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Andy Kostrub @andrewkostrub.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If it wasn't good enough, they wouldn't call it the minimum
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Andy Kostrub @andrewkostrub.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What’s your favorite GIF?
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Alonzo Mourning's Bench Reaction
ALT: Alonzo Mourning's Bench Reaction
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Andy Kostrub @andrewkostrub.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Other great TV shows besides Airbender that didn't make the Prestigious NYT list: Brooklyn 99 Bob's Burgers Flight of the Conchords Endeavor Deadloch Our Flag Means Death Gravity Falls Big Little Lies The Durrells That's just in English! If Japan and ROK were fairly considered, forget about it...
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Andy Kostrub @andrewkostrub.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Andy Kostrub @andrewkostrub.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We all know this to be true, but most are too snooty to admit
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Vanda Wilcox @vandawilcox.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
resharing this as well in case people missed it... do think about applying, or share with your networks! last time we advertised, only men applied, so I would especially encourage women to think about applying as we would like to have a diverse group of editors
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Andy Kostrub @andrewkostrub.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Damn I forgot about sea otters, part of the weasel family. Mammals returned to the ocean by at least four evolutionary paths?
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Andy Kostrub @andrewkostrub.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
War just doesn’t work anymore. To start one is to lose one
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Ludmilla @ludmillaart.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Sad news. Wendell Berry 1934-2026
The Peace of Wild
Things
by Wendell Berry
When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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Sports fandom was a mistake @iracane.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
RIP Wendell Berry
NOVEMBER 24, 2025
POEMS
THE LOVED ONES
By Wendell Berry
November 17, 2025
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The loved ones we call the dead depart from us and for a while are absent. And then as if called back by our love, they come near us again. They enter our dreams.
We feel they have been near us when we have not thought of them.
They are simply here, simply waiting while we are distracted among our obligations. At last it comes to us: They live now in the permanent world.
We are the absent ones.
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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
this is one of my favorite visual jokes of all time. i think about it several times a week.
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Andy Kostrub @andrewkostrub.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Nightshade content detected
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Andy Kostrub @andrewkostrub.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Post a perfect album from the 2000s (2000-2009)
Cat Power - You Are Free
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Son of Sandor @sonofsandor.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Begay, one of the last two living Code Talkers, grew up speaking only the Navajo language. At 13, like many Native American Code Talkers, he first learned English when he was sent to boarding school. The other surviving Navajo Code Talker is Peter MacDonald. www.pressdemocrat.com/2026/08/14/n...
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National Code Talker Day brings 101-year-old veteran to Phoenix
Navajo Code Talkers are being honored in a longstanding national day of recognition.
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Andy Kostrub @andrewkostrub.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This take exactly only it's the Nickelodeon TV series Avatar: The Last Airbender
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Andy Kostrub @andrewkostrub.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Amazon Prime summary for Krull is disrespectful
It says "Prince (Ken Marshall) needs razor boomerang to free beloved (Lysette Anthony) from Beast."
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Andy Kostrub @andrewkostrub.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Submitting a new Mandela Effect entry: Agent Cooper did not have his damn fine cup of coffee at the Double R Diner. It was at the Great Northern.
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Andy Kostrub @andrewkostrub.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
If I remember right mammals returned to the ocean no less than three separate times. One group of carnivores became walruses and seals, another group related to deer became whales and dolphins, a third group became manatees and sea cows.
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Andy Kostrub @andrewkostrub.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Love this design! especially for fans of Wendy Carlos, the trans woman who did the music for Tron
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Andy Kostrub @andrewkostrub.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I haven't seen Nolan's Odyssey. I'm just appreciating anew that New Line Cinema had Peter Jackson (who most people had never heard of at the time) do the Lord of the Rings. Grateful for that.
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Andy Kostrub @andrewkostrub.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Post a perfect album from the 90s.
Blue Lines by Massive Attack
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Beard's essay opens, "I want to start very near the beginning of the tradition of Western literature, and its first recorded example of a man telling a woman to ‘shut up’; telling her that her voice was not to be heard in public." My essay on the Odyssey, Andrew & Tristan Tate, misogyny then & now:
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Listening to Cassandra: Misogyny, Classical and Modern
Last weekend, the film The Odyssey was released and the Tate brothers were arrested in Florida at the behest of the British government, which seeks to extradite them to face a long list of charges. An...
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Andy Kostrub @andrewkostrub.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Oh word? And where do free markets and individual liberty come from? Does god run that personally, no paperwork involved?
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Andy Kostrub @andrewkostrub.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I’m so old I put two spaces after a period in a text
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Andy Kostrub @andrewkostrub.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
What I’m eating right now — a burrito stuffed with refried beans and covered in queso, guac, pico, and sour cream.
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Andy Kostrub @andrewkostrub.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
This has long been my view as well. Nerf the ambassadors. And be ready to fire the coordinators if they fail to deliver. Foreign aid and investment agencies also fall under the team.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
It's my 29th wedding anniversary, so let's learn about the bird most associated with loving monogamy, the Sarus Crane (Antigone antigone). They are also the tallest of the flying birds, with some individuals 6' (1.8 m) high. (📷: Renuka Vijay, @renukavijay4577 on YT)
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Not sure who needs to hear this but admitting you're wrong doesn't kill you instantly
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Andy Kostrub @andrewkostrub.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
RIP to one of great voices of my youth. I was playing Peabo in the office earlier today to educate my younger colleagues.
