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Elisende

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Drinker of scotch, admirer of trees

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 22h
This is the America we are fighting for
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.
, it's
and I
have some personal news to share with you.
Being a mom is one of the greatest joys of my life, and I feel deeply that we should have salad tonight
This year has been challenging in many ways, and I have immense gratitude for the kindness and support of family, community, and people like you who have continued to stand by me through everything. It means the world, and I wanted you to be among the first to know that squash is in the oven and kale is in the fridge.As many of you are aware, ve been navigating one of the most challenging periods of my day while waiting for dinner.
Facing baseless federal hunger brought on by not eating since lunch, fighting for the working kids of this country, and now caring for a mean toddler and helping him grow up in a world that isn't always easy. But it has also reminded me exactly why I do this work and who I do it for.
I will never stop working to eat dinner. I will never stop fighting for what is right, even when there is also some feta in the fridge. And I will never stop being so very thankful that you are by my side in this important work and that there is tahini in the pantry for dressing
With love and gratitude,
stop to end
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The tweet that immediately came to mind:
We're a modest company with modest goals:
1: sell a quality product at a fair price
2: drain the world's oceans so we can find and kill god
6:19 PM • Oct 21, 2014 • Twitter for iPhone
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Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This poll from Cook is bonkers. A *huge* plurality of voters (43% overall, 61% of Ds) want Dems to focus on changing the political system overall vs. just opposing (21%, 36% of Ds) or working with Trump (35%, 3% of Ds).
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Mike Melton @mikemelton.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Such a great bird, the Violet-backed Starling for #birdoftheday #iridescence Kruger National Park, South Africa #birds #nature
Purple bird with a dark face and white belly perched upright on a branch against a soft green background.
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For the Love of Missy @missybbbobtail.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
My cat has 2 lap settings: 1. You attempted to lift your leg, but I am the weight of 10,000 dying suns, & I will not be disturbed. You will perish here. 2. You moved your ankle 1/10000th of an inch. I am leaving immediately. You've offended not only me but my ancestors.
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iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
In Star Trek people often complain that replicated food is not as good as naturally produced food, which is weird when replicators are presumably using the same technology as transporters, which can perfectly replicate Spock every time. But is Spock getting less flavoursome over time? In this essay,
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Elisende @elisende.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 15/08/2026
now celebrating 83.5 million years of winning
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Kate Lingley 龍梅若 @klingley.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Buddhism in the wild (photo by Jerry Feldman, Target Honolulu)
View of an end-cap display at Target, with a sign above it saying “Must have!” The shelves are empty.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
A sadde thinge that we have to worke arounde alwayes ys that the quiet, steadye, patient labor and kyndenesse required to holde up the worlde and keepe us all goinge ys nevir a newes item. Unshowye, ordinarye, hard-won skill at the job you must do for othirs to get on. The greatest honor ys there.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The Republican Party has gone full mask-off Nazi; meanwhile the media narrative being pushed 24/7 is “ahhh! Democrats are being taken over by socialist radicals!!” and their terrifying examples are Miss Rachel, a doctor who wants you to have healthcare, and the friendliest mayor in American history.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 31/07/2026
it’s never a great sign for your society when all the competent people who believe in doing a good job for the sake of it conclude that they’re actively being punished for these qualities, while malignantly stupid criminals are making bank
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Thank you, Ken. Your job is done. You have been unshackled and can leave the hole now.
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AndaliteBandit @andalitebandit.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Found this on Tumblr with the caption, "Saw a fire, stopped his car, got out and Madonna'd the fuck out of those flames". I want him carnally.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 20/07/2026
Study Finds There Aren’t Enough Occasions Where You Get To Eat Rolls theonion.com/study-finds-there-aren…
Study Finds There Aren’t Enough Occasions Where You Get To Eat Rolls
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Capital Weather @capitalweather.com · 05/07/2026
Watch freedom spread from east to west via particle pollution levels last night. In DC, it was rough as usual -- AQI peaking at unhealthy to hazardous. You'll probably notice lingering effects this morning. Details: www.capitalweather.com/air-quality-...
