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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 7h

NEW: As Linda McMahon guts the Dept. of Education, she’s operated in what she calls “a parallel universe” to radically shift how future kids will learn -- seeking to dismantle the public school system in favor of private and Christian schools or homeschooling.

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 6h

highland cattle have it figured out

Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 7h

Highland cattle are famous for their ability to "disco nap". Normally these brief, efficient sleeps will last between three and twenty minutes, deploying a variety of objects as pillows, including moorland boulders, cars or any particularly large dog or sheep who happens to be nearby.

A highland cow having a little nap on a boulder on Dartmoor (ok, it was actually scratching its head)

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 13h

LOL

so #nintendo is stealthily shoving the trans political agenda and nobody has noticed it?

video without context with trans flag colors everywhere from nintendo america

you people better sart noticing patterns
just like netflix

carbon monoxide leak

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Shiboof @oldpostie.bsky.social · 22h

Wonderful news for our bats!
Bats Are Recovering in a Big Way After Decimation by White-Nose Syndrome: Numbers Grow for the 3rd Year share.google/vLZF1KEX2zU6...

Bats Are Recovering in a Big Way After Decimation by White-Nose Syndrome: Numbers Grow for the 3rd Year

These creatures are vital to not just the health of their natural ecosystems, but our artificial ones as well.

share.google

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[🎃] 𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚛𝚎𝚠 𝚜𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚝 @owllog.bsky.social · 6h

#MÖRKTOBER Day 8: Wizard

THE WIZARD
Hiding somewhere in the forest near Lake Onda The Wizard uses his Staff of Suffering to bring a depression over all living things in the area. He wishes to make everything feel as miserable as he is.

#mörkborg #mörktober #darkfort #ttrpg #wizard

The wizard
Hp 20
Morale 7
Armor black robes -d2
Staff of Suffering d6 damage

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the homophobic boy detective @gaorush.bsky.social · 13h

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Kim Hu @kim-hu.com · 6h

LRT about the Taito photo goes hand in hand with this video by Kurzgesagt, talking about how AI posted by official sources will creep back into the datasets as legit information until it will be impossible to verify what is real and what’s not

Mahmud Asrar 🪲 @mahmudasrar.bsky.social · 1d

AI slop is ruining our lives. Do not be a part of the problem.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zfN...

AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel

YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

www.youtube.com

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beth lindly VA ✨ @bethlindly.bsky.social · 20h

i know this has been talked to death but it’s absolute cuckoo bananas that toby fox had a dream abt a game he wanted to make, decided he wasn’t yet skilled enough to make that game, went on to make a spiritual predecessor to his dream game just to get the hang of it, and THAT game was undertale

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Frank Vehafric @fvehafric.bsky.social · 3d

One of the things I took away from the 60s and Richard Nixon, first mentioned by Hunter Thompson, but I believe to be true, is the fact that we believed, at time, that all our protesting, marching and sign waving was futile and pointless when in fact, it drove Richard Nixon to alcohol fueled madness

Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 3d

Everyone is trying to have a normal Saturday night and the president's top advisor is on X announcing that civil war is necessary

@StephenM on X: Legal insurrection. The President is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, not an Oregon judge. Portland and Oregon law enforcement, at the direction of local leaders, have refused to aid ICE officers facing relentless terrorist assault and threats to life. (There are more local law enforcement officers in Oregon than there are guns and badges in the FBI nationwide). This is an organized terrorist attack on the federal government and its officers, and the deployment of troops is an absolute necessity to defend our personnel, our laws, our government, public order and the Republic itself.

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VoidBurger 𝑓 (AKA Jess) @voidburger.com · 2d

Hell yes more of this. We outnumber and outfrog these cowardly bastards

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 2d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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nym™️ @arettee.bsky.social · 17h

If you’re calling Newsom about trans and gay bills you should also call about SB 79 bc passing that is going to help literally everyone

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 19h

hi, cis folks in california!

this headline leaves out that newsom has another 5 days to sign these bills into law. if you’d like to tell him he should do that to protect trans californians, you should to reach out.

he also has a phone: (916) 445-2841

want to know what to say? next post! 🧵

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 1d

these guys want -- indeed feel entitled to -- cultural hegemony but don't have a popular culture to offer anyone outside of podcasts where dumb guys complain. they're hoping AI will make one for them but i got bad news

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tonči zonjić @tozo.today · Jul 26

some more helpful reminders from 2016 me who knew more than i do now #reruns

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Jeffrey Sens @jeffreysens.bsky.social · 14h

For reference of Portland frog facing off ICE art being made.

