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Peter Flax @pflax1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
OMFG I am completely destroyed by this LinkedIn post by Michael White, the father of Magnus White (a very promising junior racer who was killed at the age of 17 in 2023 by a young woman who was eventually convicted of vehicular homicide).
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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately
Hello Bone Colleagues, 
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans. 

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine 
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.
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Dr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.” ~President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936. Image: Universal History Archive/Getty Images.
This black and white photo shows a clean-shaven man, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, sitting at a desk and wearing a suit. He holds a paper in his right hand and appears to be speaking into a microphone that sits on the desk.
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Michael Bazaco @mcbazacophd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Just posting this cover of the fantastic Failure track, Stuck on You, by the amazing and wonderfully incredible Hayley Williams for no particular reason, today.
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Stuck On You
YouTube video by Paramore - Topic
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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 01/10/2026
Anyway, the death penalty is cruel and monstrous whether it goes right or wrong and any society still imposing it should be ashamed
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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Fritz has an ENORMOUS collection of fossils in his cellar.
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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What the front page of an actual newspaper looks like (as opposed to a tax-dodging billionaire's political tool staffed by shills and bootlickers)
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nancabell.bsky.social @nancabell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Probably the greatest parallel parking you’ll ever see. #WorldBollardAssociation
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Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
While well-remunerated professional MSM journalists have been cowardly and sycophantic throughout the Trump years, student journalists have been heroes.
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Peter Flax @pflax1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Venn diagram of folks who can't stop pondering the horrors of a trans person using a public toilet and folks who have nothing to say about what happened at Cornell.
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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 27/09/2026
Note: I've never had to worry about a book "hallucinating."
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 26/09/2026
"What if the connection between reactionary MAGA politics and the sexual abuse of children is deeper than we want to admit?" (from July 2025) www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-t...
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We Need to Talk About Pedocon Theory
The connection between Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein is no accident, but reveals a deep logic at the heart of reactionary politics.
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Gaius (from Tribunate) @gaius.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
They’ve finally released pictures of the White House in 2037
Chinese Flags make the White House look better
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.
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Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report
A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.
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Taylor Griggs @taylorgriggs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Sometimes you gotta say something! Rare Merc op-ed on the recent cop tweet kerfuffle:
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richard mortimer @richardmortimer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Can you imagine the press reaction if Palestine Action were forcing Ambulance Stations to close? Or the Socialist Workers Party were shutting Fire Stations? No, of course not, cos it wouldn't fucking happen. These people are terrorists and should be treated as such. Ban, arrest, imprison.
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👻 🎃 🦇 Boola Lughosti's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Personally I would not pick this fight with the youtube guy who demonstrates all the ways he can nail you with an arrow at 200 yards using his feet while wearing 12-inch Pleasers, whose wife can also kill you with her bare hands, and has 9 billionteen followers who are all trans women with swords.
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It’s not an “impossible position”. Sheeran is a very wealthy, successful musician who was asked by a stadium owner to kick a fellow musician off his tour for political reasons. He could choose to kick Macklemore off or to say no thanks, we’ll play elsewhere. www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...
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Ed Sheeran in an ‘impossible position’ over Macklemore Gaza row, says Lisa Nandy
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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The person with the music written on their arse from Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights has pulled out of Ed Sheeran's tour
A bare bum with music written on it. Someone is pointing at it all 'look! Arse music!'
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Very nice to hear a sane voice from Piddington. Serious respect to this woman, who is apparently already being othered by more bigoted villagers.
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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In the movie version of this, after Piddington runs out of food water and money as a result of leaving the UK, the residents apply for asylum and end up housed in a military base, with HILARIOUS consequences. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Piddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plans
Piddington residents voted over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby
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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Someone tell Sheeran that this is what having principles looks like
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Cycling Weekly @cyclingweekly.com · 14/09/2026
'Imagine a world where women are seen for what they can do not just what they look like': Olympic champion Sophie Capewell speaks out against Sydney Sweeney ad www.cyclingweekly.com/news/olympic...
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'Imagine a world where women are seen for what they can do not just what they look like': Olympic champion Sophie Capewell speaks out against Sydney Sweeney ad
Decorated Olympian spoke out about ad which featured the athlete mostly naked
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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 06/09/2026
Contrast the police statements about the Dover blockade yesterday with the Just Stop Oil protests in 2022
No arrests made during Dover protest, Kent Police says
published at 13:34 5 September
13:34 5 September
Kent Police has issued a statement following the disruption in Dover earlier today.
It says officers "responded to a spontaneous protest" during Saturday morning, adding "no arrests were made".
"Traffic is flowing normally, and all involved had dispersed by midday," it addsThe Met Police said 35 people had been arrested in response to the disruption.
Assistant Commissioner Matt Twist said the action was "criminality", not protest, and pledged to bring those involved to justice as quickly as possible.
"This was a very significant and co-ordinated effort to cause massive disruption to the entirety of the M25," he added.
