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I'm just like some guy, you know. Why can't I say fork?

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Hope @hopaminehigh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
imgs.xkcd.com/comics/avera...
xkcd comic 2501
Two stick figures talk to each other.
"Silicate chemistry is second nature to us geochemists, so it's easy to forget that the average person probably only knows the formulas for olivine and one or two feldspars."
"And quartz, of course."
"Of course."

Textbox on the bottom:
"Even when they're trying to compensate for it, experts in anything wildly overestimate the average person's familiarity with their field.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 10/10/2023
About to get thrown out of here for obvious reasons
Pumpkin hoop
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/09/2026
Assistant AG for Fraud Colin McDonald: "Apparently 35% of people have never even used their Obamacare account for any health services. That is a statistical impossibility and it's because these are not real people seeking real care. These are fraudsters."
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I feel you, Daniel L
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
There is no such thing as “woke ideology.” It doesn’t exist, either in version 1 or version 2. These are made-up figments of the far right authoritarian imagination. We don’t have to pretend they are real because the fascists don’t like DEI & some courses. Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If they deserve to be impeached — and so many of them do — then the House should impeach them. Maybe the Senate won‘t convict but it’s still worth the effort to remind people that laws still exist and that Democrats still defend it. Also, as noted here, make ‘em sweat.
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
In 2024, the moon got whacked by a 20-meter asteroid, making a crater over 200 meters across! This is a 1-in-130-year event, and NASA was there to get the photos. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/the-moon-g... 🧪 🔭
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The moon got a new crater!
It happened in 2024 and it's more than two football fields across. Also: 8 hours of Crash Course Astronomy
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Yesterday’s unanimous, bipartisan First Circuit ruling in the “D.V.D.” case, setting aside DHS’s policy for sending noncitizens to 3d countries, is remarkable. If upheld, it means DHS has deported 1000s illegally—enabled by SCOTUS, which lifted a preliminary injunction in June 2025. 1/6
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It's hard to believe that letting him get away with it once only encouraged him to do it again. Who could have foreseen this? Who?
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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
if you’re at all curious about the petition incident referred to early on in the piece, some of the witnesses to that debacle wrote up what happened. he leveraged his anti-woke network to facilitate a full-bore attack against the signatories journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/...
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The Open Letter: Responses and recommendations | Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America
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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Sept. 6, 1926: Agricultural agent L. M. Hollingworth stands amid 2-year-old kudzu that was planted to improve the poor soil on the Dorsey farm in Alabama.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Having some of the most thoroughly redacted thoughts of my life.
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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This is the number I was just wondering about.
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Mount St. Helens Archive @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Place in Time | The View from Drew's 46 years ago, one Sunday morning, two cousins from Kelso, ready to take photos of Mount St. Helens, remembered they had to help a family member move. Their photo from Drew's Grocery has stuck with me. Read: medium.com/@mountsthele...
A massive gray ash column billows above the treeline as seen from South Toutle Road at SR 504, with a 76 service station and grocery store visible in the foreground beneath the cloud.Present-day view of South Toutle Road at SR 504 in Toutle, Washington, showing a white cinderblock service building with roll-up garage doors, a lot of parked RVs and travel trailers, traffic at the intersection, and evergreen trees under a partly cloudy sky.
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Oni Kidou @thepinkhobkin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This is honestly my favorite one of them all. Very wholesome and empowering.
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Screamer Jim @screamerjim.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Our tax dollars at work. Who the fuck are we
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Grotesque
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Shayne from Missouri @cultofsignal.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Agencies have been able to log this covertly for years. Hell, last year wifi mapping was demonstrated to be able to identify individuals based on shape www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
tomshardware.com
Researchers identify people through ordinary Wi-Fi routers with 99.5% accuracy — technique works with standard Wi-Fi routers
The team's "BFId" attack works with off-the-shelf hardware.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026
This is all because JK Rowling is using her vast wealth and influence to engage in lawfare and censor anything that criticizes her. I won't stand for it. bsky.app/profile/esqu...
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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 22/08/2026
Residents arrived in droves to push back against plans for a private jet hangar at Hillsboro Airport. mrf.lu/2sFsb
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Flaming_Spork @philo.gay · 21/08/2026
www.youtube.com/shorts/T2lgR...
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Moving a Photo in Microsoft Word
YouTube video by Jess and Quinn
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cyborg2024.bsky.social @cyborg2024.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
"Ling (the judge) directed Diego, who had no lawyer, to file the application within the next two and a half weeks or face deportation. “Unfortunately I can’t help you,” Ling said.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
“At immigration court for detained children in New York City on Wednesday, a boy named Diego represented himself in front of the judge, Lisa Ling.” "I don’t know how to do it,” he said about an asylum form he was asked to fill out in English. “I don’t know if you can help me fill it out.”
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11 Years Old. In Immigration Court. Alone. No Lawyer.
More children than ever before are being forced to face immigration judges by themselves without legal representation, advocates say.
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Alex Wakeman Rouse @awakerouse.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Seattle: this seems to be a way we can prevent more youth lives lost (particularly our Black and Brown boys). It’s a group strategy focused on high risks folks, who are called in with police & elders & social workers, given consequences if gun violence continues, and offered resources & a way out.
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Joe C @joec0.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
The first time you blow him up with an oxygen tank, the second time you electrocute him. Those are just the rules. (I have no idea how Dobby dies.)
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Joe C @joec0.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I support Wikipedia, where information is still human-created, fact-checked, and 100% free. Join me! donate.wikimedia.org
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Make your donation now - Wikimedia Foundation
Donate to the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia and other crucial free knowledge projects. Each year, the generosity of the 2% of readers who donate allows us to expand the reac...
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Antlia Cluster (Abell S0636) Extreme Deep Field: Comparison with DSS and GALEX fields - From Rolf Wahl Olsen - flic.kr/p/wE6PPP
In the top left corner is my Antlia Cluster (Abell S0636) Extreme Deep Field image and at top right is a highly stretched image from the STScI Digitized Sky Survey which shows merely a hint of a few of the large scale structures. In particular the vertical filament from the Antlia Supernova Remnant and the comet-like Intracluster Light tail from the NGC3258 group near the top left corner.

