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Human exclamation point! (she/her) Chicago, journalism, joy, printmaking, kdramas, cdramas, fiction, &c

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Simkaye 🌈 @simkaye.bsky.social · 1h
anyone else feel like this
A digital illustration of a quetzalcoatlus perched on telephone wires among a flock of crows
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Jasmin Mujanović @jasminmuj.bsky.social · 2h
This is a conversation I've been having with Western officials re: the Balkans for the better part of two decades. Ideology is real. When someone tells you, consistently that you are sub-human, and they want to exterminate every trace of you, your family, and your community: believe them.
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American Historical Association @historians.org · 3h
The AHA endorses the Smithsonian Integrity and Historical Independence Act of 2026, legislation that would codify the Smithsonian’s independence and protect the institution from political interference.
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AHA Endorses Legislation to Protect the Independence of the Smithsonian Institution
The AHA endorses the Smithsonian Integrity and Historical Independence Act of 2026, introduced by Reps. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01), Jonathan Jackson (IL-01), and Kweisi Mfume (MD-07) in response to ong...
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futuredadOfTwo🙋🏻‍♂️ @lacroixboi.dadguy.pro · 20/06/2026
werner herzog with a speech bubble over the quoted post
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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 6h
#boktober 1
ornamental drawing of a rooster with one wing open, sitting on a branch with leaves and a single red flower. the details are filled with ornamental dots and lines.
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CURSE BOWL (look it up) @excited.bsky.social · 7h
The dogs were good again this week.
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 9h
Stephen A Smith voice: “lemme tell you something, we don’t care”
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Pita Enigma @pitaenigma.bsky.social · 9h
What is the Shakespeare quotes account referring to what the fuck happened that the Shakespeare quotes account is saying this
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CURSE BOWL (look it up) @excited.bsky.social · 20h
Having a real "everyone else's neuroses about my family and identity are too exhausting to bear on purpose" day, when will you all (general) please just be normal about Jews.
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CURSE BOWL (look it up) @excited.bsky.social · 23h
No one who claims to care about sexual violence can genuinely do so while insisting that what happened on 10/7 and to the hostages for two straight years is merely "manufacturing consent" and other hideous inhumanities. I will never forgive that. That is an eternal stain on its proponents. So.
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Samuel ✡️ 🗽 @bluelion70.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I can only imagine how nice it must feel, to only just now be noticing and feeling the impacts of antisemitism in left-wing spaces and communities.
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Josh Yunis @joshyunis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I’d welcome their change of mind if they were to actually take antisemitism seriously. I think calling out gutter medieval-style agitprop is the easiest layup. Asking their comrades to stop vilifying Zionists still seems like a step too far for them for reasons that will require actual reflection
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Jeff Fecke @jkfecke.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"We can never plant a seed that says any person or human life is worth less, and that is why it's kind of okay that a pilot attempted to kill all the passengers on his flight, because Israel deserves to be destroyed. I am not an anti-Semite."
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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
sorry, i don't yet understand what happened on the plane to Israel either but if your kneejerk is that this is a perfidious Israeli false flag you are just absurdly cooked and you need to change your life
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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Better late than never.
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CURSE BOWL (look it up) @excited.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Meanwhile in the UK...!
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CURSE BOWL (look it up) @excited.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This /is/ a remarkable rhetorical turn, and I really hope it means he understands, that he really gets what he did when he told the Jewish community that "hurt people hurt people" after a man tried to plow a car into 140 children at daycare in a synagogue. This makes that sting more.
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CURSE BOWL (look it up) @excited.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
(They both speak Semitic languages. People are not Semitic. This is one cute linguistic trick that leads to endless circular arguments about blood quantums and soil that simply do not apply to actual reality. Most of this thread is pretty good, though.)
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You can talk like a goddamn adult on Bluesky, which is one of the reasons I like it here. The cutesy euphemisms, although I know why they’re in use on more restrictive platforms like TikTok, make me so irrationally angry
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A. Cosmographer @acosmographer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is like a bot was asked to play madlibs with trending topics
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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 30/09/2026
your jewish friends are begging you to realize it is within your capacity to understand what’s happening here. begging.
