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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I like that they made him emperor primarily because he could do the thing with his eyes, that is to Klingons what being handsome was for JFK

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Mike.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @dumbmike.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I thought this was just beautiful. Kurt Vonnegut takes a walk to mail a letter:

She calls out, “Where are you going?” And I say, “I am going out to get an envelope.” And she says, “Well, you’re not a poor man. Why don’t you buy a thousand envelopes? They’ll deliver them, and you can put them in a closet.” And I say, “Hush.”

I go next to the postal convenience center down the block at the corner of 47th Street and Second Avenue. The woman behind the counter says, “Thirty-nine cents for a stamp.” I say, “I only brought thirty-seven. When did that change?” She looked at me a long time. “Thirty-seven isn’t enough.” “Well that oughta be enough for one envelope,” I said. The line was getting longer.

The lady moved her hand into her coat. I knew this routine. I backflipped behind the man behind me in line, wrapping my elbow around his throat as I landed. By the time the stamp seller had unloaded her clip, I had full cover. The gentleman’s body dropped to the floor, six holes smoking. The package he was carrying fell to the floor with a heavy clunk. Whatever was in there, it would do.

I rolled my foot over the cardboard and did a “flick up” as they call it in soccer. I bounced the package once or twice on the back of my foot as the mail lady reloaded, then I launched it high and spun 360 to deliver my patented “Rising Phoenix kick”. The package caught fire as it shattered through the protective plexiglass window and struck the woman’s head with all the force and hatred I had learned to channel in my grueling tutelage under five fallen Wudang masters in my youth. The lady’s body exploded off of her bones, leaving just a blackened skeleton spinning in her office chair. “So it goes,” I said, but no one laughed. I guess they weren’t big readers.

And I go home. And I have had one hell of a good time.

We are dancing animals. How beautiful it is to get up and go out and do something. We are here on Earth to fart around. Don’t let anybody tell you any different.

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Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 01/10/2026

just came across this incredible picture of Terry Pratchett

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026

Man, imagine you're minding your own business, getting kind of drunk with your friends at a picturesque brewery in Maine, when suddenly John Roberts walks by and you get to start heckling him. Must have felt incredible. That's the dream. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...

The chief justice used to preside over a Supreme Court whose members were afforded more privacy and freedom than many other public officials. Once, years ago, Mr. Lipson and the chief justice found themselves up the peninsula from Port Clyde without a car, Mr. Lipson recalled in an interview. So he stuck out his thumb by the side of the road and a pickup truck pulled over. He and the nation’s top jurist hopped in the back and hitchhiked back to town.

Now, Mr. Lipson said, he is cautious about introducing his friend to strangers. This year, on an outing to nearby Monhegan Island, people recognized the chief justice as he walked by a brewery and started to chant: You should be ashamed.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Just got an email from a former student who took my class a decade ago, asking me for the reading list because she enjoyed the course so much and wants to revisit the texts. And she *apologized* for making the request. Are you kidding me?

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Sad Old Man Crying

ALT: Sad Old Man Crying

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

30 incarcerated men presented a $4,267 donation to a northwest Kansas school district to pay down the district's unsettled lunch debt The donation was to be "utilized to help local children fuel their day and stay focused and energized this school year"

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Prison inmates help to pay down school lunch debt

A school district's unsettled lunch debt was substantially paid down by a group of inmates.

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Tom Peyer @tompeyer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Batman beats up a condor.

Batman punches a condor, saying "The condor's weakening! Just a few more punches and it's all over!" Detective Comics #153, Nov 1949. Artists: Dick Sprang & Charles Paris. Writer: Unknown.

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Benjamin Ahr Harrison @benjaminahr.mobi · 26/08/2026

I never heard the idiom “not my monkeys not my circus” until like two months ago and now I feel like I encounter it every fucking day. What are we doing people?! Use some other idioms! There are plenty!

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Sometimes I’ll open threads and immediately be hit with truths I never would expect to find there.

