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Count Avi Henriques 🩸 @legalizegoblins.bsky.social · 7d

IT'S HERE: My new zine, The Mitzvah of Anti-Zionism, is available for purchase! Zines are a way to put your passion into the world, and I am passionate about Judaism and Palestinian liberation, so this zine explores those topics together. $2, free shipping, US only. Shares appreciated! #zines

The Mitzvah of Anti-Zionism Zine

This 8-page-long half-page zine examines anti-Zionism through a Jewish lens, exploring Jewish anti-Zionist history and resistance. Learn how anti-Zionism connects to Jewish values of healing the world...

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simone @virsamajor.bsky.social · 20d

I enjoy The Descent!

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Carolina VonKampen 📚 Freelance Editor @carolinavonkampen.com · 20d

To be a great #editor, you have to be an empathetic person. (And that's a thing #AI can't do.)

To be an irreplaceable human editor, you need:
📌 Expertise
📌 Tenacity
📌 Investment

#VCON25 #ACESVCon25 #amediting #freelanceeditor #copyediting #copyeditor #bookeditor #aiediting

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Luis Loza @donatoclassic.bsky.social · 20d

October looms! Give me your horror movie recommendations. Gonna try to watch one each day. (I always watch REC on October 31st.)

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Science Blog @scienceblog.com · 20d

Hidden Heart Damage: How COVID Continues Haunting Millions

Five million people worldwide may be walking around with cardiac long COVID, their hearts silently struggling months or years after their initial infection cleared. While most recovered patients believe they've moved past the virus, new…

Hidden Heart Damage: How COVID Continues Haunting Millions

Five million people worldwide may be walking around with cardiac long COVID, their hearts silently struggling months or years after their initial infection cleared. While most recovered patients believe they've moved past the virus, new European guidelines reveal a darker reality: COVID-19 has triggered a cardiovascular crisis that extends far beyond hospital walls. The comprehensive report, published today in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, represents the first major consensus on managing COVID's lasting heart effects.

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 20d

the ai sludge that buckaroo authors are now endlessly sent by robots summarizing their books and then offering 'promotional services' is very annoying, but i did have a good laugh that the made up name some dang computer came up with to sound like a real editor was HARPER COLLINSWORTH

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hurlepat.bsky.social @hurlepat.bsky.social · 22d

I got to playtest and work on Pathfinder Quest and can attest this game is going to be awwwwwwwwwesome :)

Paizo @paizo.com · 22d

Pathfinder Quest is live on BackerKit! Check out today's blog to learn about the game, campaign exclusives, and see how you can shape the destiny of Darkmoon Vale!

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The Pathfinder Quest board game box sits vertically on a dark stone table with light emulating sunlight coming from the top right corner.

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Lynne M. Meyer | coffee-fueled, autistic, witchy, spoonie @lynnemeyer.bsky.social · 22d

FUNDED IN 82 MINUTES! 🙌🏻 Let’s smash those stretch goals!

Proud to be edit lead for this incredible game. Pathfinder Quest is so fun and I can’t wait for you all to play it!

Paizo @paizo.com · 22d

It's the final countdown! Join us on Twitch NOW to gear up for the launch of our new co-op board game, Pathfinder Quest!

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Jes the human 🔜 Twitch Con @jesthehuman.itch.io · 22d

Good morning to everyone who has found better wizarding world media to consume than support the one that fuels bigotry and hate against the trans community, and to them only.

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 23d

Frog and Toad flying a kite together, standing on a rocky outcropping.

From "A List"
In *Frog and Toad Together*

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 23d

Wherever you are, please attend an ICE Watch training. Then link up with a rapid response network, if you're able to do so. In Chicago, trainings are happening regularly. Once you manage to attend one, you can contact OCAD about getting plugged into a rapid response network.

Volunteer Sign Up - Organized Communities Against Deportations

We are a movement against deportations and the criminalization of our people. Undocumented. Unapologetic. Unafraid. Unidxs.

www.organizedcommunities.org

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 23d

Do not assume that everything they set out to do is inevitable. They have been successfully fought on multiple fronts, from courtroom wins that have actually stuck to city and state governments that haven't backed down, to activists in the streets organizing against their violence.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 26d

your moment of calm: three baby raccoons playing a little tug o war with a dog toy and enjoying the kiddie pool.

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simone @virsamajor.bsky.social · 26d

"I won’t celebrate his death, but I’m not obligated to celebrate his life, either."

Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 26d

I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning

The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn't a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division

www.thenation.com

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 26d

there's a weird feedback loop where the media's reaction to kirk's death pushes you to speak more ill of the dead than you otherwise would because it's the only reasonable response to the simpering praise they're heaping on him

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Aled Thompson @aledthompson.bsky.social · 26d

A leafy fern fox 🍃🦊

A fox like creature with long pointy ears and a leafy tail stood in a puddle in a forest

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Léan 🌷 @kyotosparty.bsky.social · Sep 5

My friends.
We have a prototype!!!!!

A picture of the book nook prototype in between some larger books

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Humble @humblebundle.com · 28d

Get a collection of Pathfinder resources from core rulebooks to Adventure Paths and beyond.

The Pathfinder Primer Bundle supports Take This | https://bit.ly/4m35uap

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 28d

Source:

House appropriators snub Kennedy, include mRNA vaccine funding in spending bill

Lawmakers have snubbed health secretary RFK Jr. by including an amendment in a spending bill mandating that an agency under his purview continue to research messenger RNA vaccines.

www.statnews.com

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.bsky.social · 28d

Hey I know a great way we can ALL honor the life of #CharlieKirk and his influence!

By signing this petition through the Sandy Hook Promise, operated by the parents of the Sandy Hook victims, to support gun violence legislation nationwide! takeaction.sandyhookpromise.org/a/preventsch...

Sign the Petition
Demanding the Senate
Pass Expanded
Background Checks
Expanding background checks on gun sales is a commonsense reform that we know would protect children from gun violence. But it's been a year since the House of Representatives passed this bipartisan legislation, and the Senate still hasn't voted on this critical legislation.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29d

better things are possible!!!!

KRQE News 13 @krqe.com · Sep 9

Governor announces New Mexico will now provide free universal child care

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – New Mexico is becoming the first state in the U.S. to offer free early childhood education to every family in the state. Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham announced a universal ch…

www.krqe.com

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simone @virsamajor.bsky.social · 29d

Oh good, did we? I got a prescription to get mine last weekend and am working on it for my spouse via zoomcare, but if we don't need one anymore even better

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simone @virsamajor.bsky.social · 29d

Get it together, Oregon????

Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 29d

Updated COVID vaccine availability map 9/9

It's most difficult to get a shot in these states, which require prescriptions and have no MinuteClinics: ME, OR, UT, WV

These states require prescriptions but do have MinuteClinics: AZ, DC, FL, GA, LA, NC, VA

In all other states, no prescription needed

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · Sep 7

The lack of mainstream coverage of regular huge protests reminds me of a talk from a Twitter employees who explained that they had to drop BLM off the Trending Tags section because otherwise it would have been there permanently. The modern media environment has no appetite for sustained movements.

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · Sep 6

The crowd has no beginning and no end as it begins its march to the White House

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simone @virsamajor.bsky.social · Sep 8

Needed a prescription (🫠🙄) but got my updated covid + flu booster at Walgreens yesterday 🎉🎉

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