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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 13h
The image is of a four panel comic. 
In the first panel, we see a pair of ghosts. The first ghost says, “Let us make love, my darling.”
In the second panel, we see  see the second ghost’s face, blushing. It says, “Here? In public?”
In the third panel, we again see the pair of ghosts together. The first one says, “No one can see us, we’re ghosts!”
In the fourth panel, the title reads “the cat”. We see a cat looking up at them.
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GentlyFalling @gentlyfalling1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Have some chilorio simmering in the oven, watching the Brewers and Padres battle it out in the best series so far, going to make some bowls with little cats on them, thinking about how the new Murderbot book has dropped me in the middle of the story.
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GentlyFalling @gentlyfalling1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The two teams I am now cheering for most in the post season are facing each other. I guess I am cheering for the Brewers the most, but sigh.
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GentlyFalling @gentlyfalling1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I just got Platform Decay by Martha Wells from interlibrary loan - very excited! #murderbot
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GentlyFalling @gentlyfalling1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
That was quite a game from the Phillies - Bohm, Schwarber, Harper, Sanchez and Painter!
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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GentlyFalling @gentlyfalling1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On this last day of the #BlueJays haunted 2025 season, I am going to cheer for Scherzer and Springer to have good games!
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GentlyFalling @gentlyfalling1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
More bright spots in the #BlueJays season: Okamoto, the unstoppable Rogers/Varland combo, Springer's competitiveness, all these MiLB pitchers finally getting their shot.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
other things found in an old photo folder: this remarkable headline about the time the Mets went all-out for one special fan
newspaper headline: "Mets Blow a Save and Fan 18 Times in Opening Loss"
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GentlyFalling @gentlyfalling1.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Many things to like about the #BlueJays this year, including but not limited to Spencer Miles, Brett Bateman, Brandon Valenzuela, and the doggedness of Straw and Lukes.
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GentlyFalling @gentlyfalling1.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Today we watch the Blue Jays, make crabapple jelly, roll out some clay, do some laundry, make some arepas, and read Dungeon Crawler Carl.
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GentlyFalling @gentlyfalling1.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
All the #BlueJays gear worn by the family today in an effort to deliver some mojo to the team via the universal vibe distribution system does not seem to have had the desired effect.
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GentlyFalling @gentlyfalling1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Oh, #BlueJays. You are made up of masking tape and stray cats and things are looking especially bad tonight.
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Lou Morgan @lmorgan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I don’t know who wrote the captions for the Emmys red carpet coverage on the Guardian, but they’re spectacular
Screenshot of a photo from the Emmys red carpet with the following caption: 


Florence Pugh in a pastel Barbie dream dress with a slightly confusing off-the-shoulder train situation and the slightly spiky up-do of a mean girl at the prom in an early 2000s movie. It's excellent.Screenshot of a photo from the Emmys red carpet with the following caption: 


Allison Janney is a winner for her role as President Grace Penn in The Diplomat. It's lovely to briefly imagine a world in which presidential attire includes a lilac feather boa.
Photograph: Amy Sussman/Getty ImagesScreenshot of a photo from the Emmys red carpet with the following caption: 

Shailene Woodley is wearing pants made out of popcorn ceiling, a plunging bodysuit, and what can only be described as calf-pulling gloves. She's nominated for outstanding guest actress in a drama series for Paradise.
Photograph: Jill Connelly/EPA
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GentlyFalling @gentlyfalling1.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Jays win two in a row and the pear jelly I made tastes delicious; hopefully it sets. Maybe I am the Etsy witch today.
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GentlyFalling @gentlyfalling1.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
My Jays are playing well today, the fog burnt off and it is a nice day and I have some ideas for some pottery and hopefully a shared show at the art gallery in a few years.
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GentlyFalling @gentlyfalling1.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Blue Jays, please. Please.
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
BREAKING! "Saddle Lake Cree Nation is asserting its Treaty rights and jurisdiction to provide safe refuge for those seeking and providing gender-affirming care. Any Albertan will be able to access gender-affirming care on Saddle Lake Cree Nation reserved lands and territories"
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GentlyFalling @gentlyfalling1.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Oh, he was so good - excellent news!
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GentlyFalling @gentlyfalling1.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I am having a good long weekend - many chores done, visited Manic Records in Grande Prairie, a lot of Mexican food eaten (and yet to come), nice weather. If the Blue Jays win today (after the poor showing yesterday), that would be perfect.
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JRho @jrho.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The most absolutely massive flex from the state fair exhibit. This quilt is made of 40 years of prize ribbons from various categories at the New Mexico State Fair won by Carol St. Clair Johnson. She also won a prize for this quilt.
Massive quilt made of prize ribbons in blue, red, yellow, and whiteCenter square of quilt made of yellow and red ribbons and yellow rosettesBlock of quilt made of blue, yellow, red, and white ribbons. Ribbons state the year. Some have the prize winning object written on in markerCarol St. Clair Johnson
born 1954; resides Albuquerque, NM

O Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years
2023
satin ribbons

After unexpectedly winning her first blue ribbon for a sewn cape in 1981, Carol St. Clair Johnson developed an enduring love for the New Mexico State Fair. The quilt Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years incorporates more than six hundred of the ribbons she won at the fair every subsequent year except 2020 (when the fair was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic). Johnson earned ribbons for needlework, knitting, crochet, pies, cookies, cakes, canning, jewelry, flowers, vegetables, and potted plants. The title of the quilt is a reference to the state song, and the design places the state's Zia sun symbol at the center. The quilt earned Johnson yet another ribbon: Best in Category (miscellaneous quilt) at the 2023 New Mexico State Fair.

