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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 1h

So this "psalter-hours" that has "certainly not been rearranged" has a) never contained a psalter in its entire life b) is a book of hours hacked to fck and back and c) utterly and terrifically misbound

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Isaiah D. Colbert @shineyezehuhh.bsky.social · 1h

This movie rips so hard.

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AbiWail KaBooKer @akabaker.bsky.social · 1h

Hey they have a sausage which might have some beef in it! But could also be all pork (the Cervelat)

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gregorg @greg.org · 4h

When Walton and Wilmerding made a play for Thomas Eakins' Gross Clinic, Philadelphia ralled to keep it in town. It's now jointly owned by the Philadelphia Museum and the Penn Academy of Fine Arts, which recently announced its closure. Maybe watch for the tail no. of Alice Walton's jet at PHL

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Parodies of The Gross Clinic – greg.org

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gregorg @greg.org · 5h

Walton is directly responsible, but she had willing accomplices in John Wilmerding (Princeton, NGA), and Philippe de Montebello of the Met, who together made a fake underbid on the Durand without disclosing that Wilmerding was advising both the NYPL and Walton on the sale greg.org/archive/2007...

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“If this has to happen, this is the way to go about it.” – greg.org

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AbiWail KaBooKer @akabaker.bsky.social · 1h

(Mostly guided by nostalgia, the brush stroke has long been entwined with the Hirshhorn in my mind)

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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

On the 5th of October 2026, riot police entered Sorbonne Nouvelle’s Nation campus following a student assembly and blockade. The intervention recalls the police evacuation of the historic Sorbonne on the 3rd of May 1968, which helped ignite the uprising.

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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

According to the legal action team Collectif d'action judicaire that is assisting detained kids : “Police practices are not adapted to account for their status as minors.”. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child prohibits arbitrary detention and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment (Art 37).

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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Arbitrarily detained students report brutality and sexualised threats from police officers, including threats to “fuck” them and being called “sluts”. Accounts describe physical violence including strangulation, intimidation and humiliation in police custody.

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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Protests have been met with unprecedented police brutality & mass detention: 1,949 on the 1st October, 90% minors. This exceeds daily arrest peaks during May 1968, Yellow Vests & 2005 & 2023. 215 injured kids. 15-year-old lost a hand; another an eye to a and another suffered a fractured jaw.

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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

For my ENG speaking followers Unprecedented High School blockades began in the outskirts of Paris in Créteil on the 21st of Sept. National mobilisations followed on the 29th of September, the 1st and the 6th of October. The movement is ongoing and has spread both in scope and scale. #tippingpoint

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 4h

Such a good thread both for letting you know what's going on in Paris and for showing standard police tactics. Telling protesters to disperse while blocking all the exits, singling people out with the intent to harm, and using tools that we know cause serious bodily harm? That's the cop playbook.

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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 8h

Projections of names standing in solidarity with survivors of SA on Cornell’s Washington DC campus 🫶🏽 I stand with you.

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AbiWail KaBooKer @akabaker.bsky.social · 1h

She’s on the train returning from getting married!

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Lene Liebe Delsett @leneliebedelsett.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I really wish I was at #MarineReptileConf2026 at @morethanadodo.bsky.social but am instead a remote and proud supervisor and colleague of four great scientists from the Natural History Museum @uio.no 🤩🧪 Highly recommended talks:

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Capital Weather @capitalweather.com · 2h

🍁 FOLIAGE PHOTO CALL! 🍂 Colors starting to pop, especially in higher elevations west of DC. We want to see what you're seeing! Got a great shot? Use #cwshare to give us permission to publish. Include location/date. More ways to share: www.capitalweather.com/photos-and-v...

Fall color near peak in DC during 2025. A Japanese maple is brilliant red. (Ian Livingston)

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“Researchers at Virginia Tech are developing technology they hope could one day save someone, even when no one is there to help. It's a wearable patch designed to detect dangerously high levels of fentanyl in the body and then automatically releases naloxone.”

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Fentanyl overdose patch: How Virginia Tech researchers are working to save lives

“In a lot of the cases, overdose happens when people are alone. There’s no one there to help, so that’s the idea behind our patch,” a researcher said.

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 2h

Blue button jellies float on the waters surface. They’re related to true jellies, but they’ve got a dry top that feels a bit like a fingernail, and is filled with air-trapping chambers to keep the jelly above the waves This float also means they slide on the water like hockey pucks 🏒

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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 2h

this creature is called Rainbow Mite. the little diamond bugs kind of loosely follow them around.

fantasy creature with characteristics of both an insect and a small dinosaur, with a black body and colorful scales. five smaller flying creatures are hovering above or landing on its body.