Photograph at night of a 2-3 deep line of feds in tactical gear and sheilds outside the ICE building in Portland. Facing them alone is someone in a green and white belly frog outfit.

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 15h

A database of “public” cats that anyone can pet in New York City.

meowmap.nyc

Dare to fail gloriously

meowmap.nyc

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golvio @golvio.bsky.social · 7h

Cats go absolutely buckwild for starches and I have no idea why.

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Trevor Henderson 🍉(commissions closed) @slimyswampghost.bsky.social · 1d

Pieces (2 of 3) of photograph found at the site of ——

Connection to the missing —— of the victims unknown

Whereabouts of the missing piece still unknown. photo cannot be —— and as such is never to be re-assembled

a photo of a grinning man, the middle section where his eyes would be has been torn away, bisecting the photo in two.

"Pieces (2 of 3) of photograph found at the site of ——

Connection to the missing —— of the victims unknown

Whereabouts of the missing piece still unknown. photo cannot be —— and as such is never to be re-assembled"

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Trevor Henderson 🍉(commissions closed) @slimyswampghost.bsky.social · 1d

new ghosts

a man in shadow, stepping into light. his obscured face is stretched and warped

a misty, skull-like visage. one eye hole is a socket, the other is like a hole in a mask a frantic eye is peering through

a dog-like figure with a bald, grinning human head balanced sideways on its neck

a sepia toned screaming man, his upper head drifting into a white blur

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 12h

They had to buy the Post, gut the newsroom, and restaff with reactionary grifters that don't deserve to carry their predecessors' dirty socks; that was the only way to remake the paper, because they were never gonna get through the front door on merit.

Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 12h

This little twerp, who’s been there a few months, axed two of the lions of WaPo??

Fisher is an investigative champion and had been at The Post for 39 years. Hoffman had been there for 42, and he won a Pulitzer LAST YEAR.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 14h

Last week, new WaPo opinion editor Adam O'Neal quietly carried out another purge of staffers, cutting editors and major names like Marc Fisher and David Hoffman, among others.

Meanwhile, he welcomed three conservatives to the section.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/washington...

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 13h

Ah. Well, that will fuck the ENTIRE network of flights. Not just in the US either.

CNN @cnn.com · 13h

There will not be enough air traffic controllers in the tower at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, the FAA is warning.

Now on the seventh day of the government shutdown, the same scenario is playing out at FAA offices across the country, with ripple effects hitting flights almost everywhere.

Delays spread to major airports across the country, as the seventh day of government shutdown impacts travelers | CNN

There are not going to be enough air traffic controllers in the tower at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport Tuesday night, the Federal Aviation Administratoin is warning. In Nashville, so many are...

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Rain @rainsquall.bsky.social · 10h

#slaytober day 6: the fury
I am a whole day late yo
#slaytheprincess

Slay the princess digital fanart depicting a scowling princess from the chapter The Fury, pulling on a red ribbon evocative of the player's innards. There are three feathers around the origin of the ribbon.

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Tiricohairline @trejames.bsky.social · 12h

This is actually a gotdamn shame.

PBS News @pbsnews.org · 16h

Thirty paintings created by the bushy-haired, soft-spoken Bob Ross will soon be up for auction to defray the costs of programming for small and rural public television stations suffering under cuts in federal funding. https://to.pbs.org/4nEQMrw

Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to support public TV stations after federal funding cuts

All profits will help public TV stations with licensing fees for popular programs that include "The Best of Joy of Painting" and "America's Test Kitchen."

www.pbs.org

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golvio @golvio.bsky.social · 8h

Or he’s just a straight dude who’s an asshole. We don’t need to fight queerphobia with queerphobia.

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Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 16h

this shit looks like someone’s about to shoot franz ferdinand

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17h

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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