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Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social · 1d

yeah, once more with a cover photo - I really, really encourage all tech folks to read this

cover of the report linked: a light green-grey eagle silhouette on a darker background with 5 yellow stars and the text:

United States Senate Committee On
Homeland Security
& Governmental Affairs
Ranking Member Gary Peters

Unchecked and Unaccountable
How DOGE Jeopardizes Americans' Data Without Regard for Law and Congress

HSGAC Minority Staff Report
September 2025

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Autistic Science Person @autsciperson.bsky.social · 1d

Companies have decided to pay people less who work remotely, even if they have more expertise and/or provide more value to a company than certain people who go into the office.

Guess who needs remote jobs more? Marginalized groups! especially disabled people! What a coincidence! 🫠

Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 1d

"For the first time since the 1960s, the earnings gap between men and women has widened two years in a row...with women earning 80.9 cents for every dollar a man earned in 2024. That compares to women earning 84 cents for every dollar a man earned in 2022."

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Women are taking pay cuts as companies mandate return to office

Researchers are identifying several key factors behind why gender pay gap – which had narrowed steadily over the years – has suddenly widened.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Ripley 👽💖 @skullingway.bsky.social · 2d

#portfolioday and the public release date of The Time We Have on the same day is wild (/positive)

I’m Ripley, an illustrator in NYC who loves horror movies, dark themes & colors + contrast. TTWH was one of my favorite all time projects to work on, & I’m so happy it’s out now 💕

www.skullingway.com

Ttwh box covers (standard and special edition) in print

Tragic Zombie Storytelling for Any Apocalypse

Illustrated by Ripley Ash

Extra door card, a ship sunk in the arctic. Dark ice is overtaking the environment

Ttwh promo of of the box with cards flying everywhere. 2 players, 1-2 hours

Illustration is the cover for the game ‘the time we have’. The top is a strange cluster of flower growths that also look like fungi. There’s a for separating down the middle with two boys sitting on either side. The one on the left is glowing and has similar growths on him. The one on the right is holding a flashlight

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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.bsky.social · 2d

aaaa this came out so well!! v happy for you

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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.bsky.social · 2d

yeah i am not mad at my decision to subscribe to them

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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.bsky.social · 2d

this is what we commemorate and honor on this day, october 14

i just can’t think of anything else we should be commemorating today!

Queerazon.com @queerazon.bsky.social · 2d

On this day in queer history: Oct 14, 1977

During a live TV appearance in Iowa, anti-gay activist Anita Bryant was hit with a pie in protest of her “Save Our Children” campaign. A sweet moment of queer resistance.

#QueerHistory #LGBTQHistory #QueerResistance #AnitaBryant

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The Up Front @theupfront.media · 2d

We talk about CMF — colour, materials, and finish — of airline cabins a lot, and folks are often surprised at how high-tech something like a seat cover can be in order to meet requirements like flammability, smoke toxicity and heat release.

Flightradar24 @flightradar24.com · 2d

Finnair is canceling some flights and performing inspections on 8 of its A321s because the seat covers on those aircraft were cleaned using water. www.flightradar24.com/blog/aviatio...

The cabin of a Finnair A321 looking aft.

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The Verge @theverge.com · 2d

"Every essay, every tweet, every moment of vulnerability I shared in the name of progress. Did I paint a target on my own back?"

Read more from @parkermolloy.com in the first of our special series, The Future of Being Trans on the Internet: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.bsky.social · 2d

i read both this one and the previous one about killing the metrics and i enjoyed listening to you 💖

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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.bsky.social · 2d

saaaame. i don’t miss the hot humid days but i miss the sense of relief that came with those storms dropping half of the water content out of the air and the way you could set your damn watch by them

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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.bsky.social · 2d

be safe!

🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.bsky.social · 2d

i didn’t *intentionally* stay up late to wait for the storm to start here in LA but here i am now lying in bed with soft soft music on listening to the rain beat against my windows and it is Quite Pleasant

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 3d

These are mostly indigenous communities in Alaska that have been slammed by the storm.

The local manager of a small airline fleet says he is the only one doing evacuations right now!

Defund FEMA and people are abandoned. Defund public media and no-one knows.

FYI, today is Indigenous Peoples Day.

Flooding seen with water up to the crash barriers of local roads

Sheds and debris lie scattered in the storm

A small blue house has been blown onto its roof

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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.bsky.social · 2d

this is delightful and i feel you might also enjoy youtu.be/ZPjSV-lnqvg?...

