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Wendy Reid
@reidstergardens.bsky.social
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Love pollinators, dogs, cats, possums, funny people. Song writer and bassist for She Waits - a science and nature 3 piece in Minneapolis, MN.
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kottke.org
I forget, is Cracker Barrel in that "first they came for" poem?
thetnholler.bsky.social The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Jul 22
A Legal group founded by Stephen Miller calls for federal and Tennessee investigations into Cracker Barrel for its DEI policies — “because initiatives are focused on supporting workers who are women, Black, LGBTQ+, or Latino”

www.newsweek.com/cracker-barr...
July 23, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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chrismurphyct.bsky.social
There is likely no trade deal with Japan. There's no agreement to review. No text. Even in this article, the author notes that Japan hasn't even confirmed the existence of an agreement.

So why report that there's a trade deal if we know Trump lies and there's no agreement?
Trump announces trade deal with Japan
The two countries had been at an impasse on trade talks for months.
www.politico.com
July 23, 2025 at 2:28 PM
reidstergardens.bsky.social
Excellent framing of this statement which was a response to constituent who asked why Senator Ernst was supporting Medicaid cuts that will kill people. Thank you @lincolnproject.us
lincolnproject.us The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · May 30
“We’re all going to die” -Woman with government healthcare who is cutting Medicaid
May 30, 2025 at 6:37 PM
reidstergardens.bsky.social
It's taco time all the time. But we already knew that.
May 29, 2025 at 5:39 PM
reidstergardens.bsky.social
This is awesome and worth listening to. I remember asking my dad questions like this as a child and he would give detailed, complex answers, often using a slide ruler or protractor and my eyes would glaze over. Even so, I always appreciated he didn't underestimate my brain. :) Norm.
sagan.bsky.social Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · Apr 30
This is from The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson aired on May 20th, 1977.

Carl Sagan says something very important, a strong message that didn't lose any validity since then.
April 30, 2025 at 5:25 PM
reidstergardens.bsky.social
All I had to read was "in an interview with Dr. Phil" and I was done. Again this is NOT NORMAL.
emilymandel.bsky.social Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social · Apr 30
“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
NYT headline: “Kennedy Advises New Parents to ‘Do Your Own Research’ on Vaccines” Subheader: “In an interview with Dr. Phil, the health secretary offered false information about vaccine oversight and revealed a lack of basic understanding of new drug approvals.”
April 30, 2025 at 5:11 PM
reidstergardens.bsky.social
Uh duh! This is a great poster!!
April 23, 2025 at 10:12 PM
reidstergardens.bsky.social
@leafhound.bsky.social
Do you have this game at your house? hilarious.
April 23, 2025 at 10:10 PM
reidstergardens.bsky.social
I like where she says - "This negative news - it's not affecting other car companies..." satisfying viewing.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU23...
Polling debunks Musk excuse that his unpopularity, collapse of Tesla, is because of paid protesters
YouTube video by MSNBC
www.youtube.com
April 23, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Reposted by Wendy Reid
emilycurates.bsky.social
Credit goes here: itpo-tokyo.unido.org/en/technolog...
Renewable energy: Micro Hydraulic Power Unit (Spiral Type Pico-Hydro Unit “PicoPica10”, “PicoPica500”) | United Nations Industrial Development Organization
Articles containing the word 'Renewable energy: Micro Hydraulic Power Unit (Spiral Type Pico-Hydro Unit “PicoPica10”, “PicoPica500”)'
itpo-tokyo.unido.org
April 22, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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drnereide.bsky.social
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This intriguing image shows two distant interacting galaxies, collectively called Arp 142, resembling a penguin guarding an egg.

The image combines data from NASA's Spitzer (infrared light) and Hubble (visible light) telescopes.

➡️ www.spitzer.caltech.edu/image/ssc201...

