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At sunset, Mount Rainier's snow-capped peak mirrors perfectly in the tranquil lake, framed by silhouetted pines under a fiery sky.
December 27, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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mbkplus.bsky.social
Lots to choose from but Emmy Noether is a great place to start. Her work laid the foundation for much of our modern understanding of physics
December 28, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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isbscience.org
Celebrating the complex beauty of the season. ❄️🧬 From all of us at ISB, have a wonderful holiday and a Happy New Year!
December 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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olthwaiteeric.bsky.social
Things are Terrible, but this isn't.

Be weird.
A social media post recounts a story about helping an older lady with limited English, reflecting on how having pink hair signaled trustworthiness and individuality.
December 19, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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sbworkersunited.org
Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol - who commutes to Seattle from CA using a company-provided private jet - made $96 million for just 4 months of work.

Brian makes 6,666 times the average Starbucks worker. That's the largest CEO-to-worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500!

The visuals write themselves...
A huge standee portraying Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol with devil horns and red skin inside a coffee cup full of money. The cup says "BIG BUCKS COFFEE" next to large bags with dollar signs on them
December 18, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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jamalgreene.bsky.social
The Kennedy Center name is established by federal statute, and therefore may be repealed only by federal statute. www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...
December 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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edzitron.com
This is the conclusion, which I'm pulling out from behind the paywall because it'll probably be a free newsletter or podcast one day. I think the AI era is a reckoning for the tech industry, one where consumers finally realize they're being abused.
And I fundamentally believe the generative AI era is one where the tech industry has gone too far. Regular people are furious about AI - they hate it, it upsets them, it’s revolting, in part because of what it does, in part because it’s being forced upon them everywhere. It feels like the final insult from a tech industry that fundamentally turned on the customer, the ugliest form of the Rot Economy that defied consumers’ wants and needs in favor of what would inspire a market disconnected from any real value creation. They’ve watched the tech industry spend 10 years making its products worse as a means of expressing growth, and then crested that era by adding the world’s least-reliable, most-annoying software in ways that have become all but unavoidable. Technology is no longer synonymous with progress, but with a kind of parasitic gaslighting that tells us that if we don’t pray at the feet of whoever “the geniuses” are at any given time that we’re morons, that we’ll get replaced, that we’ll be poor, jobless, ignorant or unworthy of having any part of the future. The products being made by the tech industry no longer feel like they’re made for any living human being, but the abstraction of a person created in the mind of a product manager in Palo Alto or a venture capitalist that hasn’t set foot in a city in a decade. These people believe that the best products at the ones that must be forced upon users, who in turn will adapt to how the product works versus making products that solve a problem that a customer already has. Silicon Valley no longer leads us - it attacks us with ideas until we either give in or are tricked into engaging with Copilot on Word or Gemini on Google Docs or accidentally brush an AI button or because our bosses tell us “you need to be AI-first” without knowing what the fuck that means. The tech industry is well-known for finding ways to keep people on platforms, but has never had to face an era where it had to get people to come bac…
December 5, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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banditelli.org
Big day to amplify @sbworkersunited.org and not buy Starbucks
sbworkersunited.org Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 24d
BREAKING: 12 strikers were just arrested by the NYPD while peacefully protesting outside the Empire State Building.

Allies are beginning to speak to the crowd about what just happened.
sbworkersunited.org Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 24d
Today, baristas are bringing their ULP strike to Starbucks' NYC corporate office, housed inside the Empire State Building.

