Solarpunk Auntie
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Artist, hydrologist, river-wader-inner.
#solarpunk
#atheopagan
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Here's a painting I made many years ago. Title: Self Portrait With Colorado Pikeminnow (Formerly S***fish)
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Pinto
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I’m so tired of rules and laws just being optional for the wealthy. Doing things I’d go to jail for at 10,000 times the scale and getting told “ah well, you got us you little rascal” is the kind of thing that radicalizes people.
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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti
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“officials discovered two industrial-scale water hookups feeding a data center campus located 20 miles south of downtown Atlanta. One water connection had been installed without the utility’s knowledge, and the other was not linked to the company’s account and therefore wasn’t being billed.”
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A data center drained 30M gallons of water unnoticed — until residents complained about low water pressure — POLITICO
Residents in Fayetteville, Georgia, noticed low water pressure last year. The utility discovered two unaccounted-for water connections at one of the nation’s largest data center campuses.
https://apple.news/A8VAK2a8MRNGAwnuyhWbP6g
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ResistDoc
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26 days stalled. No donations, not even for May Day or EMS week. This is basically my part time job, in addition to my day job. Please boost if you can't donate. I know we're all gasping for air right now, but nine retweets doesn't help me like 100 does.
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Larry Hunter
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Cowardice and complicity do not pay. The National Academies should have been standing up for science, not trying to appease the regime.
www.aip.org/fyi/republic...
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Republican Lawmakers Suggest Cutting Off Funding for National Academies
A letter from 11 Republican representatives has caught the White House’s attention.
https://www.aip.org/fyi/republican-lawmakers-suggest-cutting-off-funding-for-national-academies
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Chantal James
about 2 hours ago
Them coming down on immigration is not funny to me. The love of my life got a green card as a pathway to citizenship to marry me. We divorced but our hearts are in a lifelong commitment. People I care about are affected by this anti immigrant white nationalism. Maybe folks you care about too.
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Shepherd
about 2 hours ago
Hey
@repvindman.bsky.social
weird that your "Weekly Wins" email this week doesn't mention you voted to endanger trans children by forcing teachers to out them. 73% of trans kids experience psychological abuse. You voted to increase that.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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Disparities in Childhood Abuse Between Transgender and Cisgender Adolescents
Transgender adolescents (TGAs) exhibit disproportionate levels of mental health problems compared with cisgender adolescents (CGAs), but psychosocial processes underlying mental health disparities amo...
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8344346/
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Brian Phillips
about 9 hours ago
The president of Cornell hit two students with his car, lied about what happened, and got away with it. The story illustrates an under-reported crisis in higher education: administrators and the trustees they answer to are increasingly hostile to the idea of college itself. I wrote about it here:
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Who’s to Blame When an Ivy League President Drives Into His Students?
“Ah! He just ran over my fucking foot!”
https://www.theringer.com/2026/05/22/national-affairs/cornell-car-scandal-president-michael-kotlikoff-higher-education
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TDr. Linda Maepa (born at 325ppm)
about 5 hours ago
PSA for Blacksky: If Bluesky bans you, reach out to BLACKsky. Blacksky adopts bluesky moderation, but can undo it on a case by case basis If And Only If, they are made aware of the issue. How to start the unbanning process 👇🏾 Email:
[email protected]
OR Support form (link below) Please share.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
2 months ago
if there's one conclusion that the study of both labor history and imperialism converge on, it is that the richest people in the world are happy to burn money on control, power, impunity. and the "everything is about profit" version of anti-capitalism does not survive serious contact with either
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Harsha Walia
about 5 hours ago
Devastating memoir of Palestinian prisoner Nasser Abu Srour on surviving torture inside Israel’s prisons from 1993 until 2025. "I have decided to write because things do not find existence outside the borders of language, not even genocide."
www.equator.org/articles/why...
