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cnn.com
A Southern elephant seal makes a surprise visit to the residential neighborhood of Gordon's Bay in Cape Town, South Africa, and triggers an almost nine-hour rescue effort to return him to the coast.
May 30, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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hasanabirepeater.bsky.social
VLADIMIR STOP!
May 26, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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joncarling.bsky.social
La Luna’ signed 8x10”prints are finally available in my shop!
joncarling.bigcartel.com
May 25, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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bradmeltzer.com
Yes please.

Origami Ballet - Agnes Obel - "The Curse"
May 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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loloverruled.bsky.social
May 22, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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kneecapceol.bsky.social
KNEECAP STATEMENT 14,000 babies are about to die of starvation in Gaza, with food sent by the world sitting on the other side of a wall, and once again the British establishment is focused on us. We deny this ‘offence’ and will vehemently defend ourselves. This is political policing. This is a carnival of distraction. We are not the story. Genocide is. As they profit from genocide, they use an ‘anti-terror law’ against us for displaying a flag thrown on stage. A charge not serious enough to even warrant their ‘crown court’, instead a court that doesn’t have a jury. What’s the objective? To restrict our ability to travel. To prevent us speaking to young people across the world. To silence voices of compassion. To prosecute artists who dare speak out. Instead of defending innocent people, or the principles of international law they claim to uphold, the powerful in Britain have abetted slaughter and famine in Gaza, just as they did in Ireland for centuries. Then, like now, they claim justification. The IDF units they arm and fly spy plane missions for are the real terrorists, the whole world can see it. WE STAND PROUDLY WITH THE PEOPLE. YOU STAND COMPLICIT WITH THE WAR CRIMINALS. WE ARE ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY. YOU ARE NOT. WE WILL FIGHT YOU IN YOUR COURT. WE WILL WIN. FREE PALESTINE
May 22, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
I’m asking for your donation. But it’s not for me.

To defeat Andrew Cuomo and turn the page on corruption, we need strong candidates in this race like Speaker Adrienne Adams.

NYC, give what you can before Monday night’s deadline!
May 19, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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carlbergstrom.com
Elon Musk wanted to buy Wikipedia so that he could determine our society’s collective view of truth.

He couldn’t, so he created grok.

Do not let these machines be arbiters of truth. It is abundantly clear that they are being used to push absurd far-right conspiracies.
Musk’s AI bot Grok blames ‘programming error’ for its Holocaust denial
Grok doubted 6 million death toll, days after peddling conspiracy theory of ‘white genocide’ in South Africa
www.theguardian.com
May 18, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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kneecapceol.bsky.social
Diolch yn fawr (GRMA) to the over 100 Welsh artists who released this statement today. 🙏🏻 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

"Kneecap’s activism is not the story we should focus on, the real story is the slaughter in Gaza and the West Bank."

nation.cymru/culture/over...
May 13, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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taylorlorenz.bsky.social
"Doubles down on support for children"
headline reading ms rachel doubles down on support for children in gaza
May 13, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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annabower.bsky.social
Per NBC News: Rumeysa Ozturk has been released!
Chloe Atkins & @chloe_aatkins NOW: Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk has been released from the South Louisiana ICE Processing Center in Basile, Louisiana. As Ozturk walked out of the detention center, she said "thank you" to the press with her hands over her heart. Ozturk declined to speak, saying, "Thank you so much. I am a little bit tired, so I will take some time to rest."
May 9, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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etheringtonbros.bsky.social
Our 1st feature artist/tutorial for today is an awesome set of HAND REFS and DRAWING TIPS which were created a while back by @qinniart. Lots of GREAT approaches here! #gamedev #animation #characterdesign #drawing #comicart #tutorial #hands #anatomy #anime #manga #ILLUSTRATION
May 3, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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angelamcewen.bsky.social
My favourite crystal is called Lutetium Aluminum Garnet (commonly abbreviated LuAG, molecular formula Lu3Al5O12). An inorganic compound with a unique crystal structure known for its use for lasers: basically a lab made garnet that glows in the dark after exposed to light.
The perfect summer crystal.
May 1, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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kneecapceol.bsky.social
Massive Attack 👏👏👏👏
KNEECAP ARE NOT THE STORY If senior politicians can find neither the time, nor the words to condemn, say, the murder of fifteen voluntary aid workers in Gaza, or the illegal starvation of a civilian population as a method of warfare, or the killing of thousands & thousands of children in the same territory, by a state in possession of the highest precision weapons on earth; how much notice should a music festival take of their moral advice on booking performing acts? As a band that has spoken publicly for more than 30 years about the illegal occupation, apartheid system and killing with impunity of thousands of Palestinians, we are hyper aware of the both the human cost of abject political silence, and the commercial implications of publicly expressing solidarity with an oppressed people. Language matters of course. The hideous murders of elected politicians Jo Cox and David Amess means there’s no scope for flippancy or recklessness. But do politicians and right-wing journalists strategically concocting moral outrage over the stage utterings of a young punk band, while simultaneously obfuscating or even ignoring a genocide happening in real time (including the killing of journalists in unprecedented numbers) have any right to intimidate festival events into acts of political censorship? Kneecap are not the story. Gaza is the story. Genocide is the story. And the silence, acquiescence and support of those crimes against humanity by the elected British government is the real story. Solidarity with all artists with the moral courage to speak out against Israeli war crimes, and the ongoing persecution and slaughter of the Palestinian people. Massive Attack.
April 30, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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laurarpetto.bsky.social
Mohsen was just released by the federal judge in VT!!
April 30, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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altnps.bsky.social
Morale is in the toilet.
The Trump administration’s months-long hunt to root out the resistance is ramping up. Investigations are intensifying, with polygraph tests being used to create a climate of fear and intimidation.
April 29, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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altusds.altgov.info
We’ve modernized legacy government systems. We know what it takes. DOGE’s plan to migrate SSA’s COBOL systems without understanding is a disaster waiting to happen.