🔭 🧪 #extragalactic
The image shows two distant interacting galaxies, collectively called Arp 142, resembling a penguin guarding an egg. The "penguin" galaxy, NGC 2936, has a distorted spiral shape with bluish filaments of newly-formed hot stars and red filaments of gas and dust. The "egg" galaxy, NGC 2937, appears nearly featureless with a greenish glow from older stars and no red dust features. A blue streak of an unrelated background galaxy is visible at the top. The galaxies are set against a dark cosmic background.
April 22, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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hookland.bsky.social
What does the witch know? She knows the power of green communion, the wisdom of the wild mysteries. Knows all magic is based on relationships and there's no good relationship without respect – that's why she always asks permission before filling her garnering bag. #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky
April 23, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
'From Earth to Sky' by Christi Belcourt, Métis visual artist, inspired by Métis and First Nations historical beadwork #womensart
April 18, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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astrojaz.bsky.social
i need some space… and maybe you do too
A massive spiral galaxy fills the image, with its bright yellow core seen near the upper left. Spiral arms whirl outward, laced through with dark brown dust and bright blue patches of star formation. Angled from the upper left corner to the lower right corner is a cone-shaped orange-red cloud known as Herbig-Haro 49/50. This feature takes up about three-fourths of the length of this angle. The upper left end of this feature has a translucent, rounded end. The conical feature widens slightly from the rounded end at the upper right down to the lower right. Along the cone there are additional rounded edges, like edges of a wave, and intricate foamy-like details, as well as a clearer view of the black background of space. In the upper left, overlapping with the rounded end of Herbig-Haro 49/50, is a background spiral galaxy with a concentrated blue center that fades outward to blend with red spiral arms. The background of space is speckled with some white stars and smaller, more numerous, fainter white galaxies throughout. A densely packed cluster of yellow stars shines at the center of the image, with more stars scattered throughout. Clouds of glowing indigo gas and dust dominate the lower half of the view, and a red star with diffraction spikes shines at upper right. A nebula made up of cloudy gas and dust in the form of soft and wispy clouds and, in the center, thin and highly detailed layers pressed close together. Large, bright stars surrounded by six long points of light are dotted over the image, as well as some small, point-like stars embedded in the clouds. The clouds are lit up in blue close to the stars; orange colors show clouds that glow in infrared light.
April 18, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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acyn.bsky.social
AOC: It’s bone-chilling. Every day, there’s something new. And today, we saw Trump express openness to sending U.S. citizens to foreign prisons without due process. It’s anti-American.
April 15, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
Girls reading, 1939 by US photographer Dorothea Lange #WomensArt
Monochrome photograph featuring six young white girls in dresses sitting in a row on a step outside of a wooden building with a dark door, each girl has a book on their knee and appears to be reading
April 8, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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drmlharris.bsky.social
When I wrote this back in January, I hoped it would make a few people smile. Now it's come full circle and made *me* smile, because @meganseling.bsky.social at @thestranger.com over in Seattle decided it would make a good cartoon, and got Greg Stump to draw one. 😁 www.thestranger.com/climate-issu...
April 4, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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astronomy.bsky.social
Mermaid Nebula, a stellar remnant where new stars are born! This two-sided supernova remnant, also called the Betta Fish Nebula, glows in blue (oxygen) & red (hydrogen).

Credit: Neil Corke.
Mermaid Nebula, a stellar remnant where new stars are born! This two-sided supernova remnant, also called the Betta Fish Nebula, glows in blue (oxygen) & red (hydrogen). Credit: Neil Corke.
April 1, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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lincolnproject.us
Two things Elon can’t buy: the Wisconsin Supreme Court, and friends.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
How much did Elon Musk blow on Wisconsin Supreme Court race?
‘Money is flowing into the race from all over the country,’ Brennan Center for Justice experts wrote ahead of the judicial race
www.independent.co.uk
April 2, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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bluewavesurfer.bsky.social
April 2, 2025 at 5:53 PM
reidstergardens.bsky.social
This is visually and emotionally stunning.
erininthemorning.com Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Mar 28
This is what the opposition did in the Hungary Parliament when they passed the Pride ban.

May we have congresspeople with an ounce of the courage.
March 28, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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duckworth.senate.gov
Pete Hegseth is a f*cking liar. This is so clearly classified info he recklessly leaked that could’ve gotten our pilots killed.

He needs to resign in disgrace immediately.
March 26, 2025 at 2:28 PM
reidstergardens.bsky.social
I missed that Roberta Flack left the planet last month. What gifts she shared - wow.

youtu.be/mrudT410TAI
Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly With His Song (Official Video)
YouTube video by RHINO
youtu.be
March 26, 2025 at 8:18 PM
reidstergardens.bsky.social
This is cool! Mine is Hubble Ultra Deep Field. #hubble
This image includes infrared observations that allowed Hubble to peer deeper into the universe than it ever had before. The faintest and reddest objects in the image are galaxies that formed 600 million years after the big bang.
March 26, 2025 at 7:24 PM
reidstergardens.bsky.social
Awesome news out of Idaho - YEA!!
www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/c...
Boise business responds to West Ada poster removal: ‘One sign comes down, 1,000s go up’
“Idaho makes the news for some weird stuff sometimes, right?” said Chris Stewart, who is working on a social media campaign. “I choose to see the opposite.”
www.idahostatesman.com
March 26, 2025 at 7:10 PM