Indeed it does.
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Indeed it does.
Nice!
But humans do detect subliminal details and react to them whether they’re consciously aware of it or not. Even on Preservation (especially on Preservation) I ran my code to make my movement and body language more human to keep from drawing attention.
Yesterday the president demanded that evidence about Covid vaccines be shown to the public. Today @apoorvanyt.bsky.social & I run through some of the studies made public over the past 4+ years that show that the vaccines work. Gift link: nyti.ms/46k17Tq
Thanks. I ain’t that mobile to begin with so being totally non-mobile blows.
So fluffy! A fox squirrel from the archives. #SqrlPix
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Cities in Texas with higher violent crime rates last year than Chicago. Houston Corpus Christi Lubbock Amarillo Dallas San Antonio Pasadena This isn't about crime. It's never been about crime.
Although I know what caused this - they screwed up an injection last week that was suppose to help. They kept me on hold long enough I really aught 2 charge them (if only.)
September 8: National Call-in Day for Airlines to allow pet rabbits to fly in the passenger cabin! houserabbit.org/updates/2025... #HouseRabbit #Travel
We lost Graham Greene at 73. Oneida, Onyota’a:ka—People of the Standing Stone. For us, he was family. Everyone’s uncle. I wrote about the laughter, the mischief, and the truth he carried. 💔 Read here: Graham Greene was Everyone's Uncle open.substack.com/pub/juliefra...
Sea Level xkcd.com/3135/
![Comic. [Two people on shore looking at body of water] PERSON 1: Hey, where’s that big island we were looking at this morning? PERSON 2 with short hair: Oh, it’s underwater. The ocean’s depth here goes up and down by like ten feet every day. PERSON 1: What? PERSON 2: It’s because the planet has a big moon orbiting near the surface. It causes weird gravity effects. PERSON 1: *What???* [caption] People here are used to them, but tides are one of the weirdest and most sci-fi elements of life on Earth.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreidj2tdqhkgoamiqf5reqt7kvbpt26x3cgjxsp4rtwwb46qumcltdq@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Me too! Then I fall down a research rabbit hole… 🕳️
WTAF!!!
People are being implored to "Film things that you see happening." I used to do this work. Just turning your phone/a camera on helps. Knowing what and how to record is much better. The public needs good info on how to do this and as safely as possible. Let me look at the guides floating around.
Great explanation on the hidden costs of disabilities.
BREAKING: Gov. JB Pritzker says the Trump administration has sent the Texas National Guard to Great Lakes Naval Base outside Chicago, awaiting orders to deploy to Chicago. Trump administration officials will target Mexican Independence Day (Sept. 16) celebrations. @wttw.bsky.social
Bend my right knee. Bending the leg would likely be bad.
This not being to put weight on 1 leg or bend it is really frustrating. The doctor’s is like: we can see you on Thursday. Nothing urgent apparently. Grrrrr.
Congress is back in session, and we are back on Capitol Hill. Join us here at Independence Ave and New Jersey by Longworth House Office building until 7pm today. 🇺🇸🇺🇦 Keep calling your members of Congress and demand the USA resumes military aid to Ukraine. #CrimeaIsUkraine
@bbl-astrophyscs.bsky.social theonion.com/scalpers-jac...
The dog realises when the point has been won and celebrates... 😊 #dog #dogday #bluesky
Please do not go to a voluntary interview with Secret Service, plz never meet with any fed without a very good lawyer present, and plz definitely don't call the president a terrorist Nazi to SS when you voluntarily talk to them without even a bad lawyer present plz don't gamble on a grand jury
A reminder…
"Work from home is bad for everyone Only a few people retain productivity Intangible office connections are gone Young people r further isolated and lonely City centers decay" -Vinay Prasad, the FDA Director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, who barely comes into the office.
I'm sorry, but genetic engineering is getting out of hand.
Using one photo already on your phone, what is the announcement tomorrow at 2?
The last passenger pigeon died 111 years ago today and not a day goes by that I don't think about how their flocks numbered in the *billions*, that their roosts covered 100+ square miles, that they collapsed trees with their nests. America is incomplete without them
People who live in Maryland esp should call.
Third, Maryland Governor Wes Moore has a comment line where you can leave a message - call (410) 974-3901 and tell him we want #AveloOutofBWI. An airline that takes money from ICE to traffic human beings, including children, is an affront to Marylanders.
This after the alert that Trump plans to make an announcement at 2 p.m. tomorrow
Graham Greene helped make the rest of the world see Indigenous people as real human beings. The first time I saw him on screen was in Dances With Wolves and the last time was in The Last of Us. What a tremendous legacy! RIP ✊🏽🙌🏽❤️
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Yes!!! 🙌 Thank you all con runners & volunteers!!!!
spoiler alert: its not what you think it is, it's worse (yes that covers a lot of ground) my guess is a federal action in Chicago
On September 1, 2025, we lost a true legend. Graham Greene, Oneida from Six Nations Reserve, walked on at the age of 73. Over the span of more than 175 acting credits, he gave us characters that were unforgettable, complex, and real. redpopnews.com/remembering-... #redpopnews
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Please talk to some Black people before dismissing the psychological impact of having Feds running around the neighborhood hemming people up en masse.
Join the resistance visibility brigade tomorrow, 9/2, on the Gorman rd overpass for the weekly protest--the theme will be SILENCE MEANS CONSENT! We'll have more large-letter signs focused on the ongoing military occupation of DC. Register here: www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve... Bring friends! 🦋
I love the smell of consequences in the morning. Thank you, @dragoncon.org
it is underdiscussed how "learning loss" can also be attributed to the fact that millions of people were dying and the kids were fucking terrified all the time - not just that they were on Zoom
Ok that is really odd.
If you have not been, now is a really good time to start tracing your multi-size patterns instead of cutting them out. This is a resource we'll never have again.
I really like it. Love taking that small bit of the book & expanding it. Good suspense aspects & acting.
Spanish language Dracula (1931) & more recent Last Voyage of the Demeter.
Nightmare before Christmas of course (also works for Xmas so bonus!). Just for weirdness Donnie Darko.
Remember that we can always find power, solidarity, and hope in the labor movement. [Artwork by Ricardo Levins Morales]
The tshirt isn’t regulation/standard. The image of the shoulder is from ?
Miles O'Brien fan club assemble.
If only it happened sooner. Woof!
Don't forget about the DRM-free Humble Bundle from Tor (with Murderbot, Witch King, and more), benefiting World Center Kitchen. The donation is now at over 58,000. It would be awesome to get it up to $100,000. www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...
Good morning! I’m here at the DC Freedom Run! DC statehood now, ICE & National Guard out of DC! #FreeDC!!
Worth a repost...
1 September marks the first bell across Ukraine. Schools adapt with in person, blended, or online learning depending on safety. Thanks to the Armed Forces, children can still open their books. Each lesson is a sign of resilience and faith in the future. Art: Mariia Poliakova
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A wonderful (older) museum volunteer who I worked with grew up in Italy & had Maria Montessori as a teacher. I love the Montessori philosophy (& did it as a kid in the US) but wow it spoiled me for 3rd grade in public school. 😱
Also like the blue streaks.
Very cute!!! ☺️
Memorably put in cartoon form at xkcd.com/1357/
Sad but true: “Black women are the canaries in the coal mine, the exclusion happens to them first,” Ms. Roy said. “And if any other cohort thinks it’s not coming for them, they’re wrong. This is a warning, and it’s a stark one.”
In 1964, a group of high school students skipped school to see The Beatles arrive in the U.S., and while they were in their car, Ringo Starr pulled up beside them and took this photo. Nearly 50 years later, they reunited with him to recreate the moment.
Talking to people in 2025
I know I don’t get out every day but the only times I’ve seen these things is in a news story. Maybe there aren’t an actual fad, but stuff people decided was? 🤔
BARCS has her, now 🥲 Baltimore moots: somebody please adopt her 😩😩😩
Thou shalt not end vaccines. God will not save you from plague. The Middle Ages should’ve made that very clear.
ALERT: Several US Customs and Border Patrol agents spotted with several Metro PD officers at Rhode Island Avenue Metro. Currently standing around but there are 10-12 officers on site. This is current as of 8/31/25 at 4:09 PM. Stay away!
