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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 13h

Hating the ACA is similar to hating on vaccines.

It's a luxury borne of not really appreciating what existed before.

The fix wasn't perfect, and there is a lot more that we could do to make it better.

But the "ACA Was Bad" Discourse is just untethered from reality.

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Rebecca Stone Gordon @meanlouise.bsky.social · 13h

#MondayMotivation

Block letter print on notebook paper, pinned to wall

YOU LOOK GREAT.
YOUR TEETH ARE SHARP.
YOUR EYES ARE LUMINOUS.
THE TOWN FOLK WHISPER YOUR NAME IN HUSHED
TONES

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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 13h

Anyway maybe we shouldn’t let Amazon run things that decides if we can access our money or get into our houses. Just saying.

Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 13h

A range of very annoying technical glitches in the world today due to a problem at AWS:
- stores near me can’t take credit cards
- balance on my acorns account won’t update
- I can’t get into a cat client’s apartment because her electronic lock won’t verify to the server (!!!)

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STEAMLORD @exoplanetdinosaur.bsky.social · 13h

This job sounds so cool

Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 15h

Applications are being accepted for a Senior Scientist role in my group. Those with #DevBio & mentoring experience are encouraged to apply 🧪

Applications must be submitted using the SJ job portal at the link below. DM/email apps cannot be considered.

stjude.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/stjude/job/M...

Senior Scientist- Ogden Lab

The Ogden lab's current efforts are aimed at understanding how cells exchange signals through specialized filopodia to drive tissue morphogenesis in the developing nervous and cardiopulmonary systems....

stjude.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 13h

If canvas doesn't come back soon, Universities are in BIG trouble. I suggest we pretend we're on a General Strike against Trump

Canvas is experiencing issues due to an ongoing AWS incident.
We are working on recovering as soon as possible.
You can follow the status of the issue at https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status and https://status.instructure.com/

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ASM @asm.org · 12h

Last call! 🧫🎨 Show us how “Microbes Make the World Go Round” in ASM’s Agar Art Contest.

🕛 Deadline: Oct. 26 at 11:59 p.m. ET.
👉 Enter here: asm.social/2Es

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 1d

That’s the other thing that baffles me about AI and creative writing, actually.

The work IS the joy for me. I don’t want to be able to snap my fingers and have a completed “product.” I want to be transformed by the process. I’m an author but I do this because I enjoy the rigor of being a writer.

Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 1d

In terms of process, I enjoy writing but revising????? Oh, that’s my real kink. A second or third draft???? A fourth???? Making tweaks on my desktop AND my phone???? *moans* I’m a WHORE for revision.

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Toonces the Cat would steer this country better @bankuei.bsky.social · 14h

I'm going to use the zombie analogy again:

If you want us to survive the apocalypse -

1) we can't let people in the safe house who WANT to open the door to the zombies

2) the person who arbitrarily says we need to give up some of us to save the others also can't stay in the safehouse.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 12h

yeah, the thing is you don't even have to bring morals into it

it's just an obvious practical problem that society-warping amounts of power should not be concentrated at the whims of a single individual and the simplest and best way to solve that problem is to disallow anyone from having that power

Seamus the Shank Engine @warmh20penguin.bsky.social · 12h

This.

I never much cared about the *moral* assertion that billionaires should not exist. It's true but never seemed like the most pressing moral failure to resolve.

The REAL reason billionaires shouldn't exist is entirely practical: they're an apocalyptic-level threat.

Micah @rincewind.run · 13h

billionaires should not be allowed to exist because the downside of "one of them loses their mind" is simply too dangerous for a functional society

also, having a billion dollars tends to make you lose your mind

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Micah @rincewind.run · 13h

billionaires should not be allowed to exist because the downside of "one of them loses their mind" is simply too dangerous for a functional society

also, having a billion dollars tends to make you lose your mind

John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 13h

The whole point of democracy is so one person's derangement does not become everybody's problem. It's social hygiene. The fact the richest men in the West are a mix of grotty twelve year olds and deranged apocalypse fanatics is a problem, and we should be honest about it.

Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 14h

Someone went there:

"It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It"

via @futurism.com

futurism.com/future-socie...

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Adi Robertson @thedextriarchy.bsky.social · 14h

It feels like a huge failure on multiple levels that there's so little attempt to articulate an alternative to totally unregulated big-corporate ownership of technologies like AR and AI, which have some actually real use cases just vastly outweighed by the harms of their business models

The future I saw through the Meta Ray-Ban Display amazes and terrifies me

This very first-gen device raises several questions about where the next chapter of mobile computing is headed.

www.theverge.com

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 13h

Huh maybe it’s not a good idea to have a monopoly on cloud infrastructure. Who would have thought? 🙄

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Lisa Reyna Loe @lisaloe.bsky.social · 14h

🚨PENNSYLVANIA!!

You’re up!!

VOTE YES and turn in your ballots!!

