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Rochester LGBTQ+ Together @roclgbtqtogether.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“Read the books they’re banning. That’s where the good stuff is.” ~ LeVar Burton, Host of Reading Rainbow (1983-2006) October 4–10, 2026 is Banned Books Week. This year’s theme is Let Books Be — Protect the Freedom to Read. 🌈📖📚
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NEW: In ‘24, the FBI sought to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump eviscerated the FBI & DOJ public corruption teams. ProPublica unearthed the investigation and you can read it 👇 www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
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Digital Catnip @digital.catnip.io · 20/09/2026
My elder millennial hot take: chat bubbles are dumb
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Digital Catnip @digital.catnip.io · 19/09/2026
The biggest harm to children on @youtubekids.bsky.social is the fact that scammy creators create like 50 channels supposedly in different languages but just post the same English language content.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 16/09/2026
When Trump was visiting Dallas, pilots — stuck in frozen traffic — were joking.. about catering trucks :)
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
History says the 9/11 attacks began at 8:46 a.m.—but that's not how most, from NYC officeworkers to the President, experienced it. Instead, the "attack" begins at 9:03, when we saw the second plane strike. I wrote abt the fascinating 17 minutes in between: www.nationalgeographic.com/history/grap...
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The 17 Minutes That Changed America
The earliest moments of the September 11 attacks did not unfold the way we often remember. Here’s how those surreal 17 minutes changed America forever.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 31/08/2026
I can no longer in good faith recommend anyone to study in the US, or stay stateside for work and further education after completing degree programs they had started during the Biden era. US higher ed is unrecognizable even compared to a year ago when ICE was kidnapping students from their homes
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Gary Whitta @garywhitta.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Rabies terrifies me. As soon as you’re symptomatic that’s it, you’re dead. And it’s a miserable way to die, the hydrophobia alone is the stuff of nightmares.
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Dorkenstein's Dad @dorkdad.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Gift link:
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Most ‘Ovarian Cancer’ Isn’t. And That Fact Can Save Lives. (Gift Article)
The vast majority of cases begin in the fallopian tubes — and removing them can reduce the risk by nearly 80 percent.
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John Gramlich @johngramlich.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
"Buying food to eat at home has gotten 33% more expensive in U.S. cities since the beginning of 2019, according to government figures. In the 7.5 years before that, prices rose 6.4%." (via @apnews.com) apnews.com/article/groc...
Line chart showing the percent change in "at home" food prices in U.S. cities since 2012, based on an Associated Press analysis of data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Digital Catnip @digital.catnip.io · 24/07/2026
The most pernicious thing about YouTube Kids is that you have to solve a multiplication problem to block a channel. Why? Why do they make it so hard to block? Obviously their motives are not in favor of protecting kids from spam.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
it does actually sound like taylor farms and the white house teamed up to try and blame taco bell for the outbreak. unprecedented corruption
Within hours, the White House agreed the patient surveys painted a clear picture, the people said. In an internal call, the White House aides approved statements from the public health agencies for public release — though they still only identified Taco Bell as linked to the outbreak, without naming Taylor Farms specifically.
Taco Bell moved first, releasing a statement. While it did not explicitly name Taylor Farms it said it believed "public health is a shared responsibility among restaurants, their suppliers, and authorities, and we are proud to have consistently acted quickly and proactively to protect our guests."
The agency updates on the outbreak were finally posted after 10 p.m. New York time - hours behind schedule - and also omitted directly naming Taylor Farms or saying if the company would recall products.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
In America today, the wealthiest 1% is now worth more than the entire American middle class. That never happened before.
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William Adler @williamadler78.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Meanwhile their goal is to make it impossible for infertile couples to have children. If it was up to her and people like her, my kids wouldn't exist.
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Digital Catnip @digital.catnip.io · 28/06/2026
22% turnout in the NY-17 primary is pretty pathetic. Lack of Democratic engagement is how Lawler got into office in the first place. www.lohud.com/story/news/p...
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What voter turnout in NY's House primaries tells us about key races
A modest 22% of voters cast ballots in the primary that made veteran Cait Conley the Democratic opponent for Rep. Mike Lawler in a battleground race.
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Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Miller Lite stat(s) o’ the day 84 76 -The percentage of prediction markets wallets that lose money -The percentage of prediction markets profits that go to the top 1% of winners It’s fools and money parting. No wonder Zuck wants in
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Digital Catnip @digital.catnip.io · 26/06/2026
Do I win a prize? @mayor.nyc.gov britmonkey.com/2020s-politi...
Bitmonkey political compass shows I most closely align with Mayor Mamdani
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Digital Catnip @digital.catnip.io · 16/06/2026
No middle ground for Elmo
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
The Coolidge coin is actually quite a rare collectible precisely because the public didn't like it and the Treasury eventually melted most of them down. As a result, the rule against living persons on coins was instituted soon thereafter.
