BART and Muni are both facing deficits of over $300 million, and if we don't fund our public transit, both are facing severe service cuts. Vote YES on the Regional Transit Measure to keep our public transit running.

I need whoever keeps anonymously sending @yeen.paw.bs hyena plushies to start sending fennec foxes instead. I need to balance that out!

Can particles move faster than light? Have a look at the video to learn more about Cherenkov radiation – the discovery that received the 1958 physics prize. This was a key component in the experiments made by today's physics laureate Francis Halzen in his research on neutrinos.

The Bay Area public transit #MeasureRTM polling shows 48% support, 34% opposed, 18% undecided. This means only 1 in 9 of the undecideds need to vote YES to get over 50%. Volunteer w the campaign now to help make this happen, opportunities listed here: 👇👇👇 luma.com/connectbayarea

The Mercury News@mercurynews.com · 7d ago

A new poll finds 48% support for the Regional Transit Measure, revealing divisions over whether residents should pay more to preserve Bay Area public transportation.

There’s something peaceful about doodling sleeping creatures (Ballpoint pen)

There are numerous elevators

It’s finally Foxtober! 📸 @sillysox.bsky.social

Congrats to foxes on winning the war for October once again! Don't worry, @getbendt.bsky.social and @sighskotter.bsky.social will get used to being orange..

Not just an alert, this is a _pageable_ alert

austin (eeek!/ackkk! 👻)@thebadcode.com · 2w ago

o11y hacks: add “number of visits to your status page” as an alert

connecting ameowrica!

Ding ding here comes the trolley. Please have tickets ready. Exact fares please. #furry #furryart #furrytransit #fursona #anthroart

This is a photo of our home planet taken only a few hours ago! So what? We have photos of Earth taken from space every day. Ah, but *this* photo was taken by a spacecraft ON ITS WAY TO JUPITER.

It preaches disobedience!

Complex software behaving in unexpected and sometimes harmful ways has been a persistent problem since software was invented. The phenomenon used to be called “bugs” or “defects”, but I guess “going rogue” sounds cooler. It also implicitly frames “rogue” behavior as some kind of inexplicable […]

New dog hat get!!! Radioactive rubber fox in your area. @symbiyotecreations.bsky.social

they have such expressive faces too!

The friends who like you because you're passably normal are never gonna be as fun as the friends who love you for being your unapologetically weird self

Poultrygeist@mainmandarin.leftfield.city · 3w ago

"Making new friends as an adult is so hard!!" ok but have you tried being a freak online

“It’s important for the public to have access to this information and to see how private AI companies are shaping access to healthcare,” EFF’s Lena Cohen told @seattletimes.com.

Documents show ‘staggering’ denial rate for Medicare AI program in WA

Medicare's new AI-enabled program denied more claims than it approved during a rocky rollout, leaving patients who were in pain to wait out a long appeals process.

seattletimes.com

From all of my @pyropecostumes.bsky.social fursuit siblings and I that were at #Megaplex26, Happy #FursuitFriday! ✨❤️

Hugs

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4w ago

Norfolk Southern’s CFO “said fuel prices at the present time are like something out of ‘science fiction.’” $NSC

Phew, what a relief.

vertical aspect SMPTE color bars are sending me to the bad place

Anthropic Is building a surveillance system to monitor activists using a “pre-crime” approach that tries to predict incidents before they happen. The extensive monitoring system that the AI company is building is aimed primarily at keeping tabs on activists who oppose the rapid development of AI.

Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists - The American Prospect

New hires and comments in interviews show that the AI giant is using its capabilities against dissenters.

prospect.org

Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature

Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...

nature.com

Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).

At the Antimatter Factory at CERN there are vacuum cleaners in cages. Those cages are there because when you vacuum the experiment hall, you might pick up some radioactive material, and so the vacuum has to be in a time out until enough half-lives of the contaminant have elapsed.

Looney Tunes is queer media ❤️🏳️‍🌈

you and me

Lio@liossar.bsky.social · last mo.

Despite everything, it's still you

This is why you shouldn't trust a service that claims to "delete scans of your ID" once they're verified. a provider to Hertz and many other US companies just got popped. krebsonsecurity.com/2026/09/fbi-...