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Kedi @kedigee.bsky.social · 21h

You mean “multitasking”. 🩷

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

My latest. "Do not allow your values to be captured and contained behind a screen in a cycle of inactive reaction. Jailbreak your cynicism and isolation, and escape your devices. Bring your hope, rage, and potential into the world."

We Have to Move

"There are living, breathing people all around you who need your sense of decency to be made material. Don’t give up on them, or on you."

organizingmythoughts.org

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Shannon Minter @shannonminter5.bsky.social · 1d

Baby Squeaky & Albert

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Kedi @kedigee.bsky.social · 1d

These two warm my heart every time. 🩷🐶🐱

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 2d

So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube.

Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).

*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”

youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc

President Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987

YouTube video by Reagan Library

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Kedi @kedigee.bsky.social · 1d

The peet-warmer is back!! 🧡
And by “peet-warmer”, of course I mean “The Heat Dish of Great Worth”. Enjoy your warm peets, sweet Bobcat. 🩷

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Kedi @kedigee.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you for sharing that beautiful tribute to your remarkable and brilliant mum.
Pretty sure your son is right.

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Kedi @kedigee.bsky.social · 4d

Adorable 🥰 🩷🐱

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Jock Rutherford 🌻🥥🌴 @jockr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12d

Guelph’s Peter Howitt Nobel win ‘a proud moment’ for Ontario universities where he studied and worked | CBC News

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/peter-howitt-nobel-prize-economics-guelph-western-mcgill-9.6937046

#guelph

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 14d

Sometimes Crows look black and sometimes they don't #birds

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 14d

Everything that we've known, and come to count on,
has fled the world.

Charles Wright, from Sestets 🍂

Our Days Are Political, but Birds Are Something Else

Tenth month of the year.
Fallen leaves taste bitter. And grass.
Everything that we've known, and come to count on,
has fled the world.
Their bones crack in the west wind.
Where are the deeds we're taught to cling to?
How I regret having missed them,
and their mirrored pieces of heaven.
Like egrets, they rise in the clear sky,
their shadows like distance on the firred hills.

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Kathleen Clark @kathleenclark.bsky.social · 16d

A master class from MIT in responding to authoritarian overreach:

Your “premise … is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.
… America’s leadership in science & innovation depends on independent thinking & open competition for excellence.

Dear Madam Secretary,
I write in response to your letter of October 1, inviting MIT to review a "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education." I acknowledge the vital importance of these matters.
I appreciated the chance to meet with you earlier this year to discuss the priorities we share for American higher education.
As we discussed, the Institute's mission of service to the nation directs us to advance knowledge, educate students and bring knowledge to bear on the world's great challenges.
We do that in line with a clear set of values, with excellence above all. Some practical examples:
• MIT prides itself on rewarding merit. Students, faculty and staff succeed here based on the strength of their talent, ideas and hard work. For instance, the Institute was the first to reinstate the SAT/ACT requirement after the pandemic. And MIT has never had legacy preferences in admissions.
• MIT opens its doors to the most talented students regardless of their family's finances. Admissions are need-blind. Incoming undergraduates whose families earn less than $200,000 a year pay no tuition. Nearly 88% of our last graduating class left MIT with no debt for their education. We make a wealth of free courses and low-cost certificates available to any American with an internet connection. Of the undergraduate degrees we award, 94% are in STEM fields. And in service to the nation, we cap enrollment of international undergraduates at roughly 10%.

source:
https://orgchart.mit.edu/letters/regarding-compact

• We value free expression, as clearly described in the MIT Statement on Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom. We must hear facts and opinions we don't like - and engage respectfully with those with whom we disagree.
These values and other MIT practices meet or exceed many standards outlined in the document you sent. We freely choose these values because they're right, and we live by them because they support our mission - work of immense value to the prosperity, competitiveness, health and security of the United States. And of course, MIT abides by the law.
The document also includes principles with which we disagree, including those that would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution. And fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.
In our view, America's leadership in science and innovation depends on independent thinking and open competition for excellence. In that free marketplace of ideas, the people of MIT gladly compete with the very best, without preferences. Therefore, with respect, we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education.
As you know, MIT's record of service to the nation is long and enduring. Eight decades ago, MIT leaders helped invent a scientific partnership between America's research universities and the U.S. government that has delivered extraordinary benefits for the American people. We continue to believe in the power of this partnership to serve the nation.
Sincerely,
Sally Kornbluth

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Kedi @kedigee.bsky.social · 16d

Bravo

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Lola Patolla @lolapatolla.bsky.social · 16d

Pals!!!
Less than a month ta holiday auction time!!!
Still time ta donate things if you have re-giftables, collectibles, crafts, gift cards, anything really!!!
💯% goes to rescue more pups!!!

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Kedi @kedigee.bsky.social · 16d

I’m so very sorry. Heartbreaking. Thank you for sharing the photo of your gorgeous boy.

Kedi @kedigee.bsky.social · 18d

Cricket, I’m so happy to see you so cozy and safe. 🩷🦗

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Brigit Strawbridge @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social · 25d

Just come across this fabulous website...

'Rewild Your Street - transforming urban streets for wildlife'

What a wonderful idea... and so many useful resources!

If you want to attract more #wildlife to your garden/street this is a great place to start.

www.rewildmystreet.org

#nature

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 24d

Empathy + Action = A Better World

Thank you, Jane Goodall

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Dr Strange PhD, Cat Lackey @ceeeyes.bsky.social · Sep 16

#Minterland - I'm helping to find a home for two sweet little black kitten girls! Jaybird has brown eyes and her sister Seychelle has green eyes. These sweet bonded babies are currently located in Kern County California, but can be transported to Southern California (or elsewhere, if needed!)

Two sweet little black kittens need a home!

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · Sep 18

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

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Kedi @kedigee.bsky.social · Sep 18

I’m so very sorry about sweet Levi. Sending love to you and your dad. 💔

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Kedi @kedigee.bsky.social · Sep 9

Oh my heart. What an absolutely darling video 🩷
May I ask which version of that song is playing? It’s beautiful.

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Bunsen, Beaker, & Bernoulli @bunsenbernerbmd.bsky.social · Sep 6

The best decision we ever made was getting our dog a dog ❤️

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Kedi @kedigee.bsky.social · Sep 8

Such a handsome and sweet boy 💔🖤

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Kedi @kedigee.bsky.social · Sep 8

🎯