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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 5h

Of note 🧪🔭 Thanks for sharing, @chanda.blacksky.app , and for your years of service.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 6h

SCIENCE POLICY NEWS:

During Yom Kippur, all the members of the High Energy Physics Advisory Committee (HEPAP), myself included, received a letter thanking us for our service and telling us essentially that the almost 40 yo standing federal advisory committee was no more. ⚛️🧪🔭

Why that matters 🧵

DOE Consolidates Office of Science Advisory Committees

Six long-standing committees advising the Department of Energy’s Office of Science have been rolled into one.

www.aip.org

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 21h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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Rhiannon Held/R.Z. Held @rhiannonheld.bsky.social · 1d

My friends and I call it submissions Tetris

Marie Brennan @swantower.bsky.social · 1d

<totters out onto porch>

<settles into rocker>

<thumps cane a few times>

Let's talk about what the process of submitting short fiction used to look like, shall we? And about what it looks like now.

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Phineasferatu @phineas.bsky.social · 1d

A squirrel is standing inside and peeking over the top rim of a hollowed out pumpkin. The top of the pumpkin can be seen behind. The squirrel is wearing a slouchy black witch hat with orange stripes and holding a squirrel-sized chef knife. The knife is because the squirrel has carved the words ‘MAYBE IT WILL HAPPEN’ in the side of the pumpkin and in the ground in front the word ‘TODAY’ has been spelled with stringy orange pumpkin guts with seeds scattered all around.

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Lazy Vampire Enthusiast (Keffy) @keffy.bsky.social · 2d

Aaaaaaaaaa

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Lazy Vampire Enthusiast (Keffy) @keffy.bsky.social · 2d

It's always a little fun/odd when someone is melting down about how they don't have the privilege they're used to having, and they're claiming this is a symptom of the world being against them specifically, and like, their state of being "oppressed" is still so wildly privileged that it boggles.

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Lazy Vampire Enthusiast (Keffy) @keffy.bsky.social · 2d

(I have real anxiety about real things on a regular basis, but I had reached not anxiety attacks over things that do not actually affect my life until THIS WEEK)

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Lazy Vampire Enthusiast (Keffy) @keffy.bsky.social · 2d

*sweats in "I'm from washington state and my team is in the lead and now i am waiting to hear they blew it and this is the only unhinged anxiety that is blowing past my meds"*

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Serenity "Peas on Carbonara 👻" Dee 🍜 @sapphixy.bsky.social · 2d

as I've said many times, Columbus was such a monster that even his contemporary settler colonialist genocidal monsters were like "dude what the FUCK"

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 2d

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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Nancy Jane Moore @nancyjane.bsky.social · 2d

Now they're destroying my university. I note that once upon a time, the University was noted for standing up against this kind of crap. Breaks my heart to see it.

Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 2d

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!

The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 2d

the reasoning for removing the 8 books off this is super vague and needs clarity. let's help these kids get answers.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 2d

Please share the news about these students working to get transparency on why books were removed from a statewide reading bowl (including a book ON book banning!!)

bookriot.com/helen-ruffin...

And then sign their petition here: www.change.org/p/ensure-tra...

A Georgia Reading Bowl Bans Titles from Competition, Including a Book on Book Bans

Eight books, including a book about the current spate of book bans and their impact on teens, have been banned from a Georgia Reading Bowl.

bookriot.com

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Lazy Vampire Enthusiast (Keffy) @keffy.bsky.social · 2d

On Saturday I was DMing and I expanded my DM philosophy to include that I don't care what the book or module says, if the players see griffons and immediately want to go pet griffons, we are going to the aerie and they are petting the griffons.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 2d

seriously fuck this guy

Sick of the Homeless Problem in Olde Town Arvada?

So Am I, and I’m Done Tolerating It!

A vote for Aaron Skoff is a vote to put an end to the Arvada homeless problem—once and for all.

1. Zero Tolerance Enforcement – Enough is enough. We will not allow this problem to continue draining our community.

2. No-Nonsense Solutions – Smart business and financial strategies, not handouts, to address the issue.

3. No More Sympathy, Just Action – It's time for real leadership. We’ll stop coddling those who refuse to help themselves.

At the end of the day, no more freebies! The city of Arvada will stop funding programs that attract homeless individuals to our community. Instead, we’ll invest in a massive expansion of law enforcement to actively solve this issue and restore safety and order.

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Caleb Dume @thacalebdume.bsky.social · 2d

Shol did!

Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 2d

historian of Latin America here, reminder that Columbus's extreme cruelty to indigenous peoples was known to his contemporaries and got him in trouble *then*

yes this man was so racist that he got chastised for it in *1500*

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Lazy Vampire Enthusiast (Keffy) @keffy.bsky.social · 3d

In my game bags of holding canonically now have smiley faces instead of smiling faces.

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Lazy Vampire Enthusiast (Keffy) @keffy.bsky.social · 4d

*weeping*

I soothed myself by making a "I know a lot of the biology behind this, AMA" thread on the course forum

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Caleb Dume @thacalebdume.bsky.social · 4d

He stay shaking the table.

NPR @npr.org · 4d

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

Pope Leo XIV says 'inhuman treatment of immigrants' in the U.S. isn't 'pro-life'

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

n.pr

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Lazy Vampire Enthusiast (Keffy) @keffy.bsky.social · 4d

Tfw you have almost a phd in a subject and an expert in someone else talks on it in service of their own subject and you just gotta stuff your hands in your mouth bc the details would be at beat interesting but distracting

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Kat Howard @katwithsword.bsky.social · 4d

Semi-regular reminder that I am a developmental editor, not an acquiring editor. This means that I can work with you to make your book better, but even if it is the best book ever, I cannot buy it and publish it. Also, if you are trying to sell your book, you should find an agent (also not me).

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Lazy Vampire Enthusiast (Keffy) @keffy.bsky.social · 4d

Torturing myself listening to the rapid 40ish minutes of lecture on evolution/genetics for this bio-inspired computing class and having the prof say "idk why x" for some stuff that isn't super important for comp sci majors to know BUT I KNOW!!! I KNOW THE ANSWER!!!!!!! THERE IS A REASON

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Bart Leib @metafrantic.bsky.social · 4d

Even if he was having a drug overdose THEY STILL SHOULD HAVE HELPED HIM

IF SOMEONE IS HAVING A MEDICAL EMERGENCY

ANY MEDICAL EMERGENCY

YOU HELP THEM

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 4d

A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs

The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours