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Jennifer @princessjennifer.bsky.social · 6h

This was a great read to strategize how to get free seeds, what grows well where I live, what can I grow in containers, how to store the seeds, etc.

Today is a good day to start your garden. Lots of things grow in the fall.

Even you have no land/space get those $5 buckets to grow something. Trust.

Free Seeds from the Government. It's Easy If You Know How

Free seeds, including rare heirloom varieties, are available from the USDA. This article shows you how to order them from the online site.

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s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 12h

Fun fact: About a third of pregnancies after stopping T are unplanned!

s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 12h

Lots of @scarleteen.com visitors ask us about the impact of exogenous testosterone on fertility. I rounded up the basics for anyone on T, thinking about T, and wanting information to help them communicate with health care providers about their needs and questions.

(Almost) Everything You Need to Know About T and Fertility

If you were born with a uterus and ovaries, here’s what you need to know about testosterone’s impact on your fertility—no matter why you’re taking it!

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 7h

People experiencing miscarriages in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves.

We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position 👇

(Published Dec. 2024)

If You’re Pregnant, Here’s What You Should Know About the Medical Procedures That Could Save Your Life

Women experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds themselv...

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Jennifer @princessjennifer.bsky.social · 7h

Last year I posted the importance of a burner flip phone in your “go bag”

You can use that phone when you want to maintain your privacy.

Say walking with a sign in the afternoon with a bunch of white people on a Saturday.

Burner flip phone to ensure your privacy and everyone’s safety.

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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 16h

SO CRUCIAL DO NOT IGNORE THE POST BELOW. If you live in one of the states mentioned CALL YOUR MEMBERS OF CONGRESS! 202-224-3121 - Congressional Switchboard

Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 19h

🚨🚨In 2026 Medicare pilot program WISeR (Wasteful & Inappropriate Service Reduction) TESTS in NJ, OH, OK, TX, AZ & WA. Adds 17 prior authorizations & uses AI for determinations. PAs DELAY & DENY care & TARGETS alternate methods for PAIN relief & INCHES Medicare towards PRIVATIZATION. PLEASE REPOST!🔥🔥

● Electrical Nerve Stimulators
● Sacral Nerve Stimulation for Urinary Incontinence
● Phrenic Nerve Stimulator
● Deep Brain Stimulation for Essential Tremor and Parkinson’s Disease
● Vagus Nerve Stimulation
● Induced Lesions of Nerve Tracts
● Epidural Steroid Injections for Pain Management excluding facet joint injections
● Percutaneous Vertebral Augmentation (PVA) for Vertebral Compression Fracture
● Cervical Fusion
● Arthroscopic Lavage and Arthroscopic Debridement for the Osteoarthritic Knee
● Hypoglossal Nerve Stimulation for Obstructive Sleep Apnea
● Incontinence Control Devices
● Diagnosis and Treatment of Impotence
● Percutaneous Image-Guided Lumbar Decompression for Spinal Stenosis
● Skin and Tissue Substitutes (LCDs below) – only applicable to MAC jurisdictions and
states that have an active LCD in place
++ Application of Bioengineered Skin Substitutes to Lower Extremity Chronic
Non-Healing Wounds
++ Wound Application of Cellular and/or Tissue Based Products (CTPs), Lower
Extremities
PLEASE REPOST EVERYWHERE!

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Grace Lin @authorgracelin.bsky.social · 22h

My friends we are 83% to our fundraising goal! Can you help us get to the finish line? If we get there, our $5K turns into $15k (thanks to corporate matching) and we won’t have to ask you for money again for a long time!
Please support AAV @highlightsfound.bsky.social !

gofund.me/8a4a60441

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NullPointer 🍄 @nuiipointer.bsky.social · 9h

#fungifriends #ferns

A mushroom with a red, large cap with a texture or rough nubuck stands in leaves between ferns and trees in a forest.

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 21h

Hear What the Language Spoken by Our Ancestors 6,000 Years Ago Might Have Sounded Like www.openculture.com/2025/10/what...

Hear What the Language Spoken by Our Ancestors 6,000 Years Ago Might Have Sounded Like

As scholars of ancient texts well know, the reconstruction of lost sources can be a matter of some controversy.

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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 9h

“Till Earth and Heaven Ring” by K.S. Walker from @strangehorizons.bsky.social, “Fire is Hot in Every Universe” by Brandie Marsh from @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social, and more short fic recs from @cypayseur.bsky.social -

Flash Fiction Online, Strange Horizons and Fiyah: Reviews by Charles Payseur

Flash Fiction Online 6/25 Strange Horizons 6/2/25, 6/30/25 Fiyah Summer ’25 Jennifer Lesh Fleck opens the June Flash Fiction Online with “This Island Toward Which I Row and Row, Yet Cannot Reach Al…

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 18h

One woman was killed and two others remain missing after the remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska.

The storm displaced more than 1,000 people, destroying homes and causing record flooding in remote coastal villages.

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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 9h

The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 9h

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 13h

Five months

Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 13h

Trump said he'd focus on the “worst of the worst," but he's mostly focused on people like Melissa Tran — a MD business owner who's lived here 30 yrs and is a fixture of her community.

Cruel.

I salute all who fought for her release. After months in ICE detention, she's finally home.