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‘Why Don’t You Just Die?’ • EQUATOR
Surviving torture and brutality inside Israel’s prisons
https://www.equator.org/articles/why-don-t-you-just-die-srour
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Annabell
about 16 hours ago
Tag 22
#Mermay
Rochen
#kleinekunstklasse
#acrylics
#printing
#monotype
#mermay2026
#abstract
#abstractart
#sealife
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Marcus McAllister
about 13 hours ago
Marcus McAllister ”SB150.38 un mot secret” 2026 - Sketchbook 150 drawing - 23x15cm
#sketchbook
#drawing
#SciArt
#bird
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Karina Coghlin
about 13 hours ago
I can hardly believe it's Friday again already. To celebrate
#scape
day, here is a small
#watercolour
painting in Payne's grey. Happy weekend!
#watercolor
#landscape
#painting
#art
#landscapepainting
#paynesgrey
#minimalistart
#calm
#tree
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karinacoghlin.com
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Joel Pedersen
about 7 hours ago
Walking Nightmare Graphite on Paper - 7 x 10 inches - 2026
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#graphiteOnPaper
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Je Hyeon | ABOLISH the polICE
about 10 hours ago
I am once again asking for your trash for things like this
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Arizona Right Watch
about 7 hours ago
I’m tired of reading the empty husk of bullshit that is generated text. All the AI generated slop imagery in local newsletters and local bar art all gives Arizona wildnesses a wonky saguaro and Sepia Filter like it’s goddamn Breaking Bad and I’m TIRED OF IT. It’s ugly af and you’re fooling nobody
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madeline odent
about 14 hours ago
This. God, this. It is such a manufactured panic and it started the moment they lost the fight over gay marriage. Support trans rights because it’s the right thing to do and also because this is all just a fascist push
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Liberal Currents
about 10 hours ago
"As a general principle, you don’t tax the wealthy to build. You tax the wealthy to manage their power. (. . .)For this reason, every dollar over $100 million should fall into a confiscatory tax bracket of 100%. There’s no reason to allow anyone to accrue more wealth than that."
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We Owe Each Other Better: Reject Slopulism, Embrace Building the Republic
We must end the permanent retreat that began with Reagan.
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/we-owe-each-other-better-reject-slopulism-embrace-building-the-republic/
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique
1 day ago
There has been this steady stream of legacy media bs about higher ed in general and the humanities in particular that, while part of a long culture war against universities, really accelerated after 2020-2021. The New York Times became a genteel version of Dinesh D'Souza & David Horowitz.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique
1 day ago
Outlets like The Atlantic & NYT opened a new front in what Robin Kelley has called "the long war on Black studies" - but they repackaged critiques of higher ed that normally would have been confined to the pages of "National Review" for liberal centrists
www.nybooks.com/online/2023/...
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The Long War on Black Studies | Robin D. G. Kelley
We fell under the leadership of those who would compromise with truth in the past in order to make peace in the present and guide policy in the future.
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2023/06/17/the-long-war-on-black-studies/
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique
1 day ago
None of the critiques are new, nor is the nostalgia for a 'pre-woke' college and university (as with the NYT's profile of Deep Springs). But what feels different over the past few years is the willingness of the center-left to fully embrace the right-wing fantasy of higher education.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique
1 day ago
As colleges and universities have made gestures toward anti-racism, the (white) upper middle class embraced the right's long standing sense of victimization in the face of demographic change - and the university is a central site where we project our fantasies & fears about demographic change.
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Kathleen Bachynski
about 21 hours ago
Wow: “The tooth’s hollow had been scooped out by a stone drill rather than by natural decay or wear… The findings indicated that the prehistoric patient underwent a deliberate Stone Age root canal, a discovery that pushes back the earliest evidence of intentional dentistry by more than 40,000 years”
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Neanderthal Dentistry, and the Scientist Glad Not to Have Experienced It
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/science/neanderthal-tooth-dentistry.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Sara Gibbs
about 14 hours ago
No compliance. Ever. Our trans siblings, we will fight for you.
