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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 19h

which atrocities have weight, which history has relevance, is always a choice, and it affects what we do in the present.

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mx. butlertron @butlertron.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

i fucking hate the phrase “crash out”. it makes throwing a tantrum seem cool rather than childish. that it’s usually used as a threat doesn’t help.

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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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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Nuclear War is Bad for Kittens" Poster spotted in York University in Toronto, Ontario

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mx. butlertron @butlertron.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

why is my cat stealing my president’s choice goldfish knockoffs? (side note, love it when the store brand version of some thing has a heksher and the name brand doesn’t.)

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 29/09/2026

awoke this morning with a Vision

that diagram showing the SUV blind spot in the front but it's lowly worm driving his little applemobile

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Every book its reader Every reader their book Ranganathan got this right back in the 1930s

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mx. butlertron @butlertron.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

it really fucking sucks that often making the healthier choice (biking for my errands) leads to a much worse outcome (migraine meaning i’m not going to singing).

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

On Boston marriage, 1894

BOSTON MARRIAGE

What the Scarcity of Men in Massachusetts Has Brought About

The funniest of all social developments is that which goes under the head of Boston marriages. Two women, as well known as Susan Channing and Edna D. Cheney, have made separate appeals for this new departure of female habit, and have defended it with considerable success.

A Boston marriage is described to be a sympathetic union of two women, who have not been able to make good and agreeable matches with members of the opposite sex. Miss Cheney is of the opinion that in our present state of civilization they seem to be necessary and should not be interfered with. Miss

--The Evening Herald, 21 Feb 1894

Channing also believes that since in our present state of civilization marriage like wealth is getting to be more and more the privilege of the few, the women unsought in wedlock or unable to get the men of their choice should have the right to form sympathetic unions with each other.

What is to hinder a Boston couple from adopting a child or even more than one? Why not grow a household in this manner? The meanest thing about old-maid life is that it takes to cats, or parrots, or poodles -- generally cats. I see no reason why a cat shall not have a share of sympathy but it has no claim upon a love it cannot appreciate. Besides, cat-love is a dreadful

apology for baby-love. By all means let our Bostonese adopt children. In this way, while there is no increase of children, there will be a decrease of homeless children.
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mx. butlertron @butlertron.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

i rescued a branch of schach longer than i am from a municipal woodchipper i passed on my way home from PT, and if i’d been on my bike i would’ve taken more!

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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 23/09/2026

Is this what Zionists mean when they say “Jewish AND democratic”

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mx. butlertron @butlertron.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

rooting for a good team that’s losing sucks so much more than rooting for a bad team that’s losing, and rooting for a bad team that’s winning is so much more exciting than rooting for a good team that’s winning. this skeet is brought to you by U11 semi-final baseball.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

my concern is Jewish leaders claiming to speak for me while they justify a genocide.

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The Isaac Who Came In From the Butler @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Turns out, as with all stories of AI achievement, the solving of the millennium problem was accomplished through theft of someone's work and done in a way that isn't actually all that useful for humankind! www.npr.org/2026/09/22/n...

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AI solved one of math's hardest problems. Humanity learned nothing (so far)

OpenAI beat humans to solving the Navier-Stokes problem, but mathematicians say the AI's solution isn't telling them much.

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mx. butlertron @butlertron.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

would love to have more of these songs in the american consciousness rather than minstrel songs, which are unfortunately ubiquitous.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The US already got a do over. A mulligan. A second chance. Much of the world, especially US allies, were ready to write off Trump’s first term as a fluke. The American people’s choice to put him back in power—as a convicted felon, after an openly bigoted, anti-democracy campaign—showed it was not.

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mx. butlertron @butlertron.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

really hate that so far, all my younger kid’s homework assignments this year have actually been homework assignments for me. i believe really strongly that the ideal level of adult involvement in a kid’s homework is zero.

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mx. butlertron @butlertron.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

i am in the awkward position of quietly rooting for my child's baseball team to lose in the early rounds of their tournament, because the semi finals are scheduled at the same time as he's starting a new therapy group that we cannot miss.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

If you think it's really important, in the short term, to vote for a compromise candidate while doing other work to protect the vulnerable people that candidate's words or actions might harm? Then your job is also campaigning. You have to campaign now, to convince people.

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mx. butlertron @butlertron.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

how do you get your kids on board with video calls with their grandparents? i’ve got one barely participating and one actively trying to avoid.

