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apreviouslife.bsky.social @apreviouslife.bsky.social · 5h

Love this movie!

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 20h

We are fighting for true freedom. The freedom to live a life of dignity and joy.

A life of 80 hour work weeks, of constantly struggling to get by, being trapped in a shitty job by your health insurance — this is not freedom, and we are not free. But we could be. If we fight.

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apreviouslife.bsky.social @apreviouslife.bsky.social · 1d

Incredible and important work.

apreviouslife.bsky.social @apreviouslife.bsky.social · 2d

Omg yes! But it was EVERYONE talking about it.

apreviouslife.bsky.social @apreviouslife.bsky.social · 2d

🎯 I saw that, too

apreviouslife.bsky.social @apreviouslife.bsky.social · 2d

Always support taxi drivers! 🚕

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David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells.bsky.social · 3d

“The earth has reached its first catastrophic tipping point linked to greenhouse gas emissions, with warm water coral reefs now facing a long-term decline and risking the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people, according to a new report.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

www.theguardian.com

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apreviouslife.bsky.social @apreviouslife.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Birthday Chris!

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 4d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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apreviouslife.bsky.social @apreviouslife.bsky.social · 4d

So happy to learn about Piffaro! Had no idea it existed.

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Cormac MacFhionnlaoich @cormacscoast.bsky.social · 8d

Goniatite fossils packed throughout this piece of shale. The shells of these ancient relatives of Squid and Octopus must have littered the sea floor that covered this part of the earths surface over 300 million years ago.
County Clare, Ireland

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apreviouslife.bsky.social @apreviouslife.bsky.social · 9d

Beautiful pics!

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 9d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 12d

$200k to hang out with dogs. amazing

IG gabriel.desanti, barkandburn

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Hayden Clarkin @thetransitguy.com · 13d

In just 33 years, the Shanghai Metro went from not existing to becoming twice the size of the NYC subway system, while NYC only added a few miles of track and 5 new stations.

In my latest Substack (linked below), I talk about how we can build a lot of subways quickly in the USA

(Urbanrail.net)

A comparison of NYC and Shanghai's metro systems at 1992 and 2025

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14d

Number of new homes needed to return affordability to 1990s levels:

3-4 million.

(via Goldman) $XHB
@birdyword.bsky.social

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apreviouslife.bsky.social @apreviouslife.bsky.social · 14d

Very sad that I never knew about or went to a Jane Goodall Institute camp 😭 but what an incredible story

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santanumalbum.bsky.social @santanumalbum.bsky.social · 15d

George Hardy, Tuskegee Airman Who Fought in Three Wars, Dies at 100 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...

George Hardy, Tuskegee Airman Who Fought in Three Wars, Dies at 100

www.nytimes.com

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apreviouslife.bsky.social @apreviouslife.bsky.social · 14d

Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life:

1. Riding in a car with the windows down and the music turned up
2. Walking through crunchy fall leaves
3. Watching movies you loved when you were younger but had forgotten
4. Hot buttered bread
5. Unexpectedly coming across live music

Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · Sep 15

Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life:

1. Cold side of a pillow
2. Autumn in New York City, sweater-weather temperature
3. Crocs (the shoe, not the reptile)
4. Finding stuff after thinking you lost it
5. Cats

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apreviouslife.bsky.social @apreviouslife.bsky.social · 14d

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 14d

1. Dr. Jane Goodall 1934 - 2025

In 1962, a very young woman named Jane Goodall stepped into the African forest.

What she would discover shattered our understanding of the place of human beings in the world.

She revealed that chimpanzees use tools, form bonds, and experience emotions.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 15d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 16d

In a rural corner of Louisiana, Meta is building one of the world's largest data centers, a $10 billion behemoth as big as 70 football fields that will consume more power in a day than the entire city of New Orleans at the peak of summer.

New Meta Data Center Needs Twice as Much Energy as New Orleans

Meta is constructing its largest data center yet: a $10 billion facility in Louisiana requiring more than twice as much electricity as New Orleans.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18d

Miles, gone 34 years ago this weekend.

“People talk about ‘cool,’” he said, “but for us it wasn’t about being cool — it was about trying to find a different sound. The critics called it ‘cool.’ We just called it music.”

#RIP