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Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles @esotouric.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Saturday! The spooky season starts with a bang as we're joined by Nathan Marsak, the twisted mind behind the red hot true crime zine Bunker Noir, on a stroll through a lost Bunker Hill world of sinister sirens, lurid love dens and... LIZARD PEOPLE!? esotouric.com/event/bunker...

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Sweet Shop @sweetshop.app · 28/09/2026

Sweet Shop is now open and comics couldn't be sweeter! We are so glad to partner up with our buds @imagecomics to offer an incredible DRM-FREE deal on the Massive-Verse for just $25, one of the best comic universes around. Even better, the bundle supports the incredible charity BINC.

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!

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Helioscope @helioscopepdx.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

If you haven't read One Star Squadron by @manruss.bsky.social, @stevelieberart.bsky.social & Dave Stewart, we've got EIGHT signed & sketched copies left in our etsy shop, and they ship postpaid in the USA. Go take a look! helioscopepdx.etsy.com/listing/1613...

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One Star Squadron Tpb. Signed & Sketched by Steve Lieber. Free USA Shipping! - Etsy

This Comics & Graphic Novels item by HelioscopePdx has 8 favorites from Etsy shoppers. Ships from Portland, OR. Listed on Jun 3, 2026

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

...which cheered and applauded repeatedly at half a dozen truly spectacular and pleasurable monster action sequences. These movies are like musicals; I would trim back the book but not a second of the songs. (They gave us intense no-spoilers warnings so this is me not telling you anything.) >

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Given that Netanyahu has already threatened Naza's directors, the film deserves loud and full-throated support and I hope the U.S. film community steps up for it. Hopefully he's just Streisand-effected the movie into getting the large audience that it absolutely merits.

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BGF Central @bgfcentral.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Happy 9 to 5 from my amazing Bear cast to all who will now start celebrating!

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Are You A Librarian: The Untold Story of Black Librarians follows the librarians who kept the doors open when the law said they shouldn't-from segregated reading rooms to freedom libraries to the branches serving our communities now" Rentable/streamable 📚 www.historysplayground.com/are-you-a-li...

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Watch Are You a Librarian | History's Playground

Rent the Are You a Librarian documentary for $3.99 and stream it for 72 hours on History's Playground.

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BGF Central @bgfcentral.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Another great review of my Fabulous Cast throwing down 🔥 over in @officialnoho land! VERY proud of them. Four more shows to go come support indy live theater! Lots of street parking for car folks. NoHo Station to 94 or 154 for us @metrolosangeles folks nohoartsdistrict.com/exit-pursued-b…

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One Angry Eyebrow… @oneangryeyebrow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

IKEA is releasing a Pallas Cat plush, and they have nailed the expression…

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Jed Hartman @elysdir.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“The abuse that immigration agents inflict on people everywhere from Evanston streets to Alabama construction sites underscores that Kavanaugh’s racial profiling apologia in _Vasquez Perdomo_ was always based on a fantasy.” ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

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Brett Kavanaugh’s Imaginary Immigration Stops Opinion Gets More Embarrassing Every Day

The fact that ICE officers do not allow wrongfully detained people to “promptly go free” is a surprise to only one man in America.

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

She glows. 💫

photo of my beautiful fluffy white cat Francie, sitting by a window that is illuminating her with indirect light. Her white fur catches the light and she appears almost to glow from within.

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BGF Central @bgfcentral.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

That man is running around sowing absolute CHAOS from fixing potholes and opening grocery stores and something about water fountains and now free opera tickets and I AM HERE FOR IT

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BGF Central @bgfcentral.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My EPIC cast and director who SLAYED our sold out opening night!

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BGF Central @bgfcentral.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Miyo slayed the promo items! I'm excited to share the stage with amazing storytellers. Oct. 18, 2pm @ Fanatic Salon in Culver City. Come as you are! www.eventbrite.com/e/you-say-wh...

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History Today @historytoday.com · 17/09/2026

Congratulations to the nominees in the 2026 @WolfsonHistory Prize. You can find reading related to four of the shortlisted titles in the History Today archive. #WolfsonHistoryPrize 1/5

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“Langston Hughes’ literary estate now belongs to International Literary Properties, which says a Harlem Renaissance licensing program is next on its list.”