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Jeff Spencer @revjss.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Graphic offering advice on “How to survive the global heatwave.” It says:
Stay hydrated.
Treat yourself to an ice cream.
Dismantle the fossil fuel industry which is literally burning the planet for the short term profit of a vanishingly small capitalist class.
Loose fitting clothing.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 03/07/2026
Holes xkcd.com/3266/
Comic: Holes. Elevation is to scale relative to sea level and ground level. Land shapes and horizontal distances are not to scale. [Lines for every 1k meters starting from -12k up to +4k: Bingham Canyon Mine (US), Veryovkina Cave (Georgia), MPONENG Gold Mine (South Africa), Sanford Laboratory (US), Giant Crystal Cave (Mexico), Derinkugo Underground City (Turkey), WIPP (US), Restof Salt Mine, with an arrow pointing at the bottom that reads “oops” (US), San Andreas Fault Observatory Borehole (US) CFB North Bay (Canada), Woodingdean Water Well (dug by hand) (United Kingdom), Diefen-Bunker (Canada), Deep Underground Command Center (Canceled in 1965) (US), Lake Peigneu, with another oops arrow next to it (US), Sydney Opera House Parking (Australia), Onkalo Spent Nuclear Fuel Repository (Finland), Hudson River, Delaware Aqueduct (US), Raven Rock (US), Wieliczka and Bochina Salt Mines (Poland), Atchison Storage Facility (US), Snolab (Canada), Detroit Salt Mine (US), Hongyancun Subway Station (China), Nuclear Test Shafts (North Korea), Super Kamiokande Neutrino Detector (Japan), Gran Sasso Laboratory (Italy), Peak above Gran Sasso, Modane Laboratory (France), Peak above Modane Laboratory, Gotthard Tunnel (Switzerland), Peak above Cheyenne Bunker and Gotthard Tunnel, Cheyenne Mountain Bunker (US), Kola Superdeep Borehole (Russia) - deepest artificial point below surface at -11917m, Lake Baikal (Russia), sediments under Lake Baikal, IDDP-2 Borehole (Iceland), Dead Sea (multiple countries), Ryfylke Tunnel (Norway), Pantal Remis Mine with another oops arrow (Malaysia), Great Blue Hole (Belize), Joides Resolution Expedition 307 (Atlantic Ocean), Deepwater Horizon Borehole (Gulf of Mexico) - deepest artificial point below sea level at -11944m, Glomar Challenger Hole 504B (Pacific Ocean), Mohole (Pacific Ocean), Joides Resolution Expedition 329 (Pacific Ocean), Mariana Trench (Pacific Ocean)]
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Elisende @elisende.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
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Elisende @elisende.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 15/06/2026
Is it carbon monoxide
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 11/06/2026
Scientists discover 149 new marine species off Christmas and Cocos (Keeling) Islands
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New species found in Australia's most 'pristine' marine parks
Researchers have catalogued dozens of new marine species found in the depths of Australia's most remote waters. The result is a window into a rarely glimpsed world.
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Abigail Nussbaum @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Oh man, this one really hurts. Thank you for Giles, and then for decades of playing oily bastards who were nothing like Giles and clearly having a ball with that. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Anthony Head: Buffy and Ted Lasso actor dies at 72
The 72-year-old British actor also had roles in shows including Merlin and Little Britain.
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 24/11/2023
If you didn't know this already have a fact to brighten your day. This is my cat Boris when he played Jones in Aliens. He was picked because he would hiss on camera because he was not a nice guy.
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Just saying…. #BookSky
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Elisende @elisende.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
This is genuinely grim. I occasionally think that it is not humanly possible to hate these people more and then they prove me wrong.
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Elisende @elisende.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
This is FABULOUS.
