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Artist, adjunct, art teacher, labor, socialist, star wars, reylo, AI hater, she/her
Had a mild stroke 2/12/2025. Excuse the brain fog. Check your BP ladies 🫀
(DNI: minors, fintech, traders, OF, antis, “refined gentlemen” pls do not follow)
Had a mild stroke 2/12/2025. Excuse the brain fog. Check your BP ladies 🫀
(DNI: minors, fintech, traders, OF, antis, “refined gentlemen” pls do not follow)
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📚🗃️ Another good stay at @gladlib.bsky.social, esp. pleased to see this research about their strong links to both Transatlantic slave economy & colonial indentured labour. Made me look twice as I had my coffee too..
(truly, the fuss made about this kind of thing at National Trust sites is pathetic)
(truly, the fuss made about this kind of thing at National Trust sites is pathetic)
November 7, 2025 at 9:07 PM
📚🗃️ Another good stay at @gladlib.bsky.social, esp. pleased to see this research about their strong links to both Transatlantic slave economy & colonial indentured labour. Made me look twice as I had my coffee too..
(truly, the fuss made about this kind of thing at National Trust sites is pathetic)
(truly, the fuss made about this kind of thing at National Trust sites is pathetic)
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Years of work and collab with an incredible team at #BBCStudios #AppleTV @framestore.bsky.social ... involving so many camera operators, writers, producers, effects people, artists and others, #PrehistoricPlanetaIceAge is out on #AppleTV Nov 26th. A definitive vision of Ice Age wildlife worldwide.
November 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Years of work and collab with an incredible team at #BBCStudios #AppleTV @framestore.bsky.social ... involving so many camera operators, writers, producers, effects people, artists and others, #PrehistoricPlanetaIceAge is out on #AppleTV Nov 26th. A definitive vision of Ice Age wildlife worldwide.
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Drug dealer freed from prison by Trump now back behind bars
Drug dealer freed from prison by Trump now back behind bars
Drug dealer freed from prison by Trump now back behind bars
www.independent.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Drug dealer freed from prison by Trump now back behind bars
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Imagine praising a book in 2025 for being "sparse"? Look I enjoy sparse prose as much as the next, but we've been in a decades long Sparse Race of prose that you can increasingly just inhale like a delicate mousse and at some stage we will have to start making adjectives cool again
November 11, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Imagine praising a book in 2025 for being "sparse"? Look I enjoy sparse prose as much as the next, but we've been in a decades long Sparse Race of prose that you can increasingly just inhale like a delicate mousse and at some stage we will have to start making adjectives cool again
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Flagstaff’s Lowell Observatory plans to cut nearly all its research funding and reduce the number of paid science staff to just two positions next year.
Lowell Observatory slashes research funding in the midst of financial struggle
Flagstaff’s Lowell Observatory plans to cut nearly all its research funding and reduce the number of paid science staff to just two positions next year.
buff.ly
November 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Flagstaff’s Lowell Observatory plans to cut nearly all its research funding and reduce the number of paid science staff to just two positions next year.
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This payment is for causing what is arguably the biggest urban environmental injustice case in Brazil. Braskem irresponsibly (and knowingly) extracted so much rock salt from the ground that it destabilized multiple neighborhoods, leading residents to abandon their homes.
Braskem agrees to pay $222 million in compensation to Brazil's Alagoas state reut.rs/498Bs24
Braskem agrees to pay $222 million in compensation to Brazil's Alagoas state
Brazilian petrochemical firm Braskem said on Monday it has agreed to pay 1.2 billion reais ($222 million) to the northeastern state of Alagoas, the latest compensation deal related to the damages caused by its salt mines operations.
reut.rs
November 11, 2025 at 1:13 AM
This payment is for causing what is arguably the biggest urban environmental injustice case in Brazil. Braskem irresponsibly (and knowingly) extracted so much rock salt from the ground that it destabilized multiple neighborhoods, leading residents to abandon their homes.
