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Jason Labash

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“It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.” ― Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World

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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 5h
But Kyiv lives.
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Camellia Tea Ceremony @camelliakyoto.bsky.social · 20h
People pray here for a safe return home from journeys they will take (or in this case a pilgrimage up the mountain). Frog in Japanese is 'kaeru' (蛙), a homonym for 'return home' (返る). The shrine offertory box is known as 'fuku-kaeru' (福帰る 'good fortune returns'). #Japan
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried
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Alternate Histories @alternatehistories.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The transformation to Alternate Histories Video, the retro store of your youth & dreams, is underway! Grand opening is Saturday, October 3 with new stuff and free screen printing with local artist Fio Avocado!
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Indie Aut. Stuart Miller📖✍️🤓 Believe in yourself & your potential @stuartmiller1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Posted 4 hrs ago by @thewokeginger.bsky.social "Huge news for the Japanese American National Museum: George & Brad Takei have pledged to leave their estate, currently valued at more than $21 million, to the museum In recognition of their support, JANM’s new 9,200-square-foot gallery will bear..."
George and Brad Takei pledge their $21M+ estate to JANM

The future gift will support the Japanese American National Museum for generations. In recognition, JANM will name a new 9,200-square-foot gallery after the Takeis.
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Dave DiCello @davedicello.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So many film images to go through as of late, but I love how this one came out. The way the clouds are reflecting off of PPG Place in #pittsburgh almost look connected with the clouds in front, making for such an interesting view.
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Jamie @vanjpes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A bit (well, gratefully, actually a lot) on one of cinema’s greatest actors, Lon Chaney, from Maddy and their Classic Film and TV Corner blog classicfilmandtvcorner.wordpress.com/2026/09/28/a...
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A Lon Chaney Sr Tribute
I have long considered Lon Chaney Sr to be the ultimate character actor in the history of film. The man was a marvel. Not only could he play anybody, but he completely disappeared inside the charac…
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
From the article: “The thing we don't hear about enough, in my opinion, is the lives and humanity of pregnant people.” 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 In Judaism, the fetus is regarded as a part of the pregnant person's body until birth. Because whose life matters most is the one already born.
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Denverite @denverite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is the story of how Asmodeus found love.
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This tarantula was going to die a virgin. His owner turned to Reddit to hook him up
"Mature male Aphonopelma seemanni tarantula seeking hot spider date near him."
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𝙉𝙤𝙞𝙧 𝙃𝙖𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙎𝙝𝙖𝙘𝙠 ♬ @noirbeachshack.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Sunday *Humphrey Bogart between takes of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Humphrey Bogart reading a newspaper between takes on the set of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948).
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Computer Chronicles Revisited @deviledeggpress.com · 27/09/2026
"George, our AI agents do sometimes 'go rogue' and compromise other individual, corporate, and government systems. I think that's just part of the process of learning and innovation that this exciting new technology brings to the world." "Jack, I think my foot's about to 'go rogue' on your ass."
Jack O'Grady, a former U.S. representative for France Telecom, who I am using as a placeholder for this satirical post. George Morrow hosting "Computer Chronicles"
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Masked gunmen threaten elementary school kids. Are they Feds? Or are they extremist posers? Unclear. Either way, horrifying hoodline.com/2026/09/colo...
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Turman Elementary Colorado Springs ICE Incident Alarms Parents
Masked men with guns confronted kids walking to a Colorado Springs elementary school. No agency has confirmed who they were.
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Kate Jewell @katejewell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Amateur radio setup of L. A. Kern, later director of U of Michigan's wireless news service, after a stint as a wireless operator in WWI. ("Radio equipment, Radio Station 9GY, Mattoon, Illinois." University of Missouri--Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections.)
wireless radio setup
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Damian Shields @damianshields.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Berwick Lighthouse from Spittal, Berwick-upon-Tweed 2020 #England #Tweed #Northumberland www.damianshields.com
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Landis Blair @landisblair.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Headless. #CemeterySaturday Resthaven Cemetery, O’Hare International Airport, Chicago, IL