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Normally rule-following autistic says fuck transphobic laws
A cisgender autistic woman who is generally so law abiding she once performed a citizen’s arrest on herself for jaywalking will not acknowledge any evil transphobic legislation, it has been confirmed....
https://thedailytism.com/normally-rule-following-autistic-says-fuck-transphobic-laws/
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Liv “Leev” Rainey-Smith
about 7 hours ago
Wunderwerck IV Liv Rainey-Smith Woodcut print Limited edition of 30 signed & numbered plus 3 artist proofs 4th of my study series based on Conrad Lycosthene's 1557 Prodigiorum ac Osentorum Chronicon. All artworks in this series are chosen via bibliomancy.
#art
#woodcut
#printmaking
#lycosthenes
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Lise M. Dyckman
about 10 hours ago
What happens to people when they’re deported from the U.S.? Families collapse. People die. Helpers struggle. ICE violates its own rules (such as they are) just so it can make quotas demanded by Stephen Miller.
portside.org/2026-05-21/n...
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A New Kind of Family-Separation Crisis
Early one morning behind the airport in La Lima, Honduras, before the first planeload of deportees landed, Sister Idalina Bordignon was meeting with her staff about an unsettling situation. Every day,...
https://portside.org/2026-05-21/new-kind-family-separation-crisis
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Erin Reed
3 days ago
1. A Kansas Judge has struck down the anti-trans "experts" the ADF parades. "Cherry-picked information, conjecture, and research taken out of context," ruled Judge Folsom III. He then established 349 facts that support trans care and reversed the Kansas ban. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Kansas Judge Eviscerates Anti-Trans
The judge found 349 individual facts supported the continued provision of gender-affirming care.
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-judge-eviscerates-anti-trans
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Colleen Wynn
about 7 hours ago
"To persist, to try, to take risks, most people need hope. They need the confidence that people can in fact change their conditions, and that collectively, they can do more together than they can apart." As always,
@mskellymhayes.bsky.social
invites us to engage with each other and practice hope.
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Courtney Milan
about 7 hours ago
Cool cool can’t wait for the way this is going to get misused!
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Dr. Emily Friedman
about 12 hours ago
I think a lot about how to express value of challenge, of pleasures beyond “relatable” “simple” etc. A lot of discussion with colleagues & superiors how to encourage curiosity. What’s frustrating is that this gets called elitist in a world with little leisure, utilitarian education, gamification.
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Eric Rauchway
about 11 hours ago
People died for the Voting Rights Act.
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Their Loved Ones Died for the Voting Rights Act. The Supreme Court’s Ruling Is a New Injustice.
Dennis Dahmer was 12 years old in January 1966 when Klansmen stormed...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/their-loved-ones-died-for-the-voting-rights-act-the-supreme-courts-ruling-is-a-new-injustice
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2 days ago
I just came to stumble upon this. It is my new favorite skeet of all times. Read this brilliant, honest, bleeding, and poetic piece by
@alexpetrovnia.bsky.social
. If you don't - what do you have eyes for? It's an epiphany, a creed of defiance, Camus himself couldn't have written any better.
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Solastalgic
about 1 month ago
A spring
#scape
for your Friday ~
#landscapepainting
#landscape
#traditionalart
#painting
#watercolor
#watercolorsky
#skypainting
#eck
#skyscape
#cloudscape
#womensart
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Sherrilyn Ifill
about 8 hours ago
This guy is a total menace. Don’t get distracted by the “swinger” content. He’s long been one of the craziest standard bearers for the “constitutional sheriffs” movement. Read this 2021 Politico piece about Lamb. And I bet
@jesspish.bsky.social
knows more.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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Black Guy Does Sociology
about 8 hours ago
Not only that, but the common mainstream understanding became "Democrats defunded the police", even though the calling card applause line for the leader of the party was "I don't want to DEFUND the police, I want to give them MORE funding". Brain-numbing stuff
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Arizona Mirror
about 8 hours ago
Private equity firms own 378 apartment complexes, totaling more than 104,000 apartment units, in the Grand Canyon State — nearly one in every four apartment
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Private equity owns nearly 1 in 4 Arizona apartments — and renters are paying for it | Arizona Mirror
Private equity firms own nearly 3 million apartment units, about 13% of the total apartments across the country, according to a new analysis from watchdog group Private Equity Stakeholder Project. And...
https://azmirror.com/2026/05/22/repub/private-equity-owns-nearly-1-in-4-arizona-apartments-and-renters-are-paying-for-it/
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This Many Years Ago
about 16 hours ago
506 years ago, on the 22nd of May 1520, the massacre at the festival of Tóxcatl took place. During the festival, Spanish captain Pedro de Alvarado turned on the Mexica of Tenochtitlan, killing performers, spectators and nobles.