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Private Equity Is Coming for Authors, Dead or Alive - The Ankler

Like music catalogs, literary estates are now targeted by investment firms and changing how Hollywood will deal with IP

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 16/09/2026

Today, with backing from the ACLU, Kelton and twelve other named researchers filed a class action suit against the NIH under director Jay Bhattacharya for censoring their research and violating their First Amendment rights.

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Researchers Challenge NIH Screening of Grants for Disfavored Viewpoints | American Civil Liberties Union

Class action lawsuit seeks to stop censorship and termination of federally funded scientific research

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

New — I wrote about this weird thing where people within the Republican party keep being exposed as Nazis and the party then tries to claim each one is an aberration. The facts, as I lay out here, indicate otherwise:

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Republicans don’t have a Nazi problem—they are the Nazi problem

A spate of recent revelations have shown the ideologies and their adherents are one and the same.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I'm serious when I say I've lost track of all the recent revelations of literal Nazis working in high-level positions in Republican congressional campaigns and I would very much appreciate a journalist who took the time to detail as many of them as can fit into an article.

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Carly Gay Stepson @amcnal.bsky.social · 28/04/2024

I'm at the urgent care. I'm at the taco bell. I'm at the combination urgent care and taco bell

I feel that this is self-explanatory but it is a combination taco bell and urgent care

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Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles @esotouric.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Why is Stahl House lingering on the market, even with a $5M price drop? Maybe because LA's refusal to manage illegal Airbnb party houses has ruined the Doheny/Sunset Plaza neighborhood and made a once desirable property a gorgeous white elephant. www.sfgate.com/la/article/s...

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

we watched I Love Boosters and 9 to 5 on two consecutive nights this weekend and it turns out that's a surprisingly perfect double feature, I can't believe there are two different movies that ask "what if you got really high and fed Das Kapital into the outfit computer from Clueless"

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BGF Central @bgfcentral.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Celebrating by watching all my favorite episodes from the various #StarTrek eras until I have to leave for work! 🖖🏾🎉🖖🏾

Two cosplayers who are NOT Jonathan Frakes or Whoopi Goldberg - but look EXACTLY like them - pose in their Next Gen-era outfits at a convention.

(NOTE: It took the Not Whoppi cosplayer two weeks just to create all those knife pleats, and she never passes up an opportunity to Mention That. 😎)

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Sorry but if antivaxxers were truly looking for people to just treat them kinder they wouldn’t have aligned themselves with every single hate movement that exists, and it’s intolerant to everybody else to act as if that’s not exactly who they are

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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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Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

My dad (92 years old!) has lost his lease in #NYC because building was sold. He must be out of the office by end of the year. So if you or anyone you know might be interested in #vintage #beads, #stones, #crystals, #chain, or other #jewelry parts or supplies, check out CJSSales.com Please share!

A selfie with my dad (on his 90th birthday, 2 years ago) at his jewelry warehouse. Boxes and boxes of vintage glass beads, seed beads, chain, Swarovski, Preciosa, copper, metal, findings, etc. Wholesale only. Must have Tax ID.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Antebellum politics is fascinating, the South kept getting policy concessions and whipped themselves up into a paranoid rage anyway, essentially because they couldn't stand being culturally judged for having slaves

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie

Donald Trump posts an image on his Truth Social account. It shows a new uniform for US Space Force members, comprising of an all-black outfit with knee-high black leather boots, black cap, and minimalist looking suit.

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It's still Bandcamp Friday and any money you spend on the site goes straight to the musicians. Oh, and I have a couple of albums there, he said innocently. sevenblood-stainedorchids.bandcamp.com

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Seven Blood-Stained Orchids

Richard Kadrey is a composer and keyboard player in Pittsburgh, PA. He’s also the New York Times bestselling author of comic and film scripts, as well as 18 novels, including the Sandman Slim supernat...

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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Now in Gunmetal Grey!

A person in the background carrying a bag over their shoulder. In the foreground, a large gray cat sits beside a cardboard box labeled "CATS FOR MEN." The text above reads "Introducing CATS FOR MEN™," and below the box, it says "The first feline designed for real, masculine men."

