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Mike Moran, I-Uz @greygrendel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Dry pavement discovered amidst the flowers on Mt. Vernon Ave.

Blue Room Studio tent Art on the Avenue 2026

Mike Moran, I-Uz @greygrendel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Worth a conversation that our frame of "prime-age employment" caps at 54 but medicare eligibility doesn't start until 65? As context, BLS recognizes ages 55+ are retiring due to age-related health issues.

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socalbookish.bsky.social @socalbookish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This👇👇👇👇👇👇

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Mike Moran, I-Uz @greygrendel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

@ryanbelmore.com any ideas why DCA runway lights out Tuesday night? Planes circling for more than 30 minutes before redirecting to Charlottesville.

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Mike Moran, I-Uz @greygrendel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Building a Death Arch. Def Andor vibe.

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Mike Moran, I-Uz @greygrendel.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Stark illustration of readily redirectable animus. It seems they have distilled internalized hostility into an organizing and mobilizing principle.

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Mike Moran, I-Uz @greygrendel.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Cannibalizing and commercializing the foundations of culture: "It's possible to scan books without 'cutting' them, which literally means ripping off the spine. But why are AI companies doing this? Cheaper and...a judge ruled it was NOT a copyright violation because the original had been destroyed."

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Taisa Sganzerla @taisasganzerla.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Men really should ask themselves whether this is a price worth paying

A photo of a shrimp salad set in gelatin from a 1960s cookbook

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Sam Ulmschneider @samulmschneider.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Normally I just appreciatively read @jamellebouie.net 's columns-sharable video content just isn't my bag. But this is a very, very, very trenchant piece of commentary that captures a lot of how I increasingly understand the disjunction between the commentary environment and on-the-ground politics.

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The pundits have completely lost the plot

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

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Mike Moran, I-Uz @greygrendel.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Support your local media. Scaffolding of democracy.

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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Fantastic Nolan interview by a Chinese PhD student who asks all the best questions, and receives all the best answers about his interpretation of the Odyssey youtu.be/wa4I8Ch2TRo?...

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Christopher Nolan talks narrative decisions, film critics and whether he Christianised The Odyssey

YouTube video by Nolan Archives

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

In case anyone needs it for their syllabi, my statement in gen-Ai from the minicomic I made as a syllabus for class last semester. All online and printable here spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...

a snippet of a mini-comic, at top - straight line stretches from point A to B. Immediately below, same dot at A, then becomes a curving, meandering line that winds through the page and ends at a point with rays and a question mark emanating from it. Text reads: "Nothing can do this for you - for that robs you of experience and conflates answers with learning. Rather, it's all the decisions you make along the way, the mistakes, struggles, and surprises! These pathways you create - this is learning.

https://spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-syllabi/

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Mike Moran, I-Uz @greygrendel.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Pathos, ethos, and logos… tools of the orator, or the three Greek Stooges. We have no idea.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 18/07/2026

I wasn’t ready for this. ☠️ 😭 Low T Pete will never live this down.

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Happy “liberal arts professor helps save the Union” day to all who celebrate

Charge of the 20th Maine at Little Round Top

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Just_LookingK @justlookingk.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Here you go! 🫶🏻 This vid is from 3 weeks ago [10:10 into the vid]; but he’s obv making sure voters all along he Campaign Trail know about it 😉✌🏻 m.youtube.com/watch?v=czbh...

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Ossoff: Something is happening in Georgia | Full Speech | 05.31.2026

YouTube video by Jon Ossoff

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

But the more radical reading this advances is that JOBS ARE ASSETS, NOT COSTS, and if they appear as costs that should be just one perspective and not the privileged one that gatekeeps financing.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. The seventh richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

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Alom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

This is bad for climate change because "animal agriculture is responsible for 12-20% of planet-heating emissions and is a leading cause of biodiversity loss". You don't have to give up meat to help, just cut down, which is easy to do if you eat food like this: alomshaha.com/wp-content/u...

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Average person eats six times more chicken than in 1961, UN report finds

UN report says global meat supply has risen fourfold in last 60 years and is expected to keep rising

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Mike Moran, I-Uz @greygrendel.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

For Alexandria residents, this is one of the most important calls to action I have read in some time. www.alexandriabrief.com/publishers-n...