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

🚨 BREAKING NEWS A new baby pygmy hippo has made her debeaut BEHOLD Maple the sassy bebe

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‘90-per-cent sass’: Here’s a look at ‘Maple’ the baby pygmy hippo at the Toronto Zoo

YouTube video by CTV News

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Eize Basa @eizebasa.baby · 14/09/2026

I'm not a mad scientist, I'm just a disappointed scientist.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 11/09/2026

In an incredible move, Saddle Lake Cree Nation in Alberta, Canada has announced a gender-affirming care clinic for trans youth, asserting tribal sovereignty and defying the region's ban. It is one of the biggest cross-movement solidarity moments in Canada. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Canada First Nation Leaders Announce They Won’t Comply With Alberta Trans Care Ban

“This is about more than one health service,” officials wrote. “It is about Indigenous sovereignty. It is about our responsibility to care for one another.”

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mx. butlertron @butlertron.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

ruined a pan by trusting a new recipe rather than my cooking experience. trust your gut!

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The Isaac Who Came In From the Butler @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Filling out more Anthropic Settlement paperwork, and I still find the paltry sum each of us is getting to be totally galling. Anthropic stole the life's work of thousands of people, and they get to continue making money off of our work in perpetuity, and each of us get maybe a couple grand, tops.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

the specific insanity of “what if i started a perpetually-escalating trade war with Canada two months before control of the senate is determined by voters in Maine and Michigan” is under-discussed here, just wild how unmoored from public opinion concerns the Trump admin has gotten

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Adam L. Cox @adamlcox.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

“If you want to ask me about imaginary things please ask me about comic books, then at least we won’t be talking about something hateful and stupid.”

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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Anti Jewish violence is real and horrific. Being a victim of this violence is not the quotidian experience of most Jewish people right now. Encouraging Jewish people to live in terror when they are not actually in danger is deeply manipulative and is used to manufacture consent for genocide

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 08/09/2026

I have received news of a perfectly named cafe located on the waterfront of Nova Scotia's capital, if you know what I mean

"Broken Man cafe" sign on a big plate glass window, through which one can see cafe tables and chairs and backs of people's heads. In the distance, a sign indicates that this is Pier 22 on the Halifax waterfront

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Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This is the oldest* surviving Snakes & Ladders board in the world. Specifically, it's Gyan Chaupar, the Game of Knowledge. It's from the late 18th Century, but the game is much older - paper & cloth are not resilient media. The ladders represent virtue, the snakes vice. The scorpions are decorative.

A Gyan Chaupar paper board with long snakes, ladders, & some scorpions

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Deus Hex Machina @asterionhex.monster · 03/09/2026

You could just get a label maker

A drawer with embroidery hoops in it with a label reading “hoops! There it is”

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Boz Bochner @bozbochner.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/u... I had such respect and admiration for her. I read all her books...If you can get your hands on a copy of The Beach Book, you won't be sorry.

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Gloria Steinem, Personification of the Women’s Movement, Dies at 92 (Gift Article)

She challenged sexist assumptions, helping women develop a sense of self-worth and gain a measure of equality at work, at home and in society at large.

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Michelle Franklin│Legends and Lectures @michellefranklin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This is your reminder that the online Encyclopedia Britannica is managed by AI and had no first-party sources or ways to edit false information.

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

If something isn't done, the Big Boondoggle Bill is going to kill college music education in this country.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 01/09/2026

the war for leshp is back on, lads

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mx. butlertron @butlertron.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

the principal at my older son’s new high school is PISSED about the new provincial mandates about attendance and exams.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

...I object to City Council speaker Julie Menin manipulatively calling the show one more injury to a Jewish community that is "already reeling." The Jews I know are not reeling. We're vigilant about antisemitism, but we also get that the terrible thing happening right now is not happening to us. >

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mx. butlertron @butlertron.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

enough about getting a k-word pass, someone who has clearly never interacted with a Deaf person is trying to convince people that hearie is a slur.

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 30/08/2026

I would have changed that to 60-70 year life, but still, good meme.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 30/08/2026

re: everyone yelling about Google Maps - Maps just ingests the official data source for each country, which is GNIS in this case, and most other online maps will follow for American users nobody at Google is making an active decision to go in and change names in Maps directly

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Molly Rasberry @mrasberry.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Happy Birthday to Hollywood’s Gayest Wizard

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Darcy James Argue @darcyjamesargue.com · 28/08/2026

For my Canadian Blueskyers, here’s the link to the petition to expel: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

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Petition e-7531 - Petitions

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mx. butlertron @butlertron.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

why would you add something that made more high pitched noises to a toddler? brought to you by squeak shoes in the pediatrician’s waiting room.

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I remember learning in kindergarten that HOMES was a useful acronym for remembering the five great lakes. A bit on the nose to change it to SHAME, isn't it?

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mx. butlertron @butlertron.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

was doing well pacing myself with food at the CNE, but now the kids want to leave already and i didn’t get to try the brie-stuffed fried oreos.

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