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@divebender.bsky.social
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Diving (Wreck, Tech, Cave), Reading, Doberman Dad. Always curious.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 26/09/2026
📚 This free audiobook is part of the LibriVox Audio Collection on the Internet Archive, with tens of thousands of public domain recordings spanning mysteries, adventures, poetry, history, science fiction, and more. 🎧 Find your next audio adventure. #Books
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NOLA.com @nolanews.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The French Quarter is about to get a bit more witchy with a one-of-a-kind New Orleans restaurant and bar making its return. bit.ly/4da7X0X
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She’s a chef and a witch. Soon her French Quarter restaurant and bar will reopen in NOLA
The French Quarter is about to get a bit more witchy with a one-of-a-kind New Orleans restaurant and bar making its return.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 26/08/2026
The United States is taking aim at Canada once again, with a crushing new set of tariffs. Ultimately, government will need to solve this. But in the same way Canadians are avoiding US alcohol, produce, and other goods, they should get off US tech products too. Luckily, I have a guide for that.
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Getting off US tech: a guide
I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
We’ve got an autocratic government releasing criminals to prey on the populace, we’ve got people who don’t understand the seashells, we’ve got Taco Bell as the resistance, we’re in full on Demolition Man future now hold onto yer butts
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Tamara Keel [Scary Remix] @tamslick.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
There's a lot of misunderstanding surrounding the Mobile Chernobyl (aka "Three Quarter Mile Island").
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John Horgan @johnhorgan.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
A U.S. Citizen Deleted His Phone’s Data. Now He Faces a Felony Charge. 🎁 article www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/u...
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A U.S. Citizen Deleted His Phone’s Data. Now He Faces a Felony Charge. (Gift Article)
Federal prosecutors charged a man returning to the United States with obstruction because he gave them a passcode that erased his smartphone during a customs search.
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Joe Thoma IV @joe-thoma-iv.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
There's still time for everyone to unsubscribe from the Times. I promise you can find silly word games all over the Internet.
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Courthouse News @courthousenews.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Members of a Florida county school board asked an 11th Circuit panel Wednesday to quash subpoenas seeking depositions on their motives behind removing and restricting over 100 books within the district’s public libraries. www.courthousenews.com/florida-scho...
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Florida school board asks 11th Circuit to block subpoenas over book ban
Escambia County School Board members argue that the removal of hundreds of books from school libraries was a legislative decision, not an administrative one.
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Not Writing Games @notwritinggames.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
If you’re in Vancouver the sunset is worth seeing, despite its earlier crimes.
Photo of an orange and pink sunset above a city.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 13/07/2026
Nonprofits known as 527s can raise unlimited sums for political spending. As a reminder, we've got a database that allows journalists, researchers and others to more easily search these organizations’ finances:
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527 Explorer — ProPublica
Every year, hundreds of millions of dollars flow through little-known political organizations called 527s. Use our database to explore who funds these organizations and how they’re spending their mone...
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
In 60 days or so, we’ll face an election we can’t successfully win without a landslide. Any low-percentage win and they’ll do what we know they already know exactly how to do, and more. We’ve all seen it happen. So we need that landslide victory. We all must vote.
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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 12/07/2026
People who devote their lives to wielding power over others to cause them harm deserve no respect in life or death. “Respect the deceased no matter what” as a tenet of liberal civility only reinforces the idea that as long as you have power you will be respected, regardless of how you used it.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Tennessee: DONE! Idaho: DONE! 14 more states to go. Let's finish this so you don't have to see this map until 2027. givebutter.com/USS2026
a map of the united states with a blue west coast, pink middle, purple for northeast, and green southern states. Half of the bubbles are full! Wyoming inexplicably has two gritties in the bubbles, and now so does Minnesota, and wisconsin does too.
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Farran Smith Nehme 🇱🇧 @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I had a great time coming up with this list!
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"Joseph" ❌👑 @josephbogen.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Everyone on Bluesky is talking about expanding the Supreme Court, but hardly anyone's talking about how the next administration needs to take on billionaire controlled right wing, pro-fascism media which is almost as bad of a problem.
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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 04/07/2026
Somehow my 12ft skeleton dressed in a garish shiny skirt made from a dollar store tablecloth looks more grand than anything I have yet seen from the White House celebration
It is our 12ft skeleton wearing a shiny American flag skirt. A big menacing garish plastic symbol of death felt appropriate for America’s 250th birthday.
