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Seattle Department of Transportation @transportation.seattle.gov · 01/10/2026

Halloween is coming. You don’t have to go to a “trunk-or-treat” event in Seattle! You can close your neighborhood street to through-traffic – for free! Trick-or-Streets permits are free and easy to get. Join here: seattle.gov/transportation/trick-or-streets

The ancient two-panel Drake meme. On the top, he's looking away in disgust and holding his hand up. The text next to it says "Truck-or-treat". On the bottom, he looks pleased and is pointing toward text that says "Close your street".

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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Utah banned SEVEN more books from all public schools yesterday, bringing the total number of state-sanctioned bans in the state to 44. More than half of those bans happened in 2026.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ideas for my midlife crisis: -Become swift like a coursing river -Develop force like a great typhoon -Build all the strength like a raging fire -Mysterious like the dark side of the moon

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Posting tips for women on how not to get murdered according to Dateline NBC. Will update with more tips 1. Don’t go on a boat with a man 2. Don’t go on a hike with a man 3. Don’t go near a hot tub or bath tub with a man.

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Amanda B @bookcurious.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Minneapolis remains unbeaten when it comes to delightful local festivals

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

i love that this has had literally no impact on my day lol

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Johnny Normality (Spooky Mode) @probgobl.in · 14/08/2026

EVERY STORY ABOUT BEAVERS FOR THE LAST DECADE READS LIKE: WE RELEASED A DOZEN PADDLE TAILED LITTLE FREAKS AND THEY IMMEDIATELY BEGAN A TERRAFORMING PROJECT THAT REVERSED A CENTURY OF ECOLOGICAL DAMAGE IN THREE WEEKS.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 08/08/2026

Hardly a day goes by without my getting email from someone looking for ways to do good with tech. From computer science students thinking about post-grad careers to seasoned coders with decades of experience, there's an army of hackers looking for a way to turn their expertise into public goods. 1/

The giant head of the Statue of Liberty. Around it are many medieval machines, tended by little medieval rude mechanicals. In the background is a crosshatched architectural drawing of some classical arches and such.

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Amanda B @bookcurious.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I feel like we are on the verge of making information and media literacy on the Internet nearly impossible. People are already very bad at it!

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Amanda B @bookcurious.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Nothing but respect for Laika Studios' borderline maniacal commitment to doing their work by hand.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

What do you mean before he was Scrooge he was Ebenezer those are just his first and last names lol

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

We’ve seen this same explosive claim made many times that withers under scrutiny The game is played by making the accusation, having docile media report it, and then the media bury (or not report at all) the eventual resolution

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Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Ironically, the US DOT website reports that "converting traditional bike lanes to a separated lane with low-cost flexible delineators can reduce bicycle-vehicle crashes by up to 53 percent." I guess saving lives is DEI www.fhwa.dot.gov/innovation/i...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/07/2026

let this be a lesson to deal with your feelings of gender anxiety and masculine inadequacy with a hobby or therapy or something and not a high stakes senate election

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.

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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 15/06/2026

For Vogue, I talked to Ramell-Correen Frederick, aka Cheeks, who embroidered Knicks gear in the streets of Brooklyn after Game 5. He uses a 104-year-old hand-crank, chainstitch embroidery machine that he named Jessica.

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The New York Artist Embroidering Knicks Merch on the Street

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 10/06/2026

This is nonsensical. Libraries buy huge numbers of books you wouldn't otherwise sell. They're a massive discoverability vector for authors. The reasons behind the declining author earnings are not hard to guess. People read less, have less $ to spend, +media is being consolidated by megacorporations

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Amanda B @bookcurious.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

No joke, a great piece of persuasive writing. Give the horse some cake.

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Amanda B @bookcurious.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

The other day I saw one car pass another car - another moving car! Like how you pass someone on the highway! - in a grocery store parking lot directly in front of the store's doors. No one should be driving fast enough to pass or kill someone in a parking lot ffs

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amberkitty 🐈‍⬛ @amberkitty.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Explaining microfiche to my coworker because I’m 95 years old

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The Onion @theonion.com · 04/06/2026

FCC To Investigate TV Shows Where The Mom Has Job theonion.com/fcc-to-investigate-tv-…

FCC To Investigate TV Shows Where The Mom Has Job
Agency Bans On-Air Portrayal Of Employed Mothers

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blair @blairaf.com · 29/05/2026

One of the more misogynistic takes currently trending in the AI policy space is "women use less AI than men because they have less tech literacy" Ok but have you considered that women use less AI than men because we have more tech literacy?

