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Michele Doyle @algorithmick.bsky.social · 10d

Hello I have been summoned by the partial list of my teenage literary crushes. And you human, have excellent taste.

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Brandon Bird @brandonbird.bsky.social · 13d

The Birch Aquarium put a giant skeleton in their kelp tank.

Two divers assemble a 12 foot tall human skeleton.

Two divers and an assembled 12 foot tall human skeleton.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 14d

Translation: feel free to harass and rape fellow soldiers and sailors with reckless abandon because there’s no longer a safe way for them to report you.

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 14d

Hegseth says he'll weaken the IG oversight process:

"We are overhauling an inspector general process, the IG, that has been weaponized, putting complainers, ideologues, and poor performers in the driver's seat … No more frivolous complaints, no more anonymous complaints, no more repeat complaints."

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Carolyn Salter MD @salterfortexas.bsky.social · 15d

Ok. Ok. I found another one. “When you put it like that, it seems so obvious.” I found this reposted on TikTok. I don’t know where the original came from. I couldn’t copy the link so I’m posting a video copy.

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Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 27d

“There’s a lot of talk about teen boys and the internet, but there’s plenty of sexist influencers for women, too.” Read an excerpt from extremism researcher Dr. @milleridriss.bsky.social‘s new book ‘Man Up: The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism.’ www.teenvogue.com/story/how-tr...

Tradwives Use Sexism, Racism and Transphobia to Police Other Women

There's a lot of talk about teen boys and the internet, but there's plenty of sexist influencers for women, too.

www.teenvogue.com

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Amy McCarthy @aemccarthy.bsky.social · Sep 14

shout out to @kanopy.com, the absolute best streaming app that is also totally free if you have a library card

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Michele Doyle @algorithmick.bsky.social · Sep 9

Everything about this post makes me happy!

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Nate Postlethwait @natepost.bsky.social · Aug 29

There is still much unknown about cPTSD because it’s the result of things people were never meant to endure.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · Aug 21

When the Trump administration refused to reveal how many workers had left federal health agencies, ProPublica turned to a federal employee directory to quantify the impact.

Here’s how reporters @pratheekrebala.bsky.social @anniewaldman.bsky.social and @bxroberts.org did it.

How We Tracked Workforce Reductions at Federal Health Agencies

When the Trump administration refused to reveal how many workers had left federal health agencies, ProPublica turned to a federal employee directory to quantify the impact. Here’s how we did it.

www.propublica.org

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · Aug 18

You ‘run the gamut’ and ‘run the gauntlet.’

You don’t ‘run the gambit.’

gamut = entire range or series

gauntlet = severe trial

Gambit = Alpha-level mutant who can convert potential energy to kinetic energy

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Michele Doyle @algorithmick.bsky.social · Aug 13

Died. Coffee sprayed everywhere. Children checking on me because of ongoing helpless laughter. 11/10

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c @3boxesofsighs.bsky.social · Jul 27

Longing

I miss you in the dawn,
of gradual flowering lights
and prayer-pale stars
that passed the drowning-incensed hymns,
when early earth through her greenly-sleeping limbs
puts on the exquisite gold day.

e.e cummings

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jul 26

So, as I suspected, the police response to the shootings of Democratic elected officials in Minnesota was actually a complete disaster www.startribune.com/new-details-...

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · Jul 20

(📣) WAR BALLADS is here! The new Hounds protest album includes:

“The Ballad of Jeff and Donny”
“The Devil Came Up to Florida”
“There Will Be No Kings in America”

and many, many more.

A full album preview, with 90-second clips, is below. music.apple.com/us/album/war...

War Ballads by Hounds on Apple Music

Album · 2025 · 12 Songs

music.apple.com

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · Jul 20

Reading about this story from the Brazilian side brings home how the US now functionally operates as an elected autocracy. Brazilian officials note how they can’t even try to negotiate diplomatically, bc there are no channels and no process. It’s only the King and his whims.

Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · Jul 18

It’s a rogue country.

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Dissent in Bloom 🌼 @dissentinbloom0.bsky.social · Jul 19

The Venezuelan men freed from CECOT are singing a hymn about faith, holding on, and not giving up. Their voices shake but don’t break. They’re singing to a God they believed in through it all, even when they were locked away with 0 light and no reason to hope. #cecot #venezuelan #venezuelan #freedom

The Venezuelan Men Freed from CECOT Are Singing

The Venezuelan men freed from CECOT are singing a hymn about faith, holding on, and not giving up.

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El Norte Recuerda @elnorterecuerda.bsky.social · Jul 19

Hey! Have you signed up for PBS Passport yet? $5 per month, you donate to PBS with it, and you get all of their shows. I registered for annual at $60/year.

Cancel Paramount, get PBS passport instead.

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Michele Doyle @algorithmick.bsky.social · Jul 17

Heck. Yeah.

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · Jul 11

The rate of calls for "lethal force" to be used against American citizens by MAGA aligned Israeli-Russian troll farms has significantly escalated in the last 48 hours.

This is a significant escalation by the MAGA ecosphere as their call for violence extends nationwide.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Jul 8

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

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Michele Doyle @algorithmick.bsky.social · Jul 7

You are amazing. I’m so glad you are on the interwebs

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · Jun 30

The White House has ordered the US Dept. of Justice to prioritize denaturalization: voiding the citizenship of US citizens.

Who will it denaturalize? "Any" case that it "determines to be sufficiently important".

Point 10 leaves the criteria opaque and arbitrary.

substack.com/redirect/169...

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Thomas M, Full-time Rascal @newmadras.bsky.social · Jun 29

Saw this on Instagram. myceliumyouth hiring someone who knows D&D to write some climate justice related adventures

myceliumyouth on Instagram hiring someone who knows D&D to write some climate justice related adventures

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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · Jun 19

ICE agent points gun directly at the head of innocent civilian—just for taking picture of his license plate.

He drew his gun with one hand—while fumbling to open the car door with the other.

The "agent" did not seem to be aware someone else was already recording his vehicle.

Pasadena, California.

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pork, cheese, broccoli rabe @garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz · Jun 21

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

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