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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 3h

I've been thinking and talking and writing about the death penalty for my whole adult life and the past week+ has been truly surreal and exhausting, not only because of the onslaught of horrors but because there seems to be so little historical memory of what this system is and always has been.

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Jeff Clark @jeffc666.bsky.social · 17h

It does look very much like Swamp White Oak. Leaf color (top and bottom), long peduncle, the fringed acorn cap, the leaf texture, and leaf shape. The only bit that is a bit off from Q bicolor are the buds which are a bit bigger than typical and it looks like the bud scales have light edges.

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Paul Kenyon @paulkenyontv.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Exciting delivery today!

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Jeff Clark @jeffc666.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Nice! Quercus x wagnerii. One day I will make it to Illinois to visit you and your amazing Arboretum as well as Starhill. I just recently learned about them.

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 08/10/2026

I REALLY like this @anildash.com piece on 'unalive' and algospeak in general, particularly the exploration of the implications for a generation of people growing up steeped in it.

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We are going to kill “unalive” - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the tech industry is about to invent books

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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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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Words cannot express my loathing of Vanity Fair right now. This man can’t see the future, or people. He can only see marks, and wow are you easy pickings

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Justin Joque @jjoque.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In my AI class today I'm going to try to convince my students that super intelligence has already arrived, far surpassed humanity, already rules the world with humans doing its will and it is not a computer, it is corn

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Oh, dear. This is global-level not good.

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Jeff Clark @jeffc666.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ahh yes. I just found the email from when I ordered mine on Nov 4 2014. That was a long time ago. Yikes! Time is flying.

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Jeff Clark @jeffc666.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I got mine when I ordered the omnibus direct from the bookstore that Jeff used to work with in Tallahassee. I do not recall the exact details. Cool that you got yours finally.

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If we can't hold rich people accountable, then we need to abolish rich people

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Jeff Clark @jeffc666.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Bolas spiders are not easy to find, but I have had the good luck to recently find two. This one had 6 "bolas" hung from the branch that she was suspended from. When she hunts, she emits a pheromone that mimics her moth prey. On approach, she swings the sticky bolas to snare them. #arachtober

A female Bolas spider, Mastophora sp, perched amongst the petioles and buds of a hickory tree. Her legs are folded up tight against her body. The top of her abdomen is adorned with light tan marks akin to some form of alien writing that is reflected symmetrical about her axis of symmetry.

Gossamer threads suspend milky white sticky blobs against a near black background. These are the bolas spider's hunting tools. This one has suspended 6 from a thin branch.

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Dana Milbank @danamilbank.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Coming to a national park near you: The Death Valley Developers, the Denali Data Centers, the Badlands Billionaires, the Canyonlands Cronies, the Grand Teton Tech Bros and the Crater Lake Cryptos compete in the Trump Corruption League. My latest column: www.washingtonsun.com/perspectives...

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Ballparks in Our National Parks? Trump’s Plundering Is in a League of Its Own.

Coming to a national park near you: The Denali Data Centers vs. the Crater Lake Cryptos.

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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The tortuous, botched execution of Christa Pike is truly horrifying. And while it feels unique in some ways, in reality it is also only the latest in a history of botched executions going back years — YEARS — in numerous states. Please know: this is the reality of the death penalty in this country.

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🦋 Alie of the Woods 🦋 (is looking at lichen in the cemetery) @humanbyweight.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I found a cricket leech after work today! :0 Cricket leeches are the larval form of solitary wasps in the family Rhopalosomatidae, which is the ancestral branch of all paper and potter wasps.

A photo of a dark bean-like entity stuck to the side of a cricket between its body and left hind leg. The cricket's posture looks like if a basketball player was trying to hide the fact that they got bit by a tick the size of a poodle, carrying it casually under one arm. The wasp may not directly kill its host, but the loss of so much hemolymph will likely reduce the cricket's lifespan.

A photo of the same unfortunate pair from further away, so you can see the scale of the parasite. The cricket is gravid and will likely lay her eggs soon, parasitic wasp be damned. #girlpower

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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Oh, that kind of Christianity

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You know… If you just prosecuted companies and individuals in companies whose products were breaking the law, this sort of thing would stop.

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 28/09/2026

This is why they need to just arrest Altman, Amodei, and Huang and get this bullshit over with.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/09/2026

this is a bit of an obsession of mine especially here in charlottesville. the cost of commercial real estate is prohibitive if you want to experiment and the city seems categorically opposed to small lots and small units that could allow people to start businesses without a huge capital investment

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Jeff Clark @jeffc666.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

If you like oaks, even a little, you can support the wonderful International Oak Society - www.internationaloaksociety.org by buying some newly released merch! I bought a shirt, but they have other items as well. www.bonfire.com/ios-oak-t-sh... #oaksrock

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IOS Oak Shirts | Bonfire

Support oak conservation and research worldwide. The mission of the International Oak Society is to advance the study, sustainable management, conservation, and appreciation...

