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Betsy @betsy0316.bsky.social · 10h

Loyola Marymount University - shame on you!

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Petition: Stand with LMU Faculty for Faith and Justice

Faithful Catholics and allies stand with the non-tenure track faculty at Loyola Marymount University. On September 12, 2025, LMU’s Board of Trustees announced that it would no longer recognize the fac...

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Cathy @ccactuse.bsky.social · 1d

??? I haven’t heard of it??

Cathy @ccactuse.bsky.social · 1d

Yay!! BUFFLEHEAD DUCKS!!!

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Cathy @ccactuse.bsky.social · 2d

This old auntie laves you too!

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David Lazarus @davidlaz.bsky.social · 2d

Coming up on #KTLA: Crypto currencies largely recovered from last week's selloff as market players looked ahead to Ponzi-like gains from late-arriving rubes buying into digital assets with no intrinsic value

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Cathy @ccactuse.bsky.social · 4d

Good bye Snorri❤️❤️❤️❤️💔

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𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐝 𝐋𝐞𝐞 🌵 @davidleegardens.bsky.social · 6d

This Mammillaria cactus has itty bitty little pink flowers 💕

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Rep. Dave Min @congressmin.bsky.social · 7d

I’m hosting a telephone town hall TONIGHT at 6 PM PT. Tune in to hear more about the Republican shutdown and how it affects Orange County families. Listen LIVE here: min.house.gov/live

Telephone Town Hall

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Cathy @ccactuse.bsky.social · 8d

So sorry, Sara💔

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Ellie Leonard @redpencilscript.bsky.social · 11d

There is no shame in it, if you are not registered to vote yet, here’s a great resource! Quick and easy and free.

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Dorian Lord Zedd @zeddrick.bio · 13d

University of Washington - Piece of shit disrupts Psych 210 (The Diversity of Human Sexuality) throwing up nazi salutes, yelling Heil Hitler, and calling everyone “retarded degenerates” and “fags"

The professor, Dr. Nicole McNichols, and her class
👏DO
👏NOT
👏PLAY
👏THAT
👏GAME

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Cathy @ccactuse.bsky.social · 16d

One of my favorites!!

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Betsy @betsy0316.bsky.social · 17d

I will name your baby for $20,000, sorry Cathy but business is business.

Cathy @ccactuse.bsky.social · 17d

I haven’t read the article, but I will name your baby for $25,000!

Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social · 17d

This is wild, truly a peak age of grift.

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Cathy @ccactuse.bsky.social · 17d

I haven’t read the article, but I will name your baby for $25,000!

Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social · 17d

This is wild, truly a peak age of grift.

Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 18d

"'It’s kind of like how everyone wants their house to look like HGTV...A lot of people say they want a name that’s unique or individual. But, when it comes right down to it, they really don’t.'"

I may have made a mistake reading this

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Senator Thomas J. Umberg @senatorumberg.bsky.social · 18d

Together, we’re standing up against efforts to defund care and fighting to protect access to affordable healthcare for every Californian.

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Cathy @ccactuse.bsky.social · 18d

This is what I've been waiting for! What news from the front???

Alice @starinthetitle.bsky.social · 18d

what news from the front 🫡

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Seema Sheth @seemasheth.bsky.social · 18d

Tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Bioinformatics in the Department of Biology at the University of San Francisco
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Assistant Professor, Tenure-Track, Department of Biology, University of San Francisco

Job Title: Assistant Professor, Tenure-Track, Department of Biology, University of San Francisco Job Summary: The Department of Biology at the University of San Francisco invites applications for a fu...

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Cathy @ccactuse.bsky.social · 19d

Got mine on Monday! Yay!!

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⚡️🔩Felsenstein's Monster🔩⚡️ @josephwb.bsky.social · 21d

The most thorough Wakefield investigation: youtu.be/8BIcAZxFfrc?...

Vaccines and Autism: A Measured Response

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Michael Sentance @mjsentance.bsky.social · 25d

Today would be a good day to release the Epstein files.

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Michael Sentance @mjsentance.bsky.social · 27d

I went down to the Antifa headquarters in Cambridge to pay my annual membership fee and it was odd. No one was there. Not even the building.

