This is such a blatant post hoc scramble by @bsky.app @safety.bsky.app to find some fig leaf to "justify" the ban because @jay.bsky.team went full Elon and demanded the ban.

OK, so this is going to be tough to hear, but it needs to be said. Now that Trump has been enjoined from sending *any* NG to Oregon, ICE is going to go gangbusters in Oregon, dialing everything up to 1000%. Because they need riots. They need someone punching an ICE officer. DON'T TAKE THE BAIT.

Every DoJ attorney promoting and defending at this stuff should never again eat food that is less than 10% spit

Two things felt different to the ppl I spoke with who’d been protesting at the ICE building for months. 1st was the sheer volume of tear gas, pepper balls and flash-bangs used, seemingly unprovoked. 2nd was seeing so many videographers/live-streamers embedded with the feds as they marched out.

my birthday is this weekend! I turn 40! the big present I want this year is to be able to pay the electric bill on time. I'm struggling without a job and I need some help. please send gifts to thiiirdperson at paypal, venmo, cashapp, or ko-fi. any amount helps! have a great weekend.

I will also reup my story from March about how Weiss’s for-profit University of Austin (UATX)—touted as a haven for free academic inquiry—has a dozen scholars and officials with ties to Hungary's speech-suppressing regime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Cherokee street magician. Trying to preserve our Native American Magic Culture. If you like my work, please, please, please help support it, any little bit helps a lot and is greatly appreciated. cash.app/$lostcitymagic www.paypal.me/JeramyNeugin

Today is the release day of Gazan physics student Wasim Said's memoir of life under the genocide. 🧪 You should grab a copy. #BookSky 1804books.com/products/wit...

Scooter is not letting any nonsense happen on his watch.

My review of @hamishsteele.bsky.social’s Go Man: Champion of Earth is now available. Long story short, this autistic rep superhero graphic novel is a definite recommend. #HamishSteele #autism #graphicnovel #superhero #review youtu.be/y0VJrWsd2p4

Hey, Autistic Folks! New study - the PI is a friend and set it up to be a group chat, because she is one of us. URL to prescreener, which is open until October 30: tinyurl.com/mixerautisms...

ER's are full because there is a lack of family medicine doctors and psychiatrists in North America. ER's are full because in rural areas, we will drive 20 miles or more to get to one and are thankful it is open and can stabilize us for a helicopter.

Because the federal government shut down on the first of the month, everyone should know folks with a Section 8 Voucher cannot be evicted because the government didn't make the voucher payment, nor can their portion of the rent be increased to cover the voucher payment. 24 C.F.R. § 982.310(b)(1)

(All examples assume households are enrolled in the benchmark Silver plan both years) 2. #NEWHAMPSHIRE: ~80,000 ACA enrollees Avg gross rate change: +22.4% (semifinal) Avg gross 2026 premium: $574/mo NET 2026 increase for 64-yr old couple earning $90K/yr if the enhanced tax credits expire: +192%

If you’re on Bluesky you already know that PRE-ORDERS ARE EVERYTHING, so if there’s even ONE PERSON in your life you might gift this book to, do me a favor and order it NOW. Drops 10.28 well before holidays. Imagine having MANY gift copies on hand. SO PREPARED. www.chroniclebooks.com/collections/...

If I’m running messaging, the word on the street is that Democrats are refusing to fund a dictatorship. Either Article 1 means something or nobody gets anything.

Funny thing, I just had an article posted in our local newsletter about this. Here's the short version. Like luna moths? Leave your leaves. Like bumblebees? Leave your leaves. Like lightning bugs? Leave your leaves. Full version (scroll past the first nine items): mailchi.mp/e4719958486d...

This AND so many people and doctors are focused on the most common age-related impairment (Alzheimer's) that other forms are even easier to miss. But those symptoms, like change in mood, loss of brain-mouth filter, and aphasia can be just as difficult for everyone to deal with, just different.

Found out that one kid has a professor who has ChatGPT providing homework AND explanatory notes for a course. To preempt questions about how to do a specific thing that they had zero instruction in, "Google it" was written. "At least they are open about it, ChatGPT is cited in the syllabus."

Direct link to the IG post here. Hopefully this can help get Tucker in touch with the right person to shine a light on what ICE is doing to Barbara Marques www.instagram.com/tuckermaymys...

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What in the absolute FUCK. The only words I have right now are F-bombs.

Sound on 🐾🤍

Do you do want to use alt text, but keep forgetting it? You can go to Settings > Accessibility > Tick the "Require alt text before publishing" ... And just like that, you're becoming a part of making the internet in general, and BlueSky in specific, a kinder and more inclusive space.

