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Jim LaVally

@jimlavally.bsky.social
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Former copy desk chief, now into preservation of open space and natural landscapes. Know my way around a Weed Wrench.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 3h
god i am so stressed i need this man to be okay, he hasn't been around long enough to have a solid understudy lined up yet and i do not want to lose this momentum we need like thirty years of this guy to really clean house all the way
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 12/10/2026
The solution to the male reading crisis is the same as its always been: Mad Magazine
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Can we all stipulate that anyone who thought Kimberly Guilfoyle would be a good spouse lacks the judgment to credibly run for president in 2028?
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I love taking the train between San Diego and Los Angeles since it's such a gorgeous view but there's just no way it'll still exist on the same track a generation from now. www.instagram.com/reels/DeSCAh...
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Y'all denied her tenure
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 08/10/2026
me: I dunno, I still like the guys on the team but I'm sympathetic to the argument seeing the Dodgers win in the playoffs every year is boring (braves fans start doing the chop) me: General McPherson I summon and bind thee to these boys' bats. Claim your vengeance
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
with each passing day it feels more surreal to be an independent journalist. like playing with a toy train while vanderbilt owns the railways.
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Jim LaVally @jimlavally.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Hey, I’m in Oregon. I’m pretty furious too. Fury in California After Trump Suggests Iran ‘Take Out’ L.A. or San Diego www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/w...
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Trump Suggests Iran Could ‘Take Out’ L.A. or San Diego, Drawing Anger From California Leaders
Gov. Gavin Newsom called the president “dangerous and deranged” after his remarks at a political rally, where Mr. Trump said the Iran war was necessary to “keep the world safe.”
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Goddamn, this point by @anandwrites.bsky.social really needed saying.
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The price of gas is now what used to be the amount you'd pay if you forgot to fill the rental car up before returning it.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Every time a left-handed person sees an actor on TV or in a movie writing with their left hand
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Leonardo DiCaprio Points: 'Yes, That's It!'
ALT: Leonardo DiCaprio Points: 'Yes, That's It!'
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Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My real success as a literary agent comes with how many books I do with a map in the front.
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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One reason to learn about things outside your major is so that you have something to talk about with people at parties and on dates. No amount of money will make up for you being a crushing bore. History majors learn this early but I guess it takes other people longer.
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Laura Collins-Hughes @collinshughes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
At least five people in this A train car are reading physical books. 🩷
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The Alternate Histoween 🎃 @althistorian.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Happy Stanislav Petrov Day. Today we celebrate the life of a man who saved billions by not believing a computer. May we all learn this valuable lesson.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”
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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.
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Jim LaVally @jimlavally.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Am I the only person who thinks of “Animal House” when seeing this?
Knowledge is Power, a quote from Francis Bacon, written above the entrance of a high school building.
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I keep seeing videos of a guy who catches crabs and lobsters, cracks all the barnacles off them, puts a shrimp in their claws and throws them back. can you imagine. abducted by aliens but they just give you a spa day and hand you two hot dogs and let you go
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Me on election night if this happens.
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Jim LaVally @jimlavally.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I was present, years ago, when a copy editor, a former staffer at an adult magazine, noted to her colleagues that the word is “bestiality,” not “beastiality.” I do wish those posting about Kash Patel’s testimony today could have been there with me for that memorable moment in copy-editing history.
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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Bayeux Tapestry good but massively upstaged by seeing a cat in a ruff right before
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Initially I was frustrated with the rise of self-checkout but I appreciated how stores passed the savings on to me rather than pocket the money, fire armies of workers & make me do a job I suck at. It’s also why I’m optimistic about AI! I have been kicked in the head by several horses.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
We overcame one Gilded Age and we can overcome this one. Time for a new square deal like TR’s 3 C’s: Corporate control, Consumer protection and Conservation of natural resources. Happy Labor Day.
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Ryan LaRochelle @rlarochelle.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
#APSA26 highlight: at a bar, hanging with a friend from grad school and my adviser. We’re discussing LBJ and the Great Society. I get up to use the restroom and the son of Richard and Doris Goodwin says he overheard our convo and called his mom and I spend a few minutes chatting with Doris Goodwin.
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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
One more great thing about Dolly. She was a paid-up union member — American Federation of Musicians, Local 257, Nashville. And she had been for 58 years. www.afm.org/2026/08/afm-...
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AFM Statement on the Passing of Dolly Parton
Today, the entire community of professional musicians mourns the loss of an irreplaceable icon and a generous heart: Dolly Parton. While the world knows her as a global superstar and philanthropist…
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Phaedra and Hippolytus, by Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, 1802, 📸 via @ErikTedJohnson
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Jim LaVally @jimlavally.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Folks concerned that a mountain lion might enter their yard might find some relief here.
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Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Fifteen years ago, in the classroom, wikipedia was annoying because it was hard to describe to kids who relied on it why it wasn't a good source to cite in a paper. Now, it's the final remaining example of citational responsibility any of them have ever seen.
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: 18-Year-Old Mia Heller From Virginia, USA, Invents a Water Filter That Eliminates 96% of Microplastics From Drinking Water
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 14/08/2026
I believe they prefer to be called “tech reporters” but I applaud the directness
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Jim LaVally @jimlavally.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Really pleased to see this man re-entering our national conversation.
