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Judy Stone @drjudystone.bsky.social · 23h

Lost Science. Carl Zimmer "interviews US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to the Trump administration's cuts this year. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied the life bees bring to forests." Gift link from him: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

She Studied How Logging Affects Pollinators

Kim Ballare was a research ecologist with the U.S. Forest Service until her federal grant “got snatched away.”

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

when someone claims they’re making a joke but no one can tell they’re making a joke than that’s sumerposting

One of the earliest examples of bar jokes is
Sumerian (c. 4500-1900 BC), and it features a dog: "A dog walked into a tavern and said, 'I can't see a thing. I'll open this one'." The humor of it is probably related to the Sumer way of life and has been lost, but the words remain. (1]

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

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. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 1d

Shout Factory just uploaded this wonderful 1983 PBS documentary about the making of The Dark Crystal. 58 minutes of practical puppetry bliss.

The World Of 'The Dark Crystal' | FULL MOVIE | Jim Henson, Frank Oz | Cult Documentary Fantasy

YouTube video by Shout! Studios

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James-Finn @james-finn.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, #gay men, think throwing #trangender people under the bus will save you? Here's a gay psychotherapist who'd like to have a word. And dive deep with a gay trans man into Ezra Klein's support for #CharlieKirk. Also, share some #LGBTQ, #Queer family love with us!

medium.com/prismnpen/dr...

Drawing Trans Lines, Celebrating Queer Family, Sharing Love

Prism & Pen Weekly Digest, 12 October 2025

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 2d

the wyld weed edible company really works on me because i was primed by the namco tales of series of video games to believe fruit gummies are healing items

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Tucker Lieberman @tuckerlieberman.com · 1d

"I've listened past the sanitized language.

'Protecting children.' 'Biological reality.' 'Against nature.'

These are the exact arguments that kept us closeted. Got us fired, disowned...now some of us act like we graduated into permanent safety.

We didn't..."

— Gino Cosme @ginocosme.bsky.social

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Tucker Lieberman @tuckerlieberman.com · 3d

Ami, you are too funny! If you do, I'll cook something from it and send you those snacks, but they will be snacks from hell because the mail from South America to North America is really slow ::melting pumpkin face:: 🫠🎃

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Die Laughing Magazine @dielaughingmag.bsky.social · 3d

All settled in for day 1 tabling at @voidcon.bsky.social ! Stop by for a special limited edition zine (story by horrorsong.blog), a sticker, and vote in the Nosferatus Fuck/Marry/Kill poll. You can also buy some books by us (@probablyharmless.bsky.social and @residualdreaming.bsky.social)

A photo of Cassandra and Theo. Theo is standing behind Cassandra, and giving her bunny ears. They are both behind a table, which is covered with a variety of books and other swag.

A close-up of the table showing three plastic kettles, one for each Nosferatu, and the Die Laughing limited edition zine.

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 4d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 5d

"The UK has gone from a bathroom ban being unthinkable to a Labour government implementing an extraordinarily authoritarian one—without a vote." www.liberalcurrents.com/britains-bat...

Britain’s Bathroom Ban

The UK has gone from a bathroom ban being unthinkable to a Labour government implementing an extraordinarily authoritarian one—without a vote.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Chaotic Brain Person @chaoticbrainperson.bsky.social · Dec 2

Welcome. To #ClimateAdvent.
Let's go on a journey through all of #climateScience.
We'll cover natural variability/why we know it's not that, but us/inequalities surrounding #climateChange /what to do about all of it.

You'll find all days below.

If you have any questions, ask.

#ClimateSky

Climate Advent is written in white across the global warming stripes in the back, roughly going from blue on the left to red on the right

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Late Night Anti-Fascists @latenightafa.bsky.social · 17d

We've put together an abridged version of @crimethinc.com's Make Ready: Safeguarding Our Movements guide for those who need a quick rundown.

latenightafa.noblogs.org/make-ready-s...

The podcast version by @margaret.bsky.social with @coolzonemedia.bsky.social is also fantastic, linked below.

