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Jed Thompson
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Florist. Antiques dealer. Whippet owner. Husband. Be kind. 🖖 🥃 🌺
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esa.int
Today is #LGBTQinSTEMDay 🌈

ESA proudly joins the STEM community in celebrating the unique contributions of LGBTQ+ individuals.

The Pride Flag will fly across ESA sites as a reminder of how far we’ve come, and how much more there is to do.

#SpaceForAll
Image of the progress pride flag flying at our ESAC site in Spain. Image of the progress pride flag flying at our ESRIN site in Frascati, Italy. Image of the progress pride flag flying at our ESEC site in Belgium. Image of the progress pride flag flying at our ESOC site in Darmstadt, Germany.
November 18, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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maddow.bsky.social
www.axios.com/2025/11/06/l...
November 8, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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bookshop.org
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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townshipfour.bsky.social
An autumnal chuppah here in the Berkshires. 📷 by Beau Bernatchez

#weddingflowers #autumn #birch #townshipfour #wedding
October 27, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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michaelkusek.bsky.social
I'm certainly not an expert in the renovation of historic properties, but this does not look professional in the slightest.
helenkennedy.bsky.social Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · Oct 20
WHAT THE FUCK
One side of the White House has just been ripped out Extreme damage at the White House
October 20, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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realtoddstashwick.bsky.social
Go now to www.pablove.org/roll spread the word and repost this!!
October 13, 2025 at 2:40 PM
jedthompson.bsky.social
Autumnal blue skies for #bsky #autumn #bluesky
October 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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maddow.bsky.social
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
Trump’s USAID pause stranded lifesaving drugs. Children died waiting.
USAID antimalarial and HIV supplies valued at nearly $140 million were delayed in the first half of the year or not delivered at all due to the Trump administration’s foreign aid pause, The Post found...
www.washingtonpost.com
October 1, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
If you're blaming the Democrats for the shutdown of a government that is run entirely by Republicans, why stop there?

Go wild, man. Blame the shutdown on leprechauns, or the Seattle Mariners, or maybe the cast of "She's the Sheriff."

You've decided facts don't matter, so have some fun with it!
October 1, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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mychal3ts.bsky.social
There have been two hosts in the history of Reading Rainbow. The Legend of Literacy, LeVar Burton! And... me, Mychal Threets, a librarian 🥹🤯

I am a reader, a librarian because LeVar Burton and Reading Rainbow made us believe and see we belong in books, we belong everywhere ✨

youtu.be/e7es7qdWVnU
Smiling Mychal with hands raised wears an outer space shirt in a library. It is a still from an episode of Reading Rainbow. LeVar Burton smiles with hands behind his head as he lies down on a colorful pile of books. ENEMY PIE book rests on his chest.
October 1, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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mychal3ts.bsky.social
I am so happy for all of us that Reading Rainbow is returning! Friends, YOU all did this! 😂🤣

We're flying twice as high, butterflies in the sky! 🦋🌌

Make sure to follow the rainbow! 📚🌈

www.readingrainbow.org
A smiling Mychal in outer space shirt with hands clasped. Text on screen reads, “In the meantime, make sure to follow the rainbow!”
October 1, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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esa.int
📸 This NASA/ESA #Hubble Space Telescope image shows galaxy Messier 82 (M82), also known as the Cigar Galaxy. It's forming stars 10 times faster than our Milky Way, and is what astronomers call a 'starburst' galaxy 🧪🔭

🔗 esahubble.org/images/potw2...
A close-in view of the centre of galaxy M82. Bright, bluish light radiating from the centre is due to stars actively forming there. A thick lane of gas, black in the centre and red around the edges, crosses the centre and blocks much of the light. Thinner strands and clumps of reddish dust cover much of the rest of the view.
September 15, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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mychal3ts.bsky.social
THANK YOU for taking us over 500 preorders! How cool 🥹

“I’m So Happy You’re Here: A Celebration of Library Joy,” words by myself and illustrated by Lorraine Nam, publishes on February 3, 2026 and…

I can’t wait to find it on bookshelves! 😁
tinyurl.com/MychalLorraineBook
@randomhousekids.bsky.social
Illustration from “I’m So Happy You’re Here: A Celebration of Library Joy,” a book written by Mychal Threets, with illustrations by Lorraine Nam. It is to be published on February 3, 2026
August 22, 2025 at 12:31 AM
jedthompson.bsky.social
Gilded age indeed. Cleaning up after a wedding at Edith Wharton’s The Mount in Lenox.
August 24, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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statesnewsroom.com
President Donald Trump said the troops are meant to crack down on crime in Washington D.C., and Ohio is one of six states that has so far sent troops. Toledo, Dayton, and Cleveland all had a higher crime rate than D.C. in 2024.

via @ohiocapitaljournal.com
Ohioans ask Gov. DeWine to recall National Guard troops recently sent to Washington D.C.
Ohio advocates are calling on Gov. Mike DeWine to bring home the Ohio National Guard troops recently deployed to Washington D.C. President Donald Trump said on Aug. 11 he would send National Guard…
www.newsfromthestates.com
August 22, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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maddow.bsky.social
"The US government under Trump tried to disappear a gay Venezuelan man seeking asylum to a torture prison in El Salvador indefinitely...

"A coalition of Americans *didn’t let them*"

Great @cwnewser.bsky.social story on the movement to free Andry Hernández Romero:

www.advocate.com/news/freeing...
Inside the movement that freed gay makeup artist Andry Hernández Romero from a hellhole
The U.S. government under Trump tried to disappear a gay Venezuelan man seeking asylum to a torture prison in El Salvador indefinitely. A coalition of Americans didn’t let them.
www.advocate.com
August 13, 2025 at 10:22 PM
jedthompson.bsky.social
Porch buddies.

#whippets #dogs #whippestofbsky #dogsofbsky #whippetlife #intheberkshires #IUsedWhatIHadToMakeAGate
July 28, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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mrwatson03.bsky.social
Early morning swim
December 13, 2024 at 1:27 PM
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maddow.bsky.social
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
Trump says he was surprised that Jerome Powell, the Fed chair he appointed, was appointed
The president seemed to forget that he appointed Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, which was part of an unsettling pattern of cognitive missteps.
www.msnbc.com
July 21, 2025 at 12:07 AM
jedthompson.bsky.social
Ringo in his natural habitat.

#whippet #whippetlife #dog #whippetsofbsky
July 21, 2025 at 3:42 PM
jedthompson.bsky.social
Pool buddies.

#whippets #whippet #pool #intheberkshires
July 21, 2025 at 2:51 PM
jedthompson.bsky.social
#Sunsets hit differently in the #summer #intheberkshires #berkshires
June 26, 2025 at 12:46 AM
jedthompson.bsky.social
The verdant, rainy field out back. #TheBerkshires
May 5, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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rosemarymosco.com
Yesterday I spent time sitting on the forest floor watching an ovenbird. Highly recommended
An ovenbird, a small warbler with a rusty cap and black stripes, walks across a log. The ovenbird is puffed up standing on a branch. It looks very proud.
May 5, 2025 at 5:10 PM
jedthompson.bsky.social
#tulips from local growers are HUGE #florist #flowers #stockbridge
May 5, 2025 at 8:56 PM