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Jim LaVally @jimlavally.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Look, if you aren’t comfortable with the “socialist” label, call yourself a Roosevelt Democrat and get on this train.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
fool me once.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Time Traveler Causes of Death xkcd.com/2976/
A modified XKCD comic titled "TOP CAUSES OF DEATH FOR TIME TRAVELERS BY GEOLOGIC ERA:" features a tall, vertical rectangle representing Earth's timeline from its formation down to the present day. Along the left axis, tick marks indicate time intervals from "EARTH FORMS" at the top down through "4 BILLION YEARS AGO," "3 BILLION YEARS AGO," "2 BILLION YEARS AGO," "1 BILLION YEARS AGO," "500 MILLION YEARS AGO," and ending at "NOW" at the bottom. The vertical column is divided into stacked sections labeling the leading cause of death for each period: beginning at the top with "LAVA," followed by a section for "ASPHYXIATION," a thin band for "METEORS," a large section for "ASPHYXIATION," an even larger block spanning roughly 2.2 billion to 700 million years ago labeled "SLIGHTLY SLOWER ASPHYXIATION," and then smaller bands near the bottom labeled "FREEZING," "STARVING," "EATEN BY FISH," "TRAMPLED," and "EATEN BY MAMMALS." Next to the very bottom sliver representing the present day, an arrow points to the text "HIT BY SUV."
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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I have seen the Odyssey and my main takeaway is that it’s time to give John Leguizamo an award for not only being great but singlehandedly improving EVERY FILM HE IS IN.
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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Not sure why this is news, it's called a lunch break
"Ross Douthat Leaves New York Times for 60 Minutes"
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Jim LaVally @jimlavally.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
There was a time when you could ascend the station platform in my town and ride these rails to San Francisco, Portland and beyond. Now, you can’t even get to Weed.
Rails on a little-used track reach a vanishing point on the horizon.
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pistachiOoOoOo 👻👻👻 @streetlightlily.horntforgood.com · 31/01/2026
You don’t want hands free driving, you want trains. You want trains you want trains you want TRAINS
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Laura Martínez 🥑 @miblogestublog.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Mexico warning its citizens against US travel due to explosive diarrhea risk is just too funny 😂😂😂
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US parasite outbreak leads to a Mexican advisory for US-bound travelers
Mexico has issued a travel warning for travelers to the United States due to an outbreak of cyclosporiasis, an intestinal infection.
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Jim LaVally @jimlavally.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
A timely reminder to all of us in the tinder-dry West to have those go-bags packed and ready. youtube.com/watch?v=7k52...
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Pompeii: Out of Time with Tom Hiddleston | Official Trailer | National Geographic
YouTube video by National Geographic
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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
We just won a court order stopping the merger of Paramount and Warner Bros. while our lawsuit continues.     We’re going to keep fighting to keep costs down for consumers, protect jobs, and stop this illegal merger.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/07/2026
incredible -- more than two hours into this morning's Fox & Friends, "fraud" has not been mentioned a single time and hosts haven't discussed Trump's big primetime speech at all. They have 787 million reasons to ignore it.
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
If Mad magazine was still at its height they would have ended JD Vance's career by doing a parody called “Hillbilly Smellegy” in 2016, this is why they want to neutralize real journalism
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Dublin Fire Brigade @dubfirebrigade.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Have you tested your smoke alarm lately? We recommend testing them once a week and you should have one installed per floor of your home.
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Jim LaVally @jimlavally.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
It’s been nearly a month since Mitch McConnell entered the hospital. Thank god he decided to pass away in a country with air conditioning.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The Count Binface stuff happening in the U.K. is a real good bit. Hope everybody subjects themselves to British politics long enough to look it up. The British version of Trump really will be spending the summer fighting with a sentient trashcan.
Rachel Reeves, who as Chancellor of the Exchequer had to appoint Farage as Steward of the Manor of Northstead before the by-election could go ahead, said on social media: "If [Farage] wants to spend the summer arguing with a bin, I won't stop him".[66]

Binface received a surge of support from activists after announcing his candidacy, raising more than £15,000 in donations in a day, which he described as akin to a "fever dream". He said he hoped to appeal to voters from all sides of the political spectrum and said he could even court the immigrant vote, given he was "the ultimate alien".[63]
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Natasha Kindred @thehoursgodsends.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Horrible new bullshit from the sea every time. It’s never ‘oh we found a new pink fish that is so happy’ it’s always stuff like this, the crush-depth screw-headed dongwongler, and it’s got to have big long creepy bits. Sick of the ocean tbh.
A photo of a Magnapinna squid captured by a deep sea drilling company.
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Leigh Jones @leighsus.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I have such an expertly curated algorithm that I'm seeing posts from Mexican street food restaurants in the US and this is how they're advertising the game tomorrow night. "Good vibes"
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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I would kill or die for Larry
A small operation in Oregon that hunts truffles with a trained dog has added an unpaid trainee. A cat named Larry accompanies the handler and the truffle dog into the woods every outing, works a patch of ground a little apart from them, and digs with tremendous confidence in places where there is nothing.
The handler says Larry has never found a truffle and shows no sign of understanding the assignment. He does not use scent the way the dog does and he does not respond when the dog makes a find.
He simply digs his own holes nearby and then inspects them. "He thinks he's on the team," the handler said. "He is emphatically not on the team."
TRUFFLE DOG FINDS THE TRUFFLES -
'TRAINEE' CAT DIGS RANDOM HOLES AND FINDS DIRT
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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Happy “liberal arts professor helps save the Union” day to all who celebrate
Charge of the 20th Maine at Little Round Top
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