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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 9h

A lot of comments on Mars rovers or Moon landings, but it's important to remember that the planet NASA studies most is Earth. This is less about cutting flashy things like moonwalks and more about keeping communities in the dark on climate, weather, agriculture, pollution, natural hazards, and more.

Reuters @reuters.com · 12h

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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Lisa Will @dustchick.bsky.social · 1h

I've always said this, but since last November, I've been pointing this out frequently in whatever venues to whatever audiences I can: "The planet NASA studies most is Earth."

Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 9h

A lot of comments on Mars rovers or Moon landings, but it's important to remember that the planet NASA studies most is Earth. This is less about cutting flashy things like moonwalks and more about keeping communities in the dark on climate, weather, agriculture, pollution, natural hazards, and more.

Reuters @reuters.com · 12h

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

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Return of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 1h

Don lemon once said “I know it’s ridiculous that a black hole could open up above the pacific and swallow up MH370…. But, doctor, is that ridiculous?”

He’s a deeply unserious buffoon and was fired for on camera saying Nikki Haley wasn’t hot anymore

breadedhamster.bsky.social @breadedhamster.bsky.social · 1h

Was Don Lemon always like this? Or did he just get exposed to high amounts of mercury recently?

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Return of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 1h

Don lemon once went on a tirade against Jonah hill calling him an out of touch celebrity who was very ungrateful after Jonah hill didn’t stop to have a full conversation with Don Lemon. It was incredibly pathetic and petty. It was also extremely funny

Return of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 1h

Don lemon once said “I know it’s ridiculous that a black hole could open up above the pacific and swallow up MH370…. But, doctor, is that ridiculous?”

He’s a deeply unserious buffoon and was fired for on camera saying Nikki Haley wasn’t hot anymore

breadedhamster.bsky.social @breadedhamster.bsky.social · 1h

Was Don Lemon always like this? Or did he just get exposed to high amounts of mercury recently?

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 4h

Thinking about how much of their violence has been normalized already, how scenes that caused shockwaves 6 weeks ago are now part of the rhythm of daily life. Watched a TikTok from a daughter who has to do her parents' laundry & get their groceries because they're in hiding. This is just it now

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Typewriter Skeleton @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 1h

At the American queer media store

Ask if it's insider queer or queer tourism

Cashier is confused

Pull out an illustrated diagram of what's insider and what's tourism

"It's good queer media, sir"

Look at the media

No trans women, significant drag queens

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Benjanun Sriduangkaew @benjanun.bsky.social · 1h

I guess in some kind of fantasy vacuum you could write 'a man in DRAG and HEAVY makeup wants to tear the uterus out of a lesbian and usurp her symbol of femininity and lesbianism' and have it carry no implications. I don't think any of us lives in that fantasyland though.

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 1h

As I said directly to this husbandfather, a real easy way to tell if a man is a misogynist is whether hearing about misogyny makes him angry at women or men.

Guess who this dude is telling to go to hell?

Hint: it’s not men harassing, sealioning, or condescending to women.

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Valkyrie Thunderbitch @valkyrieladyk.bsky.social · 2h

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onion person @junlper.beer · 4h

just remembered that randy fine, israels strongest soldier in congress, posted pup play he had saved to his phone and blamed the left for it last month. why did he ever do that lol

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 11h

Seems kinda important

More than half of world’s bird species in decline, as leaders meet on extinction crisis

Biodiversity losses are growing, the IUCN reports as summit opens, but green turtle’s recovery ‘reminds us conservation works’

www.theguardian.com

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 5h

Warming waters cause corals to “bleach” when these organisms expel symbiotic algae that provide nutrients, oxygen & vibrant colors.

The latest global bleaching event - researchers estimate >84% of the planet's coral ecosystems have been affected since Jan 2023 - has made it clear the crisis is now.

nature

NEWS

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Coral die-off marks Earth's first climate
'tipping point', scientists say

A surge in global temperatures has caused widespread bleaching and death of warm-water corals around the world.

By Jeff Tollefson

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 7h

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy passed away today according to the House of GG. She was a veteran of the Stonewall rebellion and a lifelong organizer for the safety and dignity of trans people, sex workers, and the incarcerated. She came from the same generation and milieu as Marsha and Sylvia. She was 78.

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Maya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social · 6h

Rest in Power, Miss Major.💔

On solidarity: “We can’t go it alone… I mean, you can try, and get knocked down and get up and try again, and get knocked down and get up and try again. But that’s how it’ll be, until somebody helps you up and says, let me stand with you.”
truthout.org/articles/a-m...

A Mother’s Day Chat With Revolutionary Trans Activist Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

Janet Mock has called Miss Major, who has nurtured generations of queer and trans youth, “the mother we all deserve.”…

truthout.org

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 5h

Shot/chaser

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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 7h

books should have an anti-acknowledgements section where the author talks shit about all the people who fucked them over while they were trying to write the thing. not bc I personally want to write one but bc I love gossip

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 19h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 4h

Have some self respect man lmao

Don Lemon @donlemonofficial.bsky.social · 2d

I'm LIVE on Twitch: twitch.tv/donlemon

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Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️‍🌈 @chimeracoder.bsky.social · 4h

oh NO

Photo of Miss Major in a colorful, geometric pattern dress, with the text below it

It is with profound sadness that House of gg announces the passing of our beloved leader and revolutionary figure in the TLGBQ liberation movement, Miss Major
Griffin-Gracy. Miss Major, 78, passed away on October 13, 2025 in the comfort of her home and surrounded by loved ones in Little Rock, Arkansas. Her enduring legacy is a testament to her resilience, activism, and dedication to creating safe spaces for Black trans communities and all trans people-we are eternally r Miss Major's grateful folife, her contributions and how deeply she poured into those she loved.
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Andie @manicpixiehobbit.bsky.social · 4h

Hold on….I thought the “with autism” was why I was allowed to keep mine in my purse, and feed it jellybeans. Is that incorrect? Am I doing it wrong? /s

As someone who had to learn “person first language” in ed school before I dx’ed, it is wild to realize most advocacy is just ableism in a bad hat.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 4h

Release the Epstein files and then find some files that Biden is in and release those too

Ash heap of history for all these dudes

Axios @axios.com · 5h

Former Presidents Biden and Clinton praised President Trump today for the Gaza peace deal.

Biden, Clinton praise Trump for Gaza peace deal

Biden said he commends Trump and his team, and Clinton said they "deserve great credit."

www.axios.com

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 5h

Precisely the person Justice Kavanaugh said would not be inconvenienced.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 5h

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

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s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 11h

As we all know I'm a fan of rural placemaking but I sure am tired of books romanticizing the rural existence and suggesting all we need to fix the planet is to just go back to small communities where we grow our own food like my dudes, this is not achievable at scale.

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s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 3h

There’s a factory somewhere in the Cotswolds that pumps these guys out: Let me, a middle-aged white British man with a hobby farm, tell you that the solution to our global ecological crisis is returning to subsistence farming for everyone!!

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onion person @junlper.beer · 3h

if you already didn’t have enough reasons to cancel spotify:

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 11h

Spotify is now running recruitment ads for ICE.

It’s time to cancel your account.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 5h

I’ve given up on existential hope so my main worry lately is I’m super concerned that our post-apocalypse isn’t even going to have an aesthetic. As it is we are already firmly in our cyberpunk era & look how shitty it all looks because nobody anticipated how boring our capitalist overlords would be.

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