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David Bahry
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🇨🇦 Evolutionary biology and biology of aging. PhD student at University at Buffalo. MSc from Carleton University.
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iwriteok.bsky.social
I've seen discourse you people wouldn't believe
A Twitter user quote tweeting a public defender complaining that leftists have been calling for them to be killed for defending people accused of crimes and saying this person admitted that they've defended rapists and helped them get lighter sentences. Another user points out public defenders don't chose their clients and the original poster responds so they were just following orders then?
August 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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esqueer.net
There is a well coordinated national campaign targeting a single trans professor at Oklahoma University to get her fired. It's part of a broader campaign to push trans people out of public life entirely. It was never about sports.
December 1, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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junlper.beer
i’m genuinely so convinced all of this has been a planned operation by the student and her mother (who is commenting on this publicly, and associated closely with the republican party), and big far right propaganda account going all in on it. this is designed to oust trans people from public life
December 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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spherewolf.bsky.social
when they interview me at age 113 in the year 2100 and ask me my secret for having lived so long that I saw 3 centuries, I'm gonna say katelyn burns said I had to
katelynburns.com Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 25d
Look if you're trans, you have to live. Do whatever you need to do to make it.
November 14, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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genderqueeries.ca
Everyone who told trans people not to worry because the US would never invalidate trans people's passports deserves a well earned "fuck you" today.

People seeking protected person status in Canada have got in without valid passports / without passports. It's more risky but it has happened.
rikiwilchins.bsky.social Riki Wilchins @rikiwilchins.bsky.social · 25d
14 Nov 2025 -- A week after Supreme Ct emergency ruling allowing Trump to restrict passports State Dept updates its website, which assured trans ppl passports “remain valid until [their] expiration” to add "or until we invalidate it under federal regulations."
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social
Trump Admin Quietly Changes State Department Page To Indicate It May Invalidate Trans Passports
The change comes after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the administration and lifted a temporary injunction.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social
Day191 of badly photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's #JohnOliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution

John(H. sapiens) seems very at home as a trilobite(Dipleura dekayi;PRI50318)

Donations still needed!
#JohnOliverCoprolitasticShed
#trilobiteTuesday 🧪⚒️
A brown trilobite mounted on a blue wall, with a scooped cephalon. John Oliver's face covers tbe glabella, and his tie hangs down over the axial lobe of the thorax.
November 11, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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skwinnicki.bsky.social
Never thought I’d get to sing “if we’re banned, we’ll be banned together” and “trans rights are human rights!” as part of a church hymn 😭🥹

The composer/author is Pax Ressler:
Lyrics of the song Banned Together by Pax Ressler, with a note that it was Originally commissioned for Columbus Gay Men's Chorus, for Jared Brayton Bollenbacher, Artistic Director. The hymn lyrics read: I vow to fight against a ban on your life I will stand with you, hand in hand, for life When our rights and lives are at stake It's a bond that they can never break, an endless tether 'Cause if we're banned, we'll be banned together We will band together, nothing we can't weather We'll be here forever, it's now or never to band together I will not live my life afraid, no longer Look at the family I have made, I'm stronger When we're marching hand in hand It's a love that they can never ban and never sever There's no stopping us tonight We won't go down without a fight We've got the goal within our sights Trans Rights Are Human Rights! Join us, there's more work to do United there's no fight that we can lose No storm that we can't weather Cause if we're banned, we'll be banned together
November 7, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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zachweinersmith.bsky.social
Haha, this from the New Yorker is getting passed around the math dork community. I did a comic about this kind of thought a few years ago: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/commut...
November 7, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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verybadllama.bsky.social
if they want to go back to the 1950s, we’re bringing the cuisine back to the 1950s too. you put me in the kitchen, I will spend 100% of my time in there finding how much horseradish and shrimp I can put in Jello before God personally comes down here to stop me.
January 24, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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jessicacalarco.com
We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
My 11-year-old sitting with her pile of Halloween candy, sorting it into a bar graph
November 1, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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teaberryblue.net
My experience canvassing was that all the Mamdani voters were so excited to be voting for him and the Cuomo voters acted like it was a chore that they did grudgingly.
November 3, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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tomerullman.bsky.social
Nature suggests you use their "Manuscript Adviser" bot to get advice before submitting