#VoteYesToRetainOurJudges

Mitch Kates @mitchkates.bsky.social · 5d

Done! 🗳️

Now it’s your turn, PA Voters. Right now we need leaders who will uphold the rule of law, defend our rights, and keep our courts fair & independent.

To protect women’s reproductive rights and maintain free & fair elections, PA voters need to show up & VOTE YES!
#VoteYesToRetainOurJudges

Done! 🗳️

Now it’s your turn, PA Voters. Right now we need leaders who will uphold the rule of law, defend our rights, and keep our courts fair and independent.

To protect women’s reproductive rights and maintain free & fair elections, PA voters need to show up and VOTE YES!

#VoteYesToRetainOurJudges

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Pittsburgh Racial Justice Summit @summitpgh.bsky.social · 13h

The last Summit including workshops or outreach by 25 local organizations!

Would you like to present a workshop?
Join us as a volunteer?

See the Pittsburgh Racial Justice website for more info!

prjs.org

AIDS Free Pittsburgh
Allegheny County Health Department
Black Political Empowerment Project (B-PEP)
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), Pittsburgh
Center on Race and Social Problems. School of Social Work, University of Pittsburgh
Development in Diverse Contexts Lab (UDDC), Learning Research and Development Center (LRDC) at the University of Pittsburgh
Citizens’ Climate Lobby, Pittsburgh Chapter
Community College of Allegheny County (CCAC)
Fair Districts PA
Highmark Health
Human Rights City Alliance and Pittsburgh Housing Justice Table
PA Groundhogs: A Safer Supply Through Science
PA Women Work
Pittsburgh Commission on Human Relations (PCHR)
Positive Health Clinic
Public Allies Pittsburgh
Rainbow Serpent: Advancing Black LGBTQ Culture
Sierra Club
WZUM – the Pittsburgh Jazz Channel/Pittsburgh Public Media
YWCA Greater Pittsburgh

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Pittsburgh Racial Justice Summit @summitpgh.bsky.social · 13h

Curious about what the annual Pittsburgh Racial Justice Summit is like? Here's a news story from the last one:

youtu.be/zjGmyqVuS98

Hundreds turn out for 27th annual Pittsburgh Racial Justice Summit

YouTube video by CBS Pittsburgh

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Vivian M. Lumbard @vivian-m-lumbard.bsky.social · 13h

"The question isn’t whether Trump is lying—the evidence is incontrovertible. The question is whether our institutions, our media, and ultimately we as citizens are going to allow him to get away with it."

Techdirt @techdirt.com · 14h

President Denies Reality Of Massive Nationwide Protests While Posting Videos of Himself Dumping Shit On Citizens

"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command…. And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed–if all records…

President Denies Reality Of Massive Nationwide Protests While Posting Videos of Himself Dumping Shit On Citizens

"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command…. And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed–if all records told the same tale–then the lie passed into history and became truth." —George Orwell, 1984 This past weekend witnessed what may have been the largest single-day political protest in American history.

www.techdirt.com

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Rep. Summer Lee @repsummerlee.bsky.social · 13h

Happy Diwali to everyone celebrating in Western Pennsylvania and across the country!

May your celebrations and your year be filled with light, joy, and hope.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 13h

Fun fact (or terrifying one), today’s AWS outage took down Canvas, the #1 learning management system used by 4,000+ U.S. colleges and millions of students worldwide. One data center hiccup and half of higher ed disappears.

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bioRxiv Cancer Bio @biorxiv-cancer.bsky.social · 14h

Effects of Spearman's and Pearson's correlations on construction of cancer regulatory networks and biomarker selection https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.19.683264v1

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[🎃] 𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚛𝚎𝚠 𝚜𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚝 @owllog.bsky.social · 4d

KEEP MAKING WEIRD ART
KEEP SUPPORTING YOUR FRIENDS
KEEP DRINKING WATER
KEEP LIVING EVERY SINGLE DAY

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The Onion @theonion.com · 15h

Home Depot Introduces New 12-Foot-Tall Willem Dafoe https://theonion.com/home-depot-introduces-new-12-foot-tall-willem-dafoe/

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 20h

AWS is down, post hog

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bioRxiv Genomics @biorxiv-genomic.bsky.social · 15h

A high-coverage genome from a 200,000-year-old Denisovan https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.20.683404v1

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Bob Batz Jr. @bobbatzjr.bsky.social · 17h

Entering its fourth year (!), the @pghguild.com paper strikes one day longer with Ed Blazina's tales of three transit tunnels and "stay away from these areas" roadwork warning, and Steve Rotstein & Co. reorder most of the Western Pennsylvania high school football team rankings: www.unionprogress.com

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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 15h

MAGA wants to fire hundreds of my coworkers: Scientists trying to cure cancer, stop forest fires. Our UMD bosses haven't shared a plan, haven't helped us lobby, and haven't provided simple things like a sick bank. So we @uam-umd.bsky.social got together to figure out how to take care of each other.

UMD community members discuss federal funding cuts, university response at union town hall

The event was organized by United Academics of Maryland-University of Maryland, this university’s American Association of University Professors chapter.

dbknews.com

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