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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 09/10/2026

My favourite Annie Dillard quote, from THE WRITING LIFE

Who will teach me to write? a reader wanted to know.

The page, the page, that eternal blankness, the blankness of eternity which you cover slowly, affirming time’s scrawl as a right and your daring as necessity; the page, which you cover woodenly, ruining it, but asserting your freedom and power to act, acknowledging that you ruin everything you touch but touching it nevertheless, because acting is better than being here in mere opacity; the page, which you cover slowly with the crabbed thread of your gut; the page in the purity of its possibilities; the page of your death, against which you pit such flawed excellences as you can muster with all your life’s strength: that page will teach you to write.

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 07/10/2026

Not gonna RS the thread that made me think about this (you've likely already seen it, or a similar one) BUT Every person I know who has cut off or gone low contact with a parent took YEARS of agonizing and trying to make things work because damn that's their PARENTS.

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David Dubbert @ddubbert.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I know everybody on here is supposed to be anti-AI, but good goddam is the substrate of our society shifting around on us. It's just so deeply unsettling. ...and yes, in one sense, I do understand that it's a bit in the nature of things to change and unsettle us. Still...

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Molly McGhee @mollymcghee.com · 07/10/2026

werewolf transformation, but instead of being activated by a full moon you're activated by any guy taking a loud personal call at the coffee shop

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David Dubbert @ddubbert.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

How do the rest of you just decide not to let yourself get distracted by a thing that insists on taking up focus and concentration?

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David Dubbert @ddubbert.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is the way (and yes, I realize the phrase has kind of been misappropriated, but it feels right, here)

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David Dubbert @ddubbert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you see this, post a vampire that isn’t Dracula

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David Dubbert @ddubbert.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

way to fucking come in to pitch the 8th and give up back to back home runs without giving up an out...fuck...

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David Dubbert @ddubbert.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Warming this braves fan’s heart, right here…

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Tom Larkin @tomlarkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We’ve spent many, many hours over the past few months searching the rock pools of Cornwall for a rainbow sea slug. Today, we finally found one! Absolutely worth all the time we’ve spent - it was truly breathtaking.

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Stig @stigofthedump.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Lees Lane Pond 📷 Nikon FM3A - 28mm f2.8 🎞️ Ilford Delta 400 - D23 #BelieveInFilm #filmphotography

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Incredible sunset in NYC before the Nor’easter rolls in

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Nina Gonzalez @ninagonzalez.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"... greeting even our dearest with abbreviations like 'Good morning' when the true thought in our breast is 'Every day you step into my life, you make it brighter, and if you left the world, something in me would starve for you forever..." 😭❤️ (From @adapalmer.bsky.social's Perhaps the Stars)

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G.B. Gordon 🍁 @gbgordon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Timeline cleanse.

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David Dubbert @ddubbert.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Man...just one of those weeks, I guess, but I've just generally been out of sorts and unsettled. 2026-style Weltschmerz or something like that, I guess, mixed in with a regular daily life...

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/09/2026

Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).

A crescent Moon seen during the day, arcing from upper left to lower right of the frame. At lower centre is the full disk of Jupiter; the small dots to its upper left and lower right and Io and Ganymede, respectively.

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David Dubbert @ddubbert.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I’m really fucking tired of all of these powerful people telling their generally powerless (on an individual level) constituents that only the constituents can fix this mess.

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David Dubbert @ddubbert.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Or is your soul in very deed so tame, The blood of Grendel watered to a gruel, That you are well content With heart of flame Thus placidly to chew your cud of fuel allpoetry.com/The-Steam-Sh...

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The Steam Shovel by Eunice Tietjens

Read the full text of Eunice Tietjens's classic poem "The Steam Shovel." Explore poetic themes, analysis, and share your own critique with a community of fellow poets.

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Meteor Over the Sage - From Bill (ridingrobots.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/2iHbGuN

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David Dubbert @ddubbert.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

@kentremendous.bsky.social and @joeposnanski.com - you guys have this Dodgers thing all wrong. It STARTED with investigation into the financial shenanigans. Those shenanigans coming into regulatory focus forced the sale of the Lakers.

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This is brought to you by the people who believe that only men should be in the service, and no service wife should have a job. It's absolutely going to negatively affect readiness, and it's going to substantially harm many military families. It is something that, in fact, reduces lethality.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 15/08/2026

The only conversation worth having is how Black people are overpoliced & over-punished & held to different standards in all aspects of life. That there is an outrage when Black people transgress that isn’t there when their non-Black counterparts do.

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Same place, different light - Curiosity, sols 4503 and 4505 - From Thomas Appéré (thomasappere.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/2qWPxXf

This is a montage of two different images taken by NavCam Right aboard Curiosity rover: the top one is a mosaic of pictures taken on sol 4503 (April 7th, 2025) at 3:25 pm while the bottom one was taken on sol 4505 (April 8th, 2025) at 7:10 am.
Curiosity rover was parked at Devil's Gate.

