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🍉Reborn Ruffian🌟 @reburnruffian12.bsky.social · 1d

🚨🚨🚨FIVE DAYS. FIVE DAYS UNTIL DEADLINE🚨🚨🚨

PLEASE HELP MY PARTNER!! They've been so crippled by pain lately that they're getting ideations, and have barely been able to get out of bed. They suffer from EDS, and they NEED THIS MEDICINE TO HAVE ANY QUALITY OF LIFE!!

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🍉Reborn Ruffian🌟 @reburnruffian12.bsky.social · 13h

It's designed to be punitive, which is a tactic that's FAMOUSLY known for working. (Not 🙄)

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🍉Reborn Ruffian🌟 @reburnruffian12.bsky.social · 13h

AuDHD + OCD be like "Why let your environment overwhelm you when you can overwhelm *yourself*? 😎👉🏻👉🏻"

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🍉Reborn Ruffian🌟 @reburnruffian12.bsky.social · 13h

BMI is such a sham. Like, I'm otherwise healthy, but because I'm heavy set, my BMI is ALWAYS gonna be off. If I try to "lose weight" through exercise, my BMI will actually get WORSE because I'm gaining MUSCLE. Fuck's sake. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

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🍉Reborn Ruffian🌟 @reburnruffian12.bsky.social · 13h

My bloodwork: Perfect.

My physical activity: As good as it'll get with my bum ankle & chronic pain

My diet: As healthy as I can get it

Doctors: Your BMI is too high lose 70lbs.

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🍉Reborn Ruffian🌟 @reburnruffian12.bsky.social · 15h

.... Am I the only person in the US who despises corndogs??

The math of cornbread and hot dog together just doesn't math in my mouth.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 17h

“We Survived the Night”: Julian Brave NoiseCat on Residential Schools & Recovering Native History https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/13/julian_noisecat_we_survived_the_night

“We Survived the Night”: Julian Brave NoiseCat on Residential Schools & Recovering Native History

To mark Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we sit down with the award-winning Indigenous writer, journalist and filmmaker Julian Brave NoiseCat, an enrolled member of the Canim Lake Band Tsq’secen of the Secwep...

www.democracynow.org

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🍉Reborn Ruffian🌟 @reburnruffian12.bsky.social · 17h

Noise cancelling headphones. Hands down.

The Autistic Coach | Matthew (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 17h

What has been the single most helpful accommodation for you as an autistic adult?

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🍉Reborn Ruffian🌟 @reburnruffian12.bsky.social · 17h

Conflicted because I WANNA sign up but also I’m not black 😶

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Clinton Bowen @torrho.blacksky.team · 2d

Correct! This week we built a fallback mechanism to query slingshot, constellation, and the PDS directly.

For now it is limited "read only". Soon enough you'll be able to interact with Link on blacksky.community

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foundseed @foundseed.bsky.social · 17h

free link

IYKYK @nisslbody.blacksky.app · 1d

YESSSSSS

FUCK BLUESKY FOREVER.

FREE LINK!

Clinton Bowen @torrho.blacksky.team · 2d

Correct! This week we built a fallback mechanism to query slingshot, constellation, and the PDS directly.

For now it is limited "read only". Soon enough you'll be able to interact with Link on blacksky.community

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 18h

Israeli settlers continue to wage war on Palestinians in the West Bank and elsewhere. They are breaking into people's homes, stealing their stuff, trashing their homes and sometimes kidnapping and killing people. This is happening NOW. People should know this.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 18h

That's all I'll say. Palestine deserves to be FREE.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 18h

“I swear to God, they didn’t feed us. They beat us while we were naked day and night.

Until our last day, they cut us and hit us and abused us. We endured every kind of torture, emotional and physical.

We couldn’t even sleep. They told me they killed my children.”

- released Palestinian prisoner

Palestinian prisoner Shadi Abu Seed has given a harrowing account of life inside an Israeli prison after his release as part of the ceasefire deal.

“I went hungry for the past two years. I swear to God, they didn’t feed us. They kept us naked. They beat us while we were naked day and night. We were tortured,” Abu Seed said.

“Until our last day in Israeli prison, they cut us and hit us and abused us. We endured every kind of torture, emotional and physical.

“We couldn’t even sleep. They threatened us with our children. They told me they killed my children. They told us that Gaza was destroyed. I arrived here and found that everything was gone. It looked like the end of the world. Everything is different.”

