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lapruitte.bsky.social @lapruitte.bsky.social · 3h
The vibes are unusually grim for a Wednesday.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🚨🚨Emergency protest🚨🚨 The Drexel board will be at the constitution center in Old City (525 Arch St, Philadelphia, PA 19106) from 5-6. We're asking Drexel to disaffiliate from the Academy of Nat Sci to allow them to negotiate what's best for them w/o Drexel interference. Be there.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Going to work now feels like doing homework after the teacher quit and told the class that education is fake. Everyone just coasting on inertia and hoping there's still a point to all this
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Um. The William Penn foundation offered bridge funding to keep the academy of natural sciences open for a year, and the people in charge said “no one is helping things by offering Band-Aids”. Jesus Christ. share.inquirer.com/KXxZTj
share.inquirer.com
William Penn Foundation offers funding to keep Academy of Natural Sciences museum open
A Drexel spokesperson did not say whether the school had declined the offer, but said, “No proposal has been presented that would provide a permanent, sustainable path forward" for the museum.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 25/09/2026
Pour yourself a cup of ambition. It’s Dolly Parton Day.
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It's officially Dolly Parton Day, with parades, pink lights and book drives
Communities worldwide are dedicating Friday to honoring Dolly Parton. The day falls on Sept. 25, a wink at her hit song “9 to 5.”
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
it's important to arrive at sturdy ethical principles that you can't be annoyed out of. people are annoying as shit
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Can't make it this weekend? Contact Josh Shaprio's Office Phone:717-787-2500 And Mayor Parker's Office Phone Phone: (215) 686-2181 City council is with us. Drexel thinks we're going to give up. Leadership thinks this will just blow over and they can cash out. Do not let that happen.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A recent survey found that 92% of U.S. adults have delayed or avoided medical care due to high costs. Meanwhile, a new study from Yale estimates that Medicare for All would save over 114,000 lives and $1 trillion a year. If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have universal healthcare.
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
everybody doesn’t need to believe they can do everything without any time, experience or effort. universal unearned confidence is not an important social goal
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Catching up on the news at the of the day is traumatic.
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lapruitte.bsky.social @lapruitte.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
My new signoff seems to be “Apologies for all the chaos!” but I feel it is important to note that it is not MY chaos.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026
They are trying to blame AI for these kinds of mistakes in the way that you put googly eyes on a rock and then pretend it's a scapegoat.
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
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lapruitte.bsky.social @lapruitte.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The magic 8 ball is stuck on “Outlook not so good” and like I KNOW but buddy, c’mon.
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lapruitte.bsky.social @lapruitte.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I’m just gonna keep buying shiny things until the universe gets in line.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
“The trouble with you, Spode, is that just because you have succeeded in inducing a handful of half-wits to disfigure the London scene by going about in black shorts, you think you’re someone. You hear them shouting “Heil, Spode!” and you imagine it is the Voice of the People.” Bertie Wooster
Daniel Thomas and his Black Shorts in London today.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
HOLY SHIT DUDES fucking with the environment is now not just a sin (which Francis also said), it is classed as a direct fuck-you to God and a central tenet of the reasoning is the need to care for "our common home," i.e. you are morally obligated to think about the other people who also live here
americamagazine.org
Vatican theological commission defines ‘sin against creation and the Creator’ in new document
The more than 29,000 word text calls for ecological conversion due to “sin against creation and the Creator.”
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 04/09/2026
You can't simply fall back on statistics to claim that a past event didn't happen. A lot of weird shit happens all the time. You just have to like, look at the past.
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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
From 1969 to 2008 John Margolies photographed the eccentric roadside architecture and ephemera of the US. @librarycongress bought the lot, a total of 11,710 colour slides, and lifted all copyright restrictions on them. Here's our highlights: publicdomainreview.org/collection/j...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Because there are two Americas*, we are underestimating the amount of psychosocial grief unleashed this past week Michael Wright Cassandra Wilson Dolly Parton Tim Curry Gloria Steinem In basically one week
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/09/2026
the fact that the papers of supreme court justices are treated as their personal property is outrageous www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/u...
nytimes.com
How the Supreme Court Locks Away Its Own History (Gift Article)
After Justice Scalia died, the justices held private negotiations about locking away their papers. We may not see the ultimate record of the Roberts court for decades.
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lapruitte.bsky.social @lapruitte.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Intense overheard conversation between the MFA students: “TIME EXISTS!”
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lapruitte.bsky.social @lapruitte.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Not sure what the WORST part of living in CT is, but the incessant golf talk at bars is right up there.
