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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 1d

Here in Seattle, furloughed NOAA employees were out in the pouring rain cleaning up beaches yesterday, part of a national week of service organized by federal workers who can't do their jobs due to the shutdown.

Story by @heyjohnryan.bsky.social at KUOW, our federally defunded public radio station.

Furloughed feds pick up Seattle beach trash to keep serving the public

Furloughed federal employees were out in the rain picking up cigarette butts, bottle caps, and other trash at Seattle’s Golden Gardens Park on Friday.

www.kuow.org

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air filtration, ventilation + high quality masks @epredota.bsky.social · 10h

In terms of disability representation, when the assistive device breaks down and the protagonist has to make a series of decisions because of it. In terms of the book as a whole, the way Bear writes non-human speciea: genuine massive physiological differences with massive in-world consequences.

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r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 17d

humanity doesn't need to be educated into people

they already have it

it is the inhumanity of the civilised rational actor that must be taught

and it takes the rewards of privilege to motivate acceptance of membership of that elite class

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Danny @mardigroan.bsky.social · 2d

The dentist says he's had to repair more teeth because of damage from clenching and grinding since the start of Trump's second term.

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Joelle Maslak @jmaslak.bsky.social · 17h

Autism is a *spectrum*, not a continuum. Think color wheel, not linear line. Think "Someone can be purple with pink polka-dots", not "someone is on the left side of the line."

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r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 21d

neurotypicality is a myth as in an ideal concept that cannot exist in material reality

but it is also a social construct that does exist in material reality

because nothing is just one thing

everything is lots of things

r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 21d

some people think that's how brains work

it's a relic of the natural philosophy of Newton's era that still dominates some areas of academia

the ideal rational actor has access to the instruction manual and therefore never makes mistakes

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@DrJoePajak CSci CChem FRSC @drjoepajak.bsky.social · 11h

NHS COVID-19 vaccine policy:
🤦'If eligible, COVID-19 vaccination will give you protection from serious COVID illness over winter'.
✅ 75 and over
✅ Immunosuppressed
❌ Everyone else - even if your doctor recommends it.
🤷That’s not public health.
🤦That’s exclusion.
💉 ukhsa.blog.gov.uk/2025/06/26/w...

Who’s eligible for the 2025 COVID-19 vaccine, or ‘Autumn Booster’?

This blog post was reviewed and updated in September 2025. When autumn comes, protection from any earlier COVID-19 vaccination you may have had will be starting to wane. For those who are more likely ...

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Bylines Scotland @bylines.scot · 13h

The world is a dangerous place for intersex people, and new research shows that many feel it’s getting worse | Jennie Kermode

@jenniekermode.bsky.social

On Intersex Awareness Day, thousands feel unsafe to live openly

The world is a dangerous place for intersex people, and new research shows that many feel it’s getting worse

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 1d

“Before the election it promised to ‘remove indignities for trans people who deserve recognition and acceptance.’ But in government it has lined up alongside the Tories and Reform UK at the cruelty Olympics.” – @goodlawproject.org
https://bit.ly/43CpABH

91% of UK trans people don't trust the Labour Party, survey reveals

91% of trans respondents in a YouGov poll conducted between July and August, commissioned by the Good Law Project, said they distrust Labour.

www.attitude.co.uk

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 15h

37% of people on SNAP are elderly and/or disabled.

Standing in a long line at a food bank may be impossible for them. It would be impossible for me.

We need robust networks of community care.

If you know someone who’s housebound or has limited mobility, offer to bring them groceries.

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air filtration, ventilation + high quality masks @epredota.bsky.social · 10h

Was told yesterday that Labour is just kowtowing to Reform. Responded that the purpose of a thing is what it does: Labour implementing far right policies = Labour is a far right party.

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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 11h

He's actually misquoted what Starmer said after the Hartlepool by-election, which was "changing the things that need changing and that is the change that I will bring about" which has about as much substance to it as whatever Wes is saying here.

Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 11h

Streeting is asked about the Caerphilly result & he says the way to respond is to have a values driven agenda, which he explains is about modernising & reforming public services

We all know what right wing politicians mean when they talk about modernising & reforming

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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 11h

This is an excellent evisceration of Lam and the Tory Party's policies. It also shows why questions of "practicalities" should always be pivoted towards the morality of such retrospective remigration policies.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

Turley letter to Lam, as posted on X

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 4d

whomst amongst us

2 panel comic

Panel 1: Smug Orange Man says “Let he who has NOT had a Nazi phase cast the first stone”

Panel 2: Orange man shits his pants as he is simultaneously pelted with a shitload of stones

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Ron McIntyre @ronmac11.bsky.social · 1d

Sunset over the fen.
#landscape
#norfolk

A sunset over a pool surrounded by reed, the sun and reeds are reflected in the pool.

