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Annalise Ophelian @dr-ophelian.bsky.social · 3h

The documentary I made with Miss Major 10 years ago is on Vimeo on Demand. If you want to spend some time with her on screen tonight and learn some abolitionist trans history while you're at it, it's free to rent with the code "shinebright" vimeo.com/ondemand/major

Watch MAJOR! Online | Vimeo On Demand

The award-winning documentary "MAJOR!" follows the life and campaigns of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a Black transgender elder who has been fighting for…

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Maya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social · 3h

Rest in Power, Miss Major.💔

On solidarity: “We can’t go it alone… I mean, you can try, and get knocked down and get up and try again, and get knocked down and get up and try again. But that’s how it’ll be, until somebody helps you up and says, let me stand with you.”
truthout.org/articles/a-m...

A Mother’s Day Chat With Revolutionary Trans Activist Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

Janet Mock has called Miss Major, who has nurtured generations of queer and trans youth, “the mother we all deserve.”…

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Cultural Champ @culturalchamp.bsky.social · 1h

“the shrew’s extinction increases the tally of Australian mammals extinct since 1788 TO 39 SPECIES.

This is FAR MORE THAN ANY OTHER COUNTRY.

These losses represent ~10% of all Aust’s land mammal species before colonisation.

It is a deplorable record of trashing an extraordinary legacy.”

Australian Mammal Society @ausmammals.bsky.social · 19h

Sad news for Australian mammals..Australia's only shrew officially declared #extinct.
theconversation.com/and-then-the...

And then there were none: Australia’s only shrew declared extinct

Australia’s only known shrew has been declared extinct. Its loss emphasises the need for national protection of Australia’s rare and unique wildlife.

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Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 3h

Vote now, if you haven't already, for the Guardian's Bird of the Year 2025

It helps to nominate a bird that's endangered, giving it a much higher profile - like Baudin's black cockatoo for example

Please vote - this is a wonderful environmental exercise

🙏🏽 🦜

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Australian bird of the year 2025: vote for your favourite #birdoftheyear in the Guardian / BirdLife Australia poll

From little penguins to (very big) cassowaries, every bird has its fans. Vote for your favourite in the 2025 Guardian/BirdLife Australia poll

www.theguardian.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16h

Paul Simon, born today in 1941.

“It’s a cliché,” he said, “but music really IS the closest we come to a universal language. It crosses borders as effortlessly as a cloud.”

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 14h

Least Chipmunk relaxing in the afternoon sun
(Neotamias minimus)
#mammals 🌿

Least chipmunk is relaxing on a metal fence post backlit by the afternoon sun. There is barbed wire connected to the post. The chipmunk is looking off to its left. The background is soft focus tan and gold.

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Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦 @secondnaturemb.bsky.social · 14h

In a week from now, I'll be back out on the tundra to see these big, beautiful bears. I can't wait! 🌿🐻‍❄️ #mammals

Two large, male polar bears spar on their hind legs in the misty morning sun, among the flashes of gold of a few remaining willow leaves. The bear on the left is biting the cheek of the bear on the right.

A polar bear sits pensively among the bare willows as light snow flutters around it.

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 14h

Israeli leaders screamed their genocidal intent at the top of their lungs all the way through.

No crime in history has been so confessed to as it actually happened.

But almost all Western media outlets suppressed this.

Kudos to @scotnational.bsky.social for not being one of them.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 13h

Pretty sure I say this every Columbus Day, but getting hauled back to Spain for excessive brutality in 1500, just as the Inquisition was really getting fired up, is some genuinely Evil Guys Hall of Infamy material

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Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 13h

It infuriates me that as human-made porn is being increasingly censored across the board, AI porn is not only allowed, but celebrated. And AI porn exists because of stolen content from non-consenting, unpaid human pornographers. It's maddening.

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 4d

“I still can’t believe how unhinged the last update was. Not only the nudity but the motions, boobs bounces more realistically, it’s incredible.”

Elon Musk's xAI seems to have relaxed filters on Grok's video generation, allowing users to create and share explicit AI pornography.

Musk's AI Is Being Used to Make Hardcore Porn: 'Grok Is Learning Genitalia Really Fast!'

