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Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Here are a series of essays I wrote about Dolly tied to albums at the beginning, middle and end of her vast, prolific career, if you're looking for a little themed reading. www.dontrocktheinbox.com/on-dolly-par...

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On Dolly Parton, Brilliant In Every Era

Today marks an unfathomable loss: Dolly Parton has died. Brilliant artist, devoted philanthropist, remarkable human; to list her achievements here feels redundant, as the cult of Dolly has long since ...

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

your apartment, the sport of basketball, and the Republic of Korea are all social constructs. mere recognition of this fact does not actually make the question of whether you are standing in your own apartment, playing basketball, or a Korean national up in the air until settled by op ed editors

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 24/07/2026

The claim “RFK Jr. does not fuck chickens” is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that RFK Jr. fucks chickens.

KEY POINTS
• The claim 'vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based
claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism.

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sarah zedig 🐐 @hmsnofun.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

so to be clear, the city didn't "give up." the last time they painted over the mural, sitting city council members alexis mercedes rinck and joy hollingsworth personally helped scrub the paint off, effectively rendering hot rat summer an official city monument.

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Jordan Kurella @jordankurella.com · 28/05/2026

when i wrote The Death of Mountains, i just wanted to write a book with a talking mountain and a talking death (many). and ask this: "what is the point of living when death is standing on your shoulder?" a finalist for: the Nebula Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the L.A. Times Book Prize

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The Death of Mountains

Check out The Death of Mountains - <p>The latest novella by Nebula finalist Jordan Kurella is a moving allegorical tale. As mankind continues to hurt the planet, leaving us with scarred lands, stories...

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Lorelei @ielerol.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

this one's going right next to "holy fucking shit, it's a dinosaur" in the old mind palace

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Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

by the way, do you need national park sled dog puppies on your timeline tonight?

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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 29/04/2026

Every time people ask me where I stand on Pluto as a planet, I advocate moving beyond the human desire to categorize and recategorize things and instead appreciate Pluto for the incredible body it is. The idea of Pluto should never be more powerful than Pluto itself!

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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 29/04/2026

As a Pluto scientist, it's wild to "make Pluto a planet again" while decimating the careers of those of us that study it! The idea of dominance in space and planetary science supersedes the actual practice of planetary science.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 23/04/2026

benches, buses, and bathrooms. they should be everywhere

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Lorelei @ielerol.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Jello salads can be good, actually

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Lorelei @ielerol.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

I will only marry a woman who is: - At least 5'9" - Always dressed in eveningwear - Able to read my mind - Daughter of the Fifth House - Holder of the scared chalice of Rix - Heir to the Holy Rings of Betazed

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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Challenge for those who are very confident that Claude is conscious: why do you have a slave

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Lorelei @ielerol.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

I went to one (1) Seattle Torrent game in December and now I would die for both Hilary Knight and Hannah Murphy

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Lorelei @ielerol.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

- religious nuttery (Puritans, Huguenots) - poverty - poor agricultural management by absentee English landlords

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 03/02/2026

Some terrifically titled papers from a discovered collection of NASA research documents found in a skip (with thanks to @juliarez.placid.horse)

A photo of a bunch of NASA research documents, with titles like "STRUCTURAL MARGINS OBSERVED IMMEDIATELY PRIOR TO EXCEEDANCE", "PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS OF UNEXPECTED WOBBLE IN A RIGIDLY NON-WOBBLING SYSTEM", "OBSERVED PERFORMANCE OF COMPONENTS KNOWN TO HAVE BEEN INSTALLED BACKWARDS", "COGNITIVE LOAD IMPLICATIONS OF ACRONYMS REFERRING TO OTHER ACRONYMS", "THRMAL CHARACTERISTICS OF MATERIALS DESCRIBED AS 'PROBABLY INFLAMMABLE'", "ON THE REPEATED SURVIVAL OF SYSTEMS NEVER INTENDED TO WORK", "THE EFFECT OF CLIPBOARD ON PERCEIVED AUTHORITY IN TEST ENVIRONMENTS", "MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF SUBSTANCES EXPOSED TO REPEATED MEETINGS", "ANOMALOUS RESULTS WHICH PERSIST DESPITE STRONG MANAGEMENT DISAPPROVAL", and "A PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT OF THE MOON'S APPARENT DISINTEREST IN OUR ACTIVITIES"

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs.

The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/01/2026

There are places where Trump, as president, has broad freedom of action. And there are places where Trump, as president, has been able to act unilaterally because the main point of opposition, Congress (and SCOTUS), support his program. (1/?)

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Do you see how an act is not, as young men think, like a rock that one picks up and throws, and it hits or misses, and that's the end of it. When that rock is lifted, the earth is lighter; the hand that bears it heavier.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 11/09/2025

I extremely do not want to live in a Years of Lead country, it’s bad on many levels, murder is wrong. and yet few have done more to make that happen than this guy bsky.app/profile/pete...