Found these DVDs while liking for something else. I hadn’t seen in awhile. Great series - looking forward 2 a rewatch. But do not watch the US version. It is so, so, so amazingly terrible (poorly written & acted as well as over all plot.)
Meet us in Lafeyette Park again today Sunday until 7pm. We at the North side near H and 16th St. 🇺🇸🇺🇦 Keep calling your members of Congress and demand the USA resumes military aid to Ukraine. #CrimeaIsUkraine
This is a great time to remind everyone that EOs aren’t laws, the federal government doesn’t manage voting in this way, and it’s all a scare tactic and any reporting that doesn’t provide that context is enabling potentially lawless activity.
Talking Heads first identified submarine hydrogeology as a research area back in 1981. Get David Byrne as a co-PI on your next grant.
This is chilling to see - as well it should be.
Ok, hear me out. A Lord of the Rings re-make, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor:
Of course we don't have an official "national" broadcast channel here per se.
I've been thinking (as I do) for tv stations instead of playing "Swan Lake" during a time of crisis (ala the Soviet Union) what would stations air in the US? I think maybe "Guys and Dolls." A mostly inoffensive musical movie, with no big questions (although questionable by today's standards).
Periplus, a mentorship collective serving US-based early-career writers of color, is now accepting applications for our 2026 class of fellows! Apply by 9/20: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... You can learn more about Periplus (including fellowship eligibility requirements) here: bit.ly/periplusfaq
It reminds me of Delany’s “Times Square Red, Times Square Blue.
Gavin is grandstanding on Twitter while punishing trans and houseless Californians. This is what he’d be doing if he wanted to really fight.
On twitter and I've seen it used here every Saturday is #SettlerSaturday where folks try to help Natives in need of mutual aid and other assistance. This #settlersaturday, I ask that folks follow these brilliant Indigenous folks here on Bluesky. go.bsky.app/MEaiVa9
Next #SETILive: LaserSETI Live Puerto Rico Edition TODAY, 30 August, 11 am PDT Join us for a special livestream featuring @profabelmendez.bsky.social from the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo, hosted by SETI Institute researcher Dr. Lauren Sgro. 🧪 🔭 👩🔬 WATCH LIVE: youtube.com/live/NgIV41t...
So on Thursday I got a medication injection in my knees (not steroids) to help with my mobility & now I can’t put any weight on my right knee. Joy. Not swollen but not happy. Of course on a holiday weekend. 🤦♀️
Anyone else aside from me & @redshift42.bsky.social here gone to all the surviving or on display Mithraeums in the UK? :-) #history 😁
Absolutely beautiful day in Greenbelt MD, home of #goddardspaceflightcenter. #NASAneedshelp is spreading the word!
If you're arrested in Illinois protesting the planned ICE HQ in North Chicago, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.
Wow! So neat!
“She found occasional work as a visiting professor… She earned grants to fund her research, including a fellowship at Harvard, but she was often living on unemployment benefits. When she won a MacArthur Fellowship in 1989 — the coveted “genius” award — for her scholarship, she was hired full time.”
This is happening today, Saturday, August 30, from 4-7pm. Defend the District w/ Yaddiya & Community Leaders. March from 14th & U St NW to the National Monument (Sylvan Theater).
This is never not going to be confusing.
🧵 to read 👇 #history
I learned about it long ago when I was in college. Here is an article from PBS www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...
🎉 yeah science!!!
The Veteran Sit in at Union Station in DC is working.👇🏼 The National Guard has been there every single day until today after the amazing and knowledgeable Vets spoke to the Guard about what they were doing there and how they had a choice to leave if they don’t agree with it!
The maddening thing is that we know EXACTLY how to prevent this. Yes, kids should get vaccinated, test, stay home when sick, mask as much as possible. But even without any of that: Better ventilation and filtration in schools can MASSIVELY reduce viral spread, for all sorts of respiratory diseases.
Excellent question.
I think I’m not making the next round of #BakeOff 🤣 Its been years since made a cake.
Comfortably Numb 