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Michael LaFrance @mlafrance.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines
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Ol' Chef Dan @olchefdan.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Honestly, one of the funniest tweets I've ever seen.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
"For a mere $10 million gift, you can help us remake the intellectual landscape by endowing a prestigious chair in an underrepresented subfield, such as geocentric astronomy, high-energy phlogiston physics, or patriotic history." Well played, @mcsweeneys.net. Well played.
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We’re Diversifying the University by Hiring More Crackpots
“For too long, the university has ignored the wisdom of the donor class and hired based on academic excellence. Regrettably, this has led to the underreprese...
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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Ever wondered why walking around museums is weirdly tiring? At normal speed our legs act like pendulums, swinging forward from the hip & saving us a huge amount of energy. In "museum shuffle" our muscles must do ALL the work of constant readjustment. So cake in the cafe is scientifically justified 🥳
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
an underrated factor of "why is everything so shit" is that we haven't had stable congressional majorities in 20 years, congress doesn't know how to congress because it hasn't congressed in decades, and most of congresses procedures suck which makes the rest of the government suck
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 18/05/2026
This is a composite of the Moon, Mars, and Earth I made. The Moon and Earth are from Artemis II, and Mars is from the Psyche mission. Each image was taken *in the last six weeks*
Three crescents. Top: the Moon. Midde: Mars. Bottom: Earth. Background: the infinite black of space.
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Terrible Maps @terriblemapshq.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
The true size of Japan compared to South Korea
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
This 1952 memo from the Pentagon UFO files is superb There is no point preparing for aliens ‘because no one of consequence is going to take this rubbish seriously unless it happens. At that point, our policy will be determined in the traditional manner of grand panic.’ 🤣 www.war.gov/medialink/uf...
There likely is nothing to be done at the moment to prepare for these possibilities (the only body of writing on the subject available in an emergency is science fiction), because no one of consequence is going to take this rubbish seriously unless it happens. At that point, our policy will be determined in the traditional manner of grand panic.

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Openly Gay Animals 🌈 @openlygayanimals.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Just a deer relaxing in a dog bed while the storm rolls in - to brighten your scrolling ⛈
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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 07/05/2026
happy Tom Holland stormwater management day to all who celebrate.
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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Anyone else fucking sick of Brian May planting daffodils in his village www.ctvnews.ca/entertainmen...
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Queen guitarist Brian May barred from planting daffodils in his village on safety grounds
Legendary rocker Brian May became a local hero in the quiet English village where he lives when he donated thousands of daffodil bulbs to brighten up the green outside the church last year.
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Victoria Rose Richards @aerialembroidery.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
'Beltsville Agricultural Research Centre', Maryland - I was privately commissioned to memorialise the BARC by a past employee after learning it will be shut down by the USDA after over 100 years of research. They wanted to focus of this aerial embroidery to be the field plots... 1/3 (see thread)
An embroidery hoop containing an aerial view embroidered landscape. It depicts the BARC in Maryland with green and brown field plots and a building area in the bottom right corner.A zoomed-in angled view of an aerial embroidery. It shows field plots and buildings.A zoomed-in angled view of an aerial embroidery. It shows field plots and buildings.
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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Absolutely bonkers footage of Ukrainian soldiers shooting down Russian drones in prop planes with shotguns. Not ai, came from an official Ukrainian account and verified by the WSJ.
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Absolutely incredible. NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone. Watch with sound on.
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Elisende @elisende.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
@johnpaul.bsky.social Have you seen this?l
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Elisende @elisende.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
TIL there's a Finnish adaptation of LotR.
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 27/03/2026
A family can be five Godzillas. Just three Shin Godzillas and two Godzillas Kings of the Monsters and nobody else
Godzilla action figures on a store shelf as described in the post
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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Have you read this? www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Katherine Rundell · Consider the Greenland Shark
I am glad not to be a Greenland shark; I don’t have enough thoughts to fill five hundred years. But I find the very...
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John Q Public @conjurial.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
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