In the bottom left is the same field from GALEX All-Sky Imaging Survey in Ultraviolet light. Here the sumernova remnant is the only prominent large scale structure and the older elliptical galaxies are greatly diminished. Only a few of the bluest galaxies are prominent in the GALEX field, a hint of their vigorous star forming activity.

At bottom right is a stretched greyscale version of my image, showing the true extent of the Intracluster Light and Integrated Flux Nebula across the field.

The limiting magnitude of the image is around 25.00. Given that my earlier 120 hour exposure of Centaurus A reached magnitude 25.45 one might have expected a slightly higher limit this time, but the Antlia Cluster is only 19 degrees from the Galactic plane and thus looking in this direction is subject to higher absorption. It is also evident from the image that we are looking though a complex distribution of Integrated Flux Nebula which in effect act as light pollution in this context. However the presence of these dim clouds draped across the field of view is also hauntingly beautiful and is certain...
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I once called 911 while alone and stuck on the floor after a cardiac event. My heart rate had exceeded 200. I was terrified I would lose consciousness before help arrived The 911 dispatcher got me through it. Her kindness & compassion made me feel safe. She kept me calm AI can’t replicate that
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New Orleans will use AI to answer 911 calls instead of a human
New Orleans is using AI to answer 911 calls instead of human dispatchers. What does this mean for crime and emergency response?
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Also the entire supposition here is false. Of *course* public officials say different things in their private diaries and in public press conferences. "I think Theory X is true but I don't want to say anything publicly until it's confirmed" is responsible behavior, not lying!
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Mars - Olympus and Arsia Mons - Hope Mission Orbit 257 - From Andrea Luck (andrealuck.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/2ofaoad
Download full image here: www.flickr.com/photos/192271236@N03/52668802934/sizes/o/

Credit: UAESA/MBRSC/HopeMarsMission/EXI/AndreaLuck

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North on the right
Orbit: 253 - Spacecraft altitude: 26451 km
Timetag 2022-08-14
Filters: f635+f546+f437
Raw Data from: sdc.emiratesmarsmission.ae/
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Credit: UAESA/MBRSC/HopeMarsMission/EXI/AndreaLuck

