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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sliwa getting a flu shot: This could be very embarrassing. I’m supposed to be a tough guy, right? Mamdani: I can hold your hand. Sliwa: What happens if I faint? Mamdani: I got you. Doctor: You’re in great hands, literally. New Yorkers can find free flu shots and locations at nyc.gov/healthmap
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Kath @kathmarval.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Read, w/ all replies. Could be very good theater or cinema. Fascinating issue. (Note: also, there's some possible minor goods news about microplastics cited a few replies in).
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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I see you are also one of the six people whose memories extend further back than 2015
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Kath @kathmarval.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"We should also not forget that the shingles vaccine prevents shingles, a dangerous, painful, and disfiguring disease."
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Kath @kathmarval.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In scrubs.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 30/09/2026
GOAT OR BIRD????
This is even better than the
"what color is this dress" dress.
Goat?
or Bird?
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Kath @kathmarval.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
When did we decide that truth-in-advertising law should not apply to ads on the internet?
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Kath @kathmarval.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I continue to be stunned by the number of Bsky posters who don't know about how the Amish or other traditional isolated religious communities live. We need (at least) two different but related things to happen ASAP: 1/
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Amelinda Bérubé @metuiteme.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
...this is a beautiful thing to have pop up on the TL without context lmao
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Would you bring an iced coffee to an exorcism
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/09/2026
great piece. man social media is a cancer themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...
themomoftheyear.substack.com
I’m the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband.
You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night.
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Stheno @sthen0.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The only good thing to come out of them was Fred Clarke’s read-along blog/close reading/deconstruction.
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joel hanes @joelhanes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
If it's a treadle machine, until her 80s my grandmother made most of her clothes on one very like it, and sewed a nightgown or set of pajamas for Christmas for each of her twelve grandchildren, and made hand-knotted quilts from the scraps and worn-out sheets.
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Kath @kathmarval.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
OMG
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John Walling @johnki7yra.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Right wing Republicans are jumping off the MAGA boat: Erick Erickson, John Cornyn, Karl Rove, Tucker Carlson, Ken Griffin, and many more. www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6Px... ..
youtube.com
Politics Chat, September 17, 2026
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Sen John Cornyn (R-TX) says he will join Karl Rove in voting for the Democratic candidate for Texas RR Commission because of Bo French's racist twitter posts.
texastribune.org
John Cornyn says he won’t vote for Bo French after racist post
The outgoing U.S. senator called the Texas Railroad Commission candidate “an embarrassment to the Republican Party.”
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C.R. Denis @crdenis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Karl Rove, George W. Bush's chief strategist, endorsed a Texas Democrat this week and wrote that the Republican Party's "stables need a cleaning." Cornyn reposted it. Twice. When Rove and Cornyn quote each other endorsing Democrats, the fracture isn't a wing. It's the load-bearing wall.
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🧡🐕🧡ISLAtheMightyToyFoxTerrier 💛💙🌻🇺🇦🌻💙💛 📎📎 @truthseeker1983.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
HCR said, Karl "freaking" Rove tweeted that he would vote for a Democrat in November. Senator Cornyn retweeted that message.
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Stella Ducks @stelladucks.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Cornyn reposted a comment made in a WSJ op-ed titled “Why I’m Voting for a Texas Democrat.” by Gophead Karl Rove, a Dubya Bush advisor: “The GOP’s stables need a cleaning. This is a good place to start." www.texastribune.org/2026/09/17/j...
texastribune.org
John Cornyn says he won’t vote for Bo French after racist post
The outgoing U.S. senator called the Texas Railroad Commission candidate “an embarrassment to the Republican Party.”
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mikestarace.bsky.social @mikestarace.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Senator John Cornyn (R-TX)...posted a Wall Street Journal article...: “Why I’m Voting for a Texas Democrat.”...Rove wrote the raw racism, religious bigotry & sexism coming from French has driven him to support French’s Democratic opponent, Jon Rosenthal, for railroad commissioner.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
September 18, 2026
According to the American Automobile Association, diesel hit its highest recorded average price today at just above $6.44 per gallon.
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Sortadandy @sortadandy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
-from Heather Cox Richardson ([Karl] Rove was an advisor to Pres. George W. Bush. [John] Cornyn is a lame duck Senator from Texas.)
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Kath @kathmarval.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Well, well, well
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Cate Eland @romancingnope.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I grew up in the woods, and let me tell you, there is nothing more stifling than the politics in a small town where every single person knows you, your mama, your granny, and your third cousin Beulah Ann.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Not defeated yet. Vote.
