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Awkward OMINOUS pause 🎃 @awkwardpause.bsky.social · 18h
At 3000 words, what do we want to bet he outsourced it to Claude.
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Awkward OMINOUS pause 🎃 @awkwardpause.bsky.social · 22h
Why were they having it at October?
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Robert Wilonsky @robertwilonsky.bsky.social · 23h
From Lawrence Wright's 2019 "God Bless Texas: A Journey Into the Soul of the Lone Star State":
An excerpt from Lawrence Wright's "God Bless Texas" about the significance of Stanley Marcus. Or, Mister Stanley, as we knew him.
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Paul Voosen @voosen.me · 02/10/2026
Update on this: Alan Stern, New Horizons's PI, just told me that the instruments will stay on until Oct 12, when the first opportunity comes to send instructions to turn them off in this new fiscal year. So there's still some time.
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Paul Voosen @voosen.me · 28/09/2026
New Horizons is now *three days away* from shutting off its two heliophysics instruments, simply because NASA has not provided the $2M in funding it had promised to the mission last year or this year. There is no science basis for shutting these off. Our earlier coverage:
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NASA’s New Horizons mission may shut down two instruments over lack of funding
Decision risks “incalculable loss” of data from the edge of the Sun’s influence, scientists say
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Awkward OMINOUS pause 🎃 @awkwardpause.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is even more delightful when you reflect that it’d be pronounced “Ba-naaaah-nah”
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 01/10/2026
🇪🇨 Heavy rains cut off Ecuador town as Viche River overflows access road Rising waters from the Viche River have submerged the only road into the town of Cube in Ecuador's northwestern Esmeraldas province, after days of heavy rainfall.
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
(guy inventing mayonnaise) yoooo i'm bored let's whisk some things
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Awkward OMINOUS pause 🎃 @awkwardpause.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes, I’d like a military delusion with a side of weird racism.
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Project Censored @projectcensored.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Dr. Austin Kocher (@austinkocher.com) returns to The Project Censored Show to discuss the Detention Mortality Map, a new tool to track deaths in ICE custody so that those the system tries to make disappear are not lost. www.projectcensored.org/the-detentio...
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The Detention Mortality Map
The Detention Mortality Map, deaths in ICE custody, medical neglect in detention centers, surveillance, and the profits of private prisons.
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Over 120,000 people marched across France calling for action to halt global heating. www.lemonde.fr/en/environme...
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Thousands march for climate across France: 'I wish there were more of us, after the summer we've just had'
From Bordeaux to Paris, organizers say 120,000 people took part in 260 demonstrations 'for the climate, for life, for peace, for social justice.
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Russell Brand, who's awaiting trial in London next month on rape and sexual assault charges, will moderate a panel at DC's MAHA summit tomorrow on reforming a U.S. health agency
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Maryland Matters @marylandmatters.org · 29/09/2026
The Trump administration has again infuriated lawmakers from both parties by using a controversial maneuver to cancel $810 million in funding previously approved by Congress for refugee assistance, climate change and minority business development. marylandmatters.org/2026/09/28/r...
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Trump administration revokes $810 million Congress approved for refugee aid, more - Maryland Matters
The Trump administration has again infuriated lawmakers from both parties by using a controversial maneuver to cancel $810 million in funding previously approved by Congress for refugee assistance, cl...
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Awkward OMINOUS pause 🎃 @awkwardpause.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Thanks very much, autocorrect, for constantly forcing me to be a lady. Are we in the Good Place?
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Awkward OMINOUS pause 🎃 @awkwardpause.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
He is so right. I just found it striking—even knowing how truthful and outspoken he is—that he would leverage his own time with these White Houses to give his remaining ducks and analyse RE so truthfully
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Awkward OMINOUS pause 🎃 @awkwardpause.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Holy shit. Robert a Reich just lays it out.
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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#tdih 1962, "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson published, exposed impact of pesticides on environment. Carson was vilified: called a Communist, disloyal, unscientific, and hysterical. Sound familiar? Attacks on truth tellers, with media complicity. See⬇️🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/si...
