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I lived on a commune for a long time. Now I work at a community college. Former back-of-book indexer, specializing in humanities and social sciences.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 9h
Roses are red. Tires are flammable...
Paris zoo unveils the 'blob' slime mould with 720 sexes which looks like a fungus but acts like an animal
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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Alexis Ziegler of Living Energy Farm explains the substantial energy difference between living off the grid and living a low energy lifestyle.
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Dominic Caruso @dominiccaruso1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
There’s an entire parallel universe that’s just couches
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Meredith Rose (from the grave) 👻 @mrose.ink · 29/09/2026
So, fun fact: ever since 1994, and Newt Gingrich's "Contract with America" campaign stunt, Congress has had a SERIOUS problem with subject-matter expertise and institutional memory. It's why Congress has such a deep and complicated relationship with lobbyists. 1/
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Jaz @jaz.sh · 27/09/2026
Okay so I've built a new Atlas, this time it lets you explore the conversations on Bluesky over the past 7 days graphically. It should update every ~6 hours and help you navigate the information environment that exists on here. I've learned a LOT about what people do here today... atlas.jazco.dev
atlas.jazco.dev
Atlas
A living map of what Bluesky is talking about: the past week's conversations, grouped into topics and regions and rebuilt every six hours.
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A colleague wants to set up a program to incorporate AI into our teaching, which the university naturally offers funding for. I am, you will not be surprised to hear, against this. But I also want to be collegial rather than hostile or dismissive. Any good resources folks suggest for a conversation?
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Night of the Living Red Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Periodic reminder that your "concerns" about trans people are being beamed directly into your head by a small cadre of incredibly rich psychopaths.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 09/09/2026
Not to brag, but our product has been foldable since 1828.
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Spider. @vaspider.gay · 08/09/2026
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Since many people are talking past each other about conflicting forms of expertise in a broken information environment, it might be a good moment to (re)read @kissane.myatproto.social's post about sensemaking in these trying times. www.wrecka.ge/landslide-a-...
wrecka.ge
Landslide; a ghost story
On March 27, 1964, a converted liberty ship named the SS Chena brought a shipment of supplies to the port of Valdez, Alaska. Valdez, which I need you to know is pronounced “valDEEZ,” sits at the end o...
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gardenpeach.bsky.social @gardenpeach.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I found a Rarity-65 word worth 87 pts in OUTLIER. EAGLE EYES · 693 points · 10 rare words. 3 finds no one else found today. OUTLIER: the daily word hunt where the rarest words win. Can you beat me? playoutlier.com/s/8FXNDG
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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Jane Fonda’s tribute to Dolly is perfect.
janefonda
I am devastated. I just learned that Dolly has moved on. I know that millions are mourning and I want to say this - more than anyone I have ever known, Dolly will always be with us because she was so present, so powerful, so generous and playful that she is woven into all our lives and hearts forever. We have our memories of her, her songs, Dollywood, "9to5," the millions of books she got into the hands of children, all the iconic images that bring her to us. And they are all blessings. Let's be grateful for all that she has left us to ease our sadness now. I never knew anyone like her. She was simultaneously a naughty, playful southern gal from the hollows of
Tennessee and a deep, soulful thinker who could see through people right down to their true selves. She was many things...lyricist, songstress, player of many instruments, writer, prankster, visionary, loyal friend, who'd never go to bed before she and her friends had laughed so hard
they'd have to cross their legs.
She had a survivor's instinct and seemed to always know just what to do, just what to say, to make things right....and then she's stick her butt out the car window and moon Kenny Roger's home. She was the voluptuous embodiment of empathy. That's something of hers she'd want us all to take with us.
To her gay and trans fans, I want you to know that she loved you. You know that without me telling you. She loved all her fans and they are legion. And you know she doesn't want y'all to mourn now. Dress up and celebrate her spirit. But first, watch the final episode of Grace and Frankie where she's an Angel, the head honcho working class angel in Heaven.
RIP, beautiful woman. We love you.
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Lorna @florilegia.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I think everyone should see this incredible picture of Dolly Parton: it’s by Stacie Williams (asterosperma on Instagram) and it’s called The Queen of Appalachia
A stunning screenprint image in a style which is part folk art, part religious icon. Dolly Parton sits on a throne-like wooden chair, surrounded by garlands of flowers and leaves. Orange butterflies (I think they are monarchs?) hover around her head. Her hair is huge and golden, and she is wearing a long, sweeping orange gown, which is turned up over her knee to show off her brown knee length high heeled boots. Two black bear cubs play around her, one on the floor and one in her lap. Dolly stares calmly at the viewer. Her right hand is raised in benediction, and in her left she holds a ripe strawberry which she is feeding to one of the bear cubs. 

