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‘stina is a spooky spectral one 👻🧛🧟‍♀️🐈‍⬛🦇🎃🧟 @stinapag.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Out in Brooklyn and all the young dudes have cop mustaches, i know it's not new and fair play and I love to see the kids expressing themselves, on we go. But I see the hovering spirit of Tom Sellick and am old enough to remember the last wave. The eternal return of the soup strainer.

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My grandfather had two scrapbooks full of photographs and postcards from when he was in WWII. He was a medic at the Battle of the Bulge and saw opening scene of Saving Private Ryan level war, but also saw Europe. Pretty cool for a guy from the Rio Grande Valley in Texas.

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Coach Jerry (referee 🔵) @gopher33j.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I have my great great great grandfathers diary in my possession - he drew this in 1845. There were no photos so he drew what he saw. I am sharing Henry T Whinfield’s art for the first time ever to the world. This is a world debut.

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There is truth in the exhortation to Let People Enjoy Things, and at the same time we must liberate ourselves from the polite inhibition and fear of being labeled a Snob that prevents us from saying "this shit sucks, there is far better to be had, and I know it" because people need to learn somehow.

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Co.Kerry Folksinger Mary Courtney singing Woody Guthrie song Deportees at McSorley's NYC

20+ years ago the great Mary Courtney used to play at Rocky Sullivans and dipshits like me would urge her to play the rebs. She knew them all, but knew better songs too, many of which I had never heard until she played them for us. She is a New York legend, been too long since I've seen her.

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YouTube video by John McDonagh

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No offense to everyone who is good and kind and funny and likes fun and has been nice to me in the past and is maybe about to rethink all that, but changing your screen name to something Spooky in October is real "hey, come on down, there's cupcakes in the meeting room" kinda shit.

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Generally applicable, specifically accurate.

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Mortgage Rates Surge, Notching Largest Weekly Gain in Four Years

There is no moral value in owning a house in the sense that you have Achieved The American Dream or whatever, but as a basic economic proposition it is more valuable to own than to rent. Another avenue for Not Rich people to accumulate wealth is being cut off for my kid and everyone like her.

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The rise to 7.28% follows the bond-market rout and deals another blow to a limping housing market.

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Tamper Proof Lid @readuction.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Life is so fucking funny I was just reminded of when I began to fall deeply in love with my now wife and how I was out with a buddy getting slammed and just listened to Midnight City turned all the way up on my way back through town to my apartment in the middle of the night and how my heart felt

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Hyperbolic? Maybe. But Grant has a point here, I have to admit.

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

[Senator] you claim to be a Knicks fan, but what would you say if I had texts indicating that you planned to meet your "sugar" on the highway and go to a Boston Celtics game? [Unveils posterboard] [Me] I think that says I'm meeting shuggie at the Tollbooth to get his season card for ra sellick

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“The profound moral question is not, 'Do they deserve to die?' but 'Do we deserve to kill them?'" - Sister Helen Prejean

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The Celtic Way @thecelticway.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Jota will get his first taste of Celtic action in 18 months tomorrow in a specially-arranged bounce match with Falkirk at Lennoxtown. ➡️ www.celticway.co.uk/news/26...

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Looking for bass player recommendations for strings for a fender jazz played with fingers by someone who wants more growl than warmth. @panchovillian.bsky.social has already pointed out my lack of a pick game, but is free to do so again. Although I did use a pick the other night because: blisters.

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Joebloggscity @joebloggscity.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I agree with this take from someone who did not want to be reposted, apologies to them. But I am not embarrassed, because I have always known that shitlibs represent a majority of people opposed to Trump, and by extension the greater number of voters. Antifascist sentiment is far rarer than this.

Trump hasn't dropped in popularity
cuz millions of Americans went "Wait
a minute... you're a FASCIST!" and
recoiled in disgust. It's cuz he doesn't
make them feel good, anymore. And
that was the whole point.

