Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by Matt Siegel

Kait 🥔 @thryse.com · 2h

I’m going to need to move by the end of October and have no real prospects or savings. I hate to ask but I have no idea what I’m even going to be able to do short-term until I have some resources saved up. Please, if you’re able, could you help with a donation?

(birthday in two days if matters 🤣)

Kait 🥔 @thryse.com · Aug 13

While I have food now, I’m broke with no income and I am going to be hard pressed to come up with any money to put towards rent or anything else. I’ve just been treading water for a year.

Please, if anyone can help my payment links are in my bio. Uber credit also helps💕💸💸💕

#mutualaid #crowdfunding

1 15 13

Reposted by Matt Siegel

Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 52m

The tuxedo is back. Hard to believe these two are the same species. Just look at our megachomk!!

Two cats on opposite sides of a patio door. Both are tuxedo. The one outside is tiny, crouching over a bowl full of cat food. The one inside is sitting on a couple of outdoor slippers, looking gigantic, towering over the little guy.

1 14

Reposted by Matt Siegel

Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 1h

Portland Emergency World Naked Bike Ride turnout is huge, easily hundreds. Folks are amped that the Unipiper is here.

1 47 130

Reposted by Matt Siegel

Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 4h

Wow, this is amazing. Listen live to whale songs!🐋🔊

Andrew Middleton @mapcenter.com · 3d

Important alert for people who like working while a light white noise is playing in the background, there is a family of whales singing next to the Moss Landing Marine Lab hydrophone right now and you should listen! radio.garden/visit/moss-l...

Listen to live Moss Landing CA radio on Radio Garden

radio.garden

3 12 28

Reposted by Matt Siegel

Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 2h

Jesus fucking christ the sadism of these people is insatiable

Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 2h

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

2 45 140

Reposted by Matt Siegel

Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 5h

Don't forget that your homeless neighbors, the people living in the streets & out of their cars around you that you see every day, are part of your real world community.

7 130 500

Reposted by Matt Siegel

Adrian's Digital Basement @adriansdigitalbasement.com · 3h

Author and illustrator, Nikkolas Smith, draws 'Portland Frog'

'Portland Frog' by artist Nikkolas Smith. Unidentified person in a frog suit standing up to armed federal agents in Portland Oregon.

3 6 90

Reposted by Matt Siegel

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 3h

A Dutch newspaper is literally holding a poll on if a colleague, another professor should be fired because he's pro Palestine. Academic freedom is dying many deaths here. www.gelderlander.nl/home/ontslag...

Poll results, 84% in favour of firing him

1 4 10

Reposted by Matt Siegel

Kait 🥔 @thryse.com · 4h

I’m expecting “free speech permits” before Christmas.

1 2 2

Reposted by Matt Siegel

Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 6h

Boss, we’ve got a problem. Users don’t want this stuff! They keep wanting to turn it off, even when we keep turning it back on!

Boss: I have an idea

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 8h

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

30 810 2.1K

Reposted by Matt Siegel

daria argento @mommywiseau.bsky.social · 3h

I'm at the best of times. I'm at the worst of times. I'm at the combination best of times and worst of times

1 10 25

Reposted by Matt Siegel

Toya 🚀🔭 @astrotoya.bsky.social · 6h

I’m probably gonna lose my car some time this week if I can’t pay this. So please help if you can.

I am short $270 for this….

1 2

Reposted by Matt Siegel

♿🏳️‍⚧️ Need Dental Funds ASAP! @wylder.bsky.social · 8h

Took us 10 days to fill in the $700 overdraft, I've been too sick to stay awake the whole time, we just made it into positive yesterday, & my partners care-taking job ends tomorrow. 😰

We have $30 to survive the month & I still desperately need emergency dental.
linktr.ee/wylder 💕💸

Save Wylder & his loved ones? | Linktree

🏳️‍🌈43 🏳️‍⚧️He/They ♿Disabled ♾️AuDHD 🖖Geek 💜Surviving on kind donations🙏

linktr.ee

12 9

Reposted by Matt Siegel

Linotype Pilgrim @symbo1ics.bsky.social · 19h

There are many ways to do it, here's one

www.xda-developers.com/raspberry-pi...

