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Jen Grogan 🐙📖📚 @eightarmsedits.bsky.social · 3h

That is one seriously contented and happy-looking cat. ♥️

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Mary Hrovat @maryhrovat.bsky.social · 1d

The two trunks of this tree remind me of dancers.

A tree with two trunks, seen from the side in a woods full of trees with green and yellow leaves.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 19h

Months before catastrophic floods swept through an Alaska Native village on Sunday, the Trump administration canceled a $20 million grant meant to protect the community from extreme flooding. At the time, the EPA administrator said he was eliminating "wasteful DEI and Environmental Justice grants."

E.P.A. Canceled $20 Million Flood Protection Grant to Alaska, Parts of Which Just Flooded

The remote village of Kipnuk planned to use the money to protect against flooding. On Sunday, it was inundated.

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Northwest Editors Guild @edsguild.bsky.social · 18h

We've got a new regular group for you to check out! Our Book Coaching Virtual Group debuts on 10/22 as a place to chat with fellow editors about book coaching!

*Note: This meeting is not for authors!

Free to attend, open to all editors, registration required at www.edsguild.org/meetings-eve...

Giant Pencil wearing tropical shirt and glasses. Text: @EdsGuild Virtual Event. Book Coaching Group.

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CNN @cnn.com · 21h

The forecast for the powerful and deadly storm that battered small communities in western Alaska over the weekend was likely made worse by a lack of weather data triggered by the Trump administration’s cuts.

Lack of weather data due to Trump’s budget cuts impacted forecast for deadly Alaska storm | CNN

The forecast for the powerful and deadly storm that battered small communities in western Alaska over the weekend was likely made worse by a lack of weather data triggered by the Trump administration’...

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Marie Brennan @swantower.bsky.social · 22h

<totters out onto porch>

<settles into rocker>

<thumps cane a few times>

Let's talk about what the process of submitting short fiction used to look like, shall we? And about what it looks like now.

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Dr. Robin Bond, biogeochemist at a PUI 🧪 @diygeochemist.bsky.social · 22h

This country needs more people employed at places like JPL, not fewer.

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Dr. Robin Bond, biogeochemist at a PUI 🧪 @diygeochemist.bsky.social · 22h

Awwww shit.

JPL was a big part of my life when I was young. (My ex used to work there. Long enough ago that many of his former coworkers are probably retired now, but still.)

It was a place of hope and excitement then, and everything I've seen since then said it still was.

Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.bsky.social · 1d

Layoff notices at JPL are going out today.

About 11% of the Lab, or 550 people, are being let go.

I'm thinking of my friends and colleagues there, some of whom will still be employed after today and some of whom won't.

I'm sorry you're having to deal with this.

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Jen Grogan 🐙📖📚 @eightarmsedits.bsky.social · 22h

Hooray! Look forward to seeing you there!

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Matinee Mode @matineemode.bsky.social · 1d

Take a few minutes to appreciate Drew Struzan creating the original artwork for THE PHANTOM MENACE. Truly a master at work.

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Jen Grogan 🐙📖📚 @eightarmsedits.bsky.social · 23h

I have this great yarn, I wound it during a meeting this morning, and now I'm all ready to knit...

But I can't find the Right Pattern. 😭

It's fingering wt highland wool in turquoise with black spun in, and I have 870 yds. I want to make either a tee or a shawl, I think, but can't decide which.

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 1d

The use of AI to marionette a woman whose tortured existence was spent trying to carve her own life and identity out of the space men forced her into is both damningly macabre and a surprisingly perfect encapsulation of the problems with this ghoulish use of technology.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 2d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

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

At one time in my life I wouldn't donate to fundraisers if I only had a little to give. It seemed too small to make a difference so why bother? Now I know that goals get achieved when LOTS of people give those small amounts! Let's smash this hay drive one $8 bale at a time. 🍂

Merrymac Farm Sanctuary @merrymacsanctuary.bsky.social · 1d

Truly, every bale matters and you can give one today for only $8! donorbox.org/mmfs-2025-ha...

2025 Hay Drive | Merrymac Farm Sanctuary (Powered by Donorbox)

Hay, grain and supplements are the #1 expense at MMFS. It's part of the foundation of the farm's daily activities. As you may imagine, we go through a LOT of it, and it's not cheap - costing $8 per ba...

