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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 4h

Ossoff and El-Sayed took different tacks tonight vs their opponents—El-Sayed was more of a subtext of “you dumb fucking racist jackass” while Ossoff’s was more “if you fell down at a gas station I’d toss a lit match on you”—and I don’t think either of those is a bad choice tbh

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 3h

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

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Peter Flax @pflax1.bsky.social · 5h

Can Bluesky do something to make sure public executions don't go in anyone's feed?

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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution @whoi.edu · 5h

Why are marine scientists putting their equipment on cargo ships? WHOI Research Technician Emily Peacock recently installed a phytoplankton imaging sensor on the M/V Oleander. How does this partnership advance understanding of the changing marine food web? Find out: go.whoi.edu/samplingplankton

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 5h

Google the list of countries where the death penalty is legal and ask yourself if that's a list of countries you'd want to be on.

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Jen @ladyjenpool.bsky.social · 5h

Willa gets stuck in a time loop, reliving the day of her friends' wedding, only for it to end in death. How can she break the loop? Can she break the loop? Enjoyed

The cover of Kiss Slay Replay by Rachel Harrison.

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The Economist @economist.com · 5h

A new paper found that when male managers had their first daughters, the gender pay gap at their firms narrowed. Our charts explain the trend

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What having a daughter does to a boss

Male managers hire more women after becoming a “girl dad”

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 5h

Ossoff's superpower is that he correctly thinks his opponent is a contemptible piece of shit and he is willing to explain why in clear and direct language. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 5h

They're Neo Confederates masturbating to the idea of slave ships. I want it to be more complex and less grossly stupid but they're not special interesting boys, they're Silicon Klansmen.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 7h

I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...

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William A Owen @williamaowen.bsky.social · 5h

Ossoff and El-Sayed DROPPING bodies tonight. Goddamn.

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Dr. Vaughn Joy @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social · 5h

I think it's a moral imperative for every single person opposing a Republican next month to make it absolutely crystal clear that they will vote to impeach and convict Pete Hegseth, naming this and ocean murders specifically. We don't have to be this. And we should shame them for wanting to be.

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Ella Dawson @brosandprose.bsky.social · 5h

I’m sorry what the FUCK?

Fort Hood Shooter's
Execution Will be Public and Streamed Live, Pentagon Says
If carried out, the public execution of Maj.
Nidal Malik Hasan by firing squad set for Dec. 3 would be the first in modern US history.

Pentagon officials said on Thursday that the Army officer convicted in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting would be executed in public, a practice that ended in the United States nearly a century ago and is most commonly carried out in a handful of countries including Iran, North Korea and the Taliban-led government in Afghanistan.

The Pentagon said in a statement that the military execution, scheduled for Dec. 3, would also be broadcast via livestream. Such a broadcast has little precedent, and releasing video of executions is most often associated with extremist militant groups like the Islamic State

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 5h

Women who resist rape are punished so disproportionately because men understand that rape is the lynchpin of their social power, and they will go to any lengths to defend it. www.cnn.com/2026/10/08/u...

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‘Shocking’ swatting incident and death threats against Jane Doe | CNN

Jane Doe’s Attorney Thomas Giuffra tells CNN’s Kaitlan Collins the swatting incident that left Doe’s family at gunpoint was “one of the most shocking things” he’s seen.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 5h

The Pentagon plans to publicly execute Nidal Hasan and live stream it into the homes of every American. Hasan is a disabled paraplegic. What he did was horrendous, but killing him & streaming it as entertainment is sick and morally bankrupt. Abolish the death penalty.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 6h

Their closing argument for the midterms is blood.

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 5h

We know what the flights are like. These motherfuckers want to create the Middle Passage out of sheer racist sadism

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 5h

What do you want to bet that this is some sicko like Miller who remembers just enough from AP US history to recall what slave ships looked like and is now gleefully using that as a model

Trump Administration Considers Using Ships to Deport Immigrants

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Kate @k8droste.bsky.social · 4h

This is absolutely fucking barbaric

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 5h

ICE has quietly launched a 45-day immigration crackdown in California ahead of the midterm elections, instructing its officers to “go after anybody.” trib.al/9oMFlt8

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5h

right. this isn’t a somber public execution to show people what it means for the state to murder someone. this is a celebration of violence for its own sake. the fact that the nidal hasan is helpless and infirm is no doubt part of the appeal. bsky.app/profile/spir...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5h

i am genuinely shocked by the psychotic bloodthirst on display with hegseth

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Oceana @oceana.bsky.social · 5h

Alaskan waters are one of the least-explored areas in the U.S. But where researchers have gone, they’ve found unique ecosystems like this fragile deep-sea octopus nursery. This #WorldOctopusDay, add your name to defend the deep from ocean mining: oceana.ly/3VuK6TS

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 5h

Tax billionaire wealth. I frankly don't care if a billionaire can make a second billion. I'd rather have the average person be able to make their first $100k.