Feel free to share, giving the appropriate credit and providing a link to the original image or tweet creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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Scott Kelley Ernest 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @mxscottkernest.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Professor goes viral for clever way to catch students cheating with AI www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF-P...
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Professor goes viral for clever way to catch students cheating with AI
YouTube video by WPLG Local 10
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Larry Colvin @larrycolvin.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
ICE Seized Drawings from Children in Detention. I Sued, and Today I Got Them. Five months ago, I filed a Freedom of Information Act Request for papers seized from children at the Dilley ICE Detention Center. Today, I got a heartbreaking response. #Blues open.substack.com/pub/muellers...
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BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: ICE Seized Drawings from Children in Detention. I Sued, and Today I Got Them.
Five months ago, I filed a Freedom of Information Act Request for papers seized from children at the Dilley ICE Detention Center. Today, I got a heartbreaking response.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Exactly 3 months from today is the most important midterm election in our lifetime. Our opportunity to hold him accountable. Register to vote here: Iwillvote.com The stakes have never been higher. Show the world the majority of Americans are good, decent, honest people. #VoteBlue🗳️ #RejectMAGA 👎
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The firestorm of age-verification laws have done almost nothing to prevent minors from accessing porn online. What they have done is give the state a powerful tool to harass speech they don't like by declaring it pornographic or "harmful to minors."
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
One very large caveat about hopes for a MAGA decline. It mostly seems to be tied to dissatisfaction with Trump, not conservatives moderating their views. If anything, the Groyper wing is growing. The movement might fracture when Trump goes, but it won't disappear. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Is MAGA Melting Down?
Signs and wonders, portents and data points
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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Extremely depressing shit
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Prisciliano Trejo Ricano came to the U.S. at 3yrs old. ICE took him this June. He was 29. He told his family he didn't feel right but ICE wouldn't give him medical attention. After a month, ICE finally moved him to a hospital Prisciliano died five days later enlacelatinonc.org/en/Young-Mex...
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A young Mexican man living in Durham died in ICE custody.
News in Spanish about politics, immigration and community issues for Latinos in North Carolina.
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WIRED @wired.com · 29/07/2026
How much could a single underscore in a username really matter? Just ask Brandon Klayme, who served 18 months in prison before realizing how authorities arrested, charged, and convicted the wrong man. www.wired.com/story/a-typo...
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A Typo Landed an Innocent Gamer in Prison for 18 Months
How much could a single underscore in a username really matter? Just ask Brandon Klayme, who served 18 months in prison before realizing how authorities arrested, charged, and convicted the wrong man.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
My Haitian friend was just fired from his job. "They said I don't have a legal status now." This is likely happening to hundreds of thousands of people across this country today. Sick.
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randy r. potts @thephatic.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
amazing work that's hard to stomach: "Amundson, now a 39-year-old travel agent and former kindergarten teacher, received a call from her 13-year-old neighbor. He asked if he could hide in her house if ICE chased him home from his bus stop. It was then she knew that the time had come."
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Minneapolis Just Showed the Entire Country How to Take the Constitution Back
The surge made public safety a daily practice for many residents. None of it sounded like law in a traditional register.
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
There’s a government shutdown deadline before the midterms. Republicans are asking Democrats to help fund Trump’s efforts to steal the midterms, in a budget Trump will mine for new opportunities to extort or steal tax dollars from blue states. Dems are quietly inching toward yes.
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Democrats Poised To Fund Trump's Dirty Tricks
They're gaming out responses to Trump's election-subversion schemes, but they seemingly won't withhold their votes for a budget that funds those schemes.
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Scott Kelley Ernest 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @mxscottkernest.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
'I can't work in the farce of climate change cruise tourism anymore': Why Antarctic guides quit their dream jobs phys.org/news/2026-07...
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'I can't work in the farce of climate change cruise tourism anymore': Why Antarctic guides quit their dream jobs
In the words of a former Antarctic tour guide we interviewed: "You'd see massive glacier calvings, and you'd just want to cry. But all the guests would be cheering. And you'd be like … 'can you not pu...
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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @avel.kairos-research.org · 26/07/2026
Hey, while you are here how about you take a look at my writing on chronic illness
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 25/07/2026
The car attack on the Berlin Pride event has been designated a mass casualty event.
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Worth Noting @worthnoting.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
🎯THIS is EXCELLENT!!!🎯 👉If you only have time to explore (and share) ONE solid informational source today - 👉CHOOSE THIS!!! detentionreports.com
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ICE Detention Facilities - Directory
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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
July 25, 1926: Two children, 6 and 10, are found bludgeoned to death and their mother badly injured by an ax in Warsaw, N.Y. Plinn Flint claims an intruder burst in and attacked his two children, Rose and Helen, and wife, Ida. Police don't believe him and detain him as a material witness. 1/3
Ida Flint and her daughtersRochester, N.Y., Democrat and Chronicle
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
This story is indeed insane. They literally *discounted his correct answers* (on questions about the Constitution) so that a Trump supporting girl who wants to go to Hillsdale College could win $25K and be televised meeting Trump. So. Gross.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 17/07/2026
We reviewed over 1,200 incidents by immigration agents in 2025 across eight states. Here are just some of the most damning findings. 🧵
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