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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 16/09/2026

Happy Baby Safety Month.

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David LaCroix @daviddlacroix.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

A message for our time. For all times!

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Minnesota Aquatic Invasive Species Research Center @maisrc.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

MAISRC’s Quantitative Ecologist Alex Bajcz has created ggplotplus, an accessibility component for ggplot2, to produce graphs for posters, presentations, papers, and exploration. Especially helpful for ggplot2 users with limited time, energy, or experience. github.com/MAISRC/ggplo...

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David LaCroix @daviddlacroix.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Finding you don’t spend enough time stressing about the presentation and structure of data in your app? Well, have you tried also adding a CSV download?

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David LaCroix @daviddlacroix.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

@roopikarisam.bsky.social Spotted today at @politicsprose.bsky.social @ Union Market (plus the one they had on hold for me)

A bookcase in a bookstore, showing several shelves of nonfiction books. Most are shelved spine-out, a few are faced to show the cover. Most prominent among them is Data Empire: The Power of Information to Organize, Control, and Dominate by Roopika Risam (published 2026)

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David LaCroix @daviddlacroix.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

There's a ringing in my ears that's heaven sent. There's a beast out on the ruins, Some broken down lover's lament. It goes on and on but it won't go away.

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I am absolutely gobsmacked. And trying not to pass out from hyperventilating. Thank you @barackobama.bsky.social — you just made my secret dream for DATA EMPIRE, spoken aloud to NO ONE, come true.

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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Apparently this is topical this morning www.insidehook.com/culture/worl...

Of all your characters, whom do you most identify with?
Parker, from Alien. He decided to give his life up for the woman. He's totally a hero. He never blinked once. He knew he wasn't going to make it off the ship and he knew he was going to protect Lambert, and that's what he did. He was more of a hero than Sonny Boy Mosby, who was a different kind of an angry hero; the act of killing the Caucasian male in The Liberation of L.B. Jones had never been done before in Hollywood. The only thing we got close to was a slap from Sidney Poitier in In the Heat of the Night. But the next year, Willie Wyler said, "You're going to be the first black man to strike back violently."
That role psychologically impressed me, but he was not the hero-he was the antihero.
But Parker is a hero, completely. TIl never forget that character. He was ready to die.

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Blue Note Records @bluenoterecords.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Horace Silver "The Cape Verdean Blues" (1965) horacesilver.lnk.to/TheCapeVerde... Horace Silver, piano Woody Shaw, trumpet J. J. Johnson, trombone Joe Henderson, tenor saxophone Bob Cranshaw, bass Roger Humphries, drums

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Blue Note Records @bluenoterecords.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

FATHERS—the collective comprised of pianist Kiefer, bassist CARRTOONS, drummer Nate Smith & producer Kenneth Blume—have released a video that features the trio performing stripped-down live versions of songs from their forthcoming studio album “FATHERS” out July 10: youtu.be/UeWOUtvP8y4?...

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FATHERS - Live At Wonderland Park (Official Video)

YouTube video by Blue Note Records

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Zach Leatherman @zachleat.com · 01/07/2026

Today the good people of the world commemorate the passing of Google Reader thirteen short years ago on July 1, 2013. To honor their memory (and in lieu of flowers) please add an RSS/Atom/JSON feed to your web site and keep building a web that connects people in meaningful and positive ways.

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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 09/06/2026

Ultimately, we're hoping to add a few hundred new paid subscribers. That will let us complete the current cycle of pay increases, including a bump to 15 cents/word for fiction. Our target is October, but it is not the end. We'll be working on this until the pay rates are where they should be.

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David LaCroix @daviddlacroix.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I’ve been a print subscriber to Clarkesworld for two years. Brings me more joy and wonder than any streaming service.

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Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

“get answers from [thing]” or “ask [thing]” is not actually a replacement for “search [thing]” - search is a specific, useful general function & I cannot freaking believe apps are giving up on it

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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

An obituary worth reading [gift link] www.nytimes.com/2026/06/16/b...

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Gregory Williams, Academic With an Uncommon Perspective on Race, Dies at 81

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Bandcamp @bandcamp.com · 04/06/2026

Album of the Day: The Visitors, “Motherland (Remastered 2026).” The saxophonists' fourth album is evidence of mainstream jazz's success in re-establishing its place in the music world.

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The Visitors, “Motherland (Remastered 2026)”

The saxophonists' fourth album is evidence of mainstream jazz's success in re-establishing its place in the music world.

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David LaCroix @daviddlacroix.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

The jamming on high tonight will make Tenor Madness look like a mere etude.

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Alan Henry @halophoenix.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

ICYMI: This went out to all subscribers on Friday - i'm getting over my own creative block by writing about how to get over creative blocks. buttondown.com/alanhenry/ar...

If you've followed my work for this long, you know that the value I place on productivity is a bit different from most people's. To me, being productive and efficient is a means to an end: more time to live your life, be with your loved ones, and achieve your dreams. Not as a means to just process more work, more of the deluge of responsibilities that hustle culture and our up-and-to-the-right obsessed society forces on all of us. But that doesn't mean that being unable to produce hurts any less. So when you're feeling stuck or lost, it still sucks, even if you know how pointless some of it might actually be.

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 30/04/2026

This is Bungalo. She uses that face to get what she wants. It works unbelievably well. 12/10 would never say no to

a little solid-black puppy rides in a shopping cart in a pet store, but she’s not looking at any of the excitement around her. she’s looking straight at you, her eyes wide and ears dropped low, with her front two paws hooked over the shopping cart’s handle. she looks like a very sad little bat, and we’d give her the world if she asked.