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 04/09/2026

HOLD UP THEY EXTENDED THE TIME LIMIT ON VIDEO UPLOADS??? BUT THAT MEANS... I CAN FINALLY UPLOAD THE ENTIRETY OF 𝐂𝐇𝐑𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐏𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐋𝐄𝐄'𝐒 𝐅𝐈𝐍𝐄𝐒𝐓 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐋 𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐄 PLEASE ENJOY "NAME YOUR POISON" FROM "THE RETURN OF CAPTAIN INVINCIBLE" (1983)

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Jeff Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I love re-upping this: for decades the main library at UCLA had the generic name University Research Library because the person most responsible for getting it built was an English professor named Hugh G. Dick and the university refused to name it after him.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The Cat Righting Reflex was first captured on camera by French scientist Étienne-Jules Marey in 1894. We do not know the name of the cat, or what it did to Marey afterwards.

time lapse image of someone dropping a cat, capturing the rotation process as it lands on its feet.

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BGF Central @bgfcentral.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Ah that time of year when you need (redacted) from folks...and literally ALL OF THEM are at Burning Man. 🙃🤣🙃

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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is. GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart. But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.

Boromir from THE LORD OF THE RINGS, holding The One Ring. He thought he could use it for good, but everything done with the ring turns to evil. He was one of the mightiest warriors of middle earth, and he could not resist its powers. Others even mightier fell to the ring. Do you think you are stronger than them? The One Ring is generative AI.

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Sunkissed Peaks @sunkissedpeaks.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Had no idea she sent books in braille. ❤️

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Nat Gertler, man of easily-solved mystery @nat.gertler.com · 29/08/2026

Today's comics photos, 1952.

Photo of two men looking at a Wanted comic book with other titles including Guilty and Witches spread out before them. Caption: Comic Book Raid: Assistant State's Attorney Woodrow A. Shriver (right) of Prince Georges County looks over comic books for objectionable matter with Police Pvt. Emmett Gray at Hyattsville. Star Staff Photo.

In a column of student desks, we see three kids, perhaps 10, each reading their own copy of Uncle Charlie's Fables. Caption: Noble Experiment —Children reading comic books as part of regular class work in a Chicago school. Teachers report rapid reading progress as a result.

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BGF Central @bgfcentral.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

THIS YEAR CAN JUST FUCK RIGHT OFF. #TilAllAreOne 😞

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TarZangief @tarzangief.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"Neutral in the culture war"

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packed full of protein @ae2501maeth.smallbird.social · 22/08/2026

the world of japanese comics in translation in the us would be so much poorer without his efforts and enthusiasm and encouragement. vertical changed the game in town irreversibly.

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Lily and Generoso (plasticgrapes) @plasticgrapes.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Interesting piece on @comicsjournal.bsky.social by Alex Dueben on Lettrism, the movement founded by Isidore Isou. Dueben's article includes photos from "Rewriting the World: Isidore Isou and the Lettrist Book” exhibition that took place at the Center for Book Arts in NYC. www.tcj.com/rewriting-th...

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'Rewriting the World': Lettrism and Comics - The Comics Journal

Alex Dueben reports on the recent Lettrist exhibit in Manhattan.

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David C. Simon @davidcsimon.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Superb Fairy-wren on my driveway. #birds

Photo of a small passerine bird standing on a rough driveway with gumnut caps and small patches of moss. It is looking at the viewer and is close enough for a shallow depth of field to be evident.

The bird has a cream belly and brown wings, a black head and throat with light blues crown, cheeks, and a light blue strip on its back. It has a long, narrow tail feathers of black and blue, held high. Its eyes and beak are black.

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Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles @esotouric.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

On Saturday 9/12, join us on a stroll through Franklin Village Old Hollywood, seeking holy temples and literary landmarks, crime scenes and architectural marvels, and to celebrate the preservation of Monastery of the Angels--the reason we wrote this tour! esotouric.com/event/frankl...

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FRANKLIN VILLAGE OLD HOLLYWOOD TIME TRAVEL TRIP WALKING TOUR

Visit the post for more.

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OffStageJobs.com @offstagejobs.com · 16/08/2026

#TheatreHoroscope Virgo: No, you just THINK you found a way to perfectly combine the art forms of mime and heavy metal. The stars know that the true perfect pairing is mime and ska.

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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

This geode that resembles the Cookie Monster was discovered by gemologist *Lucas Fassari* in November 2020 in the Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. #AGoodPlace

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