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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 8d

Goodnight.
🖼️ Still 02, Tanja Jeremić. #31DaysofHalloween #Gothtober

Black canvas with just a pair of crossed white hands.

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Séance and Spooky Spood-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · Jul 25

Her name is I Saw the UV Glow

Evelyndroid's Aperture Séance and Spooky Spood-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · Jul 25

This is a real bug and you can find one by peeling tree bark or just a walk at night with a black light 🩵

The scorpion from the quoted post, but lit by UV light and glowing ghostly blue

The creature facing you more or less, lit by UV

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toxicofriendron radicans @toxicoradica.bsky.social · 10h

🌻 oldfield goldenrod 🌿
Solidago nemoralis

#nativeplants #ecoregion71 #flowerreport #bloomscrolling #bloomsky

a panicle of small, bright yellow composite flowers on a slim flowering branch of the goldenrod's main stem (blurry in the background). the dozens of flowers each have half a dozen (give or take a few) oval ray florets with a few tiny disk florets in the center. beneath the rays, the involucre are light yellow-green.

the top of an oldfield goldenrod, a pyramidal panicle of small, bright yellow flowers, leaning against the branch of a neighboring small tree. the panicle is more coherent nearer the tip, but there are several arching branches weighted down by flowers a little lower on the stem too; the one from the previous pic is on the bottom left & a lil bit blurry. at the very tippy top of the tallest panicle, the yellow flowers are turning brown and going to seed.

almost all of the goldenrod-- only the very bottom is out of view! its main stem leans to the right and rests against the thin branch of neighboring small tree, causing the pyramidal panicle of bright yellow flowers to bend downwards where it contacts the tree branch. this goldenrod would be around head-high if it were standing straight upright. for most of its height, its smooth reddish stem bears alternate long, green leaves with rounded tips, many of which have a few little mini-leaves growing from their axils. the leaves get shorter as they go up the stem. the goldenrod is growing in tall grass in a savanna, with many other goldenrods in the background, along with short sumac trees. low.on the far left there are a few light blue aster flowers.

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♿🏳️‍⚧️ Need Dental Funds ASAP! @wylder.bsky.social · 7h

Gosh this could save so many of us if It were direct aid to autistic individuals... Instead its used to destroy us...

Fuck institutions. Save folks asking for help right in front of you.

Mattslew Batberg-Mothfit (any/all) @mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social · 10h

Autism $peaks raised ~$34m in 2024 and spent 1% on family services and grants to help Autistic individuals. They spend approximately 25% of their budget on lobbying and another 25% on research (primarily on genetic testing and causation, i.e. eugenics). They aren’t trying to make our lives better.

Mattslew Batberg-Mothfit (any/all) @mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social · 1d

Autism $peaks is the largest and most popular Autism organization (among allistics), who continues to be 100% in support of ABA. They have lobbyists who push ABA as the “gold standard Autism treatment.” It utilizes same practices as “conversion therapy,” which is currently banned in 28 countries.

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 10h

Would be great if journalists on a tech beat actually talked to working scientists in relevant fields rather than AI researchers talking about the fields of other working scientists.

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 8h

An indicator for a horrible socio-ecology is how many dolphins are slaughtered for no good reason.

Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 11h

Before the marine mammal protection act, millions of dolphins and porpoises died in nets as bicatch from commercial fisheries around the world. That is not a typo. Millions died. The first year of the MMPA in 1972, there were over 400,000 incidental takes from the US tuna fleet alone.

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 7h

I can't stand people who continue to pretend it's not one party. Nobody can be that stupid. They understand it, but they benefit from it so they join the con

Axios @axios.com · 10h

Former Presidents Biden and Clinton praised President Trump today for the Gaza peace deal.

Biden, Clinton praise Trump for Gaza peace deal

Biden said he commends Trump and his team, and Clinton said they "deserve great credit."

www.axios.com

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mash 🍉 (they/them) 🔞😷 @maiar.bsky.social · 6h

BEGGING

mash 🍉 (they/them) 🔞😷 @maiar.bsky.social · 15h

anybody got any volcano docs/videos recommendations ? (:

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Leigh, the spookalicious Free Luigi @frecklered.bsky.social · 9h

It's not a "peace deal"
there's no "peace" in Palestine while the slaughter continues
no "peace" for the unburied dead, children without limbs
people attacked in the West Bank by illegal settlers
Peace is a white man's word
for colonized people, the word is liberation
and Palestine isn't liberated

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 6h

Or what he did to Anita Hill. Or his legacy for the War on Drugs. He even promised to re-schedule cannabis and never did.

