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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 9h

In twelve days, New Yorkers will begin to cast their ballots and face a stark choice.

A choice between democracy and oligarchy. Between a city you can afford or more of the same. Between the hope of a brighter future or a broken past.

We will choose the future.

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NYC Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO @nyclabor.bsky.social · 20h

Make sure you’re registered to vote before the Oct 25 deadline. You don’t even have to go outside.

Go to e-register.vote.nyc to get yourself #VoteReady.

#NYCLaborVotes

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👻SAAAAAAAAHHHHHHvik Ford 🎃 @saavikford.bsky.social · 3h

Goddamn can we have a club? The ‘I don’t wanna, except for eating cacio e pepe’ club?

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 14h

Sharing Alice Ball portrait for #AdaLovelaceDay #ald25 #histsci
to celebrate women in STEM

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · Feb 29

For #BlackHistoryMonth pharmaceutical chemist Alice Ball (1892-1916) developed 1st effective treatment for leprosy. 👩🏾‍🔬🧪🐡 #histsci Though her life was cut tragically short, her research saved 1000s from exile & painful, ineffective lifelong treatment for leprosy, & she was a trailblazer for 🧵1/

My linocut portrait of pharmaceutical chemist Alice Ball, a young Black woman in a lab coat, printed in indigo. Below her is the chemical reaction for Ball’s Process in violet. Above and around her is a branch of chalmoogra with green leaves and yellow fruit.

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Nicholas Kaufmonster @nicholaskaufmann.bsky.social · 22h

Happy Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples Day to my American friends!

Happy Thanksgiving to my Canadian friends!

Also, happy No Bra Day (this is real!), which is part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month!

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 14h

Sharing my portrait of Isabella Aiona Abbott for #AdaLovelaceDay to celebrate #womenInSTEM and #IndigenousPeoplesDay.

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 17d

Day 26 #SciArtSeptember prompt forage. My #linocut of #botanist Isabella Aiona Abbott (1919-2010), 🧪🐡👩🏻‍🔬 #histsci renown algae expert, celebrated seaweed cook, devoted teacher & mentor, expert on Hawaiian ethnobotany, the first Indigenous Hawaiian woman to earn a doctorate in science & the first woman

My linocut portrait of Isabella Aiona Abbott in indigo on cream coloured paper. She’s facing forward at a table in a shirt and sweater vest with a sheet with algae samples on the table. In my print, she is surrounded by algae of the Pacific, all of which appeared in Abbott's research publications, including several species she discovered, or based on images of specimen she personally collected or whose traditional use as food she documented. The algae are in pinks, khaki green and rust.

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👻SAAAAAAAAHHHHHHvik Ford 🎃 @saavikford.bsky.social · 3h

Yeah, that’s exactly my fear (tho hubs would probably not trip that wire, being white & a native English speaker… but he DID carry his green card or visa as long as he had one bc he was concerned about this law… & I’ve got plenty of friends & students who WOULD trip that wire…).

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👻SAAAAAAAAHHHHHHvik Ford 🎃 @saavikford.bsky.social · 3h

Oh, 💯. I have heard some folks, however, say that the ACA is a useless corporate giveaway that did nothing important for people or our system. Which is what I’m pushing back on.

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👻SAAAAAAAAHHHHHHvik Ford 🎃 @saavikford.bsky.social · 8h

So like… what’s to prevent them from hassling a naturalized citizen in the same way? After all, they don’t know you’re naturalized without proof? I’ve been debating whether maybe hubs should carry his US passport?

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 17h

Wow, wow, wow. This has always been legally possible but the law has virtually never been enforced — and now this is the SECOND case I've heard of in the last month (first involving a person with a green card) of a noncitizen being charged for failure to carry their papers.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 18h

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fined Rueben Antonio Cruz $130 for not having his papers with him.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 22h

Great opportunity to listen to a (colloquial) lecture from @seanmcarroll.bsky.social about fine-tuning and why the universe is the way it is. 🧪🔭⚛️

Accessible to anyone!

