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Thursday GNR: Bluesky is Saving Us All [1]

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Date: 2025-02-27

Bluesky has changed my life for the better. I love making Bluesky Lists and Feeds, such as the GNR Feed with all of our Good News sources. It is saving us from the sewerage and official malfeasance on X and Facebook, among other things. Then there is The Contrarian, staffed by honest refugees from the MSM. I am adding it to our regular list of Good News sources today.

The Contrarian @contrariannews.org

How many people are on Bluesky Social? AI Overview As of February 2025, Bluesky had over 25 million users. This social media app has been growing rapidly since the 2024 US presidential election. Key facts about Bluesky users: About one-third of Bluesky users are between 18 and 24 years old

More than 60% of Bluesky users are male

About two in five Bluesky users are American

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the most-followed person on Bluesky

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social

1.9M followers 552 following 487 posts Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.

Regular Good News I am providing Bluesky embeds where they exist, and links otherwise.

Chop Wood, Carry Water—

Reposted by jessica Craven

x BREAKING: A mass resignation rebellion has erupted at DOGE. Over 20 employees, including engineers, data scientists, and product managers, have asserted they refuse to use their expert technical skills to “dismantle critical public services.” “We swore to serve the American people and uphold…



[image or embed] — Stephanie Kennedy (@wordswithsteph.bsky.social) February 25, 2025 at 11:19 AM

x Park rangers want YOU to help us protect our parks! This Saturday, 3/1, in solidarity with the 50:50:1 movement, plan a protest in support of your closest national park. Do it at 12 noon your time, or whatever best fits your secret plan 👀🤠😏 #ProtectOurParks #SaveOurParks #RehireRangers



[image or embed] — Resistance Rangers (@resistancerangers.bsky.social) February 26, 2025 at 12:50 PM

Rabidly Repellent Republicans Rushing to Ruin/Bad News for Them

No links. You can read about this stuff everywhere, and see it all over the TV news.

Losing over and over in court.

Sinking rapidly in the polls, Musk much faster than Tmurp.

Firing essential workers and having no idea how to rehire them, because their e-mail accounts were immediately shut down.

Even MAGA voters coming to town halls to shout down Republican politicians.

Elon Musk at CPAC holding up a huge chainsaw.

Elon Musk presiding over Trump’s first Cabinet meeting.

Federal workers resigning rather than carry out illegal orders.

Protest demonstrations everywhere.

No shopping day tomorrow.

The bond market has spoken.

Inflation is up.

Trump’s thought of the idea of a plan to deport twice as many immigrants as there are turns out to be deporting fewer criminals than Biden or Obama did.

The Id-in-Chief’s desires to annex Gaza, Greenland, Canada, the Panama Canal, and Ukraine’s minerals are, well,

You can’t make this up, but they can and do.

x 🚨 this is a huge problem 🚨 More proof that this isn’t about individual choice -they are actively hindering the availability of safe and effective vaccines. #immunosky #medsky 🧪



[image or embed] — Julia Dunn (@dunnimmunolab.bsky.social) February 26, 2025 at 9:02 PM

Science! Lifeforms! Weirdness (Legitimate and Stupid)!

x Important for scientists 🧪: RFK Jr, like all the “MAHA” hacks, is a liar. A big, fat liar.

A liar who used scientific language to hide his lies. We keep hearing that NIH people are trying to “fit their work into the MAHA agenda.” No!

This is deeply stupid; a misunderstanding of politics. 1/



[image or embed] — Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 (@altnih4science.bsky.social) February 26, 2025 at 6:34 PM

The terminations, which hit agencies involved in protecting the nation’s food supply and agricultural products, could have long-lasting consequences, experts said.

x NBC spoke with #MonmouthU senior Diederik Boonman and Endowed Professor of Marine Science Jason Adolf about their work tracking the spread of no-native beadlet anemones on the Jersey Shore. 🧪🌊

www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/b...



[image or embed] — Urban Coast Institute (@monmouthuci.bsky.social) February 26, 2025 at 8:36 PM

This next one bears repeating.

x An #NIH-funded research team has developed an mRNA vaccine to treat pancreatic cancer. Results from the clinical trial were published this week in Nature. #pancreas #cancer #mRNA #vaccine #medsky #science #medicine #bluesky



[image or embed] — Blue Wave 🌊 2028🗽 (@jmzmuda.bsky.social) February 23, 2025 at 2:00 AM

x The water-rich rust is called ferrihydrite. This would have formed in the presence of cold liquid water in the ancient past of #Mars, when the planet was wetter, and would have preserved this “watery signature” until today. The discovery is due to new analyses, which combined 🔭 🧪 #planetsci



[image or embed] — Nereide (@drnereide.bsky.social) February 26, 2025 at 5:37 PM

From Dogs of Bluesky.

x The Australian Bureau of Statistics has released the first National Ecosystem Accounts, placing monetary value on ecosystem services in #Australia. #Carbon storage was the most financially valuable service at AU$43.2 billion. 🧪 #WildOz #Economics #Ecology www.abs.gov.au/media-centre...



[image or embed] — Dr. Hilary Rose Dawson (@hilaryrosed.bsky.social) February 26, 2025 at 7:33 PM

x And the next commercial Moon mission is on its way! Here's our look at what scientists are looking for from this newest batch of lunar probes (hint, it's 🧊): www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪



[image or embed] — Alexandra Witze (@alexwitze.bsky.social) February 26, 2025 at 6:39 PM

x Sometimes evolution gets a bit cheeky and turns a snail into a sausage.

Entocolax olgae is a parasitic snail that lives inside sea cucumbers. While the larva is recognisable as a snail, the adult is nothing more than a mouth and a bag of gonads

#Invertebrate 🧪

www.researchgate.net/profile/Ivan...



[image or embed] — Veeloxxy Bites (@the-episiarch.bsky.social) February 26, 2025 at 6:04 PM

Funny or Fuggedaboudit

If you search for “funny” on Bluesky, this is the sort of thing you get. So, in fact, fuggedaboudit.

x Isn‘t it funny how you can be one of the richest people on the planet and you‘re still a coward?



[image or embed] — Teresa Bücker (@teresabuecker.bsky.social) February 26, 2025 at 11:18 AM

This is the only somewhat funny cartoon I found on DK today.

Cartoon: That egg-scalated quickly

Well, there is always the DK Image Library.

And The Onion! So funny, because it’s so true!

P. D. Q. Bach and More

P.D.Q. Bach Fan Channel on YouTube

P.D.Q. Bach - Knock Knock

Victor Borge - how people with different occupations play the piano

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