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Franklin. Not the turtle.

@astudyinfrank.bsky.social
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Pet dad who studied writers. Current data nerd, cocktail enthusiast, and amateur carpenter.

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Franklin. Not the turtle. @astudyinfrank.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Actual supervillain bullshit.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Trump Hormuz’d the labor market.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026
The death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
The lone woman on Tennessee's death row was still alive after she was administered two lethal injections, her lawyer said in a motion seeking to halt her execution Wednesday night, a stunning development after the Supreme Court had stepped in to allow the state to put her to death.
At 8:26 p.m. local time, witnesses said
"executioners had injected both syringes of lethal injection chemicals and Pike is still alive and snoring," her lawyers said in a federal court filing.
They said Pike "has not lost consciousness and still has a heartbeat," and that curtains to the death chamber "have gone down twice."
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Franklin. Not the turtle. @astudyinfrank.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I went to town getting Evan Dahm's work. I really want this to do well.
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Franklin. Not the turtle. @astudyinfrank.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...
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Steve Austin Stonecold
ALT: Steve Austin Stonecold
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 29/09/2026
Sen. Schmitt: “You fled to The Hague and prosecuted the president of Kosovo in 2020?” Smith: “Yes, and he was just convicted of over 300 acts of torture and 96 murders.” Sen. Schmitt: “And then you got a chance to come back to get Trump. Is that right?” Smith: “That’s not right at all.”
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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 25/01/2024
YOU ARE LISTENING TO NEW YORK - ambient music mixed with live police chatter streams to really nail the doomed cyberpunk vibe youarelistening.to/newyork
youarelistening.to
You are listening to New York
You are listening to New York
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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 27/09/2026
Remarkable piece here.
cornellsun.com
EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
To celebrate the launch of Sweet Shop, the Comixology We Truly Deserve, ALL Iron Circus ebooks are ONE. DOLLAR. EACH. GET ON THIS.
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
You really need to read this whole thing, because there's a *lot* here: unsigned warrants, wrong address, false arrest of the homeowner, creating a fake social media page to harass the woman he arrested, and on and on it goes Cops are great www.wsbtv.com/news/local/d...
wsbtv.com
Deputy on leave after allegations he created Facebook page to harass woman he arrested
Natasha Lopez told Channel 2 Action News she spent months trying to uncover who was behind a series of posts on an anonymous Facebook page that she says repeatedly targeted her.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Your regular reminder: 21st-Century Fascism is for Losers
youtu.be
21st-Century Fascism is for Losers
YouTube video by Degenerate Art by Andrea Pitzer
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Franklin. Not the turtle. @astudyinfrank.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I know a lot of older millennials who will be mourning today.
nytimes.com
Duncan Sheik, Who Traded Pop Stardom for Broadway, Dies at 56
Weary of the heartthrob label after his 1996 hit “Barely Breathing,” he pivoted to musical theater and won two Tonys for composing “Spring Awakening.”
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Franklin. Not the turtle. @astudyinfrank.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Absolute legends!
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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is beyond disgusting
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Super Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Maybe this is the last Labor Day weekend with Trump. You never know!
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Franklin. Not the turtle. @astudyinfrank.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Again, public executions should be agenda number 1
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Franklin. Not the turtle. @astudyinfrank.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I cannot wait until everyone of the people leading this damned administration is given the Mussolini treatment.
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Kathryn Brightbill ✒️ @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
If you want to know what medieval cookery looked like, 'The Forme of Cury' from 1390 is the oldest cookbook known in English, compiled by the cooks for Richard II.
gutenberg.org
The Forme of Cury: A Roll of Ancient English Cookery Compiled, about A.D. 1390
Free eBook digitized and proofread by volunteers.
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Franklin. Not the turtle. @astudyinfrank.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Who could have guessed?
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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/08/2026
if these things come in threes the universe absolutely owes us you know what as the third at this point
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 25/08/2026
The wrong 80-year-old died today.
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Franklin. Not the turtle. @astudyinfrank.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The more I learn about her, the more sainthood seems appropriate.
bleedingcool.com
How Dolly Parton Helped Make Buffy the Vampire Slayer a Reality
We're looking back at how the late Dolly Parton helped make "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" a reality, and Sarah Michelle Gellar's thoughts.
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A.J.A. Woods, The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy: Why the Right Blames the Frankfurt School for the Decline of the West - @versobooks.bsky.social, April 2026 www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc... @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social discussion with Morteza Hajizadeh - newbooksnetwork.com/the-cultural...
versobooks.com
The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy
“Cultural Marxism” is one of the far right’s favorite buzzwords. But despite its currency, the meaning and origins of the term are rarely investigated. This book uncovers the bizarre story of the cult...
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Franklin. Not the turtle. @astudyinfrank.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Look, I know AI is definitely functional in limited use cases, especially for those in research/sciences, but the reason people hate it is that, most of the time, the public gets ALIEN LARVA BREEDING SITE BURRITOS! Sweet Jesus.