🚨HEY NASHVILLE — THERE’S A SPECIAL ELECTION GOING ON — WHY ARE Y’ALL NOT VOTING? All schools in Davidson County will be closed on October 7th and Dec 2nd for an election… no one is showing up to? (H/T @LisaQuigleyTN)

Re-upping this, for people in nation's capital. WJLA, long a respected local TV station, still cowering to Trump and Sinclair, and not carrying Kimmel show. Yes, I know, huge audiences see it on line. But just as self-respect... Station manager's contact # is 703-236-9552.

Haüyne, formed in magma chambers, is pretty, blue & can fluoresce. But electrically conductive iron-ore hematite is an absolute giant of art history, used as red ochre, going back at least 164,000 years to Pinnacle Point Caves! Also called Venetian, mars or English red. Vote hematite! #MinCup25

Reminds me of a story from Ron Carlson's story that is an after-action report to a medieval village about the recent Visigoths invasion and the timing of a a 1900-pound brass kettle with boiling oil.

I assume the estate of fmr Commissioner Mickey Roache is going to write those checks personally, right? Or is fmr Mayor Ray Flynn going to protect him from that too?

For no particular reason whatsoever, I wrote a whole book about why society should stop trying to cure #ActuallyAutistic people and instead focus more on creating a better world and society for them. You can buy it here. www.harpercollins.com/products/wer...

If it should go back to those that built it, that's the Soviet Union in 1950. And then the Afghan Air Force. 🤷‍♀️ But really, I think it would be hilarious if the Afghan Government delivered the sign from the Subway that the US built there to the Khyber Pass. You wanted it back? Ok.

15 years, 4 kids, a laundry list of full time jobs and hours of makeup classroom time later, 34 year old Antonio Pennix received his high school diploma. www.thebanner.com/community/lo...

If you are looking for something soothing, may I recommend Captain TJ's time lapse videos as he travels the St. Lawrence Seaway and Great Lakes? As an example... youtu.be/4mJKZk0OAJY

This video is amazing - she has such a quiet, polite voice and she unravels every stereotype put forth in the Green video.

Folks, these are OLD friends of mine. Like 20+ years friends. We've seem some shit together. They're good people, working hard to make the world a more progressive place. 1100 bucks is not a huge ask. Can we do this?

I used to have a TV buddy, Memphis the Orange, who particularly liked police procedurals. Then he moved to be with his human and my lap has been empty UNTIL TONIGHT! Turns out Scooter has taste. I fired up @audacityofdespair.bsky.social's documentary, The Wire, and he happily joined me.

Tonight Scooter was being very cute. I realized that most of the pictures I've taken lately have been of this cat and I'm not sad but, as someone with sled dogs, I am a little embarrassed. It's not like I was anti-cat before, but it was like, "Aw, cute," and then I moved on. Now I'm changed.

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

Boom! Mega farside filament eruption just now emerging from the Sun's southwestern limb in GOES SUVI imagery. This is not an Earth-directed CME, but boy it is beautiful! The Sun never disappoints in providing lots of fireworks for us to look at :)

Almost Human Constantine Lovecraft Country

We need your help to find meteorite that crashed into Scotland. 🔭 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

Hey, gonna be vulnerable and post a stand up clip on bluesky…don’t let it flop cuties

Scooter says he will boop his snoot against you if you ask nicely.

"Strongest black hole collision yet confirms theories of Einstein, Hawking" Adrian Cho of @science.org writes about our discovery of #GW250114 www.science.org/content/arti... #O4IsHere #EinsteinWasRight #HawkingWasRight #KerrWasRight 🔭🧪⚛️☄️

Our theories about black holes say that the event-horizon area of the final black hole should be larger than the areas of the two initial black holes Fitting data before and after merger, we find #GW250114 matches predictions! ligo.org/science-summ... 📈: doi.org/10.1103/kw5g... #O4IsHere 🧪⚛️☄️🔭

Also, if people use alt-text, then muting words here WILL pick it up. For example, if you mute "burrito" and someone makes a post that says, "spicy" and includes a picture that is described as "a bean and cheese burrito on a plate" it will not be shown to you. Another reason to use alt-text folks!

Have been tagged in to provide the reminder about traumatic video because of the Charlie Kirk shooting video going around! 1. Settings -> Content & Media, turn off "autoplay video" 2. Keep your device sound off while browsing so an accidental activation won't include the sound