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steph @fkareynolds.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

officiating a wedding this weekend. feels like the closest I can come to my lifelong dream of being a mage. 'by the power vested in me...' 🧙‍♀️🪄✨️

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Remembering Groucho Marx on his birthday 🎂 📷 Weegee, 1945 "I'd like to meet the person who invented sex and see what they're working on now."

Colour photo of the older Groucho, holding his long cigar

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"Balsamic" Jane Vinegar @maximumhorkheimer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Phantom Menace would have been good if they cast Ernest Borgnine as Quigon Gin

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ACARS Drama @acarsdrama.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Air to Ground Message: YOURE MY HERO AND THAT SAYS ALOT BECAUSE I THINK ABOUT BATMAN ALOT Area: Philadelphia, PA, USA Type: Embraer 175 (Enhanced Wing) A: #a03819c28d9 F: #fb405327446

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Katie @littlelistmaker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What I think people need to take from JD is that he and others see the future of the party as a viciously, overtly racist Christian nationalist party and they are laying the groundwork to be successful in that future while Democratic consultants are stuck in the 90s.

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steph @fkareynolds.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

some of us are still choosin' texas

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dave @gloomfather.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

(a new object is placed in my enclosure) damn new object just dropped (I glance disparagingly over at yesterday's object) lol y'all still thinking about this huh

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Happy birthday Dave Holland 🎂 📷 David Redfern, Vienne, 1996 "He refined the jazz techniques of his heroes, bassists like Ray Brown, Leroy Vinnegar & Charles Mingus, & players like Miles Davis, & distilled them into his own sound - a great voice of modern bass playing. - John Goldsby

Dave Holland performs on stage at the Jazz A Vienne Festival. He smiles at the camera.

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steph @fkareynolds.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

the editor of The Needle came to my attention last year when she was boosting 'transsexual vs transgender' discourse and running pieces on 'AFAB Aesthetics.' I've long felt that her work stokes pointless, inflammatory intra-community divides in order to punish her perceived enemies

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joyce’s monster 🎃 @joycelaurie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

look at my trans journalism dog

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furry hater @furry-hater.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

submitted by discord user

weird ad with neon text saying: "these trunk less legs of stone are fucking standing in the desert and basically, you are fucking despairing. how? ...just travel to the antique land >"

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I believe the death penalty is cruel and unusual punishment in all circumstances but the absurd joke of "lethal injection" is even more cruel and unusual than the others. A violent fiction to fool bystanders into thinking that they are witnessing a humane execution. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...

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Tennessee Death Row Inmate Christa Pike Still Alive After Attempts to Execute Her, Lawyers Say (Gift Article)

Christa Pike, who was convicted of murdering a classmate in 1995, was set to be executed by lethal injection. Officials had gone ahead with the execution after a temporary court-ordered pause.

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makswhale @maksheadroom.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

if you read enough biographies of jazzmen they’ll start dropping incredible names of guys they toured with

My biggest back then was a guy named Rastus Crump who was with Thomas's quintet. He was a small little man

By the first week in November, we came back into New York and went into the Lafeyette Theatre for the second time that year. The stage show that we were a part of was called Music and Laughter, and the headline singer was Alice Harris, who was very well known in vaudeville, and the other star was Garbage Rogers, a top comedian from Chicago. He was a very funny guy. We liked one of his skits so much that we stole it and tried to use it later on.
Old Garbage used to come onstage in a full-dress outfit, top hat, cane, gloves, and everything.

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Circumcision Centrist @circumcentrist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Sometimes you meet a fat person and you just know they would have been a powerful medieval aristocrat

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Got CTE from Playing Peek a boo @doubledoinkrigged.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

19th century Ryan Grim: Based on the orderly nature of the stab wounds, “the ripper” is a highly inaccurate name. Its journalistic malpractice to not give “Jack” credit for minimizing suffering and killing painlessly 19th century Michael Tracey: I think these bitches alive 💯

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Justin Decloux @declouxj.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

New reply image

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

George Saunders on using AI: "Writing is the most precious way one person can communicate their essence to another person. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to get better at making myself present in my writing. Why would I want to sacrifice even one iota of that?"

Have you spent time trying to write or revise with AI? Is there an experiment that would be interesting enough to try?

I have not. Not for a second. To me, this whole idea of using AI to write is . . . anathema. A thing to be most radically avoided.

Writing is the most precious way one person can communicate their essence to another person. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to get better at making myself present in my writing. Why would I want to sacrifice even one iota of that? Not even in an email and certainly not in a short story or novel.

Who are we ceding our authority to, exactly, when we let AI write for us? And why? Why surrender our agency (that amazing ability we have to reach across time and space, with our strange, idiosyncratic phenomenon, and land within the sensibility of another human being) to something that, by its very design, pushes the individual sensibility aside? And in the name of . . . what, exactly? Ease, I guess? Efficiency? The person who chooses to write with AI has also sacrificed, from the start, the opportunity of experiencing difficulty, of struggling to say what he wants to say, of making himself evident in his prose, of trying to find out what he believes. By this, he sacrifices a chance to know himself and his mind better. To me, that’s a shame. And it’s dangerous, because, as we are now finding out, it affects the brain and lessens our capabilities. Thanks, but no thanks, get thee behind me, etc.

