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And with that, I'm off for the rest of the day. I don't know about you, but the news feels so bad-weird to me that I'm having trouble getting my head around it... Going out for soup dumplings and noodles with the family 🎉🥟🍜🎂🎉—celebrating another trip around the sun for yrs truly.

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John P @drhypercube.bsky.social · 5h

In today's post—ty @lifewinning.com . And a felicitous 1st page to open to! 33 Thomas St. was a stop as my friend Robin & I biked across NYC summer 2025. She's been inside!!!

33 Thomas is probably one of the more haunting-looking buildings on the city landscape. Another AT&T Long Lines building, it was completed in 1974 at a time when many of the operations previously performed by switchboard operators had been automated into machine tasks

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John P @drhypercube.bsky.social · 8h

Leaves are starting to turn.

Maple tree with some gold and orange foliage. Most leaves are still green.

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John P @drhypercube.bsky.social · 13h

Speaking as one who is moved by cave art and is heartsick about the likely Fed vandalism in the Lower Pecos, THIS!

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 13h

The problem with AI art is that it's human only in the sense that Soylent Green is people.

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John P @drhypercube.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Also v excited about @debcha.bsky.social 's upcoming TACTILE!

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Ethan Hein @ethanhein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Excited to learn that @debcha.bsky.social is writing another book because her last one, How Infrastructure Works, is a banger

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Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Some news: I’m (officially!) writing another book, tentatively titled TACTILE: MATTER, TECHNOLOGY, AND THE WORLD WE MAKE, working again my brilliant editor @armadilloproxy.bsky.social at @riverheadbooks.bsky.social. I wrote a bit more about it at my newsletter: buttondown.com/metafoundry/...

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Deal Report

TACTILE
By Deb Chachra
Imprint: Riverhead

Materials scientist, design educator, and author of HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS Deb Chachra's TACTILE, an articulation of the irreplaceable value of the material world and why the ways we interact with physical objects matter more than ever in a digital age, to Courtney Young at Riverhead, in an exclusive submission, by Zoe Pagnamenta at Calligraph (world).

Rights: tdussel@penguinrandomhouse.com

Non-fiction: Science/Technology

September 22, 2026

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Some of the voters with the ability to weigh in on the Senate race, unlike in other states!

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Today is World Cassowary Day! The 12yo likes specificity so of the 3 species he’s declaring a Southern Cassowary Appreciation Day. Personally I appreciate that they are terrifying. Endangered in Australia there remains a healthy population in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.

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World Cassowary Day 2026: Celebrating the Rainforest's Keystone Gardener 🎥

Every 26 September, conservationists, schools, zoos and nature lovers mark World Cassowary Day — a chance to celebrate one of the planet's most extraordinary birds and spread the word about why it mat...

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John P @drhypercube.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Tempted to zip down to the beach to watch waves and surfers. It being a Saturday, though, I probably won't. Too many other folks will be doing the same thing.

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John P @drhypercube.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Quote-skeeting with the only song that, imho, holds a candle to Prisencolinensinainciusol: youtu.be/FhAfXTzR2rQ?...

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WKRP End Theme

YouTube video by 11db11

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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Chris Cantwell @cdc29.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My first post explores the people John James #Audubon enslaved, and so far as I've been able to tell this may be the first time these names have been put to print. My hope is that it is the first of many post on the histories behind the birding world /end avianamericana.substack.com/p/a-is-for-a...

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A is for Audubon

Or, what how I spent my summer vacation.

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John P @drhypercube.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Look at the size of that bumble's aster! #nativeplants

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John P @drhypercube.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Good mail day! I'm probably too old to build & ride a tall bike (I take too long to heal nowadays), but "just make stuff you're passionate about" is always a welcome message.

The cover of the Zenga Bros. "Be a Fool".

Interior pages of "Be a Fool", showing a human perch.

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John P @drhypercube.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

1) this should not be happening to the FiL 2) scumbag LePage voted for and enabled it

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James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

First ballot entry into the "leopards eating faces" Hall of Fame:

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

As shocking as this case is I know @czedwards.bsky.social is shaking their head at the same thing I am - this is some PISS POOR MONEY LAUNDERING. Check 1001 of a brand new account? Jesus we used to be a proper country.

A check made out for
$150,000 to Susan Collins’s
PAC, check number 1001

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John P @drhypercube.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

TX:Whattaburger::NM:Blake's::CA:In-N-Out

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Child: This is my first time meeting a mayor. Mamdani: Wow, have you ever met a prime minister? Child: No Norway PM Jonas Gahr Støre: *walks over*

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The 70s Guy @stevenw888.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Born 22 Sept 1943, Toni Basil, US singer actress & dancer (1982 US No.1 single 'Mickey'). She worked as David Bowie's choreographer on his Diamond Dogs tour & on his Glass Spider tour. In 1980 she choreographed, and co-directed with David Byrne, the music video for "Once in a Lifetime". #ToniBasil

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

this is full of meaning

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John P @drhypercube.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

All hail Count Louis Zborowski! youtu.be/Qlh_P4K_zzU...