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CURSE BOWL (look it up) @excited.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This… has been an absolutely wild story to wake up to and try to get my head around. Something huge and horrific was averted while we slept.
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Possum Every Hour @possumeveryhour.io · 30/09/2026
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🍬xue yang daily🗡️ @xueyangdaily.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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CURSE BOWL (look it up) @excited.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We really do not make enough compilation albums anymore.
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A new anti-ICE compilation album benefits immigrants rights organizations
The Contra-ICE Vol. 1: ICE OUT album features contributions from over 30 artists, including Kathleen Hanna, Fred Armisen and Tom Morello to create a historical and artistic record of this moment.
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Henry @henrythedog.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A tweet from Hillary Clinton dated January 12th 2016 "A Republican president could stack the Supreme Court with justices who will rip away all of the progress we've made"
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
ITS THE LAKE OF AMERICA. ITS THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR. ITS THE GULF OF AMERICA. ITS SUPER INTELLIGENCE. You people sound like fucking North Koreans
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Amy Spitalnick @amyspitalnick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
And as I told the @nytimes.com, the policies outlined in the Mayor’s antisemitism strategy are exactly the kinds of policies we need. AND the strategy should be explicit about all the ways antisemitism manifests right now.
Amy Spitalnick, chief executive of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, applauded the report for outlining policies that rely on an array of government agencies, but she questioned what she considered its limited description of antisemitism.

An introduction to a section entitled “Statistics and polling on antisemitism” notes that American Jews have reported a marked rise in antisemitism in the past decade, pointing to the 2017 white nationalist march in Charlottesville, Va., and the 2018 Tree of Life Synagogue massacre in Pittsburgh, which was perpetrated by an man active in far-right extremist online communities. It also notes that antisemitism, and acts of antisemitic violence, have only grown in recent years. It makes no mention of acts motivated by anti-Israel sentiment since the war in Gaza began.

“Obviously there is a very real threat of right-wing antisemitism,” Ms. Spitalnick said. “The report should also recognize that in the last few years, we’ve seen increasing violence targeting Jews under the guise of protesting Israel.”
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Keeping an eye out @yanshuf09.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Then I will continue to watch this from a safe distance. Being blind to the utilization of "zionist" as a safe way to slur Jews in public, will always stifle even genuine efforts to combat antisemitism. That combat fails if you end up nomalizing another way to hate Jews
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Crispy-Ghee✨️ @crispy-ghee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
DO NOT SEEK THE TREASURE One of my favorite scenes from O Brother Where Art Thou. I figured I should try to draw all 3 of the Soggy bottom boys, why not. #art #comic
🍳 A messy comic of a scene from O Brother Where Art Thou. Delmar and Everett are in a movie theater looking behind them in their seats. Delmar is saying " We thought you was a Toad" to a confused looking Pete (surrounded by question marks).
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
America.gov launched today--a DOGE initiative to use AI to deliver public services. Child lying facedown on a frozen lake as the image accompanying the question: "How can I invest in my child's future" is just incredible. Way to go AI
Image of a child lying facedown on a froze lake.  above is the portal where you ask AI questions about government services.  the question matching this image is:  "How can I invest in my child's future?"
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CURSE BOWL (look it up) @excited.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You gotta hand @nytopinion.nytimes.com this, they make incredible ragebait content. This is fully a skill issue best answered by "Why not both, dingus?"
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Opinion | I’m a College Professor. Writing Isn’t as Important as We Think. (Gift Article)
If I do not treat writing as essential for achieving thought, it is not clear why I should force my students to.
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CURSE BOWL (look it up) @excited.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It Happened to Me: Grabbed a pair of jeans from the clean laundry basket and turns out it has been damp for a few days and smells terrible!!! Now I’m on the train and the lady next to me has pulled her jacket over her nose like I can’t see it? “Ma’am, I’m not happy about it either,” I said. 🫠
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Posts by Emily K @posts.by.emilyk.art · 29/09/2026
France is known among Jews for 1. Foundational scholar Rashi 2. The Dreyfus Affair, thought to have been the impetus for Herzl to develop Political Zionism 3. Shipping their Jews off to Auschwitz a couple decades after that
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
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CURSE BOWL (look it up) @excited.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I love Shan Bai but I think my jaw was on the floor for pretty much every part of this. Like, I knew intellectually how things get made from metal molds but... all of this!!! All of this!!! People are incredible!
