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Kristine Smith @ksmithsf.bsky.social · 40m

I bought the ebook.

Bought it from UC Press, so. Two new reading apps I may never use for anything else.

Kristine Smith @ksmithsf.bsky.social · 54m

This is really good

@AuthorMsBev @authormsbev.bsky.social · 1h

Ruth E Carter is a gift to the culture and to America. m.youtube.com/watch?v=oaU9...

Oscar-Winning Costume Designer Ruth E. Carter Breaks Down 18 Looks, From Sinners to Black Panther

YouTube video by Vogue

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1h

This is the beauty of BlueSky. No-one will be force-fed this via algorithm. Trolling draws blocks rather than amplification.

David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 1h

By my count: Of the 15 Departments of the US Government, 13 launched new BlueSky accounts tonight (all but Justice and HUD), and all 13 have posted explicitly partisan political posts blaming Democrats and/or Chuck Schumer for the government shutdown.

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Kristine Smith @ksmithsf.bsky.social · 5h

Reposting to save

Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 5h

Excited to read this one (just out).

The Invention of Infinite Growth

A history of how the pursuit of growth has kept us from creating a more sustainable and just world. Most economists believe that growth is the surest path to better lives. This has proven to be one of...

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 8h

Funny, how the "No Kings" protesters were "elderly white hippies" in August (per Stephen Miller), but are "pro-Hamas terrorists and violent criminals" in October (per Karoline Leavitt).

It's *almost* as if this regime makes its shameless lies up as it goes along . . .

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Kristine Smith @ksmithsf.bsky.social · 11h

In better news...

tl;dr It's caffeine

I know it's early days and more research needs to be done, but I do love my coffee, so yea! www.popularmechanics.com/science/heal...

This Substance Can Flip a Secret Biological ‘Switch’ to Help You Live Longer, Scientists Say

And you probably have it right on your kitchen counter.

www.popularmechanics.com

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Kristine Smith @ksmithsf.bsky.social · 11h

In case you needed something else to worry about.

"Protein powders and shakes contain high amounts of lead, new report says – a pharmacologist explains the data" theconversation.com/protein-powd...

Protein powders and shakes contain high amounts of lead, new report says – a pharmacologist explains the data

Most of the products the study tested contained much less lead than the FDA deems unsafe, but some did have a concerning amount.

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Tim Lichtenberg @timlichtenberg.bsky.social · 1d

@kapteynastro.bsky.social of @rug.nl invites applications for in total 7 PhD and 4 ERC-funded postdoc positions in our annual call. ⭐🔭

PhD positions:
aas.org/jobregister/...

Postdoctoral positions:
aas.org/jobregister/...

#exoplanet #astronomy #geoscience 🧪🔭⭐

[Image credit: Mark A. Garlick.]

Lava world in front of a star. Image credit: Mark A. Garlick

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Erika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social · 14h

The Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Brown University seeks applicants at the rank of Assistant Professor (tenure-track) whose scholarship focuses on histories of medieval (ca. 500s-1400s) European art and architecture in the world.

apply.interfolio.com/174923

A digital job announcement, with text above in yellow against a rust background, and below a medieval scene of an audience before a king or potentate seated on a throne.

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 2d

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Kristine Smith @ksmithsf.bsky.social · 1d

I just want the entire universe to fall on these guys.

Futurism @futurism.com · 1d

"You quite literally set the bridge on fire."

It Sounds Like OpenAI Really, Really Messed Up With Hollywood

Major talent agencies told the Hollywood Reporter that OpenAI had been "purposely misleading" them in behind-the-scenes communications.

trib.al

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Kristine Smith @ksmithsf.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations 🎊🍾!

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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 2d

this is the dumbest shit i have ever read

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Kristian Steensen Nielsen @kristiansn89.bsky.social · 2d

🔥 The never-ending narrative…
This week, I’ve once again heard prominent climate researchers dismiss individual action as either irrelevant or a distraction instigated by the fossil fuel industry.

Here’s a 🧵 on why this argument frustrates me to no end and why I think it misses the bigger picture.

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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 3d

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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Kristine Smith @ksmithsf.bsky.social · 3d

When it's been so long since you read something you wrote that it's like you're reading it for the first time and you want to know what happens next.

I guess that's a good sign.*

*I should add that yes, I recall the plot. It's the details that are pulling me along.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 7d

CHICAGO: REBUILD is providing therapy to folks detained by ICE. Please feel free to let people know.

findmeatherapist.org

Find Me A Therapist

findmeatherapist.org

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Kristine Smith @ksmithsf.bsky.social · 4d

Yet another great thread 🪡

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 5d

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 6d

Yeah I really need help with this . I’m gonna go hyperventilate into a bag but this has gone bad quickly

🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · Apr 10

Welp it’s gotten real real if you can please help. If you can’t it’s really hard out here so share

gofund.me/a5ee0064

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 7d

Flatterers up the *ss of the rich man. Some things never change! Here in 1592 by Pieter Brueghel the Younger, whose day is today.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 8d

People like Shapiro really say much, much more about themselves by even asking this question. And it keeps happening!

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 8d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · May 12

OK, this is wild.

In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.

It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.

What the HELL?

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Unsplash image of the Earth, mostly the nightside with a tracery of city lights on every continent.

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Jonathan @renewableenergy.bsky.social · 10d

Huge historic turning point — Renewables surpassed coal as the world’s leading electricity source for the first half of 2025!

#greensky #energysky #renewableenergy

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Eddy Conroy He/Him @econroy.bsky.social · 10d

We just got a $50 a month increase this year.

Really sick of having to pay through the nose for the power needs of multi billion dollar companies.

Nick Cunningham @nickcunningham.bsky.social · 11d

“By 2028, an average family in the region will be paying around $70 a month extra on their electricity bills because of forecasted data center growth”

I'm once again asking why ratepayers are subsidizing AI titans?

www.eenews.net/articles/dat...

Data center boom sparks sticker shock for PJM ratepayers

New analyses show that costs passed on to utility customers to guarantee future electricity demand are rising rapidly.

www.eenews.net

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Kristine Smith @ksmithsf.bsky.social · 12d

Explain your username:

First name initial + last name + what I write (spec fic)

Nunsense & Shenunigans @annaleehq.bsky.social · 12d

explain your username:

I heve trible woth vewels

boofus 🎃 @te-kanawa.bsky.social · 12d

explain your username:

um, it's me

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