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wiwi 🌟 @meisho doto waiting room @whiona.me · 21d

i’m sorry to be that guy again but those font symbols you have to copy/paste to get italic or cursive text in social media posts do not work with screen readers and will spit out awful gibberish instead. please avoid them! there are more disabled users of the internet than you think.

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AZ Intel @azintel.bsky.social · 6h

WATCH: A tornado moved through Ermont, France late Monday afternoon, causing major damage and causing cranes to fall.

New footage shows the moment the cranes collapsed, damaging buildings.

Initial reports indicate at least one person was killed with several others injured.

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inkbot kowalski @inkbotkowalski.bsky.social · 10h

Fühle das sehr.

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James Chalmers @jameschalmers.bsky.social · 17h

This remains the funniest way to hear about an internet outage, though.

Denise C.
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A woman who rang ABC Sydney radio said she found out about the Optus outage from her cat.

The cat has an automatic wi-fi feeder (connected to Optus) & when breakfast wasn't delivered at 6:10 am, the cat went to the bedroom to lodge a complaint with management.

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Climate Watcher @pmagn.bsky.social · 15h

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Climate Watcher @pmagn.bsky.social · 15h

UK study: a car’s four tires churn out one trillion particles for every kilometer driven.

This means 80% of plastic in our bodies is likely from car tire dust contaminated with traces of oil, petrol, petrol exhaust & asphalt. No wonder Cancer rates are going up
e360.yale.edu/features/tir...

Road Hazard: Evidence Mounts on Toxic Pollution from Tires

Researchers are only beginning to uncover the toxic cocktail of chemicals, microplastics, and heavy metals hidden in car and truck tires. But experts say these tire emissions are a significant source ...

e360.yale.edu

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Climate Watcher @pmagn.bsky.social · 15h

Japanese scientists have found ~10 pieces of microplastic in each litre of cloud water tested.

Researchers in Japan have confirmed that microplastics are present in clouds, where they are likely affecting the climate in ways that are not yet fully understood.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/...

Japanese scientists find microplastics are present in clouds

Japanese scientists have found between 6.7 and 13.9 pieces of microplastic in each litre of cloud water tested.

www.aljazeera.com

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Steph Scythes: 1775-2025+ 💀☢️🇺🇸☣️💀 The American Devolution @stephscythes.bsky.social · 13h

"A new detailed map by the U.S. Geological Survey ( #USGS) provides a powerful, interactive tool that lets users see the types of #rocks that lie underneath them." l.smartnews.com/p-6pOKQiyc/A...

Geologists make huge breakthrough as new map shows wild world beneath our feet (Daily Express US)

A new detailed map by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) provides a powerful, interactive tool that lets users see the types of rocks that lie underneath them...

l.smartnews.com

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inkbot kowalski @inkbotkowalski.bsky.social · 11h

This; I will never click on a link to that Nazi site.

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Teabree Shark @nurse.fish · Jan 12

Disco Elysium is 75% off this weekend-*do not* buy it! Don't give money to the businessmen that have stolen ZA/UM. Go to fitgirl and torrent it using any free torrent client.

www.gofundme.com/f/help-disco...

Donate to Argo Tuulik instead. He got no compensation for his story and is now unemployed.

Donate to Help Disco Elysium Writer Survive the Winter, organized by Argo Tuulik

DISCLAIMER: This fundraiser was disabled for several hours due to GoFundMe te… Argo Tuulik needs your support for Help Disco Elysium Writer Survive the Winter

www.gofundme.com

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inkbot kowalski @inkbotkowalski.bsky.social · 13h

Great, the watermelon dangle on my bag is also gone. Why is everything

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 15h

What are your favorite science-related vacations? Here are some of mine.
(Every vacation can be a science vacation if you interpret "science" broadly, which we should, and look at it right.) www.lastwordonnothing.com/2025/10/20/s...

The Last Word On Nothing | Science Vacations Are the Best Vacations

www.lastwordonnothing.com

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inkbot kowalski @inkbotkowalski.bsky.social · 15h

Hasse die ÖGK so sehr

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inkbot kowalski @inkbotkowalski.bsky.social · 15h

One of my fucking banks just locked me out of the app because they didn't like my correct password. Are you fucking kidding me

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innes @innes.bsky.social · 16h

two scottish wild cat kittens facing the camera and the one on the right is YELLING

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inkbot kowalski @inkbotkowalski.bsky.social · 15h

lol they always look either super grumpy or really pissed off

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inkbot kowalski @inkbotkowalski.bsky.social · 16h

I DEALT WITH MY EMAILS (the most pressing ones, anyway...)

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

Because they're facist 😭 i think people keep thinking I'm exaggerating when I say that but I'm not. And it's not new. A newspaper that would knowingly employ a nazi sympathizer as Berlin bureau chief because he got them access to Hitler is not a paper that will help uphold democracy.

Lord Guardian of Gastown @darkdementus.bsky.social · 1d

I looked at 38 papers. The NYT was one of only a few not to have it as the top story and photo

The handful of exceptions were pretty much all places with a big D1 football game

I genuinely don't understand why the NYT is so reticent to give coverage to one of the largest protests in history

NYT on the protests: sixth headline and third photo down. This is Saturday at 8pm

WSJ: protests are the top story and photo

Wapo: protests are the top story and photo

Chicago Tribune: protests are the top story and photo

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🕷️Gory Thing🕷️ @korybing.bsky.social · 1d

Heard about the Louvre jewel heist and my first thought was “finally, some good old fashioned normal crime”

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Nicholas @thekroog.bsky.social · 22h

GOOD NIGHT

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inkbot kowalski @inkbotkowalski.bsky.social · 1d

It's quite annoying because I enjoy being able to breathe.

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inkbot kowalski @inkbotkowalski.bsky.social · 1d

(no, I'm not sick, I know my body's reaction to airborne allergens vs. an airways infection or Covid. My nose also unclogs when I exert myself, another typical allergy behaviour.)

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inkbot kowalski @inkbotkowalski.bsky.social · 1d

Currently weirded out by my nose which is constantly blocked, like it is when pollen are around, but the only thing currently flying around are a type of spores that I did hyposensibilisation on, so I shouldn't have an allergic reaction -__-

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inkbot kowalski @inkbotkowalski.bsky.social · 1d

Tried to have a holiday; was in an apartment. Upstairs neighbours stomping around every second I was there. Came home... Upstairs neighbours are having children around and they're trampling around every second like they do when they're here. 💀

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inkbot kowalski @inkbotkowalski.bsky.social · 1d

I love how #ThePretender guy often looks like he's enjoying the shit out of life. Just absolute delight at encountering new things, listening to people, being silly.

inkbot kowalski @inkbotkowalski.bsky.social · 1d

OMG I think I finally managed to force my Android phone to open YouTube links in NewPipe. I had everything disabled for YT yet it would still insist on opening YT for videos. Turns out, I had to go deep into a menu for NP and click a bunch of URLs 💀

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