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Lacy Bradford
@lacybradford.bsky.social
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Just your average late diagnosed lady pattern seer. Searching for anyone to listen to, and maybe believe her portents of doom. I never wanted to be correct…
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ethankocak.com
I say this every time de-extinction comes up: it makes no sense to devote science to bringing back extinct animals when we can’t be bothered to keep extant ones alive in the first place.
April 8, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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abistevensart.bsky.social
Here's another personal illustration I made in this style a few years ago, this time themed on flying mythological creatures (and real ones).
#Art #illustration #bestiary
A landscape format digital illustration with a gray background and a mostly symmetrical design of multiple mythlogical creatures, birds and bats. In the centre is a blue figure with a yellow halo and 8 wings alternating between yellow/red/orange feathered ones and green leathery ones. To either side is a long looping blue dragon creature with small wings, a yellow griffin in flight, an orange phoenix with a flaming branch in its mouth, and small birds and a flying squirrel. On the lower half of the image are two yellow siren women with long peacock tails and smaller child sirens, a strange little orange manmounted on a green alicorn fighting a small blue serpent, and a large yellow bird with rainbow wing feathers. In front of the seraphim/demon figure is a small baby peryton curled up sleeping.
March 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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mollyf.bsky.social
open for business ! www.etsy.com/shop/mollyfa...
March 7, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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emilyschnall.bsky.social
Opening up pet portraits again!!

$120, digital download, all types of critters welcome, DM to grab a slot 🦜🦎✨
Illustrated portrait of a calico cat with a very round head Illustrated portrait of a shaggy tabby cat Illustrated portrait of a fluffy black and white cat Illustrated portrait of a king charles spaniel
March 11, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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buzzgrambo.bsky.social
March 11, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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maddow.bsky.social
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March 6, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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ajijaakwe.bsky.social
And it's another short thread @wingsndnsilver.bsky.social with tonight's inventory selections, 3 pairs of earrings to match the featured work beautifully, all 3 sterling silver and Red Creek jasper
March 8, 2025 at 5:51 AM
lacybradford.bsky.social
Ew.
March 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
Many people are unable to separate clothes from character, which is how the fashion industry makes so much money. They sell you on the idea that you can be a certain person by wearing certain clothes. In reality, character is defined by actions, not clothes.
Man in a suit, dress shirt, and tie. Women are rubbing themselves against him. Man on a horse wearing Filson gear. He looks rugged and is surrounded by mountains.
March 1, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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propublica.org
People experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves.

We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position.
If You’re Pregnant, Here’s What You Should Know About the Medical Procedures That Could Save Your Life
Women experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds…
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February 22, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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jeremymberg.bsky.social
Bluetorial: The path to a new pain medication with little potential for addiction

Perhaps a good story to share with folks who want to learn about how biomedical research works and where advances come from.
a cartoon says hey everybody an old man 's talking while bart simpson looks on
ALT: a cartoon says hey everybody an old man 's talking while bart simpson looks on
media.tenor.com
February 22, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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adambonica.bsky.social
The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️
Scatterplot titled “Empirical Evidence of Ideological Targeting in Federal Layoffs: Agencies seen as liberal are significantly more likely to face DOGE layoffs.” • The x-axis represents Perceived Ideological Leaning of federal agencies, ranging from -2 (Most Liberal) to +2 (Most Conservative), based on survey responses from over 1,500 federal executives. • The y-axis shows Agency Size (Number of Staff) on a logarithmic scale from 1,000 to 1,000,000. Each point represents a federal agency: • Red dots indicate agencies that experienced DOGE layoffs. • Gray dots indicate agencies with no layoffs. Key Observations: • Liberal-leaning agencies (left side of the plot) are disproportionately represented among red dots, indicating higher layoff rates. • Notable targeted agencies include: • HHS (Health & Human Services) • EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) • NIH (National Institutes of Health) • CFPB (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau) • Dept. of Education • USAID (U.S. Agency for International Development) • The National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE), despite its conservative leaning (+1 on the scale), is an exception among targeted agencies. • A notable outlier: the Department of Veterans Affairs (moderately conservative) also faced layoffs despite its size. Takeaway: The figure visually demonstrates that DOGE layoffs disproportionately targeted liberal-leaning agencies, supporting claims of ideological bias. The pattern reveals that layoffs were not driven by agency size or budget alone but were strongly associated with perceived ideology. Source: Richardson, Clinton, & Lewis (2018). Elite Perceptions of Agency Ideology and Workforce Skill. The Journal of Politics, 80(1).
February 20, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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monaeltahawy.bsky.social
My new book!

