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So no swimmers here, but you might relate to working towards an objectively meaningless goal, just bc so many other things feel so hard. Anyway if can drop JUST 3 secs on my mile, I’ll go from “intermediate” to “advanced” (according only to a random website). I think about this all the time.

Insufferable workout screenshot to show my mile swim time is 30:40

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Looking for other ppl on Bluesky who post about swimming here and guess I found my ppl

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But he just loved playing baseball and was so good at it too

Holly Bemiss @bemissh.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Correction: The former REPUBLICAN House speaker who was later sentenced to prison. . .

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It was a great game to watch. Liberty didn’t bring it today, but it’s far from over. We will see you in Brooklyn! 🗽🗽🗽Excellent game ATL. 🏀🔥

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Holly Bemiss @bemissh.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Watching my #NyLiberty flop the 3rd quarter against ATL. Love my team but they are just turning it over. Angel Reese is undeniably a BEAST. 🏀

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Holly Bemiss @bemissh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My @erinbried.bsky.social: “It’s always so heartening to see how many people just visit a museum on a random Saturday.” The horrors persist but so do we. So does the art.

Poster in the Brooklyn Museum gift shop.

“THE HORRORS
PERSIST
BUT SO DO WE”

Holly Bemiss @bemissh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Exciting and packed Art of Manga exhibit at @brooklynmuseum.org. I loved this Frog Battle.

KAWANABE KYOSAI
Japanese, 1831-1889
Frog Battle
19th century
Ink and color on paper
Beginning in the twelfth century, Japanese artists used paintings of animals behaving like humans to offer thinly veiled satires of social and political life. In this drawing, Kawanabe Kyosai ridicules human warfare by depicting frogs battling one another with cattail clubs and reed blowguns. Works such as this can be seen as precursors of "gag manga," exemplified by the art of Akatsuka Fujio (whose work is on view in Art of Manga); it may even have influenced Japan's widespread use of animal cartoon characters and mascots today.
By exchange and Designated Purchase Fund, 37.532
Acquired by Roland Koscherak, by 1937; purchased, 1937.

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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago

I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861

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Holly Bemiss @bemissh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

So much is so wonderful about this Mary Oliver movie. But in addition to it being lovely, it's fabulous. Real insight about Molly and Mary and what Provincetown might have been like with them in it. Some delicious gossip from John Waters, too. Highly recommend.

Holly Bemiss @bemissh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

More from the “protect women’s sports” party. This guy can’t even admit a women’s college basketball counts as a game. Just zero shame.

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I feel like he should, in the very least, be wearing different shoes for all this @dieworkwear.bsky.social ?

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Does Linda McMahon really believe it??? She said: "AI is definitely a tool used correctly. . . at the Alpha School in Austin, Texas, they use AI for the first 2 hours every morning. The students have their headsets on, they are watching their computers ... it is incredibly effective."

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I was SO TIRED of this story. But it did remind me to go get a drink at Ginger's, Brooklyn's oldest lesbian bar, sometime soon.

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THANK YOU was waiting for this one

Holly Bemiss @bemissh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I am also curious about who packs up leftovers and cleans out the refrigerator.

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

exactly this. if we can no longer broadly agree, as a social unit of social creatures, that human endeavor and human dignity have worth and are in fact likely the point, why bother? what is this world we are constructing. why is anyone even walking around and going anywhere

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Holly Bemiss @bemissh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

—> "What we're most concerned about is if the Ship were to break up over land and rain debris on people," Mr. Musk said. "Our popularity would diminish very rapidly."

because it will pass over a swath of the
United States.
"What we're most concerned about is if the Ship were to break up over land and rain debris on people," Mr. Musk said. "Our popularity would diminish very rapidly."

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Holly Bemiss @bemissh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

After being happily lost in it for a couple of days, turning that final page of #exitparty and closing the book and

static.klipy.com

Confused Woman with Math Formulas

ALT: Confused Woman with Math Formulas

Holly Bemiss @bemissh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

How might "Halloween 2025" compel the average fox viewer?

Frame of this weird Trump w text "Halloween 2025" in the background

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Holly Bemiss @bemissh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"I think the best these men can do is not talk about themselves anymore." --Virginia Woolf (who I imagine would be very bored with much of today)

Virginia Woolf smoking a cigarette - 1930's

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Kazoo magazine @kazoomagazine.com · 22/09/2026

A little autumn spot-the-difference puzzle fun by Jaclyne Ooi for #kazoomagazine 42, The Brilliant Issue, on stands now.

Peep the Leaves
Compare the pictures and circle four things in the second scene that aren't the same, including one big difference that rhymes.
Hint: Catch a falling [blank]

A spot the difference puzzle illustration by Jaclyne Ooi for Kazoo magazine.

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The sickness of locking thousands of five-year-olds in a concentration camp while screaming about the danger of a 10th-grade trans boy playing lacrosse is an evil that needs to be yeeted into a million burning suns.

theguardian.com

Trump ally Stephen Miller leads sweeping push to accelerate removal of migrant children

Exclusive: key White House loyalist orchestrating multi-agency effort condemned by critics as cruel and racist

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

👇👇👇👇

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Holly Bemiss @bemissh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

As a the sister of a hockey kid, growing up near Erie, PA, I know this song by heart. It's beautiful. I hope more of my hometown on Lake Erie (which has leaned red) is moved to reject Trump & support our Canadian neighbors whose lights we see sparkling right across the water.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The right to vote is one of the most fundamental parts of our democracy. Check your voter registration at IWillVote.com and make a plan to vote early or on Election Day on November 3.

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Holly Bemiss @bemissh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"always challenge yourself" (by asking the computer to think for you)

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Holly Bemiss @bemissh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

They bring it up because they want everyone to picture what they are now allowing, how women can be victims in this way, how often this really happens to women, etc.

It is very hard to believe these aren't all bots.

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Is no one going to ask why their "dear friend" is a member of the ultra-nationalist Russian biker gang "Night Wolves" and Kremlin insider. Where does one meet such besties?

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If you're wondering why a pic of Marco Rubio tops this story, it's because Rubio (& Stephen Miller) held a press conference to brag about imprisoning this zine-mover (who's also an elementary school aide, vegan, & was not even at the protest!). Still hard to believe that this is America.

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A Prairieland Defendant's Sister Speaks Out After 'Antifa Trial'

30 YEARS IN PRISON FOR MOVING A BOX OF ZINES. For some context about why booksellers are concerned about being convicted as "antifa" under Trump's National Security Presidential Memorandum-7 (NSPM-7), here's that wild, heartbreaking story of Daniel Estrada: inkstickmedia.com/a-prairielan...

inkstickmedia.com

The sister of a Prairieland Antifa trial defendant speakers out against the Trump administration's crackdown on left-wing activism.

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Bookstores Sound Alarm Over Trump’s Anti-Terrorism Memo

--> "The criminalization of left-wing literature & those who publish or distribute it ... should also concern mainstream bookstores, which should be able to carry 'a broad range of viewpoints without fear of government scrutiny or interference.'" www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

publishersweekly.com

In a letter to the American Booksellers Association, eight left-wing, mission-driven bookstores argue that the broad definition of domestic terrorism contained in a 2025 national security presidential...

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This "perfect little angel" bit and "leakers, BEWARE." What's the opposite of a thinly veiled threat?

Love Stewie! She's great fun to watch & also just seems so nice, on & off the court. Also happy to see team USA women's basketball win & play so well together. MAGA's trying to use #WNBA --of all things--to divide our country. But, these players are just too good. The vibe in unstoppable. 🏆

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