The original post is here https://www.instagram.com/p/B8rvBpTlRxZ/?igsi=Z2x5aTB5aHp5NXFp
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Ich thynke but litel of a Mondaye bleake Tuesday grey and Wednesdaye eke Thursdaye Ich care not for thee Yet Fridaye Ich am yn love [recorder solo] Mondaye thou kanst fall awaye Tuesdaye, Wednesdaye, myne herte slaye No mirthe ys founde upon Thursdaye Yet Fridaye Ich am yn love
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I'm a part of it. Not separate from it. I walk on the ground and the ground's walked on by me, I breathe the air and change it, I am entirely interconnected with the world.
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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
My sounds-like-conspiracy-theory-but-is-probably-true take is slopAI firms are deliberately targeting education sector; it’s underfunded & weakly protected & by becoming standard there they create generations of dependent users which is only thing that can stop inevitable financial bubble bursting
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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 10/08/2026
If you're a teacher or librarian and would like a PDF of this comic about using your brain and being creative instead of using AI, send me an email (it's right on my website - alexandragallant.com) and I will send you a copy of it and you can share it with whoever you like
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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I'm feeling like maybe I should write something on: how to start a community. You start with you and one friend trying to live near enough to each other that you can walk to each other's houses. You host a regular meal for other friends who live nearby, at home or somewhere local and cheap.
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Killian @greenmtgirl.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I was assuming mephitic gas to be something sulfuric, but apparently it was how they used to say "carbon dioxide." Maybe we could convince more people of the seriousness of climate change by adopting the archaic name for CO2? www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/m...
merriam-webster.com
Definition of MEPHITIC GAS
carbon dioxide; air exhausted of oxygen and containing chiefly nitrogen… See the full definition
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 23/07/2026
I've said it before and I'll say it again, a West Wing style hyper-saturated but not melodramatic episodic hopecore drama series about a progressive political operation that was just the Mamdani administration with the serial numbers filed off would have endless viewership numbers.
Meme made of screenshots from the Lulu Garcia Navarro interviewing Zohran Mamdani

