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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 1h

Hard to even comprehend this.
Coral reefs are lost.
We knew it was coming but still…
Coral reefs are lost.

Dr Emma L Briant 🐸🎃 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 1d

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

www.theguardian.com

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LRSH - Education Podcast @lrshedupodcast.bsky.social · 25m

I get it. Being a mature caring person is hard work. You have to handle discomfort, & put in the time

The desire to regress, become childlike, disassociate & give up responsibility is understandable

I’m not shocked u accepted republican project 2025 anti-masking goals literally written on page 475

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

(and i think it is a demand that stems from fear more than a rational assessment of the threat environment)

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 2h

A pandemic, fascism, open racism, food insecurity and book bans will do that

NPR @npr.org · 3h

New 2025 testing data shows third- through eighth-graders scored far below 2019 levels in reading. In math, some grades have made gains, but all are lagging compared to before the pandemic. n.pr/473xAwC

In reading, the nation's students are still stuck in a pandemic slump

New 2025 testing data shows third- through eighth-graders scored far below 2019 levels in reading. In math, some grades have made gains, but all are lagging compared to before the pandemic.

n.pr

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RDS (formerly shawphd) @rds773.bsky.social · 3d

So, we had ICE in our neighborhood today

But

When we went to pick up kiddo from school, there were neighbors with whistles and fliers and phones at every single surrounding intersection near the school

Chicago strong! ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏾

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☆「ＹＡＳＥ」IdolismJ ☆ @idolismj.yase.world · 20h

People who were alive to experience the Ps2 or Wii launch are going to watch in real time as their world desaturates seeing two console titans release in a race to the grave.

VGC @videogameschronicle.com · 1d

Both PS6 and the next Xbox are planned for a 2027 release, according to separate reports.

www.videogameschronicle.com/news/ps6-and...

PS6 and next Xbox console are both aiming for 2027 release, separate reports claim | VGC

Both companies are reportedly planning to release their next-gen consoles within two years…

www.videogameschronicle.com

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

People are pissed at Bari Weiss ( rightfully she’s awful) but happily push someone in their circle whose just as racist and awful interpersonally to the SAME people

And wondered why Bari fails up

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 14h

this is an incredibly ominous beginning to a future with a largely carved out federal emergency response system

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 22h

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 17h

I know it’s the most obvious thing in the world but it’s really sad that so many people have absolutely no desires or dreams in life except to accumulate money and our entire world is becoming a fucking pit because of it

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Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 17h

Israel has been murdering Palestinians non-stop since the ceasefire was announced. The UN is a deeply unserious organization.

UN chief says Gaza ceasefire offers ‘fragile hope’ after months of destruction

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday welcomed the ongoing implementation of ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, describing it as a moment of “fragile hope” after months of destructi…

www.middleeastmonitor.com

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 17h

So Martial Law

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 18h

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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r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 8d

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 · 9d

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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Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 18h

In a capitalist system, if something makes money, people immediately assume that something is being done right. They ignore all the warning signs and all legitimate criticism becomes invalid because everyone passively accepts the idea that when it comes to business, only making money matters.

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LRSH - Education Podcast @lrshedupodcast.bsky.social · 18h

But they are also pissing off everyone at the same time AND destroying everything that keeps them protected

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LRSH - Education Podcast @lrshedupodcast.bsky.social · 19h

Watching every corporation and the USA kill their golden goose at the same time has my pattern recognition blaring that the ruling class were given a date when collapse will happen in 2019 or before

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stacy-marie ishmael @smi.bsky.social · 22h

NPR/Alaska Public Media: alaskapublic.org/news/public-...

AP: apnews.com/article/alas...

CNN: www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/w...

Fox Weather: www.foxweather.com/weather-news...

ABC: abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...

CBS: www.cbsnews.com/news/alaska-...

The Weather Channel: weather.com/news/weather...

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 22h

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 19h

Imagine being such a high-strung weak-kneed coward that an ambulance being put into park sends you into a frothing murderous rage, where are they even finding these freakshows

Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 21h

ICE agents blocked an ambulance that was trying to take an injured protester to hospital.

