Dots134
@dots134.bsky.social
(It makes more sense if you read braille.) Still trying to figure out what I want to be when I grow up. She/her.
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Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.
(Published October)
(Published October)
Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...
projects.propublica.org
November 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.
(Published October)
(Published October)
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Republicans need to act now to make sure those benefits are available to people who depend on them. If they don’t, millions of children, seniors, and low-income Americans will go hungry ahead of the holidays.
October 31, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Republicans need to act now to make sure those benefits are available to people who depend on them. If they don’t, millions of children, seniors, and low-income Americans will go hungry ahead of the holidays.
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For any journalists, media folk, etc:
A professor friend says some capstone students want to do a story on the importance of accessibility in designing/redesigning stadiums, given how much money is spent. He's looking for interested outlets.
Feel free to share and spread the word. Thank you!
A professor friend says some capstone students want to do a story on the importance of accessibility in designing/redesigning stadiums, given how much money is spent. He's looking for interested outlets.
Feel free to share and spread the word. Thank you!
Journalism hive mind, I humbly ask your help.
A professor friend says some capstone students want to do a story on the importance of accessibility in designing/redesigning stadiums, given how much money is spent. He's looking for outlets interested in such a story.
#PartyLikeAJournalist #A11y
A professor friend says some capstone students want to do a story on the importance of accessibility in designing/redesigning stadiums, given how much money is spent. He's looking for outlets interested in such a story.
#PartyLikeAJournalist #A11y
October 30, 2025 at 4:46 PM
For any journalists, media folk, etc:
A professor friend says some capstone students want to do a story on the importance of accessibility in designing/redesigning stadiums, given how much money is spent. He's looking for interested outlets.
Feel free to share and spread the word. Thank you!
A professor friend says some capstone students want to do a story on the importance of accessibility in designing/redesigning stadiums, given how much money is spent. He's looking for interested outlets.
Feel free to share and spread the word. Thank you!
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Cost to fund SNAP and keep 42 million people from starving:
$100 billion
Cost of lost revenue due to tax cuts for the richest Americans in the top 1%:
$100 billion
One is decried as "welfare." One is not.
Why?
$100 billion
Cost of lost revenue due to tax cuts for the richest Americans in the top 1%:
$100 billion
One is decried as "welfare." One is not.
Why?
October 29, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Cost to fund SNAP and keep 42 million people from starving:
$100 billion
Cost of lost revenue due to tax cuts for the richest Americans in the top 1%:
$100 billion
One is decried as "welfare." One is not.
Why?
$100 billion
Cost of lost revenue due to tax cuts for the richest Americans in the top 1%:
$100 billion
One is decried as "welfare." One is not.
Why?
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Heyyyy we desperately need more archaeologists to volunteer to answer questions from students via video chat through @skypeascientist.bsky.social.
We have 80 unmatched teams. We’ve already matched 650 😵💫
If you know any archaeologists, please send them here www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
We have 80 unmatched teams. We’ve already matched 650 😵💫
If you know any archaeologists, please send them here www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
Sign Up
Skype a Scientist gives you the opportunity to connect with students and the public around the world.
www.skypeascientist.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Heyyyy we desperately need more archaeologists to volunteer to answer questions from students via video chat through @skypeascientist.bsky.social.
We have 80 unmatched teams. We’ve already matched 650 😵💫
If you know any archaeologists, please send them here www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
We have 80 unmatched teams. We’ve already matched 650 😵💫
If you know any archaeologists, please send them here www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
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Canadian friends, your government is seeking commentary on GenAi strategies and policies.
Please let them know exactly how you feel about GenAi, it’s impacts, and what next steps should be! Perhaps it’s respecting artists works, environmental considerations and so on! Share your thoughts here 👇
Please let them know exactly how you feel about GenAi, it’s impacts, and what next steps should be! Perhaps it’s respecting artists works, environmental considerations and so on! Share your thoughts here 👇
Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership
Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025
Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renew...
ised-isde.canada.ca
October 19, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Canadian friends, your government is seeking commentary on GenAi strategies and policies.