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captain bleach @blainecapatch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

MAD TV’S 100 BEST TV SHOWS OF THE 21st CENTURY 1. Butter Ball Saul 2. Hicks 3. Widow’s Bae 4. Mad Men’s Wearhouse 5. Succotashion 6. Kevin Hart Can Fuck Himself 7. The Wirewolf 8. Slow Lorises 9. Twin Peaky Blinders 10. Reacheround

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steph @fkareynolds.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

got a hold on a Herman Melville biography for a patron in Fishtown — i bet

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steph @fkareynolds.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

listening to a robot narrate the plot of the Truman Show on the bus

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audrey audrey audrey audrey audrey @freebodydiagram.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

KEN JENNINGS: "The Lonely Island" set the stage for this scrappy young man to famously fall for a hilarious length of time BOOKISH ZOOMER: What is Robinson Crusoe

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Howard Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Super useful, not least because it helps get us out of these ridiculous language policing debates: was Gaza a "conflict"? A "war"? A "genocide"? Yes. Yes. And yes. MOST genocides occur in the context of broader conflicts.

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

W. S. Merwin by Jill Krementz, 1976 The Guardian obituary of Merwin quotes the New Yorker poetry editor Howard Moss, who said “nobody has a right to be that good-looking”.

Closeup portrait of the young poet. Signed & dated April 28, 1976

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william_ leonard @williamleonard.net · 10/11/2024

still reading krazy kat btw. this one is fucking INSANE for November 1918

IGNATZ: "over with it."
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IGNATZ: "now follow it."
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[three panels of insanely dynamic comic mayhem]
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KRAZY: "well, i followed it, 'ignatz'"
IGNATZ: "good, did it gather any moss?"
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KRAZY: "no."
IGNATZ: "that's what i thought."
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KRAZY: "l'il fillossiffa, always he seeks the truth, and always he finds it."

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 30/09/2026

I think we underrate that JCO came up in 20th century New York literary circles where everyone said five most devastating insults before breakfast and as one of the last one standing, her competition is guys who get sad if their chatbot isn't sufficiently nice to them.

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steph @fkareynolds.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

what if Habermas had been a jazz guy? Between Sax and Horns

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steph @fkareynolds.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

what if Habermas had been a jazz guy? Between Sax and Horns

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steph @fkareynolds.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

laughing out loud at reddity lines in Walden. "To be intoxicated by a single glass of wine: i have experienced this pleasure when I have drunk the liquor of the esoteric doctrines."

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Eric Freeman @freemaneric.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I probably won’t see Digger but it would’ve been an A+ Letterman topic. “Hey Paul, uh, you seen Digger?” etc.

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🦇 Katra Scariello, Spooky Apple Audio 🦇🏳️‍⚧️ @katrafiy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hey everyone, I'm really in a bind. I was just told earlier today that my job will be terminating me on October 13th, exactly one day before my upcoming requested paid medical leave to recover from bottom surgery. I intend to fight this in court, but I could really use some help in the meantime.

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Donate to Support Katra Through Bottom Surgery Recovery, organized by Katra Ariello

Hi, my name is Katra, and I’ve just been notified that I’ll be let go of… Katra Ariello needs your support for Support Katra Through Bottom Surgery Recovery

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Lich's Fart Crystal Phylactery @slugworlds.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

children's librarian who when the parents aren't looking tells the kids "if you read too much the other kids will think you're weird... what you should be getting into is AI"

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steph @fkareynolds.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

a couple years ago I put my begginer's French to the test to read the untranslated final volumes of Riad Sattouf's 'Arab of the Future.' now it seems those last two volumes are finally arriving in English :') www.fantagraphics.com/collections/...

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The End of the Arab of the Future: A Youth in the Middle East Vol. 1

Eagerly anticipated by American readers, Riad Sattouf concludes his internationally award-winning graphic memoir series, Arab of the Future. Riad is a teenager growing up in the French region of Britt...

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steph @fkareynolds.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

ME: and this is Sephiroth. he has mad aura WALTER BENJAMIN: not anymore..

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steph @fkareynolds.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

this novel came up in research I was doing on gay history in US libraries. originally published as 'A Place For Us', it won a 1971 'Gay Book Award' from ALA's 'Task Force on Gay Liberation.' in fact it was written by task force member Alma Routsong under a pen name ('Isabel' an anagram for 'Lesbia')

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gina @ootheca.net · 28/09/2026

i though this was bob dylan but this is ms frizzles mom

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steph @fkareynolds.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

last weekend I said goodbye to Winkle. she passed away in my arms with the assistance of a vet. it was the end of a long and painful illness. although it had become more and more difficult to keep her comfortable day to day, I struggled to the very end to imagine letting her go. she was my friend 💕