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I. Blade Daily @ibladedaily.bsky.social · 11h

So the American government at this moment is 50% cult, 50% criminal enterprise, 0% functional.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 5h

Holy shit, and also, great blessings upon the family of the human recipient mentioned in the article for allowing their loved one with no remaining brain activity to be a test candidate to determine if their body would reject a treated kidney.

Glen 🇨🇦 part owner of Canada* @honestcanadian.bsky.social · 22h

This is huge news!
UBC has developed an enzyme that can convert donor organs to type O, making them universal.
Normally a using organs of the wrong blood type causes the recipient's immune system to attack the organ, leading to failure.
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news.ubc.ca/2025/10/univ...

UBC enzyme technology clears first human test toward universal donor organs for transplantation - UBC News

UBC-developed enzymes successfully converted a kidney to universal type O for transplant, marking a major step toward faster, more compatible organ donations.

news.ubc.ca

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Dr David Joffe MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP @davidjoffe64.bsky.social · 1h

Seriously, Pistons...

The fastest way to Long Cövid is exercise and exertion within the first 6-8 weeks...

I see those with plenty of organ injury and ample regrets.

I'm here to educate and caution. I've long given up on trying to persuade...

My 10 cents 🤷🏻‍♂️

kianopoly.bsky.social @kianopoly.bsky.social · 3h

@davidjoffe64.bsky.social another unlcear story of exercise with infecton www.verywellhealth.com/working-out-...

Can You Work Out If You Have COVID? Here’s What Experts Recommend

If you test positive for COVID-19 or have symptoms, experts say you can still work out as long as you know the signs that you should take it easy.

www.verywellhealth.com

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Amyreg @amyreg.bsky.social · 9h

Wow, ewww, he should resign

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 12h

Republican Rep. Cory Mills allegedly threatened to release nude images of a 26-year-old woman and to harm her future boyfriends after she ended their relationship.

Now, a judge just ordered Mills, 45, not to come within 500 feet of the defendant & ruled that she is “a victim of dating violence.”

Judge grants ex-girlfriend restraining order against Rep. Cory Mills

A Florida judge said Rep. Cory Mills had cyberstalked an ex-girlfriend and barred the lawmaker from going near her residence or workplace or referencing her on social media.

www.orlandosentinel.com

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

I tried to write a PSA that people can send to their elderly relatives.

Gizmodo @gizmodo.com · 1d

If You Can Read This, You're About to Get Scammed

Scammers are pretending to be Elon Musk. They're stealing millions from hard-working people.

gizmodo.com

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Amyreg @amyreg.bsky.social · 9h

This is very, very well done! Super impressed with tone— sincere, serious, semi-desperate

Amyreg @amyreg.bsky.social · 13h

Zero overhead guy. Straight to the candidates via Act Blue. He doesn’t keep even 1% unlike A LOT of shady PACS and orgs. Give to Charles’s slates

Chuck4Democracy 🦋 @chuck4democracy.bsky.social · 13h

Charles is a smart guy. There will be a lot of competition for your campaign contributions. Some are much wiser than others. Trust Charles.

Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 13h

📣 Become a *RECURRING* supporter of all 7 battleground state parties at once today so they can remain fully activated YEAR ROUND: #Blue26

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 13h

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense.

www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

www.newsweek.com

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Amyreg @amyreg.bsky.social · 13h

He is so. So. Gross

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CeeJay Johnson-Yellow Hawk @adriftalchemist.bsky.social · 2d

updates for kipnuk

several houses are gone and more continue to float away from the village

hope help arrives soon

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CeeJay Johnson-Yellow Hawk @adriftalchemist.bsky.social · 2d

updates for kipnuk, kwig, and kong

20 ppl are missing in kwig 🥺

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Vitanuova @vitanuova.bsky.social · 23h

🌱Blowsy October in my shockingly overgrown garden garden. Dahlias and roses competing for physical supremacy. Volunteer tomatoes and great lobelias growing as if tomorrow never comes. A single aster from a 1-quart pot spreads over 4 square meters. And these beautiful blossoms:

A “Mystery Day” dahlia opens on a cloudy day amidst a crowd of stalks and support posts. She is a dark crimson “dinnerplate”with white-tipped petals.

A cluster of blue-purple heliotrope flowers against their deep green rugose foliage, moist with rain.

The dauntless “Eustacia Vye” rose showing off a beautifully quartered multiply double blossom that is light pink on the edges, grading to a center of warm peachy-pink. Against the open flower is a large bud about to open.

A vigorous orange puffball dahlia crowds up against and gets support from the previously mentioned Eustacia Vye rose. The background is a row of several types of arborvitae barely restrained by a fence. Who knew, in the middle of summer, that fall would be this exuberant?