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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Upon graduating medical school in 1881, Arthur Conan Doyle did a doodle of himself waving his diploma over his head. The caption reads: "Licensed to Kill." My new book SLEUTH-HOUND is about Conan Doyle's professor, Joseph Bell - the real-life Sherlock Holmes. Out Oct 20! linktr.ee/drlindseyfit...
A simple doodle showing a man, Conan Doyle, waving his diploma over his head. Underneath the doodle it says: Licensed to kill
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Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · 25/09/2026
“A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms. Enthusiasms… What are mine? What draws my admiration? What is that which gives me joy? [grabs a baseball bat] Baseball!“
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Pittsburgh graffiti @pghgraffiti.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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The Clemente Museum @clementemuseum.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#freshlyscannedfriday Roberto Clemente and Ernie Banks pose for a photo during a 1971 game at Wrigley Field. Unsure of who the person in the middle is so please let us know if you happen to. #robertoclemente #clemente #museum #clementemuseum #pittsburgh #pirates
Two smiling baseball players and an older man standing on a baseball field.
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Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles @esotouric.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Bunker Hill historian Nathan Marsak hadn't visited the tabletop Downtown model in years, so he went to the Natural History Museum and was shocked to find wall labels packed with LIES about his beloved Los Angeles. The truth is messy, but we need that mess. bunkerhilllosangeles.com/2026/09/23/t...
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Representative Becca Balint @balint.house.gov · 25/09/2026
Trump is using our taxpayer dollars to create Trump TV and cut ads for himself ahead of November when he’s not even a candidate. And, to him, everyone else is a communist or socialist? Give me a break.
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Goodnight from Prosperine’s Bookshop, its patrons enchanted by Emily c. Banting’s talk on magical garters and the Empress Eel’s folkloric power. Goodnight from the pubs of Store Street, where strange stories are a currency to be swapped for pints of Lazarus ale. Goodnight from Hookland.
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Hector Diaz @iamhectordiaz.com · 24/09/2026
a friend’s dad was taken by ICE and they’re looking to raise money for legal representation. share and donate if you’re able to www.gofundme.com/f/our-dad-wa...
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Donate to Our Dad was taken by ICE, organized by Victoria Rudenko
Our dad has called the United States home since 1996. He came here 30 years ago and has s… Victoria Rudenko needs your support for Our Dad was taken by ICE
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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A new bookstore opened in Kyiv. I visited it today. russian drones burn warehouses full of books and damage whatever they can reach. A new bookstore opened in Kyiv. russia will never win.
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Ellen Datlow @datlow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
On sale for $1.99 tomorrow 9/24 --US/Canada/GB openroadmedia.com/ebook/the-da...
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The Dark
<b>This award-winning horror anthology is the “yardstick by which future ghost fiction will be measured”—featuring Tanith Lee, Joyce Carol Oates, and others (<i>Publishers Weekly</i>, starred review).
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Helen Grant @helengrantsays.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Daughter left out a pile of things to be chucked/donated and oh dear that badge is rather poignant
Items including badge with the word HOPE on it
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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Back in the old days in #Orkney, the thing that crows were *most* terrified of was being called a cad or a bounder by a dapper gentleman in a top hat. 🎩 #PhotographicArchives
A black and white archive photograph of a scarecrow wearing a coat and a top hat.
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Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
William Claxton, "Coltrane at the Guggenheim," 1960
JC on the Guggenheim staircaseColtrane in profile
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"What are you giving me with the flying fish" @romanbone.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Ginger Rogers with cat, and with husband, William Marshall. Photo by Nina Leen for LIFE magazine, 1961. In summer stock performing Bell Book And Candle. LIFE reported, as soon as the photos were done, "the cat jumped out of Ginger's arm and sank sharp teeth right into her husband's neck."
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Danger Slater @dangerslater.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Hell yeah, the new book is up for preorder! Do it. Or don't. But please do.
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Coffin Boffin @coffinboffin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
THE SLAVIC MYTHS This collection by Thames & Hudson has some wonderfully gothic myths. In 'The Black Butterfly', the soot coloured insect is the soul of a Serbian #vampire. When he is staked and doused in holy water it disgorges from his throat and flutters into the twilight. Wow - a great read!
Cover for a Thames and Hudson collection on The Slavic Myths.
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com
Hercule Poirot dressed all in black speaks to Captain Hastings in a grand hallway “Please ask the suspects to gather in the library, Hastings: I wish to reveal that our births are random, our lives meaningless, and our deaths absurd.”