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 17h

We've heard them saying this more lately. Gotta be a group chat throwing these ideas around.

Jonah @anotherjonah.bsky.social · 19h

This morning I was filming ICE abducting sometime in Petworth. One of the agents told me "the last US citizen that did this he put in cuffs all the way to the courtroom".

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Beth Cato @bethcato.bsky.social · 17h

For the record, I won't be requesting special printings of A House Between Sea and Sky (scented like fresh sourdough bread) or Cheddar Luck Next Time (like cheddar, duh), because even though those are nice smells, I generally want print books to smell like books because that scent is awesome.

Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 22h

I want everyone to the think of the poor production teams having to act on increasingly unhinged requests. They didn't ask for this. They don't deserve this. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A book is being marketed with mayo-scented ink. Jealous? Me? | David Barnett

With the rise of TikTok and two-tier marketing budgets, something’s off in the world of publishing (and it’s not just the aroma), says author David Barnett

www.theguardian.com

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The Creatively Maladjusted @tyrotcm.bsky.social · 17h

Such a weird fruit (positive)

Just another hoyw @hoywynllundain.bsky.social · 1d

Persimmons are in season. They bring some much needed autumnal colour into the house. They taste great too.

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Joseph Meany @crimsonalkemist.com · 17h

LIVE NOW:
🔭🧪 Michael "Orbit" Nayak, PhD is giving his lecture on "Applying the DARPA method to becoming an Interstellar Species"

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Nereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 17h

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What is coming down from the left is the Moon, appearing so large because photographed through a telescopic lens.

The video, made during the 2018 full Milk Moon,
isn't time-lapse: this was really how fast the Moon was setting behind Mount Teide.

➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap20032...

🔭 🧪 #science

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Ethan Baxter @ethanrockstory.bsky.social · 17h

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Parents! Kids at home today? Have a look at "Every Rock Has A Story", my free, fun, educational YouTube Series for kids designed to inspire the next generation of geoscientists!

Season One (#1-48) is best for K-2.
Episodes #49-82 best for grades 3-8 or older!
www.youtube.com/@EveryRockHa...

Ethan Baxter's "Every Rock Has A Story"

Welcome to "Every Rock Has A Story!" My name is Ethan Baxter. I am a Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Boston College. My goal is to inspire a sense of wonder, curio...

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Tharusha Wijewardena 🐢 @turtleecology.bsky.social · 1d

Cute frog alert! I don’t know what species this is or whether it’s even native to Florida, but I really like how this photo turned out! 🐸

Treefrog hanging on to leaf. Water droplet on its butt.

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DrArchivalGenomics @ehekkala.bsky.social · 1d

Happy #Croctober ya'll 🐊❤️

Beren's Reverie @berensreverie.bsky.social · 3d

Sobek 🐊

#paleoart #berensart2025

a black and white drawing of a spinosaurus perching on a stone plinth shrine. He wears atef crown and the markings on his sailed spine resemble ankh.

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plesnercph🇩🇰 @plesnercph.bsky.social · 1d

🐸Eastern American toad (Anaxyrus americanus americanus).

Max size for males 85 mm (3.3"), for females 110 mm (4.3").

Found in most of eastern Canada and eastern USA except for Florida.

Considered Least Concern by the IUCN.

📷by leoleobobeo on Pixabay

A reddish brownish toad is sitting on the edge of a rocky surface looking to the left of the picture. A number of darker areas can be seen, especially on the arms and legs. A mostly greyish mid-dorsal line is visible.

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James T. Stroud @jameststroud.bsky.social · 20h

@jblosos.bsky.social and I (and, it turns out, many other lizard biologists!) kept seeing wild lizards with missing legs/hands/feet.

How do they survive? Surely natural selection would weed out these unfortunate individuals?

Perhaps not...🦎🦵

theconversation.com/3-legged-liz...

3-legged lizards can thrive against all odds, challenging assumptions about how evolution works in the wild

Most lizards probably don’t survive devastating injuries. But a new study documents 122 cases of limb loss across 58 species – these exceptions shine a new light on natural selection.

theconversation.com

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Nick in NC @nicknc.bsky.social · 17h

My first visit to Sheldon Lake State Park, a little oasis of peace about 20 minutes drive from Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport. Part of the park is restored coastal prairie, and part is an old fish hatchery with ponds slowly reverting to nature. 1 of 11. #herps

A young alligator swimming across a still pond with a few floating leaves.

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