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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 10/09/2026
My favorite doorknobs are the ones the New York City public schools installed at the turn of the 20th century. You can still occasionally find one on eBay!
A brass doorknob with the all-caps lettering "PUBLIC SCHOOL—CITY OF NEW YORK," surrounded by a swirling motif that looks rather like leaves.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 10/09/2026
giri is the best tennis writer alive and that extends to cultural commentary as well
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Tim Minneci @timminneci.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Well, this is a fine way to discover our goth cover band Toy Division, using only Fisher Price instruments, will not be going forward.
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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This was an invaluable resource back when I had to regularly produce 3 hour long playlists
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Simkaye 🌈 @simkaye.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The liege taketh they'r grain, yet they quarrel over the maid'ns hemlines (laughing off mine own ass) #15thCenturyMeme #PeasantPosting
A medieval-style illustration of a white unicorn with a red snake skewered on its horn and wrapped around its neck. The background is a blend of four stylized plants native to California: calystegia macrostegia, clematis pauciflora, maurandella antirrhiniflora, and rubus ursinus. 

The ink was done traditionally with color added digitally.
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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 01/09/2026
I'm a Disney Adult in that I'm a dirty little fiend for infrastructure and the processes required to manage humans. Seriously cannot get enough of that shit. Rides? No. Mouse? Fuck off. Systematic analysis of moving thousands of tons of garbage without showing your hand? HOOK IT TO MY VEINS!!!
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 31/08/2026
this is definitely my favorite "white people like to" in recent memory. it's true, i'm always treating the columbian exchange as a zero sum game with a winner and a loser. that's definitely how i think food works
White people love to act like lettuce and tomatoes were an equivalent exchange like we didn't have perfectly good lambscorder leafy greens here
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The kākāpo population number officially now starts with a 3!!!!
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Holy shiiiiiiit if you know anyone in North Carolina who may even know anyone who knows anyone who's been to an event by these people, get them to go get the rabies post-exposure prophylaxis shots RIGHT THE FUCK NOW, DO NOT WAIT, YOU CANNOT TREAT IT AFTER SYMPTOMS START
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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 31/08/2026
Had a close call visiting a local establishment's website yesterday. A CloudFlare dialogue came up, and after clicking to confirm that 'I was not a robot', it prompted me to: * Press Windows+R (opening a run command window * Paste something from my keyboard and press enter Don't ever do this.
A scam CloudFlare box stating "Additional Verification Required", and then providing instructions that install malware on your computer.
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 01/09/2026
If buying isn't owning then piracy can't be theft. Any reasonable corporation knows that.
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 10/04/2026
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
As you walk down the street, my voice can be heard out of each passing Flock camera. “Tan shoes don’t go with dark worsted suits,” says the next Flock camera. “To understand this,” says the third camera, “we must go back to the early 1900s, when men’s dress was divided between city and country.”
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Joesferatu @makeitunclear.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I guess my biggest take on race is that in "going the distance" the singer seems to describe simultaneously a horse race, a car race, and a foot race without really understanding how any of those things operate
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 18/08/2026
The synth hook of “Bette Davis Eyes” is the most luxurious sound the human ear is capable of hearing
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Good morning
writing eldritch horror vs gothic horror
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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 11/08/2026
So if you’re wondering why journalists won’t let this story go when they’ve dropped so many others of similar shittiness…
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 09/08/2026
if they're drinking nounwine it's fantasy. if they're snorting a verb it's sci fi
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BOO Bolander @bbolander.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
just imagining a world where they went on to do more stuff that looked like this and less frozen 4
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I’m wheezing smittenkitchen.com/2026/07/spag...
Spaghetti Aglio e Olio
SERVINGS: THIS IS A PRIVATE MATTER 
TIME: 20 MINUTES
SOURCE: SMITTEN KITCHEN
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
everyone remarking how mean that review of the film was; it could be so so much worse. Sometimes it's just a murder using your own tools. Feast your eyes on the greatest literary hatchet job of all time. onehundredpages.wordpress.com/2013/06/12/d...
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Don’t make fun of renowned Dan Brown
Renowned author Dan Brown woke up in his luxurious four-poster bed in his expensive $10 million house – and immediately he felt angry. Most people would have thought that the 48-year-old man had no…
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Sam J Miller @sentencebender.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Not only is he a smoking hot abolitionist who was assassinated for refusing orders to massacre indigenous folks, he "befriended Walt Whitman" according to his Wikipedia page which ABSOLUTELY means they fucked
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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Never let someone tell you that you must excuse owning enslaved people or participating in killing Native people because someone was "of their time". Silas Soule was of the same time.
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☆ Spookxa ☆ @luxssa.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
This transcends language
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⚸ Gingersnapped 🐺🌕🎃 @gingerspiced.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*
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BOO Bolander @bbolander.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
"i am the pain in your arm at 4 in the morning, the headache that will not shift"
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Micah @rincewind.run · 28/06/2026
this child is literally a wizard, this is incredible
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 26/05/2026