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Short notice, but: this Friday (October 9) I'll be at Old Town Books in Alexandria, Virginia as the in-conversation partner for Cassandra Khaw, celebrating and discussing their new book FIND ME WHERE IT ENDS. There will be a Q&A and signing too! www.eventbrite.com/e/author-eve...

Friday, October 9, 7pm at Old Town Books, Cassandra Khaw, author of Find Me Where It Ends, in conversation with Hailey Piper

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 16h

Also labour from the people mining rare Earth minerals, the people in the Global South who toil to clean the data and supervise models live as human-in-the-loop, the people building/ cleaning data centers... the labour theft is so extensive it's not realistic that this would have been feasible.

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 2h

"Each year the National Science Foundation sends out a call to the scientific community for the nomination of new candidates for the National Medal of Science. Individuals are nominated by their peers with each nomination requiring three letters of support from individuals in science and technology"

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 3h

This by Courtney Maum is where I am too. I am grateful to her for the words...

For me, the subject of AI detection is an ouroboros. I’ll speak only for myself, here is my opinion. I didn’t ask for artificial intelligence. It’s not something I need, it is not something I desire. And yet, it barged its way into my life and stole all of my books. All of them. Stole them. Trained off of them. Did not compensate me for this theft. So now, AI can write a book like me, because it stole my own work and learned my breed of humor and satire. So if someone runs an AI text detector on my creative output, it will probably “test positive” why? Because AI is a contaminant that has embedded itself into my work by stealing it and using my own work to perpetuate itself. It will test for itself and find AI there because it AI is a virus that has contaminated the DNA of my current and future writing—a form of intellectual rape. A kind of colonization. A raging plague that some gatekeepers are opening the door for.

If you ask me what I’m currently working on, the answer is nothing book-length. I’m not going to publish a new book in this current landscape. That’s a stance of privilege, I recognize that. And I can’t hold this stance forever, I can hold it as long as I have savings from my last book.

This current literary climate isn’t acceptable. It is not acceptable to have a thing thrust upon us that takes absolutely everything, and then be forced to prove that we are not the thieves.

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The Washington Sun Metro @washsunmetro.bsky.social · 3h

A bronze bust of Robert F. Kennedy has sat on the lawn outside of the D.C. stadium named for him for decades, even after the venue was decommissioned. Now, it’s gone missing.

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Bust of Robert F. Kennedy Is Missing From Namesake Stadium

The statue “was removed by an unknown manner” and there is no known suspect.

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 3h

From the magafluencer trad crowd to real live policy decisions that change women's right to bodily autonomy none of it takes into account the extremely brutally real fact that the economic genie is not going back in the bottle.

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 3h

been thinking lately about how deeply we memory-holed the shift in 2 working parents being a class (and often race) boundary between US working and middle class to it being normalized, then required, of everyone but the ultra-wealthy. like, in my lifetime

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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 7h

find a job that’s right for you.

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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 5h

Today in the carabid section, a question we all must ask

Unit tray of many multi-mounted beetles (Oxypselaphus obscurus) with a large typewritten note from the previous collection manager (in what might have been his 1st or 2nd year on the job). The note reads “What the hell’s the story with these?” and notes that a bunch of specimens were mixed in with a similar North American species, despite the fact that they are exclusively palearctic

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 5h

New Merch Alert!! Fish. The ocean's full of 'em. And protecting the ocean is a global job, so we better learn the word for fish in as many languages as we can fit on a tote bag. Support @skypeascientist.bsky.social by getting a *sturdy* tote bag with a zipper (with a zipper!!!) at SquidFacts.net

4 freak-ass fish illustrated on a tote bag. We got a barreleye, a mola mola, a gulper eel, and a viperfish

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Senator Angela Alsobrooks @alsobrooks.senate.gov · 3h

For 33 years, Baltimore’s Civil Rights Breakfast has brought people together to honor our progress and recommit to the work that lies ahead. This city has a deep civil rights legacy, built by people who refused to let anyone else determine what was possible.

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Digital Naturalism Laboratories @dinalab.bsky.social · 3h

It's all public and free data now! Train your bug detectors extra good Train your bug detectors with artisanally crafted, fully oriented-bounding boxes from multiple mothbox models deployed in 14 countries from 2024-2026!