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Kath @kathmarval.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Does it really count as disagreeing if I say that there might have been some even more foolish votes taken by the electorate of Athens during classical antiquity?
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Kath @kathmarval.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Good point
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Kath @kathmarval.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Not a single reply on this thread comes from someone admitting to more years on this planet than I have. Hmmm.
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Kath @kathmarval.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I think it's kind of a problem that we've allowed a national & global situation to develop where anyone offering guidance & advice - including official govt sources - have to tell people who get a phone call purporting to come from a govt agency they should just - hang up before they get scammed.
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sascha benjamin cohen @saschaben.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It certainly wasn't a perfect time by any means, but as we approach tomorrow's anniversary I would sing encomiums and glad songs of the interregnum between January 1st, 2000, when nothing of note happened because so many of us worked to save the world from Y2K (and we did); and September 10th, 2001.
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Kath @kathmarval.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
She turns out to be a "she." She's orange so I'd just assumed male, as did the vet on her first visit (which featured welding gloves). But she was much tamer by the 2nd visit allowing a more thorough exam. She's fearless. She tackles my large 2yr-old males (neutered, but still) in ferocious play.
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Kath @kathmarval.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I love this
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Abacus Wizard @abacuswizard.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Regrettably it appears that Pestilence has come back from retirement and is now in charge of the Department of Health.
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Kath @kathmarval.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This! This! This! Like & re-post a dozen times!
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Kath @kathmarval.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
You know, a propos of nothing in this thread - this is such a good idea. Excellent security technique.
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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 30/08/2026
You don't have to love party leadership or think they're doing enough, but if your argument is that the party has moved right since 2016, listing six things where the party is either provably to the left or doing standard governing isn't going to cut it.
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Kath @kathmarval.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I think I really like the term expressive listening. It's so, um, expressive.
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Robert @robertmcmillan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The powerful wizard Biden has cast such a powerful spell over the world that none of Trump’s incantations can overcome it.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
"Garry isn’t accepting new doctoral students, because he can’t guarantee funding their work, and he’s spent the past two years nudging his researchers into jobs elsewhere."
bloomberg.com
A Top Virus Scientist Stared Down Covid Lab-Leak Proponents. Now His Life’s Work Is at Stake
The battle over Covid’s origins has come for Bob Garry, who’s faced some of the world’s deadliest viral threats.
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Kath @kathmarval.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I once lived a few blocks from the lowest overpass on Memorial Drive (across the river from Storrow Drive). We called it the Truck-Eating Bridge. 1/2
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Kath @kathmarval.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Drinking caffeine at 7:00pm after my 16yr-old warned me it's too late in the day: "herbs that are good for an old Franciscan are not good for a young Benedictine."
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Coconino from 🌶️ New Mexico @coconinoite.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Privatization of public and quasi public services like transportation and utilities is a just a bad idea.
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Kath @kathmarval.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Astonishingly casual news articles about the rabid goats at a petting zoo this month.
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Kath @kathmarval.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Way to go, Google AI. When asked for more about the specific scene from the mistakenly identified source of the quote: "The quote actually appears in Chapter 6 of Lois McMaster Bujold’s novel Ethan of Athos (1986), rather than Mirror Dance as previously noted."
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cumrade poptart @poptart2nd.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
You are statistically much more likely to survive an impact with a joke if you're not a bluesky user.
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For the Love of Missy @missybbbobtail.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
For those of you who don’t think cats are magical creatures, Jinx is literally licking rainbows onto herself.
Jinx the bobtail tabby cat seemingly licking rainbows into her fur.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 25/08/2026
Before last year, there were no US measles deaths in a decade, and now we have had 5 deaths in two years. Measles was declared eliminated in the US in 2000, but will lose that status this year. This is an abject failure of public health leadership.
Chart: Annual US measles cases
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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Personally, I think Canada should solve everything by renaming Lake Ontario the Gulf of Mexico
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Kath @kathmarval.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Be kind
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Kath @kathmarval.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Some ideas to think about in this interview (gift article - you can read it for free without a subscription). www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | This Is Why People Hate the Government (Gift Article)
Annie Lowrey, the author of “The Time Tax,” explains how the government steals Americans’ time — on purpose.
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Roto BOOOOO-tor @rototudor.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Whoever saves one person saves the whole world.
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