Make Ready (Short Guide): Safeguarding our movements against repression

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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 13d

Fundraising is very challenging, especially these days. Our co-founder @prisonculture.bsky.social will be offering a workshop on grassroots fundraising for organizers next Saturday, October 11th.

This is 1 of 3 Communiversity courses ⬇️ we're offering that day, all in-person in NYC, sliding scale:

Communiversity Catalog: Grassroots Fundraising for Organizers — Interrupting Criminalization

www.interruptingcriminalization.com

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Tucker Lieberman @tuckerlieberman.com · 4d

OK, here's my info. I used a photo of "pies" I guess because I was snackish and low on visual ideas. Portraits of George Folger Canfield do exist but I'd have to request permission & am not presently in the mood to talk to a university. If you have any information (Robert Stack voice), let me know.

A Mentor to a U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice

George Folger Canfield (1854–1933) was influential at Columbia Law School

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Tucker Lieberman @tuckerlieberman.com · 4d

OK, here's my info. I used a photo of "pies" I guess because I was snackish and low on visual ideas. Portraits of George Folger Canfield do exist but I'd have to request permission & am not presently in the mood to talk to a university. If you have any information (Robert Stack voice), let me know.

A Mentor to a U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice

George Folger Canfield (1854–1933) was influential at Columbia Law School

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Coffee and Fingernails @coffeenfingernails.bsky.social · Oct 9

You have to love people in need more than you hate the other side, even when the other side is full of malice. You have to want progress more than you want vindication of a world view or the intoxication of self-righteousness. Otherwise, it's not activism--just ego.

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Tucker Lieberman @tuckerlieberman.com · 4d

If anyone doesn't know what to buy me for Halloween ⬇️

Elvira's Cookbook from Hell: Sexy, Spooky Soirées and Celebrations for Every Occasion

Sexy, Spooky Soirées and Celebrations for Every Occasion

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Tucker Lieberman @tuckerlieberman.com · 4d

Yesterday I found a red and yellow leaf. Its colors make me smile.

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Lavie Tidhar @lavietidhar.bsky.social · 4d

Got reviewed in the FT and the Times, otherwise the silence has been deafening, as they say. Which is peculiar, for the most important sequence of books of the 21st century so far. Ours is not to reason why, boats against the current, the horror, the horror, etc.

white cover on a red background, golgotha by lavie tidhar, a timeless masterpiece, says the author

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Rachel Frazin @rachelfrazin.bsky.social · 4d

Today marks six months since my book, Poisoning the Well, was published.

ICYMI: @sharonudasin.bsky.social and I took a deep dive into a family of toxic ‘forever chemicals’ that have become a pervasive environmental crisis

#PFAS #GreenSky #BookSky

A cover of the book "Poisoning the Well" by Rachel Frazin and Sharon Udasin. It's a yellow cover with a barrel of chemicals in the middle with an american flag on it

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 4d

If you don’t shine you are darkness.

Charles Wright, from Sestets

Tomorrow

The metaphysics of the quotidian was what he was after:
A little dew on the sunrise grass,
A drop of blood in the evening trees,
a drop of fire.

If you don't shine you are darkness.
The future is merciless,
everyone's name inscribed
On the flyleaf of the Book of Snow.

// poem on the page from Charles Wright’s book Sestets, stack of books above (LeVine’s FORMS Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network
CECELIA WATSON’s SEMICOLON
CHELSEA GIRLS by EILEEN MYLES
Keats Selected Letters)

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Alex A. Pagliuca @alexpagliuca.bsky.social · 4d

She also said solar energy is bad because sometimes, we have night, and wind is bad because sometimes there isn’t a breeze.

That a single person might vote for her is an indictment of our educational systems.

American Bridge 21st Century @ab21.bsky.social · 4d

WATCH: Winsome Earle-Sears says her opposition to marriage equality or her support for LGTBQ+ Americans being fired for being gay is "not discrimination." #VAGov

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Tucker Lieberman @tuckerlieberman.com · 4d

This is my dance about how much transphobes suck.

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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 4d

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

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