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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 7h

"we didn't do that back in the--"

Oh yes you absolutely did.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 6h

He's a problem-maker, not a problem-solver.

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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 4h

i still maintain that Farscape is one of the best science fiction ensemble shows to ever air.

like, sincerely one of the all time greats. the cast, the plots, the ensemble chemistry, the story arcs, the puppets, the effects.

seriously due for a DS9 style critical re-appraisal.

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Armin Reindl @arminreindl.bsky.social · 6h

INJECT IT STRAIGHT INTO MY VEINS HOLY SHIT YES YES YES
youtu.be/LJvbNKrukeQ?...

Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age - Official Season 3 First Look Clip (2025)

YouTube video by IGN

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Cassidy @cassidoo.co · 12h

My nanny Bea told us the scariest story. Her nanny friend was at the park yesterday and a ton of Americans came running and yelled "RUN, RUN" as ICE was coming. Her friend needed to get her things for the baby, and another woman with her papers on her said, "I got all of it, GO."

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 14h

The TPUSA “alternative” halftime show hasn’t booked acts yet.

But it has already revealed how their fans are, to put it gently, a bunch of losers.

MAGA wants to win the culture wars. But this whole debacle shows why they are doomed to fail.

www.salon.com/2025/10/15/m...

MAGA's fake Super Bowl halftime show reveals their real failures

Turning Point USA's followers are pitifully out-of-touch with pop culture

www.salon.com

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Amy Ferrell @amyshadow.bsky.social · 7h

Also, when shame "works" (someone stops doing a thing) it doesn't get rid of the thing. It gets rid of the appearance of the thing. People hide the thing or call the thing something else. They justify the thing. Or they delude themselves into believing they don't do the thing altogether.

Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 9h

Every time something like the GOP chat leak occurs I hear smart people arguing that shame could be a useful tactic. But shame only works if the bad actors think their actions are bad. Hypocrisy, shame, these Victorian-ish norms are just that, norms, guardrails, and they don't work against fascism.

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 7h

Listen we can't judge him based on things he did when he was a few hours younger.

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 7h

Holy shit. This is Angelo Elia, a legislative correspondent for Congressman Dave Taylor.

According to @rooster.info, during a Zoom meeting today, he had an American nazi flag displayed in the background.

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 7h

UGH! When will it end. 😭

"Effective October 15, 2025, due to non-renewed funding, NSIDC has suspended or reduced several Sea Ice Today tools and services."

nsidc.org/data/user-re...

Screenshot that says "Sea Ice Today" and "Ice Sheets Today" Services Reduced. More information is stated: "Beginning October 15, 2025, NSIDC’s Sea Ice Today and Ice Sheets Today services will be reduced because of non-renewed funding. This means no new monthly and mid-month analysis posts for Sea Ice Today or regular posts for Ice Sheets Today, limited comparison tools, and reduced user support."

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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 9h

*Hmmm. To judge by the list of suspects I'm gonna be digging some "post-photography" here

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 9h

James Cameron “is considering a documentary about the making of Avatar — finally giving us a chance to explain, in a meticulous way, why performance capture is the most empowering form of acting.”

Yes, give me a feature documentary about performance capture, please 🙏

Zoe Saldaña Wants James Cameron to Make an ‘Avatar’ Doc That Celebrates Motion Capture Acting

The Oscar winner says a documentary would "finally give us a chance to explain, in a meticulous way, why performance capture is the most empowering form of acting."

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 9h

Really good, watch it!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB9J...

TEARS OF THE MOUNTAIN - Animation Short Film 2025 - GOBELINS

YouTube video by GOBELINS Paris

www.youtube.com

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 10h

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hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 10h

this has to be a scammer right? Doordash would surely not build a bot this dumb, right?

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 10h

Not to be outdone, the Trump Solicitor General says you have to overturn Thornburg v Gingles, the 1982 precedent upon which all Section 2 claims are evaluated.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 10h

This entire argument by Louisiana and the conservatives questions are premised on an erasure of Congress’ enforcement power under the 14th & 15th Amendments.

Literally swinging for the fences to wipe out the premise for the legitimacy of Congress’ power to enact civil rights statutes.

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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 10h

A popular platform for 2026 would be

Dismantle SCOTUS.
Abolish ICE.
Rebuild the Constitution.

ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 11h

The fight here with Gorsuch and Kav vs Nelson is whether the "use" of race automatically means "discrimination" on the basis of race.

That's interesting to me, because it's basically the white folks telling on themselves. They cannot see a "use" of race that isn't synonymous with discrimination.

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Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social · 10h

Thomas Keyes demonstrating how manuscripts like the Book of Kells and Lindisfarne Gospels were made. Videos from a Lottery funded project based at the Tarbat Discovery Centre. Thanks to @victoriawhitworth.bsky.social for the link www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSJd...

Stories on Skins: Calligraphy

YouTube video by Tarbat Discovery Centre

www.youtube.com

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 11h

The more Republicans rant about paid protesters the more I wonder what those Tea Party costume characters were getting.

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 13h

My latest column for @chemistryworld.com looks at a wonderful recent paper showing how condensates in cells can act as integrators of contextual information.
www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/the-...

The molecular mechanisms behind cell cognition

Condensate formation is central to how budding yeast cells decide their response to environmental and internal conditions

www.chemistryworld.com

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Ron Jeffries @ronjeffries.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11h

It me!
https://mastodon.world/@lxskllr/115378590385577207

lxskllr (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image @[email protected]

mastodon.world

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 11h

Thinking all Republicans are racist has long been a go-to example of woke overreach for opinion columnists. Unfortunately, it also happens to be entirely correct.

Politico @politico.com · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Scaryanne Denton 🎃🧡 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 11h

Me to Husband during weekend & overnight grad work at university~

“if I’m not home as expected, check these three creepy closets and two enchanted elevators.”

c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 11h

University administration:
"We need you to complete 26 hours of lab safety training 🧪 each year so that everyone is safe and responsible."

Also university administration:

Stolen from the Internet, a sign that says "If Elevator does not move do a small jump it should move after", and a dirty-white freight elevator wall and aged elevator controls with only floors 1 and 2."

I have no idea where this really is, I just stole it off Wikimedia.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 11h

“We are currently clean on OPSEC”

Jesse Dollemore @dollemore.com · 1d

Currently on a flight to Japan watching a Pentagon Assistant Press Secretary (Riley Podleski) work on a document in the open on her laptop. She spent the last hour copy and pasting headlines from articles critical of the Administration’s hostility toward the 1st amendment.

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kat blackheart @gothfem.me · 11h

tune for the day
youtu.be/HZhpHUEX2VI

Girl Scout - I Just Needed You To Know (Official Video)

YouTube video by Girl Scout

youtu.be

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Unsharp Halloween Mask Bill Tozier @vaguery.bsky.social · 11h

In World Wide Web Interface, like an animal

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