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The Cheese Goddess @thecheesegoddess.bsky.social · Jul 4

Fern and I will pick up the last of the spuds for the year. Have to wait for fall for the local ones (not baby spuds, that is different). I should do a thread on local food and how to find, wholesale/retail/aggregators/setting up mutual aid boxes, etc.

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The Cheese Goddess @thecheesegoddess.bsky.social · 50m

Me too.

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The Cheese Goddess @thecheesegoddess.bsky.social · 51m

I was gifted two of these last year and finally had the nerve to take it out and use it. Messy, but fun. I have absolute loads of these now.

The Cheese Goddess @thecheesegoddess.bsky.social · 52m

Had a fun new to me crafty activity this afternoon. Gelli printing using random acrylic paint in craft box and maple leaves from Fern’s PM walk.

Grey and black tones. A silhouette of a maple leaf in black.

Red amber background with a maple leaf imprint with that white negative background.

Black and green background. A print of a leaf with some negative white. The veins are shown.

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Gabrielle Canon @gabriellecanon.bsky.social · 1h

I wrote a story that pubbed today about the illegal, dangerous, and damaging activity happening in Yosemite while the park is left open but half-staffed due to the gov shutdown. I was surprised when the DOI asked me to issue a correction. They've also called for retractions from other publications.

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Molly Schumer @mollyschumer.bsky.social · 2h

Question for the hivemind: is there a tool that takes protein sequences and predicts antibodies (for a western blot) that might work? We have a pretty divergent protein derived from a retrovirus and I'm wondering if there might be an antibody from another species that will work on it.

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The Cheese Goddess @thecheesegoddess.bsky.social · 4h

Needed some off computer and out of my own head time. No Fern this time. She had a walk this morning.

Sunny sky, no clouds. An access road with stone dust. Trees in various stages of autumn colors.

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The Cheese Goddess @thecheesegoddess.bsky.social · 5h

Yup.

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Mindy Weisberger @laminda.bsky.social · 5h

A black swan at Stratford-Upon-Avon named Mr. Terminator was a local favorite and "more popular" than Shakespeare, despite being a visiting species native to Australia. But then he started trying to drown the local mute swans, earning himself a one-way ticket to a home for wayward waterfowl in Devon

Black swan named ‘Mr Terminator’ evicted from town after trying to drown local birds

The bird had become ‘more popular than William Shakespeare’ in Stratford-Upon-Avon until things took a ‘dark’ turn

www.the-independent.com

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 7h

NEW: The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did.

We found more than 170 such incidents since the start of the second Trump administration. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

www.propublica.org

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The Cheese Goddess @thecheesegoddess.bsky.social · 7h

I will never forget my Jetta saying ‘[insert name] I don’t understand you…’ and me yelling ‘nobody does.’ Daughter looked at me with that teen judgy side eye.

Totally don’t want this. Linux it will be I guess until they fuck that up too.

The Cheese Goddess @thecheesegoddess.bsky.social · 8h

I don’t like talking to humans IRL, why would I want a computer talking to me? Dammit.

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The Cheese Goddess @thecheesegoddess.bsky.social · 9h

I agree with this statement.

The Cheese Goddess @thecheesegoddess.bsky.social · 12h

That long?

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The Cheese Goddess @thecheesegoddess.bsky.social · 19h

Yum!!

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404 Media @404media.co · 1d

The end of free Windows 10 support this Wednesday could be an environmental disaster, cutting off 400 million PCs from security updates and dooming millions of still usable computers.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-end-of-w...

The End of Windows 10 Support Is an E-Waste Disaster in the Making

In an example of egregious planned obsolescence, as many as 400 million computers will soon hit the waste stream.

www.404media.co

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The Cheese Goddess @thecheesegoddess.bsky.social · 22h

Yah. That was really good.

The Cheese Goddess @thecheesegoddess.bsky.social · 22h

That was the best part.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans

www.nytimes.com

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 1d

Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything.

It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in.

Long thread.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/10/national-security-presidential-memorandum-nspm-8/

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Adoptable Dogs @adoptabledogs.bsky.social · 1d

Boo 🐾
Adult female Dachshund mix
Adoptable from AJC Rescue & Transport (Baytown, TX)

https://www.petfinder.com/dog/boo-78780154/tx/baytown/ajc-rescue-and-transport-tx2742/

Boo is a Adult Dachshund mix described as: Affectionate, Athletic, Brave, Couch, Curious, Friendly, Funny, Gentle, Independent, Loves, Loyal, Playful, Protective and Smart

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 1d

“I've had two children with dyslexia, and we've had to struggle to find places that would help them, and we've had really good outcomes when we actually got the help that we needed,” said Mississippi House Education Committee Chair Rob Roberson.

Dyslexia Scholarship Helps Mississippi Families Access Therapy

Five schools across Madison, Ridgeland, Petal, Hattiesburg and Ocean Springs are approved to accept students using Mississippi’s Dyslexia Therapy Scholarship. But large areas of Mississippi,…

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Wilson Ornithological Society @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social · 2d

The problem of bird-window collisions made NPR's All Things Considered last week! #ornithology

As birds migrate south, there's an invisible danger: glass

A huge threat to migrating birds is colliding with a building. Now birding groups are banding together with government agencies and others to form one united front to tackle the problem.

www.npr.org

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The Cheese Goddess @thecheesegoddess.bsky.social · 1d

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Pretty

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WIRED @wired.com · 1d

Protesting this weekend? Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy.

How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance

Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.

www.wired.com

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