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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026
I can’t wait to read the NYT op-ed from Renee Good’s wife about grief on the one year anniversary of her death. Surely the NYT will extend the same grace to Becca Good—whose partner died protesting against state power—as it has to Erica Kirk—whose partner died defending white supremacy
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"The main difference between Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts and the lot we saw in Dover yesterday is that Mosley's lot, for all their faults, weren't afraid to show their faces. Either way, the parallels are deeply uncomfortable. Mosley's mo ..." www.facebook.com/TruthAgainst... via Truth Against Hate
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Peter Flax @pflax1.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Here are 5 questions the NYT isn't asking -Is Mitch McConnell alive and/or functioning? -Why haven't the Epstein files been released? -Did Clarence Thomas take illegal gifts without reporting them? -Why is ICE allowed to murder people? -Why is the White House allowed to lie on a daily basis?
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Domestique @domestiquecycling.com · 25/08/2026
Vuelta hotel flooded with five star reviews after 🇸🇮 Tadej Pogacar leads peloton to shelter 📰 www.domestiquecycling.com/en/news/vuel... 📸 Cor Vos
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
On the one hand, I shouldn't wish my country ill. On the other hand, Canada's grandfathers bled with my grandfathers fighting the Nazis. When we were attacked on 9/11, we asked Canada to send their sons and they bled with our troops in Afghanistan. To betray that bond - we'll deserve what we get.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Foreign students don’t get UK student loans. Stupidest party in the world with the most gullible followers.
Times Higher Education • @timeshighered
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Reform UK has promised to ban "foreign students" from accessing student loans and said it will end public subsidies for "woke nonsense" degrees
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Dr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Attacking the First Amendment freedom of the press of the newspaper read by men and women who are voluntarily risking their lives to preserve/protect/defend the Constitution? Irony is hard. And hypocrisy is disgusting.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The vandalism and desecration of the White House isn't just vanity and it's not trivial. It's caesarism, as in literally what Julius Caesar did to the symbolic architecture of civic republicanism. Our national iconography matters and allowing the disfiguring of it to persist is a substantive harm.
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Intellectual property rights of firms like Disney & academic publisher Elsevier? Inviolable. Don't even think of pirating their content or it's prison for you. Intellectual property rights of individuals like academics and artists? Don't even think of enforcing them or Sam Altman will cry about it.
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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
say what you will about the myriad valid concerns with current LLMs but I personally will never get over the fact that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted to his literal death for downloading JSTOR and then a decade later, they downloaded & ingested the entire world and our IP laws just went ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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FatMatty @fatmatty.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Hey @pflax1.bsky.social what do you think of these? I've never seen racks like these before. Seen in Girona.
Strange bike racks in Girona, Spain.
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
As I research and write I can feel my brain changing and growing. It's an incredible feeling. I look down on people who write and research using AI. It's gross and evil and you are missing the point of living.
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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
#ResistanceRoots Mae West was born on this day in 1893 in Brooklyn. She began her career as a child star and found fame as a Hollywood sex symbol. Behind the sashaying hips was a talented writer and independent woman who fought discrimination against African Americans and LGBTQ+ people. /1
Mae West, ca. 1933. In a career that spanned more than seven decades, she became famous for her breezy sexual independence, husky contralto voice and masterfully delivered double entendres. She maintained total artistic control over her career by writing much of her own material, effectively challenging conservative Hollywood norms and redefining womanhood. She refused to back down because she viewed her provocative art as an authentic expression of female sexual agency. She also recognized that moral outrage was the ultimate marketing tool, and turned controversy into a profitable business enterprise. Just as she did with censorship, West viewed racial prejudice as an arbitrary rule meant to restrict freedom. She also employed and defended the LGBTQ+ community at a time when doing so was legally dangerous and socially taboo. Photo credit: Bettmann / Getty Images.
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Ned Boulting @nedboulting.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Never. Never. Never buy books from Amazon. I mean, try not to buy anything from there, but never ever books. They are destroyers of the thing I hold dearest. futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Amazon Caught Destroying Rare Books to Train AI
An investigation by 404 Media found that Amazon bought a shipment of rare books so it could scan and destroy them to train AI.
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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
A reminder that we don't lack national health in this country because it would cost too much. It would actually save tons of money. We lack it because it would not enrich businesses and their executives like the current system does. bsky.app/profile/jent...
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Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Also: Americans’ deep aversion to the idea that there might be some sort of equality of outcome in any aspect of life.
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Amen! #BookSky
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World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Yes, it’s a BMW. #WorldBollardAssociation
A BMW is stranded on top of a bell bollard.
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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
People criticise cancel culture but why would you want the most awful people saying and doing the most evil stuff in any part of your life? Cut them out. Fuck them.
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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Oh my god what TF is wrong with #BBC #BroadcastingHouse? They have got KATHLEEN STOCK on to do the review, SPECIFICALLY to talk about Jason Arday. When she was one of the most egregious examples of the pile on, just days ago. I have turned the radio off. Shame on you BBC.
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Peter Flax @pflax1.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I have felt too sad to post anything constructive about Finlay Tarling's death. But I just read this...and feel like this is a pretty unacceptable statement. That and all the "tragic accident" headlines are making me sick.
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Grant Tanaka @granttanaka.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
still think daily about the time I was at Arby's and the person in front of me asked what the "healthy option" was, and the cashier responded "leaving"
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Dr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
“This is…a species of a political cant, whereby the crime of treason might be covered with a counterfeit varnish of patriotism, so that the precipitators of the rebellion might go down in history hand in hand with the defenders of the government… .” ~Gen. G.H. Thomas, 1868. Image: Public domain.
This black and white photo shows a bearded man, George H. Thomas, seated and wearing a Civil War-era U. S. major general’s uniform.
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