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Jamie Bear 🐻 @jamiebear.bsky.social · 1h

Urban watermelon. Stay weird.

Building with a huge watermelon growing down one story from a garden with a watermelon

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Jamie Bear 🐻 @jamiebear.bsky.social · 1h

>30 on one window for me. There should be an h-index for windows and tabs.

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Jamie Bear 🐻 @jamiebear.bsky.social · 1h

This is out of date, but I love that MoCo has pages like this and one on where to drop off various donations. montgomerycountymd.gov/agservices/f...

Pick-Your-Own Opportunities, Office of Agricultural Services, Montgomery County, MD

You can come out to the berry or pumpkin patch, apple or peach orchard and pick your own (PYO) produce at several Montgomery County farms. Explore our map to find PYO locations and learn more about in...

montgomerycountymd.gov

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 1d

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.

They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

@lataco.bsky.social first began as a blog documenting local Mexican cuisine. Now, it’s an essential reporting powerhouse to the city as Trump’s mass deportation plot unfolds.

Check out the latest from our friends at Reveal: tinyurl.com/4cm2bsdr

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Jamie Bear 🐻 @jamiebear.bsky.social · 1d

Any Toronto recs? Sights mostly, but open to food recs. Will be going for dim sum and Hakka. AGO and Kensington Market are on the list.

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Jamie Bear 🐻 @jamiebear.bsky.social · 1d

I really need to get one of those inflatable T. rex costumes now.

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Jamie Bear 🐻 @jamiebear.bsky.social · 2d

Just found out Rock Hill Orchard no longer does pick your own, and with that goes the best cider donuts in town. 💔

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 2d

ICE had no idea what they were getting into in Portland.

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 3d

wizard frog is insane

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Jamie Bear 🐻 @jamiebear.bsky.social · 2d

I asked a senior citizen if I could get past her to grab a potato and she said I had to pay a tariff. I gave her a high five and she let me past. The economy these days.

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Jamie Bear 🐻 @jamiebear.bsky.social · 3d

Took a free batik class at Dua DC Coffee, an Indonesian kopi shop. You apply wax to resist the dye and then you iron the wax off after dying. Wringing out the fabric creates the marbled effect. There’s a paid class next week at GW museum.gwu.edu/workshop-int...

Blue green dyed fabric with a royal pattern representing power.

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Jamie Bear 🐻 @jamiebear.bsky.social · 3d

The adorable factor was off the charts.

Panda nomming with a smiley looking face

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Jamie Bear 🐻 @jamiebear.bsky.social · 3d

Love the aware king who sneakily scanned my code from behind that I had open at the zoo while other folks in line were fumbling for theirs.

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Jamie Bear 🐻 @jamiebear.bsky.social · 3d

Just saw a guy in my neighborhood with a “The life of a grandpop” t shirt in the TSwift typeface. 😂

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 3d

The fact they jumped straight to AI actors modeled after women when, if I’m not mistaken, male actors are a higher labor cost kind of says it all doesn’t it,

Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 3d

Like… it's kind of right there, no?

"AI" generated image of woman with dark hair sitting in a chair in front of posters with random shapes and symbols meant to look like images and text on movie posters, all superimposed with a post from k.w.bogen reading
"AI actresses can't negotiate. They can't say they'd prefer their bodies not be shown certgain ways. They can't refuse degrading scenes. They can't express distress about disturbing content. They can't ask the creators :why would you do that to me? Why put any woman through watching that? If AI film winds up being the path, we're about to see an entirely new generation (and more brutal depiction) of media misogyny."

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 4d

We did not weather nigh two decades of “lazy millennials are destroying every single industry” to turn around and do this to Gen Z!!!

Fortune @fortune.com · 4d

“We millennials know that there’s no such thing as work-life balance. My career is my life, my life is my career. I would never be at peace if I wasn’t working so hard.” trib.al/suc3yU6

Astronaut says Gen Z often quits when things get uncomfortable—here’s the Jeff Bezos Blue Origin training that taught her to push through | Fortune

From space rockets to 13-hour workdays, this millennial astronaut reveals the mind trick that can make discomfort your secret weapon to success.

trib.al

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Jamie Bear 🐻 @jamiebear.bsky.social · 3d

Saw a few A-traktors on the road in Sweden. They modify cars to go a max of 20 mph, and below age drivers can use them to get around (also a great idea for older drivers IMO). Of course some folks have potential to ruin it for everyone. www.theguardian.com/world/2023/n...

When is a car not a car? When it’s a Swedish A-traktor

Vehicles modified to not go above 19mph became a teenage rite of passage, but amid a rise in accidents, there are calls for a ban

www.theguardian.com

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Jamie Bear 🐻 @jamiebear.bsky.social · 4d

National Guard at Eastern Market station looking bored.

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Yangyang Cheng @yangyangcheng.bsky.social · 4d

For @npr.org, I review Lou Ye's acclaimed Covid movie "An Unfinished Film," its courage in venturing into the forbidden, and limitations in what it seems unable or unwilling to confront. The Chinese people deserve better, more honest stories. The work remains unfinished.
www.npr.org/2025/10/04/g...

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Jamie Bear 🐻 @jamiebear.bsky.social · 4d

Woman in the shop to her 4 year old: where do you think your esteemed father has gone? 🤣

Jamie Bear 🐻 @jamiebear.bsky.social · 4d

My true personality type: grabbing a blazing hot baguette from the toaster than burns my fingers and transferring it to a plate nowhere near the toaster. Twice. In. One. Day.

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Jamie Bear 🐻 @jamiebear.bsky.social · 5d

Trader Joe’s in Friendship Heights. Soon. @popville.bsky.social

Street with a Trader Joe’s not open/stocked yet

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Jamie Bear 🐻 @jamiebear.bsky.social · 7d

Strikes

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 8d

A landmark new study in JAMA Pediatrics shows the HPV vaccine is doing exactly what it promised & more. 17yrs after rollout, adolescent vaccination has slashed HPV infxns not only among those vaccinated but also those unvaccinated, showing powerful herd protection.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Population-Level Effectiveness and Herd Protection 17 Years After HPV Vaccine

This cross-sectional study investigates population-level effectiveness and herd protection in the first 17 years after human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination among adolescent girls and young women at ...

jamanetwork.com

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Dave Vanness @djvanness.bsky.social · 9d

A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.

Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 9d

30% drop year over year!

Amid visa restrictions, international freshmen enrollment plummets at UW-Madison

This year’s number of international freshmen is the lowest recorded since at least 2015.

www.jsonline.com

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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 7d

If you think this is US-only, it's not.

If you think the GDPR protects you, it's doesn't.

If you hadn't realised privacy is a national security and corporate espionage issue, it is.

If you think politicians can't tackle this, they can.

If you believe that tech or business need this, they don't.

michael veale @michae.lv · 7d

Either real-time bidding data or app SDK data is being bought and used by ICE to seize people from the streets. If you didn’t believe that the adtech stack is a human rights concern, I’m not sure what more evidence you need. www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day

Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

www.404media.co

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