Workers and allies are demanding the company resolve 100s of unfair labor practices, end the union-busting, & finalize fair union contracts. Let's go! #NoContractNoCoffee
December 4, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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flash-point.bsky.social
@isbscience.org's Dr. Mary Brunkow gave a "practice talk" for her Nobel Lecture, and it was riveting! Mapping the Foxp3 locus was an arduous task in the late 90s, and this recognition is a fitting tribute. Thrilled for you, Mary! Your humility and grace are a wonderful example for all of us.
December 3, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
I bet if you blow the dust of the DEPARTMENT OF WAR sign it’d reveal the word CRIMES right after that
November 29, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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sd.solle.uk
Ah! The work of our very own @robcottingham.ca!
Timer - Noise to Signal Cartoon
I’m starting to think my Amazon Echo knows a lot more than it’s letting on… and that maybe it’s trying to tell me, but its programming won’t let it. Which is why it keeps chiming in during our convers...
www.robcottingham.ca
November 28, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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radleybalko.bsky.social
Again, every elected Democrat needs to put out a video stating exactly what Kelly and the others said. If ever there were a line to draw in the sand, it’s here. The military is not the president’s Praetorian Guard.
swin24.bsky.social Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · Nov 24
“Within the White House, Trump and his lieutenants aren’t planning on letting up…Trump has told some advisers that he wants RICO prosecutions and conspiracy charges leveled against the six Democrats, a source with direct knowledge of the matter tells Zeteo…
zeteo.com/p/how-we-gre...
November 24, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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seiu.org
Starbucks can end this today: bargain in good faith, resolve unfair labor practices, and stop the union-busting.

Until then, workers are holding the line! #NoCoffeeNoContract
November 19, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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fightforaunion.bsky.social
BREAKING:

Union baristas and their allies are descending on York, Pennsylvania, to protest at Starbucks’ largest Regional Distribution Center.

Baristas and their allies are protesting Starbucks’ serious and unresolved unfair labor practices.

Please amplify! #NoContractNoCoffee
November 19, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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sbworkersunited.org
Good morning from DAY FIVE of our national ULP strike!

We're ready to escalate if we don’t see substantial progress toward finalizing contracts that address pay, hours/staffing & the resolution of 100s of ULPs.

RT if you're with us ✊🔥 #NoContractNoCoffee
Group photo of union baristas on ULP strike
November 17, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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croce-urchin.bsky.social
Proud to have been part of this very nice piece of work and this great collaboration. Congratulations to all. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Single-nucleus profiling highlights the all-brain echinoderm nervous system
A sea urchin is a head with a brain-like organization and a vertebrate-type retinal signature.
www.science.org
November 14, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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eschatonblog.com
nobody indicts elite journalism more than elite journalists
November 14, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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cethanleahy.com
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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jayapal.house.gov
There — I fixed the analysis so it is actually accurate to what happened when 8 Senate Dems caved instead of keeping up the righteous fight to deliver lower health care costs for Americans.
November 11, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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mollyroberts.bsky.social
Here's my piece for @lawfaremedia.org on my experience covering the Sandwich Guy trial. Warning: longer than 280 characters!
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/sand...
Sandwich Guy, Thrower of Hoagie–Or Hero?
The trial ended in an acquittal. But the proceedings felt like a strange sort of performance art—highly amusing and highly menacing at the same time.
www.lawfaremedia.org
November 6, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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ddayen.bsky.social
At this point, anyone—a university, a law firm, a corporation, a Democrat—bending the knee to Trump is doing it because they want to, not because of any political reality.
November 5, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Absolutely correct.

There clearly *is* a social media site where the users are trapped in an unreal bubble that bears no resemblance to reality, but a lot of reporters are trapped on Twitter there with them so they just can't see it.
michaelhobbes.bsky.social Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · Nov 5
The way all of these people convinced themselves that Mamdani is antisemitic is a subject far more worthy of media examination than any of the ‘groupthink on campuses!’ thinkpieces we’ve been subjected to
November 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Tuesday night, in an off-year election, a majority — yes, a goddamn majority — of eligible American voters agreed with me. These people spent eight months living in a woke-free America and collectively decided, “We don’t want this.” What we DO want is to be left the f—k alone. Contrary to what Ted Cruz might tell you, that’s what woke does. Woke lets you drive around town without the threat of a cop pulling you over to gun you down. Woke lets you be gender fluid without an emergency PTA meeting springing up outside your door. Woke lets you go to college without entering into a modern sharecropping agreement. It lets children read, lets every citizen be able to vote without a fuss, leaves the original recipe for Tylenol intact, and endeavors to keep our air and water clean. Woke, in other words, is good.
November 5, 2025 at 8:49 PM