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Indige Tea 🦬🧡 @colouredwilde.bsky.social · 17h

The way ppl canNOT conceptualize what racism and white supremacy actually are... also I'm tired of kid gloves for adults when kids actually hear what you're saying and fucking adapt.

Just say you don't care and would rather suffer than us all being liberated and living truly free lives.

Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 17h

Y'all ain't getting free until Black people are getting free. Sorry, tough cookies! It's because you hate seeing us free so bad you're in such a pickle.

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FᎪᎢ ᏩᎪNᎠᎪᏞF @sofarrsogud.bsky.social · 16h

They only have four strings so they should be called ‘ivolins’.

Thanks for reading.

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sarah clark (they) @sarahclark.bsky.social · 16h

we taught you how to grow corn, now let's all learn to block lakota manicotti once and for all

Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 22h

I am seeing a lot of people reposting Lakota Man today bc it's Indigenous Peoples Day. A reminder that he is not well liked amongst many (most?) Natives on social media. Many of us blocked him a long time ago. Some of the reasons why are in this article.

www.dailydot.com/irl/lakotama...

Who is LakotaMan, the user behind one of the most popular Native American accounts on X?

John Martin is adored by white X users—but infamous among Native and Indigenous communities.

www.dailydot.com

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Shani 🫧 @blerdmommy.blacksky.app · 17h

Lots of people across the political spectrum deny, dismiss or reduce racism.

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Ms. Wong @mauiwong.bsky.social · 16h

White ppl are so messed up. Everyone is messed up from racial capitalism and imperial dehumanization, but fitting into the demographic of the perpetrators of all the evils in the world and denying the significance of that really fucks with white minds.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 17h

White people on the left seriously act like people of color made up racism to sow division & if we can just get in line & absolve them of their privilege we can all get back to the class war.

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 16h

No one but Palestinians have ever been entitled to Palestinian land. No one else has deserved any say in what happens there. Not in 1948. Not in 1967. Not in 2023. Not in 2025.

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SN Désirée Cha @sndesireecha.bsky.social · 7d

we are homeless and fundraising for survival and certificate of citizenship.

please share. please help.
gofund.me/deec2a49d

A human woman and her snoozing dog under tented cover. The text reads, “we keep us safe” and two pay handles for Venmo and Cash app, respectively, are at the bottom of the image in black font. Venmo SNDesiree; cash app $SNDesiree

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 1d

Another thing regarding mutual aid & who your community is, is a lot of disabled people in particular are very isolated. They're in deep poverty & complete abandonment. Literally. So they hop online to have community. Sometimes it's the only community they have & the only way they can get help.

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Ouaquaga on Chenango @jnxouaquaga.bsky.social · 14h

👋

Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 1d

Another thing regarding mutual aid & who your community is, is a lot of disabled people in particular are very isolated. They're in deep poverty & complete abandonment. Literally. So they hop online to have community. Sometimes it's the only community they have & the only way they can get help.

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Tsi'ya•Ꮵꮿ @ironriverotter.bsky.social · 12h

agreed.
using other people as pavement on your life journey is actually not cool.
life is not a sandbox full of NPCs.

🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 12h

Believing other people are your “practice/ learning experiences” is the essence of abuse .

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J. Skyler 🏳️‍⚧️ @jskylerinc.bsky.social · 11h

I JUST NEED $50 NOW

J. Skyler 🏳️‍⚧️ @jskylerinc.bsky.social · 22h

PLEASE HELP! MY PHONE/INTERNET SERVICE HAS BEEN TURNED OFF!

$300 NEEDED ASAP

Anything helps! 🙏🏿 #TransCrowdFund #DisabilityCrowdFund #BeAPatron #BIPOCMA #HelpSky #BlackSky 💸💕🏳️‍⚧️

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Prison Adoptee @prisonadoptee.bsky.social · 12h

🥚Adoptee born of a mother at a Salvation Army home?
They ran a wide network of maternity and receiving homes, often with the courts, to house girls labeled “delinquent” or mothers on remand or released from jails or reformatories. YCJA prevents disclosure. #HiddenHistories

The Globe and Mail, Wed, Jun 26, 1946 ·Page 13

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Ouaquaga on Chenango @jnxouaquaga.bsky.social · 10h

Wait until y'all figure out this shit has been happening to adoptees for a while, and many of us were stolen *in the first damn place*

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10h

"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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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 10h

From Gaza 👇😂

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