Please let them know exactly how you feel about GenAi, it’s impacts, and what next steps should be! Perhaps it’s respecting artists works, environmental considerations and so on! Share your thoughts here 👇
Please let them know exactly how you feel about GenAi, it’s impacts, and what next steps should be! Perhaps it’s respecting artists works, environmental considerations and so on! Share your thoughts here 👇
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Day 150 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with #fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution
John (H. sapiens) doesn't need to fear the spikey Arcinella cornuta (PRI70117)
Please tag and share, PRI really needs donors in the next month or so 🦑 🧪
John (H. sapiens) doesn't need to fear the spikey Arcinella cornuta (PRI70117)
Please tag and share, PRI really needs donors in the next month or so 🦑 🧪
October 1, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Day 150 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with #fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution
John (H. sapiens) doesn't need to fear the spikey Arcinella cornuta (PRI70117)
Please tag and share, PRI really needs donors in the next month or so 🦑 🧪
John (H. sapiens) doesn't need to fear the spikey Arcinella cornuta (PRI70117)
Please tag and share, PRI really needs donors in the next month or so 🦑 🧪
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Canada Post “lost” 1 billion dollars last year?
How about, “it cost Canadians 1 billion dollars to have a national postal service” which works out to costing about $25 a year per person (population of Canada in 2024 = 40 million). Seems like a pretty reasonable cost to me.
How about, “it cost Canadians 1 billion dollars to have a national postal service” which works out to costing about $25 a year per person (population of Canada in 2024 = 40 million). Seems like a pretty reasonable cost to me.
"Canada Post is on track to lose money" Hum. Duh. It cost less than a toonie to send a letter across Canada.
"Canada Post is a service and not a business" was common knowledge until late stage capitalism brain rotted most people into think if it ain't making money for shareholders, it's failing.
"Canada Post is a service and not a business" was common knowledge until late stage capitalism brain rotted most people into think if it ain't making money for shareholders, it's failing.
September 25, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Canada Post “lost” 1 billion dollars last year?
How about, “it cost Canadians 1 billion dollars to have a national postal service” which works out to costing about $25 a year per person (population of Canada in 2024 = 40 million). Seems like a pretty reasonable cost to me.
How about, “it cost Canadians 1 billion dollars to have a national postal service” which works out to costing about $25 a year per person (population of Canada in 2024 = 40 million). Seems like a pretty reasonable cost to me.
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The government will take all the recommendations of William Kaplan to cut back Canada Post, but won’t accept any meaningful recommendations from the union to bolster the service and think about the many ways it could improve quality of life for Canadians.
Our Plan
All around the world, postal services are successfully reinventing themselves to better meet the needs of their citizens in the 21st century.
What if we told you that postal workers have a plan to fi...
www.deliveringcommunitypower.ca
September 26, 2025 at 12:52 AM
The government will take all the recommendations of William Kaplan to cut back Canada Post, but won’t accept any meaningful recommendations from the union to bolster the service and think about the many ways it could improve quality of life for Canadians.
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Minister Lightbound says it’s time for tough choices, but his choices are not about bolster the service, but cutting it back. Other choices could be made: allowing and building out postal banking or recognizing a public service does not need to be profitable, as an example.
September 25, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Minister Lightbound says it’s time for tough choices, but his choices are not about bolster the service, but cutting it back. Other choices could be made: allowing and building out postal banking or recognizing a public service does not need to be profitable, as an example.
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The government is reducing service standards and Canada Post’s biggest advantage: its nationwide network.
This plan is about cutting back the postal service instead of investing to give it new revenue tools through things like postal banking. It’s shameful.
This plan is about cutting back the postal service instead of investing to give it new revenue tools through things like postal banking. It’s shameful.
Liberal government frees Canada Post to end home delivery, close some post offices | CBC News
With Canada Post on track to lose $1.5 billion in 2025 and contract discussions between the union and the corporation stalled, the federal government is embarking on a modernization plan it says will ...
www.cbc.ca
September 25, 2025 at 6:29 PM
The government is reducing service standards and Canada Post’s biggest advantage: its nationwide network.
This plan is about cutting back the postal service instead of investing to give it new revenue tools through things like postal banking. It’s shameful.
This plan is about cutting back the postal service instead of investing to give it new revenue tools through things like postal banking. It’s shameful.
