See, now I'm wondering why the cat can open a sliding closet door and all the cupboards but not the sliding screen door to the backyard. I guess hanging from the screen is more fun. 🤷‍♂️

Erin Biba@erinbiba.bsky.social · 2d ago

My mom always makes sure to lock the screen door to our porch. Who or what does she think she is possibly keeping out by locking the screen door?? wrong answers only

Just in time for the 2026-2027 vaccines, a new review shows that COVID19 vaccination significantly reduces the risk of severe illness and hospitalization across all age groups, including kids. Pregnant women were also protected, as were their babies. Don’t forget to schedule your vaccination!

COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness and Safety for the 2026-2027 Respiratory Season

This Special Communication aims to identify and summarize the most recently published evidence evaluating the effectiveness and safety of US-licensed COVID-19 vaccines and report on the epidemiology o...

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Rabies is 100% fatal if untreated. Please help spread the word about the exposure at the Farm Adventures mobile petting zoo in North Carolina. The vaccine is incredibly effective and will save your life. Also…. Rabies at a petting zoo!?!? www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Four baby goats at mobile petting zoo in North Carolina test positive for rabies

The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services said the petting zoo held events involving children and elderly people between July 28 and Thursday.

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BREAKING: The union of Starbucks workers is officially calling for a boycott of the chain. @sbworkersunited.org has over 12,000 unionized baristas, and they're calling on customers to stop visiting Starbucks until they get a fair union contract.

Me passing a Honda Odyssey in the parking lot: whoa, movie merchandising is out of control.

Gary, Indiana residents have been without power for ten days. Here’s how you can help.

Gary Residents Have Been Without Power For 10 Days. Here's How You Can Help

A South Side business is offering free laundry service for storm-affected Gary families, while another fundraiser is collecting money for essentials as some residents face a second week without electr...

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If you can help Gary here’s where you do it. www.gary.gov/stormrecovery

"If trans people want a boycott of The New York Times, where's the call to do so?" Here is a declaration laying out how the NYT is a key driver of trans genocide, why boycotts work and why anyone who gives a damn about trans lives and rights must boycott The New York Times.

Boycott The New York Times

For years The New York Times has relentlessly pushed anti-trans propaganda, playing a significant role in the escalating genocide against us. It's far past time for a call to action: anyone who cares ...

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With 100° temps a new norm, Republicans are trying to stop all federal heat safety protection regs, now or in the future. HR 6213 prohibits OSHA from creating or enforcing ANY national heat safety standard. We MUST stop it! act.seiu.org/a/fedheatreg... #WeFeedYou

Republicans are trying to ban national heat regulations from ever happening

With 100° temps a new norm, Republicans are trying to stop all federal heat safety protection regs, now or in the future. HR 6213 prohibits OSHA from creating or enforcing ANY national heat safety sta...

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World Central Kitchen is on the ground in Spokane feeding folks displaced by the fires, so if you're looking for ways to help, here's a good option: donate.wck.org/campaign/829...

Burning incense or other herbs is cool, but white sage (Salvia apiana) is sacred to certain Native tribes and being overharvested (often illegally) from the wild, two good reasons to avoid sage bundles.

Cheryl McNeilly@cherylmcneillyphd.bsky.social · last mo.

keep that SOB out of iowa everybody get out your sage smudges

For anyone asking how to help: Donate to True North Aid to assist Remote Indigenous Wildfire Evacuees - truenorthaid.ca/donate/ & Namaygoosisagagun First Nation Response: Donations an7gc.ca/donate/

Donate - True North Aid | Canadian Charity Supporting Indigenous Communities

Donate to True North Aid's general fund and support Indigenous-led and community initiatves in remote communities.

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With the terrible, horrible very bad air in so much of the US, here is a video I made showing how you can make your own air filter for cleaner air. At home. With just a few items. (I made it during pandemic but it works for any time you want cleaner air.) www.washingtonpost.com/video/scienc...

How to make an air cleaner to get better indoor air quality

An air cleaner can help remove indoor pollutants and reduce the spread of pathogens such as the coronavirus. Washington Post reporter Lena Sun demonstrates how to make a Corsi-Rosenthal box using MERV...

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Tired of ICE mercenaries terrorizing your community? Afraid that they're going to murder yet another person—perhaps one of your neighbors? Find out where they sleep. Go there and make sure they cannot sleep. It's easy enough. Here's how people did it in Minnesota: crimethinc.com/noisedemos

The Noise Demonstrations Keeping ICE Agents Awake at Their Hotels

Participants in the noise demonstrations targeting hotels that house federal agents in the Twin Cities recount their experiences and explain how this tactic might be employed elsewhere.

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Studies have shown that authoritarians (which a lot of Republicans are) get more bigoted as their lives improve since then they have more time and energy to dedicate to being the culture police.

Invalid Handel@invalidhandel.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The average low-info Republican voter owns their suburban/rural home and has received ample support from the government their entire lives. This image of dirt-poor hillbillies and trailer dwellers being the ”normal” MAGA voter is extremely misplaced. And the racists aren’t being manipulated.

