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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Apple "detectives" wanted to identify a gnarly old tree growing on a remote plot of land in Maine. What they discovered was the key to a centuries-old apple mystery.

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How apple detectives solved the mystery of an ancient tree—and rewrote the history of fruit

And how they might have helped save the future of American apples

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

that's not a "risk," it's a fact of life. no democrat president going back to Carter has ever done anything but consolidate whatever abuses of power his republican predecessor bequeathed him, and there is no chance of the party nominating anyone in '28 who won't do the same

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

have you heard the good news about our lord and savior Cthulhu?

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

"this is worse than that time I saw my late-espoused saint brought to me like Alcestis from the grave"

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Favorite film for each year of the 1970s: 1970: Five Easy Pieces 1971: Evel Knievel 1972: The Godfather 1973: The Exorcist 1974: Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle 1975: Nashville 1976: Taxi Driver 1977: 3 Women 1978: Days of Heaven 1979: The Jerk

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

new mitch mcconnell proof of life photo just dropped

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Larry's had almost as many PMs as Queen Victoria

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

it's staggering, once you start coming up against it regularly, the degree to which hostile information architecture is baked into the US social benefits system

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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

For those who are reading Black Reconstruction by W.E.B. Du Bois for the first time or again, here are some sources I recommend to read along with it, if you haven’t read them.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

1/26/2026 Zipps Sports Grill in Scottsdale, AZ (Camelback & Miller)

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

industrialization is less about automating processes than about automatizing the people who work within them. given that "good enough" has no bottom here, slaughtering people wholesale may be one of the few areas (along with call centers) where AI can fully replace human labor

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 09/02/2026

#OtD 9 Feb 2007 Alejandro Finisterre, anarchist poet and inventor of the Spanish table football (foosball) died in Zamora, Spain. He invented the game following injury during the Spanish Civil War so injured children could still play football workingclasshistory.com/2018/07/29/s...

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/12/2025

One of the earliest-ever modern portrayals of Santa Claus features him gifting Union soldiers with a jumping-jack doll of Jefferson Davis dangling from a noose - as drawn by political cartoonist Thomas Nast. www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

HARPERS WEEKLY.
JOURNAL OF CIVILIZATION
Vor. VII.-No. 314.]
NEW
YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY
1863.
GELCOM
SANTA CLAUS
SANTA CLAUS IN CAMP.-[SEE PAGE 6]

Nast's image was published in the 1862 Christmas issue of Harper’s Weekly, during days filled with both trials for the Union and rising hope. Santa Claus has arrived by sleigh in a Union army camp to distribute gifts. This was the moment that Nast conceived and introduced our modern image of Santa Claus. Combining European traditions of St. Nicholas with folk images of elves from his native Germany, he created the jolly gift-giver now associated with Christmas that here offers cheer to soldiers far from home. He distributes boxes of necessities such as warm socks, copies of Harper's Weekly, and entertains the crowd with a jumping jack dangling from a noose, its chest lettered "Jeff" in reference to the Confederate President Jefferson Davis. In the background, soldiers chase an escaped hog, roast meat on a spit and play fairground games such as climbing a greased pole. This image on the title page of the journal was supported by a two-page spread within the journal that shows Santa visiting sleeping children in New York (see 33.35.26 and 29.88.4(8)).

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

iow if your critique of nostalgia is that any attachment to the past is a form of false consciousness, you don't have a critique of nostalgia and you need to sit your ass down and read some Benjamin

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

I see AI slop in anything, I instantly disregard the whole thing. It's like finding a slug in your salad. If you can't write without an LLM, or you can't source art that isn't genAI, you can't be trusted to do anything. Sorry. Absolute deal-breaker.

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.

photo, left to right: Monica, Rachel, Ross, Chandler, Joey, Phoebe, though they look startlingly like the cast of Deadwood

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

there's the phony nostalgia of "everything in my childhood was wonderful," but there's also the redemptive nostalgia of "this good thing I remember from my earlier life has been lost," and if you can't or won't see the difference then I suspect you of being some kind of authoritarian

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Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

I posted the text of my talk on 'Decomputing as Resistance' danmcquillan.org/decomputing_... It's a work-in-progress: comments welcome!

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

every morning I wake up and say to myself, "another night of not being targeted by hired assassins," and it puts a little spring in my step

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