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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 2h
remember how you went decades without getting fund-raising appeals from congress members representing states you don't live in delivered straight into your pocket and/or purse
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Sarah O @erniebufflo.bsky.social · 4h
This is why I am always telling y'all you want your raw oysters to be from very cold water, and why I, personally, do not eat Florida/Gulf oysters raw, ever. Warmer water = more bacteria, a problem climate change is exacerbating. Love, your friend the oyster shucker.
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Fifth Person in Florida Dies of Flesh-Eating Bacteria Linked to Raw Seafood
A fifth person in Florida has died of a flesh-eating bacteria commonly linked to eating raw seafood as cases of Vibrio in the state continue to climb.
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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 12h
I am stressed out when I see Americans post they have complicated feelings about capital punishment. There's nothing complicated about it. Don't do it.
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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 14h
Season 2 is almost here, get caught up on the first if you haven't seen it yet. youtu.be/CGd9GTmE3Hc?...
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The Lowdown | Season 2 Official Trailer | FX
YouTube video by FX Networks
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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 18h
Having a lot of "please remind the client I'm not a designer" moments this week.
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
for obvious reasons, returned to caitlin flanagan's excellent 2014 piece on frat houses and had forgotten how much this lede sings. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
One warm spring night in 2011, a young man named Travis Hughes stood on the back deck of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity house at Marshall University, in West Virginia, and was struck by what seemed to him—under the influence of powerful inebriants, not least among them the clear ether of youth itself—to be an excellent idea: he would shove a bottle rocket up his ass and blast it into the sweet night air. And perhaps it was an excellent idea. What was not an excellent idea, however, was to misjudge the relative tightness of a 20-year-old sphincter and the propulsive reliability of a 20-cent bottle rocket. What followed ignition was not the bright report of a successful blastoff, but the muffled thud of fire in the hole.

Also on the deck, and also in the thrall of the night’s pleasures, was one Louis Helmburg III, an education major and ace benchwarmer for the Thundering Herd baseball team. His response to the proposed launch was the obvious one: he reportedly whipped out his cellphone to record it on video, which would turn out to be yet another of the night’s seemingly excellent but ultimately misguided ideas. When the bottle rocket exploded in Hughes’s rectum, Helmburg was seized by the kind of battlefield panic that has claimed brave men from outfits far more illustrious than even the Thundering Herd. Terrified, he staggered away from the human bomb and fell off the deck.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
happy birthday to one of the BEST ever to do it, one of the purest talents ever to set foot on an American stage, a guy wholly in his own realm. I'm gonna post one song by him and another by Mark Eitzel you may know which one. if you don't, you're in for a treat. youtu.be/bOSxWLWBID0?...
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99 Miles from L.A.
YouTube video by JOHNNY MATHIS - Topic
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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 30/09/2026
Is this AMC's greatest song? They have so many greatest songs, but this is certainly one of the songs that can be considered their greatest song.
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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 30/09/2026
The Waterboys going deep on country and trad Irish.
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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 30/09/2026
"I don't read novels or literary criticism. I prefer AI summaries of both."
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Malaclypse the Middle @malaclypse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Our Norman betters Taught English letters To bathe in the fresh Warm springs of the south. So turn your backs on Anglo-Saxon; The þ in the flesh, The æ in the mouth ANTHONY BURGESS
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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 30/09/2026
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The Marx Brothers - Why A Duck?
YouTube video by Sam P.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Rural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Herky the Hawk Red Oak, IA
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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
1959
SCIENTIST FEARS

Thinking Machines Will Dominate Man

--Sarasota Journal, 28 Dec 1959
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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 29/09/2026
My timeline today
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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 29/09/2026
i guess sometimes you do need a weatherman to know which way the wind's blowing
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
long road ahead for whichever neo-Nazi Trump staffer is tasked with doing brain surgery on the AI-powered America-dot-gov site
A screenshot from America.gov showing a question and answer about tariffs.

Header: America.gov with a small U.S. flag and a "Menu" button.

Question in a light blue bubble: "Who pays for tariffs on goods being imported to America, American importers or foreign exporters?"

Answer text: "U.S. importers pay the tariff to the government. Foreign exporters do not pay U.S. Customs.