Heads up for people who live in heat-trapping apartments like mine. In Heat Dome 2021, I strongly believe tin-foiling my windows saved my life. In case such a heat event ever comes again, I keep 4 mylar space blankets on hand to quickly tape over my windows to reduce heat-retention.

A photojournalist who was injured at Delaney and whom the police refused to allow through their line to find her equipment has a GoFundMe. Please consider kicking something in. www.gofundme.com/f/support-an...

Donate to Support Angelina After Delaney Hall Attack, organized by Evan Katsanis

Our photojournalist sister was injured and equipment stolen while on assignme… Evan Katsanis needs your support for Support Angelina After Delaney Hall Attack

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Thank you @evanurquhart.bsky.social for interviewing me A member of the GoFundMe Comms team reached out on Friday asking for permission to share my story with journalists...and noone reached out Shows why trans led journalism is so important for getting our stories told bsky.app/profile/jeym...

Dr. Jey McCreight 🏳️‍⚧️🧬@jeymccreight.bsky.social · 4mo ago

You may have noticed I disappeared from social media after my launch of @beyondxandy.bsky.social I was violently attacked by a transphobe who recognized me and have been in the hospital and resting If you'd like to help me with my medical bills, please consider donating here: gofund.me/9328f91f2

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

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Today is the last day to comment to the FCC that LGBTQIA2S+ names, stories, identities don't need a warning label. This new potential rulemaking is an attempt at criminalizing the mere fact of being trans or otherwise queer, in the name of discrimination, bigotry, and persecution. Tell them no, now.

Tell the FCC that LGBTQ Stories Don’t Need a Warning Label | GLAAD

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is targeting LGBTQ stories. They are trying to control what you see on television. This government overreach is dangerous...

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Tilly Bridges@tillybridges.bsky.social · 4mo ago

CIS PEOPLE TIME TO STEP UP it’s once again time to yell at our bad government via online comment form the FCC is trying to make trans and nonbinary content require special ratings on shows GLAAD has a good writeup on it below TELL ‘EM NO direct link to comment form: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...

The Cinnamon Toast Crunch mascots have been cannibals for like 20 years now. Honestly the cereal killer fridge is not much worse than the usual licking and biting huge chunks out of unsuspecting victims, just less cartoony.

Fun@funkelly.bsky.social · 4mo ago

like sure they probably did what you said about layoffs but a human being, probably many human beings, chose murder as the final product over literally anything else

REI workers did not make this decision lightly, but the company has left us with no choice. We’re boycotting May 15-25 and taking action to hold them accountable, supported by more than 70,000 REI members.

Like every Mother's Day today I am asking that you consider a donation to @nationalbailout.bsky.social to help free mamas who are separated from their families by the injustices of pretrial detention systems. secure.actblue.com/donate/freeb...

Donate to #FreeBlackMamas

With your generous support we are able to continue to bail out community members, provide life-changing supportive services and resource groups who are organizing to transform the criminal justice sys...

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From a certain point of view, all modern vampire media is this. I mean, when was the last time you heard of a fat, ruddy-faced vampire who went around killng their family members. Historically that's what European vampires were.

Donnacha@donnacha.bsky.social · 5mo ago

A thirty-volume adaptation of DRACULA, each weirder and more esoteric than the last, with little to no common thread, like the fan-made SHREK and ROBOCOP remakes But deadly serious

Honestly firing squad would prolly be more humane than lethal injection is. 😬

Dread Pirate Sex Badger@badgercult.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I mean, with one eye on the future, okay.

If you’re like, “Wait, everyone is shackled on ICE flights?! Wait, there are 50 ICE flights a day?! Wait, they’re sending people to countries they’ve never been to?!” I am begging you to please read my ICE Air FAQ. 🙏 gillianbrockell.com/what-is-ice-...

What is ICE Air?

Learn more about ICE’s massive, secretive and cruel air operation, which companies are profiting off of it, and what you can do to stop it.

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Has anyone actually read that Alexa-makes-kids-talk-rudely paper? Because it's JUST A ONE-PAGE THOUGHT EXPERIMENT. No data, just possible concerns. And maybe they're legit, but the paper itself provides no data, no evidence, just "this could happen"-s. Here's the whole thing:

Okay bluesky I need your help I live in Massachusetts. You might think we're a bastion of lefty intellectualism but our state government a clusterfuck of post-puritan real estate bros Reskeet this. Text it to your "friends from home" Help this find every masshole poster who will know what to do

NEW: The President once again called to eliminate federal library funding in his federal budget proposal. We have been here before. And when we make our voices heard, we can overcome this again. Tell your Senators to reject the cuts & #FundLibraries in next year's federal budget: ala.org/showup

Ignoring your hardcore users is one thing, but Bluesky employees have been actively hostile to them, repeatedly. Of course the hardcore users no longer trust them!

Greg Pak@gregpak.net · 5mo ago

I also suspect a big part of the backlash is that dedicated users have a long list of features that we've been requesting for years now - and this was absolutely not on that list. (The ability to make accounts private is the most important unrealized feature. I know it's hard! But it's key.)