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meoww
December 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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NEW: The overwhelming majority of workers at The Columbus Dispatch and Newark Advocate have announced the formation of the Dispatch News Guild - @dispatchnewsguild.bsky.social

It’s the first time in the histories of both newspapers that journalists have unionized.

🖋️Sign their petition below!
December 10, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded:
December 5, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Went to the library like "hi i need to renew my card :]" and the librarian said "Indeed, and you shall..." like some kind of wizard
December 9, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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it is possible, I promise you, to hold the truth that systemic problems require systemic solutions, AND to believe and tell people that change is possible and it starts in our homes, relationships, and communities
December 9, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.
The relative contribution of close-proximity contacts, shared classroom exposure and indoor air quality to respiratory virus transmission in schools - Nature Communications
The relative importance of close-proximity interactions, shared space and air quality to the transmission of respiratory viruses is not well understood. Here, the authors investigate this question by ...
www.nature.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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🏷 crop

Rye ears. Inspiration Vincent van Gogh: almond blossom.
December 8, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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December 8, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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“it’s nature or nurture and you, loving parent, are on the hook for both” is a hard pill to swallow for a number of reasons
December 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
Oh, here's a big surprise. The transphobes don't believe in ADHD either.
then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM
December 8, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Quoting so I remember to do this in the morning (and you could too perhaps?)
Canadian citizens and residents, there's a new official parliamentary petition raising the issue of electoral reform and proportional representation. Signing is a direct means of meaningful action toward improving our democracy, and it just takes a moment to do. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
Petition e-6993 - Petitions
www.ourcommons.ca
December 8, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene.

A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
December 7, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Hello! I'm a small #handmade #jewellery designer in France.

I make nature-themed jewelry from copper, beads and Swarovski crystals.

US: Really sorry but *still* can't ship there courtesy of my hopeless postal service 😩

www.etsy.com/shop/Herisso...

#bsnm #shopsmall #giftideas #artadventcalendar
December 7, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Conflict is inevitable. If you do any sort of organizing, you’re going to work with people you don’t like.

Learn to manage conflict. Both between you and someone else, and between other people.

The beautiful part is that working through conflict together can actually build stronger bonds.
December 6, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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first dawn
[ #aymeric | #ffxiv ]
December 4, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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HOUSING EXPECTATIONS
These were the first homes owned by many Canadians:
no grand foyer, no sweeping staircase (often no second floor), small rooms, one bathroom, no garage… 🔚 #Build🇨🇦Homes #Canada #Canadian #canPoli #cdnPoli #Housing
December 6, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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🚨 EVERYONE PLEASE RESKEET THIS FOR VISIBILITY!!! 🚨

A big coalition of LGBTQ+, abortion access, and human rights groups led by @fightforthefuture.org are organizing a WEEK OF ACTION this week against online ID checks, aka "age verification" laws.

Join us: www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/stop...
December 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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1. Historically, eugenics was not a pseudoscience. It was *science* Almost every scientist, social scientist, academic, etc. believed in the validity of eugenics. You would have to search far & wide to find a scientist that didn't believe in some form of it. They taught it in college!
December 4, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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in order: purchasing on bandcamp, streaming or purchasing from qobuz, streaming from most other platforms (apple music, tidal, deezer, etc.), or pirating (if financially unable to afford other options) are all valid alternatives to supporting the spotify corporation.
December 3, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Cool and awesome person check! *looks around* Oh yeah, all of you for sure. Yup, definitely. And never let anyone make you believe otherwise 💕

Nighty night Bluesky buddies 🫡
December 4, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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Girl Guides of Canada has made a statement, likely in response to the cowardly decisions of Girlguiding UK. 🏳️‍⚧️
December 4, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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--Silksong--
October 21, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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This is lovely.
Had our first graduate thesis defense of the academic year here at Duke - for Yueqi Chen's absolutely lyrical ethnography on nurses' aides working in public hospitals in Hunan, China.

Sharing, with permission, a beautiful passage from Yueqi's thesis which I found really moving:
#everynightapoem
December 3, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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catperson ii. oils
February 22, 2025 at 7:56 PM