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Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 1d

It feels a bit weird to post right now in light of what has happened to @teenvogue.com and so much of the incredible team there. What sources shared here is important, & I’m grateful I got to work on this. I reported on how young people are being impacted by delays to SNAP: “It’s about survival.”

More Young People Will Go Hungry Without SNAP

“We’re trying to make it, but it’s been hard.”

www.teenvogue.com

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Andrew @abenesh.bsky.social · 1d

Not too shabby for a morning #CWT!

Andrew @abenesh.bsky.social · 2d

The bands were temperamental tonight.

#ICWC #MST #MorseCode #CW

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions

"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 2d

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.

now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 3d

better answer

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 4d

The Oregon Department of Justice submitted multiple videos as trial exhibits that show federal officers using force against what appear to be nonviolent protesters outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building on various nights since June.

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 5d

How many barrels will thy vengeance yield thee even if thou gettest it, Captain Ahab?

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Andrew @abenesh.bsky.social · 8d

Constructivist theory and D&D!

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

You walk into a tavern: co-constitutive imagination in dungeons and dragons - Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences

This paper introduces co-constitutive imagination as a possible and more robust form of social imagination than those currently articulated in phenomenological literature. Whereas existing accounts - ...

link.springer.com

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 10d

"What, really, do I have to show for my time here? A string of dead-end jobs, a few sticks of secondhand furniture, and a shockingly blasé attitude toward child abduction."

Why I’m Leaving Derry, Maine — A Medium Post

When I moved here six years ago, I was like so many young people. I came to the big city holding tight to my dreams, and I envisioned a burgeoning ...

buff.ly

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Andrew @abenesh.bsky.social · 9d

#invasivespecies #nativeplants #ecology #conservation

phys.org/news/2025-10...

What half a million tweets reveal about invasive species

A study analyzing over 500,000 tweets from 2006 to 2021 found that public discourse on invasive species heavily favors charismatic animals over ecologically harmful plants.

phys.org

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 9d

If you make 130% of the federal poverty level, you qualify for SNAP.

A family of four, making $40,560, qualifies for SNAP benefits meaning thousands of Missouri teachers qualify.

I’m tired of the bullshit. Most of the people who receive snap benefits work.

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armando l sanchez @mandophotos.bsky.social · 11d

Border patrol agents deployed tear gas on the 3700 block of North Kildare where residents say a landscape worker, a resident, and a woman on a bike were detained. Video from a resident.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 13d

*uncontrollable screaming intensifies*

G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 13d

On Threads, the usual suspects are telling ppl about to lose SNAP benefits to just start a garden. As a gardener, I had to laugh. You need at LEAST an acre of land to feed a family of 4. Start-up costs are enormous. But yes, subsistence farming on the balcony of your rental apartment is the answer

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13d

Over the past week, the president said the DOJ should pay him a quarter billion dollars, bulldozed half the White House to build himself a gaudy ballroom, bragged about murdering civilians in international waters, pardoned some more criminals, directed federal prosecutors to indict his opponents ...

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New York Magazine @nymag.com · 13d

Donald Trump knocked down the White House East Wing without notice and before approvals —a developer move known as ‘anticipatory demolition,’ where you tear down a building before the preservationists can intervene. His dad did it too.

Trump Used His Dad’s Dirtiest Move on the East Wing

Donald Trump knocked down the White House East Wing without notice and before approvals —a developer move known as ‘anticipatory demolition,’ where you tear down a building before the preservationists can intervene. His dad did it too.

www.curbed.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18d

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.

Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 19d

[Exit King.]

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 19d

eat him by his own light

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Dave Jamieson @jamieson.bsky.social · 20d

Wow. Sidney Reid, the DC woman just found not guilty of assaulting an FBI agent, issues a withering and gutsy statement on Trump through her attorneys.

"I feel sorry for the prosecutors really, who must be burdened by Trump's irrational and unfounded hatred for his fellow man."

It's a must-read:

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Andrew @abenesh.bsky.social · 21d

Lots of West Coast activit tonight!

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Andrew @abenesh.bsky.social · 23d

Rough bands tonight, but still managed a few decent QSOs!

#morsecode #wrl #cwops #icwc #mst #amateurradio

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 25d

admire the magnanimity of the sea which will permit no records

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 26d

This is true and they are super endangered by poachers who shovel them up by the hundreds and sell them at flea markets and shit. You should not buy the plants and if you happen to kick the poacher in the shins on accident, no one will hear about it from me.

mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 26d

still amazing to me the number of movies, games, etc. which have Venus Flytrap-based creatures in some form compared to the actual native range of Venus Flytrap, which is like, the great untamed jungles of a few wet pine savannas in North Carolina

map illustrating the native range of Venus Flytrap plants, just a little half circle around coastal North and South Carolina in USA

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Jane Goodall Institute of Canada @janegoodallcan.bsky.social · 27d

We've heard from many people who are interested in attending memorials in the United Kingdom or the United States – but Dr. Jane's wishes were that people honour her locally.

We're planning an official memorial event, which the public can attend in person and online.

Photo: Vincent Calmel

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