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Frankenstein Iscariot @deaconblues1979.bsky.social · 21h

The problem with society is nobody wants to be a ham for Halloween anymore

Scout from To Kill A Mockingbird dressed as a ham and yeah, I know it was for a school play and not for Halloween, come on, I am from the South, give me some credit

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Photography by Elliot McGucken

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Erin Alberty @erinalberty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I can't even trust AI to tell a decent photo from a terrible one. My phone thinks it can, but it keeps choosing pictures where one person's eyes are closed and the other's mouth is half-open — while burying the one where everyone looks lovely!

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Erin Alberty @erinalberty.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I saw 2 rhinos fight at Etosha, and there was NOTHING like this anger. They even had rules, with a pausa de hidratacion, and a clear submission & departure. No attempt to injure; just shoving. I guess they can tell when it's just business & when it's time for the horn. youtube.com/shorts/qjDWF...

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Raging rhino attacks safari car

YouTube video by ABC News

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"He only did this because people protested." Yes. Exactly. Proving protest works AND people can evolve.

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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I’m just saying Billie Joe MacAllister should’ve survived that jump.

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BOGLUDDITE @brucemackay.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is the face of a man who knows he is about to become a meme.

The Pope looking bleak because someone has gifted him Rasputin's soul and is resigned to the fact that the photo of this moment is going to go viral.

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 17/09/2026

THE 1998 CADILLAC GOPHEARSE IS FOR SALE ONLY 3,000 BUCKS

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1998 Cadillac DeVille • Hearse
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Listed over a week ago in Anoka, MN
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 16/09/2026

We obtained recordings of 160+ emergency calls made from or about an immigration detention center where three people died within six weeks. “They will not give them medical treatment,” one caller said, seeking help for a detainee with kidney stones.

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Listen to 911 Calls From Inside an Immigration Detention Center: “We Just Need to Take Him to the Hospital”

Reporters don’t have access to Camp East Montana, one of the largest immigration detention centers in the country. Emergency calls from the Texas facility offer a glimpse of unfolding crises faced by ...

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lumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

HELLO MY BABY HELLO MY DARLIN HELLO MY RAGTIME GAAAL

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Sunrise over the Faroe Islands.

A distant band of light in the dark signifies a coming sunrise.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Neither Trump nor his wife are in attendance at this year’s ceremony, notwithstanding the AP photo editor’s bullshit.

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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 10/09/2026

The fact we have an executive class that doesn't know what to do with the Looney Tunes or The Muppets really sums up what a joyless, barren world they inhabit.

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Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

When Gemini sounds like Fox News. By the way I don’t use this crap. I entered the question on Google and now the default is this AI nonsense

Gemini chat calling May Day “radical socialist”

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 04/09/2026

YAY DADA ZADDY

Black and White photo from 1916 showing a white man in a strange costume with a tall cylinder on his head

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Erin Alberty @erinalberty.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Utah software engineer/influencer/recent Pentagon hire DataRepublican says her socialist tracker is a "personal project." Critics are skeptical that her undisclosed Defense role is actually separate from her personal projects. www.axios.com/local/salt-l...

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Utah's "DataRepublican" launches socialist tracker

The rightwing personality says it's a "personal project." Critics say it's a tool to spy on citizens.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 01/09/2026

you can always tell when all the Harvard/Yale/Princeton guys in the media have decided to talk about something

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Erin Alberty @erinalberty.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

As Utah's late sunsets slowly come earlier, it's worth weighing whether they'll keep their appeal as summer temps get hotter. Daylight Saving Time puts us about about 90 minutes out of whack with a "normal" day, based on solar noon. www.axios.com/local/salt-l...

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Daylight comes and stays late in Utah with or without DST

As days get hotter, Utahns will have to decide whether late sunsets still have appeal.

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Wannabe Apparatchik @apparatchikwannabe.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

it is incredibly noticeable here that the pretty much explicit position of cottle is “black people’s opinions don’t count, they need to accept what Real America says”

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 28/08/2026

Side note: This is why my toddler already knows who Dolly Parton is — her picture is on the back of some of the books we read together. Saying "The end — and that's Dolly!" has been a phrase used in our house when finishing these books for a while now.

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Erin Alberty @erinalberty.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Monte, whose gourmet tasting menus are served next to a fire extinguisher store on an industrial street in South Salt Lake, has earned Utah's first Michelin star. www.axios.com/local/salt-l...

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South Salt Lake's Monte wins Utah's first Michelin star

A mention in the famously choosy guide is a huge boon for a restaurant's reputation and business.

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Holy shit.

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I am very glad I ignored my reflex of “79 posts in a thread? Nooo…” and read this. I hope you also do that.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I appreciate that Dolly Parton refused to participate in "dress respectability" and, by her own account, modeled her aesthetic after a town "tramp," who she thought was beautiful. She separated aesthetics from character and understood "classiness" to be about how you treat people, not how you dress.

