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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.
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Jayson Stark @jaysonst.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Since the Phillies pulled to within one day of clinching, they've been outscored, 25-2.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
OpenAI models independently uploaded user photos that had been shared with ChatGPT to the public internet. This seems a lot worse than hacking. Images you’ve shared with ChatGPT being randomly remembered by an AI agent from its training data then posted to the internet is wild.
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Apple "detectives" wanted to identify a gnarly old tree growing on a remote plot of land in Maine. What they discovered was the key to a centuries-old apple mystery.
scientificamerican.com
How apple detectives solved the mystery of an ancient tree—and rewrote the history of fruit
And how they might have helped save the future of American apples
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Richard Cohen @richardcohen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Amazingly, and amusingly, with one game left to go for all of them, these are the records for the top-seven teams in the WNBA. #WNBA
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Andy Tulin (Subscribe to The Post Presence version) @andytulin.net · 21/09/2026
I laid out the path to the funniest WNBA playoff scenario (5-way tie for 4th through 8th) in today’s newsletter and fwiw the first two results have gone as needed
• Here is the specific path to a five-way tie, if you want to root for total chaos:
• New York goes 3-0 (at
TOR, vs ATL x2)
• Which means means ATL
has gone 0-2 (at NYL x2)
• Washington goes 3-0 (at
IND, vs CT, at CHI)
• Indiana goes 1-1 after losing to Washington (vs
MIN, at MIN)
• Dallas goes 2-0 (at PHX, at
SEA
• There you have it, they're all 28-16!
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Alex Burness @burness.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A big update to an important case: Alaska is dropping charges against a family of American Samoans it had accused of voting crimes. It should not be forgotten that Alaska inflicted enormous hardship and trauma, for years, for a simple, understandable mistake that the state itself helped facilitate.
boltsmag.org
After a Yearslong Nightmare, Relief for American Samoans Punished for Voting - Bolts
Alaska officials for years accused American Samoans caught in a unique legal limbo of illegally voting, but finally dropped those charges this month.
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Philadelphia Phillies @notphillies.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
17 years later and we're still laughing about this clip 🤣 @Cadillac x #RingTheBell
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The broader point here -- which applies equally to Talarico and El-Sayed -- is that the mechanism we have for deciding these things is primaries. Once you start down the road of individual "dealbreakers," it all falls apart because everybody can have one www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/09/you-...
lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
You cannot have bespoke candidates in coalition politics - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Since we are seeing some people on the left of the party suggesting that people not vote for James Talerico, and some people on the center-right of the party suggesting that people not vote for Abdul ...
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Brian Barrish @brianbarrish.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
MALALA SAYS GO BIRDS
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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 14/09/2026
If folks on here want to pretend that the only thing Talarico said was about sports, that's fine—it's also not true. He would ban gender affirming care for 17 year olds. And I'm sure many of you haven't tried to figure out how to keep a trans kid from killing themselves, so you don't get it
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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 04/09/2026
This Finnish guy has been teaching himself Sumerian, and sent a cuneiform tablet to the British Museum to check his progress. They just emailed him that they've sent him something in the post. I'm now thrilled and excited for a total stranger! Clay tablet mail! www.reddit.com/r/Cuneiform/...
a photo of a hand holding a cuneiform tablet
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Emma the Sewer Socialist @mayorseidel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
What cis liberals need to understand about our political situation is that the Democrats turning on us is far, far worse than the Republicans winning, because if we lose the Democrats like we lost Labour in UK, we will have our rights stripped and no path to getting them back.
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Oh no someone let the air out of the catcher
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Amazing story. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
25 years ago, two strangers met in the twin towers and escaped on 9/11. What happened next?
Stanley Praimnath and Brian Clark were two of only four individuals known to have survived above the impact zone in the south tower
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Attention Philadelphia! We're hosting a rally to demand that Drexel University maintain The Academy of Natural Sciences Museum open to the public. Join us on Tuesday morning at 10am in front of the academy. Please spread the word, we need all hands on deck! RSVP here: luma.com/1qwnrqz2
A dinosaur on a white background with the text SAve the academy of Natural sciences museum rally Tuesday Sept 8 10am in front of the academy 1900 ben Franklin Parkway. "Tell Drexel University "Keep the museum open!" with the logos for Philly Science Action, Skype a Scientist, and Green Philly
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
What Pablo Torre did was ridiculously impressive. Uncovered a conspiracy between rich guys, withstood a propaganda campaign by one of the richest guys in the world with a pretty good reputation, didn't buckle or panic, and just kept reporting. That's some Pulitzerin' right there.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 02/09/2026
“After several difficult seasons, we wanted to give Jets fans a shade of green that lets them proudly show their support.” — Hymie Elhai, team president
theonion.com
Jets Hope To Sell More Merchandise With New ‘Philadelphia Eagles’–Themed Jerseys
EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ—Hoping that imagery strongly associated with success and winning will reignite fan enthusiasm, the New York Jets unveiled a line of “Philadelphia Eagles”–themed alternate jerseys T...
