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daily dose of estragon @craigburley.bsky.social · 7h

The staggering degree to which an entire profession across a vast empire requires intensive root-and-branch reeducation cannot be overstated.

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daily dose of estragon @craigburley.bsky.social · 8h

“Ball is Life” is not a slogan for Kiera. “Ball is Life” is a mantra for Kiera.

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daily dose of estragon @craigburley.bsky.social · 8h

I am a great devotee of the “empty storefront endorses the ‘business’ candidate” genre

An empty Locke Street storefront endorses ROB COOPER FOR MAYOR

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daily dose of estragon @craigburley.bsky.social · 8h

It’s impossible to stress how much of our scientific and theoretical knowledge came to us so recently. I’m older than the /concept/ of workplace sexual harassment.

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 10h

In 1974, Cornell lecturer Lin Farley began recognizing a pattern in the experiences women shared in her Women and Work course: women were being pushed out of jobs by men’s sexual behavior. Farley coined the term, “sexual harassment.”

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Nithya Raman @nithyaforthecity.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

LA is HOT. But does it have to be this hot? Did you know shade from a single tree can drop temps by 20° or more? Yet working-class neighborhoods like South LA, East LA, and the Valley get the least tree coverage and bear the brunt of extreme heat. Let's finally cool things down for everyone.

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Kort Duce @kortduce.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A great blue heron flies low over a pond at a nature area in Longmont, Colorado. #FlyDay #BirdOfTheDay #ECK #bird #birds #birdphotography #birdwatching #birdsofbluesky #nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #wetland #wetlands #heron

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 23h

Completely forgot about this bit until I heard @jessethorn.bsky.social interview Letterman. “Masterpiece” doesn’t cover it youtu.be/U5MYa4tyMeU?...

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How Many Guys Dressed As Spider-Man Can Fit In Jamba Juice? | David Letterman

YouTube video by Letterman

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Joey Coleman @joeycoleman.ca · 02/10/2026

According to the HSR Director, there is a HSR bus in this photo. The 25 Upper Wentworth bus that HSR real-time data states is not operating is in this photo right now, on schedule. You don't see the bus? It must be that there is something wrong with both the real data and your eyes. #yhmcc

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Joey Coleman @joeycoleman.ca · 02/10/2026

According to the HSR Director, this photo shows a 33-Sanatorium bus. HSR real-time data states the bus is not operating. Director Purser says the real-time data is incorrect, and all HSR buses are in service at this time. It must be that both the HSR computers and human eyes are wrong. #yhmcc

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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The Alleywitch: Spellcraft as a Service @alleywitch.cards · 02/10/2026

I know who I'm choosing.

An altered saint image of Joumana Kayrouz, a Detroit area lawyer, "watching over us" with red, white, and blue light emanating from her to cover a dark-haired woman labeled as "Metro Detroiters".

Photo of an Arab woman with long, blonde hair and a black leather jacket labeled as "THE FIGHTER - Joumana Kayrouz

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“james adomian” @jadomian.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Vincent Price (Yacht Rock 2005)

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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 02/10/2026

This story is great but man I am laughing at how much this guy looks like Michael McDonald - did any other genes even make it in? If you told me that he’d been the result of asexual reproduction by Michael McDonald I’d believe you

A guy who looks basically 1:1 like Michael McDonald who recently found out Michael McDonald is his biological father

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nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 02/10/2026

we should have this tournament in cities and then make the city champions compete for state etc

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nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 02/10/2026

my husband and i have been rotating the idea of some kind of fighting game where all the characters are billboard lawyers

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daily dose of estragon @craigburley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Very interesting bit. I want to note something important. Thank you to @fiftyplusone.news for this in the newsletter today. Note how honest and principled poll respondents are and therefore how resistant to sneaky manipulation of language in a poll. Great illustration I’ll explain.

• A polling experiment from Echelon Insights (Sept. 17 - 21, 2026) tested how voters responded to different language around data centers. Half of respondents were asked if they supported a data center in their community, and the other half were asked if they supported a "server farm." With the data center language, voters were opposed by a margin of 40 percentage points, 65 to 25. But with the server farm language, opposition shrank to a margin of 22 percentage points, 50 to 28. Also

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daily dose of estragon @craigburley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A thread is becoming familiarized with THE STARLIGHT BARKING and I couldn’t be happier

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Paul Schmidt @ltjpezcore1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've read the plot description twice, and at the beginning of it one of the sentences reads "all living things other than dogs cannot be wakened" and you'd think that's the most insane thing in the plot but, dear reader, you'd be so, so very wrong.

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Himbo Deluxe @verylarge.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

1,000,000,000,001 Dalmatians. A roiling cosmography of polkadot hounds. Their energy and gravity pulling upon the very seams that hold the fabric of our reality fast. In one voice they cry, their baleful song heralding the very end of days. Repent, or do not, for it is no longer your choice to make.

