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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 5h

How Lego MRI scanner sets are reducing anxiety in children undergoing medical treatment www.cnbc.com/2025/10/13/l...

How Lego MRI scanner sets are reducing anxiety in children undergoing medical treatment

Lego's MRI scanner play sets, which launched in 2023, are significantly reducing anxiety and the use of sedation in children, according to new research.

www.cnbc.com

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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 9h

I'm so fucking exhausted

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 11h

Researchers pointed a satellite dish at the sky for 3 years and monitored what unencrypted data it picked up. The results were shocking: They obtained thousands of T-Mobile users' phone calls and texts, military and law enforcement secrets, much more: www.wired.com/story/satell... 🧵👇

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...

www.wired.com

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THAT Amber @buriedbybooks.bsky.social · 12h

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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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 11h

Seeing a lot of "No Kings" protests groups using AI images lately

You aren't resisting fascism by using their tools

Be better than that

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NYC Public Library Action Network @nycplan.org · 11h

Every Wednesday we’re calling our city council members to demand a baseline of at least %.5 of the city budget be used to fund NYC libraries.

Join us in calling!

Here’s a script with instructions bit.ly/3KM9Eq9 , and you can look up your city council member here : council.nyc.gov/districts/

A meme based on the movie Mean Girls where one of the popular kids says “on Wednesdays we wear pink”, this image shows two characters from the movie at a lunch table with the text “on Wednesdays we demand %.5 of the city budget for library funding”

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Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · 13h

I don't know if you can read the expression on this Red-tailed Hawk's face, but I promise you it's giving "you have got to be fucking kidding me right now" because a squirrel had climbed up the entire lamp post and was about two feet away at this point. :) #bireds

Photo of a Red-tailed Hawk perched on the grey curved arm of a street lamp and peering down in disbelief

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Constance Lee Menefee @conniemenefee.bsky.social · 11h

Baby Red-bellied Woodpecker on cypress tree 🪶

Black and white marked fledgling woodpecker

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J. Stryker | Memento Mori ☠️ @easterncoyote.bsky.social · 1d

Please share a weird animal fact. Or a lesser-known animal fact.

FACT: Coyotes climb trees. (Coyote Ethos: “Never tell me the odds.”)

Your turn!

Coyote in an evergreen tree. Full story here, including more photos: https://goeddelphotography.com/blog/coyote-climbs-tree-and-steals-bobcats-duck/

Coyote in a fruit tree. 📸: Janet Kessler of coyoteyipps.com—arguably, the most fun and informative website in existence.

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Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦 @secondnaturemb.bsky.social · 22h

In a week from now, I'll be back out on the tundra to see these big, beautiful bears. I can't wait! 🌿🐻‍❄️ #mammals

Two large, male polar bears spar on their hind legs in the misty morning sun, among the flashes of gold of a few remaining willow leaves. The bear on the left is biting the cheek of the bear on the right.

A polar bear sits pensively among the bare willows as light snow flutters around it.

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Spaceweft @spaceweft.bsky.social · 13h

Guys, gals, and non-binary pals too!

Four panels: 1) Girls are hot. 2) Guys are hot. 3) And non-binary people are hot! Why is everyone so hot? 4) Global warming?

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 13h

Abolish ICE.

If you work for ICE, quit right now.

Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 16h

A mom in Houston reported her 15-year-old son with autism missing. She spent 6 days terrified, searching for him. The whole time, Houston police knew exactly where he was since they helped ICE place him in a refugee facility.

This is beyond cruel.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Missing teen with autism transferred to refugee facility by HPD

He is currently being held at an Office for Refugee Resettlement facility.

www.houstonchronicle.com

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 20h

ICE agents blocked an ambulance that was trying to take an injured protester to hospital.

"We are still not being allowed to leave by ICE officers.” an EMT said on radio

When driver tried to get out, an agent yelled, "DON’T YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN, I WILL SHOOT YOU"

www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 23h

*glares at everything* Stop that.

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Mandy Keifetz @besecretandexult.bsky.social · 1d

I just spent the day leading a zine folding. We folded 2000 of @meganpiont.bsky.social 's "We Marched; Now What?" zines to give out at No Kings. Find an event near you, and then pick a next step from the zine.

No Kings Graphic
"power belongs to the people/join the movement/ Saturday, Oct 18"

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Steve McKerrall @photosteve.bsky.social · 21h

An immature Black-headed Grosbeak foraging around in fallen leaves
#birds

A young black-headed grosbeak standing in a messy scene of fallen leaves, bark, and sticks. It is a medium sized bird with an orange body, black wings with white spots, and a black face with white stripes.

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Eleonor Piteira @eleonorpiteira.bsky.social · 19h

Aferah, for a personal project, 2017

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Meghan @eldritchgirl.bsky.social · 18h

Leaving my car off for it's first oil change:

Mechanic: Okay great, anything else I need to know?

Me: Oh! Yes. His name is Gerard :) (pats car's hood like a trusty dog)

Mechanic: (the longest pause in human history) No, I meant, is the car making any noises or...?

Me: Oh... Um... No...

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ashley ray @theashleyray.bsky.social · 20h

i’m not here to tell the @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social what to do, but they must know if they put out a coffee table book of all the read posters, people would buy that

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 1d

Combining direct lighting - as Mark the Evangelist is demonstrating by using the illuminating dove - is great for targeted tasks and emphasizing details at your desk, while indirect lighting - see the open window - creates a warm and inviting environment. Bonus: your cat will like it. #catcontent

Mark the Evangelist working at a desk, and his lion is present. The lightning dove is flying above him. This image is also part of the 1530 bible print: https://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/0011/bsb00113027/images/index.html?fip=193.174.98.30&seite=89&pdfseitex=

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Ashley Kuckelman @ashleyvotesblue.bsky.social · 1d

Diversity is our strength, no matter what racist, bigoted Republicans say.

Real Americans embrace diversity, equity and inclusion.

Real Americans reject Trump and his white nationalist cronies.

Trump is bad, project 2025 is bad and the people who love America, the real patriots reject both.

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Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 2d

Mr Laos. Just when you though this year was a bit quiet on the insanely huge, bedazzled, symbolic costumes along comes Mr Laos and blows everyone else out of the water. This is insane, but it's also *so* good.

A photo of a contestant at Mister Global 2025

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2d

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books

A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.

www.pilsencommunitybooks.com

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Spaceweft @spaceweft.bsky.social · 2d

The poison for Kuzco? ;)

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bmcarthur17 @bmcarthur17.bsky.social · 3d

Governor Greg Abbott has ordered the removal of all rainbow sidewalks in Texas.

TikToker Kim Abrahamson Moore responded to the news with this pic of her driveway.

#LoveIsLove #Resist

Kim Abrahamson Moore's driveway with beautiful trees, a dog, and a rainbow sidewalk.

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