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Daryl Hannah @dhlovelife.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Dolly broke me in early to her raucous self deprecating sense of humor when we began steel magnolias rehearsals i asked her - how long does it take to do a hair do like yours? Dolly - no idea, i’m never there when they do it! i started taking Dolly-isms notes on the back of my script after that

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Erin Alberty @erinalberty.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

It feels scary hot outside right now.

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Erin Alberty @erinalberty.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I just started looking up the words I don't know when I play NYT Spelling Bee, and today I learned there's a word for baby eels.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I once worked at a university that gutted an entire (very popular and useful) learning center and replaced it with two guys who would teach you how to host blogs. every student had to have a blog. Every single one. Our syllabus had to mention blogs. We had to teach WITH blogs.

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Erin Alberty @erinalberty.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

More Utah parents are refusing vaccines, with kindergarten exemptions spiking again as kids returned to school last year amid a measles outbreak In some parts of the state, kindergarteners' polio vaccine coverage has also fallen below herd immunity levels. www.axios.com/local/salt-l...

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Utah's vaccine exemptions spiked amid measles outbreak

Immunization counts also fell below herd immunity for whooping cough — and, in some aras, polio.

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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

“If I try to take away the gloves from those officers at this point I think we may have a mutiny on our hands.They’ve grown really attached.”The gloves allow their wearer to inflict pain without leaving an officer vulnerable to lawsuits," Glueck said. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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The Orwellian Company Behind ICE’s New Electric Shock Gloves

“With a glove, there are no burn marks or scars.” That makes it hard for victims to sue.

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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

While not part of their usual behaviour, bats can swim, especially in stressful situations if the need arises. And they are indeed surprisingly good at it. Original post

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J. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Is AI convincing seniors to stop taking their meds? Worrying deep dive by Cody Sumter, who monitored a slopiverse of 150 medical advice YouTube channels for months as they put out daily videos of dangerous advice, with millions of views. cc @mantzarlis.com codysumter.substack.com/p/this-is-me...

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This is Medical Advice*

The AI slop doctors of YouTube, and the prompts instructing them to lie

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Erin Alberty @erinalberty.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Valley of the Gods is a designated Area of Critical Environmental Concern, so it does have protections apart from the monument. There are, however, many sites with no protected status. You can see those & the various protective boundaries on our interactive map here: www.axios.com/local/salt-l...

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Mapped: Trump's cuts to Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears national monuments

We also mapped other protections and places of interest so you can see what's in and out.

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Erin Alberty @erinalberty.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The last two episodes of Game of Thrones Season 6 are simply too good. Bastards battle, Cersei has a barbecue, Arya serves pie, Bran gets a scoop, Tyrion gets pinned, Tommen takes flight, Sansa feeds the pets, Dianna Rigg & Indira Varma share a screen — plus, the best dialogue in the entire show:

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Erin Alberty @erinalberty.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

We might not get tunes tonight, but we did get a double rainbow at Red Butte Garden!

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Erin Alberty @erinalberty.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Our Rescue — formerly Tim Ballard's Operation Underground Railroad — got a $244M federal contract to provide legal counsel to unaccompanied migrant children. It's now headed by one of the top ICE officers from Trump's first term. www.axios.com/local/salt-l...

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Group founded by Tim Ballard gets big contract to work with migrant children

Ballard resigned amid misconduct allegations. Its new CEO is an ex-ICE agent.

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Erin Alberty @erinalberty.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

This and the "same" comments in reply are really chilling.

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Paul Russell @pwrussell.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

This is extremely sinister. And yet fascists roam unchecked all over the same platform.

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Erin Alberty @erinalberty.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Homelessness in Utah & in SLC has fallen a bit for the first time in years, the state's annual report found — especially for some of the most at-risk groups. www.axios.com/local/salt-l...

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Homelessness falls in Utah for the first time in years

Some of the most vulnerable groups saw especially sharp drops.

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404 Media @404media.co · 05/08/2026

NEW: Police in Wisconsin used Flock to determine that a man “travels to Michigan frequently,” where marijuana is legal, then back to Wisconsin, where it is illegal. They then used his travel across state lines as tracked by Flock as part of the probable cause justification to search his car.

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Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines to Create Pretext to Search His Car for Weed

"The vehicle travels to Michigan frequently which is a known source state for marijuana as it is legal there," a probable cause justification reads.

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Xodanix3 @xodanix3.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

"The resort's water system pumps Colorado River water through a treatment plant to 260 people, per the report. 180 of them are tourists."

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Erin Alberty @erinalberty.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Staff at a $1,000/night resort in Utah reported they were told to wash the dishes in swimming pool water. Then inspectors said they found raw Colorado River water was bypassing the primary chemical filtration step in a treatment system run by Clyde the Housekeeper. www.axios.com/local/salt-l...

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Moab luxury resort accused of water treatment violations

Employees at the $1,000-per-night lodge said they were told to wash dishes in swimming pool water.

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