#otd
#history
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Andrew Middleton
about 8 hours ago
My favorite role models are those mysterious people who spent their entire lives building elaborate projects in their backyards at tremendous personal expense for no apparent reason and I think that's evident in most of my life decisions.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.
about 8 hours ago
I'm on this week's episode of Native Plants Healthy Planet podcast with
@nativeplantfran.bsky.social
and Tom Knezick! You can check it out here
bleav.com/shows/native...
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Native Plants, Healthy Planet: Skype a Scientist with Sarah McAnulty
Hosts Fran Chismar and Tom Knezick connect with Sarah McAnulty (Biologist and Executive Director of Skype a Scientist) to discuss Squid and Native Plants in urban setting. Topics include making scienc...
https://bleav.com/shows/native-plants-healthy-planet/episodes/skype-a-scientist-with-sarah-mcanulty/
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T.L. Tomljanovic
about 9 hours ago
This is THE definition of
#ELit
. I got chills listening to the recording.
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UAINE
about 9 hours ago
A Hopi perspective on water: "Treat water like family, not profit."
www.hcn.org/articles/tre...
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Treat water like family, not profit - High Country News
Federal and state approaches to managing the Colorado River – as well as land and wildlife – reflect a lack of experience.
https://www.hcn.org/articles/treat-water-like-family-not-profit/
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🆂🅷🅴🅴🅽🅰
about 13 hours ago
Took this yesterday in the brief respite between downpours
#FlowersonFriday
#SCAPE
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Midatlantica
about 10 hours ago
I think about polls like this and how it dovetails with replacement theories and other bugaboos
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Americans Overestimate the Size of Minority Groups and Underestimate the Size of Most Majority Groups | Freedom Foundation of Minnesota
From YouGovAmerica: “When it comes to estimating the size of demographic groups, Americans rarely get it right. “In two recent YouGov polls, we asked respondents to guess the percentage (ranging from ...
https://freedomfoundationofminnesota.com/americans-overestimate-the-size-of-minority-groups-and-underestimate-the-size-of-most-majority-groups/
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Mr. Business
about 11 hours ago
But yeah, this is an unmoored way to approach politics and life, really. There’s no political arrangement that will exist that will stop people from making art and liking it, no one is *making* you like it, and enacting a regime of racial repression because you felt peer pressured about art is wild.
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Mr. Business
about 11 hours ago
What drove this home was seeing someone say that even though they didn’t want Trump to win they were so happy they didn’t have to pretend to like Everything Everywhere All At Once anymore. Not a Black movie but a similar dynamic and I’m very sure they were happy Trump won.
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Jack Feerick
about 10 hours ago
The thing is, saying "This is not for me" admits the possibility of other audiences, and for someone who's internalized the idea that they are the Protagonist Of Reality, the only audience who matters, that's a hard sell. Which leads to some real contortions of meaning.
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about 16 hours ago
#Scape
Friday
#ForestFriday
#ECK
#photo
#photography
#photographersofBlueSky
#travel
#trees
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Lola Jovan
about 23 hours ago
The abundance of creatures exposed by the negative tide is amazing! Here are just a few from our quick getaway to the Oregon coast this week.
#marinelife
#tidepools
#oregoncoast
#beachhike
#rockhound
#photography
#love
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about 11 hours ago
Still need help I always get a headstart every week and every week the goal goes unmet This is not for a frivolous purpose
linktr.ee/hiitsbritt
[rehousing 💵’s go to Chuffed only]
#mutualaid
#helpsky
#bipocma
#fundsky
#mutualaidrequest
💕💸 🤎🖤
#disabilitycrowdfund
#mav
#homelesssky
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