Why shouldn’t orcas have a little treat?
Orcas have devised a clever trick to gang up on great white sharks and eat their livers, which has been captured on video for the first time.
Orcas are ganging up on great white sharks to eat their livers
For the first time, video footage has captured orcas in the Gulf of California hunting young great white sharks, using a trick to flip them over, paralise them and get at their energy-rich livers
www.newscientist.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Why shouldn’t orcas have a little treat?
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If we go on strike, our union of 12,000 workers are calling on customers to NOT BUY STARBUCKS.
Sign our pledge to not cross a picket line and we'll send you local calls to action - nocontractnocoffee.org
Sign our pledge to not cross a picket line and we'll send you local calls to action - nocontractnocoffee.org
November 5, 2025 at 11:54 PM
If we go on strike, our union of 12,000 workers are calling on customers to NOT BUY STARBUCKS.
Sign our pledge to not cross a picket line and we'll send you local calls to action - nocontractnocoffee.org
Sign our pledge to not cross a picket line and we'll send you local calls to action - nocontractnocoffee.org
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Barring insurance being way more than a paid-out check could reasonably cover...damn dog, imagine there was a unified entity made to represent the people of a given geographical location and they all pooled money together to bargain for better deals using the power of bullets. That'd be pretty crazy
I was at an event yesterday where Rand Paul spoke via video and talked about how great it was to send ACA money "directly to the people" so that they could work collectively to get better deals on health care.
November 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Barring insurance being way more than a paid-out check could reasonably cover...damn dog, imagine there was a unified entity made to represent the people of a given geographical location and they all pooled money together to bargain for better deals using the power of bullets. That'd be pretty crazy
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![Joyce Carol Oates quoting a tweet that says “wherever he [Elon Musk] goes, he wants to leave”:
"wherever he goes, he wants to leave"-- that's because when he gets there, he has brought his own self along; & whatever club he's invited to join has been devalued by the invitation.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:buy3qvqcj3o76leo6ap7pn2p/bafkreifilfbsxemfsambf4kqwolr24ld2ekqcrz4ybgv3bv7kzi5e6kppm@jpeg)
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In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
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Still processing the inanity of this cave, like, "We're going to make Republicans go on record that they want to destroy the ACA." You mean the motherfuckers who radicalized in opposition to it & voted to repeal it, like, 22 times? You're finally getting them on record? Really impressed over here
“If Schumer really wanted to use his considerable influence and leverage to stop this, he could have done that,” a senior Democratic Senate aide tells Zeteo. “He didn’t.”
Furious Liberals Call for Schumer to Step Aside, Senate Dems Mostly Quiet
After their shutdown surrender, liberal lawmakers are begging their base to unite behind them anyway – as Trumpland celebrates that their opposition is a bunch of 'p*ssies.'
zeteo.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Still processing the inanity of this cave, like, "We're going to make Republicans go on record that they want to destroy the ACA." You mean the motherfuckers who radicalized in opposition to it & voted to repeal it, like, 22 times? You're finally getting them on record? Really impressed over here
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Not Alan Moore...
November 11, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Not Alan Moore...
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Amazing how much we want to save our American Son, #bensolo
#starwars
https://www.newsweek.com/entertainment/movies/thousands-sign-petition-to-revive-canceled-adam-driver-star-wars-film-11022568
#thehuntforbensolo
#starwars
https://www.newsweek.com/entertainment/movies/thousands-sign-petition-to-revive-canceled-adam-driver-star-wars-film-11022568
#thehuntforbensolo
Thousands Sign Petition to Revive Canceled Adam Driver 'Star Wars' Film
A petition to revive a canceled Adam Driver-led "Star Wars" film has reached thousands of signatures.