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Joe Rojas-Burke @rojasburke.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
"The extensive damage done to America’s sole naval base in the Middle East—along with hits to at least 20 U.S. sites across the region, including military installations and diplomatic facilities—has the U.S. re-evaluating its entire footprint in the region" gift link: www.wsj.com/world/middle...
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How Iran Devastated an American Naval Base—and Caused a U.S. Recalculation
Satellite imagery reveals for the first time the extent of what Iran destroyed at Naval Support Activity Bahrain.
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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Guys, guys... The UK and the US are both clusterfucks. No need to fight.
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NellMinow @nellminow.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Elon Musk's broken promises (so far): www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Elon Musk Laid Out 602 Goals. We Counted How Many He Hit. (Gift Article)
The billionaire has stated many plans for his businesses, but has delivered only some of what he said he would, when he said he would, according to a Times analysis.
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Sue Romulus @sueromulus.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
The woman who won the lawsuit to protect the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is U.S. Representative Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio). PLEASE give credit where it's due. #BlackExcellence #KennedyCenter
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Michael Okun @michael-okun.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇
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Coral City Camera @coralcitycamera.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
On this World Oceans Day we are proud to unveil the latest extension of the world’s longest underwater timelapse, starting May 1, 2023, and running for three years through May 1, 2026 🪸🌎🪸
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Brynn Tannehill @brynntannehill.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Hemingway observed in his 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises that one goes bankrupt “gradually and then suddenly.” The same can be said of armies. My latest at The Bulwark. www.thebulwark.com/p/what-a-rus...
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What a Russian Army Collapse Might Look Like
The Ukrainians are trying to break the Russian military—and they just might do it.
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joeymaier 🌊 @joeymaier.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
#shark #Greenlandshark First whole-genome sequence of a Greenland shark holds clues to their extreme longevity | Live Science share.google/juaE47cBxmC5...
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First whole-genome sequence of a Greenland shark holds clues to their extreme longevity
A genomic study of Greenland sharks, thought to be the longest-lived vertebrates on the planet, is hinting at the secrets to their epic lifespan and cancer resistance.
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joeymaier 🌊 @joeymaier.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
#shark Hey folks, We now have whole genome sequencing for the #GreenlandShark www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Tyler Nordgren @spaceart.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Organ Pipe Cactus commissioned me to design this poster to celebrate their new dark sky status. www.spacearttravelbureau.com #art #spaceart #astronomy
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Anna Hughes 🍁 @annaghughes.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
We love to see it 🦆🦫
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Reintroduced platypus population 'tracking well' in Australia’s oldest national park
Platypuses reintroduced to Australia’s oldest national park are breeding and appear to be on a good population trajectory.
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Delaney King (She/Her/Whomst) @delaneyking.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Schoolyard ones or Yakuza ones?
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Roman Acleaf @romanacleaf.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
A one-bedroom apartment has a volume of 4,000 cubic feet. A 727 has a volume of 6,000 cubic feet. Imagine 300 people packed into 1.5 one-bedroom apartments. If there EVER was an appropriate place to mask up, an airplane is it.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Welcome to Shrimp City! Teach your friends about a variety of crustaceans with this helpful visual aid - and set the record straight... bugs is shrimp. Shrimp is not bugs These shirts are designed by @the666cat.bsky.social & printed in Philly! Get one at SquidFacts.net (pls RT!)
A cream colored shirt with a red and blue design featuring 9 crustaceans and a fly. A scuba diving Fly Says a”am I shrimp too?” A pistol shrimp wearing a cowboy hat says “bang bang” a mantis shrimp says KO, the title says a”shrimp city and friends” a hermit crab uses a skull
As a shell, a jumbo shrimp is labeled himbo shrimp, and a yeti crab is labeled “snack bacteria cafe”. The fly has an asterisk next to
Him and underneath the whole design it says *the latest research shows that bugs is actually shrimp”
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Isaac G. Bryan @ib2real.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
The stories & photos from today’s voting rights marches in Alabama deserve to be seen by people who weren’t able to stand there in person. If this piece moves you, please share it widely & help make sure these voices aren’t lost in the noise of a crowded news cycle. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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Selma Rejects Jim Crow 2.0
Half of the population in Dallas County, Alabama, where Selma is located, was African American in 1965.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/04/2026
Keating to Hegseth on the administration's rationale for its deadly boat strikes: "We were given classified information on the second strike. I can't discuss it. But it's the most convoluted bullshit I've ever heard in my life."
