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RDS (formerly shawphd)

@rds773.bsky.social

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Former historian, current indexer. She/her, cis. Cats, nature, crafts, sci fi/fantasy. Covid aware. Chicago parent. GenX. West Coast ex-pat. I block & mute freely. [email protected] Need an index for your book in the humanities or social sciences? DM me.

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RDS (formerly shawphd) @rds773.bsky.social · Sep 3

What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders?

Indexes in books are written by actual humans and cannot be done automatically by computers

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Oct 16

What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders?

More than half the CO₂ emissions of the Industrial Age have been pumped into the atmosphere since 1990.

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Oct 16

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?

Literally nothing is 'carbon neutral'. It is a physical impossibility. If someone's telling you their product has zero climate impact, they're actively deciding to lie to you.

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RDS (formerly shawphd) @rds773.bsky.social · 7h

I hope you get some rest and crossing fingers that it’s just an actual cold

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 10h

I love living in a city full of immigrants and tons and tons of people who are not at all like me and not like each other. It makes us all better and it makes our city better. I know I’m preaching to the choir by saying this on the lib app but I sometimes just get so overwhelmed by how special it is

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race scientist jack skellington @jazzpomegranate.com · 10h

this is who bsky banned for life

Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 1d

“As a neurodiversity advocate and as an autistic person, I’m really grateful for so much of the work that’s been done that allows me to be myself and to be successful being myself.” Link, who has been *banned*!?!? from this platform?

thinkingautismguide.com/2025/06/spac... #AutisticWhileBlack

Space Law, Race, and Neurodiversity: Autistic Advocate AJ Link

We live in a country & society that is built on racism. The neurodivergent community isn't free of that racism—per Autistic advocate AJ Link.

thinkingautismguide.com

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Erika Moen @erikamoen.bsky.social · 1d

A short, stupid fart comic is up for my patrons now and will go public for the rest'a you next week.
www.patreon.com/posts/140480...

Erika Moen draws with a cartoony, textured line against muted watercolor purples and yellows. Erika, a white woman in her early 40s with tattoos, leans against the armrest on her couch, while still holding her phone but it is lowered. Matthew, a bespectacled white man in his early 40s, sits against the other armrest, doodling on his ipad which he rests against his raised knee. The two are looking at each other, mid-discussion.

Text: Pitch Perfect by Erika Moen
patreon.com/ErikaMoen

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 2d

On the verge of a lot of potential Kent State situations out there. Be careful, friends.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 7d

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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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 10h

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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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 8h

yeah, healthcare costs resources! those resources have an environmental impact! the solution is to STOP FUCKING UP THE ENVIRONMENT FOR STUPID REASONS so it has the resiliency to support everyone! not to shame disabled and chronically ill people for accessing care.

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Needy Satiric @unclediss.bsky.social · 9h

Swipe to reveal the catmouflage. #disspics

A tree nestled between two sidewalks in Little Village, Chicago IL.

A close-up of the same tree reveals a camouflaged grey cat that was there all along.

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RDS (formerly shawphd) @rds773.bsky.social · 8h

A short attention span in a restauranteur isn’t great, no

RDS (formerly shawphd) @rds773.bsky.social · 8h

Oh good lord

Speaking as a former historian who’s worked with federal documents, if there are any “missing” or “hidden” records, I can 99% guarantee that they’re not digitized and are probably sitting in a misfiled dusty box somewhere

CNN @cnn.com · 10h

The Trump administration has ordered FBI employees in Washington, DC, to immediately search their workstations and digital media for any records pertaining to the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, a law enforcement source told CNN.

FBI employees ordered to immediately search for records related to Amelia Earhart, source says | CNN Politics

www.cnn.com

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RDS (formerly shawphd) @rds773.bsky.social · 8h

That’s good

I liked all the previous restaurants but wow the owners got bored quickly

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Katie West @katiewest.bsky.social · 10h

This book is extremely good. If you like sci fi with science that works, but character driven, read EDGES. (And then there's more books in the series waiting for you when you're done!)

Linda Nagata - (working on the final Inverted Frontier novel) @lindanagata.bsky.social · 14h

Book promo post:
Right now, the ebook edition of EDGES (arguably my most popular novel) is on sale for the "why not take a chance" price of 99¢🎉🚀! EDGES is a far-future, space-faring, nanotech-drenched adventure. Links and info at my website: mythicisland.com/inverted_fro...
#sciencefiction #scifi

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 10h

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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RDS (formerly shawphd) @rds773.bsky.social · 9h

They. Need. A. Comms. Team.

Maja Öberg @majaoeberg.bsky.social · 1d

I do find it hilarious how they immediately backtracked after this and deleted the comment

a member of bluesky saying "Yeh" in response to the above post, with a journalist responding asking to get their exact quote over the thread in which the bluesky member responds with "what" and the journalist then rephrasing the question only for the bluesky member to delete the entire thread

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Winifred Tylenol Spice Burton @authorwinifred.blacksky.app · 1d

It's why we're called Cassandras, I know, but there's something violent about being treated as mentally fragile for observing objective reality, because that makes people who are in denial feel safer and more in control.

Been here since 2020, but WHEW it's irritating everytime.

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RDS (formerly shawphd) @rds773.bsky.social · 9h

Oof

Better schedule the family flu vaccinations soon, looks like

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 9h

"Such an early and rapid spread suggests the influenza virus is adapting at an unprecedented pace. But this trend is not limited to Japan..."

Japan’s flu season hits 5 weeks early amid fears of an evolving virus

The government has declared a nationwide flu epidemic, prompting calls for vaccinations and heightened vigilance.

www.scmp.com

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 13h

wow that sounds like an issue for industry to solve

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

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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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 10h

Never forget that Dolly Parton gave a million bucks for covid research at the *very start* of the pandemic—including money that helped fund the development of the Moderna vaccine.

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RDS (formerly shawphd) @rds773.bsky.social · 9h

Doesn’t that just sum up his approach perfectly

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JoyousJoyfulJoyness @joyousjoyness.com · 9h

Timelapse of my painting "Pumpkin Cat," painted in Procreate! It's spooky season!

#art #blackcat #halloween #pumpkin #cat #painting

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RDS (formerly shawphd) @rds773.bsky.social · 9h

This

Angelinos, I see you and remember you and worry about you

geoffrey, 💀 mode @parsnip.bsky.social · 9h

it's still happening in la, by the way. like not to be that guy. but it increasingly happening elsewhere doesn't mean it stopped here

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 9h

Tell someone who can spare it to fund this pleas it would make my October and let me freelance and finish research on moderation while I consider PHD apps

Pwease I’m cute and I’m right about everything

🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · Apr 10

Welp it’s gotten real real if you can please help. If you can’t it’s really hard out here so share

gofund.me/a5ee0064

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Kody Okamoto @kodyisover.com · 11h

Since it's now news within our immediate circles, I can share: my partner got abruptly fired from his job (we had no idea it was coming; his boss chose to circumvent the normal steps you're supposed to go through to fire him while we were in Hawai‘i).

Kody Okamoto @kodyisover.com · 3d

just kidding times two, my partner and I got blindsided by some pretty bad news the day I posted this, I'll be fully back in office and online here on Monday.

if, in the meantime, you feel like supporting me by reading Keeping Time or joining my Patreon/SubStar, that would be a welcome reprieve.

Kody Okamoto @kodyisover.com · 6d

just kidding, I'm still pretty under the weather, so I'm extending my out-of-office until Friday!

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RDS (formerly shawphd) @rds773.bsky.social · 9h

Oh no