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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 5h

"As things stand, students who commit infractions like plagiarism — which typically has no real victims — are often punished more harshly than the male students directly responsible for making the campus dangerous for female ones."

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 6h

being a “team player” 😒

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Patrick Meyers @pmeyers7.bsky.social · 12h

What are the odds Schmitt's team placed this article with Axios, with the intent to use today's "bombshell" line of questioning as a springboard for said buzz (and then promptly stepping on the world's largest rake on live TV). Helluva way to introduce yourself to the country!

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Cartoonists United @cartoonist.coop · 28/09/2026

Are you and your webcomic affected by the impending Tapas shutdowns? In light of recent events, the CartUn journal has published a new guide on webcomic hosting and moving platforms. journal.cartoonist.coop/webcomic-hos...

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Leigh Walton @leighwalton.bsky.social · 12h

Jenny Holzer Painted sign 1981 "Living" series, 1980-82

all-caps red text on a white background, reminiscent of a warning sign. The text reads:
YOU CAN WATCH PEOPLE ALIGN THEMSELVES WHEN TROUBLE IS IN THE AIR. SOME PREFER TO BE CLOSE TO THOSE AT THE TOP AND OTHERS WANT TO BE CLOSE TO THOSE AT THE BOTTOM. IT'S A QUESTION OF WHO FRIGHTENS THEM MORE AND WHOM THEY WANT TO BE LIKE.

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Leigh Walton @leighwalton.bsky.social · 14h

Adult! Contemporary! Two words that normally suggest an exciting time ahead. And yet, when combined,

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 23h

what keeps me up at night is these guys have basically never received real pushback and they still lost their minds and shredded the federal government's regulatory capacity when employees started griping too much in the company slack. What if you actually arrested one of them for their crimes

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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I talked to the librarian at a tiny upstate NY library where the flyer for drop-in event where she'll help you remove the AI features of your phone has gone viral www.businessinsider.com/library-bye-...

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Zack Quaintance @zackquaintance.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hello nighttime Bsky users, if you somehow haven’t seen I have a new comic It’s an absurdist sci-fi romp, written by me for some truly stellar artists And hey, we’re literally one backer away from unlocking our first stretch goal! For your consideration: www.kickstarter.com/projects/zac...

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Death of Comics Bookcase Vol. 2

A sci-fi comics romp though six unique, fantastical worlds.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

bluesky does not seem to really be talking about this but today Stevie Wonder unleased 4 songs that didn't make "Songs in the Key of Life." music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Songs In The Key Of Life - The EP

EP • Stevie Wonder

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Leigh Walton @leighwalton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Finally took the time to read @katleyh.bsky.social's graphic novel THIRSTY MERMAIDS and it blew me away! I know it was nominated for a bunch of awards but I can't believe we're not constantly talking about this book. So fun, so confident, such a satisfying meal of a story in 250 pages

Panel of the three main characters from Kat Leyh's THIRSTY MERMAIDS as the central one, Pearl, casually says "Well, up until a few days ago, we were mermaids!"

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I gasped! The Mighty Sparrow has left us. One of the most important and popular Calypsonians to ever do it! Songs filled political fire, irreverence, humor, naughty (very, very naughty) banter, and beats that make you wind your waist! Rest in Power, Sparrow. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/a...

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The Mighty Sparrow, Trinidadian Titan of Calypso, Is Dead at 91

He was sometimes described as the last of the true calypso singers. But in fact he simultaneously preserved calypso tradition and invented it anew.

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Dylan Roth @dylanroth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

As evil fucks gobble up more and more mass media, it’s a great opportunity to cut down on your big box streaming subscriptions and reallocate that money to small producers who dedicate less (even none!) of their income to maliciously destroying the earth

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Jacob, Father of Beefcake @fatherofbeefcake.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Another winner from @zandercannon.bsky.social. A genuinely unique take on this kind of story. Genuinely eerie and unsettling with excellent artwork and writing. One of my favorite horror comics in awhile. The last panel made me emotional in a good way.

My graphic novel copy of Sleep by Zander Cannon.

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Leigh Walton @leighwalton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sarge, radio Headquarters… Tell ‘em we’re gonna need a bigger Gender Studies department

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Nate Powell @natepowell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Some personal fan art that I couldn’t NOT do— Diana tribute to the MAGIK comic that helped show her a way out & forward. Half of her twin saints in a cult of one. Read all about this book’s role in Diana’s teenage liberation next week when DIANA hits shops!

