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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Incredible sentence.
Indeed, while Jordan became a reclusive prisoner to his iconic status, Barkley lived to be out among the masses, and his nightclub hopping led to more than one mano a mano face-off with loudmouth fans. “Let there be no conflict in America,” Barkley said in 1997, after he tossed an obnoxious heckler through a plate-glass window in an Orlando, Fla., bar.
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Jeff Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A great way to honor Dolly Parton’s memory is to get your COVID vaccine.
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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
not sure how to express this without sounding like a chair-turned-around youth pastor, but there's something so radical about having your most well-known lyric be "i will always love you" and then sincerely embodying it whenever possible
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Chuck Bob @chuckbob.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Related. The Jonathan Daniels pilgrimage is next weekend in Alabama. www.dioala.org/jonathan-dan...
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Jonathan Daniels and the Martyrs of Alabama Pilgrimage - The Episcopal Diocese of Alabama
Rethink God's Love
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Micah @rincewind.run · 04/07/2026
thank you Cabo Verde for allowing us to dream the impossible dream for two beautiful hours of soccer what a game, what a wonderful game
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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 03/07/2026
For America's 250th, I read Frederick Douglass’ speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” on the House floor—for the first time in history. His speech endures as a mirror & mandate for us all—to confront our inequities while fighting for an America as good as its promise.
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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Trans women are women. Trans men are men. Non binary people are non binary. Everyone has the right to be themselves. Everyone deserves a political and judicial system that respects and protects these rights. We need to make that happen.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Trans rights are human rights always and forever.
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victoria zeller🫛 (RISEBALL, summer ‘27) @dirtbagqueer.rocks · 03/06/2026
for the last world cup, i decided to rank every single national team nickname by how cool i found them, personally. since the field has expanded this year and we have so many teams making their debut or return to competition, i knew i had to do it to em again
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Daniel Mote @danielmote.com · 10/06/2026
@kathryntewson.bsky.social have you been following the Adafruit / Flux ai feud? As best I can tell, an Adafruit journalist found that a security issue on Flux’s server and that their user numbers were inflated. Flux responded with a C&D accusing Adafruit of defamation and CFAA violations.
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Daniel Mote @danielmote.com · 15/05/2026
Velocity, Acceleration, Jerk, Snap, Crackle, and Pop.
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local blogger @fergoe.blacksky.app · 24/04/2026
caw
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Anarchic Squid @leahanelson.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
More about Ryan, one of the most astonishing walk-the-walk walkers I’ve ever met: oxfordamerican.org/oa-now/the-o...
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The Only Narcan Vending Machine in Alabama
A visit to the only Narcan vending machine in Alabama, a conversation with the people in Parrish, Walker County.
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Ryan Cagle @ryancagle.com · 13/04/2026
So... I am being sued for standing with vulnerable people in our community and to be honest I could really use some support. gofund.me/06f0416b2
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Donate to Support Legal Defense for Community Advocate, organized by Ryan Cagle
My life’s work has been about growing things: growing hope, safe spaces, and j… Ryan Cagle needs your support for Support Legal Defense for Community Advocate
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Daniel Mote @danielmote.com · 22/03/2026
The guy who actually found the Death Valley Germans wrote up the tale on his website. If you haven’t read it, you should. otherhand.org/home-page/se...
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The Hunt for the Death Valley Germans
This is the tale of what for me was a rather remarkable adventure.  It was assembled on the basis of my personal recollection and experience, emails, GPS logs and some official documents.  It represen...
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The Onion @theonion.com · 18/03/2026
Jason Isbell Explains How Music Is Like The News But For Sounds. Subscribe to The Onion at membership.theonion.com/?campaign=7….
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Ronald Acuña Jr. weeping while hugging Salvador Perez. (Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images)
Ronald Acuña Jr. weeping while hugging Salvador Perez after winning the World Baseball Classic.
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Mike B @madhominem.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
VAMOS VENEZUELA!!!!!! suck it, jingoism
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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 18/03/2026
Ronald Acuña Forever
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Mythic 🦊 @mythicalredfox.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
The full 2005 interview it's from is well worth a read btw. Sadly just as relevant today as it was 20+ years ago—moreso, in fact. www.salon.com/2005/04/24/s... "There are many things I wish for my country . . . But if the USA attacked my country, no matter what, I would be against the US."
 Some conservatives here think that secular young Iranians would be happy if America would come and liberate them. What would you say to them?