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David Dubbert @ddubbert.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

How do we feel about the use of "godspeed" from a firm agnostic in 2026?

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David Dubbert @ddubbert.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I mean, this is just wildly irresponsible

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mr-e-mike.bsky.social @mr-e-mike.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Platner: credible accusations if abuse. Dems: “You’re out” Max Miller: pours boiling water on his wife, holds a gun to her head and fractures their daughters collar bone Jim Jordan: “he is a great man, I’m working to get him re-elected” Never let them tell you both parties are the same.

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Star birth with a chance of Winds? - From Goddard Space Flight Center - flic.kr/p/R2aLk7

The lesser-known constellation of Canes Venatici (The Hunting Dogs), is home to a variety of deep-sky objects — including this beautiful galaxy, known as NGC 4861. Astronomers are still debating on how to classify it. While its physical properties — such as mass, size and rotational velocity — indicate it to be a spiral galaxy, its appearance looks more like a comet with its dense, luminous “head” and dimmer “tail” trailing off. Features more fitting with a dwarf irregular galaxy.

Although small and messy, galaxies like NGC 4861 provide astronomers with interesting opportunities for study. Small galaxies have lower gravitational potentials, which simply means that it takes less energy to move stuff about inside them than it does in other galaxies. As a result, moving in, around, and through such a tiny galaxy is quite easy to do, making them far more likely to be filled with streams and outflows of speedy charged particles known as galactic winds, which can flood such galaxies with little effort.

These galactic winds can be powered by the ongoing process of star formation, which involves huge amounts of energy. New stars are springing into life within the bright, colorful ‘head’ of NGC 4861 and ejecting streams of high-speed particles as they do so, which flood outwards to join the wider galactic wind. While NGC 4861 would be a perfect candidate to study such winds, recent studies did not find any galactic winds in it.

Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA

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David Dubbert @ddubbert.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

@nameshiv.bsky.social - this reminds me of a certain story you famously told

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 27/07/2026

People who are suddenly deported to countries they haven’t been to for years — or, in some cases, have NEVER been to — are incredibly vulnerable. We are going to be reading stories like this for years. God have mercy on their three little girls.

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Risto 🇫🇮 @ristox.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Red scare is also back on the menu.

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David Dubbert @ddubbert.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I mean, this (what Miller is saying) is just anti American.

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David Dubbert @ddubbert.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

If you missed Dorothy in the NYRB annual sale, here’s another chance! Not a recent purchase for me, but I’d highly recommend Pip Adam’s New Animals…just an odd, strange read that’s stuck with me for a long time.

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David Dubbert @ddubbert.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I finished Everybody's Perfect by Jo Walton yesterday & felt kind of the same as this review (which I read after I read the book). I know she loves world building. She writes about it a ton, but this felt almost like only world building, albeit well done. ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2026/06/30/a...

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A World to Get Lost In: Review of Jo Walton’s Everybody’s Perfect

Stephen Saperstein Frug Under Review:Everybody’s Perfect. Jo Walton. Tor Books, June 2026. Most novels rest upon multiple foundations, yet in many cases one of these elements bears the majority of …

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David Dubbert @ddubbert.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I can't keep myself from stopping what I'm doing and doing a little bit of a shoulder sway at my desk whenever Ruff Ryders Anthem shows up on my itunes spin. Takes me solidly back to early high school...I can't even tell if it's good, it's too much a part of my musical DNA.

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David Dubbert @ddubbert.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Just listening to Pearl Jam's "Soldier of Love" goddam...make your day better and join me

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 09/07/2026

Oh, have I not told this one here? Okay. So Grandma had The Charisma.

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David Dubbert @ddubbert.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

So Platner's waiting until Monday to withdraw? Color me unsurprised. What a fucking asshole, but I guess we knew that.

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 09/07/2026

The US no longer has a refugee program. There are many nouns to accurately describe a whites-only visa, but ‘refugee program’ is not one of them. Congress created and sustained our refugee program with bipartisan support over generations. Now Congress allows one person to simply terminate it.

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David Dubbert @ddubbert.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Exactly this. Just a basic and fundamental desire for our public services to be run well and for the people.

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David Dubbert @ddubbert.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Some substantial portion of my professional communications involve creative and semi-polite ways of saying, "What are you, a fucking child?" The other half is, of course, telling people to go fuck themselves in a way that gets a "Thank you, of course." in response.

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David Dubbert @ddubbert.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Man...fuck this whole bingo card thing. I keep thinking, "Of all the things, what I didn't have on my bingo card was..." and it's all shit. I never think that about anything good.

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Stiles @lakesstiles.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I mean, everyone's got a favourite brutalist concrete bridge right? Kylesku, Sutherland.

Curved concrete bridge over sea loch held up by two pairs of inverted triangles

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David Dubbert @ddubbert.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I have been buying too many books lately. Help.

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David Dubbert @ddubbert.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

These fuckers watched The Watchmen (no way they read it) and got inspired by the bad guys.

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