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Barbara Waxer 🌈 @barbara-waxer.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Massachusettes "Millionaires Tax", which was targeted to fund transportation and education, has been a resounding success. It has funded FREE school lunch for ALL students, FREE buses in lowest income communities (people can get to work, etc.), and FREE community college. And "exodus" was minimal.

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Millionaires tax surges past expectations, once again

The voter-approved surtax has sailed past its $2 billion estimate for another year in a row.

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This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

57 years ago, on the 20th of July 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the moon, as part of the Apollo 11 mission. The last time humans were on the moon was in 1972. #otd #history 🗃️

Buzz Aldrin on the Moon in a photograph taken by Neil Armstrong, who can be seen in the visor reflection along with Earth, the Lunar Module Eagle, and the U.S. flag.

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Old School Punk Librarian @kennethf62.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Just a reminder. I'm always surprised how many people aren't aware of this. #Libraries

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Lydy @lydy.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

I recently dipped my toes into the science fiction and fantasy book discourse on Facebook, and I find I have things to say about the "Golden Age" of science fiction. By which I do not mean being twelve. Stick that in your back pocket, though, as it's really useful for understanding some people.

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Sarah Ovenall @ovenall.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Resharing with alt text because this really deserves alt text

A meme from .... tumblr? Not sure where it originated.

just-shower-thoug...: "I hate that SEPTember OCTOber NOVember and DECember aren't the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th months."

advanced-procrastination: "Whoever fucked this up should be stabbed"

brunhiddensmusings: "good news!"

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MdDoogie3 @mddoogie3.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

I implore you to hit up CVS and get your flu shot. Please don’t game it with whatever else you heard. It’s real serious and we don’t gave any public health allies in the government now.

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

I have felt for quite a while that at least a part of anti-migrant, anti-refugee behaviour from successive governments is pulling the drawbridge up ahead of an increase in climate-caused refugee movement. And you know what? It's not gonna save us, lads

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Micah @rincewind.run · 18/10/2025

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”? anyway that’s why these events are important

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folk tune stan account 🎻 @folktunes.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

This one's maybe a little on the ling side, but trust me, it's worth it. I've cried reading it multiple times. (1/3)

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Carpathia received Titanic's distress signal at 12:20am, April 15th, 1912. She was 58 miles away, a distance that absolutely could not be covered in less than four hours.

(Californian's exact position at the time is... controversial. She was close enough to have helped. By all accounts she was close enough to see Titanic's distress rockets. It's uncertain to this day why her crew did not respond, or how many might not have been lost if she had been there. This is not the place for what-ifs. This is about what was done.)

Carpathia's Captain Rostron had, yes, rolled out of bed instantly when woken by his radio operator, ordered his ship to Titanic's aid and confirmed the signal before he was fully dressed. The man had never in his life responded to an emergency call. His goal tonight was to make sure nobody who heard that fact would ever believe it.

All of Carpathia's lifeboats were swung out ready for deployment. Oil was set up to be poured off the side of the ship in case the sea turned choppy; oil would coat and calm the water near Carpathia if that happened, making it safer for lifeboats to draw up alongside her.

He ordered lights to be rigged along the side of the ship so survivors could see it better, and had nets and ladders rigged along her sides ready to be dropped when they arrived, in order to let as many survivors as possible climb aboard at once.

I don't know if his making provisions for there still being survivors in the water was optimism or not. I think he knew they were never going to get there in time for that. I think he did it anyway because, god, you have to hope.

Carpathia had three dining rooms, which were immediately converted into triage and first aid stations. Each had a doctor assigned to it. Hot soup, coffee, and tea were prepared in bulk in each dining room, and blankets and warm clothes were collected to be ready to hand out.

By this time, many of the passengers were awake-prepping a ship for disaster relief isn't quiet-and all of them stepped up to help, many donating their own clothes and blankets.

And then he did something I tend to refer to as diverting all power from life support.

Here's the thing about steamships: They run on steam. Shocking, I know; but that steam powers everything on the ship, and right now, Carpathia needed power. So Rostron turned off hot water and central heating, which bled valuable steam power, to everywhere but the dining rooms-which, of course, were being used to make hot drinks and receive survivors.

He woke up all the engineers, all the stokers and firemen, diverted all that steam back into the engines, and asked his ship to go as fast as she possibly could. And when she'd done that, he asked her to go faster.

I need you to understand that you simply can't push a ship very far past its top speed. Pushing that much sheer tonnage through the water becomes harder with each extra knot past the speed it was designed for. Pushing a ship past its rated speed is not only reckless-it's difficult to maneuver-but it puts an incredible amount of strain on the engines. Ships are not designed to exceed their top speed by even one knot. They can't do it. It can't be done.

Carpathia's absolute do-or-die, the-engines-can't-take-this-forever top speed was fourteen knots. Dodging icebergs, in the dark and the cold, surrounded by mist, she sustained a speed of almost seventeen and a half.

No one would have asked this of them. It wasn't expected. They were almost sixty miles away, with icebergs in their path. They had a responsibility to respond; they did not have a responsibility to do the impossible and do it well. No one would have faulted them for taking more time to confirm the severity of the issue. No one would have blamed them for a slow and cautious approach. No one but themselves.