Democracy, contrary to what they try to tell us, it’s not a paper that you hang on the wall and then you have a democracy. Democracy is a social evolution. It is something cultural. Iranians, they have become much more secular, and they are ready for democracy, but they have to fight themselves for democracy, and the only thing that other countries can do is to understand their fight and help them in their fight.

They [America] talk about the human rights in Iran … how is it that the United States makes the biggest deals with China, and China is far from respecting human rights? What about Saudi Arabia? If you want to talk about an inquisition, the Iranian regime is far from being an inquisition. We have almost a free press, people leave, women have the right to study, they drive, they work. Saudi Arabia, they don’t have anything like that! Talk about human rights in Saudi Arabia! Why doesn’t anyone go and put a bomb in Saudi Arabia and kill the king?  Do you think it’s ironic that, in the face of American threats, you almost find yourself defending the Iranian regime?

Absolutely, but if we want a democracy, the Iranian people have to do it themselves. The Americans say they want a democracy in Iran, and at the same time, when the Iranians wanted to become democratic in 1953 with [Mohammad] Mosaddeq and to nationalize our oil, the CIA came and made a coup d’état in my country. Why do you want me to believe that they want to come and make a democracy? We have to make our democracy!

There are many things that I wish for in my country — I want my country to be free, I want my country to be democratic, I don’t want any journalists to go to jail because of an article they wrote in my country. But if the United States of America attacked my country, no matter what, I would be against the United States.  Do you see similarities between the Christian fundamentalists in our government and the mullahs in Iran?

They’re the same! George Bush and the mullahs of Iran, they use the same words! The mullahs of Iran say we have God on our side; he has God on his side, too. Both of them are convinced that they are going to eradicate evil in the world. But when these words come out of the mouth of a mullah, it’s normal. It’s a shame that the president of the biggest secular democracy in the world talks with the same words as the mullahs. It’s extremely scary.  Do you have any advice for secular Americans who are faced with living in a country that’s increasingly governed by religious fundamentalists?

If I have any advice, it’s that every day that you wake up, don’t say, “This is normal.” Every day, wake up with this idea that you have to defend your freedom. Nobody has the right to take from women the right to abortion, nobody has the right to take from homosexuals the right to be homosexual, nobody has the right to stop people laughing, to stop people thinking, to stop people talking.

If I have one message to give to the secular American people, it’s that the world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don’t know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same.
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Mythic 🦊 @mythicalredfox.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.
Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads:

The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you.

And our governments are very much the same...

- Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist
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Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
BREAKING: Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has commuted the death sentence of Charles "Sonny" Burton to life in prison. Burton was sentenced to death for the 1991 murder of Doug Battle but did not kill Battle; the man who did later had his death sentence commuted.
Governor Kay Ivey on Tuesday announced that she has commuted the death sentence of Charles L. Burton to life in prison with no chance of parole. Mr. Burton was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1991 capital murder of Doug Battle in Talladega, Alabama.

 

As required by law, the governor first reached out to a representative of Mr. Battle’s family. She also notified the attorney general. Governor Ivey’s letter to Alabama Department of Corrections Commissioner John Hamm is attached.

 

Governor Ivey issued the following statement:

 

“I firmly believe that the death penalty is just punishment for society’s most heinous offenders, as shown by the 25 executions I have presided over as governor. In order to ensure the continued viability of the death penalty, however, I also believe that a government’s most consequential action must be administered fairly and proportionately.

 

“Doug Battle was brutally murdered by Derrick DeBruce while shopping in an auto parts store. But DeBruce was ultimately sentenced to life without parole. Charles Burton did not shoot the victim, did not direct the triggerman to shoot the victim and had already left the store by the time the shooting occurred. Yet Mr. Burton was set to be executed while DeBruce was allowed to live out his life in prison.

 

“I cannot proceed in good conscience with the execution of Mr. Burton under such disparate circumstances. I believe it would be unjust for one participant in this crime to be executed while the participant who pulled the trigger was not.

 

