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Weremuskrat John @muskratjohn.bsky.social · 8h

Madison. WI:

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Samus Sunset @samussunset.bsky.social · 15d

Weretober Day 1: Wolf

Sudden dogification

am late :')

#Weretober #Weretober2025

Person turning into werewolf in the middle of using the computer.

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geoffrey, 💀 mode @parsnip.bsky.social · 8h

more than 2% of the national population out in protest together is quite the thing

Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 9h

Today's official crowd count estimate from #NoKings coalition:

7 million people turned out nationwide

That's 2 million more than the #NoKings peaceful protests in June

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12h

10M adults on ACA plans are self-employed or small business owners and employees.

A restaurant owner in Virginia could see his monthly premium double, shooting up to $1400 a month.

Small businesses are the lifeblood of our communities – and Republicans are shafting them. Hello?

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Echo @echoties.bsky.social · 13h

I can see the use case (ie avoid lots of similarly named files not knowing where they came from) but I really don't think it was supposed to do that on me 😭😭😭

Echo @echoties.bsky.social · 14h

Anyway, fuck dropbox for fucking me over on an opportunity I really wanted 😔

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Echo @echoties.bsky.social · 17h

Did you know that if you upload files to someone's dropbox file request, dropbox might just casually reorder the very specific file name on you and you might not find out until months later when someone tells you they never received your files 🫠🫠🫠

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 21h

Proud of you, gang

Maq @maqusan.bsky.social · 21h

lol. lmao, even.

The top 20 accounts blocked in the last 24 hours. They're almost entirely US government accounts. And they're catching block numbers that would easily put them in the all-time top blocked list, just in the first day.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

Don't engage. Just block. They want to push their rage bait on here. Don't give them the satisfaction.

bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 1d

Block. Do not engage.

They are here ONLY to get engagement, why the fuck would you give them the one thing they came here to get

Verified Account Tracker @verified.pds.mmatt.net · 1d

✅ @homelandgov.bsky.social has been verified by @bsky.app.

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Echo @echoties.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone playing Legends ZA on the Switch 1? I'm really hesitant to buy it bc I'm assuming it will run very poorly based on the last few games

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

This week:

-Three more universities rejected Trump's extortion compact
-Over a dozen airports refused to play Kristi Noem's propaganda video
-30+ press outlets refused to comply with Pete Hegseth's new restrictions

The only way to rebuke Trump's authoritarianism is solidarity.

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Echo @echoties.bsky.social · 1d

Oh hi puppy 😍🤤🤤

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 2d

Since we can’t rely on the HHS, CDC, or FDA to say it, I will:

MAKE SURE YOU ARE VACCINATED AGAINST MEASLES. GET YOUR MMR.

Measles cases have reached their HIGHEST point since the disease WAS ELIMINATED from the United States in 2000. We are at the tipping point for the return of ENDEMIC measles.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 1d

“Now Scientific American has updated and re-released what it calls the “classic graphic” that shows that a human on a bicycle—able to coast, or freewheel, without pedaling—remains the world’s most energy effecient traveler.” @carltonreid.com on the re-release of the iconic graph in @forbes.com.

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 1d

Historian here No Kings is the most American thing you could say and the people opposing it simply don’t believe in our republic or constitutional democracy.

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Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 2d

Wikipedia is worth $10/month because if it dies so does reliable knowledge. Cough up if you can -- it's cheaper, more interesting and morally superior to Netflix.

Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 2d

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors

“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

www.404media.co

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 2d

Price increases for "things" under Donald Trump:

Coffee is up 26%
Baby strollers are up 25%
Beef is up 14%
School supplies are up 7%
Electricity is up 5%

Car prices are at a RECORD high.

And thanks to Republicans in Congress, health insurance premiums are about to DOUBLE.

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · Nov 11

(1/4)

1. The author's poorly disguised fetish

2. The author's proudly displayed fetish

3. The author's fetish you're pretty sure they don't realise they have

4. The author's fetish which they're firmly convinced everyone has and is just pretending otherwise

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

Open enrollment for ACA plans began yesterday in Idaho.

One couple got notice that their monthly premium next year would jump from $51 to $2,232 as subsidies expire.

25,000 Idahoans are expected to be priced out of coverage.

This is what's at stake in Trump's shutdown.

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 2d

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD
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Investigation of:
LOSS OF THE SUBMARINE TITAN
IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
ON JUNE 18, 2023
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Accident No.:
*********** * * * * * *
Interview of:
Co-designer/Pilot
Deepsea Challenger
DCA23FM036
via Microsoft Teams
Friday,
July 26, 2024

INTERVIEW OF
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BY LCDR
11 Q. So how did you get yourself started into submersible
12 operations?
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A.
Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic.
When I
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set down the path to make that film, the first thing that I did
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was arrange to be introduced to the head of the submersible
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program at the P.P. Shirshov Institute in Moscow, a guy named
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Professor
I. I did that through a mutual friend
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of ours, a guy named
, who is one of the preeminent
underwater cinematographers in the world. And had been on a
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submersible expedition out to Titanic the previous year with the
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Russians. And that was organized by a Canadian company that was
22 doing an IMAX film which was released under the title Titanica.

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Alex Jaffe “Alex Jaffe” Alex Jaffe @alexjaffe.bsky.social · 2d

Gary Larson's still got it

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 2d

I really really enjoy this dude 😂

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d

An important message to the people of New York City.

More information at zohranfornyc.com/birthday

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 2d

California will start producing and selling its own supply of low-cost insulin in January.

The suggested price for consumers will be no more than $55 for a pack of five pens.

Currently even generic insulin typically costs about $260 for a pack of five.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In shot across Big Pharma's bow, California will sell its own insulin

Delivery of the state-branded drug makes good on a longstanding promise by Gov. Gavin Newsom.

www.politico.com

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 3d

These. Were. Men. In. Their. 30s.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"

We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.

www.motherjones.com

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