A Threads post by somebody called Georgie Porgie and it says no browse tomorrow for anybody tits at half mast for Dolly

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

a reply that I’ve already lost says I’m making a straw man argument and I’m not sure it’s even possible to make a straw man out of such a slender reed

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Michael Love @elkmovie.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I’m on a small-ship Alaska cruise with my son; our boat rescued a stranded vessel last night and apparently we did that after the Coast Guard radioed Mark Zuckerberg’s yacht - which was closer - and they repeatedly refused to respond. (There was near unanimous booing when the captain announced this)

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Lynne @lynne-sails.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I hate that most places strip the right to vote from the incarcerated. They are still humans and they are still citizens, and they should retain the right to petition their government. Especially since the govt often tends to abuse this population.

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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 04/08/2026

"23 deaths in 212 days - average of one death every 9.2 days"

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veraeikon.bsky.social @veraeikon.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

People don't really understand how, as a pre-transition trans person, you basically live with wall-to-wall pain. It's incredible how you learn to screen it, rationalize it, diminish it, as an act of survival, simply because society doesn't want you to have an alternative.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 16/07/2026

9. Trans people and their families make up a significant portion of the Democratic base in Ohio, and the race is currently separated by a single percentage point. If Acton loses this one by a point, it will not be because she stood up for transgender kids. More likely, it will be because she didn't.

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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 16/07/2026

“I lift, you grab. … Was that concept just a little too complex, Carl?”

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

it's the biggest technological revolution of our lifetimes and you almost never hear about it (because it threatens to bankrupt many of the fossil fuel interests who currently run our society)

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Dan Olson @foldablehuman.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

It is impressive that AI might actually scale *worse* than Blockchain.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

we need more kissing in baseball

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 16/07/2026

minneapolis police department’s estimated overtime cost from june 28 to july 4 is $379,500 the total cost of OT for 2026 is estimated at $16.8 million, exceeding this year’s OT allocation by $2,265,500 MPD are defunding us, raising property taxes and this could lead to layoffs at the city

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Benjamin Ahr Harrison @benjaminahr.mobi · 14/07/2026

The prompt was to draw a cryptid doing an ordinary task. www.doodl.app/join-the-beta

A yeti stolidly shoveling a path in knee deep snow high up in the mountains.

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𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Mega-admiral Threepwood

Guybrush Threepwood from the Monkey Island series, decked out in an ostentatious uniform with perversely large epaulettes and a ludicrous cape. He's standing on top of a skull-shaped rock.

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Ahead of its 250th birthday, I make the case that the greatest work of American art ever produced is made of garbage and was assembled at the behest of God by a Black man working the night shift as a janitor in DC johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/americas-g...

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America’s Greatest Work of Art Is Trash

Alternative title: FEAR NOT

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Arthur @arthurneis.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Heartbreaking, so unfair 💔

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New York Mammoths @newyorkmammoths.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Daily News, May 9, 1970.

KNICKS WIN IT!
Willis
& Company
No. 1
As berserk fans cascade onto
floor,
police
sur-
round the Knicks' Willis
Reed after the
New
Yorkers topped the Los Angeles Lakers at Madison
Square Garden for the basketball championship of the universe.
Teammate Bill Hosket
wears
broad
smile
as
Lakers'
Wilt Chamber-
lain removes headband and walks dejectedly from floor.
Big Willis,
battling injury as well as Wilt, inspired the Knicks, who ran the L.A. team into the ground right
from the gun. Final score,
113-99.
Stories on page 28;
Other pictures back page
NEWS photo by Dan Farrell
NIXON TO YOUTH:
OUR GOALS SAME

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𝕵𝖎𝖒𝖒𝖞 𝕸𝖆𝖐𝖊𝖕𝖊𝖆𝖈𝖊 @jimmymakepeace.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Sad to hear David Hockney has died, an incredible draftsman and painter. I loved his observational drawings best of all.

A line drawing of a man reclining on a sofa

A line drawing of a man in a patterned shirt laying in a chair.

A drawing of a man sat on a pillar in a trench coat.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 08/06/2026

This is an unacceptable attempt by the Trump administration to dodge accountability for the inhumane conditions that they subject detained people to while in ICE custody.

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ICE to stop reporting deaths of recently released detainees amid scrutiny | CNN

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is ending its policy of reporting deaths of recently released detainees, the Department of Homeland Security said Thursday.