I uploaded the classic Watson & Crick paper about DNA structure, and the Adviser had this to say about one of the greatest paper endings of the century:
November 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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david.noll.org
Zohran Mamdani campaigned a lot and appears not to hate the voters whose support he's seeking. Here's what other Democrats can learn from his unorthodox strategy.
November 2, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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impemboganecue.bsky.social
Feeding the poor is one of the most elemental Christian things. Like a top three all time Christian thing. But evangelicals can barely agree on the main one (Christ is God) so I guess the hypocrisy angle is kinda irrelevant
yafavzoe.blacksky.app One Piece Ambassador 🇭🇹🇭🇹 @yafavzoe.blacksky.app · Nov 2
Wearing a Jesus saves sweater while celebrating millions of people losing SNAP benefits is actually insane and all the more reason why you can’t trust some Christians
November 2, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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internethippo.bsky.social
Generally speaking I don't want my items to be Futuristic, I want them to work
November 2, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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rob-sheridan.com
The wonderful old-Twitter experience of a global group chat during a live event or breaking news is a thing you can't do on Threads bc of its trash algorithms and you can't do on X bc it's a Nazi propaganda weapon, but it's really happening on Bsky now and I hope more holdouts start to discover that
joshsternberg.com Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · Nov 2
Fwiw, it’s nice to have a place to chat during a live event. That was one of the things that Twitter was great for. Before the dark times. Before the empire.
November 2, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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baseballhighlights.bsky.social
An Air Canada flight right now
November 2, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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devoevomed.bsky.social
50 years ago, King & Wilson published a foundational paper that underlies the cis-regulatory paradigm (CRP) of #DevoEvo #EvoDevo, i.e., that *almost* all morphological evolution is driven by mutations in regulatory elements, rather than proteins, and it all arose from simple misunderstanding 🧪 🧵
October 29, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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genomemiller.bsky.social
Grading is tough. #PhDSky
October 29, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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bushybritches.bsky.social
The best fiction writer could not make this shit up.

🐸LONG LIVE THE FROGS 🐸
October 20, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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swamplizard.bsky.social
future grandchild: like shit, from an ass?

me in 30 years: Swear to God. Then he demolished the White House
October 20, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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chadstanton.blacksky.app
Listening to rap helps inure you to this by equipping you with a framework that acknowledges the role your haters play in your growth.
October 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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jamellebouie.net
we’ll see how his mayoral tenure shakes out but i am convinced that Mamdani has the juice. not just the charisma to win an election but the temperament to govern and the measured pragmatism of someone who genuinely believes what they’re saying and wants to accomplish real things.
Inside the Improbable, Audacious and (So Far) Unstoppable Rise of Zohran Mamdani
www.nytimes.com
October 14, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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junlper.beer
just found out that about a week ago, while george santos has been in solitary confinement, that he wrote that due to the inhuman conditions he is facing he is now pro prison reform. just unreal stuff honestly
Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, I paced in circles like a restless ghost. The windows were frosted, allowing only a faint suggestion of daylight and nightfall, enough to remind me that time was passing, though I had little sense of how. The shower water was always cold, and my only amenities were the steel toilet and sink fused together in the corner. It was a miserable existence. Yet, as I soon learned, misery can always be deepened On September 7th, the warden's office saw fit to move me into something far worse, an even smaller cell, no more than seven by nine feet, coated in filth, reeking of neglect, and utterly devoid of natural light or ventilation. In that suffocating shoebox, there is no room to walk, no hint of the sun, no trace of humanity. The silence is crushing. The air feels stale. The walls themselves seem to close in. I keep asking myself: will this barbaric confinement ever end? Is this legal under our Constitution, or have I simply been erased from the protections of due process? Most haunting of all, will I survive it? With no access to my family, no calls, no emails, and with letters that may never leave this building, I live in total darkness, cut off from the world I once fought to serve. Let me be blunt: I find Warden Kelly's so-called "protection" not only unpalatable, but cruel and unjustifiable. My time here has opened my eyes to a truth far too many ignore: America desperately needs prison reform.
October 13, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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josephcox.bsky.social
New: Apple banned an app that simply archived videos of ICE abuses. Rather than other apps that record ICE official's real-time location, Eyes Up is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." Videos from TikTok etc. Every submission manually reviewed

www.404media.co/apple-banned...
Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses
Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.
www.404media.co
October 8, 2025 at 7:13 PM