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Theatre Weekly @theatreweekly.com · 10h

A second UK and Ireland tour of Midsomer Murders: The Killings at Badger’s Drift is announced, following the success of the theatrical world premiere and its 2025/26 tour theatreweekly.com/daniel-casey...

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Daniel Casey to Return as Inspector Tom Barnaby for Second UK and Ireland Tour of Midsomer Murders: The Killings at Badger’s Drift - Theatre Weekly

A second UK and Ireland tour of Midsomer Murders: The Killings at Badger’s Drift is announced, following the success of the

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Guy Felicella @guyfelicella.bsky.social · 8h

More police doesn't reduce addiction. More police doesn't reduce mental illness. More police doesn't reduce homelessness. More police doesn't reduce poverty. More housing,more healthcare,more treatment,more outreach, more resources & more support does. That's how you build healthier communities

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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 19h

🚨 Latest from the border wall blockade: tree sit is still up, one land defender is locked down to machinery, Border Patrol has wrapped a Mylar blanket around them and is running the truck and pumping the blanket full of exhaust to try to gas them out, potentially killing them.

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 15h

A new Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology has just been published, in which it is claimed that the human species is polytypic: not only is race biologically meaningful but the races are distinct enough to be considered subspecies. Published by Elgar. In 2026.

Chapters in Part III take stock of the current state of evolutionary psychology, by casting wider attention to other social and behavioral sciences and assessing the field's influence on them. In Chapter 11 ('Evolutionary psychology and anthropology'), Heiner Rindermann identifies three major forces that oppose scientific anthropology: Religion, National Socialism ('Nazism'), and woke leftist ideology. Ironically, in this sense, woke left ideologues, who include most anthropologists themselves, geneticists, and other university academics, share much in common with the Nazis in their common opposition to scientific anthropology.
Rindermann's extensive review of the literature leaves no doubt that humans are genetically polytypic and contain different biological races or 'subspecies' At the end of the chapter, Rindermann delivers devastating rebuttals to all potential arguments against the notion of races/subspecies among humans.

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 6h

While I acknowledge the utility of the glasses in this one case, the idea of looping in Meta is a nightmare. I absolutely despise when companies accessibility-wash themselves, and it’s galling to have to suck it up and take their money or watch the field die.

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Meta Donates 1,000 AI Glasses to Singapore's Disability Community

Meta donates 1,000 Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses to four Singapore community organisations to help persons with disabilities.

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Metropolitan Transportation Authority @mta.info · 6h

Here are just some of the items you can get at our Memorabilia & Collectibles Pop-Up Shop 👀 The sale runs today and tomorrow (October 8-9) from 9am - 2pm at 23 Avenue X, right next to the Bay 50 St station on the D line 🚇

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becca @magicjewball.bsky.social · 6h

Someone snag the misspelled Amtrak sign, please.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

So besides how you could build an entire course on gender + sexuality in Christian nationalist America around this clip- Fun fact: copious data show that near death experiences are always culturally appropriate – a Buddhist will never see Jesus, a Hasidic Jew will never see Vishnu etc.

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FakeEyes @fakeeyes.bsky.social · 6h

Mattel Batman, so you don’t have to look at the IGN site because it can eat ass with the popups.

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Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social · 6h

MALL COUNTRY, a mall doc whose progress I've been following since the beginning, will premiere on Nov 12 @docnycfest.bsky.social It's about that guy who (kinda accidentally) bought the Johnstown Galleria and it's great www.docnyc.net/film/mall-co...

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John Garrison Marks @johngmarks.com · 6h

It's so disappointing that all the work so many colleagues did for so long will now mostly be forgotten, and the image of the 250th will be a UFC fight and a slapdash little village on the mall that nobody wanted.

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John Garrison Marks @johngmarks.com · 6h

I would have loved to see NEH pumping millions of dollars into state humanities councils, who were active in nearly every state-level 250 commission across the country or IMLS investing hundreds of millions in unrestricted operating support for museums to shore up our museum infrastructure.

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John Garrison Marks @johngmarks.com · 6h

Yet basically all of this got overlooked, because the Trump administration wanted to use the anniversary for its own self-serving political ends. So they tossed up distorted, celebratory histories and threw together the embarrassing, slapdash effort we all saw on the National Mall this summer.

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John Garrison Marks @johngmarks.com · 6h

History Colorado developed a major exhibit, which traveled in smaller form to many other states/institutions, on "Moments that Made Us." The Autry Museum of the American West explored "Life, Liberty, and Los Angeles." There was not one, but TWO "Tall Ships" initiatives.

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