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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

It is engineering malpractice that this site has not yet implemented an option to allow people to private their accounts, given that they’re a US based company, and the US is going through what it’s going through.

But hey, waffles, amirite.

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Fricking Delight (No Refunds) @blikethecheese.bsky.social · 12h

All I have to say about white people worried that protesting this weekend won’t be safe: this is the safest it will be until this problem is handled. Gather thine gonads and get your ass out there (appropriate exceptions aside ofc)

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 12h

What I got hung up on, for sure.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 13h

DHS lied about the 13yo child in Everett having a gun. He did not.

When the mayor of Everett was asked how the child got into ICE custody, he non-answered that police "did not contact ICE."

But the child left the Everett police station in ICE custody. Who, exactly, handed him over to ICE?

The Boston Globe @bostonglobe.com · 18h

City officials said an Everett 13-year-old in ICE detention was arrested with only a knife, not a gun, which federal officials previously claimed.

Everett teen detained by ICE was in possession of a knife when arrested - The Boston Globe

An official from the Department of Homeland Security previously said that the teen was in possession of a gun when he was arrested.

trib.al

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 13h

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper.

As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 12h

CC @ncecire.bsky.social

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 12h

If this doesn't have legs, beesky dot app is not the site it once was.

2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 13h

www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/rare-whit...

Locals stunned by world-famous white whale sighting off NZ coast

Locals near Kaikōura captured rare footage of a white humpback whale.

www.nzherald.co.nz

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 12h

Ishmael called, after all that time

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 12h

Zigactly.

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🎃 Iva Cheung 🍗 @ivacheung.com · 1d

Please read this to understand how dire the situation is in Nunavut: www.aptnnews.ca/featured/foo...

I made print copies of my book a fundraiser to raise awareness of food sovereignty/security issues in the North, but the PDF is free if you want to download + donate directly to QCFC + other orgs.

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 13h

*goes to look up 1996 event*

Wow, that must have been one heckuva storm!

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 13h

It's also a classic example of
a) Not all posts are talking to you individually and
b) You could just say nothing.

Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 13h

Seeing requests to mask in public in order to not acquire or spread a brain-damaging disease as worthy of ridicule says you think at-risk people should just become hermits.

Good news is you're at-risk, so perhaps you become a hermit first.

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Dr. Jen M @awesomebiota.bsky.social · 22h

I teach all of my classes in an N95 because my gift from having COVID (pre-vaccine) is an autoimmune disease that destroys my kidney function. COVID gave me kidney failure, which will require a kidney transplant. What's the #1 cause of death (aside from CKD) in patients waiting for dialysis? COVID.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

(and i think it is a demand that stems from fear more than a rational assessment of the threat environment)

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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 13h

The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 13h

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 13h

"a regatta spokeswoman told the Globe that organizers are working closely with state officials to monitor the situation"

That's just theater at this late date, right? You don't cancel this event so close, even though lots of these folks will end up in the river.

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 13h

What a tool move.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 13h

“Like a smartwatch reminding you to stand up or drink water, Evergreen will notice if a student who normally visits the fitness center hasn’t done so or encourage a student to leave the library after studying for six hours…”

Dartmouth Builds Its Own AI Chatbot for Student Well-Being

The undergrad-assisted research project will draw on students’ data to provide chatbot support and personalized plans for health and wellness.

www.insidehighered.com

Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 13h

The promotions get earlier every year . . .

andré @838carlisle.bsky.social · 14h

i really need you to turn on the volume and hear what they’re dancing to

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 13h

a fat man wearing sunglasses is looking through his sunglasses .

Alt: Chris Farley is wearing a tropical print shirt and lifting up the sunglasses layer of his combination sunglasses-eyeglasses.

media.tenor.com

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 13h

K-Hoch's spine is getting stiffer and her boots bigger. LFG!

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 13h

Full text of Gov. Kathy Hochul's remarks today on Young Repubs group chant with alt text.

Patrick* Neithard @patrickneithard.bsky.social · 14h

Kathy Hochul antwortet deutlich auf die Gruppenchats von jungen Republikanern.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Hochul: “Some bad apples? These are the future the Republican Party. This was so vile it is hard to find the words to put into context that these are people who are part of a political party. One of two major political parties-and they believe in gas chambers and rape and discrimination based on the color of people's skins. These are racist, sexist, disgusting remarks and I would say this: we have a leader from the Republican Party in this state. The highest ranking individual who in the backdrop of all this calls our candidate for mayor, one of our candidates for mayor, a jihadist and a terrorist and then somehow says oh, what they said, these young Republicans was wrong. Like look at what you say yourself! Look at your inflammatory words and maybe they have an effect on these young people - many of whom you support and have supported you and your artists. Do a little reexamination of how far this has gone, where this is normalized enough that thousands of texts are uncovered. This is not one person saying they love Hitler there's a whole lot of people saying things that are so disgusting and so abhorrent that everybody from the president on down should condemn them and there's got to be consequences kick him out of the party take away their official roles stop using them as campaign advisors there needs to be consequences this ******** has to stop!”

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 14h

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 19h

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

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Maxine Joselow @maxinejoselow.bsky.social · 15h

Before catastrophic floods swept through the Alaska Native village of Kipnuk on Sunday, the EPA canceled a $20 million grant intended to protect the community from extreme flooding. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/c...

Before Alaska Flooding, E.P.A. Canceled $20 Million Flood Protection Grant

www.nytimes.com

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 13h

🍄 ☁️ 🏃‍♂️ ⏩

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 13h

The toxic what in the where now? 😳

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