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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 04/09/2026

NEWS: New York City just recorded the safest summer in its history. From June through August, NYC saw its fewest shootings, shooting victims, and murders on record. Major crime fell 6.2% year-to-date, murders plunged 24.1%, and the subway had zero murders, shootings, or rapes in August.

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Tess Gallagher @tessasaurus.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Our fundraiser on exploring Dakota the dino mummy for color was funded!!! In a day!!! OMG. so with that, we are announcing stretch goals so we can sample more areas of Dakotas body 😁

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headless horseDan @etbeeegood.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

back in the day being a Dickhead just meant u were a fan of Charles Dickens novels

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House of 1000 Fionas @cogentanalysis.bsky.social · 21/07/2024

They invented the cybertruck so people who aren't funny can know what it's like to make everyone around them laugh

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Old English Wordhord @oewordhord.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

ād-lama, m.n: (of devils) one maimed by fire. (AHD-la-ma / ˈaːd-la-ma) #OldEnglish #WOTD

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 02/08/2026

Please help Emma if you can---being slapped with an extra bill during recovery really fucking sucks.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 04/08/2026

"Liberal bubble" has only ever meant anywhere where right wing perspectives aren't artificially elevated and forced into everyone's feeds.

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Let me just say that, by and large, good, normal people do not run for office. That is why we have the problems we do. If you are good and normal, at some point you're going to have to suck it up and run for something. Otherwise we get all of this again.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 16/04/2026

1. In a landmark ruling, the Montana Supreme Court has declared that the constitution, one of the most progressive in the nation, entirely protects transgender people. The ruling is even insulated from SCOTUS decisions, due to how state constitutions work. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Montana Supreme Court Rules Its Constitution Entirely Protects Trans Citizens In Landmark Ruling

The ruling will have enormous impacts for transgender residents in the state.

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Extremely local post! If you're on the east side of #PDX and interested in farm fresh eggs delivered to your door every two weeks, DM me. Our farm has a couple slots open for egg delivery. They are, wihtout a doubt, the best eggs you can get anywhere, from the happiest chickens.

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Paranormal Pandy 🎃 @thatbrenna.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Host: congratulations you just won gold in women's speed skating. What's your secret? Me: (lips pressed to mic) well, I eat a lot of bologna

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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

starting a vampire cruise ship called the blood vessel

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Dire Wolf @addiane.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Mona, pizza enjoyer.

Tuxedo cat on the table next to a pizza box and she has a hopeful look in her eyes

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Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 12/04/2026

everybody mad but I'm just over here posting like

photo of a poofy orange cat doing a blep, shot from a low perspective so it's all floofy chest and cheeks

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

For the first time ever, heat pumps outsold gas boilers in Germany in 2025. 48% of all new heating systems installed last year were heat pumps. Gas fell to just 39%. A decade ago, heat pumps had a 7% market share. The transformation has been remarkable.

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Waterworks Warrior @wiimotionplussy.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

It’s a really special parasocial relationship when there’s someone you’ve followed for years without a follow back. like yessss that’s my friend that doesn’t know me and doesn’t want to

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

WHAT WE KNOW, 11pm: —Liberals flip seat on Wisconsin supreme court. —Also flip important school board seats in WI, OK, MO. —Dems win Waukesha mayor race. —GOP defends MTG's seat, but Dems way overperform. —Big MO county rejects property tax freeze.

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Owensgrandpa @owensgrandpa.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

April 7th 2026 Iris

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

RESULT: The right took over the Francis Howell school board, a large MO district in the St. Louis suburbs, earlier this decade; followed book bans & restrictive policies on LGBTQ students. Tonight, the slate endorsed by the teacher's slate swept, and the last remaining conservative was ousted.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

JUST IN: Liberals have won a decisive victory for the Wisconsin supreme court race tonight. Chris Taylor will join the supreme court, flipping a conservative-held seat. This expands liberals' majority on the court to 5-2. Why it matters: boltsmag.org/wisconsin-su...

