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Sonny is the ‘good’ robot in Asimov’s I, Robot, the dystopian story of coup by robot.

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Good morning, all! ...some tips for half hardy flowers from seed, for the cutting patch. higgledygarden.com/2023/03/09/h...

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Women, they are coming for our vote!

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I'm on the lookout for a talented reporter to come and work with the team at @bylinetimes.bsky.social as we continue to grow. Please get in touch at [email protected] if you're interested

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This article about scientists switching from Twitter to Bluesky quotes me (and @trevorabranch.bsky.social and @carlbergstrom.com ) 🧪 #SciComm www.dailyuw.com/science/scie...

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The blackbirds singing so sweetly at dusk is just about breaking my heart these days.

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Fwiw anecdotally the calls to elected are still at "very high volume" but slowing down. That's not good.

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If you're working with phone banks and making calls on your own, Tribal Colleges/Universities could use your support. 2 of our oldest & only federally charted universities are in crisis due to EO 14210 and the hiring freezes, impacting thousands of Native students. collegefund.org/blog/support...

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Delaware is worried that corporate exits would remove a major source of income from the state. So it's poised to pass a bill written by Elon Musk's lawyers that would weaken shareholder rights and likely give Musk a $55 billion payday. From @ryanlcooper.com: prospect.org/justice/2025...

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To clarify, UK politicians are looking at what's happening in Washington DC right now and saying "that is good, we should do that"

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Just a couple more House Republicans need to publicly come around to do the right thing and House Democrats won’t be legislatively powerless anymore

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Here for it.

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Erm - The current DOJ did this, not the 'United States' - the headline implies that this is a non-partisan national declaration. It isn't.

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This enthusiastic response is despite the fact that currently, rewilding land means giving up any chance of receiving farm subsidies. Can you imagine the huge uptake if farmers had the option of being paid to rewild, just they are to farm or grow tree plantations? Why is this STILL not happening??

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I’m begging the media to call Nazi salutes … “Nazi salutes.” You can write “he gave a Nazi salute.” That’s the proper journalism. Describe things as they are even if people get mad.

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I kept my maiden name when I got married and have often gotten a side-eye for it. Never thought it might save my voting rights, though. Call your representative!

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I may not quite be ready for the spring garden, but the snowdrops are here to say the garden is ready for me.

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Wow: City of Clarksdale, Mississippi got a court order yesterday directing a newspaper to delete an editorial criticizing city officials -- without a hearing. Here's the TRO issuing the prior restraint:

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Hive mind: what are the pieces of investigative journalism related to climate or the environment that have grabbed you over the past year or two? Or if you're a reporter, the stories you wish you wrote?

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Anyone who does this is a fucking scab www.niemanlab.org/2025/02/meet...

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I thought the Bush admin was already doing this back in the early 00's, just not as thoroughly or at every level. www.austinchronicle.com/news/2000-03...

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Trump administration is planning to use polygraphs to assess federal employee loyalty. There are ways to manipulate polygraph results, and we will provide guidance to coalition members. Polygraph results are not admissible in court due to their potential for false positives and negatives.

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Replacing my daily word puzzles with @5calls.org today and every day. It doesn't take any longer than that, and it's way more important. Get to it.

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Yes there ARE things we can do actually get to ittttt

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Today, I found out that the Department of Defense banned the Well-Read Black Girl anthology by Glory Edim. I was one of its contributors. I'm really hurt right now. So if you have it in you, please buy books by Black women from independent bookstores.

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This and also yesterday was the anniversary of FDR signing EO 9066 for forced internment of Americans of Japanese descent.

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Movies you watched more than six times (>40!), using only GIFs

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Everything old is new again (or was never really gone).

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If I "saved money" by not paying my heat bill during this -40 C cold snap, how much do you think it would actually cost once the pipes burst? That's what Elon is doing.

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People are not batteries to be sucked dry in the service of 'efficiency' Pass it on.

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This. And, Ftr, terms that use “american” (Native american, First american, etc.) are simply other forms of “our”. We don’t belong to you. We are not defined by the colonizers.

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