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Autistic Science Person @autsciperson.bsky.social · 4h

"Non-Binary Passport Designations: Passports issued with “X” or other non-binary markers will be rejected by CBP systems, requiring resubmission with valid documentation showing “M” or “F” designation."

Nonbinary people will not be able to travel internationally 🙃

Persephone @apatilonia.bsky.social · 11h

www.gtlaw-insidebusinessimmigration.com/u-s-customs-...

Anyone who has an X gender marker won't be allowed to use their passports to travel after Oct 25th

CBP Enforces Binary Sex Codes and Enhanced US Passport Validation in APIS

CBP enforces binary sex codes and stricter US passport validation in APIS effective October 2025. Key compliance updates for business travelers and airlines.

www.gtlaw-insidebusinessimmigration.com

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Erin 🦇🎃EEK🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 7h

what are we doing

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.

www.bostonglobe.com

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BostonTimelapse @bostontimelapse.org · 10h

View of the harbor islands from Boston Light.

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Erin 🦇🎃EEK🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 13h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

"the data's in excel."

Darren Irwin (he / him) @darrenirwin.bsky.social · 15h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

"Developed new species concept"

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 1d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

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Erin 🦇🎃EEK🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 14h

"I loved Miss Piggy. We got on great... She’s a greedy girl. It was established in the script that we had, maybe sometime in the past, some kind of a fling together. And I improvised a line which never made it into the movie: “Once you’ve had pork, you never look back.” [Deep laugh.]"

Michael Schulman @michaelschulman.bsky.social · 15h

I absolutely loved having this long conversation with Tim Curry, whose memoir comes out Tuesday. He told terrific stories about, among others, Meat Loaf, Ivana Trump, John Huston, Truman Capote, and Miss Piggy. What a life! www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Tim Curry Does the Time Warp

The actor and singer discusses the origins of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” his relationship with David Bowie, and the joy of working with Miss Piggy.

www.newyorker.com

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Erin 🦇🎃EEK🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 16h

They've also refurbished one of the old trolleys and for $5 you can have unlimited rides between the trolley museum and the main part of town.

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Erin 🦇🎃EEK🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 18h

This recipe for matzo balls (slightly different from the one in the book) is tucked into the Passover section. I love "I tried using margarine once, didn't like it. Try it you may like it."

A recipe for matzo balls, written in red pen on an index card

MATZO BALLS

2 TABLESPOONS CHICKEN FAT

2 EGGS

1/4 CUP MATZO MEAL SIFTED

1/2 TEAS. SALT

1/2 " CHOPPED PARSLEY (OPTIONAL)

CREAM FAT ADD EGGS WELL BEATEN ADD MATZO MEAL TO MAKE SOFT DOUGH ADD PARSLEY LET STAND FOR SEVERAL HOURS IN. FRIDGE. BRING WATKER TO A BOIL- TRY ONE IN BOILING WATER IF IT DOESNT HOLD TOGETHER ADD MORE MEAL(LOVER) OF COURSE YOU CAN DOUBLE THE RECIPE

The reverse side of the index card. "water and Racine-

ather of the sho Flea & Pentyle

"I TRIED USING MARGARINE ONCE DIDN'T LIKE IT. TRY IT YOU MIGHT LIKE IT"

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Erin 🦇🎃EEK🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 19h

I picked up a copy of Jewish Cookery (1973) at Boswell's Books yesterday. It has lots of ephemera, like a bill they were disputing in May 2001 with proportions for pickling different things written on the back and recipes cut out from the newspaper with notes like "Cooked for Beryl's 18th birthday."

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Derek Fox @partialobserver.bsky.social · 1d

This has been a big local story for us. Years of effort on the case (prosecutors withheld evidence), winning a retrial, which was then abandoned by the state. And ICE waiting to imprison him immediately on his release.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Erin 🦇🎃EEK🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 1d

They are so cool!

