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Visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2...

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autumn coded @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just talk to another human already jesus fucking christ

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Brendan Harkin @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Just to fully underline how spiteful this shit is for those unaware: On the left is the route the Orange Order have been ordered to take for the past 3 decades without trouble. On the right is the route that has brought hundreds of cops to Drumcree. The only motivation is sectarian antagonism.

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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Jessie🌈 @atropius.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I caught the cutest thing ever on the Katmai bear cams

A photo of a large brown bear, taken from behind, laying on the ground with her back legs splayed out. Her two cubs are laying against her right side, both using her butt as a pillow. They're laying next to a river

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026

Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.

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Xero Reynolds 41/100 on Patreon @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.

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Jess Pendley @jesspendley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Future me watching temporary -productivity-burst me commit to meetings and calls.

A small machine, the front resembles a smiling face, and its back reflected in the mirror behind it resembles a horrified face.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Depending on the context, standing firm on human rights might lose you an election. You should still do it IMO.

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I tried to keep my phone off but I had to turn it on for a second because I know I’m going to need Patti Smith to yell this at me regularly for at least a couple more years

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Reveal @revealnews.org · 29/08/2026

The spirometer, used to help doctors diagnose lung disease, had a so-called race equation built into it. It was drawn from assumptions about the anatomy of Black people that were false and based on “science” traced back to American slavery. Why are hospitals around the US still using it?

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A “race equation” baked into a standard medical test is hurting Black patients, but most hospitals are still using it

A standard medical test with racist origins is cutting off Black patients from needed treatments. Why do hospitals still use this harmful test today?

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Just a heads up. I was able to schedule my COVID vaccine appointment. Online it may ask “do you have a condition that puts you at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 virus.” Click yes and it will allow you to schedule an appointment. No questions asked. No proof required. Pass it on.

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Tim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Live report from the Minnesota State Fair, located in the heart of American democracy, where there’s an ICE Out adaptation of Picasso’s Guernica made entirely from crops

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Gourdon P. Squash @dewterium2.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This is why they coined the term "cancel culture" and attacked it so furiously. What they were calling cancel culture was actually the conscience of civil society, which is their enemy.

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 19/08/2026

Send this to a young adult who looks at their phone while walking on campus.

A girl reading texts on her phone while walking through her college campus. All around her people are running because they are being attacked by squirrels. She doesn’t notice. Her friend is saying, reunion tonight! Bring snacks! O.m.g. Tiffany is freaking out for some reason. A squirrel shouts, “Fly, my brothers! To the dining hall!” The text reads: Oh no! You were on your phone and unprepared for the squirrel uprising! Put your phone away! Distracted walking sends people to the ER every year.

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TofuNYG 🏈🏳️‍🌈🗽🇺🇦 🚫👑🖕🧊 @groguspeak.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

"Under MTA rules, dogs are allowed on the NYC subway only if they are fully enclosed in a container or bag and carried in a way that does not annoy other passengers." 😂

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Naomi O'Leary @naomiohreally.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Do you remember when a fundraising campaign for the Navajo and Hopi people went viral during the pandemic, as people recalled the generosity of native Americans to Irish people during the famine? If you were one of those who donated - you are invited to have your photo taken …

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 12/08/2026

Fascists lie all the time not to make the lies matter but to remove weight from the truth. In this way, sincerity is a weapon against fascism. It is how we embrace the heft of truth.

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 12/08/2026

“Earnestness is cringe” is just the mirror image of “cynicism is savvy” and the matching partner to “lol nothing matters” which is the fertile ground for fascism to grow. Hope is cringe. Progress is cringe. Change is cringe. Getting together with other people and imagining something better? Cringe.

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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

If you are wrestling with existential unease, feeling unsatisfied with your life choices, and worrying that you best days are already behind you, it may mean you are experiencing a midlife crisis; or it may just mean you are experiencing life amidst crises.

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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 11/08/2026

what if i do not want to be optimized. what if i want to make mistakes because that’s how you learn; what if i want to do nothing sometimes, what if i want a world that is weird and challenging and has mysteries left to reveal. what if i like taking the long way

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Axios writer: I melted my brain with AI. Not only can I no longer read, but I don't even understand the purpose of reading anymore. Here's how you can also do this. www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r...

Axios: AI has become my reading buddy as I've plowed through my summer book list, helping me keep track of plots and characters, unpack themes, and make sense of wordy, old prose.

Why it matters: The way many of us actually read books — a few pages before bed, a chapter at the beach, another on a plane — makes it easy to lose the thread. AI can help you pick it back up without starting over.
📖 I really got into using AI while reading James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans." The text was far too dense for casual vacation reading. My first prompt asked:

"I'd like a guide as I read The Last of the Mohicans who can help me understand what I've read and where the story is, without giving spoilers or getting ahead of my progress. Can you do this, chapter by chapter?"
The robot agreed: "Cooper's sentences are long and his diction is archaic."

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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Yikes. Women accounted for all of the job losses and all of the labor force decline in July, according to @nwlc.org

WASHINGTON — Women accounted for 100 percent of the decline in the labor force in July, according to a National Women’s Law Center jobs analysis of monthly data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That brings the total net number of women who have left the labor force since January this year to 845,000. In comparison, there are 406,000 fewer men in the labor force now than in January.

