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Amit/Asuph @asuph.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Excerpt from Salt and Sex by Amy Loeffler (republished in The Best of American Food Writing)

"The male Gluphisia moth spends most of his short life accumulating enough salt to give his mate a nuptial gift of sodium.

This act is achieved by “puddling,” or sucking from pools of standing water or moist ground for several hours at a time and squirting out the liquid in strong jets. The process is nothing if not a test of endurance, with the most virile moths squirting out 4,325 jets, or 600 times their bodyweight.

The moth only takes in sodium, expelling other nutrients like potassium. The act raises the moth’s sodium levels to eight times that of the nonpuddling Gluphisia. Ultimately, the former will give half of this sodium to a mate in a reproductive act by incorporating the sodium into spermatophore, a present of nutrients, protein, and sperm that supplies the female with enough sodium to pass on to her larvae.

While mammals don’t exhibit the puddling behavior, a German idiom makes note of cooks in love adding too much salt to the soup, which certainly speaks to the abundance of salt required to maintain the state of being in love and its associated activities."

Salt and Sex by Amy Loeffler (republished in The Best of American Food Writing)

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Amit/Asuph @asuph.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

The honesty is refreshing as always.

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Andrew Rudalevige @rudalev.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

The world "just can't believe what they're seeing" is probably true, at least.

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Amit/Asuph @asuph.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I mean American people should be happy to pay the price of their holy wars.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂He posts this hours after TMZ posted photos of him walking around Disney World with a Bubble Wand! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

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No Kings Supply Co @nokingssupplyco.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

A little folk music from No Kings in Middletown, CT

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 28/03/2026

Maggie Rogers, Joan Baez, and Tom Morello performing “The Times They Are A-Changin'”

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Today is the 128th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision on birthright citizenship in U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark.

WONG KIM ARK IS A CITIZEN.
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Supreme Court Deciaion la Case of Chinese Born in America.
The case of the United States agalnst Wong Kim Ark was decided in the United States Supreme Court yesterday, Justice Gray handing down the opinion of the court. The case was appealed by the Unlted States from the District Court for the Northern District of Callfornia, and it Involved the citizenship of a person born In this country of Chinese parents, which had never hitherto been decided by the Supreme Court. Yesterday's decision will have the effect of confirming the citizenship of such persons.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 27/03/2026

Spotted on the way home today

BRO EPSTEIN FILES? Sign on a freeway overpass

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Amit/Asuph @asuph.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Wait, so US is using the populations of middle eastern countries as human shields? By Israel's definition those hotels are now legitimate military targets?

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 26/03/2026

It's actually really fucked up watching so many people clamor to watch a new television series created by a woman who has proudly bragged she'll use the money she makes to try and kill my entire community.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

This is (I think) a Greater Blue-Eared Starling (Lamprotornis chalybaeus) & the amazing chrome job is their super-power. They've evolved to manipulate light in VERY specific ways, attracting mates, intimidating rivals. Let's look at the nanostructures that bring this bling into being.

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Daramola @izdaramola.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

I’ve tried to stay out of the more lib brain nonsense that this app houses but I implore you that you cannot allow this man anywhere near the White House

Gavin newsom tweeting a photo of a side by side with him and Patrick Bateman of American psycho, with the caption:
“For so many years people have been saying that Patrick Bateman and I look alike. Now this pic has been going all over the place. What do you think?”

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Amit/Asuph @asuph.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Wasn't that the plan to start with? It's a small change for the Ellisons ... To buy Trump's favors.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

FUN FACT: He advised Queen Elizabeth to pardon her son 3 years, 5 months & 12 days after she passed away. Please add "UNINFORMED" to my list. Thank you for your attention to this embarrassing matter.

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Amit/Asuph @asuph.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Even corporations are fighting harder than some Dems, lol.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 23/03/2026

genuinely why does anyone report anything he says at all as if it means anything still

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/03/2026

h/t to @adammockler.com for pointing out this gem from 2016.

