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michiums @ deadlines @michiums.bsky.social · 1d

NEW GOODS… it’s the season….

michiums.bigcartel.com

(shares help a ton as my shop’s my only income source rn!)

graphic of a diecut sticker featuring hikaru and yoshiki enveloped in the monster

A sticker sheet featuring various Japanese sweets and spirits from folklore

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ACLU @aclu.org · 1d

The trailblazing transgender rights activist Miss Major has passed away at the age of 78.

Miss Major was a lifelong organizer and participant in the ballroom scene. She took part in the 1969 Stonewall Riots and was injured by the police — but she kept fighting.

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Meek (Spooky) 👻 @themeekwarrior.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, Alaska's been hit by a typhoon and no one is talking about it. Indigenous towns are in need of aid. People are missing and the gov't is still shut down.

If any creators here are in affected areas, please drop links for aid.

#mutualaid #crisis #alaska #typhoonhalong #helpourcountrymen

Rescue and recovery efforts underway as remnants of Typhoon Halong hit western Alaska | Alaska Beacon

Rescue and recovery efforts began Sunday in western Alaska as a major storm caused by remnants of Typhoon Halong hit coastal communities with massive storm surge, flooding and hurricane-force winds up...

alaskabeacon.com

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Matt Forbeck @forbeck.com · 1d

Gamers! If you're going to Gamehole Con, you can donate to help out Rob Wieland's wife and daughter by purchasing tickets to our memorial event there. If you can, please do!

The link for those donations is here: www.gameholecon.com/events/event...

In lieu of our annual Baron's Ball, we will be toasting our beloved Admiral with our own tall tales of Rob, our friendships, and his legacy 8pm Friday at Gamehole Con.

Please join us and help support his family at this time through this link:

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PUNK BLACK @punkblack.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day! Here are 5 bands to add to your playlist. #punkblack

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⛈ 🦅 mekadebines 🦅 ⛈ @greatlakesqueer.bsky.social · 4d

Bebías Into Ohndaa Ke, a new anthology on queer Indigenous land relations that includes my story in Michif about a transmasc Metis lesbian buffalo hunter, is now available for purchase, and I’m dyinggg bc it got blurbed by so many of my favorite scholars!!!

Bebías Into Ohndaa Ke: Queer Indigenous Knowledge for Land and Community, edited by Sydney Rae Krill & Kleo P Skavinski

Lii Deu Faan Kaa-Wiikihtochik | The Two Women Wed by Kai Pyle

Back cover featuring blurbs by Billy Ray Belcourt, Dian Million, Daniel Voth, Joseph M Pierce, Gina Starblanket, and Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 3d

Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.

FORM A CROWD
STAY LOUD
PROTECT EACH OTHER
CODE I:
ICE NEARBY
BLOW QUICKLY IN A BROKEN RHYTHM:
PRE-PRE-PRE!
→ ALERTS THE COMMUNITY THAT ICE AGENTS ARE IN THE AREA.
ROGERS PARK WHISTLE PROTOCOLS
WHY A WHISTLE? ON THE STREETS
• A SIMPLE TOOL FOR FAST ALERTS.
• LOUD.
RECOGNIZABLE.
IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE.
• OUR VOICES ARE
STRONGER TOGETHER.
WHISTLES GUIDE
PEOPLE TO:
• FOLLOW ICE CARAVANS
• CATCH UP WITH THE CROWD
• ALERT NEIGHBORS
TO JOIN IN
NOISE = VISIBILITY.
CODE 2:
CODE RED
BLOW THREE LONG BLASTS:
PREEEE-PREEEE-PREEEE!
→ ICE IS DETAINING SOMEONE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
DON'T STAY SILENT. STAY NONVIOLENT.
WHY IT WORKS
• INSTANT ALERT
SYSTEM
• FASTER THAN SOCIAL MEDIA
• TURNS SILENCE INTO COMMUNITY
ACTION
ORIGINAL FLYER CREATED BY:
WHAT YOU CAN DO
• WEAR YOUR WHISTLE AROUND YOUR NECK
TEACH FAMILY
EIGHBORS TH
CODES
• USE IT WHEN ICE IS
SPOTTED
• PROTECT EACH OTHER, ALWAYS
TOGETHER, WE KEEP OUR COMMUNITY SAFE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
THIS FLYER DISTRIBUTED BY:
PROTECT RP
• @PROTECTRP_

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I've picked up watercolor painting as a way to rejuvenate creatively without deadlines/pressure and I've painted scenes at the last two weddings I attended (center piece and nearby river, respectively) as guest-book pieces.