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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 05/06/2026

Early microscope

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Jessica Cale @dirtysexyhistory.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

So I went to the National Gallery yesterday, and a real highlight was Saint Michael Triumphs over the Devil by Bartolomé Bermejo (1468). He's just a silly little guy. Don't you think he looks like a Muppet?

Detail from painting mentioned above. The creature has the body or a cat, snakes for elbows, four chicken feet, an extra face in his belly, scales on his legs, and wings that look part bat, part moth. His face is black and he has red eyes that look like glass and a huge semi-circle mouth full of sharp white teeth.

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dil 🇺🇦🔞 @remersept2.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

comm done for @florencethefairy.bsky.social , thank you so much flor!! <333 ❤️❤️❤️ comms are open: bsky.app/profile/reme...

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David Giltinan 👾🗣️🎙️ @davidsaysthat.com · 25/05/2026

What the US is doing to Cuba is more than a humanitarian crisis. It is a genocide as defined by the United Nations. www.un.org/en/genocide-...

Definition

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide

Article II

In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

1. Killing members of the group;

2. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

3. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

4. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

5. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

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Truthdig @truthdig.com · 24/05/2026

Cuba's minister of energy confirmed reserves are gone — with just enough diesel left to keep hospitals online. The UN has classified Washington's blockade a humanitarian crisis.

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Cuba Announces That Its Fuel Reserves Have Been Depleted - Truthdig

The situation created by the U.S. blockade has been classified by the United Nations as a “humanitarian crisis” that affects the most vulnerable groups the hardest.

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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 21/05/2026

“I like it … I like it.”

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Arthur Webber 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @bernietranders.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Texted the manager of my football team to say he's supposed to make me and the other trans guys change separately to the cis guys for our tournament tonight and he's replied with "fuck the ehrc and fuck the fa" so good luck to the government on getting people to enforce this

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 21/05/2026

Whew, one of the House Judiciary subcommittees is holding a hearing about court expansion today, and Rep. Hank Johnson (the subcommittee's highest ranking Democrat) delivered a sermon I just transcribed a paragraph that really resonated

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Rep. Hank Johnson: Abraham Lincoln once said “This government cannot endure half slave and half free.” Yet, that seems to be the vision for America that Chief Justice Roberts and the conservative supermajority of the Supreme Court envision. Where some enjoy easy access to the ballot, others are forced to overcome legal barriers designed to make our voices quieter. Our nation is now in Jim Crow 2.0. We are a nation where the right to vote once again can be diluted, restricted, or simply ignored, and where the voices of rich and powerful people carry more weight than the voices of ordinary Americans, but particularly Americans who look like me. Our 250-year experiment in self-governance can only succeed if Americans decide that the clock has run out on the far right’s attempt to overturn our democracy. So, we can either sit back as our Supreme Court continues to act without any restraint or checks and balances, or, we can do something about it. The American people deserve accountability for the damage that has been done. The American people deserve a judiciary that serves our democracy, not a narrow ideological agenda that only benefits the rich and powerful.

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Jen Britton @jenbritton.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Bachelor stallion buddies early one morning at Onaqui Mountain HMA (from my 2024 visit) #photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc

In warm pre-dawn light, three wild horses are spending quiet time together: a black horse is resting lamb-style on the ground, his blue roan friend is standing next to him and extending his head and neck over the black horse's back, while their chestnut pal is standing with his head over the roan's back. They are in a grass and sagebrush setting with the mildly jaggy silhouette of a backlit mountain in the background.

In early morning warm pre-dawn light under a pastel pink and purple cloudy sky, a black and a bay horse are snuffling muzzles together, while two friends are in the background: a black horse laying down and a blue roan standing over him.

Three wild stallions walk and graze together in warm pre-dawn light with a mountain backlit behind them - a black horse, a smaller blue roan, and a tall bay.

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Jen Britton @jenbritton.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

From the wild horse community in the Missouri Ozarks: I think this character is probably a three-year-old (maybe two?) who has not started to turn white-gray as he ages. #wildhorses #photography #wildhorsepc