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Alexis Goldstein @alexisgoldstein.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A person in pantyhose, holding a lit cigarette in their hand, which has a ring on their middle finger, and the caption “My idols are dead and my enemies are in power”
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Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
STEEL MAGNOLIAS (1989) + THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS (1982) are returning to AMC theaters nationwide Aug 28-Sept 2 in memory of Dolly Parton. In NYC both screen once daily at AMC 42nd St. for $10. And tickets are already moving... www.thewrap.com/creative-con... #FilmSky
thewrap.com
Dolly Parton's 'Steel Magnolias,' 'The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas' Are Coming Back to AMC Theatres
AMC Theatres will honor the late country star Dolly Parton with a limited re-release of two of her most famous films.
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Timeless... Elegant... Discreet...
a doodle of a woman with what looks like a cigarette in her mouth, leaning against a brick wall with the words "timeless... elegant... discreet... little poison dart guns that look like cigarettes. From general electric."
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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 26/08/2026
The reason why people think Dolly was “politically neutral” is because they don’t understand being political as a series of actions born of commitment to an idea. Being political as defined by the pundit class is to be in front of a microphone delivering sound bytes, it’s something to be devoured
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M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
“How will we ever replace them?” FUND. THE. ARTS.
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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours.
Miss Piggy and Dolly Parton in fancy dresses posing together photo of Tim Curry surrounded by muppets, smiling for a photo. A quote from curry is added “it didn’t go very well. It didn’t survive the shoot. She felt I wasn’t being faithful to her” it’s him discussing his ill fated affair with miss piggy
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Danielle Ryan (Lestat Era) @danirat.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
be transgressive be a weird little freak be trashy and proud be whoever the hell you want to be and put everything into what you love just try to laugh at yourself along the way
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lapruitte.bsky.social @lapruitte.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
At an orientation today the students saw my name at the top of the request slips and thought I had created all the (many, varied, beautiful) special collections items we were looking at. I set them right, but for a minute I enjoyed being a temporary polymath.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
NYT: “.. The move could prevent residents from raising concerns about — or even learning about — data centers before permits are approved and construction starts.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/c...
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I appreciate that Dolly Parton refused to participate in "dress respectability" and, by her own account, modeled her aesthetic after a town "tramp," who she thought was beautiful. She separated aesthetics from character and understood "classiness" to be about how you treat people, not how you dress.
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lyndsay @magpie.tips · 26/08/2026
"what a week, huh?" / "lemon it's Wednesday" meme
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Tim Curry was not the 80-year-old Home Alone 2 cast member we were asking for.
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Professionally Nosy @professionallynosy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Archivists, librarians, book sellers, museum collections folks, how many of us have book carts named in honor of Dolly Parton?
Purple book cart with an orange decorative nameplate: Dolly Carton.
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Inspirational Skeletor @skeletorinspires.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
She was the best of all us 🖤
Find out who you are and do it on purpose. Says Skeletor who is the saddest he’s been in a long time. RIP Dolly
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The Lever @levernews.com · 26/08/2026
AI-linked donors poured $2 million into Republican Joe Lombardo’s reelection campaign as he championed data centers that could consume enough water for 150,000 households.
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tante @tante.cc · 25/08/2026
That literally is the sales pitch of "AI". You get to "own" an "intelligence" that has to obey. It's not even subtext.
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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
(I know that’s actually not a permanent solution and pretending bad things aren’t happening is not a great survival strategy in the long run, but there was nothing I could do about it now.)
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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Not only do digital things not last forever, digital objects are even more fragile than physical ones! You can put a piece of paper on a shelf for a century, but you probably can't read a Unity project from 10 years ago
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Anyway, your problem isn‘t finding the time to take notes. The problem is that taking notes is thinking and thinking has to be done by someone. women have been doing a lot of metacognition that looks like a task when it’s really thinking.
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lapruitte.bsky.social @lapruitte.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Beginning to believe in reincarnation because I am too tired for just one lifetime.
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Veronica 🌶️ @chilepepper.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Happy Wednesday ☀️
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Wednesday Addams' Iconic Dance
ALT: Wednesday Addams' Iconic Dance
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
we're at the "they're arming unaccountable masked men with electric torture gloves" stage of fascism
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 07/08/2026
Do you know how RARELY I am proud of the town I grew up in? Well, put another notch in the maraschino cherry.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The billionaire bro in charge of Forest Service, Michael Boren, ordered underlings to deploy a fleet aircraft to put out a tiny fire near his megaranch Acre-size of fire: 7 Number of aircraft sent: 9 “it was easily accessible by ground,” said an official www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...
washingtonpost.com
Top Trump official asked for more aircraft to fight a small fire near his Idaho ranch
Michael Boren, who oversees the U.S. Forest Service, asked for more resources to contain a seven-acre blaze last month, officials said.
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Chocobone💀Skare🎺Paradie🪦 @chocoboskaparadise.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Friendly reminder
A woman with tall hair, glasses, and a cigarette holds a paper. A luck cat jumps in the background
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