Hagerstown nail salon owner freed after 5 months in ICE custody

Melissa Tran, a Hagerstown mom and nail salon owner, was freed five months after being detained by ICE and jailed in Washington state. A federal judge ruled that U.S. officials had no basis for prolon...

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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha @thellpsx.bsky.social · 8h

Also @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social @sfdirewolf.bsky.social and I wrote this: disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2025/10/07/t...

Two Years of Genocide+: Crips Aren’t Done Sending eSims to Gaza

Two Years of Genocide+: Crips Aren’t Done Sending eSims to Gaza Two years, what the fuck. It really has been two years to the day since Israel’s heightened and prolonged genocide against the…

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Adelita for Congress @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 9h

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

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Guerrilla Librarian @guerillalibrarian.bsky.social · 8h

Ugh.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 14h

Help the homie! This is an urgency to avoid or mitigate becoming unhoused.

Noor @mphighaf.bsky.social · 16h

gonna be living outside with my cats soon ig

anything helps get me supplies, time inside etc

ca: mphighaf
pp: [email protected]

#HelpFolksLive2025 #trans #disabled #homeless #ubi #mutualaid #audhd #voidpunk #socialism

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 8h

Israeli forces have killed at least nine Palestinians trying to return to their homes in northern Gaza City and southern Khan Younis, in the first major violation since the US-brokered ceasefire began.

🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.io/ttcve3

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 15h

I am upgrading to paid subscriber on patreon right now, with delight.

Lyz @lyz.bsky.social · 18h

It’s time, beyond time, really, I’m leaving Substack. I didn’t do it before because I had no other income to rely on. I don’t think abandoning spaces is always the right answer but sometimes it’s necessary www.patreon.com/posts/why-i-...

Why I am leaving Substack | Men Yell at Me by Lyz Lenz

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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha @thellpsx.bsky.social · 8h

Hi, I'm not really here ever but I have A WHOLE ASS MID CAREER SHOW AT TANGLED ART GALLERY in Toronto you can see in person til 10/31 and online one of three ways: Rosa Robot tour - robot tour that you can drive from your computer independently calendly.com/tangledarts/...
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This Body Keeps Me Up At Night: (Rosa Robot) - Tangled Art + Disability

This Body Keeps Me Up At Night: 30 Years of Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-SamarasinhaSeptember 19 – October 31, 2025this body keeps me up at night is a mid-career retrospective of disability justice writer, cu...

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 13h

Is the Patient Black? Check this Box for Yes | Anissa Durham | @wordinblacknews.bsky.social

For years doctors relied on a race-based medical calculation that kept Black patients from accessing life-saving kidney transplants.
wordinblack.com/2025/10/is-t...

Is the Patient Black? Check this Box for Yes

A race-based calculation kept Black patients from kidney transplants.

wordinblack.com

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Neil Anderson @rmmbr.bsky.social · 1d

Hello #PortfolioDay
I'm Neil - a Scottish artist who loves stories about people and places written on things and faces.

I’m building an illustration portfolio so hmu if you are looking to collab. I want to bring worlds to life!

I am also a Rebelle Featured Artist!

link: neiljganderson.com

A wandering adventurer, grasping a chipped knife, and their giant corgi wade through a lush, warm swamp. Behind them, a giant snake uncurls and stalks them. Will they survive?

An oil painting on linen. A man leans back looking off right. His eyes and forehead are cast in light. His young child leans, half asleep, against him.

A digital portrait of a woman with a mass of curled hair is spotlit by a harsh light from above. Tight brushes around the face, give way to loose and abstract brushstrokes around the perimeter of the subject.

A portrait of a man interrupted while playing guitar in a living room. He looks at the viewer. Day light from behind diffuses into the room while a lamp lights the figure from the left.

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 9h

We both paused to take a look at each other and then we both went about our business. Amazing to watch this coyote just disappear into the grass. Magical creatures #mammals

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Claire @thechesilbeach.bsky.social · 17h

The anticipation is palpable … what book will be joining my @backlisted.bsky.social Hallowe’en shrine this year?

A collection of the Backlisted books featured on previous Hallowe’en episodes:
Cold Hand in Mine by Robert Aickman
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Ghost Stories by Edith Wharton
The Breaking Point by Daphne du Maurier
Beowulf
Something in Disguise by Elizabeth Jane Howard
The Altar of the Dead by Henry James
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M. R. James
Round the Fire Stories by Arthur Conan Doyle

All the books are arranged on a dark green background and are surrounded by Hallowe’en decorations including a black cat, some tombstones, candles, spiders and cobwebs, pumpkins and coffins.

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Jennifer @princessjennifer.bsky.social · 8h

Don’t ask me to lose what little rights me and my ancestors fought for

Don’t ask me to risk my life

Don’t ask me to sabotage the security and comfort of my family to fight for what you refused to vote against

Because you hate Black people.

That’s the conversation they aren’t having.

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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 15h

when work makes people sick and insists on making them sicker by denying the right of protection and there is no safety net --- consider other people.
via @thesicktimes.org

Despite the ongoing pandemic, some companies are banning employees from masking - The Sick Times

While some anti-mask policies have failed — a win for workers — there is a larger effort to ban masks in the U.S. on state and local levels. And more businesses may attempt to ban masks in the workpla...

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