Caption “Having investigated so many awful murders over the years, it was perhaps unsurprising that Hercule Poirot turned to Existentialism”


p.s. Poirot had presumably been reading a lot of Sartre recently…

 "It is meaningless that we live and it is meaningless that we die," Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness (L'Être et le Néant)

“Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.” Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea (La Nausée)
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Pittsburgh Progress @pittsburghprogress.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The Pittsburgh Progress is now offering online advertising opportunities. If you’re looking to amplify your work or an event this fall, reserve your spot today. Contact advertising [at] pittsburghprogress.com to inquire about rates and special offers.
The graphic reads: NEW THIS FALL: Advertise with the Pittsburgh Progress. Discounts available for unions and cooperatives, along with other monthly incentives. Contact advertising@pittsburghprogress.com.
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Caitlyn Kim @caitlynkim.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
After supporting partisan redistricting in Republican states, House Speaker Mike Johnson is backing an effort to prevent partisan redistricting in Colorado. coloradosun.com/2026/09/21/c... via @jesseapaul.bsky.social #copolitics
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House Speaker Mike Johnson’s PAC pours $250K into Colorado redistricting fight
Dark money groups are financially backing Amendment 86, which aims to make it harder to redraw congressional districts outside of the normal census-driven process
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Kate Jewell @katejewell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I'm live! Doing my lecture again, plus some music I discovered from a delightful set of people this summer. mytuner-radio.com/radio/wxpl-9...
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WXPL 91.3
Your Explosive alternative
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Hey Japan! @hey-japan.com · 20/09/2026
For fans of Japanese horror: a Tokyo exhibition of scenes built in the style of the genre by Japanese film set artists, with a 1970s–80s setting. Visitors can walk in and take photos. Gallery AaMo, Tokyo Dome City, until 8 November.
Outdoor banner for the exhibition "Re: Touching Horror – The World of Film Art", Tokyo. White brush-style Japanese title on black, with photos of a gravestone, a dark corridor, a figure's shadow on paper screens, and a wooden bucket lit in red. Dates: 19 September–8 November 2026, 13:00–21:00. ©松竹お化け屋本舗Exhibition set of a closed-down tailor's shop. A cracked, grimy plaster shopfront has an open door showing dressmaker's dummies inside, and a display window holding a dark jacket, a faded poster of two men in suits, shoes, and a headless, bloodstained figure draped in white cloth. ©松竹お化け屋本舗Exhibition set of a dim, soot-stained room. A life-size figure of a balding man in a bloodied shirt sits slumped in a wooden armchair, holding a thin tool in one hand. A pale, mask-like face with long black hair lies on the floorboards at his feet. ©松竹お化け屋本舗Exhibition set of a grimy old washroom. A stained concrete wall holds two small mirrors, one glowing blue from behind, above a stone sink with a tap and cup. A side table carries vintage toiletries: boxed soap, toothpaste, a hairbrush, an iron kettle, and a washboard. ©松竹お化け屋本舗
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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“Frustules of Diatoms”, a cyanotype from 1870 by Austrian botany professor Julius Wiesner. Diatoms are a microalgae found in oceans, waterways, and soils, and generate about 20 to 50% of the planet's oxygen. Available as a print in our online shop: publicdomainreview.org/product/f...
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Denverite @denverite.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
We want to hear your Colorado ghost stories and folklore.
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Tell us your Colorado ghost stories, urban legends and strange tales
In honor of Colorado’s 150th birthday, we want to hear about the supernatural tales that haunt your community.
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g0m @g0m.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A world where a twist ending is repurposed as a video title. where a thing's climax has been removed, leaving an advertisment for the gap where it used to be. such things are commonplace in. the twilight zone
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Schlockluster Video @schlocklustervideo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
On September 19, 2003, Bubba Ho-Tep debuted to a limited release in the United States.
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Landis Blair @landisblair.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Plinths. #CemeterySaturday Salem Mound Cemetery, Salem Lakes, WI
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Ryan Godfrey @ryangodfrey.com · 19/09/2026
Philadelphia has an embarrassment of mural riches but my longtime favorite is the two-part trompe-l’œil mural “Shadow of a Church,” wherein false windows reflect and are shaded by a 19th-century church that was torn down 80 years ago. The lot where the church stood is now a gas station.
“Shadow of a Church” looking west, 22nd & Walnut Sts., Philadelphia. Mural by Michael Webb and Susan Maxman Architects.“Shadow of a Church” looking north, 22nd & Walnut Sts., Philadelphia. Mural by Michael Webb and Susan Maxman Architects.
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Doug Hayes @doughayes.pages.dev · 19/09/2026
In early summer, a combination of aspen and pine trees fill the valleys south of Buffalo Creek, Colorado. doughayes.pages.dev/photospheres #colorado #scenery #photography
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Critical Nostalgia @highway62.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Cable but worse remains undefeated.
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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Tomorrow (19th September) is #TalkLikeAPirateDay and your annual reminder that when we talk the way we talk when we're talking like a pirate, it's because of a film that was based on a book, inspired by an earlier book, inspired by a real life pirate from #Orkney! ARRR! 🏴‍☠️👇
An illustration of a pirate with a tricorn hat and a bushy moustache
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Shin Hanga Daily @shinhangadaily.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Pieter Irwin Brown - Nan Hai, Peking #ShinHanga #Woodblock #Print
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AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams - this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness..." 📕Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote 🖼️ Salvador Dalí, Don Quixote #BookWormSat #RenaissanceLit
Don Quixote, contemplating.
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Historic Beer Ads @beerpuffery.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Making my annual offer: Munich has commissioned one of these posters every Oktoberfest since 1952. I have them all. Request a year and I'll share the poster.
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EveryLibrary @everylibrary.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Now they're trying to ban books that ARE ALREADY IN THE ADULT SECTION!! Don't say we didn't tell you so. buff.ly/0nIzZma
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Denver Westword @westword.com · 18/09/2026
From a cannibal to a mass murderer, here's where you can pay your (dis)respects to some of the state's most detestable dead. www.westword.com/news/famous-crimin…
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Famous Criminals Buried in Colorado
From a cannibal to a mass murderer, here's where you can pay your (dis)respects to some of Colorado's most detestable dead.
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