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Jac Mac-🎃'-lantern @jacmacandsneeze.bsky.social · 1m

since he's more or less in my age cohort and I know what guys like him were about in highschool I feel fairly confident saying the vp is basically a groyper

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1h

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

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David DeWitt @daviddewitt.bsky.social · 42m

Commentary: After 57% of voters protected reproductive rights in the Ohio Constitution in 2023, the gerrymandered Republican supermajority in the Ohio Statehouse has continued to attempt to regulate, restrict, or outlaw abortion as if nothing changed. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/10/15/r...

Republican politicians ignore will of voters, Ohio Constitution with proposed abortion restrictions • Ohio Capital Journal

After 57% of Ohio voters protected reproductive rights in the Ohio Constitution in 2023, the gerrymandered Republican supermajority in the Ohio Statehouse has been continuing to attempt to regulate,…

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Renee (paix120) @paix120.bsky.social · 15h

Right. The opposite. Those who won't mask create a scenario where *high risk ppl have to mask at all times*, because others won't even mask when they're sick or in spaces shared by the vulnerable.

& we really failed as a society not using the pandemic as a reason to improve ventilation & filtration

The Real McCoy @rippermd41.bsky.social · 23h

Most people aren’t asking you mask at all times.

They ask that you mask in essential places: public transit, hospitals, doctors’ offices, pharmacies etc.

Places high risk people can’t avoid.

But if you hate wearing masks? Then advocate for indoor air quality: ventilation, filtration, etc.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

yeah, i think a commitment to public health obligates you to get vaccinated and, when you are sick, do what you can to avoid spreading that to other people. the demand that one mask at all times in public spaces is, i think, unreasonable.

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Jac Mac-🎃'-lantern @jacmacandsneeze.bsky.social · 2h

saw a thing about bridge professorships in germany and that's great but these things always exclude lecturers or require a permanent position at the home university and due to precarity and neoliberal policy that means the most vulnerable in my profession never qualify, even if conducting research

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The Tribune @sanluisobispo.com · 7h

The skull dates back to around 2300 B.C., officials said.

4,000-year-old skull found on river bank in Indiana. ‘Powerful and humbling’

The skull dates back to around 2300 B.C., officials said.

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Jac Mac-🎃'-lantern @jacmacandsneeze.bsky.social · 7h

ahhh election interference, his favorite hobby after groping women and putting gold paint on trash

il Post @ilpost.it · 7h

Trump dice che aiuterà l’Argentina solo se Milei vincerà le elezioni

Gli Stati Uniti hanno avviato un piano da 20 miliardi di dollari per sostenere il peso: «Ma se lui perde, non saremo generosi»

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 16h

It’s only his outside; a man can be honest in any sort of skin.

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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 7h

As a Pole, seeing Yung Chomsky aggressively pushing for roleplaying scares me.

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a wizard @towerwizard.bsky.social · 7h

The wizard sleeps gently. An owl calls out from the garden.

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Jac Mac-🎃'-lantern @jacmacandsneeze.bsky.social · 7h

home from picking up my mom at lax and taking her home and moo is flopping happily all over my feet and rubbing his face everywhere, the little slut

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NotSkywalker @notskywalker.bsky.social · 8h

I'd pay Jeremy Renner and a team of developers to recreate the Jeremy Renner app

doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 1d

lets say a wizard has cursed you with a lot of money. you are going to become permanently brain damaged simply by being in possession of so much money. the only way out of it is to spend a lot of money on something ridiculous and not at all useful

what would you buy to break the curse?

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Jac Mac-🎃'-lantern @jacmacandsneeze.bsky.social · 14h

hahahaha sorry

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Jac Mac-🎃'-lantern @jacmacandsneeze.bsky.social · 14h

spooky morels!

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Jac Mac-🎃'-lantern @jacmacandsneeze.bsky.social · 14h

I like that the shrubs look like morels

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 15h

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper.

As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.

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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 15h

Probably best to chase it indefinitely

2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 15h

www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/rare-whit...

Locals stunned by world-famous white whale sighting off NZ coast

Locals near Kaikōura captured rare footage of a white humpback whale.

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Jac Mac-🎃'-lantern @jacmacandsneeze.bsky.social · 15h

free from the prison known as "socks"!!!!

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Jac Mac-🎃'-lantern @jacmacandsneeze.bsky.social · 17h

Hon hon hon j'ai ta baguette!!!

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Jac Mac-🎃'-lantern @jacmacandsneeze.bsky.social · 17h

My students ask me about pickpockets in Italy and I'm like...I have never once been pickpocketed nor worried about it? Basic awareness of your surroundings/bag design will cover a lot, at most in tourist zones you just have to aggressively say no to people trying to "give" you things

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Jac Mac-🎃'-lantern @jacmacandsneeze.bsky.social · 17h

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A manicured hand holding a mug with a teddy bear dressed like a witch with a broom and bats

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 23h

two of the products we tested — Huel's Black Edition meal replacement powder and Naked Nutrition's vegan mass gainer — had enough lead that our experts caution against using them at all

a single serving of these protein powders contained between 1,200 and 1,600% of CR’s level of concern for lead

Two plant-based protein powders contained enough lead that our experts advise against consuming them. Naked Nutrition’s Mass Gainer powder contained 7.7 micrograms of lead per serving, which is roughly 1,570 percent of CR’s level of concern for the heavy metal. One serving of Huel’s Black Edition powder contained 6.3 micrograms of lead, or about 1,290 percent of CR’s daily lead limit.

Two other powders contained lead between 400 and 600 percent of CR’s level of concern: Garden of Life’s Sport Organic Plant-Based Protein and Momentous’ 100% Plant Protein. Consumers should limit these to once a week, Akinleye says. (See company responses below.)

The only non-plant-based protein powder with lead detected at over 200 percent of CR’s level of concern was MuscleMeds’ Carnivor Mass powder. Six additional plant-based powders, five dairy-based powders and shakes, and one beef powder contained lead above CR’s level of concern.

We also found measurable levels of cadmium and inorganic arsenic in some products. One serving of Huel’s Black Edition plant-based protein powder contained 9.2 micrograms of cadmium, more than double the level that public health authorities and CR’s experts say may be harmful to have daily, which is 4.1 micrograms.

Another plant-based option, Vega’s Premium Sport powder, had enough cadmium that one serving would also put you just over that level. In one dairy-based product, Optimum Nutrition’s Serious Mass whey protein powder, we also detected 8.5 micrograms per serving of inorganic arsenic, which is twice the limit of what our scientists say is safe to consume daily.

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Jac Mac-🎃'-lantern @jacmacandsneeze.bsky.social · 21h

this is what I get for not doing a PhD!

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Jac Mac-🎃'-lantern @jacmacandsneeze.bsky.social · 21h

So they're just blowing up random small ships in the Caribbean and extrajudicially murdering a mess of people because they've decided they can

EL PAÍS México @elpaismexico.bsky.social · 21h

⭕ ÚLTIMA HORA | El presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, ha anunciado este martes un nuevo ataque de sus fuerzas contra una lancha en el Caribe que, según el republicano, llevaba droga a bordo. En el golpe han muerto al menos seis personas

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Jac Mac-🎃'-lantern @jacmacandsneeze.bsky.social · 23h

precarity strikes again

Jac Mac-🎃'-lantern @jacmacandsneeze.bsky.social · 23h

wow wow she passed over me on the promotion line

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