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Legal editor. Amateur 🍄photographer, photos taken on my 2020 iPhoneSE. Obsessed w/nature/dogs/science/sci-fi/music/movies/books Hometown: Pittsburgh, living in PNW. #Vegan 🗳️💙 She/her Owned by a rescue dog #AdoptDontShop No DMs unless I know you.

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@amyb88(8/8 is my🎂, nothing else)bsky.social 🍄🍄‍🟫 @amyb8888.bsky.social · Nov 20

I posted my favorite mushroom photo I’ve ever taken (and I’ve taken thousands!) when I first joined, but I didn’t know about #fungifriends yet, so I’m reposting it. Waxcap. #naturephotography #forestfloor

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it's Candy Love @candylovely.bsky.social · 2d

Rev. David Black who was shot multiple times by ICE with rubber bullets speaks.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 1h

Just so everyone is clear, the main issue in the Supreme Court voting rights case tomorrow is whether it's racist against white people to enforce the Voting Rights Act.

I'm dead serious. We live in incredibly stupid times.

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JB @wodafuh.bsky.social · 1h

Also check out www.pbs.org/show/slavery.... Slavery was suspended from 1865 to 1876, when federal troops were withdrawn from the South. After that it was reinstated in a variety of heinous forms.

Slavery by Another Name

Slavery by Another Name explores new forms of de facto slavery after the Civil War.

www.pbs.org

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@amyb88(8/8 is my🎂, nothing else)bsky.social 🍄🍄‍🟫 @amyb8888.bsky.social · 1h

Bonus fungus photo: If you ever wondered about the scale of some of the fungi I photograph... Fairy parachutes/Marasmiellus candidus
#fungifriends

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@amyb88(8/8 is my🎂, nothing else)bsky.social 🍄🍄‍🟫 @amyb8888.bsky.social · 1h

alf from the sitcom sits on a window sill with the words excellent response below him

ALT: alf from the sitcom sits on a window sill with the words excellent response below him

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 2h

Can I use AI to block AI?

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@amyb88(8/8 is my🎂, nothing else)bsky.social 🍄🍄‍🟫 @amyb8888.bsky.social · 2h

He’s such a piece of shit.

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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 2h

Mike "Little" Johnson sees no lines crossed.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 7h

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@amyb88(8/8 is my🎂, nothing else)bsky.social 🍄🍄‍🟫 @amyb8888.bsky.social · 3h

A fungus photo a day: Crepidotus applanatus. I never get tired of all the gill formations I find.
#fungifriends #fungi #mycology #naturephotography

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19h

They also cancelled government data collection about hunger to minimize evidence about their policies

José Sepúlveda @josesepulveda.bsky.social · 1d

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the #Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.

My latest video for @propublica.org.

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@amyb88(8/8 is my🎂, nothing else)bsky.social 🍄🍄‍🟫 @amyb8888.bsky.social · 4h

Watch this.

The Truth about Slavery. Did slavery truly end or did it just change its name?l

YouTube video by Marco J Williams

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@amyb88(8/8 is my🎂, nothing else)bsky.social 🍄🍄‍🟫 @amyb8888.bsky.social · 14h

YASSSSS!!!!!

a man with glasses and a mustache is wearing a white shirt that says finally on it

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TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 19h

Last post of the day. Learn how to protect yourself.

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@amyb88(8/8 is my🎂, nothing else)bsky.social 🍄🍄‍🟫 @amyb8888.bsky.social · 20h

If you need three peaceful minutes, this was our hiking break by a lake today. Sound up for a very vocal frog, some birds, a fly or two, and Beckett having a scratch.

Daily hike 10/13/25: Three minutes by the lake

YouTube video by Daily hikes in the PNW

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@amyb88(8/8 is my🎂, nothing else)bsky.social 🍄🍄‍🟫 @amyb8888.bsky.social · 21h

Always pay attention when you’re out hiking, a wild animal could be stalking you.

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@amyb88(8/8 is my🎂, nothing else)bsky.social 🍄🍄‍🟫 @amyb8888.bsky.social · 1d

The term narcissistic personality disorder was coined by Heinz Kohut, an Austrian-born American psychoanalyst, in 1968, but it’s been around as long as mankind has existed. Yet people still do not recognize and understand NPD and its consequences.

And now we have our own Emperor Nero.

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@amyb88(8/8 is my🎂, nothing else)bsky.social 🍄🍄‍🟫 @amyb8888.bsky.social · 1d

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@amyb88(8/8 is my🎂, nothing else)bsky.social 🍄🍄‍🟫 @amyb8888.bsky.social · 1d

Bonus fungus photos: Me trying to be artsy with some guttation on a polypore. #fungifriends

“Guttation is the expression of metabolic byproducts from mushroom metabolism that can be seen oozing out of the fruiting body.”

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Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 1d

ICE is met with a strong resistance from the Chicagoans that they decide to retreat and leave the scene. Don’t give them any rest!

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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 1d

Bari Weiss always fails up. Always. CBS news is a joke. This is an article from an internet shitposter on CBS News and yes they spelled Zohran Mamdani's name wrong.

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 1d

CBS News would never put a thinly sourced 'story' by a rookie blogger like this on it's air. Until now. The Free Press isn't a journalism outlet, it's bloggers aren't reporters. This piece is more NYPost than Tiffany Network but I guess that's the goal.

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Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming the NYC mayor, The Free Press reports

The Free Press spoke to several New York City Police Department officers who are worried about Zohran Mamdani becoming mayor. Olivia Reingold joins CBS News with more.

www.cbsnews.com

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Kate @gaylekate.bsky.social · 1d

Rising AI power needs prompted demand for behind-the-meter fuel cell technology, as AI data centers in US require massive power and rapid deployment beyond legacy grids

[AI ABOUT TO CRASH ENERGY GRIDS ALL OVER THIS & UBER RICH WHO BOUGHT IN WILL FLEE ACCOUNTABILITY]

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Bloom Energy shares soar 25% after striking deal with Brookfield to provide fuel cells to AI data centers

Shares of Bloom Energy surged Monday after striking a $5 billion partnership with Brookfield to deploy fuel cells for artificial intelligence data centers.

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@amyb88(8/8 is my🎂, nothing else)bsky.social 🍄🍄‍🟫 @amyb8888.bsky.social · 1d

4/4 Finally, a completely open cap, I’ll be going back in a week or so to check the area again!

@amyb88(8/8 is my🎂, nothing else)bsky.social 🍄🍄‍🟫 @amyb8888.bsky.social · 1d

3/4 There was a piece of grass on this one that left this pattern when careful pulled off.

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@amyb88(8/8 is my🎂, nothing else)bsky.social 🍄🍄‍🟫 @amyb8888.bsky.social · 1d

2/4 The spots on amanitas are remnants of the volva that surrounds them when they come out of the ground. The pieces will either cling or fall off, so some have very few like the baby one above and some will have lots. The cap opening or rain etc may remove more.

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