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TartItUp @tart-it-up.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
"....But for the first time in my adult life, the moral and strategic heart of the defense of liberal democracy doesn’t beat in Washington.... It’s in Kyiv, where a courageous leader and a courageous people have picked up the torch America has dropped." #Zelensky
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Opinion | Meet the New Leader of the Free World
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 27/04/2026
Gamble said she wasn’t speaking as a victim. “I’m standing on the foundation of our democracy. If we don’t have free speech, what do we have?”
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The Short and Ridiculous Trial of a Protester Arrested in an Inflatable Penis Costume
An Alabama cop who confronted the No Kings protester claimed she posed a risk to public safety. The judge was unconvinced.
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Ned Trifle X @nedtrifle.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Over 1000 reposts and 4000 likes for something which even five seconds research shows is not correct? Why not celebrate Morocco's ambitions rather than spread around silly graphics? Solar power in Morocco's desert: Bold vision, mixed results share.google/jzzzUJ9zOrjR...
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Solar power in Morocco's desert: Bold vision, mixed results
A massive solar tower in the Moroccan desert is the beacon of an ambitious push for a clean energy future. But fossil fuels and grid constraints stand in the way.
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freshken.bsky.social @freshken.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Good point. Many of the roads I have had issues on are narrow roads with no shoulders, high volume traffic commuter traffic. Personally, I would cycle on these roads for my own safety. Based on the replies I am getting, no cyclist should cuz they are terrified by motorists. Hypocritical imo.
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Bender @divebender.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Families fear US sailors are hungry on Iran war ships, packages in limbo www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
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Cookies, deodorant, socks. Iran war puts military packages in limbo
Thousands of boxes sent to service members in Middle East are stuck in limbo. The Postal Service has indefinitely suspended delivery amid Iran war.
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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
BREAKING: DOJ investigating Iran for Mortgage Fraud.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/04/2026
"This is what you get when you elect Republicans." Every Dem within 100 feet of a camera needs to be saying this repeatedly. Every time we elect Republicans, we get dumbass wars, tax cuts for rich people, and financial crises. Every time. Fucking say it!
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 07/04/2026
Im convinced that one of the reasons I can use this website as much as I do and remain mostly sane is that any time I see something like this I hunt the person down and block them.
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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
When the US admits that they killed any “military-aged men” who walked within 3km of a downed pilot they mean any boy lanky enough to be a teenager and any middle-aged man able to walk unaided with a cane got shot in the head for the crime of walking.
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a team of bumblebees @saramchenry.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
The deleterious effects of not having a hobby are becoming a defining point in this cultural moment—and who is poised to help? That’s right: the autistics. Job fair day where we all set up tables explaining our deep dives and give people a hand out, a path back to society.
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Evil Scary Lucy Promise @julesprom.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
a coworker was telling me about one time a pope was so mad about a former pope he hated, he had his corpse exhumed and then put on trial for his crimes just want to say for any future circumstances, im not against the idea
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Bender @divebender.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Called It! “Casualty Cover-Up”: The Pentagon Is Hiding U.S. Losses Under Trump in the Middle East theintercept.com/2026/04/01/i...
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“Casualty Cover-Up”: The Pentagon Is Hiding U.S. Losses Under Trump in the Middle East
The Pentagon has sent outdated statements on the number of U.S. troops killed or wounded during the Iran War, resulting in undercounts.
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James @gortoshay1.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Poland joining Ireland and Wales in a World Cup boycott is as welcome as it is expected. 🇵🇱💪🏼
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MadGreek 🧿 @madgreek2024.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
In Seattle today: Pedophile Trump, would like you all to look away, do not pay any attention to the Epstein Files, there is a war going on, and ICE in the airports and OMG, have you not noticed gas prices on the rise... Stop talking about the damn files! It hurts his feelings.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
John, in Revelation:
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Xodium (is on hiatus) @xodium.net · 27/03/2026
2024 me: “man, I should have been smarter with my money, I shouldn’t have bought a PS5 and 3070Ti in 2022/2023.” 2026 me: “oh thank fuck for my stupidity.”
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