Sliding into Labor Day weekend with a fine Yooper sunrise from the northwest corner of Lake Michigan. #906Life #PureMichigan

Lydia Hardwick, contemporary UK ceramics artist #WomensArt

Big rally in Acme shares.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 19h ago

A photographer in the Chatsworth Nature Preserve in Los Angeles captured a real-life image of something you would never see in cartoons: a coyote who successfully nabbed a road runner, instead of falling from a cliff, getting hit by a train or having an anvil land on him.

Capitol switchboard: (202) 224-3121 “My name is ______, I’m a constituent calling fr area code _____. Pls tell the senator they must demand a Committee on Foreign Investment in the US review of the dangerous proposed merger of Paramount w/ Warner Brothers. This corrupt merger must be stopped.”

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Bluesky@bsky.app · 22h ago

v1.132 is live! Starter Packs are one of the best ways to find new people to follow—but how do you find the Starter Packs? As of today, look for them right in the main search box. You'll see the results under the Starter Packs tab.

The amount of oil use avoided by EVs in China in the first half of 2026 is the same as the amount of oil USED BY THE ENTIRE UK www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...

As we elders, our daughters, and our granddaughters continue the fight for power, equality, and respect, we hold you in our hearts with love and gratitude. Rest in peace and power, Gloria Steinem. 🤍

Gloria Steinem, Personification of the Women’s Movement, Dies at 92 (Gift Article)

She challenged sexist assumptions, helping women develop a sense of self-worth and gain a measure of equality at work, at home and in society at large.

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“Remember, the Constitution doesn’t begin with, ‘I, the president.’ It begins with, ‘We, the people.’ ” —Gloria Steinem at the 2017 Women’s March

I do not say this lightly—I think Gillian is probably the most important person you could follow on this app and also just in general. doing more than anyone I can think of to keep focus on the admin sending people to gulags

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 2d ago

Two ICE charter jets operated by Journey Aviation pass one another in the air — one having just finished deporting people to Sierra Leone and Benin, the other heading to Senegal for a fuel stop and crew change before expelling shackled people to god knows where.

If you’re fed up with leadership that tramples our rights, rips apart communities, and works to enrich itself, instead of working for the people, sign up to join us.

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For the first time in four decades, VIA Rail passenger cars will be built in Canada. We’re going to build more than 300 of them right here at home — supporting nearly 700 jobs in Ontario and Québec. Read more: www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news...

So good to hear about solutions in smaller communities for addressing climate change

ashley fairbanks@ziibiing.com · 2d ago

feeling unexpectedly emotional as we visit saerbeck, a town of just 7200 in central germany that formed a climate municipality. they produce 4.5x the electricity they need, and have developed a whole array of climate solutions. one of them? a climate action curriculum that starts in kindergarten.

Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

Despite all the furious efforts of the right to reverse things, I think Gloria Steinem and her colleagues won the fight, and so we get to live our lives in a world where far more people count. An epic organizer, and a guide for us all in the current struggle.

Gloria Steinem organized and spoke amazingly to what feminism could do for women she saw Being willing to speak galvanized generations Where many chose silence She chose action The first step may not be perfect but few take it as decisively as she did And never stopped walking

🚨& 🧵 Our new Nature paper is out! Across 46 cohorts and up to 1.14M people per Big Five trait, we do GWAS and ask how robust, generalizable and consequential the genetic signals underlying personality really are. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Endorse!

Charles Gaba ✡️@charlesgaba.com · 3d ago

She's running for Michigan's 38th Senate seat, which covers ~90% of the Upper Peninsula. Needless to say, historically it's been pretty red, with Trump winning by nearly 19 pts in 2024. HOWEVER...according to a trusted source, Van Ginhoven is a dark horse candidate who's worth a closer look. 2/

The state department. The department of defense. The Venezuelan government. And a Barbados-based oil company. At the center of it all is one man. Who is Alejandro Betancourt? 🕵️‍♀️ Here's all you need to know about him... in under four minutes. Only on NPR 🛢️🇻🇪🎧📻⬇️

Who is Betancourt, the man behind the company the US is partnering with in Venezuela?

The man behind the company that the US is partnering with in Venezuela is Alejandro Betancourt. He has faced multiple investigations in Spain, the United States and Switzerland for money laundering.

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Big heat-pump-dad energy @duncanrobinson.bsky.social

Akshat Rathi@akshatrathi.bsky.social · 2d ago

Thousands of people are now not just cutting bills with solar and batteries, they are making real money, sometimes $200 while they sleep and AI trades electricity buying low, selling high. Meet the new energy nerds. New feature with @oliviarudgard.bsky.social. 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

How fun!

Robin Hawkes@robhawkes.bsky.social · 3d ago

Turns out you can extract the rotation of a wind turbine from a single pass of a satellite 🛰️ Each time a Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite passes overhead it actually captures multiple images across different spectral bands.

Mary Shelley doesn't get enough credit for not only anticipating the silver-spooned narcissist techbro who recklessly creates technology without thinking through the consequences, but also for knowing that said techbro would be an absolutely terrible father.

I have been waiting over 30 years for my phD thesis to be relevant for something! journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...

Anthony Edwards@edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · 3d ago

An El Niño-induced coastally-trapped Kelvin wave will likely raise water levels about 9-14 inches (relative to 1993-2025 averages) along the California coast in early October. Water temperatures will also increase. The sudden increase will be as much as “the entire climate change anomaly in one go”

Resilient River Explorer from The Nature Conservancy. Mary Khoury presents at #AFS156 www.maps.tnc.org/resilientriv...

I'm working on memorizing Star Wars as an epic oral poem for transmission to the illiterate future generations

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: pluralistic.net/2026/08/25/g... 2/

Corn dollies, crafted straw figures. connecting to ancient beliefs of goddess worship, fertility. Dolls made from the last of the harvest were kept until the next spring then placed in the soil to ensure a good harvest #WomensArt

macabre = “muh-KAHB” Worcestershire = “WOOSS-ter-sheer” omnipotent = “ahm-NI-puh-tunt” reticent = “RET-uh-sunt” epitome = “ih-PIT-uh-mee” myriad = "MEER-ee-ud" Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.

"We cannot accept a future where your zip code determines whether or not you can see a doctor. That is why as governor I will ensure every Michigander has access to quality, affordable healthcare in every zip code in Michigan.” -@JocelynBenson.bsky.social wzmq19.com/news/367832/...

Benson stops in Marquette to discuss plans for U.P. healthcare

Benson was joined by 109th Democratic Candidate Anna Aho Rink, as well as other healthcare worers and residents outside of the former Planned Parenthood building, following its defunded shutdown in…

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