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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 16h

11/ The bottom line is that the benefits continue to outweigh the risks when it comes to the Covid vaccine, especially if you're 65 or older. If you haven't already, now is a great time to book your Covid vaccine. After some bumps in the road, the vaccine should now be widely available.

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Luke Knox @lukeknox.me · 01/10/2026

tracing Japanese managers challenging an ump’s call, I’ve watched this 500x

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

iggy: what's that letter on you shirt me: that's a V for Victory pin. do you like it iggy: yah i want one for my shirt me: okay what letter do you want iggy: W me: what's the W for iggy: for my shirt

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The Spike Feeders @spikefeeders.com · 30/09/2026

Smile because it happened. #mtg This clip is from YESTERDAY'S gameplay episode! There's still time to check it out if you haven't already: youtu.be/Tw2DjHECRvE

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

ProPublica got the literal check Collins was bribed with.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

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John Muller @johnspacemuller.com · 20/09/2026

Rayan Cherki you disgusting little man

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Sumita Pahwa @sumitapahwa.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

For some, the start of fall signals decorative gourd season; for the rest of us, it's Marian Burros plum torte season.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026

anyway it is actually very fun to have kids deeply interested in the world around them and the people who live in it

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Ed Yong is offline @edyong209.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Briefly popping my head back in to unveil the cover of my upcoming book, LIFE BEYOND MEASURE: Nature's Hidden Wonders at Every Scale. It’ll be out on April 6 in the U.S. and April 29 in the U.K. and you can pre-order it right now! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/757705... 1/

A book cover featuring a beautiful closely cropped portrait of an Anna's hummingbird. The cover says LIFE BEYOND MEASURE: Nature's Hidden Wonders at Every Scale, by Ed Yong. The image also says US: 4/06/27 and UK: 4/29/27

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

New Past Lives: How Do You Get Bitten by a Lion in Roman York? Around 1800 years ago, a man was decapitated and buried on the outskirts of York, in northern England. He had been bitten at least twice by a lion around the time he died. Who was he, and how did this happen? pod.link/1852618120/e...

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How Do You Get Bitten by a Lion in Roman York?

Listen to How Do You Get Bitten by a Lion in Roman York? from Past Lives wherever you get your podcasts!

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Teaser reel for my big investigation, out tomorrow!

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Ej Dickson @ejdickson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

There is a corner of the internet I had never heard of before I started reporting this story. It’s called the “burnerverse”: a network of anon burner accounts ostensibly discussing college sports. But they have another goal: destroying young girls’ lives.🧵: www.wired.com/story/burner...

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A College Girl Was Exploited on Camera. A Network of Anonymous Men Got to Work

Maddie Kowalski is one of countless young women who’ve had their lives destroyed by the burnerverse, a loosely connected online community of sports fans. Now she’s fighting back.

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bbtaps @bbtaps.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Alt text is a joy and Mr. Joshua brings the narrative heat in them.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Let me tell you a story about how top-end menswear retail transformed over the last hundred years. 🧵

Fiorinamarietta on Threads writes: "The death of department stores as an EXPERIENCE needs to be studied. You used to be able to buy a dress, have lunch, get your hair done, smell every perfume in existence and leave carrying beautifully wrapped boxes. Shopping used to be an event."

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Otto von Biz Markie @donachaidh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Lol my buddy just sent me another angle and it's somehow even more ridiculous

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

my son tries to call things he's frustrated with "busted" like "doesn't work" but it sounds exactly like he's saying bastard. mama my bastard toy won't work. i can't get the bastard thing to turn on

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It's not actually a "shared bond" if that bond is solely built on the idea that there's a new Other that we all have to band together and hate. What I remember is the pressure to get on board.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Maybe this really was Elissa Slotkin's experience in the weeks after 9/11, but it sure as hell wasn't mine. People lost their fucking minds, and pretending they didn't, that everybody wanted to sit around and sing kumbaya, is revisionist insanity.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Notebook doodle and original art for the cartoon quoted below: www.tomgauld.com/art-for-sale

A small scatchy ink drawing.
A reader walks past bookcases, ghosts and clouds of ectoplasm.
Title: Haunted library is cool.

Ink drawing

Title:
Who is Haunting The Library of Forbidden Tomes?

Image: five panels showing characters in a gothic library

22% - tormented souls, frozen between life and death (a ghost reading a book)
4% - dank, fetid horrors from the icy depths below (a black slug like creature with a single eyestalk reading a book)
15% - cold, lifeless bones possessed by a corrupt sorcery (a skeleton reading a book)
11% - frigid and malevolent ectoplasmic vapours (a shapeless apparition reading a book)
48% - regular readers happy to away from the heatwave
(A mother, small child and toddler in buggy, all reading books)

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John Muller @johnspacemuller.com · 09/09/2026

Can't stop thinking about this play in the lede. This was literally his first ever national team practice and he pulled out this shit, kid is different

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Zane's Video @zanesimon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Getting to be that time... Site is about 75% of the way to where I want it (still some product descriptions and formatting to do), but I'm going to be converting all my social media over to my new business going forward. zanesvideostore.com

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Zane's Video

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Realizing the extent to which this is true wildly changed my opinions about how to deal with Trumpism, since they're never going to be satisfied unless they're actively dominating everyone else. You can't give them some concessions and go back to the status quo: they're reactionary revolutionaries.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

There's a concept in international relations, specifically power transition theory, called a "revisionist state." Basically, the idea is that a revisionist state will tear down the whole international state system because they think it's unfair to them personally. Sound familiar?