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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
It would be amazing if cis people could attempt to grasp how it feels for trans people to hear that large groups of Americans are being tested to see if one of us is hidden among them - because they'll be testing for your personal minority next.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
thing I noticed and now I'm passing it onto you so you have to notice it too: Score graphics now exclusively centered in the bottom-middle of the screen so they show up in vertical video
UNC-TCU scorebug right in the middle of the screenAmazon scorebug right in the middle of the screenCBS scorebug right in the middle of the screenFOX scorebug right in the middle of the screen
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Jessica Riedl @jessicabriedl.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
NEW from me @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social - What's been happening with bond auctions & interest rates? - What was Treasury's "Bond buyback" response and did it work? - How does a debt-and-interest-rate spiral work & what are the risks? All addressed here: thedispatch.com/article/bond...
thedispatch.com
Can the U.S. Avoid a Dangerous Debt Spiral?
The financial markets are sending out warning signals, but no one is listening.
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Haunted Hannah 👻 🍂🎃 @hannahposts.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
If i were a nationalist, I would not name the smallest great lake after my nation. The implication is that we're lake inferior
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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.
Sorry, I can’t type that.
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Kill Tim Faust 💀 @tbone.malware-virus.biz · 26/08/2026
my wife has a friend who sent Dolly Parton a painting she made & a letter explaining how much Dolly's music meant to her while she was transitioning. Dolly responded to it personally & paid for her top surgery. Sounds like an urban legend but it's real. I think we're going to more stories like this.
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Gaius (from Tribunate) @gaius.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
You’ve got to understand the WNBA’s dilemma here: on one side are the hardcore, dedicated socially liberal fanbase who supported the league during the dark days when it was barely profitable and on the other side are the people who hate women and don’t think the WNBA should exist.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
any time you can chase off one of your starters by recruiting a player from the country that threw the greatest player you ever coached in prison, you simply have to do it
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I attempted to put words to what's been going on in my life:
thehandbasket.co
My miscarriage
A personal update from Marisa.
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Mike Lynch @sportinfo247.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The Phillies are the only team in the baseball reference db to score at least 6 runs in a 9-inning walk-off win after being scoreless and down to their last out
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Knowable Magazine @knowablemag.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
😱 What do Edvard Munch’s The Scream, the fall of the Mongol Empire, and the Black Death have in common? 🌋 Volcanoes! Scientists are finding links between these events and works of art and huge volcanic eruptions that happened hundreds—sometimes thousands—of miles away. ✍️ @alexwitze.bsky.social
knowablemagazine.org
Volcanoes that made history
Long after the lava stopped flowing, enormous eruptions altered Earth’s climate and societies all over the globe
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 21/08/2026
This is the funniest shit. Florida allows religious exemptions for vaccines. Catholic schools in Florida: we require vaccines. Florida's attorney general, who is Catholic, is threatening to pull vouchers if they don't allow for religious exemptions The Bishops: separation of church & state
miamiherald.com
Catholic bishops remind attorney general about separation of church and state
“The government may not decide that Church teaching is insufficiently religious,” wrote the Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops.
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Evan Manvel @evanmanvel.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
One of my favorite trivia notes: for one hour each year, clocks in parts of Florida and Oregon are at the same time. (When Western panhandle FL Central Time sets clocks back, and SE Oregon Mountain Time hasn't yet done the same).
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Brian Jay Jones @brianjayjones.com · 12/08/2026
On August 12, 1960, Dr. Seuss published what would become his biggest-selling book of all time. Written as the result of a $50 bet between Seuss and his publisher at Random House, Bennett Cerf, the book, by some estimates, has sold north of 200 million copies. The book? Green Eggs and Ham. /1
An original 1960 copy of Dr. Seuss's GREEN EGGS AND HAM.
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Brian Jay Jones @brianjayjones.com · 12/08/2026
For the rest of his life, Dr. Seuss would find himself at book signings and dinners in his honor where he would be served plates filled with green eggs and ham. “Deplorable stuff,” he said later, “The worst was on a yacht in six-foot seas.” /28
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Matt Winkelman @mattwinkelman.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Also it has been months of talking to progressives who agreed with Hong who had fear about an Asian woman winning the general election. Which is a real problem with the state and the country.
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Rich Hofmann @richhofmann.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The Philadelphia Phillies have won a game started by their No. 5 starter for the first time in almost three months.
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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 08/08/2026
Lmao see this is the appropriate place for a judge to have a little fun

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ENDORSED ORDER denying without prejudice 678 Defendant LGBCoin, LTD's Emergency Time-Sensitive Motion for One-Day Extension of Deadline to Conduct In-Person Meeting to Prepare Joint Final Pretrial Statement. In the aforementioned 678
Motion, filed at 3:00pm eastern standard time on August 3, 2026,
Defendant LGBCoin, LTD requests that the Court rule on the Motion by 12:00pm eastern standard time on August 3, 2026. This request is denied as a metaphysical impossibility.