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Liberals Gain Seat on Wisconsin Supreme Court, Adding to Firewall in Voting Cases - Bolts

Voters in Wisconsin ensured on Tuesday that the supreme court in one of the nation’s premier swing states will be controlled by liberals through at least 2030. Chris Taylor, a... Read More

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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I regretfully can’t find the video but someone illustrated just how big the milk way is by saying that if our solar system was the size of a blood cell, the Milky Way is the size of the United States.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

RESULT: Democrats have flipped this school board seat in Tulsa. They ousted the conservative board member I wrote about here, who suggested that immigrant children endanger other kids.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

he is pouting because he is upset that my arm keeps touching his tail. my arm is touching his tail because he keeps stretching out his tail to touch my arm, and then getting mad that i'm touching him

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Brosephine so scary 🎃 @joparkerbear.bsky.social · 15/02/2024

Cat Jesus: so that’s when I said “father, forgive them; they know not what they do”… but then, like 3 days later I was BACK— and I still have 8 more lives

Calico cat sits on a tall fence post as a group of fascinated alpacas in the field stares

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Eize Basa @eizebasa.baby · 05/04/2026

“I will NOT sacrifice the Oxford comma. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They assimilate the em dash and we fall back. They capture ‘not just X but y’ and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!”

I know the tweet is Al generated when they use " ," before and.

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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 04/04/2026

there was a time the old heads remember when the internet existed and capitalism didn't realize what it could do to the place yet the problem is capitalism the internet used to be beautiful and can be again

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Cezary Jan Strusiewicz @ostrichson.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

In 1993, "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" made a Black man the star of a major sci-fi franchise and his character was like the Platonic ideal of a loving father, a great cook, a man who uplifted others, who was kind and tolerant but MILITANTLY so, and who also had flaws like any other human. Hail Sisko

Avery Brooks as Cpt. Benjamin Sisko in "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine."

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

FANTASTIC NEWS! The 2,500 year-old gold Coțofenești Helmet from Romania has been recovered! 🤩 Also recovered are two of three ancient gold bracelets, all were stolen in a raid on a Dutch museum more than a year ago. 📷 by me 2021 #Archaeology

My photo shows the ancient Coțofenești Helmet from Romania.

The helmet is made from three welded gold plates, on which complex relief decoration was made by a punching method, consisting of geometric, anthropomorphic and zoomorphic motifs.

The top half of the helmet is covered in a repetitive, evenly spaced, embossed raised pattern of rounded, fan-ridged bumps which give the helmet a studded look. The crown of the helmet is missing.

Over the front opening, at the forehead, are two large almond-shaped eyes, thought to be apotropaic (magical) eyes to ward off evil. They are framed by thick curved lines that sweep outward like dramatic eyebrows, and there is a vertical ridge down the centre between the eyes.

The two cheek guards are decorated in relief with a human figure holding a dagger, sacrificing a kneeling ram. The right cheek guard design is partially seen in my photo. The neck guard (not seen in my photo) is decorated on two registers: on the upper part are four sphinxes, and on the lower part three griffins with a leg of an herbivorous animal in their muzzles.

The helmet was discovered in the village of Poiana Coțofenești, Prahova County, Romania, in the late 1920s. Experts date the helmet to the mid-5th century BC.

I saw the helmet on display in the temporary exhibition ‘Archaeological Treasures of Romania’ at the National Archaeological Museum in Madrid in 2021. It was on loan from the National Museum of Romanian History in Bucharest.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

absolutely snoozing with his toys

orange cat asleep on his lounger surrounded by toys

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I love his expressions so much

orange cat all folded up looking mildly annoyed

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Old English Wordhord @oewordhord.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

inlīce, adv: inwardly; earnestly, sincerely. (in-LEE-chuh / ɪn-ˈliː-tʃə) #OldEnglish #WOTD

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 01/04/2026

Watch this on YouTube the chat is so pure.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

jupiter wishes you a very happy trans day of visibility 🏳️‍⚧️

The planet Jupiter with its cloud bands seen in shades of pink, rusty red, blue, and purple. The Great Red Spot is a deep navy blue, surrounded by bands and swirls of pink, and light blue.