www.newsweek.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Amazing how much we want to save our American Son, #bensolo
#starwars
https://www.newsweek.com/entertainment/movies/thousands-sign-petition-to-revive-canceled-adam-driver-star-wars-film-11022568
#thehuntforbensolo
#starwars
https://www.newsweek.com/entertainment/movies/thousands-sign-petition-to-revive-canceled-adam-driver-star-wars-film-11022568
#thehuntforbensolo
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look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry
November 9, 2025 at 11:37 PM
look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry
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[reading any old diamonds by kj charles for the ninth time] im gonna get out of this creative slump any second now. my ability to create will simply return like a migratory bird, i bet
November 11, 2025 at 12:47 AM
[reading any old diamonds by kj charles for the ninth time] im gonna get out of this creative slump any second now. my ability to create will simply return like a migratory bird, i bet
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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How does the fucking WHIP betray the caucus and minority leader? I mean, isn't that grounds for immediate loss of your post. You are supposed to whip FOR the leader, not against.
November 11, 2025 at 12:53 AM
How does the fucking WHIP betray the caucus and minority leader? I mean, isn't that grounds for immediate loss of your post. You are supposed to whip FOR the leader, not against.
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California alone produces a third of all the food America eats. So this is a lie.
But let’s break down the food produced by the red states:
Guess what percent is harvested by people from Latin America?
But let’s break down the food produced by the red states:
Guess what percent is harvested by people from Latin America?
November 11, 2025 at 12:54 AM
California alone produces a third of all the food America eats. So this is a lie.
But let’s break down the food produced by the red states:
Guess what percent is harvested by people from Latin America?
But let’s break down the food produced by the red states:
Guess what percent is harvested by people from Latin America?
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Authors, Beware! There's a firm called "ClaimsHero" doing aggressive social media outreach claiming to
"help" you file to get $ in the Anthropic class action. In fact, it's a bait-and-switch, they are luring authors to sign up with them, then OPTING THEM OUT of the class action so they'll get zilch.
"help" you file to get $ in the Anthropic class action. In fact, it's a bait-and-switch, they are luring authors to sign up with them, then OPTING THEM OUT of the class action so they'll get zilch.
November 10, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Authors, Beware! There's a firm called "ClaimsHero" doing aggressive social media outreach claiming to
"help" you file to get $ in the Anthropic class action. In fact, it's a bait-and-switch, they are luring authors to sign up with them, then OPTING THEM OUT of the class action so they'll get zilch.
"help" you file to get $ in the Anthropic class action. In fact, it's a bait-and-switch, they are luring authors to sign up with them, then OPTING THEM OUT of the class action so they'll get zilch.
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Imagine, if you will, my overweening shock and astonishment.
In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies
November 10, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Imagine, if you will, my overweening shock and astonishment.
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My latest for @hyperallergic.com looks at a late Roman shipwreck (ca. 320 CE) found off the coast of Mallorca with over 300 amphorae. A ton of implications for understanding early Christian trade and of course … garum 🐠 Thanks to @hakimbishara.bsky.social for edits! hyperallergic.com/1056159/near...
Nearly Intact Roman Shipwreck Rests Just Six Feet Beneath Mallorca’s Waters
Discovered in 2019, the 1,700-year-old merchant ship reveals details about early Christian trade.
hyperallergic.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:59 PM
My latest for @hyperallergic.com looks at a late Roman shipwreck (ca. 320 CE) found off the coast of Mallorca with over 300 amphorae. A ton of implications for understanding early Christian trade and of course … garum 🐠 Thanks to @hakimbishara.bsky.social for edits! hyperallergic.com/1056159/near...
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🚨BREAKING: On behalf of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee my law firm has filed to intervene to defend the new California congressional map from attack. www.democracydocket.com/cases/califo...
🚨 Tangipa et al v. Newsom et al
Learn more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:04 PM
🚨BREAKING: On behalf of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee my law firm has filed to intervene to defend the new California congressional map from attack. www.democracydocket.com/cases/califo...