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morpheme enthusiast @anderswo.bsky.social · 22/04/2024

Chrisjen Avasarala from the Expanse, with a speech bubble

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Jason @jxsxpx.bsky.social · 21h

It’s also a solid Thanksgiving choice

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Michael Yarbrough (he/him) @mwyarbrough.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There's no way to address the problems of higher ed without remaking boards of trustees.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

the thing about impeaching Vought is that it will ruin his life. pull his kids and wife in for sixteen hour depositions. refer them all for perjury. scream in his face. when you're done, if it didn't work, do it again.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

fundamentally Trump going unpunished is an outcrop of an entire culture of elite impunity, from white collar crime to the Iraq war to the #MeToo backlash; the idea that the powerful (largely white men) can never and should never face consequences lest others of their caste might too.

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Tsenacommacah Chamber of Commerce @archaeomancer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

people love learning! and they love booze! and they love being around other people! it’s awesome!

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Tsenacommacah Chamber of Commerce @archaeomancer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I’ve actually been to a bunch of these and they’re great, the ones near me are ALWAYS sold tf out, and they run the gamut—ones I’ve been to have been a lit prof who specializes in horror and a historian of the ancient Near East. Cool as balls. There’s a ton of unmet demand here

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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

there are moral arguments against the death penalty in its ideal form but in real life you never need to get there. the prior question is "can the state be trusted to end the life only of the rightly convicted without torture?" and the answer is no

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

righteous among the nations

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Delightful also to hear real eagle noises. In movies eagles are always dubbed with hawks, since hawks found fierce and eagles sound like adorable squeakers.

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Andrew Cothern / RVA Playlist @rvaplaylist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Look at all the fun movies RVA’s film community is screening this spooky season! I’ll be at most of these. @hardlight.online

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Daniel Bachman @danielbachman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you're in Richmond VA on the 14 of November please consider joining us for the first annual meeting of the Virginia Folklore Society in about 25 years. We have a few special guests and speakers, and will be talking about our goals with an annual journal, online events, and ways to get involved.

The flyer for the VA folklore society annual meeting at the Virginia Museum of HIstory and Culture Nov 14 1-3 PM 2026.

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Tsenacommacah Chamber of Commerce @archaeomancer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

both evidence of cultivation before agriculture and further evidence of ‘beer made civilization’ over ‘civilization made beer,’ imo

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Tsenacommacah Chamber of Commerce @archaeomancer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

seriously, wsj, what happens if we have too many educated, “overcredentialed and aggrieved” young people?

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Tsenacommacah Chamber of Commerce @archaeomancer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

haha wsj knows in which class the revolutionary potential currently exists and is worried about it

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sasha @2damntrans.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Astonishing really how ADHD-denialism so closely matches early trans-denialism (say, a decade ago, before it went mask-off eliminationist), to the point that it includes the exact same personalities, again vomiting their know-nothing opinions all over the place.

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Cage @ridiculouscage.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"why would I deceive you?"

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short king simp↙↙↙ @yeospaceman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

so much of what centrist hand-sitters miss is that political leaders have to *lead*. popularism and ineffective incrementalism will leave you in the fucking dust if you have no fucking principles or virtues to guide your interactions with the voting public

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Tsenacommacah Chamber of Commerce @archaeomancer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

OP and this are me and my husband respectively and therefore I can confirm this with deep regret

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/09/2026

this is a bit of an obsession of mine especially here in charlottesville. the cost of commercial real estate is prohibitive if you want to experiment and the city seems categorically opposed to small lots and small units that could allow people to start businesses without a huge capital investment

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I have not responded to the email that you sent me and which you probably spent awhile writing Forgive me it was so long and my executive functioning is completely shot

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots.

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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Narnia books as Isekai Manga

1. My Sweet Tooth Made Me The Villainess’ Slave
2. In Another World, The Dwarves Picked Me To Lead The Revolution
3. All At Sea With My Level 0 Sailing Skills
4. On A Mission In Another World And I Can’t Remember The Cheat Codes
5. That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Horse
6. Help! My Uncle’s In Love With The Demon Queen!
7. Reincarnated In Another World Just As The Game’s Ending

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Tsenacommacah Chamber of Commerce @archaeomancer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

yeah this is basically accurate and it’s impossible to explain to people because it sounds nuts!