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Amit/Asuph @asuph.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Now this is the communication model I appreciate.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

new personal scandal just dropped and it’s just the fact that I Have A Birthday

Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter
Fresh off her loss to Daniel Biss, 48, in the Democratic primary for Illinois' 9th
congressional district, progressive influencer Kat Abughazaleh crowd sourced tips on turning 27.
"I'm trying to enjoy the time I do have," says Abughazaleh.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Never in my life have I believed Iran state media over our own government. Until now. That’s not being “unpatriotic,” it’s having a brain that functions.

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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

🫧 Smoke trapped in a bubble on water: surface tension, soap film physics and fluid mechanics in action

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Damn, they figured it out.

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Amit/Asuph @asuph.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

I was literally saying this to my wife that Trump would resurrect the same deal that he voided to claim he stopped another war.

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Amit/Asuph @asuph.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Except when killing innocents.

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Amit/Asuph @asuph.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Modiji would be like: they can all start tea and samosa stalls!

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Amit/Asuph @asuph.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

This is also my experience with the oppressed caste slice of TW vs bsk. The latter has very little diversity. I kind of knew that, and even posted about it here, when I came to it. It's harder for many communities to rebuild their hard fought spaces and influence in a new world all over again.

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Amit/Asuph @asuph.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

I'm sitting here thousands of miles away, with no real skin in the game and yet I feel sad she lost. I'd love to have. Candidate like her locally that I could vote for. But alas!

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/03/2026

It's so incredibly disappointing that Daniel Biss, who had an affair with a student while he was a professor, has beat young and vibrant Kat Aboughazaleh instead of withdrawing from the race He should not accept the nomination

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Amit/Asuph @asuph.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

What a relief it must be for Americans to know that rest of the world is fucked way more thanks to these madmen.

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

This beautiful, beautiful ensemble performance last night. Misty Copeland dancing in “I Lied To You” from #Sinners. youtu.be/j3ae7BvTuC4?...

Misty Copeland in the Firebrand costume from the Dance Theater of Harlem, dancing en pointe in Sinners ensemble at the 2026 Oscars

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Autumn Durald Arkapaw for #Sinners - first woman to win an Best Cinematography Oscars!

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Megan Wachspress @meganwachspress.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

If he's going to get a national profile on the strength of a younger woman's campaign, I'm going to come out and say it: during his short-lived tenure as a math professor, Biss had an inappropriate romantic relationship with one of his undergraduate students. I was that student.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

⚠️ Israel has begun a ground invasion of Lebanon.

Israel Defense Forces
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• IDF troops have begun limited and targeted ground operations against key Hezbollah strongholds in southern Lebanon, aimed at enhancing the forward defense area.
This activity is part of broader defensive efforts to establish and strengthen a forward defensive posture, which includes the dismantling of terrorist infrastructure and the elimination of terrorists operating in the area, to create an additional layer of security for residents of northern Israel.
1:09 AM • 3/16/26 • 5.2K Views

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Amit/Asuph @asuph.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Haven't watched One Battle After Another, but it better be really really good, because Sinners I've watched, and it's beyond brilliant.

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Amit/Asuph @asuph.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Even assuming that the question was a plant, this is a such a good bit. youtube.com/shorts/Guv3f...

youtube.com

What even is 6-7? #comedy #crowdwork #standupcomedy

YouTube video by Erica Rhodes

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Amit/Asuph @asuph.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

His charm will kill a few.

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Amit/Asuph @asuph.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

It's never about anything other than dominance and control with the right wing.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

I love the idea that *this* US government, which has been nabbing landscapers and five year olds knows where Iranian sleeper cells are but just hasn’t gotten around to doing anything about it yet.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:

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Amit/Asuph @asuph.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Orwell was such a naive fellow. He thought he was writing dystopian fiction.

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Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

If you think Jake Lang's career is over simply because he was caught secretly texting what he believed to be a 15 year old girl you're forgetting these people willfully elected Jeffrey Epstein's best friend as President of the United States

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