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Just a few minutes ago I looked outside and saw this fine feathered predator sitting in a tree on the other side of my yard. It seemed to sense me taking a pic for it turned it head in profile, paused just long enough for me to take a pic, then flew off. Not sure what kind of hawk it is. #birds

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The monster under my bed has signed me up to receive emails from the Heritage Foundation.

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Victorian medicine chest, which contains medications for pain relief, such as opium. It also includes a set of scales, weights, a pill tile, and a spatula. It was probably used in the home or by an apothecary. Photo: Wellcome Collection, London.

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Your reminder that pressure to curb trans people's rights to use public loos opens up everyone's manner, clothing etc to intrusive scrutiny and potential challenge in our daily lives. History also shows allowing erasure of rights for one group soon sees others targeted. This is not a 'them' issue.

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If you need a breather from all this bullshit, here's a photo of Earth. From Saturn. We're that slightly brighter star at centre right.

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H5N1 (Bird Flu) is also airborne? Wow. The list of reasons to mask up keeps getting longer: COVID Measles TB Wildfire smoke H5N1 … If you can’t afford high quality respirators, contact your local mask bloc: maskbloc.org

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Properly fitted #N95 #masks can filter out most PM2.5 particles, the ones most commonly linked to health effects. You will still smell #smoke since N95's can't stop gases which cause irritation. P100 for more severe situations. #wildfires healthybuildings.hsph.harvard.edu/wildfireresp....

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Some tarantulas keep frogs as 'pets'. The frogs eat ants & other small bugs that might attack the eggs or young spiderlings of the tarantula & the tarantula provides shelter in their burrows. What's more: the tarantula will attack predators that might threaten the frog. (📷: Emanuele Biggi)

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Wanna see what’s happening with Gawain and his wife 10 years after QUEEN OF FURY? And meet Morgen’s daughter Llachlyn? Go forth!

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'Libel' comes from Latin 'libellus,' which essentially means "little book." So, if you can't remember the difference between 'libel' and 'slander,' just remember that little books are written.

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"If the Big 4 does not survive this, it also spells the death knell for most printed sewing patterns like ours, since there will no longer be a printer capable of producing large-scale tissue sheets." I … did not know I should be worried I might not be able to get patterns ever again

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Overheard: "Quick 15 minute meetingl" like Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster, is a mythical being I have never actually seen.

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Quaintrelle [kweyn-TRELL] (n.) - A finely dressed woman who emphasizes a life of passion, expressed through personal style, leisurely pastimes, charm, and cultivation of life’s pleasures.

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Nice

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"The EU found many faults with the verification system on X, including that it runs counter to industry practice and is deceptive. It also pointed to evidence of malicious actors exploiting the system:" Elon Musk tries to avoid EU wrath by revealing how meaningless X verification is

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It's me lol

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Plus Ada Lovelace created computer programming.

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Mr. Duck joined me in the back yard this afternoon as I puttered in the garden. After eating his fill of birdseed off the ground, he trumpeted his departure, then went up up and away. #birds

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It’s good to see me, isn’t it? 💜✨ Yes, yes, the rumors are true — we are OFFICIALLY launching here on Bluesky! In case you forgot, we’re a place to buy books online where every purchase supports local bookstores, not billionaires. Thanks for being here 🙌🏽

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If you get a form letter in response, write back. Bullet point your questions if you need to. It's okay to keep replying "You didn't answer my questions" until you get SOME kind of answer (that's what I did with KDP and how I got bumped to the top of the chain).

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Please listen to the UN General Secretary.

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UNBOUND AUTHORS: I’m speaking to a solicitor about our fine mess. If you have ANY correspondence with the company (beyond the “Dear Author” letters we all got) in 2024 about nonpayment or about the company’s financial stability, could I see it? I’m opening my DMs for this (don’t make me regret that)

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American Climate Scientists Have a New Canadian Hero #Canada #USA #ClimateScientists How McGill professor Juan Serpa created SUSAN, the online forum helping U.S. researchers protect their data from Trump macleans.ca/society/amer...

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I love talking about myth, and in particular, the joy and sadness in Arthuriana that connects me to a thousand year+ old tradition. #booksky

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVxH... NEW VIDEO! The Floppy Archival Project Working on backing up hundreds of floppy disks to @archive.org, but not only that, showing how to do the hardware/software setup so anyone can do the same going forward into the future.

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"Pipe down!" Aboard a ship, a boatswain's pipe is used to relay orders. To dismiss a crew, the pipe is sounded, and the command "pipe down" is given. Because it got much quieter after the dismissal, the command became associated with quieting down or making less noise.

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Unbound/Boundless owes me $15k+ on a book that in its first royalty reporting cycle had sold around 3k copies of its 5k copy print run of which I have not seen a single penny. They also haven’t even reimbursed me for postage costs I incurred mailing out the arcs in the US at their request

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"The EO makes no attempt to hide the fact that it is cutting off the flow of funds to PBS because of the content of PBS programming out of a desire to alter the content of speech. That is blatant viewpoint discrimination and an infringement of PBS and PBS Member Stations' ... editorial discretion."

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Lost my job today. "Downsizing," as they used to call it. So if you need a writing teacher, editor or copywriter, I'm your girl!

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Earlier this year I wrote about the problem of "learned helplessness" online, where people think the only thing they can do if they don't like how something works is to yell at companies/gov't to "fix things." Some of the responses I'm getting to the post below... www.techdirt.com/2025/01/27/e...

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The National Association of the Deaf says the White House's failure to provide ASL interpreters during press briefings leaves some deaf and hard of hearing people without information.

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Please enjoy my cartoon for Friday's Toronto Star

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Are you a neurodivergent researcher who uses archives? We want to hear from you! We will be running our 1st Divergent Minds in the Archive workshop at Imperial War Museum on 4th July, 10-4.15. More info👇🏻. Sign up here lnkd.in/eUFBQg3p. Closing date for applications June 4th #skyhistorians

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Here’s the often overlooked reason Trump’s attacks on Harvard and others he singles out by name — including specific law firms, charitable organizations, radio and TV networks, and individuals — are flatly unconstitutional: they violate Article I’s absolute ban on Bills of Attainder: f.io/RnNoLD5I

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In U.S. v. Lovett (1946), the Supreme Court held that not even Congress, in a bill signed by POTUS, may cut off all contracts with a named individual or organization: that’d be an unconstitutional bill of attainder. Only courts can decide who deserves to be punished. SoTrump can’t do it with an EO!

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Microsoft wants to add third-party applications to its Windows Update process. That would be a time-saver for all Windows users who now must manually update each individual app. zdnet.com/article/micr... via @zdnet.bsky.social

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