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Adam Rawnsley @arawnsley.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Had convos w/ multiple people in the past 4 days who DID NOT KNOW that 1. AI doesn't "think" or know anything; it's a probability machine 2. It was created using massive amounts of work stolen from actual people including me 3. The environmental costs are astronomical Spread the word, every time!

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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

remember this when they finally kill the ACA and bring back pre-existing conditions, because basically everyone has them

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 20/03/2026

One thing I will add to this well written accurate article - is do not underestimate the ability of intentionally organized and structured hobby and recreation groups to pivot quickly, fluidly and spontaneously toward mutual aid and action

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

NO NO NO YOU DON’T GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL tell everyone you know www.freetaxusa.com

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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 07/03/2026

Now more than ever I’m convinced losing Anthony Bourdain meant we lost probably the biggest person on tv who advocated for the wonders of meeting new people and calling anyone online who hated learning new cultures the children they were, ruthlessly to the camera.

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Wyrd Women @wyrdwomen.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

The wyrd sisters spin the web of wyrd and weave the loom of life, they do not thereby determine it … the wyrd sisters simply express the will of wyrd. And so do we. ~ Brian Bates

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 01/02/2026

*uncontrollable weeping*

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

I choose to take this as a positive omen. (As named and drawn by Paul Kidby, illustrator of Discworld.)

A heraldic-style portrait of the Year of the Curious Squid. The squid looks somewhat startled, and has a green body with blue tentacles and a blue stripe along its mantle

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alice @alice.mosphere.at · 19/10/2025

happy none pizza left beef day!! it's been 18 years and is now old enough to vote

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 07/10/2025

/adds to lexicon/

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Frank Strong @frankstrong.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

I need help getting this CRAZY censorship story out! Last week, admins in Leander ISD emailed teachers telling them to “pause” use of 40 books relating to “DEI” that had previously been curriculum or choice reading activities. Included on the list? To Kill a Mockingbird. #bookbans #booksky

Email to 6th-grade teachers in Leander ISD that reads:

Dear 6th Grade ELA Team,
I want to share an Important update regarding some of the texts in our book club and
whole-class reading collections. In response to new legislation outlined in Senate Bill 12 (89th
Legislature), we have conducted a review of titles currently used in secondary ELA instruction.
Because SB 12 prohibits specific types of content, several of our resources now require
additional review.
Effective immediately, please pause the use of the identified texts (linked below) in
instruction and assignments until further notice. This step is necessary to ensure our
curriculum remains in full compliance with the law.
I want to emphasize that these books are not being permanently removed. They are simply on
hold while we seek additional guidance from TASB and TEA regarding the implications of SB 12
for instructional resources. Once we receive that guidance, we will provide clear updates about
next steps. Additionally, if these books are included in your own personal classroom library, we
request that you remove them since personal classroom libraries are considered instructional
resources.
I know this timing is far from ideal and may present challenges, especially given the thoughtful
preparation you have invested in building engaging reading experiences for students. Please
know that our commitment to offering students a wide range of meaningful opportunities for
choice reading and discussion remains unchanged.
Thank you for your flexibility, professionalism, and continued dedication to our students as we
navigate this process together.
6th grade ELAR Resources
With appreciation,

List of 40 books removed from classes. Includes To Kill a Mockingbird, The House on Mango Street, The Fire Next Time, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and, weirdly, Les Miserables.

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NomadiCat @nomadicat.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Me: DAGGERbound? Oh my, are we getting a continuation of the Swordheart books? *goes to look up the synopsis* Me: ... Me: ........ Me: LEARNED EDMUND WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING HERE? WOOOO! *instabuys*

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

I’m going to say this louder this time: if you are lying about having a high-risk condition to get a Covid vaccine, all good, do what you want to do BUT show some actual goddamn respect for people who *actually* have that condition and start masking.

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

“I do believe in an everyday sort of magic -- the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art and the like; the eerie appropriateness of moments of synchronicity; the whispered voice, the hidden presence, when we think we’re alone.” - Charles de Lint

Photograph: Our young brown spaniel swims in the River Teign amidst stars of summer light.

