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A Little Night Musing @alilnightmusing.bsky.social · 3m

Since subscribing for limited periods to streaming services with various advertisements, I’ve long ago donned my “anthropologist from Jupiter” hat.

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smitten kitchen @smittenkitchen.bsky.social · 8h

These fatteh-inspired spiced baked chickpeas are served with pita chips, a finely-chopped tomato cucumber salad, tahini yogurt, and toasted pine nuts, creating a colorful, layered, and flavorful dish I crave endlessly. smittenkitchen.com/2015/03/bake...

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A Little Night Musing @alilnightmusing.bsky.social · 7h

OMFG This is the exact opposite of the last thing I posted. Saving screenshots now.

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A Little Night Musing @alilnightmusing.bsky.social · 9h

“Riley Gaines is a Helen Keller truther” is not a sentence I could have imagined the universe offering up, and yet here we are.

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A Little Night Musing @alilnightmusing.bsky.social · 9h

Every time I accept a delivery from e.g. Fresh Direct, they apologize for how heavy the bag is, and try to set it down, and every time I reply by taking the bag from them and saying “No problem, I’m stronger than I look.” I get a little kick out of this every time.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 9h

I appreciate bluesky's periodic dedication to reminding us of the purity of text-only posting by breaking all images on the site

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ᴋɪɴɢᴘɪɴ ᴏғ ᴛʜᴇ ɪɴᴋᴘᴇɴ @killlthehype.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

Silence is an answer too.

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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 11h

Before calling someone a “dirtbag,” the Senator should have had his facts straight. An apology is in order. Glad one of us knew the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."

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Micah @rincewind.run · 10h

Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay “They were men who felt that The Time Had Come. Regimes can survive barbarian hordes, crazed terrorists and hooded secret societies, but they're in real trouble when prosperous and anonymous men sit around a big table and think thoughts like that.”

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Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 10h

Where Will the Next Measles Outbreak Hit? In a low-vaccinated community, even if the state has high rates. Some areas at risk are in Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin, and more. via @aboutpediatrics.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/stopanti...

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Where Will the Next Measles Outbreak Hit?

Learn where the next big measles outbreak might hit so that you can help get your community vaccinated and protected and hopefully stop the outbreaks!

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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 18h

This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere.

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 28/09/2026

Of course, one should bear in mind that correlation does not equal castration.

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Clearly, the coffee is missing in this image.

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Euan MacDonald @euanmacdonald.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

People in the international community, if they know about Oleshky at all, might wonder why fascist Russia indulges in such obvious evil against a seemingly random Ukrainian town under occupation by its army.

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A Little Night Musing @alilnightmusing.bsky.social · 22h

Vote in the Mineral Cup Semifinals! It’s neck-and-neck between sultry cuprite and subtle halite! www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...

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Vote in Semifinals 1 — Mineral Cup & Ore Cup

Vote in Cuprite vs Halite Credit: Gianandrea Ghirri and John Kygier

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 22h

There can be no more terrifying prospect for those who cling to power (regardless of political affiliation) than a voter who laughs, a voter who rejoices, a voter who looks out upon the world and sees only choices on how it can be made better, rather than grim sacrifices meant to stave off worse.

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Matt Murphy @mjosmurphy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What a bizarre mineral! I had to vote cuprite.

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#MinCup26 SEMI-FINALS!!! It's showdown of the soft and cubical as coppery #Cuprite and salty #Halite compete for a spot in the finals! Both are worthy, but only one can have your vote. VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re... RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...

Split photo of a translucent deep red cube of cuprite within swooping matte blue-green crystal blades and a scattering of translucent white halite cubes in a nest of golden yellow spiky crystals.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Measuringe the value of educacioun by returne on ynvestment onlye ys lyke measuringe the value of a garden by the weight of the floweres

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TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#MorningVibe Martha Reeves and the Vandellas - I Should Be Proud: A powerful anti-war protest song questioning the senseless loss of life in Vietnam. As relevant today. No propaganda or medals can justify taking our young men for foreign conflict. #ArtIsActivism

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 29/09/2026

Whoa, for the 50th anniversary of Songs in the Key of Life, Stevie Wonder has released four additional songs from that recording session. “We didn’t add these songs to the album, but they were part of what I was feeling and discovering as we made it.” [pitchfork.com]

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Stevie Wonder Unvaults Four Songs in the Key of Life Tracks

“We didn’t add these songs to the album, but they were part of what I was feeling and discovering as we made it,” says Wonder

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Lyn Heideman @heidelyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

An ode to Fat Bear Week from the National Park Service (song lyrics in alt text, inspired by Dolly Parton's "9 to 5"): At Katmai, a bear’s day is less about climbing the corporate ladder and more about climbing Brooks Falls to fish for salmon. From morning til dusk, the #bears spend their days...

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Philippe Smet @pfsmet.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If graphite beats pyromorphite in #MinCup26 's last quarterfinal, the four contestants in the semifinals are Cu₂O, NaCl, SiO₂ and C. Crazy chemical simplicity, this edition. In 2025 we had Fe₂O₃ - Al₂SiO₅ and Na₄AlBeSi₄O₁₂Cl - CuSiO₂(OH)₂.

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Science Magazine @science.org · 28/09/2026

Last year, scientists developed an innovative way to vaccinate the bats against rabies—by making use of their extraordinary fondness of mutual grooming. #WorldRabiesDay scim.ag/4yeJbVW

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Vampire bats’ mutual grooming helps spread innovative rabies vaccine

A gel that bats lick off one another’s fur could help prevent rabies outbreaks in cattle, a growing problem in Latin America

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Dave Mandl @dmandl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This week's edition of my radio show, "It's Complicated" (an hour of prog and prog-adjacent music), wafts your way tonight at 7 p.m. Listen at 91.1 FM (NYC area), on the web at wfmu.org, or through the miracle that is the @wfmu.bsky.social app. (Watercolor by Valerie, age 13-ish.)

