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Internet Archive @archive.org · 07/10/2026
📖 Papiamento is the native language of Aruba, Bonaire, & Curaçao, but smaller languages can disappear online as English & Spanish dominate. 📚 Read Peter Scholing's essay THE WIND-BLOWN LANGUAGE: PAPIAMENTO in VANISHING CULTURE, FREE: archive.org/details/vani... 🧵
Light grey-green graphic quoting Peter Scholing, Digital Librarian, for the Vanishing Culture series, with the question "How do you keep a small island's culture alive when the world shuts down?" and the quote "Online access was not just expected... but became a basic necessity and a direct life-line for many people."
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026
Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.
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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
As a Catholic, like Alito, I think it's so important for you to know how little—how absolutely not at all—your marriage (or your LGBTQ identity) impacts my religious liberty. In fact, refusing to acknowledge your marriage (or your LGBTQ identity) is a grave affront to your innate human dignity.
abcnews.com
Alito calls same-sex marriage a 'decisive' turn 'against religious liberty' in new book
A new book by Justice Samuel Alito presents his view of the Constitution, the Supreme Court, and the country with a focus on religious freedom.
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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
the tech industry is about to invent books
Andrew Yeung 
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We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“every time someone is sleeping on a subway bench in a city, the rest of america can sort of say ‘ugh, look at these cities.’ but we are holding a lot of your people who you failed to love and take care of.” 👏 👏 👏
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
a play in four acts
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...
thecut.com
What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Rose/T.A. Summers @rosepetals1984.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Going in tandem with Alex's post, I always post this video with Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop talking about the concept herself, especially since she wrote the book about it. She was talking about children and reading, SPECIFICALLY. youtu.be/_AAu58SNSyc?...
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Mirrors, Windows and Sliding Glass Doors
YouTube video by Reading Rockets
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2026
🚨 BREAKING: Texas Rep. Gina Hinojosa has filed an official request to inspect unredacted communications between Gov. Greg Abbott’s office and Elon Musk after roughly 1,400 pages released last year were heavily redacted as “intimate and embarrassing.”
Texas State Rep. Gina Hinojosa stands indoors wearing a burgundy blazer and dark top, with campaign signage bearing her name and the outline of Texas visible behind her.Official letter dated September 29, 2026, from Texas State Rep. Gina Hinojosa to Gov. Greg Abbott’s office requesting inspection of unredacted communications between Abbott’s office and Elon Musk and his companies. Hinojosa seeks records previously released with redactions for information deemed “embarrassing” or “intimate,” citing her legislative authority under the Texas Public Information Act.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hahaha. I love this. Every step a blinking "scam" sign and yet
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm categorized as an AI subscriber, because I'm subscribed to the 3 TB tier of Google Drive and and they literally just changed the name of the plan to "Google AI Plus." Those "AI subscriber" numbers are 100 percent juiced and phony, and you're a sucker if you believe otherwise.
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emily boynton @heyemily.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
maybe turn the covid conscious lesbian bar into a haunted house for october
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 14/09/2026
I just love how basically every user interface is primed to make you butt-dial some generative AI feature or another
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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Flock is trying to recruit ARTISTS on job recruiting sites. I saw this while helping an artist friend look for part-time jobs and nearly vomited. “Visual storytelling” — What in the Leni Riefenstahl is this shit?
The whole nauseating post:

Creative Director
Flock Z • 4.0 *
Job details
• $200,000 - $250,000 a year
Stock options
• Full-time
• Remote in Los Angeles, CA
Full job description
The Problem
Flock's creative group is expanding as the company raises its standard of visual storytelling and campaign execution across brand, film, and digital experiences. This momentum creates a need for unified creative leadership to turn complex technology and public safety outcomes into compelling, human-centered narratives.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It's not about "fairness in women's sports" any more than it was about "ethics in gaming journalism."
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I was unfamiliar until recently with the story of Father Mychal Judge, a gay priest who became the first recorded casualty of 9/11 while administering last rites in the lobby of the North Tower. There is an effort to canonize him, which would make him the first openly gay saint in history.
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Father Mychal Judge, Gay Franciscan Killed in the North Tower, Could Be 9/11’s First Saint
The first recorded death at Ground Zero would become the first known gay person canonized a saint in the Catholic Church’s history.
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Steve Flack @vitaminsteve.com · 11/09/2026
that’s it, we’ve peaked. Call it a day, go start your weekends.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
New from 404 Media: we solved which AI company is buying massive shipments of rare books, scanning and destroying them to train AI. We put an Apple AirTag in a rare book, followed it. It ended up at an Amazon facility. Its logo is a dinosaur ripping through a book www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
404media.co
We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026
SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:
404media.co
We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 06/08/2026
Aaron Swartz deserves more justice and reconsideration than almost anybody in this century
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Stefanos Chen @stefanoschen.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The M.T.A. finished this nearly billion-dollar MetroNorth project almost $200M under budget and years ahead of schedule. Can it do the same with some of its big-haul projects? www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/n...
nytimes.com
An M.T.A. Project Is Under Budget and Finished Early. No, Really. (Gift Article)
The authority has long been panned for construction overruns and delays. It hopes a Metro-North Rail Road project could change that reputation.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 06/07/2026
Roses are red the reflecting pool is noxious
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🦋🍂Linzy is testing a hypothesis @ohmyfandoms31.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The handwriting an apology letter is so good. 10/10 perfect use of Catholic guilt.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
let us not forget that in March, he called in journalist Gareth Gore for a private meeting to get all the way into Gore's research on Opus Dei. Gore didn't reveal details of what Pope Leo said, but he writes extensively here about what HE said and the horrific stories of abuse he shared
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Gareth Gore: What I told Pope Leo about my research into Opus Dei
Journalist and author Gareth Gore shares what he said during his audience with Pope Leo XIV March 16: "By putting on record what information I shared with the pope in the meeting, nobody can now turn ...
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 01/07/2026
The collective journalistic freakout over someone disliking a cafeteria sandwich at Oberlin or some Yale students asking their peers to be less racist at Halloween has generated far more copy and uproar than multiple universities illegally firing faculty for nonconservative speech they disliked.
insidehighered.com
U Tennessee to Pay Millions to Prof Fired for Kirk Comments
The University of Tennessee System will pay $1.9 million to settle a lawsuit brought by a former professor who was fired for comments she made about the late conservative pundit Charlie Kirk, Knox New...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Tens of thousands celebrated Budapest Pride, the first since Viktor Orbán’s ousting.
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Tens of thousands march in the first Budapest Pride since Viktor Orbán was voted out
Saturday's Pride march came a little more than a year after Orbán's nationalist-populist government passed legislation and a constitutional amendment to outlaw the event, drawing criticism from human ...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/06/2026
It is core to the nature of reactionary politics that its adherents *always* conceive of themselves as aggrieved victims, no matter how much power they amass. It's a permission structure for their own lawlessness & violence.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 27/06/2026
uruguay out, cabo verde in how can you not love the world cup
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New York Magazine @nymag.com · 26/06/2026
For the Manifesto Library at Livraria Lello in Porto, Portugal, Dua Lipa curated 100 books that “challenge power, censorship, exclusion, and dominant narratives.’
thecut.com
Dua Lipa Is Opening a Library for Banned Books
For the Manifesto Library at Livraria Lello in Porto, Portugal, Dua Lipa curated 100 books that “challenge power, censorship, exclusion, and dominant narratives.’
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 26/06/2026
Kids have less spaces to do physical activity & use their knowledge to solve problems which is why I wanna bring back the power hour of Global Guts & Legends of the Hidden Temple but open one up in every city. I want kids all over battling for the Aggro Crag & answering history & geography for Olmec
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 25/06/2026
We love the Gross Reflecting Pool story because it is a Groverhaus
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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
guy has a trillion dollars, 0 friends, and has never landed a joke. I know a pact with the devil when I see one.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 09/06/2026
“I had the right papers and everything.” Omar Abdulkadir Artan would have been the first Somali to referee a World Cup game. Instead, he was denied entry to the U.S.
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Somali Referee Says His World Cup Dream Is Dashed After U.S. Denies Entry
“I had the right papers and everything,” Omar Abdulkadir Artan said in his first interview since he was turned back. He would have been the first Somali to referee a game in the tournament.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
my mayor muslim my bagel jewish my church's irish knicks in five-ish
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Defector @defector.com · 09/06/2026
Washed-up clown Spencer Pratt will not be the mayor of Los Angeles: defector.com/washed-up-cl...
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Washed-Up Clown Spencer Pratt Will Not Be The Mayor of Los Angeles | Defector
Spencer Pratt will not be the mayor of Los Angeles. There should be no need to utter this sentence, much like “You do not have to swallow a rhino whole, tonight” or “Human shit will not rain down…
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Marie 🇨🇦 @pawbaby2.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
The US is hosting the World Cup and just turned away Africa’s top referee at the airport 3 days before kickoff because of where he was born. Omar Artan had a valid visa. He had a historic assignment. They didn’t care. Disgraceful. #USDemocracy #Pinks newrepublic.com/post/211508/...
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Top African Referee Barred From Entering the U.S. For World Cup
Omar Artan was set to become the first Somalian to officiate a World Cup match. He was denied entry to the United States on Monday at Miami International Airport.
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scott⚡️mccloud @scottmccloud.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Photograph of Satrapi next to quote:

“The world is not divided into countries.
The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you.
And our governments are very much the same...”

“Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist”
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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 04/06/2026
What a staggering loss. RIP Marjane Satrapi.
nytimes.com
Marjane Satrapi, Author of ‘Persepolis,’ Dies at 56
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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
RIP Marjane Satrapi (1969-2026)
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 04/06/2026
three more
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Happy Pride 🌈
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Peter Thiel is heading to his spiritual homeland of Argentina, following in the historical footsteps of thousands of other deeply problematic men with the exact same haircut.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
my firm take is that any man loudly worried about fertility rates is a fucking creep
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
The absolute bare minimum effort we *should* be seeing from electeds anywhere. “I ran up and put myself between the ICE officers and the crowd, and that’s when they started to shoot at us with the pepper balls — as well as using the pepper spray — and were tackling people."
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Reuters @reuters.com · 22/05/2026
Exclusive: Starbucks scraps AI inventory tool across North America reut.rs/3Pu0MrX
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Exclusive: Starbucks scraps AI inventory tool across North America
Starbucks terminated an AI program workers used for automating certain inventory counts this week, nine months after deploying it across its North American ‌stores, according to an internal newsletter reviewed by Reuters and two people with direct knowledge of the situation.
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Fortunately, there are numbers to multiply by that are bigger than two.
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