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It's here! Signed by @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social no less. Frustratingly, too busy an afternoon to get started reading, but after supper...

A copy of the new book by Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social :
Curious Events Lately occurring in this Neighbourhood

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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The Archdiocese of St. Louis sued the Trump administration on Monday to get its priests inside a Missouri jail that holds ICE detainees. The jail had proposed having a guard hand detainees a packaged host. Archbishop Mitchell Rozanski called it “sacrilegious.”

thelettersfromleo.com

Following Pope Leo XIV, St. Louis Archbishop Sues Trump’s ICE Over Sacraments for Detainees

A Missouri jail proposed that priests hand the Eucharist to a guard in a package. Archbishop Rozanski sued on Monday — two days after Cardinal Cupich demanded access to ICE detainees.

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Bluesky's "trending" blurbs seem written in a desperate attempt to counter criticism of the platform as some kind of progressive bubble, but it winds up giving us bland pudding like "Fans react to baseball game." Who talks like that?

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Zibby @herglorang.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

🧵of amazing crop art at the Minnesota State Fair.

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Happy 72nd Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past.

Ruby Bridges flanked by three U.S. Marshals on the steps of her school

Norman Rockwell’s painting depicting the event, “The Problem We All Live With,” originally published as a centerfold in the January 14, 1964 issue of Look magazine.

Ruby Bridges talking with President Obama as they look at Rockwell’s painting while it was temporarily displayed at the White House in 2011.

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Chin @lighthealing.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I actually think the structure of these questions has to change (bc they will use the same dodges they always do, "I don't know what Elon means"). WHY DO YOU REFUSE to speak up against Elon's antisemitic comments? WHY DO YOU REFUSE to condemn Elon's non-consensual porn?

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Zibby @herglorang.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

When my father and I started communicating after umpteen yrs, I did not think we would move so quickly into sharing diarrhea stories.

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Joanna🌱 @rainbowofcrazy.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I had this painting saved for the longest time and it never felt like I had the right goodies for it. But I finally gave in and gave it a try. 🤭🌱 #rainbowofcrazyvegart #art

green beans, cherry tomatoes, basil, and red amaranth leaves, arranged to look like the painting Water Lilies and Japanese Bridge, by Claude Monet.

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Zibby @herglorang.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I'm not sure I could run away fast enough from this creature so I think I'd just assume the barbed wire was there for a good reason and keep my distance (but that's just me).

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Frankly amazed that despite wall-to-wall Bayeux Tapestry coverage nobody has mentioned the Playmobil version I made back in 2016.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

HOLY SHIT DUDES fucking with the environment is now not just a sin (which Francis also said), it is classed as a direct fuck-you to God and a central tenet of the reasoning is the need to care for "our common home," i.e. you are morally obligated to think about the other people who also live here

americamagazine.org

Vatican theological commission defines ‘sin against creation and the Creator’ in new document

The more than 29,000 word text calls for ecological conversion due to “sin against creation and the Creator.”

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Wonkette @wonkettemedia.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Whiny, Spoiled California Schoolchildren Denied Air Conditioners They’ve Been Demanding www.wonkette.com/p/whiny-spoi... By Brooke Binkowski @brooklynmarie.bsky.social

wonkette.com

Whiny, Spoiled California Schoolchildren Denied Air Conditioners They’ve Been Demanding

Finally, someone is looking out for PG&E.

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Zibby @herglorang.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The 5 Simpsons lines I've quoted most, off the top of my head: 1. “No children have ever meddled with the Republican Party and lived to tell about it.” 2. “it's a perfectly cromulent word" 3. “Sacrilicious uhhhhhhmmmm” 4. “Ha ha!” 5. “D’ho!”

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 24/08/2026

Here are 3 minutes of unedited sanderling joy from right before sunset tonight 🥹 🪶

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Dr. Fim @fim.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Ansel Adams on assignment for IBM - one of my favourite shots. Not the usual landscape but the skill of a woman weaving magnetic core memory. The beat up nails captures total “woman in STEM” vibes.

A woman with extremely short painted nails weaving magnetic core memory. A series of rows and columns of wires in a grid.

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Zibby @herglorang.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Reminds me of the time I got an audio book on Libby, listened to a chapter or so, then returned it. I checked it out again a year later. Libby analyzed my reading speed and concluded that if I kept listening at the same rate, I could finish the book in about 16 years.

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Zibby @herglorang.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

If there's a pause button, I missed it. First time I started it at night and finished the next morning. I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Aug 21st 2026 (Tricky), in less than 664 minutes 🟨🟩🟩🟡 🟨🟡🟡🟩 🟨🟨🟩🟡 🟡🟩🟩🟡 🟩🟩🟩🟡 cluesbysam.com

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Boston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Remember, peeps... Among RFK Jr.'s first actions as HHS was an assault on US mRNA research. So, yes. Let's celebrate these real contributions to human well being...while recognizing that Kennedy has already constrained our ability to develop more of them.

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

wtf does Bret Stephens want, reparations from people who made it briefly, slightly uncomfortable for him to be a racist prick?