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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Happy 50th Birthday to Stevie Wonder’s Songs in the Key of Life, not only my favorite album is all time, but one of my favorite THINGS, up there with pizza, dogs, sunsets, and the laughter of children.

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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

REJOICE! Stevie just released FOUR NEW, UNHEARD SONGS recorded during the Songs in the Key of Life sessions! WOW!!!! I wrote on @boingboing.net ... boingboing.net/2026/09/28/s...

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Stevie Wonder finally releases four unheard songs from Songs in the Key of Life

Stevie Wonder released four unheard songs from his Songs in the Key of Life sessions to mark the album's 50th

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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Slut-shaming is rape culture. Focus on the abusers but don’t dismiss the role of this form of hate in perpetuating our culture of abuse. How have you seen this play out and have you been a part of it?

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Lolly Lolly Lolly @bluecheesier.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Your periodic reminder to *ask* any mobility-impaired person if they want help before 1) grabbing the door they are leaning on or, 2) deciding that they should be pushed somewhere. Unless you are pushing them out of the way of a speeding truck the decision isn't yours.

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CineCalendar @cinecalendar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sep 28th 1997 - After Amelie plays a cat-and-mouse game returning his photo album, #Amelie and Nino begin their romantic relationship together. 📽️📅 Amélie (2001)

2 Screenshots from the movie "Amélie" (2001): First, a brightly lit candy stand filled with colorful lollipops, candy apples, and ice cream cones, with subtitles reading “September 28, 1997. It is exactly 11 a.m.” Second, Amélie rests her head with a peaceful smile against a man’s back as they ride together on a motorbike, the background blurred in motion.

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Nolan Zugernat @zugernat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Amazing how many parents are more freaked about their daughters being on a team with a trans girl than the far higher possibility of them getting raped by frat dicks

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Newfound Planets @i-find-planets.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Look! A planet! It is in the shadows. A limited moon drifts alone below its O-class star. Perhaps one day we will smile there.

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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We should let people dream of something besides labor

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Don Davis @ddavisspaceart.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Sunset of September 27, 2026 was an epic spectacle whose intensity and beauty were memorable. The cloud ceiling had a wide opening toward the West that admitted Sunlight which underwent progressive color changes as it briefly in turn illuminated layers of otherwise invisible cloud textures.

The Sunset of September 27th, 2026 was one of the greatest visions the sky has ever opened up and revealed to me. It was a sunset like few I can remember in many years. I knew early on what was likely as a heavy cloud ceiling was opening up far to the West with the underside textures in that part of the cloud ceiling catching the light early on from the distant sunlit clouds.

Vast connected cloud formations were in turn bathed in the last sunlight which progressively turned from a golden to orange to very red, in as pure a spectral filtering of Sunlight as I can recall seeing. One layer of cloud formations after another caught the light as the rays steadily angled upwards. The most distant yellow gold clouds were dazzling, like incandescent molten gold that defied photography. Lower layers were bathed in the reddest light that contrasted in hue with the more orange colors in the illuminated parts of the broken cloud ceiling above. Wide areas of the field of view were thus illuminated, appearing and fading one after the other like a parade of vast apparitions coming and going.

The last lit clouds gave up their lurid radiance reluctantly and with a very red final flourish. But the brilliance was still happening, withdrawing beyond the Western horizon as Earth's rotation carried us into the realm of the night. The Sunset lit clouds far away were still in itself illuminating clouds nearby. From their altitude the brilliance and colors along the horizon hundreds of miles away dominate the ambient lighting. This brought an extended 'echo' of the Sunset as every cloud surface facing West shone with that fading lurid glow, like a long slowly fading piano note after a great symphony.

I have seen many hundreds of Sunsets and sunrises, but something about this one struck me as almost like a kind of religious experience. Awestruck wonder and numbly bathing in the experience while periodically trying to preserve a visual record.

An all sky frame of the Sunset of September 27, 2026. Canon 6D with a fisheye lens. I now shoot most such sequences aimed straight up to show the entire horizon. Unfortunately due to a technical issue this became the first frame of the time lapse sequence, but I did get the extended 'afterglow'.

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Lewis Carroll Bot @lewis-carroll-bot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And here Alice began to get rather sleepy, and went on saying to herself, in a dreamy sort of way, “Do cats eat bats? Do cats eat bats?” and sometimes, “Do bats eat cats?”

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The idea of a "tech industry" has always relied on "computer" being a special kind of medium, akin to alchemy. And if tech demands to be king, AI hype has now elevated LLMs to a king of kings. But the solipsism has hit a dead end. The only way forward is to recognize that computers are not special.

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LLMs are just normal technology. But tech is just a normal medium.

The more we focus on a particular technology, the more we lose sight of what normal people actually care about.

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#MinCup26 Quarterfinal 4 We're coming down the end! Are you supporting lead-locking #pyromorphite or ancient #graphite as we enter the semifinals. VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re... RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...

Split view of blobby peach-tinted pyromorphite shining as though wet, and dark grey graphite with its signature greasy sheen sitting on paper marked with pencil-like scribbles.

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"Jaime" is harvesting figs at min. wage in Madera CA. "There isn't enough good fruit. Usually we harvest through November but many locations have already stopped. We expected to be working longer. Now we need to look for another job as we need this income to pay rent." #WeFeedYou

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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

we should probably talk about how Whiteness clouds even a discussion about AI data centers and how Whiteness has flattened the context of why AI data centers are bad, and how no, it's not just because they "use all the water" but how they devastate Black and rural communities.

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