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Sarah Tuttle @niais.bsky.social · 2h

Hey y'all. The Redwood Free Market at UCSC is fundraising. They're only half way to their goal, with 2 days to go. They provide food, personal care products and meals to students.
Do I wish we didn't need food banks at University? Sure. But we do, so donate if you can.

Redwood Free Market 2025

Join me and make a gift to Redwood Free Market

give.ucsc.edu

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ヌッカ・ナイン @nucca.bsky.social · Jun 4

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12h

One more symptom of the assault on higher ed is that the more prestigious research institution in the dominant producer of science in the world is slashing investments in the people who generate new knowledge.

jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 12h

Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs

- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero

Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...

www.thecrimson.com

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America Xanadu @johnxuandou.bsky.social · 1d

That's awesome dude, I love the internet and being old.

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Lē Yamamura/山村れぇ @gomalemo.bsky.social · 1d

Seaslug Dragon 🌊

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Moa @moa810.bsky.social · 1d

🐓Weird Ancient Birds Art Challenge
Draw mythical birds with your imagination! An ancient mythic geographic compilation, Shanhai jing is full of weird birds. Its illustrations were lost long ago. Why don’t we imagine them from the descriptions in the text? Here is the prompt list
#30WeirdAncientBirds

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James Jean @jamesjeanart.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning! Here is the full uncropped poster that I did for @realgdt.bsky.social for Frankenstein

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t think people really understand the ramifications of Ring data being accessed by authorities. This short vid explains the dangers

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 1d

🔔 Public records-based reporting should be free. @404media.co and @wired.com are leading the way.

Hear why this is a public service and good for business, ft. @josephcox.bsky.social, @katie-drummond.bsky.social, Caitlin Vogus, and Lauren Harper.

🗓️ Oct. 29, 2 pm EDT

RSVP: freedom.press/unpaywalled

Invitation to FPF zoom webinar on Wednesday, Oct. 29, at 2 p.m. EDT/11 a.m. PDT

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molly ✨ @brat.fm · 1d

I know writers who use subtext, and they're all COWARDS

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Martin #509 @martin509.bsky.social · 1d

I think something uniquely corrosive to the US, and not other countries, is that their legislature *effectively does not pass new legislation anymore* and the electorate has spent the last decade plus going absolutely stir-crazy from that fact.

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Disney Prime Video + @disneyprimevideo.bsky.social · 1d

We are aware of the AWS outage affecting our streaming app as well as other services.

Please do not kill your family.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

most people don't want politics that hurt other people. we just want a long overcoat like david bowie and affordable housing

David Bowie in Japan. He's waling up some steps while wearing a long black coat and smoking a cigarette.

David Bowie in Japan. He's standing in front of a train while wearing a long light-colored coat.

David Bowie in Japan. He's riding a subway car while wearing a long dark-colored coat.

David Bowie in Japan. He's walking away from a train while wearing a long black coat, gray checked scarf, charcoal trousers, and black shoes.

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Mr. P. Explores @mrpexplores.bsky.social · 2d

The glorious Art Deco masterpiece that is Detroit, Michigan's Fisher Building. The Fisher Body Company built this gem in 1928, designed by Albert Kahn. It stands today as a reminder of when the automobile was king in the Motor City.

#architecture #urbex #EastCoastKin #Detroit #photography

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🕷️Gory Thing🕷️ @korybing.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Moa @moa810.bsky.social · 2d

Victor Frankenstein and his Monster I designed in 2021 (based on the original novel) #literature

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max 🌌 @sneptech.bsky.social · 2d

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Moa @moa810.bsky.social · 2d

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Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 3d

“Fuck AI”

— Guillermo del Toro

🎥 Vanity Fair

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Yokai Parade @yokaiparade.bsky.social · 2d

I love this one so much

Zack Davisson @zackdavisson.com · 2d

Short-sighted Man and a Yurei - Tsukioka Yoshitoshi

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

seems that RFK is clearing the path for his CDC to do tuskegee syphillis experiments as a matter of course. in other news, RFK is a genuine monster who relishes in the pain and suffering of those he feels he has control or dominion over

Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · 2d

RFK is undoing human subjects protections so he can conduct placebo trials of vaccines. That means infecting people knowingly. I wonder who will “volunteer” for these trials? If history is any guide, a lot of incarcerated and other powerless people.

Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 2d

Dismantling the Institutional Review Board (IRB), that oversees all human subjects research, is bad. Really bad.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 2d

Jewel heist at the Louvre?? ZOWIE, commissioner, this is gonna be a DIAMOND-HARD case to CRACK!

Gather the usual suspects !!!

DO IT, ROCKAPELLA

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ハツノニʰᵃᵗˢᵘⁿᵒⁿⁱ @82rephap.bsky.social · 2d

ラーメン食べ食べ中の水分補給にぴったりなタンブラーあります🐯💦
🍜▶ suzuri.jp/ttngenjyukan...

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Griffin @alnus-sitchensis.bsky.social · 4d

People outside Alaska need to realize:
Typhoon Halong in Western Alaska has caused perhaps the first, big interregional climate change driven displacement in North America. We need sustained attention/resources on recovery to keep Halong victims from suffering as their worlds are turned upside down.

Griffin @alnus-sitchensis.bsky.social · 4d

I appreciated national media covering it, but the headlines with just the number missing/rescued didn't get at it - nearly 2,000 people have been displaced from their homes. With the cost to rebuild, only temporary shelter, and no clear commitments from the feds/state to find a long-term solution

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かいなん @kainanp.bsky.social · 4d

レイアース、2026年にやっと帰って来るみたい😊

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 3d

I didn't take pics but the feeling of being in a group of people with no visible beginning or end was so thrilling. The opposite of online anomie, and a living counterpoint to the wary, isolated, compartmentalized world the shitheads want to make. It's simple and obvious I guess but it means a lot.

Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 3d

Sorry to be corny but the aerial shots of these crowds are almost indescribably moving and hopeful

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