post a better one below if you know it

With just a Raspberry Pi, you can host your own offline Wikipedia: here's how I did it

This is such an easy project that the most time-consuming, difficult aspect was deciding just how much of Wikipedia's content I wanted to self-host.

www.xda-developers.com

2 12

Reposted by Matt Siegel

♿🏳️‍⚧️ Need Dental Funds ASAP! @wylder.bsky.social · 1d

We're in desperate need today. 💕💸 #MutualAid

PayPal.me/MousePounder
Venmo.com/u/MousePounder
Cash.app/$WishMage
linktr.ee/wylder

♿🏳️‍⚧️ Need Dental Funds ASAP! @wylder.bsky.social · 1d

Anything helps! If we raise enough I might be able to get in at the dentist Monday or at least early this week.

I don't wanna die y'all.
PayPal.me/MousePounder
Venmo.com/u/MousePounder
Cash.app/$WishMage
linktr.ee/wylder

22 15

Reposted by Matt Siegel

Kait 🥔 @thryse.com · 21h

Police constantly and openly flout civilian elected authority, to the point of open death threats.

1 3 11

Matt Siegel @mattsiegel.bsky.social · 21h

pretty sure mamdani knows (having instantly adopted the police's favorite policies)

1

Reposted by Matt Siegel

Amber @risettemd.bsky.social · 23h

Running a government like a business, meaning I fuck everything up and then bail out with a golden parachute.

2 23 110

Reposted by Matt Siegel

Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 22h

I am happy that more people see that the police state is a BIPARTISAN project.

9 230 960

Reposted by Matt Siegel

TheeAfroLesbian🌈 @zisshit.com · 22h

I’d like art supplies and cupcakes (I’m on my cycle 🥲🩸)

Venmo: @zzz22
Cashapp: $ziizzzii

You still can’t have me though 🥰💜🤭

TheeAfroLesbian🌈 @zisshit.com · Aug 31

how does it feel to know you’ll never touch me? that I’m the brat you can’t ever tame?

Im standing in front of a fancy looking deep red curtain thing, I’m wearing NOTHING but tights, even the “shirt” that’s on my upper body is just tights I pulled up all the way LOL, my arms are crossed covering my nip-naps, I’m looking up and off to the side - almost rolling my eyes - I’m giving, whomever, a bratty stank eye.

WAGON WEDNESDAY, it’s my butt lol but I’m standing in front of the same deep red fancy curtain thing, while wearing NOTHING but tights lol

5 5

Reposted by Matt Siegel

🫧 Spark Elation 🫧 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 22h

yea life hurts and so much isn’t fair but ALL of us save for a very extremely select fucking few are stuck in this shit trying the best we can against fucked up odds. Remember that.

4 22

Reposted by Matt Siegel

SPIROSAURUS 🦖 ((📱)) 🎼 @dottiedino.bsky.social · 23h

SHE IS

Abra, The Everwife 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼👻 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · Aug 29

I have never been more certain of anything than I am that this cereal mascot is trans.

Cereal box for carmella creeper cereal, featuring a green zombie woman with headphones, a skull tshirt and fishnet sleeves

2 4

Reposted by Matt Siegel

SPIROSAURUS 🦖 ((📱)) 🎼 @dottiedino.bsky.social · 23h

RADIOACTICOOL!

Radical Gator @radicalgator.bsky.social · 1d

Extinct? more like, Ex-treme!

[ #SciArt #PaleoArt ]

green stegosaurus skeleton on a snowboard doing a sick jump

1

Reposted by Matt Siegel

kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 23h

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

6 4.3K 7.6K

Reposted by Matt Siegel

N.V. Binder 𓀨 @nvbinder.io · 23h

Turns out the kid who pours my coffee at the coffee shop sounds like Sinatra

1 1 4