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Benjamin Alvarez @benjalvarez1.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Today's #WeAreAllDC protest in downtown Washington, D.C. demanding an immediate withdrawal of federal troops from the District and an end to the federalization of the local police department.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/08/2025

i think it is hard for some people to really their heads around the reality that kennedy is staunchly anti-vaccine and thinks that people should suffer through disease and that those who die deserved it and that those who survive are a better order of human being

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/08/2025

one of the single best deals in streaming. i've been paying for PBS Passport for years. it rules

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Opal @opalescentopal.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 19/07/2025

Fascinating. Microsoft emailed me to say it was raising the price of Microsoft 365, but when i went to cancel it offered me me the old price — without all the AI bullshit. It’s forcing AI on everyone and making them pay more for it, then only telling them they don’t have to if they try to cancel.

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University of Glasgow @glasgow.ac.uk · 11/07/2025

Hundreds of scientists are set to take part in the first performance of a new Scottish country dance inspired by the ripples in spacetime whose existence was first theorised by Albert Einstein. More: gla.ac/3ICip4Q #GR24Amaldi16 #GravitationalWaves #Glasgow @uofgravity.bsky.social

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David Thomas MooahahahAHAHA! @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

The mad thing is, for like %99.998 of human history, nobody really spoke to anyone who wasn't born within a couple miles of them, and we're supposed to believe that *now* people's horizons are too narrow?

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

I know we don't feel like there's much to celebrate this July 4th. It's been a rough several years. So I want to talk about how we're making history right now.

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

My mom and stepdad are from the same diaspora group as Zohran Mamdani’s dad (same like “my stepdad was kicked out of the same town and knows some of his classmates”) and apparently the New York Times doesn’t understand how diaspora works, so I am going to tell you a little about my mom’s people!

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Jenn @jennburrill.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

"Preliminary data from the first half of 2024 shows that nationwide, the crime rate for all Index crimes likely hit its lowest point since 1961 last year" - @prisonpolicy.org

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Anne Worth @anneworth.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

I am so happy right now! I was re-listening to the Graphic Audio productions of @adapalmer.bsky.social 's first two Terra Ignota books, and feeling sad because I thought the last two weren't going to be made. But on a whim I checked, and they are available! The last one is on pre-order. So glad!

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

If you think COVID vaccines should continue to be available to all: take 5 min and add your comments at the link below. (Advice for what to say in the linked thread.)

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We Have Issues @wehaveissues.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

I cannot stress this enough. If you love literature, check out Its Storytime from @wilwheaton.net. Not only is a wonderfully well-made show, it gives an amazing spotlight to works that actually need it. Link attached for different podcast services. wilwheaton.net/podcast/

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It’s Storytime with Wil Wheaton

You may recognize Wil Wheaton’s name from his acting work in television shows like The Big Bang Theory, Leverage, and Star Trek: The Next Generation, or 1985’s timeless classic, Stand B…

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

we all had a lot of fun dunking on “menstrual cycle education” yesterday but what they’re talking about there is propaganda to vilify other methods of birth control in favor of the rhythm method, specifically because it has a higher failure rate

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

I’ve said this repeatedly but I’ll say it again: if you’re able, get an IUD. it’s easily removed but otherwise lasts for years. (voice of experience here: ask for a paracervical block pre-insertion, and if they refuse, find another dr)

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 05/04/2025

Adorable. The Boston ducks have protest signs #handsoff

Bronze statues of a duck and her ducklings. They each have a little white sign

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JL Kaufmann @jlkaufmann.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

I can think of no better things to be done with my tax money than to support the vulnerable, feed the poor, treat the sick, educate, well, everyone, and restore the ecology. Yep, yep, this is me virtue signalling. I am virtuous, and I want people to know being virtuous is fucking cool, actually.

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Xiran Jay Zhao @xiranjayzhao.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Women's Day has been so heavily co-opted by bourgeois feminism but let's never forget that it originated from the labor movement under the organization of socialists like Theresa Malkiel and Clara Zetkin. It was always meant to be the International WORKING Women's Day.

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Anne Worth @anneworth.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Trying to make my MIL an appointment at the Post Office for her passport. The website says this is "currently unavailable." That's been true for several days. Gee, wonder why.

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Anne Worth @anneworth.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Well that includes my husband. Pretty scary.

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Anne Worth @anneworth.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Because the Real ID requirements will kick in this May, we're trying to decide between attempting to get my MIL either a passport or a Real ID. The passport means dealing with a federal government that is in complete chaos. The Real ID means spending hours at the RMV. Tough decision.

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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 31/01/2025

Everyone seems to be framing Trump's freeze on federal grants as a Constitutional fight over powers of the purse & whether presidents can disregard Congressional appropriations. It is that. But also at stake is the fundamental validity of government contracts! I see much less discussion on this... 🧵

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again!

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Seems like this would be a good time to have a competent media but ah well man’s reach must exceed his grasp or what’s a heaven for

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Anne Worth @anneworth.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

It's so cold this morning (-6F at 9am) that for the first time the temperature is making a difference in my decision of what to do today. Usually it's possible to add wool sweater/long underwear etc. but it's not possible to do my usual volunteer stint with gloves on. So it'll have to wait!

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Anne Worth @anneworth.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Every morning I have to check my MIL's email to weed out the phishing/scamming attempts. Comcast is much worse at keeping those out than Gmail. I feel as if we're constantly besieged. Fortunately as she does very little with her phone she rarely gets text attempts.

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Anne Worth @anneworth.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Kittens are like children in that when they're quiet you just know something is up. Wonder what I'll find this time.

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