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Rudy Giuliani is why a lot of people died during and after 9/11. Has anyone said he shouldn't show up? How about George W. who cut anti-terrorism measures that might've prevented it? Why does racist fantasy harm matter more than real harm; the answer is racism, including in amplifying these voices.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

In 2023 while in NOLA, a Lyft Driver and I had a conversation about leaving home. It led to him telling me about his terminal diagnosis. “An editor told me once that if you want to understand a war, interview the grave diggers. I’d add that if you want to understand a city, interview the drivers.”

oxfordamerican.org

Mister Anthony

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Sanjay Srivastava @sanjaysrivastava.com · 28/07/2026

Guns are socially corrosive. They diminish the potential of a community. They drive a wedge between us and our values. Just the possibility, their presence in the world, is enough to do that. No pundit or politician can be taken remotely seriously unless they reckon with that 4/4

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Zibby @herglorang.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This delightful thread has convinced me that our local county fair could double attendance by adding historical re-enactors, insane varieties of chickens, and white lab coats for all the folks showing livestock.

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I hope every day you all are trying to cultivate joy. A kindness to a neighbor. A long walk. Poetry. Birdwatching. Meditation. Being silly and playing peekaboo in a checkout line with a cute baby. These are dark times, and joy is something the bastards cannot take from us. Fight for it.

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Merrill Markoe @merrillmarkoe.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I made a list of some of the incredibly great ideas that I had when I was 20 that I can no longer recommend. merrillmarkoe.substack.com/p/great-idea...

merrillmarkoe.substack.com

Great ideas from my late teens and early 20's that I no longer recommend.

You may need a sedative to read these.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

but these motherfuckers loooooove Hell, they are so horny for it, because it’s not going to be where THEY go, it’s where YOU go. they are so serene in their sense of superiority. like most far right extremists, they are constantly fantasizing about terrible things happening to the people they hate

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Yep. @polphilpod.bsky.social and I made this point in this essay on Elon Musk's real fascist worldview, which all of you should read if you haven't yet, because (we immodestly insist) it breaks new ground. Also see the interview with one of the authors of "Muskism." newrepublic.com/article/2119...

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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 15/07/2026

Sounds like gender-affirming care to me.

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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 14/07/2026

I do wanna see more of the religious left invoking this language As mad as I am about how the right has co-opted patriotism, I’m even more mad about how they have co-opted religious devotion and spiritual sincerity

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Zibby @herglorang.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Getting better at this new game!

Spoiler-free image of my results from Four Corners Game 9 - I solved it in 1 min 51 sec https://fourcorners.smol.quest/

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Jon @jonp214.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Look if I don’t post that I’m Mad About It everyone will think I like it!

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Br. Dr. Ken Homan, SJ @kenhomansj.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

If using the dead's own words and actions to describe them is speaking ill of the dead, then the real question is why didn't you do more to oppose their harms when they were alive? Or are you using death to hide your comfort with those harms?

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Bridget O’Brien @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Would also recommend Fratelli tutti to the author of that piece: “true love for an oppressor means seeking ways to make him cease his oppression; it means stripping him of a power that he does not know how to use, and that diminishes his own humanity and that of others.”

dignity. We are called to love everyone, without exception; at the same time, loving an oppressor does not mean allowing him to keep oppressing us, or letting him think that what he does is acceptable. On the contrary,Forgiveness does not entail allowing oppressors to keep trampling on their own dignity and that of others, or letting criminals continue their wrongdoing. Those who suffer injustice have to defend strenuously their own rights and those of their family, precisely because they must preserve the dignity they have received as a loving gift from God. If a criminal has

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Not one man who used Jeffrey Epstein to help them rape underage girls has been arrested. But a man has been arrested for placing his hand the Reflecting Pool's water. #NationalPriorities

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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

It’s just so fucked up that the predominant topic and discourse in the country is: People should be treated humanely and have rights no matter their race or origin vs NO THEY SHOULD NOT

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Altogether Ooky Doktor Zoom @doktorzoom.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Not having regular contact with reliable sources of health information makes people likely to be fooled by liars? WHO KNEW? New Poll: People Lacking Decent Healthcare More Likely To Believe Antivaxx Bullsh*t www.wonkette.com/p/new-poll-p...

wonkette.com

New Poll: People Lacking Decent Healthcare More Likely To Believe Antivaxx Bullsh*t

Marvelous!

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I do not understand why the default Democratic position on this issue isn’t simply to be opposed to mandatory genital exams for participants in girls sports. Because that intrusive practice is how GOP policy on transgender athletes will be enforced.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

every single one of these priests has a terminal case of Resting White Supremacist Face

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Zibby @herglorang.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Come for the sheep, stay for the alt text.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 24/06/2026

Liz Soto and Savanna Batten are 2 of those sentenced to 50 years in prison for Prairieland. I visited them in a north Texas jail—11 months into their incarceration over a July 4 noise demo—to meet the Trump admin’s “Antifa terrorists”. from behind glass, Soto said, “They didn’t like my book club.”

theguardian.com

‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison

Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility

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Wonkette @wonkettemedia.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Oiled-Up, Half-Naked Men Entertain President On 80th Birthday www.wonkette.com/p/oiled-up-h... By Dominic Gwinn @dominicgwinn.com

wonkette.com

Oiled-Up, Half-Naked Men Entertain President On 80th Birthday

And Dom was there.

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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Happy Flag Day. Stars and Stripes represent our unity. No one can take that from us.

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Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

There's an important point here that no one has made: the Central African Republic (CAR) is under complete control of Russia's GRU. These Iranian women will be quickly picked up & sent on to Iran where they will be punished. 1/

nytimes.com

Women Who Fled Iran Are to Be Deported to Central African Republic, Lawyers Say

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