Courtesy of Carol St. Clair Johnson
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
1. Rick Steves has spent $2 million of his own money to rescue a single-screen theater in Edmonds, WA. This is part of a multi-million-dollar effort he has made to invest in community properties in order to preserve local institutions and keep them serving the communities they were built for.
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GentlyFalling @gentlyfalling1.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
What a lovely musician Wilson was.
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GentlyFalling @gentlyfalling1.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Got two new books at @anotherstoryto.bsky.social: On Occasion: Poems for the People edited by Sina Queyras, and Monster in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King by Caroline Bicks. They are great! However, the carryon bag must have some plastic schmutz in it that is now on my new books!
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GentlyFalling @gentlyfalling1.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Have to shout out She Said Boom! music and books, Tonality Records, Another Story bookstore, and the Revue Cinema in #Toronto - we went home with much heavier suitcases and having seen some really fun movies that just won't come to our hometown.
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GentlyFalling @gentlyfalling1.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Took the girl to see #campmiasma and it was very interesting. Some shots fired at Gen X for sure. The girl loved it to pieces, so success!
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GentlyFalling @gentlyfalling1.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Someone brought me what might have been the last Stranger Things themed mystery flavour Drumstick and you guys, it was so good. I would eat many of those. I am pretty sure the mystery flavour was cherry cola.
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GentlyFalling @gentlyfalling1.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Blue Jays won, here come the Mariners! Maybe both my teams win in a single day? Not impossible?
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 19/08/2026
The new Toronto Tempo mascot is easily the most “hey mamas” mascot I’ve ever seen. This mascot ghosted me on Her. This mascot didn’t want to be “boxed in by labels” when I wanted to dtr. This mascot looks at their ex’s IG stories every single day
Dez, some kind of like masc dyke blue turtle 

NAME:
DEZ
INSPIRED BY DECIBEL,
A NOD TO THEIR LOVE OF MUSIC
SECRET TALENT:
SNAPPING
GUILTY PLEASURE:
ASMR
VIDEOS
HOROSCOPE:
TAURUS!
FAVOURITE FOOD:
SOFT SHELL
TACOS
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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 12/08/2026
If you missed the solar eclipse, this is what it looked like:
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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Bro. People are cool as fuck.
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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
need you all to see Dylan Cease's latest original painting titled "SORRY ABOUT YOUR PARLAY"
Dylan Cease on Instagram posted his latest original painting. In vibrant red and green with notes of Keith Haring, cubism and graffiti culture, the words SORRY ABOUT YOUR PARLAY appear beside four sickly angry green faces
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Alina @eled-nil.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Non ricordo chi lo aveva postato in origine ma ricordiamoci dell'assurda e incredibile fortuna che abbiamo 🔭
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humiliating. looks like shit. yet another massive W for earth, the best planet in the universe

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@astro_jaz. 2d

we've seen eclipses on earth, so here's an eclipse from mars.

this is mars's moon phobos eclipsing the sun.

There are two photos side by side, with a huge rock passing in front of the Sun and creating a googly-eyes effect










Meme
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 11/08/2026
first post: what's up, you sickening, degenerate mongrels! ten minutes later: I am being DOGPILED for my BELIEFS
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GentlyFalling @gentlyfalling1.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Finally watched Hamnet after putting off for so long; I had read the book and was astonished. The movie is a little different but lovely and I am not sure what to do next.
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GentlyFalling @gentlyfalling1.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I do not care for the Padres' camo uniforms. Some of the best City Connects to balance it out, I guess.
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Sarah Langs @slangsonsports.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
wheeeeee!
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GentlyFalling @gentlyfalling1.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Those Protect Ontario ads make me less inclined to visit Ontario, to be honest.
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GentlyFalling @gentlyfalling1.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I was worried I was going to wait too long to use my farmer's market basil, so made some pesto for later in the week; going to make kimchi fried rice with my homemade kimchi later; got the family little Lego kits to build after errands/work; going to watch the baseball game in a few minutes. Ok.
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Discontinued FoOoOods! 👻🎃 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Stoned Wheat Thins (circa 1972-2022): A line of hearty, sturdy, crunchy snack crackers, noted for their strong toasty wheat flavor. They developed a significant cult following, before Nabisco unceremoniously pulled the plug without explanation
A Stoned Wheat Thins box, with 2 square crackers topped with cheddar and apples, and the classic red oval logo
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
HOW DO WE KNOW THIS WAS NOT THE KOOL-AID TEST AND THIS PUP WAS SIMPLY THE KOOL-AID BEST CASE CLOSE
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GentlyFalling @gentlyfalling1.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
He throws over 100 MPH too. Let this man cook.
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Winnipeg Free Press @winnipegfreepress.com · 06/08/2026
A new chapter has begun in Winnipeg’s literary landscape with the opening of science fiction and fantasy bookstore Other Places Books.
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Out of this world
New sci-fi/fantasy bookstore a welcome addition
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GentlyFalling @gentlyfalling1.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Watched the Blue Jays play this morning, doing a few small batches of canning, and I am finally going to play Skyrim. There have been worse days, certainly.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 02/08/2026
let's take a moment also to celebrate the first absolute meatball down the middle getting fucking crushed. the first woman in pro baseball league history to get her shit rocked
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Mo'ne Davis scores the first run in WPBL history for the LA Queens (although New York now leads 7-2)
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GentlyFalling @gentlyfalling1.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Watching the inaugural #WPBL game and LA is in trouble here. I bet this is fun to watch in person, the vibes are spot on.
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