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Tairāwhiti Doc @tairawhitidoc.bsky.social · 10h

Cloudy start to the day, Tuesday, 14 October, from Wainui Beach, Aotearoa / New Zealand.

Some bonus morning content: a sea lion pup from my walk and hillside sheep and lambs.

Ata mārie / Good Morning ☀️

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 9h

Wild that anyone bothers to celebrate Columbus when they could just pick anyone at random who’s ever made a wrong turn.

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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 23h

"If someone has a payment suspension & they want to challenge it & they believe it's either unfair or unlawful, do you hold all the information that you need in the system?"

DEWR: "In some cases the notes aren't detailed enough for us to make a full assessment"

extraordinary misadministration

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 1d

A gray cat labled Derek about to leap onto an unsuspecting orange cat labeled Matt

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

My latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."

They Came for Our Neighbors. We Showed Up.

Before long, there were dozens, and then hundreds of people in the streets, watching and responding.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather

The late (or at least severely delayed) Bergholt Stuttley Johnson was generally recognized as the worst inventor in the world, yet in a very specialized sense. Merely bad inventors made things that failed to operate. He wasn’t among these small fry. Any fool could make something that did absolutely nothing when you pressed the button. He scorned such fumble-fingered amateurs. Everything he built worked. It just didn’t do what it said on the box. If you wanted a small ground-to-air missile, you asked Johnson to design an ornamental fountain.

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Cultural Champ @culturalchamp.bsky.social · 1d

blows

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raven-mumur @raven-murmur.bsky.social · 1d

It's entirely typical of the messenger and his constituency that such inflammatory speech fed the fire resulting in dead police in Wieambilla and Porepunkah. Elected politicians using metaphors promoting violence normalize the weak minded's conviction that their violence is righteous.

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 1d

National/ACT Coalition government spends over $100,000 a year on a road cone hotline that increasingly hardly anyone uses - with each call leading to less than one road cone removed.

And they took this funding from real worksafe work

WTAF #nzpol #kiwi

After 5 months of the heralded ‘tipline’, just 204 road cones are confirmed gone

In Whanganui, information from the Government’s own Road Cone Tipline had actually led to more cones being put out than taken away. In Wellington, 110 complaints resulted in just two cones being remov...

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Mike Melton @mikemelton.bsky.social · 1d

I spent some time with the young Agami Herons yesterday at Agami Island #costarica

So many youngsters are still around the colony, busy fishing in the canals. The adults are long gone now and the kids are own their own.

#birds #herons #nature #wildlife

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Cultural Champ @culturalchamp.bsky.social · 1d

‘Truth Overboard’ Howard

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Cultural Champ @culturalchamp.bsky.social · 1d

Good thread
(responding to small minds)

#auspol

Dr Ingrid M @ingridm.bsky.social · 1d

poor old Tony Abbott is on the public broadcaster dismissing the oldest and longest continuous oral histories in the history of humanity as “hearsay” how’s your morning going.

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 1d

We’ve been saying this forever. The social media ban will harm kids

ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 1d

LGBTIQA+ advocates are concerned the social media ban will have a significant impact on queer youth in regional and remote areas of Australia. They say there are not enough offline, physical supports for these teens to access when the ban comes into effect.

LGBTQIA+ advocates say social media ban will 'cut off' regional queer teens

LGBTIQA+ advocates are concerned the social media ban will have a significant impact on queer youth in regional and remote areas of Australia. They say there are not enough offline, physical supports for these teens to access when the ban comes into effect.

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 1d

One of the many touching things that happened this past week was that my friends at @merrymacsanctuary.bsky.social named a new rabbit after Fergus. Like my Fergus, he is BIG and soft and sweet and has huge adorable paws.

Photo of a very handsome brown rabbit, sitting up and looking disapprovingly at the camera.

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Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social · 1d

Watch reporter John Lyons’ story Chasing Trump’s Billions, on #4Corners ABC TV tonight 8.30 AEST & support public interest #journalism. Via YouTube for international viewers. This story famously led Donald #Trump to threaten John’s questions were “hurting Australia”.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

As Trump's wealth skyrockets, accusations of conflicts of interest mount

Donald Trump's wealth has skyrocketed since his return to the White House nine months ago, leading to accusations that he is profiting from the presidency.

www.abc.net.au

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