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🦋 #Energy / #Security / #Technology / #Privacy / #AI / Voting rights / #Democracy / #Humor ;RT/Fav ≠ endorsement ≠Rep employer, YMMV, Never start a land war in Asia. him/he BLM Each day I post about amazing people who have been leaders in arts, science,etc

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DavBatz @davbatz.bsky.social · 7h

Good Morning! It is Wednesday October 8. In 1899 Dorothy Donaldson Buchana was born. She was a Scottish civil engineer, and the first female member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, successfully passing the institution's admission examination in 1927.
#WomeninSTEM 🧪

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The Women In Science Archive @wisarchive.bsky.social · 9h

Chemist and food scientist Mary Pennington was born 153 years ago today. Her research into food spoilage led to her design of refrigeration cars for trains, and to her key role in WWII as an advisor in food transport methods for the army.

#WomenInSTEM #ChemSky #FoodScience

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DavBatz @davbatz.bsky.social · 5h

Congratulations 🎈🎉

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Winning

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Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 19h

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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DavBatz @davbatz.bsky.social · 11h

This drawing is amazing 🥰🥰🥰
I love it!

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DavBatz @davbatz.bsky.social · 12h

a cartoon character in a tuxedo is holding a pie in front of his face

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DavBatz @davbatz.bsky.social · 23h

A pleasant distraction

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I kept looking in the phone book for the Justbob family, but couldn’t find any 🤷

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Good Morning! It is Tuesday October 7. In 1907 Helen MacInnes was born. She was a Scottish-American writer of espionage novels. MacInnes wrote 21 espionage thrillers, four of which were later adapted as films. her first book, Above Suspicion (1941), was an immediate success.

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DavBatz @davbatz.bsky.social · 1d

Bend, OR

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DavBatz @davbatz.bsky.social · 2d

The editors apologize for the error 🤷

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Thank you! 🙏

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Nobel Prize for medicine awarded for discoveries about the immune system

Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi shared the Nobel Prize for fundamental discoveries about how the immune system keeps itself in check.

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DavBatz @davbatz.bsky.social · 2d

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A travel day today

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DavBatz @davbatz.bsky.social · 2d

Good Morning! It is Monday October 6. In 1917 Fannie Lou Hamer was born. She was an African American voting and women's rights activist, community organizer, and a leader in the civil rights movement.

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These numbers are amazing, Thank you! 🙏

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Nothing better than home grown vegetables

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