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Erin 🦇🎃EEK🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 1d

It's such a cool way to use the bridge!

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Erin 🦇🎃EEK🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 1d

And the Bridge of Flowers is back!

Some dahlias and zinnias alongside a railing on a bridge overlooking the river and fall foliage-covered hills

The path across the bridge of flowers at dusk. White gravel lines by flowers, with lamps turning on

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Erin 🦇🎃EEK🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 1d

Shelburne Falls continues to be one of my favorites.

A brick mill building, a small downtown, trees, and a hillside turning orange reflected in a very smooth river

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Erin 🦇🎃EEK🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 1d

Someone has scratched on the green bathroom wall at my favorite place in Greenfield, MA (The People's Pint),

"kermet defrog"

And I never knew I could fall in love with bathroom graffiti.

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Erin 🦇🎃EEK🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 1d

Is there any more information about this accident and this poor guy? I can't find any reporting after October 8. @universalhub.com

Pedestrian killed in BU shuttle bus crash identified as 40-year-old Saudi

The man fatally struck by a Boston University shuttle bus this week was a 40-year-old from Saudi Arabia, officials said.

www.wcvb.com

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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 2d

The clear story in Immigration this week is the escalation of—and pushback against—the Trump administration’s militarized raids and warrantless stops in Democrat-run major cities. We’ve updated our timeline with a lot of events in this zone:

unbreaking.org/issues/immig...

Immigration — Unbreaking

How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

unbreaking.org

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 2d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 2d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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RSPB Science @rspbscience.bsky.social · 2d

Slender-billed Curlew declared officially extinct by ICUN

This marks the first known global bird extinction from mainland Europe, North Africa and West Asia 🌍

Read on for a summary or check out the research which led to the decision here:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Global extinction of Slender‐billed Curlew (Numenius tenuirostris)

In the current biodiversity crisis, conservation efforts are often focused on extinction prevention. However, it can be difficult to determine if a species is extinct, especially if the species has…

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 3d

The Senate has just passed the military NDAA containing 2 anti-trans provisions: a surgery ban using federal funds (dependents too), and a sports ban on military academy spaces.

This will be the STARTING point for negotiations with the House, which has even worse provisions.

Only 20 Dems opposed.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 3d

Masked agents snatching people at work, church, their child’s daycare. A return of family separations. States are lining up to run their own detention centers.

Anti-immigrant animus is now being paired with unprecedented funding, manpower, and technology.

We report from inside the American gulag.

American Gulag

The brutal rollout of Trump's police state.

www.motherjones.com

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Erin 🦇🎃EEK🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 3d

Sounds good! Enjoy your trip in - I'll keep an eye out for next time.

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Erin 🦇🎃EEK🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 3d

Bummed to be missing this conversation tonight! @siddharthamitter.bsky.social, are you doing anything else around town over the next few days?

Arts Criticism: Why It (Still) Matters - Nieman Foundation

Please join us for this free in-person event 6:30 – 8:00 p.m., Thursday, October 9, 2025 Venue change:Harvard Art MuseumsRoom: Menschel Hall, Lower Level 32 Quincy St.(Enter via Broadway entrance, nea...

nieman.harvard.edu

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Erin 🦇🎃EEK🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 3d

Tosco's - as far as I know, Honeycomb isn't implicated!

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Miles Grant @milesgrant.bsky.social · 5d

If Democrats want to stop fascism, they have to stop their cops from beating & arresting anti-fascism protesters in their own cities

Why is that a thing I have to say out loud

13 arrested, 4 police officers injured during pro-Palestinian protest in Boston

Thirteen people were arrested, and four police officers were injured during a pro-Palestinian rally in Boston Tuesday night.

www.cbsnews.com

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Erin 🦇🎃EEK🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 4d

"oh yeah, he was one of the people suing the city repeatedly over bike lanes in conjunction with the gluten free bakery lady and the fancy ice cream man."

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