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Publisher's Note: What it really costs to cover Alexandria

Seven months in, an honest look at the numbers behind your community newsroom

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Mike Moran, I-Uz @greygrendel.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Ironically, a man who presents himself with a title other than he was assigned at appointment.

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Mike Moran, I-Uz @greygrendel.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

the governor said law enforcement officers would be in the untenable position of violating state or federal law.” And putting lawful immigrants in tragic catch-22 just seems easier. A no-brainer really.

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Mike Moran, I-Uz @greygrendel.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

@alexandriabrief.com writes a Happy Birthday to Alexandria "On this day in 1749, colonial Governor William Gooch designated 60 acres along the Potomac as the site for a new settlement." The founding is more traditionally commemorated on July 13, the day of the public auction when lots were sold.

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

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Mike Moran, I-Uz @greygrendel.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Appreciate larger issues at hand, but this infographic malpractice seems to be going unacknowleged.

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

The conservative justices on the Supreme Court arguing that you can separate race and partisanship got me thinking about these maps. starkeycomics.com/2021/06/11/h...

How a coastline 100 million years ago influences modern election results in Alabama.

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Kimi Wei @kimiwei.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Isn't this wonderful? Each young child gets a starter set of books for early readers that parents can read to them, a stuffed reading buddy, a personalized bookmark with their name on it, and a solid wood bookcase with their name on it.

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Cf. the Bezos Post, "Republicans gerrymandering in Texas is fine, actually" b/w "Democrats gerrymandering in Virginia is a threat to democracy"

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Elizabeth Warren @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Virginia, TODAY is Election Day and I encourage you to vote YES on the redistricting referendum. This is a temporary response to push back against Donald Trump's efforts to rig the midterm elections. Find your polling place: IWillVote.com/VA

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I Will Vote

Be a voter. Find everything you need to vote in your state’s next election.

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 20/04/2026

Wow! 🤩 Now that is a whole new perspective! The first time humans went around the back of the Moon in 54 years. See what they saw and hear what they’re thinking/feeling in this vid from Reid Wiseman/NASA. Look at our spaceship — The Earth. They were all alone out there for a bit. #ArtemisII 🔭

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Ossoff is good at this.

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Mike Moran, I-Uz @greygrendel.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

We must navigate the fates which the world would constrain us to earn the destiny we choose.

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Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Humanity did that. Science did that. Publicly-funded research did that. Excellent universities did that. Diversity did that. International cooperation did that. Artemis II is a perfect example of what we can do at our best. Welcome home, Integrity crew!

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

One of the Artemis astronauts stood up immediately after splashdown and started collecting his carryon bags even though he was seated in the back row of the capsule.

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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

In the first eleven months of 2025, 10,109 doctoral-trained scientists left the federal government. The losses were concentrated in agencies that fund medical research, regulate environmental standards and model climate. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/more-than-...?

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 11/04/2026

I have eaten, the plums that were in the icebox specifically between the milk and cheese the block of cheddar and the 2% milk, to be exact www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wil...

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William Carlos Williams Tries to Reach His Word Count

I have eaten, the plums that were in the icebox specifically between the milk and cheese the block of cheddar and the 2% milk, to be exact April 25 2022 4/1...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

CNBC: “Is Trump destroying a civilization a bigger upside risk or downside risk?” incredible stuff

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

The matter-of-fact way she asks what investors should do if Trump destroys Iran. Absolutely wild. "Let's talk about tonight, this deadline that President Trump has set 8 p.m., has threatened to destroy a civilization. How does an investor process that? Is it a bigger upside risk or downside risk?"

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Mike Moran, I-Uz @greygrendel.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Best possible assumption, @warnock.senate.gov team doesn’t interrupt pre-loaded social media posts while President is threatening imminent genocide. Dereliction on Dem front continues unabated.

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LuUuUuke Knox 👻 @lukeknox.me · 05/04/2026

never forget when the Easter Bunny sent Teddy Roosevelt to the shadow realm

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Mike Moran, I-Uz @greygrendel.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Ahab as framing the Iranian leadership's attitude, "To the last I grapple with thee; from Hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee"

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