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Tell me the last time a highway made money, the last time a school made money, the last time a hospital made money.
They don't. They are public services.
They don't. They are public services.
"Canada Post is on track to lose money" Hum. Duh. It cost less than a toonie to send a letter across Canada.
"Canada Post is a service and not a business" was common knowledge until late stage capitalism brain rotted most people into think if it ain't making money for shareholders, it's failing.
"Canada Post is a service and not a business" was common knowledge until late stage capitalism brain rotted most people into think if it ain't making money for shareholders, it's failing.
September 25, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Tell me the last time a highway made money, the last time a school made money, the last time a hospital made money.
They don't. They are public services.
They don't. They are public services.
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Let me be clear. As someone who has been professionally involved with the biodefense / biosecurity sector for nearly 20 years, and has worked on biological risk analysis for Covid-19 since early 2020, reducing one's risk of being infected is not health anxiety. It's just smart.
September 26, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Let me be clear. As someone who has been professionally involved with the biodefense / biosecurity sector for nearly 20 years, and has worked on biological risk analysis for Covid-19 since early 2020, reducing one's risk of being infected is not health anxiety. It's just smart.
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Yesterday, history happened at the UN: For the first time hundreds of orgs signed a global pledge declaring that healthy indoor air is a human right.
Healthy indoor air is a key tool for preventing pandemics, building climate resilience, and increasing health equity. We need it everywhere!
Healthy indoor air is a key tool for preventing pandemics, building climate resilience, and increasing health equity. We need it everywhere!
September 24, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Yesterday, history happened at the UN: For the first time hundreds of orgs signed a global pledge declaring that healthy indoor air is a human right.
Healthy indoor air is a key tool for preventing pandemics, building climate resilience, and increasing health equity. We need it everywhere!
Healthy indoor air is a key tool for preventing pandemics, building climate resilience, and increasing health equity. We need it everywhere!
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Australia to lead first-ever United Nations indoor air quality global pledge: the Australian Academy of Science and Burnet Institute are leading global efforts at the United Nations, to declare healthy indoor air a human right.
www.nationaltribune.com.au/australia-to...
www.nationaltribune.com.au/australia-to...
Australia to lead first-ever United Nations indoor air quality global pledge
The Australian Academy of Science and Burnet Institute are leading global efforts at the United Nations, to declare healthy indoor air a human right
www.nationaltribune.com.au
September 18, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Australia to lead first-ever United Nations indoor air quality global pledge: the Australian Academy of Science and Burnet Institute are leading global efforts at the United Nations, to declare healthy indoor air a human right.
www.nationaltribune.com.au/australia-to...
www.nationaltribune.com.au/australia-to...
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It’s only taken a century or so, but would you look at that, some badass women have invented a better solution to the speculum (which is essentially a torture device).
www.brightvibes.com/lilium-specu...
www.brightvibes.com/lilium-specu...
After 180 Years of Pain, Dutch Women Engineers Reimagine the Speculum with ‘Lilium’
Dutch engineers redesign the speculum with Lilium; a soft, sustainable, patient-centered innovation set to transform women’s healthcare.
www.brightvibes.com
September 10, 2025 at 6:18 AM
It’s only taken a century or so, but would you look at that, some badass women have invented a better solution to the speculum (which is essentially a torture device).
www.brightvibes.com/lilium-specu...
www.brightvibes.com/lilium-specu...
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anyone from @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social’s team follow me here? trying to get a press pass for the rally with bernie tonight. help!
September 6, 2025 at 5:05 PM
anyone from @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social’s team follow me here? trying to get a press pass for the rally with bernie tonight. help!
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The Canadian Standards Association (CSA) has released a draft standard requiring masks (like N95s) in health care settings to stop airborne infections.
There is a strong attempt to push back against this, so need your public comments to get this through: publicreview.csa.ca/Home/View/22...
There is a strong attempt to push back against this, so need your public comments to get this through: publicreview.csa.ca/Home/View/22...
August 9, 2025 at 2:22 AM
The Canadian Standards Association (CSA) has released a draft standard requiring masks (like N95s) in health care settings to stop airborne infections.
There is a strong attempt to push back against this, so need your public comments to get this through: publicreview.csa.ca/Home/View/22...
