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Bill Kuchman @billkuchman.bsky.social · 6h
“Instead, the senators chose to identify with Trump,” @saletan.bsky.social writes. “Almost unanimously, they ignored or rejected Smith’s distinctions between the president and his party.”
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Jack Smith and the Republican Smear Squad
If holding Trump accountable makes you an enemy of the GOP, the party has told you everything you need to know.
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 17h
When you recognize the subway hijacker’s sneeze.
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Vincent O'Malley @vomalley.bsky.social · 16h
An advance copy of this turned up the other day and it looks great. Due out from @bwbnz.bsky.social in November.
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 6h
Someone should say "Hawk TUA" to Eric Schmitt
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 6h
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Hawk Tuah Girl Interview
Alt: Hawk Tuah Girl Interview
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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 6h
C.S. Lewis on how to structure the days of a creative life and train the receptive imagination www.themarginalian.org/2026/09/29/c...
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C.S. Lewis on How to Structure the Days of a Creative Life and Train the Receptive Imagination
There are, in my experience, two fundaments of the creative life: putting yourself regularly in the path of wonder and getting out of your own way in order to receive what you encounter there. Wond…
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XingWu🐉ChineseFolklore @xingwu.bsky.social · 6h
Before the jiangshi became China’s hopping vampire of horror films, C-dramas, and TikTok, it was born from a stranger sorrow: the need to bring the dead home. Old tales speak of “corpse-walking,” when Daoist priests guided bodies back to their native villages #folklore 1/2
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The Stillfleet Studio ☉ more than play 🇵🇸 @stillfleet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So excited to see three new adventures by @johnmcguirerpg.bsky.social and Geo Collazo of Ham & Egg: the book is designed tête-bêche, flipping from one system to another! www.kickstarter.com/projects/joh... Maybe we can get John and Geo on Why We Roll to chat dual-system design…
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What Dark Knocking Comes in the Still of the Night?
A black cat scratches two words in the dirt: HELP US. Three flip-book adventures, 321RPG on one side, 5E on the other.
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Maria J Pérez Cuervo @mjpcuervo.com · 6h
The wonderful Faallaway shot the cover photo of my dreams. “Do you happen to live near a sphinx statue?” I asked. Turned out her parents did. The cover was shot at the Château de Fontainebleau. It evokes the monstrous Greek sphinx, the silent guardian of the desert, the alluring Decadent symbol.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 6h
Your regular reminder that this is Eric Schmitt (from a year ago)
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A Sitting Senator Just Went Full Mask-Off White Nationalist
America, he says, isn’t an idea—and isn’t for everyone.
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Chloe Cumming @chloecumming.bsky.social · 7h
I know it’s a lot to take in
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Reuters @reuters.com · 6h
Australians have built fortunes on housing. Is that starting to unravel? Listen to this week's Econ World podcast to find out why Australia's wealth-making machine is sputtering reut.rs/4xVJjJ7
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PODCAST: Australia's housing squeeze
Higher interest rates are testing homeowners Down Under.
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 5h
‘Today, there is no conceivable equivalent. Who is tonight’s guest on the 𝘖𝘯𝘦 𝘚𝘩𝘰𝘸, plugging their novel about the birth of Christianity?’ Ian Penman on Anthony Burgess. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Ian Penman · AB Fab: Anthony Burgess heads south
For a certain kind of northern man, Burgess has always been – for once the term is apt – something of an icon. A bit...
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Bill Kuchman @billkuchman.bsky.social · 5h
National Guard members will be deployed to capture the mosquitos and ticks one by one. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
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Trump is taking on D.C.’s mosquitoes
The bloodsuckers have pained D.C. residents for decades. The president announced plans for reducing the population.
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 5h
The Trump admin is trying to seize power over elections that it does not possess. CREW Senior Litigation Counsel John Hill is testifying today before members of the House Administration Committee about the current threat landscape. Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=59rk...
