopping him from taking part in May Day protests.

www.motherjones.com

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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 2d

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32081822/

Fatal Penetrating Head Injuries Caused by Projectile Tear Gas Canisters - PubMed

TGCs have the potential to cause lethal penetrating head injuries, calling for a reevaluation of their safety and methods of use in terms of human health.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 2d

Incredible photo from @chicago.suntimes.com ‘s Anthony Vazquez. Pointing what looks to be a teargas launcher at someone’s head at nearly point blank range is incredibly dangerous. This is why I prefer a ballistic helmet in the field.

Feds ram SUV in chase down residential street in Chicago, then tear-gas crowd

The crash happened late Tuesday morning near 105th Street and Avenue N on Chicago's East Side, resulting in dozens of residents showing up to protest the federal immigration agents.

chicago.suntimes.com

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