Hubble's ultraviolet view of Jupiter shows the planet in hues of pink and blue.

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Coksi🌱 hurt wrists arc @coksi.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Happy trans day of visibility! I see you guys 👁️👁️ drew some dinosaurs bc fuck yeah dinos + they sure weren‘t transphobic!! #art #paleoart #dinosaur #transdayofvisibility #digitalart

An illustration of a triceratops holding a trans flag.

An illustration of a spinosaurus mirabilis holding a fish holding a trans flag.

An illustration of a dilophosaurus holding and accidentally breaking the handle of a trans flag. He blushes bc he is embarrassed.

An illustration of a maip thinking of a trans flag.

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StarBITE 🧛‍♂️🌟 @starite.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

DON'T LET THE BASTARDS GET YOU DOWN 🏳️‍⚧️ #art #tdov #transart

a digital illustration in the style of a relief print depicting a black cat in a defensive pose holding a torn and tattered transgender pride flag in its mouth as it looks directly towards the viewer. the background is purple with some specks of blue and pink showing through, and behind the cat is a black midground resembling grass or flames. the top right corner features a box with a caption reading "T.D.O.V."

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

basically none of the solar existed before 2020 and none of the batteries existed before 2024. biggest technological revolution of our lifetime:

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Changes that Republicans made to SNAP will kick a lot of people off food stamps starting April 1. If you can, please support your local food bank. www.sandiegocounty.gov/content/sdc/...

Starting April 1, 2026, you are no longer eligible for CalFresh if you are:
• An asylee;
• A refugee;
• A parolee (unless you are a Cuban and Haitian Entrant);
• An individual with deportation or removal withheld;
• A conditional entrant;
• A victim of trafficking;
• A battered noncitizen;
• Iraqis and Afghans with Special Immigrant Visas (SIVs);
• Certain Afghan nationals granted parole between July 31, 2021, and September 30, 2023; or,
• Certain Ukrainian nationals granted parole between February 24, 2022, and September 30, 2024.

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Marc Hertel 🇩🇪🖖🇪🇺 Pro-🇺🇦📝🐉 @sharkster1701.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

These ancient board games are utterly fascinating to me. Even if we can't (exactly) reproduce the rules (AFAIK), they're a reminder of how games have been a part of life for millennia. It shows that people are people -- across time as much as across borders.

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Perfectly Cromulent @frankiepancakes.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Watched a reel of a young woman weaving quill paper strips, and it reminded me of one of the first crafts I could do as a kid. And because I am loathe to get rid of any scraps because they have “potential,” I decided to weave some map strips. Louisiana, Colorado, Chicago, North Carolina

A roughly 4 by 6” paper weaving of strips cut from old maps, varying in width from 1/8” to about 1/2”. Typical road map colors of light blue, light green, white and pale yellow, but some orange, pink, violet and purple from the inset maps of cities and neighborhoods. It rests on a page of an art notebook, creamy watercolor paper.
The best town name is “Lickskillet.”

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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

NYC No Kings march today photographed by Adam Gray: www.instagram.com/p/DWcf2Xmj-UL/

a fuckton of people filling 7th avenue as far as the eye can see with billboards in times square

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Sarah @sarahjen.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Good morning

A small white cat behind a curtain with her paws sticking out

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Old English Wordhord @oewordhord.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

bāsnian, wk.v: to expect, await. (BAHZ-ni-ahn / ˈbaːz-nɪ-an) #OldEnglish #WOTD

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 28/03/2026

I need you to understand that this little fucker leapt off the table, orange in mouth, and rocketed across the house with his prize, only to set it down next to the toilet and stare vacantly at it for ten minutes.

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