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North Carolina Voter Protection Shadow Hearing
Hosted by House Administration Committee Ranking Member Joseph D. Morelle and Congresswoman Deborah Ross in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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Chloe Cumming @chloecumming.bsky.social · 8h
Just added these to my website as I could do with some sales, it’s a nice toilet with a framed pic of a puffin, it’s Jude Bellingham being hunky in ink, it’s a pollarded willow tree, and it’s a house in Weymouth with an orangutan face. www.chloecumming.com
Toilet in lovely soft watercolour and pastel with rich green carpet Jude holding a ball in very lively ink , quite gestural An oil pastel stubby tree, observed from the real, blues and yellows and bold marks Front of a house with bay windows and blue skies, near Weymouth harbour , with ape face
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Susanna Crossman @susannacrossman.bsky.social · 6h
“As Sokrates tells it, your story begins the moment Eros enters you. That incursion is the biggest risk of your life. ... You perceive what you are, what you lack, what you could be.” Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 20h
Sen. Eric Schmitt was so overzealous to try and get Jack Smith, a good and honest man who has done great work, that Schmitt embarrassed himself by accusing Smith of going to the wrong basketball game. You can't make this stuff up. And right wing media will pretend it never happened.
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"[T]he top 0.1[%] of richest U.S. households have gained 8,000 times more wealth on average than households in the bottom 50[%] since 2024. ... [T]he wealth gap is at its largest point ever, with the top 1[%] owning nearly 32[%] of all U.S. wealth as of the third quarter of 2025."
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 8h
Not a great sign when your 12-person private fundraiser includes someone who hates you enough to leak damaging audio
The audio of Mr. Paxton was shared with The Times by an attendee who recorded him speaking at a private fund-raiser in Washington attended by roughly a dozen people. The person, who opposes Mr. Paxton’s campaign and provided the recording to The Times, was granted anonymity because Mr. Paxton’s remarks were private.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 5h
he's bored and angry and all he wants to do is stand in front of a crowd of people cheering for him that's why he did the midterm convention, that's why he's doing this, and he's well beyond giving a shit how it affects any other republican candidate I love that for all of them
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Micah @rincewind.run · 6h
I wholeheartedly support this I think he should show up and campaign personally with every republican senate candidate, make it really clear that there’s no daylight between them he can start with susan collins
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 8h
Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.
From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water.  I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there?  God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"
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Reuters @reuters.com · 5h
From Breakingviews - Breakingviews - COMMENTARY: BlackRock clumsily reverse-engineers retirement reut.rs/4zs2tHR
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Breakingviews - COMMENTARY: BlackRock clumsily reverse-engineers retirement
The giant money manager ​wants to remake ​401(k) funds, which hold $11 trln, ⁠into yesteryear's defined ​benefit using annuities and ​private assets. Offloading risk to insurers would help make nest ​eggs last longer. ​More moving parts, however, complicate long-term ‌pension ⁠calculus.
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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 10h
With alt text. I know someone who actually did this
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On my first big overseas client conference, I was at a dinner seated next to a drunk client who kept trying to fondle me under the table. I was young, distressed, and had no idea what to do. I moved my legs as far away from him as I could, moving into the space of the man next to me, who then started patting my legs! The Regional Manager was a French woman who caught my eye, gestured for me to go to the bathroom and when I came back had switched chairs with me. What happed next was epic. A few minutes after I sat back down, she raised her hand with his hand captured in hers and announced loudly "Does anyone know whose hand this is? I found it in my lap." There was dead silence at the table. She threw his hand back at him and said calmly "next time I pick it up with my fork." Then she started a new conversational thread and things moved on. After the meeting she found me, gave me a hug, and said seriously "Never be afraid to make some noise. It is their shame, not yours."
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Magpie Said 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @magpiesaid.bsky.social · 11h
Nick Mowbray has just set up a website encouraging ppl to give their electorate vote to Nat, but their pty vote to Act/NZF. Key specifically warned agst this bc Nat cld lose MPs like Willis.🤞 The left has no openly pro left media like Hoskings or rich like Mowbray. And still the right is vicious.🤬
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ApocalypseElf @apocalypseelf.bsky.social · 11h
youtu.be/HFWKJ2FUiAQ?...
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This Mortal Coil - Song To The Siren (Official Video)
YouTube video by 4AD
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Robyn Swirling @rswirling.bsky.social · 19h
After being raped by a man on my hall sophomore year, I couldn’t leave my dorm room for weeks and failed several classes. I had to take out student loans so I could retake those credits. We almost never talk about the financial toll of campus sexual assault on survivors.
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 20h
OH DO FUCK OFF Front page headline FFS
A slimy little cunt engaging in Dirty Politics

National alleges Greens joined 'foreign actors' over EU trade-deal climate complaint, provides no evidence
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Steffen @steffenrusten.bsky.social · 11h
It feels so stupid, too. They didn’t have to announce these bottom lines. They could have waited until coalition negotiation time to make compromises. Earned something for them. The positioning they had was working. Better than anyone would have bet on 6 months ago. Utterly bizarre.