"We are still not being allowed to leave by ICE officers.” an EMT said on radio

When driver tried to get out, an agent yelled, "DON’T YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN, I WILL SHOOT YOU"

www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 19h

And don’t stop putting the pressure on our “elected officials” who are clearly occupying OUR government on behalf of the worst of humanity

Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 20h

I hope @ritchietorres.bsky.social gets exactly what he deserves :)

@RitchieTorres
X.com
After two years of abduction and torture, every living hostage is finally home.
Those who were taken on October 7th will outlast the terrorist organization that tore them from their families and homes and unleashed a war of untold suffering.
Against all odds, the timeless call to "Let My People Go" has been answered.
6:13 AM • 10/13/25 • 76K Views

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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 1d

Aspergillus, Cladosporium: welcome to the resistance

Joshua "The Crypt" Keep(er) @jekeep.bsky.social · 2d

The far-right mouthpiece who told young men to clean up their place while in front of his very clearly messy home, now has contracted an illness from all the mold in his home.

If you wrote such a fascist character in a story it would be deemed a silly caricature.

Jordan Peterson diagnosed with chronic condition after exposure to mold

Peterson's daughter said her father has a "genetic predisposition that causes the immune system to have an inability to identify and detoxify mold."

www.newsweek.com

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 22h

Pretty sure I say this every Columbus Day, but getting hauled back to Spain for excessive brutality in 1500, just as the Inquisition was really getting fired up, is some genuinely Evil Guys Hall of Infamy material

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d

U.S. Department of Education fired nearly everyone in the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services in a wave of new layoffs that began Friday, according to the union representing the agency's employees. www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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A Crumbling Marriage @bustronaut.bsky.social · 1d

As vampire movies have shown us repeatedly, self reflection is the easiest way to know you don't suck.

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Jax Wolff Writes @jaxwolffwrites.bsky.social · 23h

This is why I say joy/hope are valid forms of defiance. There's as much anger here as with constant doom/brick-throwing rage, but it's expressed differently. Look at how many people are out there, taking action and being disruptive as a *community*. Amazing, tbh.

Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 1d

The US federal attack on Portland has resulted in the best advertisement for a city that I have ever seen. Round-the-clock joy, community solidarity and silliness that much of the West has lost and longs for.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

just found out that about a week ago, while george santos has been in solitary confinement, that he wrote that due to the inhuman conditions he is facing he is now pro prison reform. just unreal stuff honestly

Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, I paced in circles like a restless ghost.
The windows were frosted, allowing only a faint suggestion of daylight and nightfall, enough to remind me that time was passing, though I had little sense of how.
The shower water was always cold, and my only amenities were the steel toilet and sink fused together in the corner. It was a miserable existence. Yet, as I soon learned, misery can always be deepened
On September 7th, the warden's office saw fit to move me into something far worse, an even smaller cell, no more than seven by nine feet, coated in filth, reeking of neglect, and utterly devoid of natural light or ventilation.
In that suffocating shoebox, there is no room to walk, no hint of the sun, no trace of humanity. The silence is crushing.
The air feels stale. The walls themselves seem to close in. I keep asking myself: will this barbaric confinement ever end? Is this legal under our Constitution, or have I simply been erased from the protections of due process?
Most haunting of all, will I survive it? With no access to my family, no calls, no emails, and with letters that may never leave this building, I live in total darkness, cut off from the world I once fought to serve.
Let me be blunt: I find Warden Kelly's so-called "protection" not only unpalatable, but cruel and unjustifiable. My time here has opened my eyes to a truth far too many ignore: America desperately needs prison reform.

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Twilight Vulpine @twilightvulpine.bsky.social · 10d

MLK Jr. had some words about how moderates, who prefer the absence of tension than the presence of justice, are a greater obstacle than the outright bigots.

The admins here don't want everyone to be treated right, they want trans people to suffer quietly.

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