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

"bikes can be useful for some people" one of the most controversial things you can say in the social media space.

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Amanda B @bookcurious.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I feel like there is a market for writing or artist residencies in remote cabins where the Internet is not available and you can certify that a work created there couldn't have been made with AI.

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Lauren Flans @laurenflans.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

With the release of The Mandalorian and Grogu, we are going to see a big uptick in adoptions. As someone who works in Grogu rescue, I will remind you: when you adopt a Baby Yoda, you are committing to its 𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘭 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘯. Grogus can live up to 900 years. They can also move shit around your apartment.

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Like come on, this is adorable.

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Amanda B @bookcurious.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

If the school board doesn't reverse the decision, the public library should arrange a venue and make this concert a library program.

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sarah zedig 🐐 @hmsnofun.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

loving the strategy of the right defunding education so they can funnel that money into the pockets of already-wealthy private citizens, who can then donate a tiny sliver of the money they stole back to universities on the condition that they become more conservative and more reliant on scam tech

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Like the vast majority of spiders (certain Australian psychopaths excepted) the Brown Recluse does not seek confrontation and will only bite if threatened or trapped. To use words Kyle Rittenhouse will understand, Brown Recluses have a Castle Doctrine and abide by strict Stand Your Ground laws.

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 01/05/2026

The thing about it is i was definitely under the assumption that we all hated the Nazis … That’s my fault

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Amanda B @bookcurious.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

I thought this was going to be about biking or busses or something lol

NYTimes Opinion headline "Why Are We Still Driving?"

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.” “Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath Some costs are savings.

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One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss

Copenhagen, the bicycle-friendliest place on the planet, publishes a biannual Bicycle Account, and buried in its pages is a rather astonishing fact.

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Something we don’t address enough is how many people, especially adults, do not have a working imagination.

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Amanda B @bookcurious.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

My 7 y.o. asked his 11 y.o. sister this morning "do you want to bike or walk to school today?" completely leaving us adults out of the decision. Maybe this sounds like a small thing but I'm so happy my kids have this level of independence. How many kids get to make that choice for themselves?

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

you need to MOGG (Meditate On Great Genres of literature)

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

The Seattle Council just approved an amended library levy, upping the total from $410 to just under $480 million over seven years, by a 7-0 vote. After a vote of the full council on April 14, it will appear on the August primary ballot.

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Amanda B @bookcurious.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Dogs I met while walking to the bus this morning: 3 Dogs I would have met if I had driven to work: 0

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 04/04/2026

Americans are manipulated, abused, ripped off, injured, and taken advantage of by the auto industry complex in so many ways, large & small. Yet they just accept it so passively. It drives me crazy.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Had no idea this existed, but Madi Diaz covering the entirety of Blink 182's Enema of the State is so good. These songs were always country songs and I'm glad somebody who's really good at this quieted them down.

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Enema Of The Garden State

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Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Stop worrying about what YA books to let your kids read and let them sort it out with V C Andrews and cocaine era Stephen King as God intended

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James Longhurst @jameslonghurst.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Seven-word death punch

A screenshot of a TikTok comment says “never seen a cybertruck at the library”

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Stunned by all the “ICE isn’t gonna do anything more than what TSA already does” rhetoric. Untrained white supremacists who’ve been told by bosses they’re not subject to laws will have POC and women lined up in front of them to grope and abuse and they don’t even have to chase them.

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Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk · 16/03/2026

Oscars looks 🤝 medieval manuscripts Some of these outfits felt suspiciously familiar, so we went digging in the collections… #MedievalMonday Shelfmarks: MS. Bodl. 265 fols. 58r, 60r; MS. Douce 364, fol. 61v; MS. Douce 195, fol. 003r

Conan O'Brien wearing a crown and a regal robe stands confidently on stage, with several individuals in red and gold robes behind. In the foreground, a tapestry-style illustration depicts three medieval figures with the person in the middle wearing a crown and a regal robe.

Emma Stone wearing a simmering white dress standing in front of a medieval illustration of someone wearing a white dress while holding a sword.

Kathy Bates wearing a light blue, elegant gown, stands smiling in front of a medieval-style illustration. The illutration features a medieval illustration with a figure small hoop wearing a light blue gown surrounded by decorative floral elements.

Jessie Buckley wearing an elegant red and pink gown next to a medieveal illustration of someone wearing a gown echoing the fabric

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