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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 11h

This Blue Tit would like your attention, briefly.

📷 @aintright.bsky.social

A plump Blue Tit perched on a rough tree trunk, its feathers puffed up against the cold. The bird’s yellow chest looks bright and round, with a deep blue cap and white face framed by a bold black eye stripe. Its small, serious expression gives it the air of a tiny guardian of the woods. It looks as though it’s just confidently appeared in your feed.

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 1d

Ask the news media: "Why are you covering what that irrelevant, uneducated, uninformed, and self-interested person is saying? I don't care what he thinks. None of us care."

John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 2d

“No Kings” is great , but we really don't get a functioning democracy back until we internalize, bone deep, the instinctive response to this and every other statement like it: “I don’t care what that rich guy thinks.”

Make it your morning affirmation. Say it ten times at the top of every hour.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 2d

Elon Musk calls for US troops to be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs: ‘It’s the only solution’

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 2d

“No Kings” is great , but we really don't get a functioning democracy back until we internalize, bone deep, the instinctive response to this and every other statement like it: “I don’t care what that rich guy thinks.”

Make it your morning affirmation. Say it ten times at the top of every hour.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 2d

Elon Musk calls for US troops to be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs: ‘It’s the only solution’

Musk demands US troops be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs

www.independent.co.uk

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 1d

Reminder that you can donate here: bsky.app/profile/napa...

Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 2d

Western Alaska was hit hard by the recent storms. Houses floated away in Kipnuk, houses flipped over, people lost everything from the flooding that came with the storms. Please donate if you can. This group has a long history of supporting AK communities.

alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...

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Sam @therewithal.bsky.social · 1d

The heating has started to come on this weekend and every year I'm once again outraged by being a little sniffly most of the time from dust and dryness.

Sam @therewithal.bsky.social · 2d

Indigenous horror is the best horror.

Sadie Hartmann (Mother Horror) @sadiehartmann.bsky.social · 2d

Book recommendations for Indigenous Peoples’ Day! Read today & all year! Alt text for text

Blood Sisters
• A Council of Dolls
• Never Whistle at Night
• Winter Counts (TBR)
• There, There
• Night of the Living Rez
Bad Cree
• The Bone Picker (tbr)
• Ghost Girls and Rabbits
• White Horse
• Buffalo Hunter Hunter
• Mask of the Deer Woman
• India Burial Ground
• Shutter
• Man Made Monsters (I need to finish!)
• On the Savage Side

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 4d

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · Jun 18

"one two three I'm mr mcgee three four I'm knocking on your door five six you won't believe the deals happening now only at wild hank's lot of affordable pre-owned hondas"

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · Jun 17

It's funny how many creepypasta protagonists' first reaction is to call the cops on the spooky thing happening. Their gut instinct to seeing something spooky is to get the cops involved.

"Hello, 911? Some kind of owl-man is harassing me. Yes, owl-man. Send your burliest domestic abuser."

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 3d

In all the horrible news Israel & the US generate when they work together, it is instructive that I learn that Israel’s strike on Qatar didn’t even kill the Hamas officials it was allegedly targeting *from an article about how Trump will personally profit from the ceasefire.*

Mohamad Bazzi @mbazzi.bsky.social · 4d

An underreported aspect of the Gaza ceasefire: The business deals that Trump's family made with Gulf Arab states gave Trump a personal stake in restraining Netanyahu — my piece @theguardian.com | www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Sam @therewithal.bsky.social · 4d

Woke up at 4am again. Cut my hair, cleaned the bathroom, and procured pumpkin pie, so I'm going to call it a win.

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Surly Amy @surlyamy.bsky.social · 4d

Hey all, I just put my shop on sale. Everything is 15% off and most stuff is free shipping. Now till Tuesday. Please share with your friends. It ain’t easy being an artist these days. Happy Fall y’all!
Surly.etsy.com

A crystal necklace with three crystals and a silver chain.

A ceramic incense burner in the shape of a heart with birds and the phases of the moon.

A necklace with a hemp cord and a ceramic pendant with a tree.

