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Laurelsbooks @laurelsbooks.bsky.social · 3h

When your company’s intranet is down and all the applications with it, it’s the adult’s version of cancelling school for a snow day ⛄️❄️😊

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 20h

NOT A SINGLE FUCKING THING. There was already so much to read, look at, learn, explore, collage, so much weirdness and trueness and falseness and brilliance on the internet. And it got fucked up not because people wanted to earn money, but because a few people were determined to earn a LOT of money

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 20h

we fucking loved it, even when there was basically nothing on it, and let me tell you something else: we loved it because of human connection, human diversity, human creativity. WE DON'T NEED A SINGLE THING ANY OF THESE COMEMIERDAS HAVE MADE AND TRIED TO SELL US IN ORDER TO HAVE A GREAT INTERNET.

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 6h

Instead, have it refer to itself as "the system." All of a sudden, all that wank from the press releases about skynet-levels-of-consciousness is clearly revealed for what it actually is, which is a large language model.

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 6h

For those of you with day jobs where you're forced to use LLMs or be fired, good tip I gleaned this weekend, which is to tell the LLM to stop referring to itself using "I" pronouns and to eliminate the praise and other attempts to humanize itself. You get a much cleaner interaction w/o the marketing

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A thread about a great cat, and the post-retirement creative evolution of a great artist, in 20 images...

My late cat The Bear in a box marked Hotel California, realising he can check out but he can never leave.

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Laurelsbooks @laurelsbooks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I love my CPAP machine. LOVE. This gadget is up there with antibiotics, anesthesia and vaccines, as far as I’m concerned. Getting a good night’s sleep is such a shock, when you’ve spent years sleeping poorly.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 02/10/2026

Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Neiman Marcus closed its downtown Dallas flagship on Wednesday. The store played a notable role in the history of desegregation in Dallas. Previously, Black shoppers across the US could enter department stores, but they weren't allowed to try on clothes without adhering to certain conditions. 🧵

A notice about the Neiman Marcus store opening in downtown Dallas.

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is one of those headlines where, though they are becoming more and more common, it requires such a leap of imagination for normal people, that the scale of it is is hard to communicate. It’s like our world is screaming at us, but it’s in a frequency most of us can’t hear.

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Laurelsbooks @laurelsbooks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I wanted a treat today. A paperback book maybe, or a chocolate pudding. A frivolous purchase, to make the day a little sweeter. *my back spasms* My treat is a sturdy Hely & Weber back brace 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Rob Husberg @artofrob.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“Stopping By for a Rest and a Visit” Does your cat talk to the moon? Available in my Etsy shop as a giclée art print! You can find it here: theartofrobhusberg.etsy.com/listing/7794...

“Stopping By for a Rest and a Visit”
giclée art print

The crescent moon takes a break from its celestial journeys to rest in the arms of an accommodating tree. Whilst taking a rest it visits with a favourite earthling: a cat. The cat sits at the base of the tree in a pool of moonlight and stares up at his friend.

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Author Kimolisa Mings @kimolisamings.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Friend: Did you really need all those books? Me: Yes, I have a prescription Friend: That's a receipt #RomanceReadersUnite #BookTherapy #CaribbeanReaders #booksky #blackskybooks #Romancelandia #CaribbeanSky #readersky

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Laurelsbooks @laurelsbooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Finally reading T. Kingfisher’s Clockwork Boys and The Wonder Engine. Why did I wait so long; this is like the Oz books written for adults. Glorious. I needed this mental vacation. 😍 I love the gnoles, for obvious reasons. 🦡 And Slate is such a distinctive heroine!

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the kiracken🏳️‍⚧️ @kiraculous.net · 29/09/2026

removing women from sports is a tentpole of their goal to remove women from higher education. they want to remove women's options so they can force women into the 1950s housewife roles they dream of recreating. well 1950 is right, they want to take the whole country back to the 1850s socially.

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Representative Becca Balint @balint.house.gov · 28/09/2026

The FDA approved mifepristone 26 years ago today and it’s been safe and effective since. Still, the GOP has tried to abuse an antiquated law to ban the distribution of mifepristone and sneak into a national abortion ban, bringing us back to the 1800s. I intro'd the Stop Comstock Act to stop them.

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Laurelsbooks @laurelsbooks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Metro North now allows only same-day ticket purchases. Expecting me to have a reasonable amount of 📱 battery charge on the day of travel, and to remember ahead of time that I need to buy a ticket in the app, or to arrive at the train station early enough to buy a paper ticket IS ASKING A LOT.

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Laurelsbooks @laurelsbooks.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Hour 7.5 of this headache. I had so much to do today… 😩

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Laurelsbooks @laurelsbooks.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The time spent on self-care every day is getting annoying. 20 minutes on dental care to try to reduce gum inflammation, 30 min of bouncing on a rebounder to subdue the RLS. Rinsing the CPAP components every morning. Pills at night, pills in the morning. Vitamins. PT for frozen shoulder. ANNOYED.

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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

There are many ways to improve your life: - read books - be kind - read more books - rest - read so many books that an ancient power of undying fire ignites deep in your eyes - hydrate - read more books

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Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

👉 Way ahead of you! 👈 (My dad made this as part of a live demonstration on a 19th century printing press/with antique type somewhere around my first birthday.)