They feel poorer, ignored, and
bamboozled. The shitlibs were right.
That's embarrassing. 2/2

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I really stunned by how many apologists around who seem to believe that the English FA and EPL should not strip away the titles from Man City! Guilt of 114 charges over sustained period. It's systemic cheating. The titles have to go. #CelticFC #EPL

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 30/09/2026

#OtD 30 Sep 1871 20,000 workers protested in Newcastle, UK during a strike by engineers for a maximum 9-hour working day. After five months, the strike was successful, and 9 hours became standard across the country stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1034...

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Tim Waits @ironweed.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Pete Hegseth always sounds like he's reading the back of a big tub of shitty protein powder. Just a bunch of Powerful Adjectives jumbled together for Maximum Precision Relentless Force Effect. The powder is the kind that makes your balls shrivel up.

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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 30/09/2026

ok leaving this up on the conference room whiteboard

“they don’t know” meme but the man wears a NEORSD hat and stands waist deep in water with otters swimming around him. he says “they don’t know this river burned 13 times”

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👻spOOokika👻 @the17thqueen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is a funny place. I have a few mutuals who I think are interesting and cool and I may be one false move from pissing off by saying some shit I assume is innocuous. This is also a place where I feel a sort of imposter syndrome, like I am sliding by under the radar. At first,

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“If you ladies do all the work to stop rape culture, many men will assist; otherwise it’s not our problem. I get a cookie”

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Andy Muirhead @andymuirhd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Souness is actually going to have a special guest on his podcast to discuss the Manchester City financial doping scandal. That guest is none other than .... wait for it..... David Murray 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Cool Ronch @ronthony.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Social Security tax is 12.4%, half paid by the employer and half by the employee. Income subject to the tax is capped at $184k/yr. Also, because DoorDash/Uber/et al call their drivers independent contractors, they pay both halves of that 12.4%, another way in which it is more expensive to be poor

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Grimm @grimmreality.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

For clarity, because i was being vague. Thanks. What is the current maximum amount of taxable earnings for Social Security? | Frequently Asked Questions | SSA share.google/1dyeJH6K0fxZ...

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I grew up a Cubs fan. The first big trip with my folks I remember took us into Chicago to see a game at Wrigley. We got little ice creams called Frosty Malts and Ron Santo mini-pizzas. I guess Ron Santo bought into the tiny-pizza business, a VERY new thing in the 1970s. Anyway, Cubs can eat shit.

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An excellent piece. I am old. I was a college student in the late 1980s and early 1990s. So little has changed for the better since then. And the same kind of things go unpunished, while others are targeted specifically.

If you're an outsider to American universities, you might think that students
are simply out of control, and that disciplinary processes are similarly lax for
other infringements. But that is not accurate. Compare this to how the
university punishes protesters. In the spring of 2024, Cornell issued
temporary suspensions for four students protesting the war in Gaza.
Specifically, these students urged the university to divest its holdings in
companies that supported the genocide of Palestinians. To draw more
attention to their cause, they staged the protest in a central area of campus
where protests are not permitted without authorization. One of these
students was my own advisee, and having supported her throughout the the
months-long case, I can state with confidence that she did nothing wrong.
Moreover, she happens to be deaf and was suspended in part for being
"unreasonably loud." Privacy considerations prevent me from saying more
about her case here, but let me just add that I will always be angry with
Cornell for how they treated her. And Momodou Taal, an international Ph.D.
student, was ultimately suspended twice by Cornell for protesting, following
the university's humiliating disciplinary processes (which I have witnessed
firsthand as I supported my own student during them). Ultimately, the
Trump administration demanded Taal surrender himself to Immigration
and Customs Enforcement, and he chose to flee the country rather than risk
being abducted. He remains abroad, having effectively self-deported.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 30/09/2026

I have grown to not like Zappa as much as I used to as a young man, and to regard Beefheart far more highly than I did, but I consider this to be one of the essential albums of the American Music canon.

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I would die for the Weird Puppies at the Sacramento SPCA

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Jeremy Fassler @jfassler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Katie Britt watching Eric Schmitt destroy his career, brought to you by Larry David.

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