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Hamilton Spectator @thespec1846.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Don't know how to cast your ballot? Find out when, where and how to vote in Hamilton's Oct. 26 municipal election.

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How to vote in Hamilton's ward and mayoral elections

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SoldierExclipse || 18+ Illustration @soldierexclipse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

this is no longer a joke

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Constantine @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This merger is just the tip of the iceberg!!!

David Ellisonannounces the Paramount WB merger with a promise of "a more powerful engine" and a still image from TITANIC.

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daily dose of estragon @craigburley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Great shot at the dual protests outside the Mayoral debate.

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Matt Miller @mattmiller.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

a comic by Russ Heath, who drew the comic one of Lichtenstein’s most famous panels was based on

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daily dose of estragon @craigburley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

uhhhhh yeah? of course? your cab with driver is also pointing a camera at you if he has the sense god gave a cloud of gnats. your cab without driver doesn’t know you’re there and not a restaurant sack of potatoes unless there is a camera on you

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daily dose of estragon @craigburley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

E Jean Carroll sued the world’s most powerful man for raping her and then defaming her and she won and is getting paid. Sue for your damages, if you can. It is their fault.

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daily dose of estragon @craigburley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The effect is deplorable and chilling, especially if she becomes widely identified. But I must say: you don’t start lawsuits to be publicly believed you file suit to get money. Anyone filing suit to be believed or air their case before the public has been spectacularly badly advised by lawyers.

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daily dose of estragon @craigburley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I like to see this leadership. At the end of the day, gambling isn’t good for the sporting part of sports and it isn’t good for the fun part of sports. Our games, in North America at least, worked very well for a long time with zero ties to gambling. ZERO. And that was strictly enforced.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

don't ever talk to me or my son again

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is a guy that the media has promoted a dozen times in the last few years. He was on Bill Maher's show two weeks ago as a reasonable conservative.

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daily dose of estragon @craigburley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

you absolute dingbat you READ the news media you don't TRUST the news media. you trust a coherent picture of facts from directly informed sources, not whatever they put in the paper. you know what goes into making tv! and you're the one talking about baby brains, jesus

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daily dose of estragon @craigburley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

a second Tristan Jarry (Devon Levi) has struck the West Edmonton Mall

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Remember how that guy said: it’s all about creating a permission structure for cuts? He didn’t mean “get it past you, the public”, he meant “convince Labour MPs to vote for it”.

EXCL: Ministers are working up sweeping plans for welfare changes including scrapping key disability benefit for under-25s & replacing it with multibillion pound package of support to get into work.
Whitehall sources said changes under debate were much bigger than previously thought, as Andy Burnham's government hopes to persuade more people on benefits back into work.
But the move could be fraught with political danger after last year's dramatic welfare rebellion by Labour MPs. Ministers have spent | weeks trying to persuade them the plans are about reform not cuts & feel confident opposition has waned.
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Sometimes I miss important nuances of new policies, in the political mayhem. Here is one such. When I heard Andy Burnham say the triple lock would not be reformed until 2030, l assumed it would be a battle for the next general election campaign. But in fact the government has committed to legislate for the change in this parliament (see attached Downing Street statement). That will cause an almighty parliamentary row, which the UK's creditors will be watching - but should counteract the charge that Burnham has no fiscal backbone, because in theory the cost savings will be guaranteed long before the huge costs of his social care ambitions are being incurred
The current Triple Lock will be maintained throughout this Parliament, increasing the State Pension by over £2,000. From April 2030, the adjusted Triple Lock will mean the State Pension continues to rise by 2.5% or inflation - whichever is higher - and by even more if that is required to maintain its value relative to earnings. This will ensure the living standards of pensioners keep up with the rest of the population. For example, if the value of the State Pension is around a third

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Hamilton Spectator @thespec1846.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The fund is for residents affected by flood damage caused by four major storm systems on July 21, July 28, Aug. 2, and Aug. 7.

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Hamilton offers up to $2,000 for flood relief

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Hamilton Spectator @thespec1846.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ontario is preparing to spend millions on an “early works” project for Highway 413, while Hamilton hospitals are ordered to cut hundreds of jobs.

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Highway 413’s giant sucking sound is being heard in Hamilton hospitals

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daily dose of estragon @craigburley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Love to see ACORN Hamilton protesting the candidates’ debate tonight! The leaders refuse to be accountable over the state of repair of our housing stock.

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lauriemac916.bsky.social @lauriemac916.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

He just keeps on bringing it. He sure is lucky I'm an ol married lady w/no hormonies left. 😅🤣😂

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Andrea Martin's Thiea Voula Says Bam!

Alt: Andrea Martin's Thiea Voula Says Bam!

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 01/10/2026

Want to learn about the history of our city? Well you’re in luck. This month, we’re hosting a massive scavenger hunt across the city — all about the history of organizing in NYC. Sign up at organize.nyc.gov and come see the city through the eyes of the people who built it.

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