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Sept. 27, 1962: Silent Spring Published
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson was published.
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Awkward OMINOUS pause 🎃 @awkwardpause.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I’m excited about this nice orange cat, but also about the glimpse of bookcase behind it.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Did I remind all of you in NYC to make sure to take yourselves and your children to see "He Built This City" at the Museum of the City of New York yet? The exhibit closes October 12: www.mcny.org/exhibition/h... - I cannot say enough about this exhibit and I think that you will be amazed. GO!
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He Built This City
Explore Joe Macken’s monumental model and discover the extraordinary vision behind one of the most ambitious handmade representations of New York City ever created.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It might be a sign of the apocalypse when you can buy peanut butter in France.
Jars of peanut butter on a store shelf
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Kit Marie Rackley @geogramblings.com · 26/09/2026
🌧️ What would you ask the Environment Agency about flooding? Ahead of Flood Action Week, I’ll be putting listeners’ questions to Deputy Director Mark Garratt on the Coffee & Geography Podcast! Reply with your question by Thursday 1 October using: #GeogQOverABrew #CoffeeGeogPod
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Awkward OMINOUS pause 🎃 @awkwardpause.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
There’s a trans-friendly peanut butter and I’m here for it.
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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
More crappy, incomplete reporting on AI doomers from the WSJ, normalizing Jaan Tallinn, a leading funder of both AI & TESCREAL doomers. Reporters: Google TALLINN & TESCREAL. Do your work. He’s Completely Terrified of AI—and He’s About to Make Billions Off It www.wsj.com/tech/ai/jaan...
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He’s Completely Terrified of AI—and He’s About to Make Billions Off It
One of Anthropic’s earliest investors, Jaan Tallinn dances hip-hop and warns about “racing to build a technology that could end humanity.”
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bree bird 🇨🇦 @goose.ski · 25/09/2026
[image of saw gerrera]

People who become right wing because they get annoyed by leftists are weak willed, most leftists are annoyed by leftists every single day.
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 24/09/2026
Wildfires in West Kalimantan are threatening critical Bornean orangutan habitat, including Gunung Palung National Park. With thousands of hotspots detected, field crews are working around the clock to fight blazes that are rapidly shrinking the forest orangutans rely on. Hans Nicholas Jong reports.
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As fires spread in Indonesia, Bornean orangutans run out of forest to flee
JAKARTA — As fires continue to engulf large swaths of forest in Indonesian Borneo, orangutans have increasingly fewer places to flee, with fires either surrounding them or eliminating the forest on…
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Judge Kelly (Trump appointee) issues order blocking White House press ban. "Plaintiffs—and the public—have an abiding interest in maintaining the status quo ante given the importance of the free press, which 'stands as one of the great interpreters between the government and the people.'"
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Order on Motion for TRO AND Set/Reset Deadlines – #24 in CABLE NEWS NETWORK, INC. v. TRUMP (D.D.C., 1:26-cv-03287) – CourtListener.com
Temporary Restraining Order. See Order for details. Signed by Judge Timothy J. Kelly on 9/24/26. (lctjk2) (Entered: 09/24/2026)
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I know we're all* numb to this by now, but it really needs to be said that any one of the batshit insane tyrant tweets from our special little boy would've led to swift efforts to remove any other previous president.
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ICE Flight Monitor @iceflightmonitor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Overnight, a small ICE Air jet (max 16-18 passengers) landed in Yangon, Myanmar, marking the fourth deportation flight to the country. The flight originated in Mesa, Arizona, with the journey lasting approximately 24 hours.
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Lori Lou Freshwater @lorifreshwater.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
He makes the cowardice in leadership so much more glaring. He should have Schumer's job.
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Awkward OMINOUS pause 🎃 @awkwardpause.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
As difficult decision. You’re a sterling person.