Bloody Hell! Adventures in Menopause from Around the World is just weeks away from U.K. publication.

A short video and links to preorder www.feministgiant.com/p/book-blood...
Book: Bloody Hell!
Adventures in Menopause from Around the World
www.feministgiant.com
February 19, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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kyledcheney.bsky.social
JUST IN: Another medical horror story in an affidavit from a USAID employee stationed overseas. Says his pregnant wife was not medevac-ed for emergency health care because of directives from DC. Took intervention of a U.S. senator to reverse — but was too late. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
February 18, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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sarahposner.bsky.social
More Musk conflicts of interest

www.reuters.com/world/us/fda...
Exclusive: FDA staff reviewing Musk’s Neuralink were included in DOGE employee firings, sources say
U.S. Food and Drug Administration employees reviewing Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink were fired over the weekend as part of a broader purge of the federal workforce, according to two sources with knowledge of the matter.
www.reuters.com
February 18, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
Not true. I'll give you some examples of when styles crossed over from womenswear to menswear, and how men have worn straight-up womenswear or just feminine styles in cool ways. 🧵
A screenshot from Twitter. The original tweet reads: "Rapper Kenderick Lamar wore size 29 women's jeans to Super Bowl LIX." The tweet garnered over a thousand replies, most negative. I (Derek Guy) screenshotted that tweet and wrote: "so funny to see history repeat itself. men who wear slim fit and stretch denim—both of which were once considered strictly for women—criticizing kendrick for wearing flares bc they were on the women's aisle. in ten years, you'll be in flares clutching pearls about something else" Then another user replied to my tweet, saying: "Wearing women’s clothes has never been in style, homo."
February 16, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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youranoncentral.bsky.social
The key to spotting embezzlement is that it involves a betrayal of trust or duty. While this looks different in every state, generally, these four factors must be present: www.justice.gov/archives/jm/...
1. There must be a fiduciary relationship between the two parties. That is, there must be a reliance by one party on the other. 2. The defendant must have acquired the property through that relationship, 3. The defendant's actions must have been intentional, and not the result of an error; 4. The defendant must have taken ownership of the property (at least temporarily), transferred the property to someone else, or destroyed or hidden the property.
February 13, 2025 at 10:01 PM
lacybradford.bsky.social
If you see this, quote post with a beach photo from your gallery.
February 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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connecticutting.bsky.social
Seeing the number of Trump supporters gleefully saying things like “Daddy’s home!” and “dad’s going to take off his belt!” was such a psychological record-scratch moment for me.
February 13, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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altyellonatpark.org
Welp folks I have a troll
We get lots of trolls but this one's quite the piece of work.
@rogueyellowstone.bsky.social

If you read his page it's 100% a smear campaign against our account here on Bluesky
Please block and report him for violating user guidelines.
And do write Bluesky on our behalf
February 12, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
Federal employee with a data role told me that a document was removed from employee access because it had the word "inclusion" in it.

As in, "inclusion of data in our estimates."
February 11, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
“Today, DEI has become the new N-word; the new rightwing abstraction deployed by Republicans to conceal their anti-Black racism.”

My latest for the Guardian, in which I cite Lee Atwater, and bring lots of receipts.

Sorry, but it has to be said:
What Republicans really mean when they blame 'DEI' | Mehdi Hasan
Referencing DEI is the new rightwing abstraction deployed by Republicans to conceal their anti-Black racism
www.theguardian.com
February 11, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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jamellebouie.net
is it woke to want to end cancer?
February 8, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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shakespeare.lol
Ay me! I see the ruin of my house:
The tiger now hath seiz’d the gentle hind;
Insulting tyranny begins to jut
Upon the innocent and aweless throne.
February 6, 2025 at 7:52 PM