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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 17h

Autobiography of Red is quirky and approachable and a pleasure—a short book. The Glass Essay is a long conversational poem about a breakup and mothers and daughters; it's bitter and funny and beautiful. You can read it right now!

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The Glass Essay

Night drips its silver tap down the back. SHE She lives on a moor in the north. Spring opens like a blade there. I travel all day on trains and bring a…

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Embattled poster @davidweman.bsky.social · 3h

You would think the Palestine angle is the most newsworthy and also the most attention grabbing, but I looked and most of the US and UK media really plays it down

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Isabel Zaw-Tun @izzyzaw.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Do I even know who Carol Kane is Y/N

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Embattled poster @davidweman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Rodneyse is the most incredible name I've ever come across

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

RIP to Eva Marie Saint, a lady with a nose for bullshit www.avclub.com/from-on-the-...

Don't Come Knocking (2005)-"Howard's
Motheri
EMS: I loved-did you see that?
AVC: I did, yes.
EMS: Did you like it?
AVC: I did.
EMS: Now wait a minute. Can we get a little more enthusiasm?
AVC: Sure. It's a great movie!
EMS: Now you're going too far. It's not a great movie. You can't win with me today.
[Laughs.]

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Ben Johnson 🏺👻 @gamedesignerben.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

When witches are cackling and telling you “Fire burn and cauldron bubble,” take a step back. Breathe. Those are normal things for fire and cauldrons to do. They’re trying to mess with you.

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The Xylom @thexylom.com · 02/10/2026

In 2003, the U.S. military bombed Iraq’s national seed bank in Abu Ghraib, effectively eliminating hundreds of varieties of indigenous seeds adapted to growing in the drought-prone desert climate. A year later, U.S. law prohibited Iraqi farmers from seed saving. (First published in 2025 by Prism)

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Saving Iraq’s Seeds, One Garden at a Time

Comprising a diverse range of backgrounds and ages, the collective fosters a space for voices of Jewish, Muslim, and Christian seed stewards from the Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA) region…

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Bowen The Sheep 🔜 Tails of Terror 2026 @bowenthesheep.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

This reminds me of those videos of the lady doing GRMW but her younger sister with down syndrome is doing the voiceover. And her sister is BRUTAL.

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

fascinating variety of backgrounds here, props to merz for not even caring about the low angle

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Tiddy @tiddydave.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Below points out that if Man C have been cooking the books between 08’ and 17’, they have absolutely been continuing to do it since… The current ownership regime must not be allowed to stay in football #lufc

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snilttroll @snilttroll.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

why shouldn’t reddit have a museum. happy for everyone involved.

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FairSquare @fairsqprojects.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Reform UK's funding has made headlines this year. But its ties to the UAE have largely flown under the radar. Our new report maps how an oil-rich Gulf state with no elections has built links to Farage et al, and into the wider UK far right, including Tommy Robinson. fairsq.org/petropopulis...

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Michael Shurkin @michaelshurkin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The war has started in Ethiopia. This could easily become the worst human catastrophe of the century. I wrote this in February. The situation has become more complex, and more dangerous. shurkin.substack.com/p/the-loomin...

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The Looming Disaster in the Horn of Africa: A Primer

A major war is imminent in East Africa.

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Miles W. Griffis @mileswgriffis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

NEW ⭐: The Sick Times is listed as a finalist in NASW's Journalism Awards for our story on axed RECOVER grants for #LongCOVID. We're so proud of our small publication; Congrats to all the finalists and winners from ProPublica, NYT, the Guardian, Science, and others! www.nasw.org/2026Sciencei...

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Announcing the 2026 NASW Science in Society Journalism Award winners

The National Association of Science Writers and its Awards Committee are pleased to announce the winners of the <strong>2026 NASW Science in Society Journalism Awards.</strong> This year, NASW is awar...

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Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 23/09/2026

The time is nearly perfect for a movie about the famously chaotic and dramatic 1976 production of Star Wars, starring Ewan McGregor as Alec Guinness and Hayden Christiansen as David Prowse.

Ewan McGregor looking a lot like Alec Guinness

Hayden CHristiansen looking a lot like Dave Prowse

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terror @weedlejuice.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Heading into the break room absolutely starving and gaining new admiration for my coworkers after realising they’re all giant sentient hams

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

this lady is named after sue ellen ewing from dallas btw. not really relevant to what's going on here but it always makes me chuckle

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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

On why, I suspect, political science is dropped from NSF fellowship eligibility while most other social science fields (eg sociology) are still eligible

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 18/09/2026

That’s a load-bearing assumption, Dr Strangelove. www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...

program.
sources, armed members of the US military were preparing to board the
familiar with the incident said.
The report, according to one of the sources, was "entirely false." But it also
"almost started a war," the source said. Any US operation against a Chinese
nations.

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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 18/09/2026

Fire is invented.

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Adam L @adam-lg.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

"[T]he ability to dismiss an argument with a “that sounds nuts,” without needing recourse to a point-by-point rebuttal, is anathema to the rationalist project. But it’s a pretty important skill to have if you want to avoid joining cults." (from @maxread.info) maxread.substack.com/p/the-zizian...