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Steffen @steffenrusten.bsky.social · 12h
Opportunity‘s bottom lines are wobblier than the lines on a Squiggle. All the party has done is confirm what everyone I argued against said: they’re probably willing to swallow anything to be part of government. So, as someone who just resigned from the party: I was wrong about them.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 11h
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🦝 Pepper Raccoon: Trash Priestess 🦝 @pepperraccoon.com · 22h
i handlettered this design from scratch and it is 100% original and nearly killed me please clap T_T
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New Zealand Professional Firefighters' Union @nzpfu.bsky.social · 11h
50 firefighters were called to a blaze at Coca-Cola where a key aerial fire truck failed after arriving. NZPFU Auckland Local President Josh Nicholls told Stuff that the Parnell appliance, with a 32-metre hydraulic platform, suffered a computer malfunction after arriving FENZ would not comment.
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Aerial fire truck fails as 50 firefighters battle Coca-Cola blaze
Everyone was accounted for at Coca-Cola’s Mt Wellington site as crews fought a second-floor fire and an aerial truck suffered a computer malfunction.
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 11h
I was on a working committee to get Civics AND Philisophy as core junior high school topics, it got nowhere with the ministry. A lot of bunker protection from withing my fellow Social Studies colleagues didn’t help. This was frickin 1993!
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Char Of AotearoaNZ @kiwichar.bsky.social · 11h
I was raided by National Party Voters, and then I lived the consequences. That’s why I voted labour in 2017 & that’s why I’ve voted Green ever since. I see it eroding us every single day, and I see them just not caring at all. WE need to care about each other. Right Now. #nzpol
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Whakamataku - Toitū Te Tiriti 🍉 @whakamataku.bsky.social · 13h
60% increase in voter registration from overseas!!!! No, that is not a typo. #nzpol 💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚
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Hākui K (she/her) @haakuik.bsky.social · 11h
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 17h
Time for this classic again.
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James Nisbet @bandit.nz · 15h
Fuck around, find out. I'm happy to see this one #nzpol www.1news.co.nz/2026/09/30/n...
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NZ hit with landmark EU trade complaint, minister rejects claim
The most extreme consequences for New Zealand could be losing access to the lucrative European market.
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Ryan CrawCour @ryan.crawcour.social · 14h
The majority of Kiwis will be better off with the Greens plan, but somehow everyone is panicking about “taxing the rich”. You’re not “the rich” they’re looking at. And if you are, an extra 2% tax on your wealth would hardly be noticed.
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KiwiNikki @kiwinikki.bsky.social · 14h
Isn’t it funny how some people believe the crap? National is the ‘party of business’? No, it’s not. Look at the numbers. Not the headlines. #nzpol
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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 19h
The NZ Govt travels the world telling people how they take their climate commitments seriously. But at home they dismantle every policy that constrains emissions and subsidise more emissions. So we've joined international efforts to hold them to account. www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre...
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Greenpeace joins complaint to EU over NZ climate policy reversal - Greenpeace Aotearoa
The complaint addresses Government reversal of climate policies, which Greenpeace has labelled a 'race to the bottom on environmental regulation'.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If you owe a woman 5 million dollars for sexual assault, you also owe the country your resignation.
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Chris Slane @slanecartoon.bsky.social · 21h
New rules same prices... National's panicky promise to break up ( review ) part of the supermarket duopoly seems unlikely to deliver results for consumers ... #NZpol #cartoon #NZFarmersWeekly
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 27/01/2024
This is something I know from research most people don't understand--the estrogen I take every morning isn't any different than the estrogen countless cis women take every morning. It's not a radical field of medicine; it's a very common medicine being banned for trans people and trans people only.
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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David Clegg @delphijunkie.bsky.social · 19h
I'm so over this bullshit, Paul. Politicians on the right blatantly lying, being caught out, and then standing by the lie. We see the exact same thing from our right-wing parties here and I'm fucking done with it. 🤬
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 29/09/2026
"Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation," former special counsel Jack Smith said during a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. to.pbs.org/4hwiB3E
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WATCH: Jack Smith says he would prosecute Trump again for 'serious crimes against our nation'
Smith, who in 2022 led investigations into Trump and secured two indictments, said he made decisions in the case "without regard” for Trump’s “political association activities, beliefs, or candidacy i...
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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump has said the Iran war is almost over at least 60 times. It's been 212 days. 19 service members are dead, 800+ wounded, $43 billion gone. We counted every broken promise with @votevets.org.
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