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If someone were to sell me a fridge that needed an internet connection to keep functioning, or even if someone sold me a fridge with an internet connected feature that I really liked and valued, than what they sold me is a dependency. I'm thinking we should learn to identify and reject those.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

When I tell you this is one of the most riveting, concise and accurate depictions of the catastrophically defective thought processes behind Effective Altruism and the larger Broligarch Epistemic Universe... Run, don't walk, to read the whole thing (link below), which concludes thus:

Example of the problematic thinking behind Effective Altruism.

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Jeff Clark @jeffc666.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Whoa that is very cool. I still mostly have my eye for galls and feel like I miss so many leafmines.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 18/09/2026

Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming theonion.com/trans-teen-hatches-nef…

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Author Myron J. Clifton @deardean22.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Sometimes them country boys come up with good ideas because.. lol I’d pay to watch this 🚗

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/09/2026

"i will shoot myself in the gut if you do not let me cut off my dick!!!"

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neutral @neutral.zone · 12/09/2026

Frontier Psychiatrist sounds like an Anthropic job posting

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Stephen Blackmoore @stephenblackmoore.com · 11/09/2026

If you’re ever wondering why your tiny rural police force has a DHS supplied APC, fucktons of riot gear, tear gas, automatic weapons and sniper rifles, well, today’s why.

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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Today in great scientific figures: the flight path of two midges, immediately preceding ❤️romance❤️

Hand-drawn figure almost certainly derived from painstaking examination of filmed midge flight. It took them 4 years to publish this. It is indistinguishable from an elaborate squiggle.

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Dana Milbank @danamilbank.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I’m one of at least 28 former Washington Post journalists who have joined the @washingtonsun, which launched this morning. Paul Kane, Jeff Stein, Tom Sietsema and many other names will be familiar to Post readers —and we’ve got the Capital Weather Gang. Join us! washingtonsun.com/perspectives...

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Dana Milbank: The Washington Sun Rises Today. I Hope You’ll Join Our Orbit.

My boss, Tim Grieve, posted a photo on X last week of a shipment of office chairs that had just arrived at the Arlington, Virginia, headquarters of our new publication, The Washington Sun. “It's fun t...

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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Forget planting trees for a second. Let's talk about BOGS. Did you know that peatlands cover a tiny 3% of Earth’s land, but store MORE CARBON than all the world's forests combined?They are an ultimate MVP of our climate system and it’s time we start hyping them. Join me! 🧵 1/

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Dana Milbank @danamilbank.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The Washington Sun rises today. I hope you’ll join our orbit. The Sun aims to do nothing less than reinvent the newspaper for the digital age — and to prove that there is a market in the capital region for local news and sports coverage. washingtonsun.com/perspectives...

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Dana Milbank: The Washington Sun Rises Today. I Hope You’ll Join Our Orbit.

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Marc A. Milne @forthespiders.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The elephant mosquito (Toxorhynchites rutilus) is one of the largest mosquitoes in North America with a wingspan of 12mm! They also do not bite, as females do not use blood for their eggs. They're also predators of disease-causing mosquitoes like those in the genus Aedes. So, friends! #invertefest

A large green iridescent mosquito sits on a yellow coneflower bloom.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 03/09/2026

Google Maps Introduces Crawling Directions For Cyclists Hit By Truck theonion.com/google-maps-introduces…

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 02/09/2026

For what it's worth, if you're on Apple devices, and just use passwords for yourself and/or your family, Apple Passwords does a good job of providing all of the features, often better integrated, if you're an iCloud subscriber. (Apple sucks in its own ways, of course.)

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/09/2026

so unfair that you might be attacked for just wanting a white ethnostate anyway after like a decade plus of usage i canceled my @1password.bsky.social subscription and switched to apple passwords. took 15 minutes.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I like that this design appears to show the birth date of liberty as 1776, and its death as 2026

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Jesus Jones @jesusjonesband.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The best of times.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

New from me: The first of a three-part series, 20 years in the making. Some may be familiar with the broad strokes, but there's a lot of new reporting here. It's a story about one conviction, but also the systematic corruption that affected thousands of cases in two states over three decades.

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The framing of Chris Duncan

Part One: “You won’t believe the videotape we have.”

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