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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Victory is mine! x.com/apstylebook/...

Tweet from APStylebook that says: You've been asking for this one for years. We heard you.
We announced a change in AP style at the
@ACESEditors
conference today: It's now healthcare, one word, in all uses.
We also changed childcare and daycare, closing them up to one word rather than two.

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David LaCroix @daviddlacroix.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Whether you know it or not, everyone has experienced PEBCAK!

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Alan Henry @halophoenix.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

This is live now for Patreon subs, and going out for free to all subs on Friday. Inside, I'm talking about framing - and also dissecting a story as an example that also exposes something I care little for:

To add any actual context, any detail on how politics impacts real people and real communities, to explain to the reader how the actions, opinions, and policy positions of their leaders translate into real-world impact on the ground, would potentially risk characterizing those policies as “good” or “bad” in a way that many media outlets simply can’t allow themselves to do, especially when it comes to state-sanctioned actions or the effects of decisions by institutional power.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 11/04/2026

there is no politician so irreplaceable that we must overlook sexual misconduct because nobody else could possibly fill their shoes

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

around portland... in plant texture

feathery washed out tiny tendril texture

twirly matte finish green star leaf texture

tiny little whitish curled like roses groundcover texture

crawly brittle star stalk bright green yellow tendril stalk texture

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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 10/04/2026

Friday is a great day to subscribe. clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/ (Ok, so any day is good, but why wait?)

Fed up with your world? Visit ours. Clarkesworld robot looks to the right where the cover of issue 235 is located. It features a tall spacecraft floating over a dockyard in a pink and purple sky.

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

The production and management of anxiety (usually mediated by consumption) has been a major business model of some of the largest companies that exist today, little surprise that AI goes there, too

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Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 25/03/2026

Pilots and especially astronauts are trained to "work the problem." Even, perhaps especially, if the situation seems truly hopeless. Because the only sure way to lose is to not even try. Cynical pessimism and despair are very seductive traps. Been there myself. But they paralyse you. And others.

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David LaCroix @daviddlacroix.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

I’m at the Pizza Hut. *BAMF* I’m at the Taco Bell. *BAMF* I’m at the combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell.

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

All this. Yes.

Mohamed
@MohamedSkandari
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Reading books is so profound because it denies you the ability to speak when confronted with an idea. You must listen. It isn't a conversation. Sometimes it shouldn't be a conversation.
Sometimes we should just listen.
& st listen.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

I am imagining what it would feel like to be unburdened of the constant awareness, the constant vigilance, the the constant heartbreak of a culture that will not address its own failures, and which outsources the responsibility and the consequences to the survivors. This is what we fight for.

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Federal US domain bot @fed-us-domain-bot.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

🚀 NOTICE: Federal US website newly registered. aliens.gov Action taken by the nan (Executive Office of the President) at or around 2026-03-18 06:34:25.

aliens.gov

Federal US website registered. Content may not be visible yet.

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Scoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 13/03/2026

I have not been involved in this project and don’t know the folks involved, but I do work with MGB, and they take their work very seriously. Predicting who is at risk for intimate partner violence seems like a good thing.

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David LaCroix @daviddlacroix.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Ohhh what could possibly go wrong here?

A screenshot of part of a mobile Google Maps screen, showing a message box in the navigation UI that displays the message “New! Navigate with Gemini! Find places, modify your route & more. Just ask.”

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Gail Swanson @joyinthecenter.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

UX researcher here 👋🏻 Yes, this will be quite bad. Most of the critical things you need to uncover about your target customer is latent needs and behaviors. The kind of stuff that doesn’t exist in the training data fed into models. That’s why synthetic users produced by AI are garbage.

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 10/03/2026

Remember, anyone can frame their questions in a different way and get a different response from Claude. It has no norm. Asking it questions and posting the answers like they matter marks the chatbot with a seriousness it should not be assigned. bsky.app/profile/chro...

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David LaCroix @daviddlacroix.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

OMG the two paragraphs after that first one. How the librarian’s choice must have weighed on her. On the one hand, knowledge is power — on the other, power is wielded. npr.org/2026/03/09/nx-s1-5738478/darkology-blackface-rhae-lynn-barnes

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This historian dug up the hidden history of 'amateur' blackface in America

In her new book, Darkology, historian Rhae Lynn Barnes writes about how blackface and minstrel shows became one of the most popular forms of entertainment in 19th- and 20th-century America.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

NO NO NO YOU DON’T GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL tell everyone you know www.freetaxusa.com

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FreeTaxUSA® - Free Online Tax Filing for Federal Returns

100% free federal tax filing. E-File your tax return directly to the IRS. Prepare federal and state income taxes online. 2025 tax preparation software.

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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Holy heck, Fugazi just released the 1992 Albini sessions for Bandcamp Friday! Proceeds going to Letters Charity.

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Albini Sessions (Benefit for Letters Charity), by Fugazi

12 track album

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

…we knew that preventing precancerous lesions would unquestionably lead to preventing cancers. But we had to wait, impatiently, for years for the results of that study to come in, because cancers most often take years to develop after an exposure to a causal agent—in this case, HPV.

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Citizen Platano 🇵🇷 @daniloc.xyz · 25/02/2026

writing the code was never the primary job of the software engineer Complexity management was the job. code was merely the medium complexity management remains the job and uh guess what happens to complexity in a world where code spins off a loom faster than ever before

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