Defendant has leave to refile the 678
Motion once counsel understands the space time continuum. See StarTalk, Cosmic Queries - Pure Spacetime, StarTalk Media (July 7, 2026), https://startalk-
radio.simplecast.com/episodes/cosmic-
queries-pure-spacetime. Signed by
Judge Paul G. Byron on 8/4/2026. (JRI)
(Entered: 08/04/2026)


Main
Doc
Order on Motion for Extension of Time to File
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Your Evil Twin, Skippy 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ @twinskippy.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Golden State Valkyries forward Gabby Williams: “There’s a lot of discourse around trans athletes and what they can compete in. I would welcome a trans athlete on my team or against my team. Anytime. I don’t think it’s a problem in the world, it’s just another way to kind of attack trans people.”
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Jason Fry @jasoncfry.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Those of you eager to serve wealthy MLB owners as volunteer Pinkertons won’t like to read this, but as usual Joe Sheehan nails the real problem:
Joe Sheehan: This trade is a microcosm of the real problem MLB has faced for decades. It’s not about haves and have-nots, but wants and want-nots. The Dodgers, and teams like them, want to win more than teams like the Tigers do, so they go out and acquire the Tigers’ best pitcher. MLB has built an entire labor strategy and media campaign around demonizing the Dodgers, when in fact it’s the Tigers who are wrecking baseball. You have to be through the looking glass to think the sport’s problem is the team that’s trying to win rather than the team that’s trading Tarik Skubal while sitting 2 1/2 games out of a playoff spot.
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Whotony @tonydewald.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Has a team ever fired 2 managers in one season?
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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
This story is INSANE. www.qcnews.com/news/investi...
qcnews.com
SLED arrests McBee police chief, others connected to QCN ‘Officer Down’ series
Multiple current and former members of the McBee Police Department turned themselves in to agents with the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) on Monday morning in Chesterfield County.
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Daniel Jalkut @danielpunkass.punkitup.com · 24/07/2026
I had Claude Fable identify 100 bugs, and then asked Claude Opus to tackle large swaths of them. On a day when I've been busy with other things, went swimming, etc., I've already closed 25 substantial bugs. And I reviewed them all. LLMs are better at improving human output than replacing it.
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🎃 🧙🏻‍♀️Yell 👻 Growler💀🎃 @yaelwrites.com · 23/07/2026
I fed three months of rejection emails to an LLM and had it write a composite. I shared it with some friends, who told me I should post it publicly, so here it is! blog.yaelwrites.com/thank-you-fo...
blog.yaelwrites.com
Thank You For Your Interest
A composite of job rejection emails. Claude wrote it. I just cut things.
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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
"New Democratic President Bobo McSnappyPants set out her foreign policy priorities on the first day of her term, focusing on securing US access to the Strait of Iran"
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Abraham Gutman @abgutman.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Help us. We are fighting for a fair contract that protects The Philadelphia Inquirer's journalism, our livelihoods, and our healthcare. We need you. If you value local news and what we do, *please* sign and share our petition: phillynewsguild.com Let our management know we are not alone.
phillynewsguild.com
Fair Contract Now — NewsGuild of Greater Philadelphia
Sign the petition. Stand with Philadelphia Inquirer workers fighting for a fair contract.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
This story is crazy. It would appear Trump admin officials rigged their nationally televised high school civics contest to keep a young man from a Sikh family out of the finalists. www.notus.org/national/ame...
notus.org
Suspicion and Doubt at the National Civics Contest
America’s finest young scholars competed to mark their country's birthday. It led to a disputed finish in the age of mistrust.
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
in 2016 @spikefriedman.bsky.social and another college buddy of ours got in an argument about who's better at parallel parking. we decided to hold a contest judged by the rest of the group—but ten years hence, so they'd each have that time to practice. yesterday i got this google notification:
Google event reminder: Parallel Parking Face-Off, July 26, 2026 at 12:00 PM
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Pat Gallen, CBS Sports Philadelphia @patgallen.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
With the Phillies: Derek Hill 1.2 WAR - 24+ games Nick Castellanos 1.1 WAR - 602 games
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Bryan Fischer @bryandfischer.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
The only team not to lose to Spain at the World Cup? Cape Verde.
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Ben Allen @evodynamics.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Congrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...
bostonglobe.com
Trump administration limits student visas to four years, changing longstanding policy - The Boston Globe
The new rule, which also restricts the international students’ ability to transfer schools or change majors without approval in their first year, will go into effect in mid-September.
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Jesus Zoidberg: Snaps Under Center? No, Shotgun now! @jesuszoidberg.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
If I wanted to see a team with 2 hits and no runs at CBP, I'd go to a Phillies game.
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