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Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 07/08/2025

The thing is, protecting women from imaginary rapists lets you control women. If you were protecting them from real rapists you might also have to alter the behavior of men

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Lorelei @ielerol.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Been thinking a lot about one of my favorite quotes from Lois McMaster Bujold. "about cynicism...the universe's most supine moral position. Real comfortable. If nothing can be done, then you're not some kind of shit for not doing it, and you can lie there and stink to yourself in perfect peace."

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

One of the most important things I’m taking away from my weekend at #PPP25 is the reminder that big victories are built out of and on top of an accumulation of small victories.

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Lorelei @ielerol.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

"Healthy food" discourse only makes sense through a lens of class and social status. Being healthy is high status, so it's for the rich. Cheap, accessible, filling food is popular with the poors, which means it can't be healthy. No program to make "healthy" food cheaper can fix that.

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Lorelei @ielerol.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Standing room only for Pramila Jayapal’s town hall

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Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 16/02/2025

As a political scientist who studies countries that managed to stop the slide into authoritarianism, I can assure you that ***refraining from provoking the authoritarian*** is not how it works. Without further ado, I will now go tear out another chunk of hair.

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Lorelei @ielerol.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Taking wins where I can today

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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

for decades the federal govt has bent over backwards to limit spending even on totally sensible things like office coffee, all so they can say your tax dollars aren't going to pay for coffee. and it was all for nothing bc elon is tweeting out conspiracy theories about non-existent fraud.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

UBI saves a ton of public money, but its lack of cruelty sends certain people into a rage, so it’s hard to put into practice.

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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 13/08/2024

From the Guardian piece circulating today, very much worth reading, link below

But another part of my apprehension had to do with the fact that my view of what was happening in Gaza had shifted. On 10 November 2023, I wrote in the New York Times: "As a historian of genocide, I believe that there is no proof that genocide is now taking place in Gaza, although it is very likely that war crimes, and even crimes against humanity, are happening. [...] We know from history that it is crucial to warn of the potential for genocide before it occurs, rather than belatedly condemn it after it has taken place. I think we still have that time."
I no longer believe that. By the time I travelled to Israel, I had become convinced that at least since the attack by the IDF on Rafah on 6 May 2024, it was no longer possible to deny that Israel was engaged in systematic war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocidal actions. It was not just

that this attack against the last concentration of Gazans - most of them displaced already several times by the IDF, which now once again pushed them to a so-called safe zone - demonstrated a total disregard of any humanitarian standards. It also clearly indicated that the ultimate goal of this entire undertaking from the very beginning had been to make the entire Gaza Strip uninhabitable, and to debilitate its population to such a degree that it would either die out or seek all possible options to flee the territory. In other words, the rhetoric spouted by Israeli leaders since 7 October was now being translated into reality - namely, as the 1948 UN Genocide Convention puts it, that Israel was acting "with intent to destroy, in whole or in part", the Palestinian population in Gaza, "as such, by killing, causing serious harm, or inflicting conditions of life meant to bring about the group destruction"

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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 01/05/2024

We keep ignoring the plight of children who exist in favor of children who are hypotheticals, in abortion policy, in conversations around trans kids, in ongoing violence that disproportionately affects children. Why? And how can we stop? episodes.ghost.io/hypothetical...

The irony in all of this is that the most prevalent detransition narrative is successful precisely because it provokes something very like gender dysphoria in cis people. This story asks you to imagine what might happen if your agency over your body was taken from you, if it was ripped into pieces by some powerful force beyond your control, if you started to change in ways you found alienating. And the well-meaning cis person who reads this narrative concludes that, yes, this would be horrifying, while rarely making the cognitive leap to "Oh, but this is just what a lot of trans people go through, huh?" because the nice thing about a hypothetical child is that you never need imagine anything other than yourself.

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Lorelei @ielerol.bsky.social · 03/02/2024

I have acquired the bisexual space oreos

A package of limited edition space dunk oreos

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 03/01/2024

To the extent there's anything interesting here it's that universities have policies that were written before anti-plagiarism software made it trivially easy to check assignments against millions of others. *Most* students would fail this test! twitter.com/PEWilliams_/...

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Lorelei @ielerol.bsky.social · 28/12/2023

I'm not a "one song on repeat" kind of person usually, but in the middle of December a switch flips in my brain, some track hits me just right and then all I want is the comfort of repetition. This year it's Song for a Winter's Night www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRIl...

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Song for a Winter's Night

Provided to YouTube by Rhino/Warner RecordsSong for a Winter's Night · Gordon LightfootGord's Gold℗ 1967 Beat Goes On Records 1975 Reprise RecordsDrums: Barr...

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Sarah Faber @sciencebanshee.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

When you're on your way home and need just one more thing

This is a photo of Colombo Store in Surrey, British Columbia. It's next to my favourite momo place, Taste of Himalayas, which is incredible. You should go.

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