There is a strong attempt to push back against this, so need your public comments to get this through: publicreview.csa.ca/Home/View/22...
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You’ve probably heard
of that person
who knew how
to recognize the signs
of an approaching tsunami
and was thus able
to warn their family in time,
so please know
that in this moment
those who know how
to recognize the signs
of an approaching Covid wave
are trying to warn you.
of that person
who knew how
to recognize the signs
of an approaching tsunami
and was thus able
to warn their family in time,
so please know
that in this moment
those who know how
to recognize the signs
of an approaching Covid wave
are trying to warn you.
June 6, 2025 at 7:43 PM
You’ve probably heard
of that person
who knew how
to recognize the signs
of an approaching tsunami
and was thus able
to warn their family in time,
so please know
that in this moment
those who know how
to recognize the signs
of an approaching Covid wave
are trying to warn you.
of that person
who knew how
to recognize the signs
of an approaching tsunami
and was thus able
to warn their family in time,
so please know
that in this moment
those who know how
to recognize the signs
of an approaching Covid wave
are trying to warn you.
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“Fixing climate change is too expensive.”
Um no. What’s really expensive is doing nothing.
Climate disasters cost billions—and those costs are rising fast. Climate solutions save money and lives, as well as building a better world for us all 🌏💚
Um no. What’s really expensive is doing nothing.
Climate disasters cost billions—and those costs are rising fast. Climate solutions save money and lives, as well as building a better world for us all 🌏💚
May 31, 2025 at 2:52 AM
“Fixing climate change is too expensive.”
Um no. What’s really expensive is doing nothing.
Climate disasters cost billions—and those costs are rising fast. Climate solutions save money and lives, as well as building a better world for us all 🌏💚
Um no. What’s really expensive is doing nothing.
Climate disasters cost billions—and those costs are rising fast. Climate solutions save money and lives, as well as building a better world for us all 🌏💚
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Please… I know everyone is excited for the unofficial start of summer & outdoor activities, but for the love of all things holy, make your kid wear a helmet while on a scooter or bicycle. I just had to send a 2nd kid to the ER today w/a head injury after falling off a bike or scooter w/o a helmet.🚴🛴
May 25, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Please… I know everyone is excited for the unofficial start of summer & outdoor activities, but for the love of all things holy, make your kid wear a helmet while on a scooter or bicycle. I just had to send a 2nd kid to the ER today w/a head injury after falling off a bike or scooter w/o a helmet.🚴🛴
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Bluesky is “screen reader accessible” the way a staircase with curb cuts on each step is a “wheelchair ramp.”
No keyboard nav. No useful landmarks. No focus memory. I lose my place every time I interact with a post.
Compliance ≠ usability.
Day 7 asking @support.bsky.team to fix this ##A11yFail
No keyboard nav. No useful landmarks. No focus memory. I lose my place every time I interact with a post.
Compliance ≠ usability.
Day 7 asking @support.bsky.team to fix this ##A11yFail
May 14, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Bluesky is “screen reader accessible” the way a staircase with curb cuts on each step is a “wheelchair ramp.”
No keyboard nav. No useful landmarks. No focus memory. I lose my place every time I interact with a post.
Compliance ≠ usability.
Day 7 asking @support.bsky.team to fix this ##A11yFail
No keyboard nav. No useful landmarks. No focus memory. I lose my place every time I interact with a post.
Compliance ≠ usability.
Day 7 asking @support.bsky.team to fix this ##A11yFail
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As we prepare to share all our great "Star Wars" memes for "May The Fourth," we can be reminded of Bluesky's setting that will remind you to add alt text before posting any images.
Go to "Settings," then "Accessibility." Select the checkbox for "Require alt text before posting."
Go to "Settings," then "Accessibility." Select the checkbox for "Require alt text before posting."
May 3, 2025 at 4:14 AM
As we prepare to share all our great "Star Wars" memes for "May The Fourth," we can be reminded of Bluesky's setting that will remind you to add alt text before posting any images.
Go to "Settings," then "Accessibility." Select the checkbox for "Require alt text before posting."
Go to "Settings," then "Accessibility." Select the checkbox for "Require alt text before posting."