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too gay to function @lively.bsky.social · 6h

Concord

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New town every hour @townsusa.bsky.social · 6h

Borden, Indiana
Pop: 936

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borden,_Indiana

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Leon Jackson @drleonj.bsky.social · 2d

I spent the day looking at applications for licenses to deal second hand goods, which were required in Boston in 1839, and was struck by how many were on blue paper. Made from coarse rags dyed with indigo, they form a sort of class-based material vernacular. No rich person used paper this color 🗃️

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too gay to function @lively.bsky.social · 12h

Analysis of tongues in this way is a core component of my training but we are not always respected as scientists nor are we allowed to diagnose anything. But AI doing the same task gets published in SciAm and is also ok to be used for official diagnosis.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 12h

Inspired by principles from traditional Chinese medicine, researchers used AI to analyze tongue color as a diagnostic tool—with more than 96 percent accuracy

This AI Spots Disease by Reading Your Tongue’s Color

Inspired by principles from traditional Chinese medicine, researchers used AI to analyze tongue color as a diagnostic tool—with more than 96 percent accuracy

www.scientificamerican.com

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 22h

Holy crap. Trump will make the FCC crucify Jimmy Kimmel for this.

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Actual names @actualnames.bsky.social · 13h

Zildo Ladybush
Mother
New Hampshire, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1636-1947

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too gay to function @lively.bsky.social · 13h

Abolish ICE

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14h

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 13h

"H5N1 virus can remain infectious for extended periods in raw-milk cheeses under specific conditions, underscoring the potential public health risks associated with consuming unpasteurized milk products "
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

H5N1 influenza virus stability and transmission risk in raw milk and cheese - Nature Medicine

The pathogenic avian flu H5N1 virus remains stable in raw milk and throughout the cheese-making process, but contaminated cheese fed to ferrets did not lead to infection, whereas raw milk did.

www.nature.com

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too gay to function @lively.bsky.social · 13h

it’s not good for the northeast (new england) and parts of the midwest. it needs edits

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too gay to function @lively.bsky.social · 14h

“Don’t blame me, I didn’t know about elon” The rest of us did though. It’s exactly like ignoring the school bus. You just thought a child’s life or a Tesla factory worker’s life was an inconvenience to your day and not a human life as valid as yours

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too gay to function @lively.bsky.social · 14h

Great fuckin neighbors we have here. Save the planet, but frogger the little children. There was just an article I saw about how pedestrian fatalities are going down in other places but not in Mass.

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too gay to function @lively.bsky.social · 14h

The ev plates have fewer digits, so it was easier to read in the screen cap!

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too gay to function @lively.bsky.social · 14h

today I got a video of one of the assholes who keep powering through my kid’s bus stop and almost hitting the children. Today it was a tesla so reporting this plate number feels extra good

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too gay to function @lively.bsky.social · 14h

I have never lived or gone to school in Boston and even I know the map so it’s hard to believe anyone who’s been living there any length of time would not, especially for years and while attending a powerful institution

too gay to function @lively.bsky.social · 15h

I think it’s bullshit because he already went to Harvard for a degree in 2008 and he lives in Boston now. Brookline has a large Jewish population. My experience is everybody in Boston knows where to find everybody else’s restaurants and bakeries. People in Boston also mind each others’ holy days.

Universal Hub @universalhub.com · 3d

Synagogue leaders accept Harvard Law prof's assertion he just didn't know he lived next to a temple or that it was the start of Yom Kippur when he decided to go hunt varmints with a pellet gun on Beacon St. in Brookline.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 1d

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to use a hub in Vermont to bolster its digital surveillance capabilities as the agency ramps up operations across the country at the direction of leaders in President Donald Trump's administration.
buff.ly/bdu2eRR

ICE Plans to Boost Social Media Surveillance Using Contractors

ICE plans to use a hub in Vermont to bolster its digital surveillance capabilities as the agency ramps up operations across the country.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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SorryHat @sorryhat.bsky.social · 1d

Lunch sketch.

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · Sep 7

Cupid & Psyche, by Benjamin West, 1808, 📸 via @V0LofTheWild

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 1d

Look at her go!
#invertebrates 🌿

Screen shot of Project Monarch app map of progress of a monarch butterfly from southern Ontario to Oklahoma.

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our lady of the cow parsley @ladycowparsley.bsky.social · 1d

A Bostonian treasure hunt!!
www.boston.com/news/communi...

@universalhub.com

There’s real treasure hidden around Boston this week — here’s how to join the hunt

Stack’s Bowers Galleries is hosting a treasure hunt in Boston this week. Clues to hidden gold coins and rare banknotes are posted daily.

www.boston.com

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 1d

George Orwell’s Animal Crossing

Someone in a frog costume facing down a line of police in riot gear

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too gay to function @lively.bsky.social · 1d

She brought Power Christian Principal with her!

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

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too gay to function @lively.bsky.social · Sep 25

donnie darko/ counselor meme with brassica oleracea. “I made a new vegetable”
“New or
Figure 1.134
(a) Vegetables descended from wild mustard
Wild mustard
Cabbage from end buds
Brussels sprouts from side buds
Kohirabl
from stems
Kale from leaves
Broccoli from flowers and stems
Caulifiower
from flower clusters
brassica oleracea?”
“brassica oleracea”

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too gay to function @lively.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t see why I should have to learn other people’s names if they are just going to call me by whatever other name starts with the same letter as mine what the actual fuck lol

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