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Mark Rothko @markrothko.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
No.9 (Dark over Light Earth) botfrens.com/collections/25/content…
No.9 (Dark over Light Earth)
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2026
LMFAO -- Trump is holding an event at the White House right now but there's no audio because the press pool isn't there. The Newsmax host notes that this is an example of Trump's attacks on the press "backfiring just a little bit"
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Xero now with 100% more 🎃 @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
When AI contributed to the U.S. bombing an Iranian school, killing over 150 civilians—most of them young children—that too was from overrating the tech’s capabilities, not underrating them. With the school, the system overweighted outdated info. With the Chinese boat intel, it was AI hallucination.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The serious risk from AI shown by this incident is people—namely the US military—thinking the tech is more capable than it is and nearly acting based on bad info. It wasn’t insufficient reverence for the tech’s power. Not only are these opposite problems, believing the latter worsens the former.
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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
If they win or if they lose it will be impossible to say if it was because of ads like this, but at their heart, these tactics are simply immoral and the illusion of triangulating your way to victory is corrupting to the soul.
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W||| J00dy @pigsmoker.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"How would you describe your social media reach?" Mine:
hand holding  toy grabby dinosaur head
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John Shirley @johnshirley2024.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
In a few days it'll be John Coltrane's birthday and the 100th anniversary of his birth. Our local jazz station is already celebrating the 100th year John Coltrane centennial.
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John Coltrane - A Love Supreme (1965) (Full Album)
YouTube video by Jazz Time with Jarvis X
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 19/09/2026
Russia's liberal opposition Yabloko party said that one of its election observers lost consciousness while being arrested by police at a St. Petersburg polling station on Saturday, the second day of a tightly controlled parliamentary election. to.pbs.org/3TdCGUc
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Russian election observer loses consciousness during arrest by police, opposition party says
The three-day election, which began Friday and ends Sunday, features virtually no opposition and is all but certain to secure the Kremlin’s political dominance.
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Awkward OMINOUS pause 🎃 @awkwardpause.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“How would you describe your social media reach?” Mine:
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Soobin's Hand Holds Mic in Empty TXT Venue
Alt: Hand Holds Mic in Empty theater
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Awkward OMINOUS pause 🎃 @awkwardpause.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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West Side Story - Snapping Jets
Alt: West Side Story - Snapping Jets
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Patti Olivier 💙VOTE BLUE @patti3333.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES DAY 18 SEPTEMBER 2026 🚨THE AMERICAN PEOPLE RISE UP 🚨 This afternoon & tonight Massive crowds show up at the Kennedy Center in DC This is so AWESOME ..Kerry Kennedy, niece of JFK called out & the people came....even a human chain around the center This is how it's done
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Awkward OMINOUS pause 🎃 @awkwardpause.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
And maybe the people vacationing for weeks on Martha’s Vineyard shouldn’t be courted so hard to be in charge of voting on policies that help the poor and struggling workers? Just a thought.
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Lazy Susan @tempusflexus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ah. One of the greats Annie Dillard
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Awkward OMINOUS pause 🎃 @awkwardpause.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
They keep taking the wrong 80-year-olds.
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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 16/09/2026
True story.
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Don Gato 🐱🐈‍⬛🐶🐺🌈🐯 @dongato-1.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Un trabajador de una planta de residuos se percató de un saco cerrado y rápidamente lo abrió y salvó a un Don Gato que algún desalmado tiró.🙀🐈‍⬛❤️ A worker at a waste treatment plant noticed a sealed bag and quickly opened it, saving a Top Cat that some heartless person had thrown away. 🙀🐈‍⬛❤️
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Awkward OMINOUS pause 🎃 @awkwardpause.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Thank you. We need more sports organizations to stand up for all woman. Trans women are women.
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Irish Women's Rugby Supporters Club @irishwomens.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Well said. The fact she isn't trans is just proof that it's not about protecting women, it's about controlling and shaming women for not conforming to patriarchal expectations. Trans people are just the wedge to abuse us all. We stand loudly with trans people. Trans rights are human rights.
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Awkward OMINOUS pause 🎃 @awkwardpause.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
And again, this is not *more* okay if the person targeted is trans. This is not okay, period. But when we tell you that transphobia is misogyny and undermines all women, all people, fucking listen to us.
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