A total of 165,000 women, aged 20 and over, left the labor force last month — meaning they are neither working nor looking for work — while men's labor force participation was unchanged. Overall, the economy lost 23,000 jobs in July. Women accounted for all of these losses, losing 32,000 jobs, while men gained 9,000 jobs. Women make up 50.1% of the workforce.

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Noam @noamtl.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

How would I get by without AI? If I need a factually-dubious opinion expressed in a cliched manner with unearned confidence, I’ll just talk to a straight white cis man. I can get by on small-batch, locally-sourced, artisanal mansplaining, the way we always used to.

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.

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Leiracal @leiracal.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

This concept was introduced to me as "run the dishwasher twice" and was an important part of my executive functioning recovery as well as my path to self-acceptance.

When I was at one of my lowest (mental) points in life, I couldn't get out of bed some days. I had no energy or motivation and was barely getting by.

I had therapy once per week, and on this particular week I didn't have much to 'bring' to the session. He asked how my week was and I really had nothing to say.

'What are you struggling with?' he asked.

I gestured around me and said 'I dunno man. Life.'

Not satisfied with my answer, he said 'No, what exactly are you worried about right now? What feels overwhelming? When you go home after this session, what issue will be staring at you?'

I knew the answer, but it was so ridiculous that I didn't want to say it. I wanted to have something more substantial.
Something more profound.

But I didn't.

So I told him, 'Honestly? The dishes. It's stupid, I know, but the more I look at them the more I CAN'T do them because I'll have to scrub them before I put them in the dishwasher, because the dishwasher sucks, and I just can't stand and scrub the dishes.'

I felt like an idiot even saying it.

What kind of grown ass woman is undone by a stack of dishes? There are people out there with *actual* problems, and I'm whining to my therapist about dishes?

But he nodded in understanding and then said:

'RUN THE DISHWASHER TWICE.'

I began to tell him that you're not supposed to, but he stopped me.

'Why the hell aren't you supposed to? If you don't want to scrub the dishes and your dishwasher sucks, run it twice. Run it three times, who cares?! Rules do not exist.'

It blew my mind in a way that I don't think I can properly express.

That day, I went home and tossed my smelly dishes haphazardly into the dishwasher and ran it three times.

I felt like I had conquered a dragon.

The next day, I took a shower lying down.

A few days later. I folded my laundry and put them wherever the fuck they fit.

There were no longer arbitrary rules I had to follow, and it gave me the freedom to make accomplishments again.

Now that I'm in a healthier place, I rinse off my dishes and put them in the dishwasher properly. I shower standing up. I sort my laundry.

But at a time when living was a struggle instead of a blessing, I learned an incredibly important lesson:

THERE ARE NO RULES. RUN THE DISHWASHER TWICE!!!"

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Remembering Sinéad O'Connor, who died three years ago, on July 26, 2023. Photo by Andreas Larsson. #sineadoconnor

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 22/07/2026

avoid bagged greens, buy whole fruits and vegetables, buy local produce or frozen produce, trim away outer layers of produce and wash thoroughly, and when you can, heat or reheat your food to 158 degrees F which kills the parasite.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 30/10/2025

When I worked in WaPo Opinions in 2017-2018, senior editors specifically told junior editors not to factcheck Marc Thiessen and other MAGA columnists, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to publish anything by them at all, and “we need them for intellectual diversity.”

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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Founded by two queer femme moms of color in 2014, The Radical Monarchs "affirm young girls and gender-expansive youth so that they stay rooted in their collective power, brilliance and leadership in order to make the world a more just and peaceful place."

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The Radical Monarchs

The Radical Monarchs, a Girl Scouts-like alternative focused on the needs and experiences of girls of color, create opportunities for young girls of color to form fierce sisterhood, celebrate their id...

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

"Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro as a commuter looks on, during the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 4, 2026. REUTERS/Cheney Orr"

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Audrey Farnsworth @audipenny.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

America keeps trying to get me to go to her birthday party and I’m like no girl u need to go to the hospital

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

This will be a thread of tips for people suffering through their first god-awful heat wave with no or subpar AC. I'm a perpetually broke Southern Californian so my ideas run cheap.

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Eamonn Sweeney @sweeneyagonistes.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Howdy Y'all. This here's my mean spirited diatribe on how our American cousins think they know what's best for everyone else. Yeehaw. Wet Hot Take American Idiots open.substack.com/pub/saturday...

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Wet Hot Take American Idiots

You find out who your friends are when the heat comes on

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Here’s how I realized I had long covid. I got sick but improved. A month later was Christmas. I did all my usual activities - baking, hosting, good solid walks. On New Year’s Day I collapsed getting out of bed, couldn’t get up for a week, and never, ever got that level of energy back.

Quote from article: In Wired, Levinovitz took aim at claims that Long Covid patients with ME/CFS are limited in their ability to exercise. He argued that the problem isn't exercise, but the belief that exercise is harmful.
"Patients cursed themselves by believing their symptoms had a strictly biological cause," he wrote.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 25/06/2026

By the way: if the FBI shows up at your doorstep and is like “I’d just like to ask some questions” they don’t have to read you your Miranda rights. You still have the right to remain silent. You can just say, “no, thank you, I’m not interested in talking to you” and have that be it.

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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

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