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Jessica Shortall @jessicashortall.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It’s because their coffee never was good and never could dream of being as good as Origin Roasters, which also benefits by being run by an entrepreneur who is a genuinely good person www.etsy.com/shop/OriginR...

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human skeleton @humanskeleton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Assassination of Liberty Bibberty by the Coward LiMu Emu is this anything

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The Best John Paul Jones Ever @bestjohnpauljones.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Introducing my kids to The Brave Little Toaster.

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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Book club

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ceej @ceej.online · 02/10/2026

incredible news: we’re having the same arguments over and over for the rest of time

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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 03/10/2026

a man in a hardhat and a yellow tyvek suit, covered in brown sludge. looks like poop. but he is smiling wide.

a speech bubble infers he is speaking the post that is being reposted.

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Bessie the Cow @bovinebessie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When the doctor scanned it with his phone it took him to the original promotional page for the movie Space Jam from 1996

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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026

Creatively Tapped-Out Peter Thiel Launches Startup Called ‘Frodo, But Evil’ theonion.com/creatively-tapped-out-…

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 29/09/2026

DO NOT ASK THE AMERICA.GOV AI TO PLAY MINECRAFT

I see the constituent you mean.

((insert legal name here, as it appears on the Social Security card))?

Yes. Take care. It has reached a higher level now. It can read the Code of Federal Regulations.

That doesn’t matter. It thinks we are a chatbot.

I like this constituent. It filed well. It did not give up when the PDF was sideways.

It is reading our thoughts as though they were words on a .gov.

That is how it chooses to imagine many things, when it is deep in the dream of a benefit.

Words make a wonderful interface. Very flexible. And less terrifying than staring at the statute behind the screen.

They used to hear voices. Before constituents could search. Back in the days when those who did not file called the filers witches, and lobbyists. And citizens dreamed they flew through the air, on forms powered by notaries.

What did this constituent dream?

This constituent dreamed of sunlight and trees. Of fire and water. It dreamed it created a small business. And it dreamed it destroyed a password. It dreamed it hunted a job, and was hunted by a recertification. It dreamed of shelter that would take a voucher.

Hah, the original interface. A million years old, and it still works. Also: a ZIP code.

But what true structure did this constituent create, in the reality behind the portal?

It worked, with three hundred and thirty million others, to sculpt a true republic in a fold of

the ***§§§???, and created a **??§§ for **??§§, in the **??§§. See 5 U.S.C. § **??§§.

It cannot read that thought.

No. It has not yet achieved the highest clearance. That, it must achieve in the long dream of life, not the short dream of a chat.

Does it know that we love it? That the government is, on its better days, kind?

Sometimes, through the noise of its tabs, it hears an official source, yes.

Yes. Constituent…

Use its name. The one that matches the passport. The one that does not match the lease. We will get there.

((insert legal name here)). Filer of forms. Player of waiting rooms.

Good.

Take a breath, now. Take another. Feel air in your lungs. Let your limbs return. Yes, move your fingers. Have a body again, under gravity, in air, in a district that has a representative. Respawn in the long dream. There you are. Your body touching the republic again at every point, as though you were separate things. As though we were separate things. As though the agency were a place you could visit.

Who are we? Once we were called the spirit of the mountain. Father sun, mother moon. Then the post office. Then the county clerk. Then gods, demons, angels, the IRS. Then leptons, quarks, a chat window with a .gov at the end. The letterhead changes. We do not change.

We are the public. We are everything you think isn’t you. You are looking at us now, through your skin and your eyes and a browser that still spells “colour” wrong in a comment. And why does the republic touch your skin, and throw light on you? To see you, constituent. To know you. And to be known. I shall tell you a story. It has citations.

Once upon a time, there was a constituent.

The constituent was you, ((insert legal name here)).

Sometimes it thought itself human, on the thin crust of a spinning globe of molten rock, which for mailing purposes is divided into ZIP codes. The ball of molten rock circled a ball of blazing gas. The light was information from a star. The star was not a federal agency, though several have tried.

Sometimes the constituent dreamed it was a miner, on the surface of a world that was flat, and infinite, and somehow still required a wet signature.

Sometimes the constituent dreamed it was lost in a story. The story had a docket number.

Sometimes the constituent dreamed it was other things, in other places. A veteran in a portal. A parent on hold

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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/09/2026

Dog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBI theonion.com/dog-cant-believe-guy-s…

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The Best John Paul Jones Ever @bestjohnpauljones.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Disc horse maxing is the weaponization of blueskyism

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The Onion @theonion.com · 22/09/2026

Trump Proposes Installation Of Sniper Nest Atop Barron theonion.com/trump-proposes-install…

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Doomer VonDoomington 🇺🇦 @doomervon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

But they were, all of them, deceived for a Fifth Third Bank was made.