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 22h

www.cnn.com/interactive/...

Americans are losing millions to scammers at crypto ATMs. Here’s how companies profit

Companies often fail to refund money to victims and aggressively fight police to claw back scam money seized from machines.

www.cnn.com

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 1d

There needs to be more coverage of this in the news. I have read so many stories bout this on Facebook, first hand stories of the terror of that storm, and very little coverage n media.
www.facebook.com/100000960660...

Screenshot of a Facebook post. Photo is an elderly woman holding a child on her ap on a couch with flood water around them. Both are wearing jackets inside. Text says: This was after our 1st drift.. staying put for awhile. Our 3rd and final drift was terrifying. House moving fast then we started spinning in circles. While we were spinning in circles my oldest daughter was just staring at me while I held onto my younger two. Kipnuk doesn't look like kipnuk anymore, like more than 3/4 of the homes displaced, power poles fallen. It smells like stove oil outside. Contaminated

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

They also cancelled government data collection about hunger to minimize evidence about their policies

José Sepúlveda @josesepulveda.bsky.social · 1d

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the #Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.

My latest video for @propublica.org.

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Amyreg @amyreg.bsky.social · 1d

Basically the Trump admin just made Congress—all of it but especially the House…decorative. Symbolic. Powerless.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

"During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she 'doesn’t look like' a Greeley."

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Chicago Tribune: Greeley, who was born at Illinois Masonic hospital and is adopted, carries a copy of her passport just in case she runs into federal agents.

“I am Latina and I am a service worker,” Greeley said. “I fit the description of what they’re looking for now.”

During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she “doesn’t look like” a Greeley.

“They said this isn’t real, they kept telling me I’m lying, I’m a liar,” Greeley recalled. “I told them to look in the rest of my wallet, I have my credit cards, my insurance.”

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

Solidarity is the only way

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

What if the unidentified masked men with guns don't accept the validity of your papers?

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 1d

a fake quote being attributed to zohran mamdani is igniting the pro-palestine left.

he never said arresting netanyahu would make him a trumpian fascist. that phrase was posted by an account known for using extreme rhetoric to accuse mamdani of effectively saying that as a result of him softening.

image circulating claiming to attribute a fake quote to mamdani. text reads:
dec. 2024: “as mayor of nyc i would arrest benjamin netanyahu”
sept. 2025: “arresting netanyahu would make me a trumpian fascist.” - this second quote has in big letters over it the words “fake quote.”

post from the originator of the phrase. text reads:

@zei squirrel
here you have it side by side. Zohran in December 2024, when he was running in the primary, pledging that he will definitely arrest Netanyahu. Then fast forward to Zohran in September 2025, after he won the primary, and suddenly arresting Netanyahu makes you a Trumpian fascist:

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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eggnog slut @deus01.bsky.social · 1d

postmodern finance theory

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StarCatcher 🇨🇦 @starcatcherjohn.bsky.social · 2d

🧵(1/2) Comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon is a non-periodic comet discovered by the Mount Lemmon Survey on 3 January 2025.

Shot taken on 2025-10-11 from my backyard.

🔭 William Optics Pleiades 111
📷 ZWO ASI 2600
Total exposure: 31 x 30s (15m30s)

#Astrophotography #Space #DeepSpace #Comet #Astronomy

C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) is a non-periodic comet discovered by the Mount Lemmon Survey in images obtained on 3 January 2025. It has an inbound orbital period of about 1,350 years and will pass perihelion on 8 November 2025 when it will be 0.53 AU (79 million km; 49 million mi) from the Sun. This perihelion passage will reduce the orbital period to about 1,150 years. It makes its closest approach to Earth on 21 October 2025 and may be visible to the naked eye 42 degrees from the Sun after sunset. As of 12 October 2025, the comet is about apparent magnitude 5.6,[6] and is visible in binoculars about 15 degrees (approximately one and a half fists) below the cup of the Big Dipper. It is currently about 2 degrees southwest of the star Psi Ursae Majoris.

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AkaSci @akasci.bsky.social · 2d

Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) beautifully captured by astro-photographer Petr Horálek on October 9, from the shore of Seč Lake, Czech Republic.

Check out his other works at www.petrhoralek.com

Quiz: Was this photo taken before sunrise or after sunset?
#Astronomy
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Comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon in the distance beyond a lake and low tree-lined hills. The Big Dipper looms above it.

Description by photographer Petr Horálek:
After many cloudy nights, I was finally lucky again to shoot the brightening comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon, which is currently well found south of the Big Dipper asterism. I took the chance from the shore of Seč Lake, Czech Republic, just shortly before a fog completely covered the lake valley. Despite the strong moonlight, the tail of the comet seems to be significant and most likely will show even nicer structures when dark evenings come again.

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