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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.

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

Walden can still prevail if Mike pence has the courage.

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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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danieldarland.bsky.social @danieldarland.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Speak for yourself, I used an aardvark just the other day

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

I think Andy Beshear gets to appoint his replacement

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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.”