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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 12h

What are these wacky hourly posts??

- Link was our daily sharer yall - join in!

- Six families & a camp are still starving in thin tents in the cold, their homes destroyed

- Each day we have a big goal because we’re sending rapidly for food & shelter

- We’ll match £250

19 hours left 🚨 61/1000

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 16h

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 22h

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

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Fat Al NYC @fatalnyc.bsky.social · 12h

I was mugged in the vestibule of my building in Brooklyn in the early 90s. The guys had a gun. Not mad about that. They took my 60 bucks but let me keep my wallet with ID. Not mad about that. They took my Walkman. So be it. BUT THE FUCKING TAPE IN THE WALKMAN WAS OF A RADIO SHOW AND I WANTED IT.

John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 13h

What meaningless thing/experience are you still mad about? Like it should not matter at all, DOES not matter at all. But you’re still MAD.

And how long has it been?

I bought some bagels at Hy-Vee four years ago. So bad. Too big. Hard. Bland. WORTHLESS.

I’m still FURIOUS.

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Glen 🇨🇦 part owner of Canada* @honestcanadian.bsky.social · 1d

This is huge news!
UBC has developed an enzyme that can convert donor organs to type O, making them universal.
Normally a using organs of the wrong blood type causes the recipient's immune system to attack the organ, leading to failure.
❤️🇨🇦⚕️
news.ubc.ca/2025/10/univ...

UBC enzyme technology clears first human test toward universal donor organs for transplantation - UBC News

UBC-developed enzymes successfully converted a kidney to universal type O for transplant, marking a major step toward faster, more compatible organ donations.

news.ubc.ca

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 17h

"unprecedented restructuring", wake up, guys, a new newspeak euphemism for the liquidation of article I powers just dropped

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 18h

President Trump is making this government shutdown unlike any the nation has ever seen, giving his budget office rare authority to pick who gets paid or fired, which programs are cut or survive — in an unprecedented restructuring across the federal workforce.

Trump and budget chief Vought are making this a government shutdown unlike any other

President Donald Trump is making this government shutdown unlike any the nation has ever seen. The White House's budget office headed by Russ Vought is deciding who gets paid or fired in an unprecedented restructuring across the federal workforce.

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Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 12h

Welp—CDC’s entire data team for its legendary national health and nutrition survey (NHANES)—our health census—has been laid off. Now we are flying blind to nutrition and chronic disease status in the U.S.—is this supposed to help us be MAHA? www.statnews.com/2025/10/14/c...

CDC team running top survey on health and nutrition is laid off

NHANES has collected data on eating patterns, diabetes, and other common diseases for decades. The CDC team that runs it has been fired.

www.statnews.com

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Project Gutenberg @gutenberg.org · 1d

TAROCH Coalition, led by Creative Commons, promotes equitable access to public domain heritage. Its Open Heritage Statement affirms shared values, removes barriers & urges a UNESCO framework to secure global cultural access & participation for a sustainable creative future

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Open Heritage Statement

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 1d

“ALL of Florida lost its [interlibrary loan] services as of October 1. This, of course, most harms those in rural communities. That means those with the most to lose and with the weakest access to education and entertainment materials are now wholly dependent on what their own library owns…”

The Current State of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (October 2025 Edition)

Grant money that should be going to library projects is going to state-sponsored propaganda, among other IMLS updates.

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Dee Phunk @deephunk.bsky.social · 1d

He deserved to grow old. He deserved the space to be more creative and share more art w/ the world. He deserved to be adorned in praise while he was still able to receive it in the physical. Luckily, music and spirit is eternal.

RIP Michael Eugene Archer aka D'ANGELO. 🕊️

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Ace Pedr-AHHH!!-za 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇷 @candacepedraza.bsky.social · 23h

i remember reading this piece for a class in college, the exact reason why we read this escapes me right now (i believe it was a sociology course) and this hit me so hard.

Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 23h

D'Angelo speaking out about the physical and emotional burden of maintaining a nearly unobtainable physique and sexy image as a Black male artist should be taught in labor studies. It absolutely impacted how I analyze pop culture.

GQ Profile Of D'Angelo Explores The Perils Of Being Sexy

Visit the post for more.

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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 20h

If I were a journalist, I would be trying to find the names of people in the chain of command.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 21h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Self Guided Adversarial Imagery Meditations @bankuei.bsky.social · 19h

Moved from Devil's Advocate to trying to take his job! 😩

Disrupting the Eschatology Industry!

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Dr. Emily Friedman @friede.bsky.social · 19h

5 blocks away most days a gaggle of little old Catholic ladies pray for me & y’all before opening their resale shop in the heart of H-town’s gayborhood, raising millions for women & children’s charities serving folks regardless of immigration status, as they have for half a century.

That’s my home.

Chron.com @chron.com · 20h

"This is the heartbeat of our LGBTQIA+ community in Houston."

