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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 22/09/2026

Tyrannosaurus xkcd.com/3300/

Comic. [Person with long hair pointing to diagram with Tyrannosaurus Rex standing next to a person.] PERSON: We now believe the primary prey of Tyrannosaurus Rex was these humans who kept standing next to it for scale.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"Reasoning will never make a Man correct an ill Opinion, which by Reasoning he never acquired." — Jonathan Swift

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Merrymac Farm Sanctuary @merrymacsanctuary.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

We thought you might enjoy ending the day with a peaceful midsummer moment with Babs 🧡 Please share kindness for all beings everywhere 💛 🙏

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 09/09/2026

Not to brag, but our product has been foldable since 1828.

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Casey @drcothran.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

So tricky... Good luck! I honestly think you can't go wrong with any of these. They will all make for interesting class discussion!

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Casey @drcothran.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Also, the Carrie rewrite is supposed to be incredibly powerful. I have a colleague who taught it recently with great success.

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Casey @drcothran.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

There are long discussions in the text about aesthetics and art. My college students sometimes struggle with those. I tend to assign four class periods to the book... But! Go for it if they want a challenge! There's also the interesting history-- how the book functioned in Wilde's trial.

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Casey @drcothran.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Dorian Grey is more philosophical than people think and not the most easy read. It's a wonderful book! But it needs to be broken up into small chunks in order for people to really get it. How much time do you have to assign the book?

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JRho @jrho.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The most absolutely massive flex from the state fair exhibit. This quilt is made of 40 years of prize ribbons from various categories at the New Mexico State Fair won by Carol St. Clair Johnson. She also won a prize for this quilt.

Massive quilt made of prize ribbons in blue, red, yellow, and white

Center square of quilt made of yellow and red ribbons and yellow rosettes

Block of quilt made of blue, yellow, red, and white ribbons. Ribbons state the year. Some have the prize winning object written on in marker

Carol St. Clair Johnson
born 1954; resides Albuquerque, NM

O Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years
2023
satin ribbons

After unexpectedly winning her first blue ribbon for a sewn cape in 1981, Carol St. Clair Johnson developed an enduring love for the New Mexico State Fair. The quilt Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years incorporates more than six hundred of the ribbons she won at the fair every subsequent year except 2020 (when the fair was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic). Johnson earned ribbons for needlework, knitting, crochet, pies, cookies, cakes, canning, jewelry, flowers, vegetables, and potted plants. The title of the quilt is a reference to the state song, and the design places the state's Zia sun symbol at the center. The quilt earned Johnson yet another ribbon: Best in Category (miscellaneous quilt) at the 2023 New Mexico State Fair.

Courtesy of Carol St. Clair Johnson

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Alethea Kontis 알리티아 @aletheakontis.com · 06/09/2026

Rainbow light is the best light… But well-placed sunset rainbow light turns the entire world into someplace pink and peach and orange and magical and otherworldly

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Jan @janstreit.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Ukrainian artist, Arthur Anokhin

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Alethea Kontis 알리티아 @aletheakontis.com · 05/09/2026

The sky is proof that endings can be beautiful

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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Brown bear floating along in Bristol Bay Alaska: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...

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Casey @drcothran.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I love these books so much. I wish he'd write 10 more!

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Kendra, spooky version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

"Break Free" by artist Disha Dua.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Find you a man who says goodbye like John Donne

Dull sublunary lovers' love
(Whose soul is sense) cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
Those things which elemented it.

But we by a love so much refined,
That our selves know not what it is,
Inter-assured of the mind,
Care less, eyes, lips, and hands to miss.

Our two souls therefore, which are one,
Though I must go, endure not yet
A breach, but an expansion,
Like gold to airy thinness beat.

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omgisme @omgisme.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Have some Goats.😍

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Casey @drcothran.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This is such a great photo...

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Monica Morrill @mmorrillart.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Golden Sky II 30x48 acrylic on canvas monica-morrill.jimdosite.com

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

When I’m fully disassociated but I put on my resting interested face

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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 21/08/2026

Never let a writer help you move

A cardboard moving box with EPHEMERA written on it in Sharpie

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Concerned that we are losing the necessary ratio. 15% of teachers/faculty should be irretrievably strange eccentrics. Every learning experience should have some element where in later life you can reflect with former classmates about how bizarre at least one (1) class per year was.