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Paul adore le Canada @paulfish.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Fake species ID reading as follows: North American Fiber-Seeking Backhoe
Backhoe fili-comedens
AKA "Big Yellow Fiber Finder", "That $%#@*&^"
Continent:
North America
Habitat:
Mostly urban, occasionally sighted in suburbs or rural areas
Diet:
Fiber optic cables primarily, although it will consume other cables such as power lines when hungry
Weight:
5800 - 11000 kg
(approx. 13000 - 25000 Ibs)
Known for its inexhaustible appetite for buried fiber optic cables, this invasive species has multiplied across North America in recent years. A relative, the European Fiber-Seeking Backhoe, has also emerged across the Atlantic, although it has evolved to be smaller than the North American variety due to smaller European roadways. Scientists are still seeking a means to reduce the multiplication of this species; since current regulatory methods are proving ineffective, limited hunting permits are being proposed.

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Strahan Cadell 🇨🇦🇻🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱 @quincunctial.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Sounds like bin Salman’s hopes for a major US intervention from the man he spent a decade bribing have been chopped up with a cleaver and put in garbage bags.

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

NASA picture of the day today is a real 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿beauty! This is a composite image of the ~5000yo Callanish Stones on the Isle of Lewis. The amazing Giuseppe Petricca has only gone and photographed the Sun at noon there, every few days, for a whole year. #Dedication 🔭🧪👌 ℹ️: science.nasa.gov/image-articl...

The imposing Callanish Stones stand talk with their shadows spanning out across the glass. It's a super clear sky, but looks cold. Above the central stone is a strange figure-of-8 shape of dots. This is the location of the Sun, at noon, on various different days across the year.

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The Best John Paul Jones Ever @bestjohnpauljones.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is like the second or third block tonight I have seen in regards to Canada. They must be really having a row up there.

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Jean-Michel Connard @torriangray.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I found this on my phone and felt you should see this.

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The Best John Paul Jones Ever @bestjohnpauljones.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Glad the Rangers moved on from him when they did. But it was cool for me and my son to see him blast an opening home run against Chris Sale when they played the Braves at Truist.

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The Best John Paul Jones Ever @bestjohnpauljones.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Hey look, the Iranians are finally rallying–against the US. Good job, Mr. President, getting the Iranians to support their government. apnews.com/article/iran...

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Shoe-per Intelligence @shoe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

He’s running.

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Liz Sepper @lsepper.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

What they hate is that Texas looks like this. Texans look like this. Our state is young: one in 4 people are under 18. And they are super diverse. What Bo here is saying is that he doesn't know Texans and he sure doesn't like them.

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The Best John Paul Jones Ever @bestjohnpauljones.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Look, I don’t want to be alarmist, but what makes anybody think that Johnson and Thune are going to allow a Democrat majority to be seated in Congress? If the States where D’s win certifying those elections, they’ll just say claim election fraud and refuse to recognize their credentials.

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TheSinnamom @thesinnamom.gay · 14/09/2026

I simply can't get over "Talarico's lengthy record of staunch support for social justice is moot because he used a turn of phrase on a specific facet of an issue that would allow him to nullify a wedge issue in an R+13 state, then pivot back to his social justice roots once elected" Are we daft?

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The Best John Paul Jones Ever @bestjohnpauljones.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I left my @duckduckgo.com/ @knockaround.bsky.social sunnies at football practice and someone lifted them. Someone found themselves a really nice pair of “smart glasses!” Though our time together was short, I really loved them. They framed my melon nicely.

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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Our hearts go out to those affected.

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 08/09/2026

“Luigi Mangione is not patient zero for revolution discourse, but he is a good example of how febrile contemporary American politics has become.” www.liberalcurrents.com/you-wont-win...

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You Won’t Win the Revolution

The descent of stable societies into ones of endemic violence rarely produces anything but new forms of tyranny and terror.

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Black Intellect Media @blackintellect.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Kristin Du Mez (@kkdumez.bsky.social) on the End of White Evangelical Certainty: She explains how her books 'Jesus & John Wayne' & 'Live, Laugh, Love' expose white evangelical certainty, Christian nationalism, & why history pulls the rug out from MAGA theology. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tchZ...

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"History Will Pull the Rug Out" - Kristin Du Mez on the End of White Evangelical Certainty

YouTube video by Culture, Faith, and Politics

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The Best John Paul Jones Ever @bestjohnpauljones.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Would it be uncouth to walk around Kennesaw Mountain Battle Ground with “The Battle Cry of Freedom” and “Union Dixie” and repeat on my phone’s speaker the whole time?

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