Trump says he’s designating Antifa as a terrorist organization | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump said he is designating the far-left anti-fascism movement Antifa as a terrorist organization, announcing the move on his Truth Social platform in the early hours of Thursday mor...

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Betsy @betsy0316.bsky.social · 28d

thank you 🏆

sea shanty stan account ⛵️ @anarchoshanties.bsky.social · Sep 11

This one's maybe a little on the ling side, but trust me, it's worth it. I've cried reading it multiple times.

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mylordshesacactus

Carpathia received Titanic's distress signal at 12:20am, April 15th, 1912. She was 58 miles away, a distance that absolutely could not be covered in less than four hours.

(Californian's exact position at the time is... controversial. She was close enough to have helped. By all accounts she was close enough to see Titanic's distress rockets. It's uncertain to this day why her crew did not respond, or how many might not have been lost if she had been there. This is not the place for what-ifs. This is about what was done.)

Carpathia's Captain Rostron had, yes, rolled out of bed instantly when woken by his radio operator, ordered his ship to Titanic's aid and confirmed the signal before he was fully dressed. The man had never in his life responded to an emergency call. His goal tonight was to make sure nobody who heard that fact would ever believe it.

All of Carpathia's lifeboats were swung out ready for deployment. Oil was set up to be poured off the side of the ship in case the sea turned choppy; oil would coat and calm the water near Carpathia if that happened, making it safer for lifeboats to draw up alongside her.

He ordered lights to be rigged along the side of the ship so survivors could see it better, and had nets and ladders rigged along her sides ready to be dropped when they arrived, in order to let as many survivors as possible climb aboard at once.

I don't know if his making provisions for there still being survivors in the water was optimism or not. I think he knew they were never going to get there in time for that. I think he did it anyway because, god, you have to hope.

Carpathia had three dining rooms, which were immediately converted into triage and first aid stations. Each had a doctor assigned to it. Hot soup, coffee, and tea were prepared in bulk in each dining room, and blankets and warm clothes were collected to be ready to hand out.

By this time, many of the passengers were awake-prepping a ship for disaster relief isn't quiet-and all of them stepped up to help, many donating their own clothes and blankets.

And then he did something I tend to refer to as diverting all power from life support.

Here's the thing about steamships: They run on steam. Shocking, I know; but that steam powers everything on the ship, and right now, Carpathia needed power. So Rostron turned off hot water and central heating, which bled valuable steam power, to everywhere but the dining rooms-which, of course, were being used to make hot drinks and receive survivors.

He woke up all the engineers, all the stokers and firemen, diverted all that steam back into the engines, and asked his ship to go as fast as she possibly could. And when she'd done that, he asked her to go faster.

I need you to understand that you simply can't push a ship very far past its top speed. Pushing that much sheer tonnage through the water becomes harder with each extra knot past the speed it was designed for. Pushing a ship past its rated speed is not only reckless-it's difficult to maneuver-but it puts an incredible amount of strain on the engines. Ships are not designed to exceed their top speed by even one knot. They can't do it. It can't be done.

Carpathia's absolute do-or-die, the-engines-can't-take-this-forever top speed was fourteen knots. Dodging icebergs, in the dark and the cold, surrounded by mist, she sustained a speed of almost seventeen and a half.

No one would have asked this of them. It wasn't expected. They were almost sixty miles away, with icebergs in their path. They had a responsibility to respond; they did not have a responsibility to do the impossible and do it well. No one would have faulted them for taking more time to confirm the severity of the issue. No one would have blamed them for a slow and cautious approach. No one but themselves.

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Betsy @betsy0316.bsky.social · 28d

@karlthefog.bsky.social Karl the Fog just cutting off Alcatraz from the mountains to the north while the Bay Bridge loans the poor old island a bit of panache as both bridge and island sit plumply atop the beautiful blue waters of the San Francisco Bay.

#sailing
#sail
#boat #life

basically what the post says. Alcatraz, in the center of the photo, sits right on top of the blue waters of the San Francisco Bay, framed by the Bay Bridge and backed by a thick fog bank. The mountains crest just a little bit higher than the fog.

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Patti Olivier EPSTEIN FILES NEVER FORGET @patti3333.bsky.social · Sep 13

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Cathy @ccactuse.bsky.social · Sep 6

Great form!

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