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Digital Catnip @digital.catnip.io · 16/05/2026
Everything is increasing in price. I sell antifreeze and it's increased by 20% in cost over the last two weeks.
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Emily (I'm not leaving) Feiner @emilyjaynef.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
More on #NY17 and @effieforcongress.bsky.social substack.com/@emilyfeiner...
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Emily Feiner (@emilyfeiner359008)
More commentary on NY17.
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Library Futures @libraryfutures.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
It's almost like a really bad landlord... "In 2023, librarian Rebecca Harlow in Orange, Connecticut paid $65 to license the e-audiobook "Five-Star Weekend" by Elin Hilderbrand for two years. This year, that same license cost her $101.99, a 57% increase." www.ctinsider.com/connecticut/...
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Connecticut libraries don’t actually own many of their e-books. It gets pricey.
Connecticut libraries are licensing e-books instead of owning them, driving up long-term costs and straining budgets.
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That Preppy Black Girl @tmwillia828.blacksky.app · 03/05/2026
Timeline cleanse alert!! Watch to the end; pro tip: don’t have anything in your mouth..
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Digital Catnip @digital.catnip.io · 03/05/2026
Very informative and detailed explanation of why Trump and Republicans are why EVs are failing in the US, with color about consumer sentiment
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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
The other problem is consumer demand. This is a more complex issue than it seems at first. The average annual miles driven per passenger car in China is about 6,000. In the EU it's about 6,500. In the US, it's about 13,500. The US is big, and people drive much longer distances than elsewhere. 9/x
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 02/05/2026
Interesting coverage of a physical vs derivatives dispute that has emerged from the Iran war. Only on terminal rn but will link the public version later.
At the heart of the dispute is the rate for hiring a tanker to ship oil from the Middle East to China, which for years has been calculated based on the cost of shipping oil from Saudi Arabia's Ras Tanura port.
Crucially, it is located inside the Persian Gulf, and can only be accessed via the Strait of Hormuz.
Each day, shipbrokers convened by the Baltic Exchange submit their assessments of the price, which are used to create a rate known as TD3C. That rate is then used across the global oil industry as a benchmark to set the rate of tanker contracts, as well as to underpin a multibilllion-dollar derivatives market.
The Baltic Exchange, which is now owned by Singapore Exchange Ltd., stirred controversy in March when it told brokers that the TD3C rate should continue to be calculated based on the cost of shipping oil from Ras Tanura - even though shipments had all but ceased due to the war.The TD3C rate soared as a result, rising to as much as $600,000 a day compared to more typical rates between $40,000 and $100,000.
For traders and shipowners who have contracts and derivatives positions linked to the index, it has caused turmoil. In one example, Norwegian shipping company Hunter Group ASA said last month that a customer had paid it $8.3 million less than it was due for ship charters during the month of March. The customer involved was Mercuria, and it was refusing to pay charter rates that were pegged to TD3C, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Spokespeople for the Baltic Exchange, Mercuria and Hunter Group declined to comment.
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In its claim, Mercuria argues that the decision to keep the rate based on the cost of shipping through Hormuz has distorted the market.
Traffic through the strait has "essentially ceased," and those shipments that do take place "require the payment of illegal tolls to sanctioned entities," it says.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 12/04/2026
JD Vance's shrewd negotiating skills seem to have gotten the Strait even more closed than it was
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Digital Catnip @digital.catnip.io · 09/04/2026
If you see this drop a hero with a sword ⚔️ 🗡️
Arthur from the movie The Sword and the Stone.  He's holding a sword half exposed from the stone and is about to pull it out
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
1/ The Iranian Republican Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy has published a map showing the 'new' shipping lanes for vessels passing through the Strait of Hormuz. However, what it shows greatly increases the risk of future shipping disasters in the Persian Gulf. ⬇️
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Every man has had these three exact roommates
Jack White, Jack Black, and Marcello Hernández
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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 15/03/2026
The president’s spokeswoman going on the president’s daughter-in-law’s interview program to lie about the effects of her efforts to strongarm other media outlets into changing a report damaging to the regime would be very recognizable to anyone who’s lived under authoritarianism.
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Steven L. Johnson @stevenljohnson.org · 12/03/2026
I have no idea how to dress for this
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Kash Patel’s girlfriend is exactly the sort of country singer you’d think she’d be. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/u...
Ms. Wilkins, the daughter of a financial specialist in the aerospace industry (her mother) and a global consumer products executive for Gillette (her father), had lived in London and Switzerland, and for a time attended elementary school at Collège du Léman in Geneva. She is originally from the Boston suburb of Weymouth, but likes to emphasize her time living in Arkansas.
