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Justin Swanson @ejswanso.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Viva Last Blues is high on my favorites list. Incredible album.
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Justin Swanson @ejswanso.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Winter, summer, spring or fall, I’m always in my hoodie there
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Justin Swanson @ejswanso.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Here's a fun one we did as Route 66 marks its centennial. Lovely writing, and fun with the photos: all shot on disposable film cameras. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/23/u...
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Time-Traveling Along Route 66, in Cars of the Past, Present and Future
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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 21/05/2026
Huh we wound up in the New York Times about baseball pasta! I think this is a gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/d...
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Baseball Stadiums Have Lax Outside Food Policies. Fans Love It.
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Justin Swanson @ejswanso.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
This was a fun one. Ever wondered who buys tanks and what-have-you? www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/u...
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Backyard Battalions
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Ghostbusters (1984) @ghostbusters1984.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Don't cross the streams.
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Justin Swanson @ejswanso.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
A gift link for bsky www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/w...
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Every Trump Threat to Abandon NATO Hollows It Out
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Justin Swanson @ejswanso.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
It's time for Hot Ones in Space
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The Athletic @theathletic.com · 29/03/2026
For the first time since 2005, the Illinois Fighting Illini are back in the Final Four 🔥
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Ghostbusters (1984) @ghostbusters1984.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
I like that shirt, pal!
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Ghostbusters (1984) @ghostbusters1984.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
There is no Dana, only Zuul!
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Justin Swanson @ejswanso.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
At the punk show when I couldn’t make out the lyrics (Driving bass line and drums, singer growling): I’ve got an upset-upset-upset (Guitars soar, reverb kicks in, moshing intensifies): TUMMMMMMMMY
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Justin Swanson @ejswanso.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
This is such grim stuff. My old paper. It used to win Pulitzers.
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Justin Swanson @ejswanso.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Snagged tickets for the Hold Steady at the Empty Bottle in Chicago in the nick of time. What a rush!
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 06/02/2026
The CIA’s World Factbook, a repository of facts on nations that for six decades provided detailed figures on birth and death rates and major exports, relied upon first by government agents and eventually researchers, educators, journalists and more, was shuttered without warning on Wednesday.
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C.I.A. World Factbook Ends Publication After 6 Decades
The Factbook, a version of which dates to 1962, provided facts, figures, maps and more to generations of economists, professors, journalists and others.
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Bring a Trailer @bringatrailer.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
1963 Chevrolet Corvette Split-Window Coupe Body Shell Project at No Reserve
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No Reserve: 1963 Chevrolet Corvette Split-Window Coupe Body Shell Project
Bid for the chance to own a No Reserve: 1963 Chevrolet Corvette Split-Window Coupe Body Shell Project at auction with Bring a Trailer, the home of the best vintage and classic cars online. Lot #229,779.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 23/01/2026
While the weight of freezing rain, ice and snow can damage branches, there is another kind of injury to trees that comes with the extreme cold, experts say.
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No, Trees Don’t Explode When It Gets Cold, but They Do Go Pop
While the weight of freezing rain, ice and snow can damage branches, there is another kind of injury that comes with the extreme cold, experts say.
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Justin Swanson @ejswanso.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/u... 🎁
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U.S. Attacked Boat With Aircraft That Looked Like a Civilian Plane
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Justin Swanson @ejswanso.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Official lyrics tbh
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The Athletic @theathletic.com · 11/01/2026
Caleb Williams had to grate some cheese after beating the Packers 🧀
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Justin Swanson @ejswanso.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
They finally made Bachelor Chow!
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Baseball Reference @baseball-reference.com · 08/01/2026
The Kyle Farnsworth-Iowa mystery might have been just been solved 🕵️‍♂️
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 08/01/2026
A New York Times video analysis of an ICE agent’s fatal shooting of a woman in Minneapolis contradicts the Trump administration’s account. Watch our investigation here.
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Video: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
An analysis of footage from three camera angles shows that the motorist was driving away from — not toward — a federal officer when he opened fire.
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Dan Saltzstein @dansaltzstein.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
If you haven’t seen it, I cannot recommend more highly this NYT visual investigation of the Capitol riots. Six months and many journalists were involved. An incredibly comprehensive view of what happened.
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Video: Day of Rage: How Trump Supporters Took the U.S. Capitol
A six-month Times investigation has synchronized and mapped out thousands of videos and police radio communications from the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, providing the most complete picture to date of what ha...