We're just about through with legal review for Elon Take The Wheel, which means the book that explains how Elon Musk's wealth is built on a stack of corpses (probably) won't get me sued into homelessness! Please pre-order your copy today, and help build momentum! benbellabooks.com/shop/elon-ta...
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Elon Take the Wheel - BenBella Books
Timely, thought-provoking, and rigorously sourced, Elon Take the Wheel invites readers to reconsider what automated driving promises, what it obscures, and what it means for the future of mobility.
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Alberta’s grievances with Ottawa are mostly manufactured, always exaggerated and, often, completely illusory. Now it's time for the people who spent the last decade amplifying and weaponizing them to put out the fire they helped create. #cdnpoli #abpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/05/26/o...
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Albertans are addicted to their grievances. It’s time to break the cycle
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Nicole Pagowsky, Ph.D. @nope4evr.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Exactly! "...we will have an ouroboros of corporate crap. An infinitely long inhuman centipede where the original nutrient of creative fire is transformed into infinitely redigested shit. Will we get used to consuming this degradation the way that Americans got used to eating microplastics?"
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
too many stupid people have money; that's why I'm launching protein cigarettes
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Whoa.
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Adrienne Tanner @adriennetanner.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
The fossil fuel capital of Canada is so loyal to oil and so myopic about the future, it is doing everything it can to deter solar installation, even for residents willing to foot the entire cost themselves.https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/05/04/opinion/alberta-solar-panels-fee-renewables-smith
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Alberta still doesn’t want to stick it where the sun shines
The fossil fuel capital of Canada is so loyal to oil and so myopic about the future, it is doing everything it can to deter solar installation, even for residents willing to foot the entire cost thems...
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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
oh my GOD the ERTÉ OF IT ALL
Sam Smith in a fabulous 1920s-esque black sparkling opera coat and a headpiece consisting of a skullcap with three tall feathers
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 20/04/2026
I wrote for Slate about how a new group of cookbooks and food writers are trying to remind us of the actual joy of cooking. slate.com/life/2026/04...
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There’s a Seductive Recipe Style That’s Taken Over Our Stoves. Think Twice Before You Cook It Again.
Get your kitchen timer ready.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
i will watch the Tron fencing
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 20/04/2026
Europa Missions xkcd.com/3234/
3-panel comic. (1) (A person with a picture of a spacecraft behind head.] PERSON 1: There are now three spacecraft headed to Europe: NASA’s *Europa Clipper*, which will investigate Europa’s subsurface ocean, (2) [Person is gesturing at a picture of a different spacecraft while talking to a person with a ponytail and a person with short hair.] PERSON 1: ESA’s *Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer*, which will study the topography and chemistry of Europa and the other moons, (3) [Person with a picture behind head of a Zamboni with a rocket launcher underneath] and the NHL’s *Zamboni Voyager*, which plans to resurface Europa. PERSON FROM OFF-PANEL: Oh no. PERSON 1: We tried to stop them, but the league is set on an expansion.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 14/04/2026
new bucket list unlocked for my adhd craft friends:
Critically endangered crafts
Crafts classified as 'critically endangered' are those at serious risk of no longer being practised. They m include crafts with a shrinking base of craftspeople, crafts with limited training opportunities, crafts wit financial viability, or crafts where there is no mechanism to pass on the skills and knowledge.
Arrowsmithing
Basketwork furniture making
Bell founding
Besom broom making MORE ENDANGERED
Bow making (musical)
Bowed-felt hat making
Chain making
Clay pipe making
Clog making
Coiled straw basket making
Coppersmithing (objects)
Copper wheel engraving
Currach making
Cut crystal glass making NEW
Devon stave basket making
Diamond cutting
Encaustic tile making
Engine turned engraving
Fabric pleating
Fair Isle chair making
Fan making
Figurehead carving NEW
Flower making (trade and manufacturing) NEW
Flute making (concert)
Fore-edge painting
Frame knitting
Glass eye making
Glove making MORE ENDANGERED
Hat block making
Hat plaiting
Horse collar making
Horsehair weaving
Linen beetling NEW
Linen damask weaving
Maille making
Matte painting (filmmaking) NEW
Metal thread making
Millwrighting
Northern Isles basket making
Orrery making
Paper making (trade and manufacturing)
Parchment and vellum making
Piano making
Pietra dura NEW
Plane making
Plume making
Pointe shoe making
Pottery (trade and manufacturing)
Quilting (frame NEW |
Rake making MORE ENDANGERED
Rattan furniture making NEW
Saw making
Scientific and optical instrument making
Scissor making
Sieve and riddle making
Silk ribbon weaving
Silver spinning
Spade making
Spinning wheel making
Straw hat making
Sussex trug making
Swill basket making
Tanning (oak bark)
Thatching (Irish vernacular) NEW
Thatching (Scottish vernacular)
Thatching (Welsh vernacular) NEW
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Tinsmithing
Wainwrighting
Watch face enamelling
Watch making
Whip making
Wooden fishing net making
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Victoria Rose Richards @aerialembroidery.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
'A simple (perfect) life' - my spring landscape is finally finished! An apple orchard in bloom, old railway, sheep with their lambs and an allotment being prepared for growing :) Zoom in to see all the other tiny details too... I think this might be my favourite aerial embroidery I've ever done!
An embroidery hoop containing a sewn aerial view landscape. It depicts an apple orchard in bloom in the centre, allotments to the left and sheep in their field at the bottom. Train tracks go past the top of the orchard and allotment.Sewn train tracks past an apple orchard (to the left).An angled view of a sewn vegetable allotment surrounded by rough land, trees and with train tracks to the left.An angled view of embroidered bushes and paths going through them leading to an orchard, allotment and fields.
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 08/04/2026
all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 09/04/2026
pretty much any time before 2025 the right would have run a multi-day culture war news cycle about how blasphemous this is
jon greenberg on x:

The White Sox just announced a bunch of theme nights and giveaways, including:

White Sox Pope Hat

Tuesday, August 11 @ 6:40pm ct vs Reds
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 08/04/2026
"i could probably pilot a ship through the straight of hormuz" -next big thing 80% of men secretly believe about themselves
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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Incredible footage from a United Airlines flight of the Artemis II launch.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/04/2026
Artemis II lifts off
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Jimmy @jimmy-d.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
The third base side photog for the Phils was going absolutely bonkers today
Justin Crawford and JT Realmuto bump butts in midair as Kyle Schwarber runs in, squeezing streams of pink liquid onto Crawford.
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Andraste Sideyr @andraste.fuckbgp.com · 12/02/2026
forgot the most important of the genre
fuck the moon
@fuckthem00n

fly me to the moon
let me kick it's fucking ass
let me show it what i learned
in my moon jujitsu class
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mike @vagabondvivant.com · 02/04/2026
petapixel.com/2023/04/11/t... Petapixel with the name (Josh Valcarcel) *and* setup
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The Story Behind NASA's Iconic and Timeless Artemis II Portraits
The inspiration behind the incredible NASA Artemis II crew portraits.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
There are two kinds of people: nacho hat half-full, nacho hat half-empty. @rincewind.run @publichealthguy1.bsky.social
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this is the platonic ideal of a baseball food, the ballpark is the absolute best place in the world for nonsense gimmicks like this

you're there to hang out in the sunshine with your buddies and watch dudes hit ball far, why not have a nacho hat while you're at itpublic health guy
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it’s simply too vulnerable to nacho theft from the fans sitting behind/above you. at $1 a nacho, i’m not risking it
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Caitlin @saxetniniltiac.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
I have watched this approximately 47 times and laughed out loud 47 times
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