Roxanne but its just Rocks

YouTube video by ironicallyscreaming

youtu.be

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 2d

An unusually cold and strong early season storm will affect most of California over next 2 days. As rain sweeps southward, expect mountain snow, locally gusty winds, and a progressively higher chance of thunderstorms from north to south from SF Bay Area to LA region. #CAwx

Widespread rain (and mountain snow) will fall with this early-season storm in California, as depicted in this precipitation accumulation map from the ECMWF model. Widespread totals of one half to an inch are likely, with some local spots seeing double or more that amount where heavy downpours align.

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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.bsky.social · 2d

socal folks take note: you have < 24 hours until this makes its way down here!

Anthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · 2d

1-in-100 year rainfall rate in Oakland this afternoon as 0.53 inches fell between 4:25 and 4:35 p.m. at San Leandro Creek near the airport. NOAA estimates 10-minute precipitation rate of 0.52” to be a 1-in-100 year event.

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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 2d

Breaking: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, the legendary transgender activist and veteran of the Stonewall uprising who dedicated her life to the liberation of trans people, especially Black trans women, has died at 78.

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 2d

It really sucks Newsom vetoed the HRT and PreP access bills. The stockpile veto is going to hurt.

That said, given everything he has been saying this year, signing 8 out of 10 bills is a win for grassroots activists and the legislators filing the bills.

It shows your pressure has worked!

Trans News Network @transnews.network · 2d

CA UPDATE:

Newsom has signed these queer rights bills:
- AB 82 / SB 497 (Medical privacy)
- AB 1084 / SB 59 (Name/Gender changes)
- SB 450 (Adoption access)

And vetoed these bills:
- SB 418 (HRT stockpile)
- AB 554 (PreP)

Final total: 8 bills signed, 2 vetoed.

transnews.network/p/california...

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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.bsky.social · 2d

virtual reality becoming the default mode of net access was such a colossal failed prediction it makes all 1990s cyberpunk painful to read.

Wallace doing a spot-on prediction of the excruciating nature of video calls as a *throwaway joke/interlude* is all the more hilarious for this.

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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 2d

this is ESPECIALLY awful because quite a number of JPL employees were affected by the Eaton fire. Lose your house, lose your community, 10 months later, lose your job.

Reuters @reuters.com · 2d

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

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wendy copium @alicebennett.bsky.social · 2d

one thing LLMs have revealed is that the belief that there is a magical incantation that will give you what you want is not just confined to pick-up artists and freemen on the land

Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 2d

Seeing people nonchalantly post stuff like makes me feel like I'm going crazy honestly.

A post from an academic on blue sky that says: "I'm learning about "prompt engineering" when asking LLMs to extract data. I now add this to all instructions:

Style
Be concise, analytic, and specific (cite page/figure if provided). If essential info is missing, keep going but flag Unclear and exact data needed. Never invent data.

#academicsky"

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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.bsky.social · 2d

that is indeed the only track on that album i would describe as “relaxing”

i put it on the other day and was amused to see apple music’s description of it: “Days of Future Passed is a very 1967 affair.” yeah, they got that one right 😆

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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.bsky.social · 2d

also some raptors! i love the crow on the other side of the tree in the first shot — it was extremely, vocally displeased about the neighbors showing up

A peregrine falcon perches on a high branch of a dead tree. At the other side of the frame and out of focus is a crow.

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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.bsky.social · 2d

but the real show was the pelican feeding frenzy happening as the tide shifted and a whole school of hapless fish got pushed up to the surface by currents. nom nom nom

A brown pelican diving into water to grab fish. Its head and neck are submerged, but its wings are still spread wide, and a large splash of water sprays up behind it.

A brown pelican taking off with its wings fully spread and feet just barely trailing in the water. Two other pelicans are floating next to it.

A brown pelican diving into water to feed while another one floats nearby.

A brown pelican flying above water. Its wings are stretched out, showing its mottled brown and white plumage.

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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.bsky.social · 2d

more birb content: went for a stroll at bolsa chica conservancy in orange county. herons and cormorants everywhere!

A great egret spreading its wings to take flight.

A snowy egret just landing on a rock. Its wings are spread wide and its feet are just barely touching down.

A great egret standing in marsh grass. Its head and neck are extended toward the camera and angled a bit to the side, as if it is giving an inquisitive look to the photographer.

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