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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

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Raquel 🌈✨ @aistear.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Blumineck lo ha vuelto a hacer 🥹 le aplaudo hasta que se me caigan las manos, bravo. "Be masculine, be feminine, be neither, or be both. But be kind."

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Girish M. Duvvuri @gmduvvuri.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The open secret to pedagogy research is that small class sizes/maximizing educator attention per pupil is the simplest, most effective, and unfortunately the least attractive to administration thing you can do to improve learning outcomes.

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Sean Thomason @seanthomason.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

So embarrassing when people think the point of reading a novel is to know the plot, so a summary is just as good. The plot isn’t important, you rube. You absolute simpleton. The point of reading a novel is to find out what the characters are eating and start thinking about what you want for dinner.

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Mr. Completely @brokensymmetry.art · 09/08/2026

LAST WORDS FOR JERRY GARCIA By Robert Hunter Not the same thing as the more widely published Elegy, which is magnificent and worth your time to look up if you haven't seen it. From a privately published collection of Hunter's elegies and funeral poems for friends and family

Go naked in the world,
Wind for your cloak and coverlet.
Whom the Gods love best
they reward with early death,
gather them into the sun,
reflect them in moonlight,
crown them with comets,
anoint them with shooting stars

Go naked to the Throne of Stars,
go as the stars go,
arrayed in their own
incandescent light.

Go and our hearts go with you.
Return to the sourceof the soul
by way of the Sacred River,
royal road to the sea
where all shall be music
and dreams shall be dreams
no more, but visions
of the World's foundation
scattered among the stars.

Dust shall be dust
and the voice of dust
shall be music,
pleasing to God
who sent it forth
in search of melody
to crown His silence
with eternal song

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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I have just been sent the transcript of a deposition my grandmother gave in 1977 while she was serving as an expert witness in a series of tribal rights cases and let me tell you, if nothing else this is proof that I come by it honest for every conceivable value of “it”

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

A guiding principle for my life has been "become the role model I wish I had when I was younger" and a person cannot really do that while compromising morals and ethics. Maybe I would have more money, but I have also seen how rich people are not necessarily happier with it either.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Learned a great French verb today: s'ambiancer. (the s' makes it reflexive). It's like a verb form of ambiance, and I guess you'd have to translate it as something like "get in the mood of things" or maybe just "vibe" because as far as I know, no form of English allows you to ambiance as a verb.

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Starite 🌟 @starite.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

DON'T LET THE BASTARDS GET YOU DOWN 🏳️‍⚧️ #art #tdov #transart

a digital illustration in the style of a relief print depicting a black cat in a defensive pose holding a torn and tattered transgender pride flag in its mouth as it looks directly towards the viewer. the background is purple with some specks of blue and pink showing through, and behind the cat is a black midground resembling grass or flames. the top right corner features a box with a caption reading "T.D.O.V."

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Lin Codega @lincodega.com · 01/03/2026

having a Tough Time with my creative projects so i'm going back to an old fanfic and ya boi has still got it.

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

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Cooper River Indivisible @crindivisible.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 28/01/2026

please remember that no matter how many “ICE is losing in MN” articles you read today, there is still a very real, urgent, ongoing crisis in Minnesota. people need food and they need rent money. that has not changed.

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Steeves @devonshyr.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Anyone looking to support Minnesotan families from out of state, here's a worthy place for your dollars. Many families can't work due to the ongoing federal occupation, this is to help them make rent.

gofundme.com

Donate to Rent Support for Bancroft Families, organized by Emily Butler

As neighbors, friends, caregivers, and community, we cannot sit by and watch neighbors… Emily Butler needs your support for Rent Support for Bancroft Families

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Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti

“We are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.

I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed.

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Well worth a watch. Another case of normie radicalization. This guy is the former president of a local HOA, a web developer for real estate companies and a self proclaimed "member of the square community" and he's out in the streets.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Once again, immigration is not even a problem. Immigrants are not more criminal, they don't cost jobs, they don't harm the economy. There is no reason for any of this. It is hurting ourselves to hurt them.

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

The true secret to my long career: As a midlist writer hanging on to my career one book at a time, I can only control the work I do, not outcomes. So I work: Drafting Novel W while waiting for edit notes on Novel F. When edits & draft are done, I'll return to the half finished & overdue Novel L.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

🇺🇸 MINNEAPOLIS VETERAN: "They are terrorizing the population, in Afghanistan we never wore masks.” (From @statuscoupnews.bsky.social )

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Gonna be even more earnest than usual on main, but I wanted to share. Because I have a bunch of pain stuff I was in my thoughts about it, and I said to myself, “I have to show love to my body. My body is doing the best it can.” so if anybody needs this, it made me feel good to say that

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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

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Steeves @devonshyr.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Went to a old childhood park. A golf course that had been there is now a nature preserve, which was pretty cool. The bridge I used to cross to get to my GF'S house in high school has been torn down. Also, I found this neat thing. Places age along with people, it turns out.

A toppled tree with a sign screwed on to it.

The sign reads, "The raft of memory floats directionless on the ocean of mind." Attrubuted to H.G.

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

lol she got his ass and he knows it

Joyce Carol Oates
@Joyce... 17h O
So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates— scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend's or relative's accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. In fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the
"most wealthy person in the world."