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Doug @doug.city · 31/12/2025
My friends are in the Times! Reporter Victor Mather and photographer Vincent Alban (neither of whom I see on this platform) did a great job capturing what makes these adventures so much fun. [Gift link]
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To Say Goodbye to the MetroCard, We Spent a Day Riding Every Transit System That Uses It
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Justin Swanson @ejswanso.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/w...
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Spanish Woman Scorned, Then Loved, for Botched Fresco Restoration Dies at 94
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Justin Swanson @ejswanso.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Lil Dizzy's for fried chicken that might ruin all other fried chicken. Turkey and the Wolf lives up to they hype. Latitude 29. Bar Tonique for great cocktails in a divey atmosphere. Jewel of the South. Saturn Bar. Coquette for a special occasion (wanting an amazing dinner).
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
THE FACT THAT ONE OF THE POP-TARTS CHOSE TO LIVE MAKES THE WHOLE THING WORSE SOMEHOW
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 27/12/2025
CW: straw-goat carnage
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Justin Swanson @ejswanso.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
This is great www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...
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We Let AI Run Our Office Vending Machine. It Lost Hundreds of Dollars.
An AI agent ran a snack operation in the WSJ newsroom. It gave away a free PlayStation, ordered a live fish—and taught us lessons about the future of AI.
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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Friends tell me that John Noble Wilford has died. A giant of American journalism and a genius of science writing across many disciplines, John wrote the most famous lede in the history of journalism: “ Men have landed and walked on the moon.” Godspeed, Noble John. www.nytimes.com/2019/07/18/s...
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The Story of 8 Unforgettable Words About Apollo 11 (Published 2019)
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Justin Swanson @ejswanso.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
It wasn’t very good. Counterproductive in fact.
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Justin Swanson @ejswanso.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Have run into chocolate chips in carrot cake upstate and … now we ask first.
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Davey Alba @davey.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
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jesse jarnow @bourgwick.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
oh, alas, i've been informed that there was another velvet underground of paducah, kentucky, and this was almost certainly them.
teen band also called the Velvet Underground
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Justin Swanson @ejswanso.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Was corrected, it appears
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Justin Swanson @ejswanso.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
When they play football at Wrigley Field
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Justin Swanson @ejswanso.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
I think you’d dig the new Spiritual Cramp.
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Justin Swanson @ejswanso.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Putting a ketchup bottle in front of him in the Vatican cafeteria on hotdog day
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Justin Swanson @ejswanso.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
I (a Cubs fan) once gave a very close friend (a Cardinals fan) Cubs tickets for his birthday. You don’t get many opportunities to gently troll a pope …
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Justin Swanson @ejswanso.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
The weirdest vegetable has to be romanesco cauliflower right?
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Justin Swanson @ejswanso.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
The new Spiritual Cramp is the album I was most looking forward to this year and it is not disappointing
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Dan Saltzstein @dansaltzstein.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Listen, there are loads of reasons to be pessimistic about NYC and flooding. Our aim with this piece, which we've been working on for months, was to lay out the possible solutions as they are, without being naive. I hope we've done that. Please read and share this gift link and lmk what you think.
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What New York Can Do to Survive Flooding (Gift Article)
Adaptation is a matter of survival, and the city may have to throw every solution available at a worsening situation.
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Justin Swanson @ejswanso.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
For the fans of apple season: macouns are showing up and your window for this variety is narrow! Get moving before they turn to mush!
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Bring a Trailer @bringatrailer.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
This 1996 Ford Bronco XLT shows 128k miles, and it's listed now on BaT! bringatrailer.com/listing/1996-ford…
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No Reserve: 1996 Ford Bronco XLT
Bid for the chance to own a No Reserve: 1996 Ford Bronco XLT at auction with Bring a Trailer, the home of the best vintage and classic cars online. Lot #212,394.
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Dan Saltzstein @dansaltzstein.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Legend. May her memory be a blessing.
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Justin Swanson @ejswanso.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Meta for great cocktails. Butchertown Bakery. And yes to Mayan Cafe, Irish Rover, Seviche and Havana Rumba that I've seen some replies cover already.
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Scorigami @nflscorigami.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
🏈 BAL 40 - 41 BUF FINAL ✅ That's Scorigami!! It's the 1092nd unique final score in NFL history.
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Justin Swanson @ejswanso.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
I don’t think it’s fair that the best game of the NFL regular season was in Week 1.
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