[Top: picture of mamdani, with text reading] *New York Times interviewing Zohran Mamdani*
[Middle: picture of Navarro and Mamdani with text reading] *Mamdani has a cough attack mid-interview* "I'm so sorry... It's just a bad cough."
[Navarro:] "Have you had it checked out?"
[Mamdani:] *recovering, sipping glass of water* "I have."
[Bottom: *Mamdani,] fighting for his life, [trying not to cough and choke,] staring directly at the camera, still smiling*
"That's why I believe in Medicare for all. Everyone can check it out."
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Night of the Abigail @popeguilty.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
"I believe, ironically, that the new Red Scare is aimed at dismantling the electoral power of the Democratic Party." This is an extremely correct point in the middle of an extremely correct article that I think you should read.
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Morning
Meme: a flooffy cat lying down and looking at camera, labelled ‘himalayan’. Below, the same breed of cat standing, labelled ‘himawalkin’. An extremely childish ‘joke’. It amuses me enormously
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 17/07/2026
The NYPD pays *trainees* more than a full-time EMT makes. "Some E.M.S. workers have ended up in homeless shelters or sleeping in their cars." Pay them, Mayor Mamdani.
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Some Ambulance Workers Make $18 an Hour. Can Mamdani Get Them a Raise? (Gift Article)
Zohran Mamdani has staked his mayoralty on making New York City more affordable for all. Some city employees hope he will start with them.
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Picard Tips @picardtips.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Picard management tip: Withhold advice on matters you do not understand.
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Seeing this thread reminds me that idk if i've told my Hippo Story on here. Living in Alaska, people assume I have wild stories of bear encounters, and while I've had some close calls, none were anywhere close to my scariest wildlife incident to date.
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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
The Last American (1889) — journal of a Persian admiral who in the year 2951 sails across the Atlantic to “rediscover” the ruined remains of a US civilisation destroyed by climate change many centuries previously: publicdomainreview.org/collection/t... #fourthofjuly #ClimateChange 🇺🇸
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Charlottesville Tomorrow @cvilletomorrow.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Strewn along roadways throughout Ruckersville, dozens of abandoned vehicles sat empty Tuesday as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and Greene County Sheriff’s deputies stopped motorists and made arrests across the community. Here's what we know:
cvilletomorrow.org
ICE and Greene County Sheriff's deputies arrest numerous people in Ruckersville operation
"What will haunt me is that there were so many empty vans and cars on the side of the road from people that they had taken," said attorney Andrew Wilder Young. "That's going to stick with me for the…
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 13/06/2026
My only contribution to the solar discourse (y’all need hobbies) is that before anyone touts solar as a kind of superior choice, moral or otherwise, we should mandate the installation of solar for rental properties.
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Charlottesville Tomorrow @cvilletomorrow.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Louisa County High School Band Director Micah Lee: ““The biggest difference I’ve seen was the creation of their own voice."
cvilletomorrow.org
A Louisa County High School teacher is transforming practice rooms into recording studios
Band Director and Teacher Micah Lee is using his music theory class to teach students about creating, recording and producing original music.
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🌱 El(iza)beth 🌬️ K 🔥 T 🌊 @arachnereid.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
How many times have I become consumed with worry and then the thing I worried about does or doesn't come to pass and life goes on, either way. 💕 🌱 my friend sent me this yesterday while I worried at the doctor, then I went to the woods #mindfulmoment #anxiety

Seven Good Things
“I Worried” by Mary Oliver
I Worried

I worried a lot. Will the garden grow, will the rivers
flow in the right direction, will the earth turn
as it was taught, and if not how shall
I correct it?

Was I right, was I wrong, will I be forgiven,
can I do better?

Will I ever be able to sing, even the sparrows
can do it and I am, well,
hopeless.

Is my eyesight fading or am I just imagining it,
am I going to get rheumatism,
lockjaw, dementia?