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 12h

this is going to cause even more types of problems than the obvious kind

In an example they uncovered, a speaker said, "He, the boy, was going to, I'm not sure exactly, take the umbrella."

But the transcription software added: "He took a big piece of a cross, a teeny, small piece ... I'm sure he didn't have a terror knife so he killed a number of people."

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air filtration, ventilation + high quality masks @epredota.bsky.social · 11h

Stopped clock comes to mind. Glad he can identify racism; he’s still busy destroying the NHS and the lives of trans people, especially kids.

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Micah Seacole @micahseacole.bsky.social · 11h

"Anyone can become disabled" might be a bit too vague of a concept:

You, reading this, are going to become disabled when you get older. Arthritis, high blood pressure, diabetes, strokes- The list goes on.

Any disability benefits you help fight for now are going to be there for you later.

Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone can become disabled.

Anyone can lose their job.

Anyone can become homeless.

Anyone can go hungry.

These are not moral failings. They can happen in an instant.

Most people are far closer to living in poverty than they realize.

We must fight for one another & for the most vulnerable.

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Reece Dinsdale @reecedinsdale.bsky.social · 1d

If Reform can go from nought to sixty in 5 seconds (in terms of support & prominence) why can’t the millions of left-leaning people do exactly the same for @greenparty.org.uk ?
It’s not beyond the realms of possibility.
The old two-party monopoly is dead.
Be part of the change. ✊💚

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Liz Whitmere @lizwhitmere.bsky.social · 4d

Via @roodypatooti.bsky.social, with alt text

So stay with me here, but fun ballet fact: part of the reason you're supposed to start ballet young is so you stretch & hold your joint in certain ways regularly enough that your body grows different. You know how men who do ballet look only sort of muscular but then like lift a whole ass person? Their muscles are trained to lie flat like that for flexibility, they don't bulk up. Girl in your class who always stands in turnout? It's likely not just habit, her joints probably sit like that now.
I started ballet when I was six & stopped after three years. I then took a break for three years, & came back & did jazz ballet (which has most of the same body mods but without turnout) & tap for another couple of years. & every physio who works on my body looks at my feet, hips and calves & goes "oh you danced". I was never even flexible enough to do the splits, but you best believe I stand in turnout. I never went en pointe, but I'm 95% sure tap is the reason my feet have random spasms if I don't take to them with a tennis ball once a week.
When I said I wanted to be a dancer at six years old, adults took that to mean I'd want certain permanent alterations to my body. Unlike with young trans kids, no one was looking to make sure I fully understood what I was getting into. & unlike with young trans kids, these changes were not reversible when I changed my mind.
There wasn't even a way to delay things to buy time (like puberty blockers), it was all or nothing. If I wanted to be a professional dancer, my normal ass joints were a ticking timebomb. So like ~cis opinion~, but I really don't have a lot of time for people getting feral about trans kids socially transitioning or going on blockers or even (when they're old enough for it be relevant) hrt. Me "identifying" as a dancer at six years old was more physically impactful and less informed than if a six year old changed their name & grew their hair, but you don't see any of the adults in my life getting accused of child abuse.

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meliss-AAAAAHHH! @mel.bzky.team · 11h

one in eight americans rely on snap benefits btw

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meliss-AAAAAHHH! @mel.bzky.team · 11h

oh so we're about to see the bread riots in the capital phase of this cool cool cool

Reuters @reuters.com · 17h

US Department of Agriculture says no food aid benefits will be issued next month reut.rs/3WohHMk

US Department of Agriculture says no food aid benefits will be issued next month

The U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Saturday that food benefits under one of the country's biggest social assistance programs will not be issued next month amid the ongoing federal government shutdown.

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William J Morton @emperorjulian.bsky.social · 12h

#Farage 👇

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shiv @shiv.ing · 1d

how far away are we from
the announcement that the rest of the whitehouse will be torn down and replaced with a big beautiful obelisk that holds a throne room at the top and a giant eye of fire?

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