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The Zizians and the Rationalist death cults

What is the deal with Rationalism and cults?

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

ME, MOURNING MY HUSBAND, WHOSE LIFE AS A PTOLEMAIC-ERA SCRIBE WAS MADE MORE DIFFICULT BY LABOR STRIFE AND A FALSE MURDER ACCUSATION, AND WHO DIED YOUNG: RIP my menches

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

have been thinking lately that the sort of misogynistic stuff you see on x dot com is the death of paternalistic sexism and the return of an older, more primordial kind

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Embattled poster @davidweman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Our Swedish Social Democrats explicitly modeled their campaign after Starmer's Labour. In some ways they're even more reactionary. The opposition led by 8-10% just weeks ago. No scandals and certainly no economic turnaround to explain it. Even if they squeak in, they blew the election.

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🌭 stevia nicks @muffinlab.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

this is why they used to do waltzing in the olden days. the patriarchy is built on this

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Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Could the new world struggle to be born a little faster. These monsters are killing me. Get born, dipshit

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Interest payments are already the highest as a percent of GDP they've ever been in all of US history, on track to keep growing, despite CBO assuming average rates never break 4.2% (see follow-up post). If rates stay elevated, it's a disaster for our long-term outlook.

Interest/gdp is set to grow from 3.2% today to 7.9% by 2056. if interest rates are instead 0.5% higher, it'll grow to 9.8%. if they're instead 1% higher, it'll grow to 12.1%.

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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

On The Outfit, today, September 11th, we have a very special episode, exploring the single most baffling and underexamined story we have ever covered on the pod: how the mafia profited from the World Trade Center. APPLE: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... SPOTIFY: open.spotify.com/show/6Y82Liu...

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World Trade Center: The Towers the Mob Built

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

New study finds the social cost of driving a car 1 km—including pollution, crashes, infrastructure, and noise—is more than *triple* the private cost paid by the car owner. doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

all steel manufactured since the mid-20th century is v slightly radioactive due to atmospheric nuclear tests. certain specialized use cases require non-radioactive steel, and one of the only available sources of it is the 75 sunken ships of the german high seas fleet

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

the replies and quotes are about 60% ADHD diagnoses

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Lich's Fart Crystal Phylactery @slugworlds.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

more and more convinced that you just actually can't have real higher education unless it's free or close to it. and not even just because of restricted access.

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Lich's Fart Crystal Phylactery @slugworlds.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

So you get stuck in this double bind of either having education be an rubber stamp for rich people where they can choose to learn nothing or potentially destroy peoples lives if they flunk out with 100k debt and never get the degree. Both feel really bad but the fundamental issue is the cost

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Posting Through the Aether @crannyboy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

My neighbor works for a company called Gunk, Etc. I have no idea what he does but every night he comes home covered in gunk and swarming with flies. His wife sprays him with the garden hose and then they have dinner.

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Pride Ott 🦦 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Tbh it’s annoying that centrists think that you can just talk about the price of bread and magically get the political economy of 1997 but also I’m not sure if the structural reform priorities of progressives will do very much to structurally subdue Trump-like figures either

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happy filth_oween @filth-waste.bsky.social · 15/06/2023

ian curtis of joy division sounds like he's on the phone with school pretending to be his own dad.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Democrats need to develop a new kind of hate politics--a politics where they identify some enemy and use the state to beat up on them. Corruption is a really good one, but I feel like the constant child abuse issues that Republican adjacent-organizations have is another extremely ripe target.

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Fubar 🇨🇦 @captainfubar.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The Undersecretary of State tried to provide "Data Republican" a MAGA influencer with materials on Cuba to disseminate to help manufacture consent but because everyone involved is extremely stupid DR interpreted the information as the "deep state" and now the undersecretary had to spill the beans

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Eric Tiggeler Reader at the Station, 2026 Acrylic on canvas 40 x 40 cm

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Indy @indy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

A side issue, but when you encounter some of these Silicon Valley types doing jobs you know a lot about (and indeed, in another lifetime, might have applied for) you see what a fairy story the "Silicon Valley meritocracy" is.

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Nicholas Whyte 白怀珂 @nwhyte.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Hilarious interview with Melanie Buggey who swam to the Canadian mainland from her Vancouver Island home in record time. Do listen to the audio for the full effect. www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...

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leemanish.bsky.social @leemanish.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

when another car honks at you, deep down i think they’re honking at themselves

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Malkintrash @malkintrash.eurosky.social · 19/08/2026

I'd been wondering about the implications of the distributed models Wired previously reported on but this is even better / more hilarious

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BrokenBanker @brokenbanker.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

this is very interesting, and if Klement is right, then the malinvestment capital destruction is going to be epic: klementoninvesting.substack.com/p/if-this-is...

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snilttroll @snilttroll.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

"The share of campaign dollars consumed by fundraising costs had ballooned from 8 cents per dollar in 2008 to more than 50 cents by 2024"

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mimi smartypants @mimismartypants.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Whose call was it to use an "actively peeing" photo en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_boar

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Wild boar - Wikipedia

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