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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 7h

"Republicans estimate that 32% of Democrats are LGBT when in reality it is 6%; Democrats estimate that 38% of Republicans earn over $250,000 per year when in reality it is 2%"

Reading an academic article on "political sectarianism.:"

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 21h

For #spacetober_challenge day 8 prompt propulsion, my portrait of #mathematician, aeronautical #engineer, philanthropist & Cherokee ‘hidden figure’ of the space race: Mary Golda Ross (1908-2008).⁠ 🧪🐡🧮🔭👩🏻‍🔬 #histsci
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Great-great-granddaughter of Chief John Ross, who was forced to lead his people on the

Linocut portrait of Mary Golda Ross looking over her shoulder in a gradient of green (at bottom) to gold (at top) surrounded by vehicles important to her career including P-38 Lighting fighter plane, and Agena rocket, important to Apollo missions in grey.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 7h

As I observed in my Substack Round Up this past week, the endgame of the military strikes against drug cartels in international waters is to lay the groundwork to use lethal military force against Americans at home. Pay attention open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

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Terre Logsdon @terreal.bsky.social · 7h

Fish and birds LOVE this! The AYCE bug buffet is open!

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Terre Logsdon @terreal.bsky.social · 7h

Did you know? Rachel Carson's book "Silent Spring" was about spraying DDT on these harmless, but a few times a year abundant, rice flies? That spraying nearly wiped out Grebes on Clear Lake, a major nesting lake for them, crashing population numbers.

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Terre Logsdon @terreal.bsky.social · 7h

I love that our Vector Control District Manager and Research Director is such a bug nerd. I'll get to test this in just a few minutes as we're having swarms this week!

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Terre Logsdon @terreal.bsky.social · 7h

"You can see this by standing near a hovering swarm of Rice Flies and talking - notice how the swarm moves in reaction to your voice? If you're not squeamish about insects, you can hum loudly at the right frequency and attract a whole swarm to you! As soon you stop humming, they will fly away!"

Rice Fly vs Mosquito

Large emergences of harmless Rice Flies occur in Lake County a few times each year. Rice Fly is the local name for a non-biting chironomid midge that…

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onion person @junlper.beer · 10h

if every democrat doesn’t use the “we took freedom of speech away” on every messaging apparatus they have every single day for the next 4 years assume they want to lose

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 10h

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 10h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 9h

i am not saying the world has gone completely bonkers but
the world has gone absolutely completely bonkers

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 3d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

Dolly Parton's sister is asking fans to "pray with me" amid the country music icon's health issues

Dolly Parton’s Sister Says ‘I Was Up All Night Praying’ Amid Country Icon’s Health Issues and Asks Fans to ‘Pray With Me’

Dolly Parton's sister Frieda is asking fans of the Queen of Country to "pray with me" amid Dolly's continued health struggles.

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Sophie W @biologizing.bsky.social · 1d

The Newfoundland and Labrador public libraries continue to make the absolute best free pins that you can just have if you go to borrow a book

A pin on a desk, it has a codfish silhouette holding a library card, with the words "having fun isn't hard when you've got a library cod"

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Terre Logsdon @terreal.bsky.social · 2d

You should! f(Not that anyone here would like Lake County to be part of the study), but with the decrease in insurers, Fire Districts are constantly hearing of homes falling out of escrow. Now with the new LRA FHSZ map adoption...

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Terre Logsdon @terreal.bsky.social · 2d

Car dealership repair shop person even sent a text that said my review would "directly reflect on me so if for any reading you feel I didn't provide a 10 star service, please let me know" - sheesh. Companies, stop this.

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Terre Logsdon @terreal.bsky.social · 2d

I am so tired of being hounded by text, call, and email to give my review - dentist to car rental - and everything in between.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 2d

Unacceptable to put the costs of the AI boom on the backs of families struggling to pay their bills. It’s a crisis.

Nick Cunningham @nickcunningham.bsky.social · 2d

“By 2028, an average family in the region will be paying around $70 a month extra on their electricity bills because of forecasted data center growth”

I'm once again asking why ratepayers are subsidizing AI titans?

www.eenews.net/articles/dat...

Data center boom sparks sticker shock for PJM ratepayers

New analyses show that costs passed on to utility customers to guarantee future electricity demand are rising rapidly.

www.eenews.net

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3d

"Well I'm not a policy maker"

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Cathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social · 3d

This is jawdropping. The idea that a state about to be invaded by out-of-state soldiers that Trump is moving around the nation like chess pieces has no standing to object to the invasion!

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 3d

DOJ: Well, CA NG already federalized, and ...

Judge: Anything else you want to argue?

DOJ: Yes, your honor. OR and Portland lack standing to challenge relocation of out-of-state National Guard. Only CA could possibly sue under 12406, but CA can't establish standing or irreparable harm.

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 3d

In one sense, this is the Admin recklessly undermining basic norms of liberal democracy.

In another sense, this is the sweatiest flailing around since Giuliani was giving conferences outside a landscaping shop. It's just blindly groping around for any lever of power, regardless of how dumb it is.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 3d

BREAKING: Gov. Newsom says Trump is sending 300 California National Guard members to Oregon after a judge blocked his Portland troop deployment plan.

California governor says Trump is sending 300 California National Guard members to Oregon

California Gov. Gavin Newsom says the Trump administration is sending 300 California National Guard members to Oregon.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 3d

everybody i know is very, very tired. wishing everyone some true rest tonight.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 3d

I’m telling you: ridicule works. These guys are supposed to intimidate the citizenry and it’s very hard to do that when a guy in a frog suit is just staring you down and daring you to do something that makes it look like you’re afraid of a cartoon