A watercolor painting of a candle in a D20 cave with plants underneath.

A watercolor painting of a river with trees on the opposite shore.

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 4d

Hello bluesky! I'm Nora and I have a jewelry store focused on fused glass; I also have game tokens and worry stones.

Collage: nora.jewelry/collections/...
Cluster: nora.jewelry/collections/...
Worry stones: nora.jewelry/search?q=wor...
Earrings: nora.jewelry/collections/...

#bsnm

ad for the nora.jewelry collage collection, which consists of pieces made from patterned cane with some transparency piled on top of other different color canes and turned into a molded shape; the transparency creates a lot of depth in the final pieces, because you can see through the transparent bits to what is behind it. pictures are a pair of round green, white and purple cufflinks, a orange and yellow bolo tie, and a teardrop shaped pendant with a green/white design added to a pink design

ad for the cluster collection, a group of fused glass pendants (and a couple other things, but only pendants are pictured) made from placing glass cylinders on their ends in a group and melting them just enough to round them out but not enough to make them fully puddle like most of my designs. the result of this ends up looking a bit like fish eggs adhered to a flat surface, or a bundle of grapes. the ones pictured are a simple round aqua blue design with yellow middles, a purple design with distorted flowers (this one started out as regular flowers but rounded their petals in the kiln, blurring them) and a round tan design with brown and white middles.

worry stone collection: this one has an orange collage design worry stone in an abstract shape, a white and green one where the edges between the colors blur, and a round one in a bi pride pattern.

earring collection: this one shows a sparkly green aventurine pair of round earrings, one that's white/grey/clear with black spots (that one's made from spiral cane that I made flat and you can see the spiral in the final design) and one with swirling green, yellow and pink set in white.

all the backgrounds on all of these are an aventurine dragonskin sheet that i put at low transparency over white, so they have a lacy quality to them.

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Jonathan Bliss @drsunshinewa.bsky.social · 3d

Adding a link for the curious. Author: Prabhani Atukorale, asst prof of biomed eng in the Riccio College of Eng at UMass Amherst www.umass.edu/news/article...

UMass Amherst Researchers Create Nanoparticle Vaccine That Prevents Cancer in Mice | UMass Amherst

The vaccine also proves highly effective at preventing cancer’s deadly spread.

www.umass.edu

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Prism & Pen @prismnpen.bsky.social · 3d

The people who called you a predator for being gay? They’re calling trans women predators now. The ones who said you were grooming kids? Same word, just a different target. Drag queens. Trans teachers.
buff.ly/msOhXpS

#LGBTQ #TransRights #Bigotry #Solidarity

When Gay Men Forget Who Their Real Enemy Is And Forget Trans Rights

Support trans people or live with the shame in your chest. The disgust that once told us we were wrong is now directed at them.

medium.com

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Solis Sequentials @solissequentials.bsky.social · 3d

I'm hoping to avoid bots. I think I have a good starting point to talk to some people.

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Make it go viral.

Radiant G🌈✨ @radiantg.bsky.social · 3d

In honor of October, what’s a 4-word horror story only someone in your profession would get?

“Add a Battle Pass”

Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · 3d

You mean, like GTA?

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Dr. Emily Friedman @friede.bsky.social · 3d

Putting out a call: if you were part of WOTC’s late-2010s live events (Stream of Many Eyes, D&D Live, The Descent), I would love to talk to you as part of the Actual Play book.

[email protected] will reach me, either to schedule a chat or to share your memories.

Please feel free to share.