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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
It's almost time! The 26th Library of Congress National Book Festival is TOMORROW (Saturday, August 22nd) at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. Are you coming? Read this #NatBookFest thread! 🧵
Colorful graphic reads: Library of Congress National Book Festival
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Franklin. Not the turtle. @astudyinfrank.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I've been on the phone for a good chunk of the day (2-3 hours) trying to figure out why my wife's phone is bricked, and I have to tell you, Assurant is my new poster boy for awful companies. A true "I feel like I'm taking crazy pills" experience.
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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This is a WILD essay by the brilliant Felicity James on writing and reading essays in the age of AI
tandfonline.com
The Wild Essay, Or, the Essayist responds to the University Policy on Generative Artificial Intelligence in Learning, Teaching and Assessment
This is a guide to the essay in the age of AI, when we need it more than ever. How should we encourage our students to read when co-pilot is on hand to read for them? Beset on all sides by summary ...
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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I'm convinced the brain worm is keeping RFK Jr. alive the same way the ring kept Gollum alive.
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Franklin. Not the turtle. @astudyinfrank.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I don't believe in a "fire and brimstone" Hell, mostly because I wonder how many of us would really be worthy of avoiding it, but sometimes...
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Franklin. Not the turtle. @astudyinfrank.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
What a badass lady. She's why we will ultimately win. The courage to stand up to bullies, outnumbered and literally outgunned, lives in every day people all over.
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r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
"Bluesky is dying" bro you're talking about a website full of 38 year olds who have fringe political beliefs and listen to black metal bands with >1000 listeners on spotify, nobody here cares about popularity
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Adam Rawnsley @arawnsley.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
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Franklin. Not the turtle. @astudyinfrank.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Trials in town squares and guillotines forthwith. #abolishice
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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
There is a greater than zero number of street fights involving the interpersonal drama of teenagers (that potentially could have escalated into assault with a deadly weapon) that were instead resolved by Smash Bros, Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, Halo, or Goldeneye 1v1s
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Franklin. Not the turtle. @astudyinfrank.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
This entire thread is incredible.
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Franklin. Not the turtle. @astudyinfrank.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Cops are great. youtube.com/shorts/tYaSO...
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Franklin. Not the turtle. @astudyinfrank.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Not the worst takes. Though I could not take the cold.
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Franklin. Not the turtle. @astudyinfrank.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
It looks like something out of Minecraft. I don't trust it.
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Randy Milholland @choochoobear.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Today's Comic: somethingpositive.net/2026/07/17/j...
somethingpositive.net
July 17, 2026
First Comic   Previous Comic   Next Comic    Today’s Comic   Latest Updates
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Franklin. Not the turtle. @astudyinfrank.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Art.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 15/07/2026
Gamers need to push back on rent-only copyright culture before it’s too late. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
eff.org
Sony Nerfs Videogame Ownership
Playstation’s decision to kill physical game discs is the latest attack on our diminishing rights to access and engage with culture digitally. Rent-seeking corporations and negligent lawmakers share
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Jon @thelitcritguy.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Reading Hoderlin's fragment "Geisteskommunismus"(thanks to dear comrade @sanktmaxtci.bsky.social) and feeling like I've just stumbled over a new beginning point for gothic Marxism "It is an agonizing feeling about the memory of a disappeared greatness: one stands like an outlaw before history..."
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Franklin. Not the turtle. @astudyinfrank.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
If I know one thing, it's that not enough bad things can happen to Elon Musk in this life.
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Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.
TORONTO STAR
BOOK REVIEW
Sylvia Plath, a New York vigilante and Shah of Iran featured in latest historical fiction
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Prof Michaela Mahlberg @michamahlberg.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Now at #DickensSociety2026 Angelika Zirker looking at the relationship of ‘truth’ and ‘trust’ in Bleak House. The combination of quantitative & qualitative methods is key
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The Dickens Society @dickenssociety.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Leon Litvack shared these wonderful handouts examining the emendations in the Oxford Edition of “Our Mutual Friend”
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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Nothing amuses me more than how quickly the right moves on, only raising the ghosts to serve their own needs
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Real idea: As part of the effort to get DC and PR statehood, next Dem president should invent about State Weeks. Each of the 52 states gets its own celebration week every year. A random July week is Montana week. Tourism bonanzas. Televised lottery every year for week placement. We ain't above this.
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Becky @mrsbrown24.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Trump's latest ploy to avoid paying E. Jean Carroll is just pathetic www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
dailykos.com
Trump’s latest ploy to avoid paying E. Jean Carroll is just pathetic
Not even a Supreme Court decision has dissuaded the U.S. president’s determination not to pay the $5 million jury award.
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Franklin. Not the turtle. @astudyinfrank.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I've no clue if this petition will influence Sony in any way, but their decision to eliminate physical media is offensive. c.org/PvRZ7b4Tt7
c.org
Sign the Petition
Don't Kill the Disc: Tell Sony to Keep Physical PlayStation Games
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