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Tom Hunter @onelifestand87.bsky.social · 1d

It is embarassing not to see the BBC pulling up Reform leaders claiming that Nathan Gill was just some fan who got photos taken with Farage - he was an MEP for them & their leader in Wales while taking cash from Russia to act against the UK! Literally the very basics of your job to point this out

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maraleia @maraleia.bsky.social · 22h

Every single Democratic voters I talk to IRL agrees with me that Kamala Harris fucked up her campaign. The fact that she won't apologize for her many mistakes is telling.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Immigrant Nobel Prize winners exiting the United States

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 1d

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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MyKidsMomBB8 @mykidsmombb8.bsky.social · 1d

This American is thrilled🥳

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Five @5arah.com · 1d

Update: I can’t feel the index finger of my right hand because of all of the sewing.

#Quiltsky #Quilting

An EPP medallion of many different shapes in a rainbow of colors.

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MyKidsMomBB8 @mykidsmombb8.bsky.social · 1d

Pretty💜

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Kevin (Des) @jambodes.bsky.social · 1d

Nowadays folk claim calling someone racist/fascist is tantamount to this.

I think Liverpool got it right first time.

Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 1d

Ah, happy 88th anniversary of the day Oswald Mosley tried to sell fascism to Liverpudlians – and someone concussed him with a brick

A man in a suit stands at a microphone which has been mounted on the roof of a van. There are loudspeakers at his feet, and a building behind him. He has an arm raised, and is flinching as projectiles are hurled at him, because he's a fucking Nazi

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 1d

New study shows COVID vaccines:
💉Reduced people’s risk of ER by 29%
💉Reduced risk of hospitalizations by 39%
💉Reduced the risk of death by 64%
💉Vaccination was effective in all age groups and “in persons with or without major chronic conditions.”
www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-...

Annual COVID Vaccines Save Lives, New Study Shows

A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

www.scientificamerican.com

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Heather Stewart @guardianheather.bsky.social · 1d

If this isn’t evidence of an AI bubble I don’t know what is 🫧

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 1d

Rishi Sunak’s twin appointments mean he will be advising rivals in the push for AI breakthroughs. on.ft.com/3KNw22e

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MyKidsMomBB8 @mykidsmombb8.bsky.social · 1d

Microsoft? 🤦‍♀️

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 1d

There are hundreds of years of history of women’s scientific accomplishments not being recognised or being minimised (“not notable”). It *still* happens. Many female scientists are only acknowledged on Wikipedia thanks to the efforts of, yes, other female scientists, notably physicist Dr Jess Wade.

Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 1d

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."

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British Geological Survey @bgs.ac.uk · 1d

BGS SEISMIC INFORMATION: MINDANAO PHILIPPINES 10 OCTOBER 2025 01:34 UTC 7.4 MW

The following preliminary information is available for this earthquake:

LAT/LON: 7.265° North / 126.755° East
DEPTH: 58 km
MAGNITUDE: 7.4 Mw
LOCALITY: Offshore Mindanao

BGS Seismic Alert - 10/10/25 - Philippines

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 1d

As someone else pointed out, notwithstanding anything else, this hero has at a stroke reclaimed amphibians for progressives from fucking Pepe.

Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 1d

’He is not the hero we deserve, but he is the one that we need right now.’

The Portland Frog, a guy in an inflatable frog costume, facing off against ICE troops in riot gear.

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Mount St. Helens in 1980 @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social · 1d

#MSH45 | Richard Lasher
You've been at a job long enough to know a decent colleague to chat with.

The more you get to know them, the more they share. What's fact or fiction? You don't know, but you listen.

Then there's one story that's so over the top—a bona fide lie. But then, a photo appears.

A red Ford Pinto hatchback angles across a narrow gravel forest service road, a blue enduro motorcycle on a rear hitch carrier. Tall firs frame the view. Beyond them, a towering ash cloud from a pyroclastic density flow billows skyward. Photo by Richard Kent Lasher, May 18, 1980.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 1d

The fact that their ticket was mysteriously canceled the day before and then they were questioned by DHS is both one of the greatest political scandals and crises of my lifetime and just another fucking Thursday in 2025.

Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social · 1d

Mark Bray and Yesenia Barragan, and the family, have safely embarked on their trip to Spain after being questioned by DHS.

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 1d

Lethal injection turns states into the worst kind of drug dealers and traffickers. They engage with illegal labs, in untracked deals. They make The Wire look like Walmart.

And all for the privilege of spending more money per prisoner and turning themselves into vile vigilantes.

Indiana Capital Chronicle @indianacapitalchronicle.com · 1d

Indiana executes Roy Lee Ward for 2001 murder of teenager

indianacapitalchronicle.com/2025/10/10/i...

Indiana executes Roy Lee Ward for 2001 murder of teenager Stacy Payne • Indiana Capital Chronicle

Death row inmate Roy Lee Ward was executed by lethal injection early Friday morning at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City.

indianacapitalchronicle.com

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 1d

1. A new journal report in the prestigious Medical Journal of Australia eviscerates the Cass review, saying it is filled with fallacies and launders anti-trans disinformation.

It methodically goes through each problem in the review.

The latest from S. Baum.

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New Journal Report: Cass Review “Echoes Fallacies Promoted By Anti-Trans Disinformation”

While American lawyers pushed the anti-trans Cass Review this week, Australia’s top scholars rebuked it.

www.erininthemorning.com

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MyKidsMomBB8 @mykidsmombb8.bsky.social · 1d

Beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

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Rosanna McGlone @rosannamcglone.bsky.social · 1d

A little Spanish sunshine #Sevilla #photosky #photography ##landscapephotography

White narrow house in Seville with green bushes on roof, blue sky beyond, terracotta tower to the right.

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MyKidsMomBB8 @mykidsmombb8.bsky.social · 1d

Perfect
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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MyKidsMomBB8 @mykidsmombb8.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Friday 🥳🥂

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 1d

Too early to be able to type, apparently.

Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 1d

Urgh it’s far too fucking early… 🥱

Morning gorgeou nerds! It’s Friday!

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 11d

I teach a history of antifascism course @ruhistorydept.bsky.social and figured I'd start an ongoing thread this semester to share some insights from course readings and recommend some great works on antifascism.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

"Indonesia has drawn a clear line for decades...That stance was never about pettiness or isolationism, it was a reflection of Indonesia’s conviction that no sporting event should legitimize an apartheid state,”

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