“To be clear, Mr. Burton will not be eligible for parole and will rightfully spend the remainder of his life behind bars for his role in the robbery that led to the murder of Doug Battle. He will now receive the same punishment as the triggerman.
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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Hey, friends. My incarcerated friend, Jeremiah, would like some help getting Bibles into the hands of some of his peers. I ask you to put aside any negative feelings about religion you might have to help folks in the way they have asked to be helped. /1
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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.
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huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
christians looking for jesus in every war we start, every missile we fire, every conquering despot we crown, and never in the one place jesus promised he could be found: among the poor, the starving, the oppressed.
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Anarchic Squid @leahanelson.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Rocky Myers, a Black man from Decatur, Alabama, is still locked up for a crime he didn’t commit. His lawyer, former corporate counsel for the United Klans of America, told me if he had to do it all over again, he’d seat an all-white jury this time. Please take a moment with this story.
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Kas 🖤🏳️‍⚧️ @lucifader.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Oh it was pedro- RONALD ACUÑA JR??????
Picture from MTV of the background people at the half time show, Pedro Pascal is in the middle but Ronald acuña Jr is also there
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Alyssa Nicole @earthtoalyssa.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
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Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl halftime performance holding a football that says ‘Together, we are America’
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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
In case anyone forgot or didn't understand the reference www.wgbh.org/news/2017-10...
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Why It's So Hard To Turn The Lights Back On In Puerto Rico
Nearly a month after Hurricane Maria swept through Puerto Rico, almost 80 percent of the territory is still without power. While nobody expected a quick…
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mechanical twerk @ruhee.ca · 08/02/2026
No Kings includes Draft Kings
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
man I’m sorry to be all corny here but when I see a “the city is beautiful! There’s more to it than homeless people!” I gotta say you know who’s also beautiful? People who have no place to live & are trying to get by in a system that has turned its back on them & if you don’t see that that’s on you
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 25/01/2026
Any form of the faith that loses the simple capacity for mercy is an anathema to Christ…
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Trey Ferguson @pastortrey05.com · 19/01/2026
Good morning, beloved. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” -Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Today is a great day to overcome evil with good.
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Disarm, disband, and prosecute ICE
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?
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Daniel Mote @danielmote.com · 02/01/2026
Potato.
A screenshot of a BlueSky post from @merriam-webster.com.

“Take a screenshot of this GIF, and whichever new word you land on is YOUR word for 2026.
Let's. Go.”

My 2026 Word is:

“potato”
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RedditCFB @redditcfb.com · 29/12/2025
Nothing says Bowl Season like two conference rivals playing in Alabama for a statue of Vulcan with a bare butt The Birmingham Bowl, aka The Little 🍑 Bowl!
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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 08/05/2024
Okay. The people have spoken. For every reskeet this gets, I will post a random picture from my camera roll with no explanation (other than alt text). Let the games begin.
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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
If you have a regional accent, please never try to get rid of it. Accents tell stories.
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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 02/11/2025
Wrote this three years ago. The football parts held up fine, not that it was hard to predict
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Rub some church on it
"If this is found, then I'd rather be lost."
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Revan @revan.eurosky.social · 02/11/2025
Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
And in that pause between pitch and contact - longer than logic, shorter than hope - we remembered why baseball existed long before we judged a sport's value by viral moments and betting apps. It is the romance of failure. The mortal beauty of trying and missing seven times out of 10 and still being considered great. It is the only sport where patience is a weapon, and panic the surest death. You cannot simply run out the clock in baseball; you must face it, pitch by terrifying pitch, until it finally releases you.
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Thomas Fuchs 🫯 @thomasfuchs.at · 31/10/2025
Meme showing six logical operators illustrated with jack-o'-lantern images. 

trick OR treat 
trick AND treat 
trick XOR treat 
trick NOR treat 
trick NAND treat 
trick XNOR treat
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Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
I’d respectfully ask people who feel this way to look at voter participation and the obstacles many southerners still encounter in voting. Trump got 65% of votes cast in Alabama last year, but Trump voters made up just 37% of the state’s adult population.
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🧩 @holojester.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
parents: YOURE GROUNDED electrician: oh heck yeah
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Daniel Mote @danielmote.com · 01/10/2025
49years in the same organization is nuts. I wish he could have gotten a proper send-off at the end of this season. They better put on a heckuva celebration for next year.
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Daniel Mote @danielmote.com · 28/09/2025
@pussy.meangirls.online hey Cedar, if you do end up looking for a replacement camera, MPB has some decent deals on used entry level Nikon DSLRs. www.mpb.com/en-us/brands...
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Nikon | MPB
Buy, sell and trade in used Nikon equipment. All with a 6 month warranty. Great photo and video kit that doesn't cost the earth.
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Tasha Coryell @tashacoryell.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Truly hate that when an Auburn coach retires, I have to dread what political position he’s going to take
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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 11/09/2025
tldr humanity needs to engineer buildings around filtered air replacement rate and it's not even that dramatic but for dramatic results
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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
A good brief thread. At times like this I think of a line from a Drive-By Truckers song, substituting the appropriate name/date: "George Wallace died back in 98 and he's in hell now." That southern Christian conditioning is real hard to beat.
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
former kids who read too many books and didnt know how to pronounce the words you learned gang say hey
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