Elon Musk ' @elonmusk
X.com
Oates is a liar and delights in being mean.
Not a good human.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

I feel like I say this every year but I really need people to hear it. Halloween is the best American holiday. Just kids outside welcomed into their world, marching around together, showing off their costumes to the elderly, parents meeting parents, neighbors catching up with neighbors.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Deskilling is real. This is the world generative AI peddlers long for, one where people are incompetent without their service. Don't outsource your brain to this shit. You'll regret it.

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped?

I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry.

Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto.

It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 27/07/2025

I think that if you're a writer and you don't invent a word every now and then you're missing out on a solid chunk of the fun.

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Steeves @devonshyr.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

I've decided to implement a new policy in my life: noticing moments of Stupid Little Joy. The world is bad! Everyone won't shut up about it (rightfully)! And to preserve my mental health, I try to embrace a positive, hopeful mindset, but ya'll know that can be hard. But this is the genius of the SLJ

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Andy Khouri @andykhouri.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

This sounds like a bit but I’m being serious: kids using chat gpt for their homework are denying themselves the invaluable experience of learning how to bullshit their way through a problem. You drink some caffeine the night before and figure it the fuck out. That’s a skill. You need it in life.

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ceej @ceej.online · 17/06/2025

I am surrounded by people who are outsourcing their own thinking to ChatGPT and they are quickly and obviously becoming dependent on it for even the most banal tasks. Once again, the "figuring it out" is the important part. Yes, you can use a crane to lift weights but you will not get stronger

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

This kid is 15, and so has a moral clarity and uprightness that no adult elected official would or could ever have. There aren't really and never have been two sides of this issue, but if it has to be argued as a binary thing I don't see how anything less than this could seem like the side to be on.

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Bo Bolander @bbolander.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

at the core of andor is a very simple thing that i think about a lot the older i get and the more loss i naturally accrue: we are made up of all the people we've ever loved or respected, crown to heels

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Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

It’s weird to live in a time when basic principles like cruelty is wrong, cheating is empty & the idea that curiosity, generosity, originality, the satisfaction of earned accomplishments & loving intimacy are the center of a good life feel like countercultural concepts

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Lynne Cripe, PhD @lynnecripe.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

That is some moral clarity. “This is violence disguised as law.”

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WinRAR Earle @tommchenry.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

how to www.noncanon.com/comics/2025-...

PANEL 1: The rat cartoonist and Jeremy the Duck are watching the cartoonist draw with a gigantic Apple Pencil on a gigantic iPad on a cluttered desk. CARTOONIST: "I find it often helps to simply open with a sincere anxiety simply expressed"
PANEL 2: CARTOONIST: "Then you've got a premise for another character to play against or add to" JEREMY: "The illusion of a fuller universe!"
PANEL 3: CARTOONIST: "Don't write jokes, wander into them. You're doing this to find a path forward from panel one's agitation to anything else, even if there's no punchline." JEREMY: "Because it's a private ritual against despair anyway."
PANEL 4: CARTOONIST: "Exactamundo, Jeremy. The best jokes will reveal themselves to the faithful at the moment they are needed. Until then, breathe, move the pen, keep your heart."
PANEL 5: The cartoonist draws a big sweeping line. JEREMY: "And that's it?" CARTOONIST: "Yeah, and the fucked up thing is, you won't improve until you stop caring if you improve."

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

I can't speak for anyone else, But a thing that I am finding is really helping me to get through all this nonsense is helping others. It can be something small- sharing a job ad with a fired colleague, looking over a resume- or something larger. But helping others helps me.

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality

[“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape? The moneylenders, the know-nothings, the authoritarians have us all in prison; if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can.”]

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Mark Hurst @markhurst.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

NYC bar owner explaining why bar has an analog jukebox: "We will never have a digital one. We’re just so sick of the internet." nygroove.nyc/nyc-physical... by @rickpaulas.bsky.social via @bourgwick.bsky.social

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Why these bars are sticking with old-school offline jukeboxes

Plus, we made you a map of the analog jukeboxes you can still find across the city

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Steeves @devonshyr.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Incredibly good advice for all workers

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Ann Aguirre @annaguirre.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Writers, you might be struggling rn. Math might help. No, seriously. If you write 300 (around a page) words a day, you will have an 80k book in 267 days. Less than a year. If it's 200 words, it will take a little more than a year. Doing it slowly is still doing it. 💪

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 26/01/2025

This is basically what C-3PO did in the original Star Wars movies and everyone was constantly telling him to shut the fuck up

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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

once again thinking about this passage from David Lynch's book Catching the Big Fish

excerpt reads: "I hear stories about directors who scream at actors, or they trick them somehow to get a performance. And there are some people who try to run the whole business on fear. But I think this is such a joke -- it's pathetic and stupid at the same time.
When people are in fear, they don't want to go to work. So many people today have that feeling. Then the fear starts turning into hate, and they begin to hate going to work. Then the hate can turn into anger and people can become angry at their boss and their work.
If I ran my set with fear, I would get 1 percent, not 100 percent, of what I get. And there would be no fun in going down the road together. And it *should* be fun. In work and in life, we're all supposed to get along. We're supposed to have so much fun, like puppy dogs with our tails wagging. It's supposed to be great living; it's supposed to be fantastic."

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