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Dr. Tom Frieden @drtomfrieden.bsky.social · 1d

CDC is not a Democratic or Republican agency. It's an American agency. One in three employees have been lost in recent months. This is dismantling of our health protections, not reform.

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citrus sapling 🍋 mcm lnd 2p7 @citrussapling.bsky.social · 1d

I spy... With my 30-40cm diameter eye #art #watercolour #sciart

A watercolour painting of a colossal squid, with eyelashes on it's large eye. The text around it reads "I spy with my COLOSSAL eye".

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes there'll be a joke written by someone who's been dead for tens, hundreds of years & i'll stop and think about another human reaching through time to make another human laugh, long after they're gone, and it's so beautiful it makes me well up.

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most life-affirming literary opinion.

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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 1d

I know the temptation is to just scroll past this with a “not surprised” reaction, but you should read this if you have the emotional bandwidth to encounter horrifying slurs and violent sentiments, because there’s an important takeaway: extremism is often performed to reinforce an in-group’s bond.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 1d

I really just once a reporter would reply “oh are you gonna cry about it”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I don't take questions from ABC fake news after what you did with Stephanopoulos to the vice president of the United States."

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Jen Grogan 🐙📖📚 @eightarmsedits.bsky.social · 1d

"Ooo, wah, I'm scared of the naked bike riders!"

What a wimp.

Lauren Ashley Davis @laurenmeidasa.bsky.social · 1d

"What I've seen is the abuse of law enforcement by radical leftist activists. You know, most recently, the most threatening thing I've seen yet was the naked bicyclers in Portland who were protesting ICE down there. I mean, it's getting really ugly."

www.rawstory.com/mike-johnson...

Mike Johnson decries 'naked bicyclers' in Portland as 'most threatening thing I've seen'

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) insisted that federal agents' abuse of force had not risen to the level of congressional investigations after a judge barred the Department of Homeland Security from ...

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Jen Grogan 🐙📖📚 @eightarmsedits.bsky.social · 1d

Edibuddies, this trivia night is open to all editors, and it's a SEPARATE event from the conference, held on Friday, October 24 (two weeks before Red Pencil).

This trivia night was SO FUN in 2023. I hope you can all make it to this one. I got a look at the raffle prize list, and it's amazing! ✏️

Northwest Editors Guild @edsguild.bsky.social · 1d

Seriously, folks, you don't want to miss Giant Pencil's Pre–Red Pencil Virtual Trivia Night on 10/24!

✏️ Recorded so you can play along even if you can't join live
✏️ Open to all editors—don't have to be registered for Red Pencil to attend
✏️ Benefits Red Pencil scholarships

Info at bit.ly/GPSPRPVTN

Giant Pencil wearing tuxedo and sunglasses. Text: Back by popular demand for 2025! Giant Pencil's Pre-Red Pencil Virtual Trivia Night. Open to all editors! Prizes! Wordy Trivia! Pencil Puns! Friday, October 24, 5 p.m. Pacific. Your $5 entry fee funds Red Pencil scholarships. Trivia will be recorded for registrants who can't attend live. Register now at bit.ly/GPSPRPVTN @EdsGuild

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 1d

Why in the world has Speaker Johnson sent the House on a four-week VACATION while millions of people are about to get kicked off their health care? @repemilyrandall.bsky.social and I could not answer that if we tried.

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Blue Woman Voting 📎 @bluewomanvoting123.bsky.social · 1d

I can't help but feel being in a ridiculous frog costume and just standing there is more intimidating to these thugs than regular protest.

It's so silly and unnerving & they look like fools asking for the national guard to "protect" them from a person dressed in a frog suit.

I. Love. It.

Just A Grandmom @grandmompa.bsky.social · 2d

If the choice is being ICE or the Frog:
BE THE FROG

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 1d

If Mike Johnson is refusing to call the House back into session during the shutdown, then we’ll do the work right here the Bronx.

The New York Essential plan is being eliminated entirely next year due to the GOP healthcare cuts. People’s lives are at stake.

And that’s why we’re fighting back.