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Luna 🌙 @headingwest.ca · 4d

Some company in China rn: What. The. Hell.

Liv “Leev” Rainey-Smith @livraineysmith.bsky.social · 4d

Last night when I looked at this listing it said "200+ sold in last month". This morning it said "300+ sold in last month." Now...

Screenshot of amazon dot com listing for the inflatable frog costume currently known as the Portland Frog. It says "Currently unavailable. We don't know when or if this item will be back in stock." Then suggests that you might like other items and shows partial images of axolotl and gnome inflatable costumes

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Sam @therewithal.bsky.social · 4d

Seems like a self-own to me. Is this person a teenager?

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 5d

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, country-music legend Johnny Cash can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength, writes Jon Fasman.

Essay | Can We Finally Give Johnny Cash His Due?

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, the country-music legend can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength.

on.wsj.com

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Anthony Morgan @admorgan.bsky.social · 4d

Then get it to pick you out some glasses that don’t make you look like an insufferable cunt.

Film Stories @filmstories.bsky.social · 4d

Mad Max and Happy Feet filmmaker George Miller has spoken enthusiastically about generative #AI. It's a "dynamically evolving tool", he says.
filmstories.co.uk/news/george-...

George Miller: "AI is here to stay and change things"

Mad Max and Happy Feet filmmaker George Miller has spoken enthusiastically about generative AI. It's a "dynamically evolving tool", he says.

filmstories.co.uk

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · Aug 2

Yeah fucking hell, all I knew was unrequited love for years and years and it never turned me in to a mad frothing incel.

Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · Aug 2

Narratives about how hard it is for teenage boys, and subsequently men, to deal with romantic rejection are so weird to read, as a woman who was also once a teenager. Until you realise that they’re entirely built on the premise that girls and women are the gatekeepers to sex and relationships.

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 4d

Posting this for @darthbluesky.bsky.social to see when he comes back from his weekend off

A ghost holding a red and blue striped box filled with French fries.

“NO MATTER WHAT'S GOING ON IN YOUR LIFE, THERE'S SOME FORM OF POTATO THAT CAN MAKE IT BETTER.”
@jess.a.creates

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 4d

Pepe is Portland Frog’s Wario

Spooky Witch Kat (hag/witch/banshee) 🖤💜👻🎃💀🐈‍⬛💜🖤 @switchkat13.bsky.social · 4d

Pepe walked on the wrong side of history, so his fellow frog persons are making up for that in spades.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 5d

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

SHOCK POLL:
NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW
IN an amazing poll conducted
by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions
may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like.
However, 99 percent of journalists
agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when
Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

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Lanrick Bennett @lanrickbennett.bsky.social · 5d

#IdeasAtWork

What would happen if Toronto prioritized reducing car trips?
To strengthen #TransformTO To bolster #VisionZero To ease the financial burden on #TOpoli’s maintenance budget to repair our streets.
What might that look like? Do we have politicians & the #PoliticalWill to make it happen?

Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 5d

since denver launched its e-bike rebate program - the have sold 10,000 e-bikes and reduced an estimated 1,000,000 car trips - replacing millions of VMTs and reducing air pollution

there are no climate silver bullets... but damn - e-bikes and e-cargo bikes are close

denvergov.org/Government/A...

Denver Celebrates 10,000 E-Bike Rebates

Since its inception in April 2022, Denver has distributed over 10,000 electric bikes (e-bikes) to community members through its pioneering e-bike rebate program. As the first U.S. city to implement su...

denvergov.org

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 5d

The moral of this story is that WORD OF MOUTH is precious. Talk to people if there is any kind of opening about the books you love that they might also like, the tv shows & films you think are worth watching, the concerns of the day, even slide into a bit of soft political commentary. Open the door.

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Sam @therewithal.bsky.social · 5d

Ghouls, all of them.

Aura Bogado @aurabogado.bsky.social · 12d

Shelters that house unaccompanied minors are bracing for "Freaky Friday," the start of an ICE operation that will first issue letters to children, seeking to pressure them to return to the countries they've fled in exchange for a cash payment. If they decline, their parents will be targeted by ICE.