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Nick Moran @nemoran.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I love it when New Yorker articles include Lydia Davis-length, self-contained short stories within feature articles, such as in this example about the ubiquity of storage centers.

Last year, a retired Episcopal priest 1 know was asked to perform an exorcism at a storage facility. "A man told me after church one Sunday that for a couple of weeks he had felt an evil physical presence on his chest in bed at night, and that it was trying to kill him," he said.
The man also heard noises in the walls, at home and at work, and he had decided that the cause was a demon inhabiting an antique wardrobe he had bought: a large piece of brown. The Episcopal Church's "Book of Occasional Services" has a section on exorcisms, which priests can perform as a last resort in certain cir-cumstances. The man's situation didn't qualify, but the liturgy for "Celebration for a Home," in the same book, includes the invocation "Let the mighty power of the Holy God be present in this place to banish from it every unclean spirit."The priest and a colleague went from room to room in the man's house, reading prayers from that liturgy and sprinkling holy water, and then did the same in his storage unit, to which he had banished the wardrobe. His wife later told the priest that her husband had felt relief for a few days, but that the real cause of his torment had probably been a brain tumor.

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ACARS Drama @acarsdrama.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Air to Ground Message: MLB SCORES PLEASE Area: Dawson, GA, USA Type: Boeing 757-200 A: #a0b6e3c3374 F: #fb341688191

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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026

Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.

apnews.com

https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d

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danieldarland.bsky.social @danieldarland.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I hear there’s a big hole in the middle of this guy’s research

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 18/09/2026

Share if you agree

Fat little chihuahua puppy (maybe?) looking extremely round and smiling lying on a tan fleece blanket

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 17/09/2026

dudes rock

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Outbursts Of Everett True @everetttrue.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

The Evansville Press, April 10,1916

MY CARD.
MR. GEO. PUSHEM, EFFICIENCY EXPERT.

AND STAY OUT!
I HAVE NO USE FOR THE SHARP BOYS THAT GO AROUND SHOWING EMPLOYERS HOW THEY CAN KILL OFF THEIR HELP QUICKER BY
SHIFTING TUO MEN'S WORK
ONTO ONE!!!

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big bleat from badsville @djepelgesh.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

thank you The New York Post for what may be the funniest image of all time

a picture from the NY Post titled " today’s leftists are possessed by the spirit of France’s 18th-century guillotine-loving revolutionaries" (way too long) that shows Mamdani (the specter haunting Europe) smiling in the sky as a bunch of French people goof around

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JM =^D @jm539581.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

🌭

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jaywallace1.bsky.social @jaywallace1.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Just realized I could now post the entire Wigan Kebab video.

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Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

New study shows that — contra widely accepted narratives — there is NO EVIDENCE that professors change their students’ politics and make them more liberal through their teaching

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Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Great day to be a Hater. As it is every day

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

::reads the Declaration of Independence:: Wow this shit goes hard. I want to live in that country.

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🎃 scarecrowcialism 👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

As ur father I just want to say I'm proud of u

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 27/03/2026

‘You couldn’t make that today’ and it’s just a living wage.

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danieldarland.bsky.social @danieldarland.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

When you become a trillionaire, you should get immediately launched into space. (This should also happen when you become a billionaire.)

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Popper @popper59.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Oh oui que j,aprouve ce Hamdog,oh que oui !!!!👨‍🍳

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danieldarland.bsky.social @danieldarland.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Spent the weekend camping in the woods. Didn’t think about Donald Trump once.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

What's really astonishing is not the far right authoritarian party doing this, but the near-total lack of <loud public collective action> by university chancellors & presidents to oppose this existential crisis. Almost impossible to overstate how total a failure of leadership this is.

