Dori DesRoches
@dorimoose.bsky.social
Maker of stories. Maker of music. Maker of sweaters. Maker of food. Mother. Bereaved Mother. Fool.
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oh damn. as a "black bears are NOT murder demons" advocate, I didn't know this about mountain lions. adjusting my priors on that one
Mountain lions are making American roads safer by frightening away deer. On Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, where cougars were most active, deer-vehicle collisions fell 76%. Deer kill up to 440 Americans a year; cougars have killed 29 Americans since 1868. buff.ly/9bDfEKZ
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Cougars cut deadly vehicle-deer collisions in the US by up to 76%, study shows
If you’re a black-tailed deer on the Olympic Peninsula in the U.S. state of Washington, you’re always surrounded by friends and family. You are free-range, with abundant food to forage in familiar…
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September 6, 2026 at 3:05 PM
oh damn. as a "black bears are NOT murder demons" advocate, I didn't know this about mountain lions. adjusting my priors on that one
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“Inventing the Renaissance” is a history of histories of this (not so) golden age. Much of making history is simply adding new POVs to the braid as historians ask new & more diverse questions w/ each generation. I hope you’ll enjoy my effort to show the process at work! 25/25 https://buff.ly/4j6qkoS
January 28, 2025 at 8:35 PM
“Inventing the Renaissance” is a history of histories of this (not so) golden age. Much of making history is simply adding new POVs to the braid as historians ask new & more diverse questions w/ each generation. I hope you’ll enjoy my effort to show the process at work! 25/25 https://buff.ly/4j6qkoS
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Flesh-eating screwworms confirmed in Texas. 👇
June 5, 2026 at 5:58 PM
Flesh-eating screwworms confirmed in Texas. 👇
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I think one of the upsetting things about the AI art discourse is that it has revealed (all over again) how many people in the world are genuinely angry and resentful that some artists get paid for a living.
June 6, 2026 at 12:30 AM
I think one of the upsetting things about the AI art discourse is that it has revealed (all over again) how many people in the world are genuinely angry and resentful that some artists get paid for a living.
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Republicans are attacking James Talarico bc they can’t find any crimes, affairs, indictments, impeachments, whistleblower complaints from his own aides, humiliated wives, preferential treatment for child rapists, or coup attempts to pin on him. johnfugelsang.substack.com/p/the-texas-...
The Texas Chainsaw Candidate
Talarico quotes Jesus, and Paxton catches on fire when he enters a church.
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June 2, 2026 at 5:34 PM
Republicans are attacking James Talarico bc they can’t find any crimes, affairs, indictments, impeachments, whistleblower complaints from his own aides, humiliated wives, preferential treatment for child rapists, or coup attempts to pin on him. johnfugelsang.substack.com/p/the-texas-...
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Throwback to when a TV station in Iceland accidentally aired an episode of Teletubbies with subtitles from the Sopranos 👌🏼
June 1, 2026 at 10:07 PM
Throwback to when a TV station in Iceland accidentally aired an episode of Teletubbies with subtitles from the Sopranos 👌🏼
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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani jokingly signed a mock executive order repealing bedtime for kids for the duration of the 2026 NBA Finals, whose games start at 8:30 p.m. EST.
June 2, 2026 at 6:16 PM
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani jokingly signed a mock executive order repealing bedtime for kids for the duration of the 2026 NBA Finals, whose games start at 8:30 p.m. EST.
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No King's Day!
Here we go!! 🗽⚖️🇺🇸
Here we go!! 🗽⚖️🇺🇸
October 15, 2025 at 10:46 PM
No King's Day!
Here we go!! 🗽⚖️🇺🇸
Here we go!! 🗽⚖️🇺🇸
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Pluralism was the biggest invention of the Renaissance, and it gave birth to all the greatest scientific and political achievements that came afterward.
@adapalmer.bsky.social discusses in great detail with @matthew.flux.community
@adapalmer.bsky.social discusses in great detail with @matthew.flux.community
Why it matters that pluralism was the biggest innovation of the Renaissance
Historian Ada Palmer discusses her book ‘Inventing the Renaissance’ and what we can learn from the time-period
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October 12, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Pluralism was the biggest invention of the Renaissance, and it gave birth to all the greatest scientific and political achievements that came afterward.
@adapalmer.bsky.social discusses in great detail with @matthew.flux.community
@adapalmer.bsky.social discusses in great detail with @matthew.flux.community
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If Marco Rubio is deporting people for Antisemitic speech, (which Mahmoud Khalil has not apparently engaged in), allow me to direct him to the Nazi Chatroom formerly known as Twitter.
April 11, 2025 at 10:04 PM
If Marco Rubio is deporting people for Antisemitic speech, (which Mahmoud Khalil has not apparently engaged in), allow me to direct him to the Nazi Chatroom formerly known as Twitter.
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To be absolutely clear, we will not win a trade war with China, but now he’s just shooting America in the kidneys instead of spraying bullets across our entire body.
This has become “a win” here.
This has become “a win” here.
April 9, 2025 at 6:05 PM
To be absolutely clear, we will not win a trade war with China, but now he’s just shooting America in the kidneys instead of spraying bullets across our entire body.
This has become “a win” here.
This has become “a win” here.
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I crumbled a handful of Flaming Hot Ruffles over my salad and I swear to fuck I heard Anthony Bourdain's voice from the corner ceiling of my kitchen go, "Dood!"
March 19, 2025 at 3:11 AM
I crumbled a handful of Flaming Hot Ruffles over my salad and I swear to fuck I heard Anthony Bourdain's voice from the corner ceiling of my kitchen go, "Dood!"
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They want to keep it quiet, so you know what to do.
Trump: Gutting National Parks—And Hiding the Evidence
National parks hit 331M visits, but Trump officials don’t want you to know. A leaked memo bans the Park Service from promoting the numbers—while firing rangers, closing visitor centers, and cutting safety.
This won’t go well—we love our parks.
National parks hit 331M visits, but Trump officials don’t want you to know. A leaked memo bans the Park Service from promoting the numbers—while firing rangers, closing visitor centers, and cutting safety.
This won’t go well—we love our parks.
March 9, 2025 at 12:21 AM
They want to keep it quiet, so you know what to do.
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Spotted on campus this morning. Thanks to the person who posted this.
March 5, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Spotted on campus this morning. Thanks to the person who posted this.
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An important point to keep in mind.
February 17, 2025 at 5:33 PM
An important point to keep in mind.
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We need Pete Buttigieg as a clear messenger, more than ever.
February 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
We need Pete Buttigieg as a clear messenger, more than ever.
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We found the real one!
February 14, 2025 at 9:58 PM
We found the real one!
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We’re supposed to just take Elon’s word that he’s found “massive” fraud in federal systems he took over? The same guy they found committing fraud on his fellow gamers?
February 10, 2025 at 2:13 AM
We’re supposed to just take Elon’s word that he’s found “massive” fraud in federal systems he took over? The same guy they found committing fraud on his fellow gamers?
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we finally did it boys. we got our own freedom fries 🥲
February 9, 2025 at 6:53 PM
we finally did it boys. we got our own freedom fries 🥲
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Reading stories like this reminds me that now is an excellent time to re-read "Upright Women Wanted" by @sarahgailey.bsky.social
We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.
Announcing the Data.gov Archive | Library Innovation Lab
Today we released our archive of data.gov on Source Cooperative. The 16TB collection includes over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, a complet...
lil.law.harvard.edu
February 9, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Reading stories like this reminds me that now is an excellent time to re-read "Upright Women Wanted" by @sarahgailey.bsky.social