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Calliope @calliope5431.bsky.social · 14h

In the 1950s and 1960s, life expectancy was 70 years old but people became parents at 22-25 and life expectancy was increasing each year, so you might expect to graduate high school before losing a grandparent. Now that it's increasing more slowly and age of parents has soared, that's no longer true

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Calliope @calliope5431.bsky.social · 14h

The age structure of the US changing like this is deeply *weird* in the way you see it showing up in people's experiences. "Children barely remember their grandparents" is one consequence of two successive generations where parenthood is something that happens in your 30s but life expectancy is 80

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Calliope @calliope5431.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yes, and when looking at marriage you do have to consider finance. People are on average financially better off, but how that translates to *marriage* is different! This could also tie to the slight decline in partnership since the 1990s, though "age at first date" isn't something anyone tracks.

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Kat O’Brien @lavidagata.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I wonder how much has to do with debt levels. Certainly wouldn’t be a straight overlay, but soaring college costs must be a factor.

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Calliope @calliope5431.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

What odd about the marriage statistics is how the median age explodes in the 2000s and 2010s despite the total college enrollment proportion being basically flat in the same time span (around 40-45% of high school graduates in 4-year degree programs).

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Kat O’Brien @lavidagata.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

On marriage, varies a lot by geo. I grew up in Iowa, went to college in Indiana & my 1st FT job at 21 was in Texas. It was pretty common then (2000s) in all 3 for friends to marry early-mid 20s. I moved to NYC in 2007 & it was rare to marry before 30. Talking mostly college grads, who marry later.

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Kat O’Brien @lavidagata.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I still think the change in what kids are allowed to do on their own is notably different bc it’s not related to price (and in fact, costs more to have child care for kids until later age, even if you’re just running a short errand).

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Calliope @calliope5431.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Some of that is affordability (mostly around housing, but weddings, cars, and children are also expensive). A lot of it is also just social conventions having changed since the 1990s and 2000s in the US - it's considered "weird" to get married at 22 in a way it wouldn't in 2005.

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Calliope @calliope5431.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is also true for legal adults. It applies to car purchases, marriage, homeownership, and kids.

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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Our built infrastructure robs kids of their freedom of independent mobility. Streets are dominated by oversized vehicles, piloted by aggressive and distracted drivers where one mistake can turn lethal. We sacrificed child development to subsidize the auto industry.

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Kat O’Brien @lavidagata.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Partly because the age at which it’s considered acceptable by many in the U.S. to do various things has jumped. I was babysitting my siblings and the neighbors across the street at an age friends won’t let their kid walk 2 blocks from school and some even say they might be arrested 😵‍💫

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Jeremy Diamond ☕️ @dmnd.me · 06/10/2026

I have a new theory called the Babysitting Theory that posits that plans with friends did not go away because of phones or COVID but because babysitters are no longer a common thing

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 14h

Isaias surged toward the U.S. Gulf Coast on Thursday as the first hurricane of the Atlantic season, prompting mandatory evacuations, school closures and local government shutdowns in parts of Florida. to.pbs.org/4hMBqj0

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LIVE MAP: Track the path of Hurricane Isaias

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Coral City Camera @coralcitycamera.bsky.social · 14h

A bull shark swam through this evening’s sunset rainbow parrotfish chill out sesh 🐂🦈🌈🦜🐟🪸🌇 #rainbowparrotfish #parrotfishjungle #bullshark #sharksofcoralcity #coralcitycamera

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Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social · 14h

Self-portrait, 1786, by #MarieGuillemineBenoist (French, 1768-1826), who died #otd, Oct 8. Held by Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, www.kunsthalle-karlsruhe.de/kunstwerke/M... #artherstory #womenartists

A portrait-mode rectangular painting of a white woman with long curly dark-blond hair, seated at an easel. She holds a paintbrush in her uplifted right hand, and clutches a handful of paintbrushes with her left hand, with which she also supports a palette. She wears a white or light blue gown that falls so far off her right shoulder that it nearly exposes her right breast. She also wears a pink sash, and is sitting on a gold cloak with a decorated border. At the right of the artwork is a portion of the painting she is working on, a copy of Jacques-Louis David's "Bélisaire et l'enfant à mi-corps."

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 18h

Think about how intolerable ICE arrests are right now Then nearly double it

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Dr Anke Marsh @ankemarsh.bsky.social · 18h

Report report report! This ‘writer’ (Andrew V Smith) seems to have AI generated quite a number of books - stretching from the Mesopotamians to the Victorians. He’s stolen from at least one human author (see below) and likely many others.

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Katherine McDonald @katherinemcdon.bsky.social · 23h

New paint colour dropped 👀

A screenshot of the Little Greene website, showing a dark green-blue paint called Rome

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 18h

The latest Pasts Imperfect is out! 🏛 Kimberly Cassibry & Elizabeth Macaulay discuss ethos & triumphal arches. Then, @mhanses.bsky.social's book on W.E.B. Du Bois & antiquity; anesthesia in Ming China; an open access book on polychromy; new ancient world journals @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social & more.

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Pasts Imperfect (10.8.26).

This week, Kimberly Cassibry and Elizabeth Macaulay discuss the architectural history and political messaging of triumphal arches. Then, a new book looks at W.E.B. Du Bois and Ancient Rome; researcher...

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