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Ectoplasma Ring @plasmaring.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

so like lemme weigh in on this as someone who is more financially comfortable than many in my generational cohort: everything I have gained seems precarious and temporary because I know the people with real money will take it all from me the second they get an opportunity and no one will protect me.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 26/05/2026

“A Stanford-led study of 4mn job applications across 156 employers who used the Pymetrics hiring platform, which assesses people using a series of online games, found evidence of ‘systemic rejection’ linked to the algorithms it used.”

ft.com

AI tools lead to ‘clear racial disparities’ in job hiring

New Stanford-led study finds candidates that fail AI-hiring tests face ‘systemic rejection’ across companies

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Baseball GIFs @baseballgifs.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Ronald Acuña Jr. struggles at the prospect of running into an out

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mary worth is lit @wilburwurthless.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

absolute banger

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Fjóla @fjolagud.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

The big news on this fine voting day in Iceland. Let's all hope that people will start behaving themselves as the night wears on.

Screenshot from the Icelandic news, automatically translated into English:

The police in the capital area were called out today regarding a person eating an apple on a bus.

A police statement said that according to the bus driver, passengers are absolutely not allowed to eat apples on the bus. The case was handled by the police.

The police also received a report of a doorbell ringing in District 109. The individual was spoken to and told to stop bothering people.

Police also note that no reports have been received regarding polling stations in the capital area today.

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 04/05/2026

Oh: forgot to say I saw Charlottesville’s Lee statue too. Well, what remains of it.

Two pallets of bronze ingots, set on display in the Geffen Contemporary building of the Museum of Contemporary Art in downtown Los Angeles. The ingots were smelted from the former monument to Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Va. Engraved on each I got are the words “swords into plowshares”.

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Satchel Charge @satchelcharge.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I'm reading and liking posts

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danieldarland.bsky.social @danieldarland.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

I need all the tradcaths to go ahead and elect an American antipope. Haven’t had a good schism in a while.

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Solidarity with Emily Tucker and her open letter to students. Tucker writes, "But the great thing is, you don’t have to go along with this, and I urge you not to. You can refuse to use the chatbot. You can tell your professors that you don’t want them to use it or to require you to use it."

medium.com

An Open Letter to Georgetown Students, In Response to Recent Announcements about "Generative AI"

Image source: Bibliothèque nationale de France An Open Letter to Georgetown Students, In Response to Recent Announcements by the University about “Generative AI” Dear students, As you know, in …

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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

“The professor thinks about the trustees who approved this ostentatious facility, knowing they’d pass the bills for upkeep to future deans. He’s no fiduciary, but he wonders how responsible that is.”

publicbooks.org

The Misuses of the University - Public Books

Have the funds that might have trained the next generation of scholars at the nation’s first research university have been blown on ostentatious new buildings?

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danieldarland.bsky.social @danieldarland.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Our entire political establishment has decided “liberty and justice for some” is good enough

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

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danieldarland.bsky.social @danieldarland.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Be the new type of guy you want to see in the world

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Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

legitimately, being able to calmly say "I was wrong, my bad" or "oh, I didn't know that!" when being corrected or encountering new information is an actual skill, something people have to work to develop, and the fact that so many adults are incapable of doing it is a problem

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

There are no distractions. It's all bad. Systematically stripping trans people of their rights, guys in balaclavas shoving any brown person with a tattoo into a ummarked vans, ending healthcare for millions. It's all in service of fascism and technofeudalism. It's all one thing. That's the point.

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danieldarland.bsky.social @danieldarland.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

I get CT scans every six months to make sure my lymphoma’s not trying to come back. It’s nice to get the results and see I’m still cancer-free, but the radiologist doesn’t need to keep going on and on in the report about how unremarkable I am.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

This is the way to stand up to these bullies! Respect ✊

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danieldarland.bsky.social @danieldarland.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Telling myself that doing all my little chores around the house is good praxis

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 08/06/2025

One of the reasons I think “defund the police” is a great slogan is that you get to repeatedly tell people that studies show that police don’t actually solve murders, and in fact one-third of stranger-murders are committed by police.

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