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A Stick of Incense, A Burner of Spot Copper | 一炷线香,一炉斑铜
YouTube video by 山白Shanbai
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CURSE BOWL (look it up) @excited.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Cute new angle on the lesbian bar story: They hosted a DJ over the weekend called Hannibal Directive, which is a conspiracy that the IDF killed most of the people slaughtered by Hamas with world-historical 1:1 violence at the Nova Music Festival. I probably can’t say more of what I think online.
Last Ditch bar IG carousel slide announcing DJ Hannibal Directive and DJ Puppy Synthesis
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Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A digital recreation of a panel from the 1960s Hungarian comic strip Jucika by Pál Pusztai. In the image (drawn with black outlines and limited color that is also charmingly, wildly out of register) we see the main character, Jucika, a brunette woman with a short, kicky haircut wearing a striped, green, knee-length, sleeveless dress. She is dancing with a delighted-looking man in a military uniform who is holding one of her hands while in the other she's carrying a red portable radio by its little handle. She's grinning back over her shoulder to the left to see an attractive woman – red hair in curly bangs and a pony tail and wearing a different sort of green dress – who is dancing to the music from the radio with a different delighted-looking man in a brown suit. Everyone is having a great time. Below the drawing is all lower case script lettering with a brown drop that reads 'talán ma fog megtörténni', which my Hungarian-speaking friend Matilda assures me translates to 'Maybe it will happend today'
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Raqefet Cave in Israel was a sacred burial site for the hunter-gatherer culture known as the 'Natufians' around 13,000 years ago. More recently, we've also discovered here the earliest evidence of BEER BREWING from grains. Even more remarkable because these people HADN'T INVENTED AGRICULTURE YET.
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Traces of 13,000-Year-Old Beer Found in Israel
According to the authors of a new study, the discovery marks the earliest-known evidence of beer production among ancient peoples
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CURSE BOWL (look it up) @excited.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
He gets me.
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CURSE BOWL (look it up) @excited.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
post-midnight conviction I will not act on: maybe growing microgreens at home will fix me, this guy has an Etsy store and makes it look pretty fun!
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Easy Gardening
YouTube video by Keep on Growin'
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Kevin Hearne @kevinhearne.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
How do we incentivize people to paint wizards on their vans again I haven’t seen a wizard van in a decade and it feels like we lost something precious Can we offer up a tax credit? Little bags of shrooms? Start a wizard van painting program at vocational schools?
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Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Harvest Moon rising behind Chicago Harbor Lighthouse on Saturday evening in Chicago.
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CURSE BOWL (look it up) @excited.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"Whales are mammals, closely related to animals like deer and rams, where males compete by ramming — so this behavior may be inherited from their ancestors." Incredible????
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A mysterious organ in the sperm whale's head gives it the power to sink ships
A survivor of the shipwreck that inspired the novel Moby Dick had a theory about how a sperm whale could destroy a vessel many times its size – 200 years later, he's been proved right.
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CURSE BOWL (look it up) @excited.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The face of a criminal who stole a cucumber at the farmers market.
A bluetick coonhound lying in the sun on someone else’s verge, absolutely unrepentant.
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Paul Starr @pa.ulst.ar · 25/09/2026
I feel complicated about the issue but I do think think this doodle from years ago would make a good laptop sticker
A drawing of a DEC vt220 terminal with the stylized lettering “computers were better when they were worse”
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CURSE BOWL (look it up) @excited.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I love Shan Bai but I think my jaw was on the floor for pretty much every part of this. Like, I knew intellectually how things get made from metal molds but... all of this!!! All of this!!! People are incredible!
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A Stick of Incense, A Burner of Spot Copper | 一炷线香,一炉斑铜
YouTube video by 山白Shanbai
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
John Sloan, "Sunset, West 23rd Street," 1905-06
Painting of an early 20th-century city skyline, with blazing sunset. In the right foreground, a woman hangs laundry on a rooftop
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CURSE BOWL (look it up) @excited.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Someone has just called me on the phone, and I can't answer it or check who it was because Gingko is asleep on top of it and will not move.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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