Finally, I saw that worrying had come to nothing.
And gave it up. And took my old body
and went out into the morning,
and sang.
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gardenpeach.bsky.social @gardenpeach.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
PVCC is on Anthem.
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WhinterWeen @whinterqueen.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
i’m really lichen this
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 18/05/2026
I am once again begging, praying, weeping for lists of written instructions rather than videos. I do not want to watch your two minute video in the hope of catching the two seconds where you whizz past what goddamn menu the thing is under. Write. It. Down.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
I need your help. When I'm making projects happen, I don't have as much time to remind people to buy merch/donate to Skype a Scientist. SO our balance sheet is...oh dear 😅 If you're able, becoming a monthly donor, even a couple bucks a month, would be really amazing. givebutter.com/SupportSAS26
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Support Skype a Scientist!
By Skype a Scientist
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
On this day in 1985, the city of Philadelphia went to war against its own citizens. I wrote about it for @teenvogue.com back in 2020: www.teenvogue.com/story/histor...
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What You Need to Know About the MOVE Bombing
And how Philadelphia became "the city that bombed itself."
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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
I have complex feelings about astronomers and cosmologists calling what they do space archaeology, on the basis that it's looking into the past. That might be the etymology of the word 'archaeology', but it's not what archaeology actually is. 🧪 🏺
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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
this is very good and also huge fuckin same
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Ross Floate @rossfloate.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken
sinceyouarrived.world
taken.
A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 09/05/2026
excerpt from an amazing South Korean book on bugs
GUyS
cooking
cook
Where are you?
(Found it!
What a surprise!
The antennae are 'multi-purpose sensors'
Bearded beetles fold and unfold their antennae like a fan to figure out whether the weather is warm or cold, whether the air is damp or dry, where the wind is blowing from, where their friends are, and where their food is.
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Jim Wald @citizenwald.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Here is Hampshire College creative writing professor (+ alumna) Faune Albert on the dilemma: Cowardice and the Closing of Hampshire College: Administrators chose hope over honesty; the rest of us are suffering because of it archive.ph/x7zSG
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 07/05/2026
As many know, Hampshire College, one of the most innovative liberal arts colleges in the country, is facing shutdown due to debt. If you have a few $ to spare, there are a couple efforts to help the college workers & potentially save the institution. Worker relief fund: www.helphampshireworkers.com
helphampshireworkers.com
Help Hampshire Workers | Support Hampshire Workers Today
Support Hampshire College staff and faculty facing job loss with emergency relief funds for essential needs. Contributions and support help provide immediate assistance during this critical time.
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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
may we all strive to fulfill the promise of the Virginia state flag (tits out, tyrants underfoot)
the Virginia state flag, which features a vaguely roman woman with on tit bared, standing on the neck of a guy who might be Caesar. the motto below is sic semper tyrannis--thus always to tyrants. extremely baller tbh
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Information Charlottesville @infocville.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
The days of me reporting live on election night are over, but I do want to make sure anyone who wants to see the votes come in have access to the primary source. enr.elections.virginia.gov/results/publ...
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Election Results
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 17/04/2026
My annual reminder that if you need to buy a window A/C this year do not simply buy the largest model you can afford. Energy Star has a sizing guide. Why do you want an AC that is sized for your room? Because an undersized A/C won't cool well and an oversized A/C will leave a space humid
energystar.gov
Product Finder — ENERGY STAR Certified Room Air Conditioners
Compare ENERGY STAR Certified Room Air Conditioners, find rebates, and learn more.
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JPaleoWAMCNews @jpaleolo.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
BREAKING FOR @wamc.org: Hampshire College announces its Board of Trustees has voted to "permanently close Hampshire College following the Fall 2026 semester."
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Jody Rosen @jodyrosen.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Devastating: Hampshire College is permanently closing following the Fall 2026 Semester. A beautiful institution & community that has done so much for so many. My child is a current Hampshire senior. Hampshire's approach to education is so unique, humane, & exciting—I've seen it first hand. Tragic
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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 14/04/2026
ok, so Sylvia Scarlett (1935) reveals that David Bowie actually just had a Katharine Hepburn phase for a few decades.
A screenshot from Sylvia Scarlett, showing masc-dressed Katharine Hepburn as Sylvester Scarlett in a grey jacket and darker open necked shirt and serious vibes, and Dennie Moore as Maudie looking very '30s.
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
I'm a part of it. Not separate from it. I walk on the ground and the ground's walked on by me, I breathe the air and change it, I am entirely interconnected with the world.
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🕸️Meg Conley @pocketobservatory.org · 01/04/2026
AI and a newish radiologist said the growth in my breast was benign. It was v small, circumscribed. A 2nd radiologist with decades of experience said, “it looks fine but I still don’t like it. Get a biopsy.” It was triple neg breast cancer. We need more experts. radiologybusiness.com/topics/artif...
radiologybusiness.com
CEO of America’s largest public hospital system says he’s ready to replace radiologists with AI
Mitchell H. Katz, MD, president and CEO of NYC Health + Hospitals, recently spoke during a panel discussion held by Crain’s New York Business.
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