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Ewamore, Quoth the Raven @ewacat.bsky.social · 2h

i am in tears www.science.org/content/arti...

Chicago’s beloved ‘rat hole’ was actually made by a squirrel

Scientists reopen the case of “splatatouille”

www.science.org

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🎃Brian K. Pittman: Critical Cryptid🎃 @holynosebleed.bsky.social · 12h

As an owner of this shirt, I highly recommend it. Very comfy material and it supports a good cause.

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 1d

You can get that PROTECT TRANS YOUTH t-shirt, designed by @tombofnull.bsky.social, from @greenpeapress.bsky.social! Proceeds benefit Huntsville's Free LGBTQ+ Closet!
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Protect Trans Youth — Green Pea Press

Due to the very sudden influx of orders of this product, we are currently working to restock low quantities. We must have gone viral, y’all! Please sign up to receive a restock notifications. Thank yo...

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 16h

U.S. police kill roughly 25 pet dogs a day, the majority of which pose no threat to them.

scholars.unh.edu/unh_lr/vol17...

trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss...

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Chris Vermilion @verm.me · 16h

"Ugh is it time for the next game yet" is a thought I don't think I've ever had in a lifetime of following this team

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Chris Vermilion @verm.me · 16h

I've been struggling to identify how I feel today, but I think it's... excitement? For more baseball?

This is a very strange experience as a Mariners fan.

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Chris Vermilion @verm.me · 21h

I’m still mad that Seattle’s NBC affiliate hasn’t released their long-running local comedy show, Almost Live, on DVD, so I’ll be boycotting them until they do.

Now to take a big sip of espresso and check if there’s anything going on this weekend that will conflict with my NO KING5 protest

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 2d

This is correct, in part - as the grim, military historian in me feels the need to note - it is psychologically much harder to get soldiers to open fire on people they view as 'respectable.'

And I dread, with grim increasingly certainty, that we are headed to a point where that matters.

WhatSaraSaid @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 2d

protests against this government should include white Boomer grandmothers who meet for pilates class, get a pitcher of mimosas & walk together to the public space

we need people in the street who think everyone can talk their way out of a speeding ticket, they're key to winning

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 1d

So, bases loaded. CF Frelick tipped the ball into the wall, making it in play and not an out. Frelick relayed to SS Joey Ortiz to catcher William Contreras, forcing out the runner at home. Contreras then ran the ball to third, forcing the runner there.

You know, a garden-variety double play.

CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 1d

what in the hell just happened in Milwaukee

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Chris Vermilion @verm.me · 1d

Mariners now 3-0 since Humpy won the Salmon Race

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Chris Vermilion @verm.me · 1d

Yeah, even the best ones… what was good was not the script

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Chris Vermilion @verm.me · 1d

Phantom Menace

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 1d

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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

My latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."

They Came for Our Neighbors. We Showed Up.

Before long, there were dozens, and then hundreds of people in the streets, watching and responding.

organizingmythoughts.org

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Chris Vermilion @verm.me · 2d

Don’t tell anyone in Real Portland I said this, but I love Other Portland, too

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Chris Vermilion @verm.me · 2d

“Emergency World Naked Bike Ride”

OPB @opb.org · 2d

Ongoing protests against President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement policies took a two-wheeled turn in Portland today, when hundreds of people — some fully or partially nude — gathered for what organizers dubbed an Emergency World Naked Bike Ride.

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 2d

Boss, we’ve got a problem. Users don’t want this stuff! They keep wanting to turn it off, even when we keep turning it back on!

Boss: I have an idea

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 2d

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 3d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 3d

To reiterate, we have passed through the veil.

We want to think that the repeated, widespread abuse of basic rights by DHS; the DOJ actions against former officials like James Comey and John Bolton; the presence of 2020 election deniers across congressional and executive branch leaders; the unconstitutional dismantling of federal agencies; the consolidation of old and new media under leadership favorable to Trump; the use of lawsuits and executive branch power to intimidate and silence critics; and the clear attempts to subvert the 2026 and 2028 elections; and Trump's constant insinuation that he might seek a third term do not all in fact mean
that we have crossed the threshold into a competitive authoritarian environment.
But we have. We have passed through the veil. Whatever becomes of American liberal democracy in the near or distant future, it will be a resurrection and not a continuation.

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 3d

Drake paying his lawyers for his losing lawsuit:

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 3d

US beef prices have now reached a record high.

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 5d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Chris Vermilion @verm.me · 4d

@jonbois.bsky.social’s Dorktown series on the Mariners is the greatest work of M’s historiography, the greatest piece of sports journalism, the greatest piece of video storytelling of this century, I love it so much

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 4d

You need to make a Part 7 of Dorktown now

Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 4d

mariners fans are my favorite bunch of fans of any team in any sport. i watched the bottom half of the last seven innings standing up in my living room. thanks for letting me hitch a ride

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 4d

We're currently in the biggest game of the Dollar Auction ever created. Each new frontier model represents a bid, whose cost is paid for at the time that it is trained. But the AI market is a most-capable winner-take-most game.

new post by @talor.computer ft me: taloranderson.com/blog/ai-valu...

OpenAI's inflated valuation, as I understand it - Talor Anderson

Blog post: OpenAI's inflated valuation, as I understand it

taloranderson.com

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 4d

Simultaneously too amped and too exhausted to sleep. Mariners baseball is like its own little neurological condition.

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Chris Vermilion @verm.me · 4d

Or: no pitcher who has started a game that season can pitch in extras. Let’s get to the third-string catcher who pitched in little league faster.