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

Solo: Fine-Tuning, God, and the Multiverse

Podcast Episode · Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas · 10/06/2025 · 1h 55m

podcasts.apple.com

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 14h

Student government leaders of MIT, UVA, U of AZ, Dartmouth, UPenn, Brown, and Vanderbilt united in their opposition to the "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 16h

www.instagram.com/p/DPm507ljBJ...

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👻SAAAAAAAAHHHHHHvik Ford 🎃 @saavikford.bsky.social · 8h

THIS!!!

No, ACA isn’t perfect, but just straight up repealing it would kill a LOT of people.

THAT Amber @buriedbybooks.bsky.social · 11h

I like to remind people about lifetime limits and the refusal of insurers to sell coverage to people with preexisting conditions.

The ACA has issues. But those 2 things alone make it worth saving and fixing.

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Birch 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @birchduck.bsky.social · 9h

A whole troop of Girl Scouts went full single-payer when they realized a couple of their friends weren't getting treatment because they couldn't afford it. "There should be a law!"

THAT Amber @buriedbybooks.bsky.social · 11h

I like to remind people about lifetime limits and the refusal of insurers to sell coverage to people with preexisting conditions.

The ACA has issues. But those 2 things alone make it worth saving and fixing.

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👻SAAAAAAAAHHHHHHvik Ford 🎃 @saavikford.bsky.social · 8h

And thanks for clarifying!

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👻SAAAAAAAAHHHHHHvik Ford 🎃 @saavikford.bsky.social · 8h

Ahhh! I didn’t realize the difference!!

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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.bsky.social · 16h

Chicago never disappoints 💪🏽😂

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 9h

Bluesky is broken because the main Link is missing

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 9h

Warming waters cause corals to “bleach” when these organisms expel symbiotic algae that provide nutrients, oxygen & vibrant colors.

The latest global bleaching event - researchers estimate >84% of the planet's coral ecosystems have been affected since Jan 2023 - has made it clear the crisis is now.

nature

NEWS

12 October 2025

Coral die-off marks Earth's first climate
'tipping point', scientists say

A surge in global temperatures has caused widespread bleaching and death of warm-water corals around the world.

By Jeff Tollefson

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 9h

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

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👻SAAAAAAAAHHHHHHvik Ford 🎃 @saavikford.bsky.social · 8h

Depending on the ink, rubbing alcohol is quite effective (I once used a lot of qtips & a LOT of rubbing alcohol to get out pretty much all the ink a certain small person put on a grandparent’s favorite upholstered chair…)

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👻SAAAAAAAAHHHHHHvik Ford 🎃 @saavikford.bsky.social · 9h

This is a scream! 😂🤣😂

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 10h

"xKid’s Always Interrupting platform is a game-changing (and mandatory) feature that nobody asked for."

After Many UX Improvements, We’re Relaunching the Small Child as xKid, Your Next-Gen Everyday Companion

Thank you for attending our company’s all-hands. It’s been an incredible eight years since we launched the first version of the Small Child. I’m no...

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 10h

"xKid’s Always Interrupting platform is a game-changing (and mandatory) feature that nobody asked for."

After Many UX Improvements, We’re Relaunching the Small Child as xKid, Your Next-Gen Everyday Companion

Thank you for attending our company’s all-hands. It’s been an incredible eight years since we launched the first version of the Small Child. I’m no...

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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 13h

A lot of comments on Mars rovers or Moon landings, but it's important to remember that the planet NASA studies most is Earth. This is less about cutting flashy things like moonwalks and more about keeping communities in the dark on climate, weather, agriculture, pollution, natural hazards, and more.

Reuters @reuters.com · 16h

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 12h

If you're wondering whether or not to get a flu shot, I didn't get one in time, and I just had a fever dream where I was in the Drew Carey Show because several days ago I was on the Wikipedia page for the Drew Carey Show. You don't have to do this to yourself.

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