‘Overreach at its worst’: Houston leaders rally for rainbow crosswalks

"This is the heartbeat of our LGBTQIA+ community in Houston."

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Evan Narcisse @evnarc.bsky.social · 20h

This is the D'Angelo performance that I've never forgotten. This song was already a huge hit but the way he took it from contemporary R&B to church revival illustrated how connected those idioms are. A revelation for those who didn't know, and an affirmation for those who did.

D'Angelo - Lady ft. Spanky, Saadiq, Ali Shaheed & ?uestlove

YouTube video by twinbreed

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[LVL 35]Alsvid Wotansdottir🔵 @alsvid.bsky.social · 19h

You can use this guide for donating to the people of Myanmar.

Xun-ling Au 歐迅灵 🏴 @xunlingau.bsky.social · Mar 28

Two fundraisers for the Earthquake emergency in Myanmar that I am certain won't funnel aid through the Junta are:

This one by Advance Myanmar:
www.advancemyanmar.org/myanmar-eart...
&
This one by @betterburma.bsky.social & @insightmyanmar.bsky.social

#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

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Winnie Madikizela’s boo @dre-withwithout.blacksky.app · 19h

This is something that a lot of us racialized as black knew already

You got shit like Race Norming in the nfl that didn’t stop till a few years ago

You got machines like that 1 joint used for lung capacity some of us had at home as kids which was made to show how weak our lungs were in comparison

Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 20h

Is the Patient Black? Check this Box for Yes | Anissa Durham | @wordinblacknews.bsky.social

For years doctors relied on a race-based medical calculation that kept Black patients from accessing life-saving kidney transplants.
wordinblack.com/2025/10/is-t...

Is the Patient Black? Check this Box for Yes

A race-based calculation kept Black patients from kidney transplants.

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Robyn Swirling @rswirling.bsky.social · 1d

Once again: this is also happening in DC. Still.

It feels like we’ve been forgotten, maybe because there aren’t huge confrontations to run photos of. But our neighbors are still being taken every day. Routine traffic stops are now done by 12+ feds alongside local police.

Please talk about us too.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

"Residents in Chicago and Portland are living in a police state where masked armed forces kidnap who they want to kidnap, where they have to listen to public officials routinely lie about what is happening in their neighborhoods." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 1d

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 1d

Remember: Link wants you to share this 🫶🏾

Link was one of our dedicated sharers on here, so between his banning and people thinking the ceasefire has ended the genocide, support has slowed a ton—for these six families’ SURVIVAL.

Food, shelter, winter clothes, baby needs. 7 hours left 🚨 755/1000

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

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Lock Down Your Life @lockdownyourlife.com · 28d

Nothing you say on Discord is private. Not your messages, not your servers. They are scraped regularly for specific types of content.🙃It's in their TOS.

Please use disappearing messages and keep sensitive conversations to those. If it's extremely sensitive, do it in person, without your phones.

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HERbron James 🐐 @meekayelah.bsky.social · 20h

My maternal gma literally just died from pancreatic cancer just like D’Angelo and I am a caretaker for multiple relatives so I’m not letting ignorance slide man, gwan.

Black men and women, REGULARLY go get checked and argue doctors DOWN. Get second, third and fourth opinions. You know your body.

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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 20h

LMAO - so this "amazing new technology: is gonna be used for ads, porn, surveillance, and giving the illusion of efficiency (so greedy bosses fire half of their employees), while burning the planet? It definitely makes sense that universities are pushing it into every ffing task 🫠 #ResistAI

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 23h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 19h

It’s not irrational to look at the scientific evidence on Long Covid and say “fuck no“ - especially if you’re already chronically ill, disabled

* eg pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36639608/

Long COVID: major findings, mechanisms and recommendations - PubMed

Long COVID is an often debilitating illness that occurs in at least 10% of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections. More than 200 symptoms have been identified with imp...

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 21h

We don't even naturally fluoresce under ultraviolet light! What are we even doing here?

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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 22h

1. I hate this
2. Oh wow this really really really explains some stuff going on in our culture.
2. Fuck I really hate this

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 23h

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.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21h

A press conference with the Mayor Everett, Mass. about the ICE abduction of a 13-year-old boy is about to begin. You can watch here: www.facebook.com/cityofeveret...

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

This is the response I received from ICE when I inquired about the 13-year-old they abducted from Everett, Mass. on Friday:

Good afternoon, Marisa.
Please see the below from DHS on the 13-year-old alien.
Please feel free to direct any questions to them.
Respectfully,
James

Tricia McLaughlin
@TriciaOhio • 6h
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Here are the facts: he posed a public safety threat with an extensive rap sheet including violent assault with a dangerous weapon, battery, breaking and entering, destruction of property.
He was in possession of a firearm and 5-7 inch knife when arrested.

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