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Trying to manage these people as if they're standard participants in a multicultural democracy misses the point, because they have no interest in multicultural democracy or being one component of it; they want a system that treats them as a privileged class lording it over everyone else.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

So trying to beat them with the standard tools we apply to win partisan conflicts in an essentially stable democracy is the equivalent of trying to kill sharks with a flamethrower.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

John C. Calhoun wasn't a conservative; he was a radical. Stephen Miller isn't a conservative; he's a radical. "Tradition" isn't a real thing that once existed and we can go back to, or something worth conserving, but an imaginary place that they'll destroy the current world to create.

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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️

8 Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hours for What We Will. Based on a screenprint by Ricardo Levins Morales after the organizing work done by Robert Owen.

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JRho @jrho.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The most absolutely massive flex from the state fair exhibit. This quilt is made of 40 years of prize ribbons from various categories at the New Mexico State Fair won by Carol St. Clair Johnson. She also won a prize for this quilt.

Massive quilt made of prize ribbons in blue, red, yellow, and white

Center square of quilt made of yellow and red ribbons and yellow rosettes

Block of quilt made of blue, yellow, red, and white ribbons. Ribbons state the year. Some have the prize winning object written on in marker

Carol St. Clair Johnson
born 1954; resides Albuquerque, NM

O Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years
2023
satin ribbons

After unexpectedly winning her first blue ribbon for a sewn cape in 1981, Carol St. Clair Johnson developed an enduring love for the New Mexico State Fair. The quilt Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years incorporates more than six hundred of the ribbons she won at the fair every subsequent year except 2020 (when the fair was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic). Johnson earned ribbons for needlework, knitting, crochet, pies, cookies, cakes, canning, jewelry, flowers, vegetables, and potted plants. The title of the quilt is a reference to the state song, and the design places the state's Zia sun symbol at the center. The quilt earned Johnson yet another ribbon: Best in Category (miscellaneous quilt) at the 2023 New Mexico State Fair.

Courtesy of Carol St. Clair Johnson

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/books/pictur...

Title: Methods for Encouraging a Reluctant Young Reader

Panel 1
Caption: Read Together
Image: A small child sits on a sofa, face buried in a book, between two adults doing the same.

Panel 2
Caption: Bribery
Image: The small child sits on a treasure chest wearing a crown, face buried in a book, in a room full of coins, jewels and precious items.

Panel 3
Caption: Element of danger
Image: The small child sits, face buried in a book, precariously balanced on a thin branch in a tall tree.

Panel 4
Caption: Reverse Psychology
Image: The small child sits, face buried in a book, beside a huge bookshelf and a sign that reads “Adults Only”

Panel 5
Caption: Pulleys and Pistons
Image: The small child sits, face buried in a book, amidst a complicated mechanism that provides endless new books.

Panel 6
Caption: Rituals and Incantations
Image: The small child sits, face buried in a book, in a circle of candles amidst clouds of smoke and mysterious phrases.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The measles vaccine is one of the most effective medical therapeutics ever but can’t prevent 100% of infections bc that isn’t how vaccines work, & measles is *the most contagious* virus. For non-antivaxxers, your child can get an MMR at 6 months, and 1 dose is 93% effective at preventing infection.

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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

that's right, Seijun Suzuki

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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller September 04,1945

P1- SLUGGO AND HIS PAL SAM ARE WAITING DOWNTOWN FOR NANCY AND JUDY
SAM: WHERE’S NANCY AND JUDY?
SLUGGO:I TOLD 'EM TO MEET US HERE AT
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SAM: THEY'RE AN HOUR LATE FOR OUR DATE ALREADY
SLUGGO:AIN'T THEY GOT SOME NOIVE
P3-
SLUGGO : JF THEY DON'T SHOW UP IN D' NEXT TWO HOURS---D' DATE IS OFF
P4- IT’S NOW DARK, SLUGGO AND SAM ARE WAITING IN FRONT OF A CANDY STORE
THEY ARE STANDING UNDER A SIGN IN THE CANDY STORE WINDOW
SIGN -ALL DAY SUCKERS

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legalized gamboling @ohtazer.goblinmo.de · 05/09/2026

kinda makes the super mario bros movie (1993) make a bit more sense huh

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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Interview with a Nepali climate negotiator about how the government is handling rescue & relief in the aftermath of the disastrous flooding & the kinds of international support it seeks, incl from the climate loss & damage fund + clarification about a recent controversy drilled.media/news/nepal-f...

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Nepal Floods Put Climate Loss and Damage Fund to the Test

An interview with Raju Pandit Chhetri, a climate negotiator from Nepal, about the country’s demands for loss and damage financing and climate justice.

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 05/09/2026

Avoid the clowns in the clown forest.

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 05/09/2026

If you're taking the ATV out this Labor Day weekend, wear a helmet and stay off paved roads to stay alive.

A forest. A guy named Ted rides his ATV safely along a trail. Throughout the forest are joyful clowns doing clown antics. They’re not necessarily menacing, but Ted picks up a little speed all the same. The text reads: Ted wasn’t sure how he ended up in the Forest of The Clowns, but he was sure glad he wore the proper gear: boots, pants, long-sleeve shirt, gloves goggles and a helmet.

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