• When goods enter the United States, the importer of record is legally responsible for any duty. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
• CBP collects that duty at the port of entry. CBP: customs duty
• A tariff is a tax on imported goods. Who ultimately bears the cost in prices (importer, U.S. buyer, or foreign seller) depends on the market; that is separate from who must pay CBP. BLS

Duty rates come from the Harmonized Tariff Schedule. CBP makes the final determination of what is owed."America.gov Menu Who in America is entitled to due process? The U.S. Constitution says the government may not deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law. The Fifth Amendment applies that rule to the federal government. The Fourteenth Amendment applies the same rule to state governments. Official annotations treat this as covering persons, not only citizens. Congress’s Constitution Annotated also notes that people already present in the United States—including those whose presence is unlawful, involuntary, or transitory—are entitled to due process protection in that setting. What process is required depends on the situation; that is decided case by case. Sources: National Archives; Constitution Annotated (Fifth Amendment procedure); Constitution Annotated (aliens who have entered).
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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What I have learned in the 30 minutes since posting this is that everyone is horny for implied rainy afternoon Bogart-Malone bookstore sex
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It is extremely encouraging to know the Youngs understand Bookshop Girl is an erotic icon. Some things *are* eternal.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 28/09/2026
current state of the fix social media playbook: *nationalize facebook and hold it to rigorous privacy and content moderation standards *break up google and make youtube robustly fund a streaming PBS *turn off x the everything app *keep linkedin the same. that'd be a good bit *begin The Tribunals
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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 28/09/2026
Is this the seed for the Butlerian jihad?
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026
“i woke up every morning and name searched myself on twitter. i am normal by the way”
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Ben Lamb @bennyfactor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Cheat > ChatGPT
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Alissa Wilkinson @alissawilkinson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I think I have decided that if you think The Movies Are Over it is a sign you have given up on art, because baby, the movies are always alive
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i think andy beshear has thrived as a democrat in kentucky not because everyone in kentucky necessarily respects his beliefs but because he says what he actually believes and voters respect a politician who sayswhat they actually believe.
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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
this cat is looking for investors in a new medical diagnostic technology that will change everything
A slender tabby cat in a tight black shirt
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
according to christian teaching, this IS victory for the lamb. christian teaching is extremely unambiguous on this point.
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
we really need to start calling out these conservative christians for just straight up not believing in christianity. if you don’t believe christian teaching, nobody is forcing you to call yourself a christian! free yourself!
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Caesar Flunk @caesarflunk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Was in that there London Town today. Spotted the most Bluesky coded ad on the Elizabeth Line. #PostHog
An ad on a train

POSTHOG
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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 27/09/2026
Lol, I got annoyed when Trader Joe's updated their POS software and it stopped letting you scan before the checker was done scanning items. And at least twice on this trip I've tried scanning my phone before the system was ready.
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Entire record stores were built on this business model
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A provocative article in Rolling Stone titled "What some folks really mean when they claim to have never done the Humpty Hump."
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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 27/09/2026
Data Center Event Horizon?
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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 27/09/2026
What I mean when I say I haven't heard it is that I don't listen to music in contexts where I would hear it, and so it's like any other popular song of the last 10-20 years.
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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 27/09/2026
Out, fucking damn spot!
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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 27/09/2026
All I can think of while walking around in here is "I like to think of myself as a moral stoplight" and a crowd of travelers spontaneously waltzing in the main concourse.
The main concourse of Grand Central Station   There's a large deflating heart balloon stuck on the "vault of heaven" ceiling.
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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 27/09/2026
Morning
Manhattan skyline looking uptown from Chinatown. Everything is shrouded in cloud and rain.
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I hate this quote so much.
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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 27/09/2026
question inspired by today's journey up and down Manhattan - are the current definitions of "downtown" and "uptown" based on the accident of the geographical orientation of Manhattan?
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/09/2026
as described here, rationalism sounds like a cult for people with terminal solipsism
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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 27/09/2026
Glanced up at one of the TVs in here and King Kong was trying to eat but had a bad tooth and I was trying to figure out what it was an ad for but I guess it's a real movie?
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Malaclypse the Middle @malaclypse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
They taught us about Bridges in school, but they did not teach us that she was still in high school while I was in elementary. The past isn’t even past.
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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 27/09/2026
Having a Catskill Nightshine Black Lager at the hotel bar and it's hitting a sweet spot of dark, but not heavy as molasses.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 27/09/2026
Man, to think a bunch of us thought this guy's time had passed and he was fading into oblivion.
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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 27/09/2026
The one thing about being on the East Coast that I'm having trouble with is how do you deal with the day coming to an end when you know most of the rest of the country is still going strong?
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