"There are just some things the limousine liberal will never understand from the coasts," she recently wrote.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
I'm late Gen X and all I'm saying is Millennials got fucked harder than anyone else. They were raised on post 9/11 American media and government and it's just been an endless stream of shit. And I'm not even talking about the 09 collapse. The wars, watching guns shred schools, social media insanity
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Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
On days when major albums are released, people use music streaming services on their smartphone 40% more, and U.S. traffic fatalities increase by 15% www.nber.org/papers/w3486...
Smartphones, Online Music Streaming, and Traffic Fatalities
Vishal R. Patel, Christopher M. Worsham, Michael Liu & Anupam B. Jena
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Working Paper 34866
DOI 10.3386/w34866
Issue Date February 2026
Modern smartphones present new threats to road safety beyond talking and texting, but the real-world effects are difficult to study. One way to causally assess the impact of smartphones on road safety is to identify arbitrarily timed events during which smartphone-related distraction may exogenously increase – i.e., a situation that relies not on plausibly random variation in who uses smartphones while driving, but when smartphones are used. We investigated the impact of smartphones on road safety by examining traffic fatalities on days when smartphone use likely surges: the release of major music albums. Using event study analysis, we show that music streaming – an indicator for smartphone use, where streaming most often occurs – sharply increases, by nearly 40%, on dates of major music album releases, while U.S. traffic fatalities increase by nearly 15% on those same days. Mobile device use while driving is a known safety issue, but today’s smartphones present new and greater opportunities for driver distraction. Our study indicates how features of these phones may have important impacts on distracted driving and traffic fatalities.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
These last few days Trump has felt particularly Mad Kingy, raging against his opposition, spiraling more and more out of control. It is remarkable how much these four "injuries" listed in our Declaration Of Independence speak to us today 7/
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John Rosevear @jrosevear.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Spotted in RI. #blizzard
A highway road sign reading, “WICKED BIG STORM SUNDAY NIGHT. GET READY NOW.”
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
2/2 For the record, since always left out of news stories. During bitter Bush-v-Gore, history-changing, "Brooks Brothers Riot" Florida recount in 2000, the GW Bush legal team included: -John Roberts -Amy Coney Barrett -Brett Kavanaugh. BK also worked for Ken Starr. All just coincidence, of course
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Ocasio gang rise up 🙌🏽🇵🇷
Bad Bunny wearing an OCASIO 64 jersey
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Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Miller Lite stat o’ the day 33/35 The wins for “the house” against the public in the Super Bowl. There’s a reason everyone wants to hook you in to their online offering. The public is betting on Seattle minus the points (4 1/2) today. Related: never bet.
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Carl Wilson @carlzoilus.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Holy shit. So this just happened at Minneapolis's legendary First Avenue club. That's Tom Morello introducing Springsteen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jHe...
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets of Minneapolis - First Ave 260130
YouTube video by Nate Reiter
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
CNN interviews the 'woman in the pink jacket,' aka Stella Carlson: www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/u...
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‘We all have to be brave’: Meet the woman whose video of Alex Pretti’s killing contradicted the administration’s claims | CNN
Stella Carlson had no way of knowing Saturday that she would soon watch a man die — or that her video of that fatal incident would serve as a crucial counter to the Trump administration’s initial effo...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Block instantly.
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Patrick Hruby @patrickhruby.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/we-are-the...
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Digital Catnip @digital.catnip.io · 31/12/2025
Absolutely insane
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YouGov America @today.yougov.com · 25/11/2025
New polling on aliens % of U.S. adult citizens who believe the following definitely or probably exist: Aliens 56% Bigfoot 28% The Yeti 23% The Loch Ness Monster 22% Chupacabra 16% today.yougov.com/health/artic...
A chart of YouGov polling data with the headline: "A majority of Americans believe that aliens exist."

The chart's sub-headline is: "How likely do you think it is that each of the following beings exist? (% who believe they definitely or probably exist) ."

The chart has the note: "Note: Responses of "probably does not exist," "definitely does not exist," and "not sure" are not shown.  "
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Digital Catnip @digital.catnip.io · 26/10/2025
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Digital Catnip @digital.catnip.io · 08/09/2025
As a former Google employee, I giggled so hard at this.
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John Shirley @johnshirley2024.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
I suspected some of the "fundraising orgs for the Dems" were scams (and possibly right-wing-fomented scams). But I didn't know for sure. I was careful to make sure my donations were through her authorized website. More than 660 MILLION was stolen from Harris and Dems. This makes me very angry.
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Digital Catnip @digital.catnip.io · 18/08/2025
I scored 15/21 on e-mail.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media. Standards are weird, and email definitely is one of the weirdest.
e-mail.wtf
Email is Easy
Everyone knows what an email address is, right?
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