Here’s why DOGE will fail — and why it matters.

🔗 https://www.wethebuilders.org/posts/what-it-really-takes-to-migrate-cobol
A digital graphic with a black background featuring green cascading code resembling binary. In the center, white text reads: "What it really takes to migrate COBOL and why DOGE will fail." At the bottom left, the We The Builders logo is displayed alongside their email addresses: media@wethebuilders.org and submissions@wethebuilders.org.
April 27, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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bsky.support
we will never let you edit posts. you must wear each typo as an albatross. you will bear the weight of your hubris
April 25, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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bokane.org
Literary Chinese you can use, from Zhang Yanghao (1270-1329) on history:

興，百姓苦，亡，百姓苦
“Rise: the little people suffer.
Fall: the little people suffer.”
April 22, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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joshuajfriedman.com
NEW: Read the resignation letter of three federal prosecutors who'd worked on the Eric Adams case: "Now, the Department has decided that obedience supersedes all else, requiring us to abdicate our legal and ethical obligations in favor of directions from Washington." static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...
April 22, 2025 BY EMAIL Todd Blanche Deputy Attorney General United States Department of Justice Dear Deputy Attorney General Blanche, The Department placed each of us on administrative leave ostensibly to review our, and the Southern District of New York U.S. Attorney's Office's, handling of the Adams case. It is now clear that one of the preconditions you have placed on our returning to the Office is that we must express regret and admit some wrongdoing by the Office in connection with the refusal to move to dismiss the case. We will not confess wrongdoing when there was none. We have served under Presidents of both parties, advancing their priorities while pursuing justice without fear or favor. The role of a career prosecutor is not to set policy. But a prosecutor must abide by the oath to uphold the Constitution and laws of the United States and the rules of professional ethics set by the bar and the courts. The Department has long understood that these duties can and should coexist with the need to follow Department policies and orders. This is to the benefit of all: the courts, defendants, and the public, who can have confidence in the good faith and judgment of line prosecutors; the Department, which retains credibility while still receiving zealous advocacy from its lawyers; and the prosecutors themselves, who can stand in court confident that they are ethically carrying out their duties. Now, the Department has decided that obedience supersedes all else, requiring us to abdicate our legal and ethical obligations in favor of directions from Washington. That is wrong. Serving in the Southern District of New York has been an honor. There is no greater privilege than to work for an institution whose mandate is to do the right thing, the right way, for the right reasons. We will not abandon this principle to keep our jobs. We resign. Sincerely, Celia V. Cohen Andrew Rohrbach Derek Wikstrom Assistant United States Attorneys
April 22, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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moreperfectunion.bsky.social
Airbnb will now show you the full price of a stay, including fees and taxes, up front.

New pricing regulations from Lina Khan and the FTC are about to go into effect.

And these rules make hiding all the fees that go into the full price illegal.
April 21, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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handyauntjo.bsky.social
#AltFam #AltGov #ScheduleF

Folks, it looks like we're back at this game. Sharpen those pencils, commenting begins April 23rd.

@altnps.bsky.social @altacadia.bsky.social @altfws.altgov.info #HoldTheLine #spoons #ElbowsUp @rogueresistknitter.bsky.social @roguefema.altgov.info #FederalEmployees
donmoyn.bsky.social Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Apr 20
Wrote this in 2023, but it is relevant again because Trump proposing a new Schedule F rule. The basic issues remain the same, as does the value of public comment. You can submit a comment starting on April 23 and until May 23.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/a-tangible...
April 20, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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davekarpf.bsky.social
Let me get this straight:

Fringe extremist infiltrates a major political party, rises to the rank of Vice President, throws around diplomatic weight to force a meeting with the Pope, and then MURDERS said Pope?

Folks. This is a Dan Brown novel.
April 21, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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aljazeera.com
Pope Francis has died at the age of 88, the Vatican has announced.

Here's what you need to know about the selection process of a new pope and what happens next aje.io/mkfix3
April 21, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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hasanabirepeater.bsky.social
more dem congresspersons should be following @ChrisVanHollen's lead and demand the release of green card holders being detained for engaging in student protests against israel's genocide, this is a severe 1st amendment violation. we must stop this before its too late!
April 20, 2025 at 9:07 PM