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Andrea O'Sullivan @andreao.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Back to lifting after an extended break due to ... stuff. Which means new PRs happening yay! Today it was back squats 80lbs x 6. Not where I was before frozen shoulder and exploding knee but not too shabby.

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

"I do believe in an everyday sort of magic -- the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art and the like; the eerie appropriateness of moments of synchronicity; the whispered voice, the hidden presence, when we think we're alone." - Charles de Lint

Photograph: Our spaniel, Lottie, at the edge of the woods on a wet, misty, mysterious day. She sits waiting for me, smelling rain, earth, and magic. An everyday sort of magic.

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Brosephus @brosephus.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Read that last sentence. Now, take a breath, and then read that last sentence again. Maybe now some of y'all will understand why we've been telling y'all that white America has to do this. If this was a crowd of Black people, there would be cops in riot gear and armored vehicles. 1/2

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Andrew Simon @simongandrew.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.

There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they will come to your doorstep one day; to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they'll come for next. But this appeal cannot, in matter of fact, work. If the people well served by a system that condones such butchery ever truly believed the same butchery could one day be inflicted on them, they'd tear the system down tomorrow. And anyway, by the time such a thing happens, the rest of us will already be dead.
No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience.
Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children? Who cares if great distance from the bloodstained middle allows obliviousness. Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

I am a salt hag. The tides turns my blood. Waves call me down from the cliffs to occulted coves. Gulls gossip with me. My shore is augury. The rock I stand upon all the temple I need. All my magics are kissed by salted lips. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 18/03/2025

Who wants some good news? The overwintering monarch population, which had plummeted last winter, has doubled this winter! www.worldwildlife.org/stories/east...

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Eastern Monarch Butterfly Population Nearly Doubles

The population wintering in central Mexico's forests occupied 4.42 acres, up from 2.22 acres during the previous winter.

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-MD) has kindly provided this handy form letter that any US citizen can send to DOGE to request any records DOGE may have accessed about that citizen under the Freedom Of Information Act. jamieraskin.com/doge-privacy...

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DOGE Privacy Act Requests

U.S. Representative Jamie Raskin is encouraging all U.S. citizens to join him this week in filing formal demands for access to their personal data obtained by the Department of Government Efficiency (...

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Andrea O'Sullivan @andreao.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

This morning I accidentally dropped a scoop of pink lemonade flavored electrolytes into my coffee instead of unflavored collagen. So while I can say I got out of this week alive, I can't say I did so unscathed.

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Andrea O'Sullivan @andreao.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Soothed my brain today by deciding what I'd put on an altar for @seananmcguire.bsky.social character the Luidaeg. Even though she'd probably hate it.

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Mike Kaspari @mikekaspari.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

US citizens: keep calling your congressfolk. The 5calls.org website is great for this, providing numbers and talking points. Thus far, for Oklahoma, Sen Langford's mailbox is already overloaded! It takes 5 minutes. You'll feel better. And this is important.

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Satyros Phil Brucato @satyrosphilbrucato.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Holy fucking shit. Kentucky is drowning under floods, mainstream media is silent about it, our "fearless leader," his Nazi boss, and VP Soul Of Appalachia himself are all AWOL, and so @coyotewallace.bsky.social has been covering it hourly with photos and updates. bsky.app/profile/coyo...

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Jon Olfert @jonolfert.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Look, given that talking publicly about what we and others are doing about All This can often be a bad idea right now, can we all just agree to give each other the benefit of the doubt by default? Silence on socials doesn't mean inaction or complicity.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Every salt hag has her place of standing. Wave-washed rocks as threshold, as turning point, as site of summoning. For as much as we are witches of the tides and their teeth, we are also of the omen shore. We know how to plant our feet and face the storm. – #EmilyCBanting, 1981 #WitchSky

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

goddammit why am I crying

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Danny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter) @deecherrywriter.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

OH FUCK NO. I'm sending an email, but white women, this is y'all's moment to shine. I can't think of a better reason to need to a speak to a manager. Inside every white woman reading this is a Karen waiting to be called into action. Lock-in, dig deep, and be a Karen for democracy!

