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Rachel @vignettes.bsky.social · 15h

where does the sky start—
at the lip of the hill,
or in the breath that leaves us
when that vast hush melts like mercury?
a child might cup the spill in her palms,
an old woman to memory,
both reaching for the same
blue uncertainty.

#MPprompt

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Aleianjack @aleianjack.bsky.social · 29m

US Consumers Paying the Most for Tariffs: Wall Street Giant’s Report Exposes Trump Lies www.commondreams.org/news/trump-t...

US Consumers Paying the Most for Tariffs: Wall Street Giant’s Report Exposes Trump Lies | Common Dreams

New research from Goldman Sachs reveals US consumers bear 55% of Trump's trade war costs, despite claims tariffs are paid by foreigners.

www.commondreams.org

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azteclady @azteclady.bsky.social · 3h

Regulations are written in blood:
"Before 1994, manufacturers had to prove herbal products were safe before selling them. That changed after Congress passed the Dietary Supplement Health & Education Act. The law sharply limited the FDA’s authority, leaving supplements far less regulated than drugs."

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 5h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Andy D @addysart.bsky.social · 9h

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 10h

Sharing #womenInSTEM portraits and bios for #AdaLovelaceDay #ald25 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬 #histsci

Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · Jan 24

Animals need cobalt for our metabolism; we get it as vitamin B12. So, for #printerSolstice2425 prompt cobalt I made a #linocut of English chemist & x-ray crystallographer Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin (née Crowfoot, 1910-1994), 🧪👩🏼‍🔬🐡 #histsci who won the Nobel Prize in #chemistry for her models of 🧵

My Lino block portrait progress is mostly carved and shows a young Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin in cobalt blue from chest up in a blouse tied with a bow. Her ball-and-stick molecular model for penicillin appears over her shoulder (with atoms in red, pink, pale blue, dark blue and black) and her blouse has a specific repeating pattern of circles and nested broken circles like a labyrinth on bronze circles within a hexagonal while area on a pink background. Overlapping her hair is her model of vitamin B12 complete with electron density contour lines and 3 Angstrom scale bar from one of her papers.

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 10h

Sharing #womenInSTEM portraits and bios for #AdaLovelaceDay #ald25 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬 #histsci

Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · Jul 2

Happy birthday to #physicist Harriet Brooks (1876 - 1933) who discovered atomic recoil, Radon & recognized radioactive elements could undergo chains of transmutations into a series of new elements. 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬🎢 #histsci
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She was Rutherford’s 1st grad student at McGill. After publishing her results in 1899

My 9.25" x 12.5" linocut portrait of physicist Harriet Brooks (1876 - 1933) in a gradient of turquoise to green, shows her and her discovery of atomic recoil in gold (Radon gives off an alpha particle and daughter nucleus goes in opposite direction). A series of diagrams at the bottom shows how the Rutherford research group understood chains of radioactive active transmutations at the time.

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 10h

Sharing #womenInSTEM portraits and bios for #AdaLovelaceDay #ald25 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬 #histsci

Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · Dec 17

Bonus #ArtAdventCalendar Happy birthday to Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Châtelet (1706-1749), 🧮🎢🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬 #histsci a natural philosopher, mathematician & physicist, shown here in my #linocut portrait with diagrams from her ‘Principes Mathématiques de la Philosophie Naturelle’,

My linocut portrait of Émilie du Châtelet in a peach and blue dress with ribbons holding a compass on an open manuscript with a diagram. There’s a pile of books in font of her in blue. Behind her are math and physics diagrams in pink from her publications.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 12h

I've said it before and I'll say it again: the UK countryside is full of interdimensional portals. You just have to know where to look.

lichen-spattered railway underpasses portal

Bodmin Moor portal, which offers the irresistible promise of "danger" and an excellent view

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Claire 🇦🇺 @matchingpegs.bsky.social · 12h

Why stop at schools. Let’s do hospitals, workplaces, shopping centres, churches, gyms, all public buildings!

LET'S AIR @nousaerons.bsky.social · 1d

A Secret Weapon for Improving Student Outcomes: Better Air Quality. Research shows that test scores and attendance improve when schools install air filters and upgrade ventilation. Thanks to @davidcarel.bsky.social for this reminder.
www.the74million.org/article/a-se...

A Secret Weapon for Improving Student Outcomes: Better Air Quality

Carel: Research shows that test scores and attendance improve when schools install air filters and upgrade ventilation.

www.the74million.org

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Traci @tracililmom.bsky.social · 17h

This infuriates me beyond words!
Fvck this administration and the horse they ride in on🤬

Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 17h

Trump Regime illegally fired the federal public servants who ensured the $15B that ED sends to school districts to serve 7.5M disabled kids every year actually gets spent on special ed

Anyone who has ever been in an IEP meeting can tell you what's about to happen

www.patreon.com/posts/141171...

Trump Regime Fires Special Ed Staff. | Matthew Cortland

www.patreon.com

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 1d

I can think of somewhere else where the military needs to start saying this

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

"Madagascar’s president, Andry Rajoelina, is reported to have fled...On Saturday, some Capsat soldiers had posted a video...: “Let us join forces, military, gendarmes and police, and refuse to be paid to shoot our friends, our brothers and our sisters..."

