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Kyle Copas @kylecopas.bsky.social · 1d

Good night, sweet prince.

William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 1d

[Exit Angelo.]

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 1d

[Exit Angelo.]

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Kyle Copas @kylecopas.bsky.social · 1d

Some people go their whole lives without realizing what they’re good at. Eric’s just living his best, stupidest life.

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The Needling @theneedling.com · 2d

Mayor Harrell Announces Police Officers Will Recite Land Acknowledgement Before Sweeping Homeless Native Americans on Indigenous Peoples’ Day: tinyurl.com/35b9yp9f

Mayor Bruce Harrell speaking at podium with City Attorney Ann Davison behind him next to sign on wall reading "Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day"

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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 3d

The most dangerous form of government is theocracy.

Because the only thing worse than a tyrant is a tyrant who thinks they're on a mission from God.

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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 3d

In Pinochet’s Chile, “it was whispered” that an “unrepentant Nazi” had served as “an adviser to the dictatorship’s secret police and even [became] an interrogator. But was it true?” —Ariel Dorfman

Pinochet and the Vans of Death | Ariel Dorfman

In 38 Londres Street Philippe Sands investigates a Nazi war criminal’s collaboration with the Chilean dictatorship’s system of repression, torture, and murder.

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Rocky Rex @rockyrex.bsky.social · 4d

This is Australia, but you could apply it anywhere.

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GBIF @gbif.org · 5d

🌱 How do disasters impact plant communities?

After the Kakhovka Reservoir collapse, researchers surveyed Khortytsia Island floodplains in Ukraine to study vegetation shifts from altered hydrology.

Explore the dataset shared via @gbifnorway.bsky.social 💚 🔗 gbif.link/Khortytsia...

Photo of native grasses found in Ukraine

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Kyle Copas @kylecopas.bsky.social · 5d

Can I throw a ball or a stick for the Loch Garry herd? They look like you need to tire them out or they’ll insist on sleeping on the bed.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 6d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Peter Frankopan @peterfrankopan.bsky.social · 7d

Belarus rarely makes Western headlines — but it should this week.
A quiet move by the Trump administration has just handed Alexander Lukashenka, and indirectly Vladimir Putin, an unexpected gift.
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GBIF España/Spain @gbif.es · 7d

¡Felicidades a Esteban Marentes, de la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali, ganador del Graduate Researchers Award 2025 por su innovador uso de datos de @gbif.org para estimar la diversidad de coleópteros en Colombia! ¡Enhorabuena también al nodo SiBColombia!
🏆 www.gbif.org/news/1fyZVi9...

Colombian master's student Esteban Marentes Herrera wins 2025 Graduate Researchers Award

Esteban is the tenth student from the Latin America and the Caribbean region to win the annual GBIF award

www.gbif.org

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GBIF España/Spain @gbif.es · 7d

¡Gran noticia desde Nigeria 🌍!: Kumdet Panshak Solomon, doctorando en la Universidad de Jos (Nigeria), gana el Graduate Researchers Award 2025 por su trabajo sobre aves endémicas y #cienciaciudadana con datos de @gbif.org . ¡Segundo africano en lograrlo! 👏
🏆 www.gbif.org/news/6uC3zYj...

Nigerian PhD student Kumdet Panshak Solomon wins 2025 Graduate Researchers Award

Panshak is the second student from Africa to win the annual GBIF award

www.gbif.org

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Kyle Copas @kylecopas.bsky.social · 8d

Great #civicScience opportunity for the @gbif.org network that will feed records from transcribed mollusk labels from the #FieldMuseum !

Zooniverse @zooniverse.bsky.social · 8d

✨ SNAIL SCRIBE ARCHIVE - this new 🐌 Zooniverse transcription project is all about molluscan biodiversity data. It seeks to promote the conservation and critical scientific research of these under-appreciated animals! www.zooniverse.org/projects/ske...

Cartoon snail mascot for Zooniverse project: Snail Scribe Archive

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Cassetteboy @cassetteboy.bsky.social · 15d

New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer.

This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

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Kyle Copas @kylecopas.bsky.social · 9d

A good portion of the Secretariat of @gbif.org will be away for governing board meeting then. Would love the chance to explore the parallels between climate and biodiversity communications before or after, though, depending on the dates of your two weeks in KBH…

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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 10d

A Texas megachurch pastor and GOP leader has been arrested for crimes against children. Not Robert Morris, a different one. Not Josiah Anthony, a different one. Not Luke Cunningham, a different one. Not Tony Evans, a different one. Not Scott Crenshaw, a different one. Not Steve Lawson, a different o

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Waldo Jaquith, but Spooky @waldo.net · 10d

This is the logical endpoint of the far-right media echo chamber / isolation booth: a confused, elderly man has become president and, with Fox et al as the only source of information he believes, he thinks archival footage of things that happened over years is all stuff that’s happening now.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10d

The protests are on one block. Nothing is burning down. His justification for sending in troops is all based on lies.

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Kyle Copas @kylecopas.bsky.social · 10d

TIL the only way to make this nugget of etymological wisdom from Eleanor Barraclough’s fascinating book, Embers of the Hands, more fitting would have been to read it yesterday, lordag.

…the importance of Saturday for bathing and washing is preserved in its Old Norse name, Laugardagr, which means 'bath day'. It's still there in the word for Saturday in all the languages of the Nordic world: Icelandic, Faroese, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, even borrowed into Finnish.

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Kyle Copas @kylecopas.bsky.social · 10d

“AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations…”

Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 17d

Doctorow on the impending economic collapse when the AI bubble bursts. pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Kyle Copas @kylecopas.bsky.social · 11d

Fond of the idea that the first female PM of #Japan shares her first name with a dear friend and teacher, #Sanae Tokizane, literary critic and scholar of #Faulkner and the epistolary form who left this Easter egg of an inscription in my copy of her book, Faulkner and/or Writing: On Absalom, Absalom!

Photo of handwritten note reading next a book by the notewriter: “To Kyle: / With the Compliments / Read it if you like or dont read it if you like. / Absalom, Absalom! / 9/18/89 Sanae”

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Peter Moonlight @petermoonlight.bsky.social · 14d

Calling botanical researchers, the School of Natural Science at Trinity College Dublin is hiring a tenure track Assistant Professor in Plant Biodiversity and Conservation.

I know this is someone's dream job, so let me know if that is you and you want to chat!

my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13d

PM of Albania having a good laugh with President of Azerbaijan and Macron about Trump repeatedly claiming that he ended the war between their two countries which were not at war with each other.

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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 15d

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Kyle Copas @kylecopas.bsky.social · 16d