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Nola Barrett @nolabarrett.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Always repost
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...
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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
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Andy Kostrub @andrewkostrub.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Quote with a fictional band that is not Spinal Tap
an illustrated poster for the Black Stones from Nana
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Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Some thoughts about Mali and the Sahel. foreignpolicy.com/2026/05/04/m...
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Mali Is the Key to Understanding Africa’s Trajectory
The West ignores the warning signs in the Sahel at its own peril.
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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 30/04/2026
Saw this white-crowned sparrow having a lot of a sing
A photograph of a white crowned sparrow. The sparrow is perched on a fence post and its little beak open and its head thrown back in song.
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Andy Kostrub @andrewkostrub.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Concerned that today's boys lack the masculine role models I had when I was their age
A young Robert Smith of The Cure, with his teased hair and makeup
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
DC's only govt-funded wildlife rescue is under threat. It's a bad budget year with all the fuckery, but this is a relatively small line item that means a lot to people. www.popville.com/2026/04/city...
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City Wildlife in Danger of Losing ALL DC Funding – Make Your Voice Heard! - PoPville
photo by Diane Krauthamer Thanks to all who tagged and forwarded to us from DC City Wildlife: "The mayor’s budget for Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 will cut 100% of City Wildlife’s $200,000 funding, greatly i...
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 27/04/2026
“Training was key. The civil rights movement was often creative, but it was rarely spontaneous. Its members did not just take to the streets to roll the dice and see what would happen.” www.liberalcurrents.com/lessons-in-t...
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Lessons in Training, Strategy, and Discipline From the Civil Rights Movement
Tactical excellence without a strategic understanding is a recipe for failure.
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Austin McCoy @austinmccoy.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Wrote a piece about Martha and the Vandellas, civil rights, and their place in the history of Black women R&B groups. I also created a YouTube playlist (in the comments) with some of their hits
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Motown girl group Martha and the Vandellas not only recorded an anthem for the civil rights era – they fought for fair pay and proudly called themselves divas
Classic songs ‘Nowhere to Run’ and ‘Dancing in the Street’ captured the revolutionary spirit of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
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Krisi 🏳️‍⚧️ @primaryradical.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
David Duchovny played a transgender woman, Denise, on Twin Peaks in 1990 and when greeting Cooper, the show's protagonist, she says, "I prefer Denise, if you don't mind" and Cooper responds with "OK" and her identity is settled within a couple seconds and was a non-issue, 36 years ago.
FBI agent Denise played by David Duchovny and Dale Cooper, played by Kyle Maclachlan, Twin Peaks 1990
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E. Bond @ericbbond.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Call out to loving hearts and souls: come alive, rise & shine, help to bless this world free. Raise hope, serve liberation. Abide in peace. Bear fruit with care. Be filled with Spirit. Share mercy.
chalked words
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OSINTRadar @osintradar.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
⚡NASA has shown the reverse side of the Moon — for the first time in more than 50 years The last time it was shown was in 1972 — during the Apollo 17 mission.
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Time sensitive: this is the last day to submit comments opposing the Bureau of Land Management's clearcutting of Oregon's ancient forests. This is a tool that educates you on just how diabolical it is, and it helps you submit your comment. morethanjustparks.com/oregon-old-g...
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BLM Announces Plan to Fell Oregon's Last Great Forests
There's a kind of forest in western Oregon that you feel before you understand. The BLM just gave the timber industry permission to tear it all down.
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Andy Kostrub @andrewkostrub.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
If you're ever feeling down you can always do an image search of Thompson Twins and remember what a real band looks like.
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Paula Chernoff @paulachernoff11.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Burrowing Owl on the ground making sure visitors read the sign!!! #birdoftheday birds on the ground photo by David Chernoff
Burrowing Owl on the ground, standing in front of a sign telling visitors it is a violation to disturb the burrows or harass the owls.
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JD (by way of Blacksky) @jdot.blacksky.team · 15/03/2026
I’m watching this on repeat. #OscarsonBlacksky
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Lauralilulu @lauralilulu.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
The world needs men to get out of the man box. The problem is that they have been conditioned to exist in a tiny, confined definition of masculinity that brings suffering upon themselves, their families, and their communities. There is a way out of the man box. It's grounded in healthy psychology.
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Climate Action California @climactcal.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Who COULDN’T use some good news? ‘ Scientists with the Yurok Tribe say that two of dozens of condors released to the wild in Humboldt County since 2022, to reestablish the endangered birds, have paired up, built a nest in a redwood tree and appear to be tending to an egg.” #californiacondor
Northern California’s first condor egg in 100 years reported in redwood tree
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Mike Pingleton @somuchpingle.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Know what doesn't suck right now, or ever? Nature. This Pale-striped Poison Frog (Ameerega hahneli) was hopping across an open area at our NE Peru field station, on his way to find a suitable wet place to deposit his tadpoles (such as the axils of a bromeliad). #herps #frogs #NaturePhotography 🌿
Angled-down image of a frog perched on a brown leaf and facing left. The frog's principal ground color is black, with yellowish-white stripes running from the nose through the eye and down the back to the legs. A second stripe runs along the lower jaw, terminating at the front legs. The legs are a light brown and there is a triangular flashmark of bright yellow at the top of the thigh. The frog also has some dark brown blobs attached to the lower back - four tadpoles, hanging on until the male frog can transport them to a suitable source of water.
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