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John P @drhypercube.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I think it's time to start the season of HORROR! I'm going to save Flesh for Frank & Blood for Drac for later; can't decide between The Lair of the White Worm (re-watch) and Frank vs. Drac (new to me) for tonight... youtu.be/oRUCDM_VVMw?...

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Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971) Theatrical Trailerr | DISCAPE Film Database

YouTube video by DISCAPE Film Database

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John P @drhypercube.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A bit tired of all the Pikachu costumes, but Cosmog Pikachu and the upcoming Spaaaaace Pikachu are right up my alley.

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old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · 21/09/2026

day's cottages, north truro, massachusetts, 1984

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Your reminder of the most useful term in modern economic and social discussions ... bsky.app/profile/john...

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Jonathan C Slaght @jonathanslaght.com · 17/09/2026

The #BirdOfTheDay theme is #ODG (any Owl, Duck or Goose) - you better believe I am bringing out the largest owl in the world, the magnificent, salmon-eating Blakiston's fish owl of northeast Asia 🦉

Blakiston's fish owl. Photograph (c) Jonathan Slaght

Balding, bearded man with Blakiston's fish owl. Photograph (c) Sergey Avdeyuk

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

we're choosing a worse world *and it's not even cheaper*

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

these people axed their writing center

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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 16/09/2026

I'm going to say a related thing to this thing, not a "this thing I'm saying is more important than this" thing: I'm not sure a lot of folks understand (1) how absolutely the fuck foul this advertising is and (2) how close we are to seeing ads like this about criminalizing people who have abortions

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John P @drhypercube.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I'll stop reposting as soon as I stop singing it to myself. 🙃

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John P @drhypercube.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

🎵 smokin' bare foot pets/watchin' Captain Kangaroo/now don't tell me/I've nothing to do 🎵

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

In a word, Frederick Cuvier’s Sperm Whale is not a Sperm Whale, but a squash.

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John P @drhypercube.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

🎵 smokin' bare foot pets/watchin' Captain Kangaroo/now don't tell me/I've nothing to do 🎵

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John P @drhypercube.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Just made reservations at the 1st stop in the 26-27 peregrination: a hot springs just outside Bishop CA. Soak 'em if you got 'em!

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Blue whale news @bluewhalenews.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Really cool paper shows how blue whales (and other lunge-feeders) raise their upper jaw to prevent falling over when they open their lower jaw and inflate the pouch for gulp feeding. Results based on video, physical models, and simulation models. Fish et al. 2026 doi.org/10.1111/mms....

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"More than anything, what stood out to me about the process of photographing these devices was geography: they exist at the boundaries of rich neighborhoods like Piedmont to track who enters; they exist embedded in poor neighborhoods to track the people who live there. Place exposes their purpose."

recordsofenemysurveillance.com

cara esten hurtle

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Shannon E French @sefrench.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

All this latest wave of AI-will-kill-us-all nonsense is really just the panicking of tech CEOs who realize they won’t be able to escape the economic consequences of the AI Bubble they’ve recklessly built unless they can provoke the government into nationalization AI research and buying them out. 🤖 🫧

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John P @drhypercube.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

PPC + bald ibises wearing telemetry backpacks + Plastic Bertrand = big grin on my face www.instagram.com/reel/DdGklqx...

instagram.com

Instagram

Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you.

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Neil Banas @neilbanas.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

(slightly) new #origami #nudibranch design. If you're in Glasgow, come by Doors Open Days at The Briggait for many more! waspsstudios.org.uk/open-studios... background: an Anna Atkins cyanotype, as seen recently in the @lrb.co.uk. (Algal cyanotypes are critical habitat for origami nudibranchs.)

A bluebrown nudibranch glides heavenward atop a bluewhite blade of seaweed. The nudibranch is origami designed and folded by Neil (origamiplankton.org) and the seaweed is a cyanotype by Anna Atkins, 1853.

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John P @drhypercube.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I think I have a plan for today's bike errands: 1) over the side of Mt Agamenticus to Flo's Dogs for lunch 2) up the coast road to the Ogunquit Museum of Am Art for Nicholas Galanin & Kara Walker 3) Scoop Deck for a cone & to drop my copy of Ehon Taka Kagami for pen&ink additions 🙌💅

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