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Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio @rlmartstudio.bsky.social · 3d

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

A photograph from the 1988 ACT UP demonstration outside the FDA. Many people are participating in a die-in on the front steps, holding mock tombstones with messages like "RIP - killed by the FDA" and "Dead from lack of drugs." A line of police officers (some with classic 80s mustaches) wearing riot helmets stands between them and the building; one cop wearing white gloves is walking through the demonstrators. Affixed to the 2nd story windows of the building is a series of posters and a large blank banner reading Silence = Death.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 3d

Researchers envision their vaccine being used as both a treatment and a preventive, and as an approach to treating multiple cancer types.
• www.umass.edu/news/article...

The study has been published in Cell Reports Medicine. YES, it is PEER-REVIEWED.
• www.cell.com/cell-reports...

🧪🧵⬇️

HIGHLIGHTS
•Lipid NPs carrying STING and TLR4 agonists promote synergistic type I interferons
• NPs drain efficiently to lymph nodes and increase polyfunctional T and B cells
• NPs improve tumor-free outcomes with memory against multiple aggressive tumor models
SUMMARY
We report on the utility of a "super-adjuvant" nanoparticle (NP) system as a modular, customizable platform for next-generation cancer vaccination. Using nanomaterials engineering technology, we aim to harness not only the effective adjuvanticity of whole-pathogen vaccines, but also the safety of subunit vaccines.
Our lipid-based NP platform co-encapsulates agonists of the stimulator of interferon genes (STING) and Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) pathways to promote synergistic production of type I interferons and other
proinflammatory cytokines in innate antigen-presenting dendritic cells and macrophages.
Compared to empty NPs and free agonists, dual-adjuvant NPs administered with antigenic peptides or tumor cell lysate promote increased antigen processing and presentation, drain efficiently to nearby lymph nodes, increase polyfunctional tumor-specific T and B cells, and improve tumor-free outcomes upon vaccination and subsequent challenge with multiple aggressive tumor cells.

Graphical Abstract

The vaccine combines two immune-stimulating molecules (adjuvants) in a tiny lipid nanoparticle that enhances both innate and adaptive immune responses. The innate immune system acts as the body’s first line of defense, responding quickly and non-specifically to invaders using cells that release inflammatory signals. The adaptive immune system takes longer to activate but provides a targeted, long-lasting response, training T-cells and B- cells to recognize and remember specific threats. Together, they form a coordinated defense: the innate system alerts and activates the adaptive system, which then delivers precise and durable immunity.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 3d

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a cancer vaccine that has shown STUNNING results, PREVENTING up to 88% of MULTIPLE aggressive cancers by harnessing dual-pathway nanoparticles that train the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. In some cases, it COMPLETELY prevented metastasis.

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mother dysnomia 🌚 @mamatried.bsky.social · 3d

Sama’a and Baha’a are visiting their ravaged hometown of Gaza City today, in hopes of finding a place they can move back to (now that displaced people are able to return).

We pray they find opportunities today🙏

donate & share so they can afford to move their family back home:

gofund.me/db56c7ce3

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 3d

🔴 In the past 24 hours, Gaza’s Health Ministry reported an additional 124 killed (117 of whom were recovered from the rubble) and 33 injured arriving at hospitals.

This brings the recorded death toll from the Israeli genocide in Gaza to 67,806 and 170,066 injuries (likely 3-5x higher).

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I've been out for over a decade, but for National Coming Out Day, I'd like to remind everyone that I'm a queer trans man (he/they pronouns) and nothing "made" me trans.

We have always been here. We will always be here. And no amount of fearmongering will change that.

A picture of me smiling in front of a model dragon

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I would love to!

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 3d

Nixon’s crimes look like harmless high school pranks compared to the now-daily unprecedented illegal & unconstitutional crimes being committed daily by this president & his staff

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 3d

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 4d

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4d

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 4d

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Rowan Zeoli @rowanzeoli.bsky.social · 4d

Genuinely crying at the idea of a politician who will represent me loudly advocating for my safety. trans people deserve this, we all do.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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