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Madagascar president flees after losing support of key army unit

Elite Capsat unit that played a major role in Andry Rajoelina’s rise to presidency joined gen Z protests against corruption

www.theguardian.com

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Ada Lovelace Day @adalovelaceday.bsky.social · 15h

Dr Eugenie Clark was an ichthyologist who studied sharks and tropical fishes. This amigurumi crochet patterns shows her in her diving suit with gas tank and gauge, diving mask and breathing tube! Download the pattern free from our website: findingada.com/crochet #ALD25

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Lara T is a museum nerd @museumlara1.bsky.social · 11h

Happy Ada Lovelace Day to all who celebrate!

This year I choose to remember one of the first recognized female astronomers, Elisabeth Hevelius. (1647-1693). This published Polish woman began her systematic study of the stars with her husband, but continued & published after his death.

engraving of a traditionally built 17th century Polish woman, identified as Elisabeth Hevelius, observing the sky with an elaborate brass octant in 1673

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Ted Nimmo @audiophile559.bsky.social · 14h

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 11h

ZM's Fact of the Day Day

#AdaLovelaceDay

Rebecca Lambert (She/Her) ♾️🐭🍉 @ladyliminal.bsky.social · 12h

🙌ADA🙌
#AdaLovelaceDay

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Portland Frogs @portlandfrogs.bsky.social · 1d

Keep Portland weird!

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 1d

So, js Bessent admitting that Trump is king?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bessent: "No Kings means no paychecks. No paychecks and no government."

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Therese 88 @therese88.bsky.social · 2d

Every Day Should Be Earth Day!!

Sunday's Peaceful Moment of Zen with this beautiful Capybara holding her adorable young pup as they are out for a swim. The Capybara is the largest rodent in the world and are native to South America...enjoy!!

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Picture of a Capybara and young pup swimming underwater. Message "Everyday Should Be Earth Day!!
Sunday's Peaceful Moment of Zen with this beautiful Capybara holding her adorable young pup while out for a swim. The Capybara is the worlds largest Rodent and native to South America...enjoy!!

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Johnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 1d

Tommy Orange, the Cheyenne and Arapaho author of There There and Wandering Stars, has been named a 2025 MacArthur Fellow, one of the highest honors in the arts.

redpopnews.com/wandering-st...

#macarhurfellowship #MacArthurFoundation #redpopnews #tommyorange

Wandering Stars Align: Tommy Orange Named A 2025 MacArthur Fellow

When the MacArthur Foundation announced its 2025 Fellows, one name carried through Native communities like a spark. Tommy Orange, the Cheyenne and Arapaho author from Oakland, was named one of this ye...

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Lara T is a museum nerd @museumlara1.bsky.social · 1d

#poetry #mpprompt

a swirl of pistachio cream
rough grit toasted bread
furry cloud of blanket
old lumpy couch hug
feet slowly warm
wet socks now gone
while the Book of the Dead
with gold leaf words
lapiz scarab shining
opens to cast dust
& ancient magic on the night

Malachy Moran @malformed-poetry.bsky.social · 6d

Today’s #poetry #prompt:

Write me a collage poem, piece something together out of disparate imagery.

#MPPrompt
I repost replies. Follow for daily prompts.

#poetrycommunity #writing #writercommunity

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Lara T is a museum nerd @museumlara1.bsky.social · 1d

#poetry #mpprompt

This table whispers to me
tales of growing up,
memories of family game nights,
& long homework struggles.
We ate together every day, with hopes, fears, & plans, loves & betrayals.
Now the scarred wood
reminds me,
burns, dents & stains,
are echoes of losses & laughter
shared.

Malachy Moran @malformed-poetry.bsky.social · 4d

Today's #poetry #prompt:

I read a poem today about the items in an apartment speaking to the owner. Write me a poem in conversation with an object you can see

#MPPrompt
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(#Poem is 'en mann med egen leilighet' by Nil-Øivind Haagensen. It's in Norwegian)

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Lara T is a museum nerd @museumlara1.bsky.social · 1d

#poetry #mpprompt

Never trust the sea
she is fickle
one day, green glass shimmering sun-bright
calling you to swim & glide
the next, foam-topped grey steel peaks tearing at the ship side
don't turn your back
even her playful days have rip-teeth
dragging you to deeps
turning your bones to pearl

Malachy Moran @malformed-poetry.bsky.social · 3d

Today’s #poetry #prompt:

Never trust ______

#MPPrompt
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#poetrycommunity #writing #writercommunity

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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 2d

This is real fucking talk about something horrific we all see happening everywhere

This is the energy and messaging we need rolling into 2026 and 2028, not tepid focus group tested pablum

consequences

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 2d

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 2d

“You’re so lucky! I wish I didn’t have to work!”

People act like we’re getting a permanent vacation.

The reality is we are forced to live in legislated poverty.

Barred from earning or marrying without losing our meagre benefits.

Denied autonomy.

And we’re sick & in pain.

It’s a 24/7 job.

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Eric Weinberger @ericweinberger.bsky.social · 2d

ICE sent a Massachusetts 7th grader 500 miles away without his parents or even telling them

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.

www.bostonglobe.com

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