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Casey @drcothran.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

"Why do I... Have to wear... So many things on my head?! Hats!" 😂💗 Love this silly song so much.

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𝙱𝚊𝚋𝚎 𝚁𝚞𝚝𝚑𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚜 @unfitz.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Banana splits are the leading cause of banana divorces.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

the real race will be between those trying to perfect an AI writing detector and those trying to normalize AI writing so no one cares if it is AI or not making said AI detector unnecessary

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Sam Rose @samwho.dev · 13/08/2026

This might be the most beautiful thing I've read in my life. What a privilege to be alive in 2026. ordinaryabundance.com

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Ordinary Abundance

A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

In 1912, a young writer in Reading watched an eclipse. In his journal, he described 'the sky was clear, and very weird the universe seemed; the atmosphere dulled as if charged with volcanic dust, especially on the horizon.' His name was Wilfred Owen. collections.reading.ac.uk/special-coll...

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Wilfred Owen, Mabel Rayner, and a solar eclipse | Special Collections

In our new blog, Dr Rhi Smith reveals the story of Wilfred Owen and Mabel Rayner's chance meeting during a solar eclipse and the impact of each on the life of the other.

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Casey @drcothran.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I'm just a poor boy nobody loves me.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 09/08/2026

"Instead of thinking about AI itself, we should be thinking about its effects. It concentrates power;obfuscates accountability;further despoils nature & climate;is a means of the wholesale expropriation of cultures, languages & lands for massive profit;& it will probably make us lonelier & stupider"

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Stephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Parents Parents 2026 BCE 2026 CE 🤝 "These kids and their damned tablets"

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 06/08/2026

Sending this out to whoever needs to see it: It's okay if you read slowly, there's no great victory in being able to read quickly, everyone kind of has their own reading speed, and that's perfectly fine. I'm just really happy you're reading. I hope it gives you joy at any pace. Thank you!

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.

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Dr Alison Ray @liber-ray.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

These little piggies! In honour of #theodyssey movie, here’s a fantastic scene of Circe transforming Odysseus’s men into pigs, from a French translation of Boccaccio‘s Of Famous Women dated 1403 and now @labnf.bsky.social MS Fr 598, f. 54v 🐷✨

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Bethany Mannon @drbethany.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Invented by men who were unaware of all the work their wives did

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Casey @drcothran.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Laughed out loud multiple times.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

obviously Mitch McConnell is physically fine but has just started watching One Piece

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Casey @drcothran.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I liked this insight: "The operators may no longer have performed the actual calculations, but the vigilant attention demanded by their task was every bit as wearisome as the mental labor that had motivated the invention of calculating machines in the first place" 21).

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Jake Wildstrom @dwildstr.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Between this and the discovery that solar panel shade can actually _increase_ certain crop yields, people are discovering that there are truly extraordinary opportunities to make better use of the earth's surface area with solar panels. There's so much power waiting to be harnessed!

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Casey @drcothran.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

A delightful historical summary 💗

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Irish libraries need to move with the times instead of always lagging behind current trends.

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Vauhini Vara @vauhinivara.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

in 2020, i visited baja to report on a mysterious die-off of grey whales. people were only sort of worried then: this happened, sometimes. Seven years later, though, the whales keep dying — their entire population has nearly halved. And now we know why. my latest, for @orionmagazine.bsky.social. 🐋

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Unusual Mortality Event - Orion Magazine

The mysterious die-off of eastern North Pacific gray whales

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Increasingly sympathetic to druids because by a certain age a lot of your day revolves around brewing various medicinal concoctions and mumbling forgotten lore

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Casey @drcothran.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Especially feeling this bit about professors: "They don’t get rewarded for dealing with a 60-person case of cheating.... They are not incentivized to really prevent cheating or to report it when it occurs … Their time is not compensated." The time it takes to try to police AI cheating is immense.

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