FOR PRESIDENT!
** INDEPENDENT * THE HONORABLE
TALCOTT C. STARR
THE PEOPLE'S FRIEND.
Will address the Public at the
OHIO STATE FAIR
and will give the speach that has brought tens of thousands to raity around our Candidates Glorious Banner in Virginir, Ohio, and Indiana
What America Needs
IS ME.
Come one and all to this feast of reason, and low of soul Prepareat once to attend this nonster meeting, and prepare to re-kindle he tires of INDEPEDENCE, which burned i brightly in the days of George Washington.
Handset and Printed at the
1982 Ohio State Fair
Ohio Village Prese.

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot

Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Laurelsbooks @laurelsbooks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I don’t have enough paid sick days left to call in sick on Oct. 8 to stay home & read Dylan Morrison’s latest book, so I will be a grownup about it (this time) (unlike the last time)

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Truly this thread is the best absurdist thriller novel I have read this year

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

That "cute goat video" that's been going around seems to have been made by AI. And I think I've put my finger on why the idea upsets me: photographs and video are shared experiences of a real human event.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

2. The Academy’s attendance has soared. Over 10,000 people each weekend. There is absolutely no reason why the funds from that could not keep the public museum open longer.🫎

same text as in post, with a picture of the deinonychus in front of the museum

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

1. Little money is being saved by closing the public museum, and it’s HUGELY unpopular. Even if they want to sell the building, moving the collections will take years.🦖

the same text as is in the post, with a wall covered in sticky notes with notes about how much people love the museum and don't want it to close

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We have *six days* left until the Academy of Natural Sciences, North America's oldest Natural History museum, is scheduled to close it's doors. Here are *six reasons* why we cannot - and will not- let that happen.

a slide that says 6 days until the doors close -- 6 reasons we can keep them open, save-the-academy.org @savetheacademy

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Just Believe Creations @justbelieve.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Today's featured item is the Magical Flower Beaded ornament. It's very bright and colorful. You can find it on my Ki-Fi. buff.ly/gPcA75i #BlueSkyNightMarket #handmade #shopsmall #kofi

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Laurelsbooks @laurelsbooks.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I am scared witless by the people who want to turn America into their fantasy of How the Middle Ages Feudal System was Good Actually. (How can anyone read history & think that?) Gotta pick up Bradley Onishi’s book “American Caesar”. www.straightwhiteamericanjesus.com/episodes/the...

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The Sunday Interview: The Tech-Fascist - Christian Supremacist Alliance

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Laurelsbooks @laurelsbooks.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Note to self: I will feel better when I get all those boxes unpacked, and stuff organized neatly in the closets. Really. There will be a sense of calm in the bedroom.

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 16/09/2026

Prints of these Power Lines Drawings (along with a handful of others) are available at my store $40 USD each plus shipping marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/category/pow...

Black ink drawing, silhouette of a utility pole and power lines

Black ink drawing, silhouette of utility poles and power lines

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Laurelsbooks @laurelsbooks.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Elizabeth I refused to name her successor, but on her deathbed in 1603 she finally named James VI of Scotland. Allegedly. Of course, the only people in the room were members of her Privy Council, who wanted James VI to inherit. And she was beyond speech, only made a gesture. Just thinking…

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SAHASA 🐙🪸 @sculptedreef.com · 14/09/2026

Caribbean Reef Octopus Sculpture 🐙 Clay & Paint #Octopus #Cephalopods #Invertebrates #BSNM 🦑🐡

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Howard Sherman @hesherman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Farewell to costume designer Bob Mackie, a designer of spectacular gowns for great divas, but also the creator of perhaps the greatest costume sight gag in history.

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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

When my son was 5 he had a sartorial flair To go to arts delicatessen he wore a midnight blue cape, top hat &monocle As we were leaving an older gent stopped him saying “young man, i like your style” Meant the world to our son that man was Bob Mackie RIP

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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.

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Laurelsbooks @laurelsbooks.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

From 150 unread emails, down to 75 *pants with exertion*

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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The best way to understand the American Jewish community is that we are, in the aggregate, a group of liberals whose institutions are largely controlled by a much smaller faction of very well-funded conservatives

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Laurelsbooks @laurelsbooks.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I had to go to a meeting in a lawyer’s office, and the amount of time it took me to figure out what to wear—! I have no clothes sense, I overheat in everything except linen & cotton, and goddammit, I really need someone to figure out what’s appropriate. I would PAY for this service.

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puppa.bsky.social @puppa.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

One thing that seems missing from the sports "debate" is that student athletics are not meant to be training for professional athletes, but for health and social reasons. The only "fairness" govt should protect is everyone having access.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026

It’s not about fairness in sports. Sports was never fair. Even Gladwell noticed this It’s about humans who have committed no offense having full participation in life. Bc if you erase people from public spaces it is easier to quietly erase them entirely It is a spear tip of genocide & it’s fascist

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🎃Jack-O-Logan 🎃 @logiebarr.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I had a fever dream that someone renamed all of Trump Properties after America. Like America Tower. America Golf Course. Take his name OFF of things.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 12/09/2026

Zohran is extraordinarily gracious, but he should not have to be. Why is it acceptable to ask people to accept buckets of gutter bigotry as the inevitable price for being Muslim in public life? And then news media legitimates this bigotry by presenting it as a debate!

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Laurelsbooks @laurelsbooks.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This morning, another New Yorker said to me, “We all know somebody who knows somebody.” And I stopped, counted, realized I know 3 people for whom Sept. 11 is a day of deepest personal grief. May the source of peace send peace to all who mourn and comfort to all who are bereaved.

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Laurelsbooks @laurelsbooks.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

@grongar.bsky.social Shana tovah, Rebecca! A sweet new year to you & yours. 🍎🍯

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