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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 4h

Good. Every single blue state needs to make it exceedingly clear that any college or university will immediately lose funding if they sign Trumps fascist, anti-education "compact"

Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 11h

Virginia State Senate Dems just brought down fire and fury regarding the “Compact,” notifying the President and Rector that UVA would lose ALL STATE APPROPRIATIONS if it signs and cedes the University to “federal political control.” Notably, their letter directly restates points made here by @siva.

Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 13h

The “compact” for higher ed is an unserious document written by unserious people from a position of spectacular ignorance. No one should take it seriously. Sadly, my bosses are taking it seriously.

newrepublic.com/article/2013...

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Dr Alex Cruikshanks @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 7h

Pretty wild that they managed to arrest Rosa Thälmann considering she's been dead since 1962.

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 8h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Nobilis Reed @nobilis.bsky.social · 5h

This ain't JDV because he's quite full actually

Weird Spy Satellite @weirdsatellite.bsky.social · 5h

MASINT #5518 from Zuma (CONFIDENTIAL)

1. House of Oblique Blogs
2. Empty Couchfuckers
3. Misty Spice

Aerial satellite photo labelled in bright yellow letters:

1. House of Oblique Blogs
2. Empty Couchfuckers
3. Misty Spice

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 5h

Srsly now more than ever we need this comic to be a massive hit.

We need comics companies and everyone else to see that trans creators and trans characters belong in our four-color splashy heroic adventures

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 5h

Heyyyy! Wanna do something awesome for trans creators today?

Galaxy 2: As the World Falls Down is available for preorder. It's the sequel to Galaxy the Prettiest Star by @planetx.bsky.social and @ryehickman.bsky.social and it's gonna be BEAUTIFUL.

LINK:
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/799756...

Galaxy 2: As The World Falls Down by Jadzia Axelrod: 9781799503446 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

The highly anticipated sequel to the YA trans coming-out graphic novel Galaxy: The Prettiest Star brings more romance, more action, and more queer joy as Taylor faces her biggest fear: the Vane. Tayl...

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

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Nobilis Reed @nobilis.bsky.social · 18h

My wife passed away three years ago. The pain never diminishes. But it happens less often.

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Grem, of 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐏 🔜 MCAtlanta! @gremlin.world · 3d

I will never not repost this

(Sound on for maximum effect)

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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · Sep 21

So one key part of the venture capitalists thinking taking over the world is as a mode of production they don’t understand the idea that people can decide not to buy a product

Trans Ferdinand: Robot Princess @emdashreed.bsky.social · Sep 21

Silicon Valley: We have invented The Plagiarism Machine, it will replace all creative endeavors!

Capitalism: Awesome, let’s get rid of all the creatives and use The Plagiarism Machine!

Also Capitalism: Oh no, all The Plagiarism Machine does is plagiarize, let’s get creatives to fix it!

Rest of World @restofworld.org · Sep 21

Most AI creative writing is… bad, so firms are on a spree hiring poets, novelists, and other humanities experts to try to fix it

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💞Sabrina💞 @sabrinarina.bsky.social · 1d

Oregon National Guard Adjutant General, General Gronewold says if they are federalized, that he will advise the Title 10 commander to utilize National Guard Troops to PROTECT protesters at ICE facilities. This is the right answer.

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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 1d

There are 1.6B cars on earth.

CNN @cnn.com · 2d

The people who are most vulnerable to the hard-to-breathe air that comes with climate change may inadvertently be adding to the problem, new research finds. https://cnn.it/4pWQMoh

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 1d

Window Screen

xkcd.com/3151/

4-panel comic. (1) [person in front of window, shaped like a trapezoid with a curved top] This weekend, I had to make an oversized screen for a porch window. (2) [person sitting with hands on head surrounded by images of assorted equations and measurements] It involved countless tiny problems, each somehow way harder than it should be. Oblique angles. Curved edges. Noncoplanarity. (3) [person in front of window with screen on it, with building detritus strewn on the ground] ...I solved them all. I measured precisely. I did trigonometry. I made custom parts. And it fit *perfectly.* No gaps, no ripples. (4) [person typing at computer] I know that your foundation normally limits its purview to physics, medicine, peace, chemistry, and literature. However, if you review the attached photos showing how well the screen fits into the...

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Fantômas, Le contrebandier de DEI @theefantomas.bsky.social · 1d

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 1d

This is Adelita Grijalva.

She was elected to Congress two weeks ago, officially making her the final vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files.

She has still not been sworn in because Mike Johnson refuses to do so.

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Nobilis Reed @nobilis.bsky.social · 1d

I'm glad to have news like this.

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 1d

For the first time in history renewable energy sources are now generating more power than coal worldwide.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time

Record solar expansion and steady wind growth driving world’s shift away from fossil fuels in 2025, report finds

www.theguardian.com

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 3d

Bluesky, thinking it was building a protocol, stumbled into running a platform filled with a highly active user base.

All they have to do is not fuck it up and they got a business here!

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Nobilis Reed @nobilis.bsky.social · 3d

The same thing happened with Rush Limbaugh.

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Nobilis Reed @nobilis.bsky.social · 3d

This animation gives me feelings.

Richard Easther @rjme.bsky.social · 3d

New paper -- looking at "wild oscillons"; these are stationary solutions to the wave equation which describes the contents of the universe in many theories of the first trillionth of a second after the Big Bang

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Nobilis Reed @nobilis.bsky.social · 3d

What in the...

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 4d

wizard frog is insane

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Nobilis Reed @nobilis.bsky.social · 3d

@lingthusiasm.bsky.social Have you ever done a podcast on words like bud, bub, man, dude, and bro? The words that people use as replacements for a name?

Nobilis Reed @nobilis.bsky.social · 3d

Same, except it has been more like 20 or 30 years

Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 3d

Was talking to a 50-something friend who said they were telling a 20-something that big secret of adults is that no one feels they're an adult.

I know this is a common saying, but I don't vibe w/it at all. Certainly not for last 10 or 15 years.

I feel very much like an exhausted, weary adult.

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James Enge @jamesenge.bsky.social · 4d

AI at its peak.

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 4d

So this is a quick and dirty low down on drug addiction and nursing.

At one point, it was really easy for both doctors and nurses to steal drugs from hospitals. Which resulted in A METRIC FUCKTON OF CHANGES to prevent the candystore from being abused. Meds have to be checked out and are attached

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 4d

JD VANCE: "My mother got the drugs that almost killed her from Mexicans."

REALITY: JD's mother got the drugs that almost killed her from her hospital patients, whom she stole from.