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Joel @snufkinlib.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I think alien historians would be fascinated by us being split in two main groups for 10,000 years and then reconnected in 1492, with the full Colombian Exchange. That results from very specific geography which can’t be that common

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Related to this: From so much of what I’m hearing and reading on how AI is going to kill us all, I think the real situation is one that neither lawmakers or journalists are remotely equipped to handle, which is that many of these people are not lying but are in fact sincerely deranged cultists

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lxigh @dotorion.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

99% of ruminators quit right before they would have had a life-changing epiphany

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

yes, exactly bsky.app/profile/bigw...

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Tsenacommacah Chamber of Commerce @archaeomancer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

do it. read the world’s premier series of books about being a young wizard, where “wizard” here means “reality tech support”

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Col. Boozy Badger @boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com · 07/09/2026

Look Wile E. Coyote and the Roadrunner are NOT husbands. …they don’t feel the need to put those labels on their relationship.

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Tsenacommacah Chamber of Commerce @archaeomancer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

we must end this administration in the same way the Egyptians ended the reign of Akhenaten.

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 07/09/2026

DAMNATIO MEMORIAE folks, more and more people are saying it

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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/09/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Lords and Ladies

Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.
Elves are marvelous. They cause marvels.
Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.
Elves are glamorous. They project glamour.
Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment.
Elves are terrific. They beget terror.
The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.
No one ever said elves are nice.
Elves are bad.

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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

ways 2026 is like NEUROMANCER promised/warned us: 1. stay up all night trawling the raytraced expanses of cyberspace 2. all the homies fucking hate ice

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Tommy Tomlinson @tommytomlinson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

So here's a quote from @pablo.show that applies to not only his Clippers investigation but the best of what journalism can be: www.nytimes.com/athletic/756...

"I think that we have the ability to do something that the rest of our culture is yearning for, which is make people who are too rich to care about anything resembling the public interest worry that maybe they need to tell us the truth."

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 04/09/2026

to restore our republic we must return to our ancient traditions

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Tsenacommacah Chamber of Commerce @archaeomancer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

And that needs to change. The Speaker is a servant of the whole House, their mouthpiece and agent; the true power rests in the actual membership. But they have largely forgotten this. Hopefully they’re remembering now, and if not, may they be replaced by others who will.

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Tsenacommacah Chamber of Commerce @archaeomancer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The House has delegated most of its actual power to the Speaker as part of a devil’s bargain—the Speaker, largely unaccountably, does the unpopular stuff while minimizing the number of everybody else to take potentially unpopular votes. In other words, to govern.

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Tsenacommacah Chamber of Commerce @archaeomancer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I am so goddamn serious: the next Congress absolutely must remove the power of the Speaker to *unilaterally and indefinitely disband the House of Representatives*. Ideally as part of a broader package of reforms to modernize and reinvigorate the people’s legislature.

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Worrying about this beyond my pay grade, but as an archaeologist one of my professional duties is the preservation bit of "preservation by record". In other words: when we take something apart to see how it's put together we have a sacred duty to make that knowledge accessible to the future.

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Tsenacommacah Chamber of Commerce @archaeomancer.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

seriously: poll workers are Just Normal People. It’s like being on a jury except you sign up to do it, and it’s hella rewarding. Help your neighbors vote! Maintain the basic mechanisms of democracy! Do Very Important Paperwork!

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Swedens Softest Kitty @chizita.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

You would repost a frog

a picture of a frog

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Tsenacommacah Chamber of Commerce @archaeomancer.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Fascinatingly, the answer to this seems… a little unclear? There seems to be a mechanism by which the legislature breaks a tie vote for governor, or for certain other statewide civil officers, but for legislative races the answer might be “snap redo election.”

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Tsenacommacah Chamber of Commerce @archaeomancer.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

And personally, even a single person who comes in stressed and freaking out and leaves with an I Voted sticker and a smile because I helped them fill out the right paperwork to get some registration problem fixed makes the entire thing worth it for me. You too can do this! It’s fun!

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Tsenacommacah Chamber of Commerce @archaeomancer.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

You will never in your goddamn life have signed your name so many times and your feet will probably hurt but there’s no better feeling than taking a shower (cold beer optional) and collapsing on the couch while other people stress about the results, imo.

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Tsenacommacah Chamber of Commerce @archaeomancer.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

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Mike Warner ❌👑 @mike-warner.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Come join the team! It's not just super-super-meaningful, it's actually fun too.

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Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

On Earth 2, we can't believe how good the new HBO Animorphs show looks. "They nailed the morphing," people enthuse. The nonbinary actor playing Ax's human morph is cutting it up on the Las Culturistas podcast. The actress playing Rachel has handcuffed herself to a data center

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