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N.S. Dolkart is gathering signatures @nsdolkart.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I went into @tkingfisher.com’s Paladin’s Grace cold, having heard only that it was good and nothing else about it, and man it is the most Kingfisher romance possible. If you asked me to invent a scene from a T. Kingfisher romance, I’d have no choice but to come up with that forest scene.

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Sean Eric Fagan @kithrup.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

This is the single most pratchettian thing @tkingfisher.com has ever written. FIGHT ME (From Summer in Orcus.)

(This may seem an unusual ambition, but Summer had read a great many books about magic and animals and changing your shape. Summer’s mother believed that books were safe things that kept you inside, which only shows how little she knew about it, because books are one of the least safe things in the world.)

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Here are the options on the table (which are not mutually exclusive): 1. House Dems bring articles of impeachment* 2. Senate Dems play constitutional hardball and obstruct everything 3. State AGs litigate (and prosecute) everything they can 4. Citizens march en mass

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Genie Lauren @moreandagain.me · 30/01/2025

I just wish #yall would signal boost the Black people who are telling you this is Jim Crow more than you signal boost the non-black people who are saying it's Nazi Germany. I know why you won't though. . .

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I'll add, for anyone (like me) with social anxiety, esp. around the phone: they don't argue with you! They listen and record your comment. If they agree they will probably reassure you! If they don't, they just log you and you hang up. That's it. We can do this. ❤️👊

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 25/01/2025

Ever wonder what snow in the swamp would look like? This is 5 miles into the Louisiana swamps in the Atchafalaya basin... it's unreal... having lived down there for the first 28 years of my life, we never saw anything like this. Smashed records. Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Stop saying DEI to refer to things that have existed for 50 years and were literally created as a response to the marches of Martin Luther King, Jr. There's a reason they're using a codeword: because they know rolling back US civil rights law is incredibly unpopular! Don't fall for it!

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Casey Clough @caseyclough.com · 23/01/2025

In the midst of everything, sometimes the coffee chemistry is *perfect*. #TinyJoys

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Brick's House 🍁 @brickmahoney.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

You say shut-in like it's a bad thing

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Amadi Lovelace @amaditalks.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Regarding Trump & TikTok, @vegasrev.bsky.social said "That thing where your abuser steals things from you and then gives them back, expecting praise." And it's spot on. He's an abuser, behaving as they do. We know this is a part of his behavioral pattern.

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Vee Mus'e (she/her) @veemuse.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

The return of TikTok is the flowers given to the target of abuse after a "bad argument" He is no hero. He's manipulation embodied.

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Kevin Hearne @kevinhearne.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Thanks to some diehard fans and a fundraising drive to pay the artist, we now have detailed full-body designs for the Iron Druid tattoos! Shoutout to the artist, Phil Balsman of @odinstarindustries.bsky.social! kevinhearne.com/the-full-bod...

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Kevin Hearne | The Full Body Druid Tattoos

Previously I’ve shared the brilliant work of artist Phil Balsman (who’s been paid!) when he designed the shoulder and arm tattoos for Atticus and Granuaile, as those would be the ones folks most often...

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Andrea O'Sullivan @andreao.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

As someone who has no or limited visual imagination I am in endless awe of people who read books and make mood boards for them. Such a visceral level of "how? what? OMG amazing."

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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 14/01/2025

I wanted to mention it's also a good time to donate to Undue Medical Debt unduemedicaldebt.org They used to be called RIP Medical Dept, and are a 501(c)3 organization, and have a 98% rating on Charity Navigator. You can mark your donation for a specific state, or just leave it at nationwide.

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Undue Medical Debt makes it easy for donors to make an impactful difference in the lives of those struggling with medical debt.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

These extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer. These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP. You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇 www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...

A street is orange from flames and you can see the high winds in the palm trees. Sparks fly down the street

A fire truck is engulfed in parks and flames are seen on the hill. The entire photo is red and orange from the fire

A fireman with a hose runs across the front of a house in flames in the background

The inside of a house is a ball of flames. The only visible thing inside is a burning Christmas tree

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