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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One of the wonderful things about music in general is that the risk reward ratio is so insanely skewed - three minutes for something that might end up bringing you joy for the rest of your life

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Joad The Wet Sprocket @joadsprocket.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Refugees from the right are welcome, but not at the lectern. Go stack chairs. This isn't the next phase of your career. The next phase of your career doesn't involve a camera or mic.

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Leigh Walton @leighwalton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The algorithm has decided to serve me a song whose backstory makes me feel like I’m having a stroke www.allmusic.com/artist/seona...

In one part of the world, Seona Dancing's "More to Lose" became an '80s anthem as ubiquitous as Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes," but with the eternal hipster cool of Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart." Its opening piano riff -- conveying the sound of falling teardrops -- became the soundtrack of countless high-school dances in Manila, Philippines during the '80s and even beyond. The British band probably would've never made it into any history book outside of the Philippines if its former lead singer hadn't become an award-winning TV star. Seona Dancing formed in Reading, England in the early '80s with vocalist Ricky Gervais and keyboardist Bill Macrae. Inspired by the New Romantic sounds of Japan and Ultravox, Seona Dancing recorded two singles for London Records that failed to break into the U.K. Top 40. Released in 1983, "More to Lose" and "Bitter Heart" may have been flops in England, but they found new life in the Philippines two years later. It all began in 1985, when the New Wave-leaning pop station DWRT-FM in Manila started spinning a dreamy ballad called "Fade," by Medium.

The song title and artist name were completely bogus, created so that their competitors wouldn't be able to find the record and play it themselves; a station I.D. was even inserted midway through the track, making it impossible for other DJs to record it and spin it on their own stations. A year later, its true identity was revealed on Manila's now-legendary New Wave powerhouse DWXB-102: It was none other than Seona Dancing's "More to Lose." Ignored in the U.K., "More to Lose" became the theme song of angst-ridden New Wave youths in the Philippines in the '80s; with its brooding, Michael Hutchence-like vocals and jumpy percussion, it swept the clubs as well. Ironically, this was oblivious to the duo; when "More to Lose" started its rise to never-ending airplay on Manila FM stations in the mid-'80s, Seona Dancing wasn't even together anymore. The group's lack of success in their native land discouraged them from continuing. Gervais remained in the music industry only to manage Suede, and DJ on London's XFM. In 2004, Gervais won a Golden Globe for his role as David Brent in the BBC comedy The Office.

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Dalton Deschain @daltondeschain.com · 27/09/2026

there’s a part in the History of Concrete where he attends a WGA class on how to write Hallmark movies, and the instructor says “our audience wants to feel like they’re on the cusp of achieving their dreams, if only one final piece would fall into place.” inscribe it on the statue of liberty imo

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"This reminds me of a critical mistake made in previous generations of socialists; the idea that before any political action happens, before it’s worth contesting power, the people need to be educated." A point I pushed past on the first read but worth staring at www.powermapmag.com/p/shitty-sky...

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Shitty Skynet: How the Left Should Think About AI Doom.

Don’t Worry about Skynet. Worry about Shitty Skynet.

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journeyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It’s fucking me up that the word elevate predates the invention of the elevator but the invention of the escalator predates the word escalate. It’s complete madness

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Leigh Walton @leighwalton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Mods are asleep; post 2000s child actor Kermit

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.

Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites

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victoria mcnally @vqnerdballs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Start by offering little miniature vans to warhammer enthusiasts and then slowly give them bigger ones over time

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

- À la carte living conditions where everything is hyper personalized and you get what YOU want delivered to YOU when YOU want it. And therefore, you don't have to think beyond yourself, so you assume everything is either for you *specifically* or it's wrong.

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Katie Reed @katiereedwrites.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Are you looking for something to do tomorrow afternoon? Join me to talk all things Velvet Goldmine and cult media! I'll be at Fullerton Public Library at 1 pm tomorrow to talk about my new book and the ways that music and film can help us see ourselves. I'd love to see you there!

Title slide for presentation: “that’s me!”: finding identity and community in cult movies and music. The background image is a still from VELVET GOLDMINE: Arthur Stuart (Christian Bale) stepping out for the first time in his glam rock togs

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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

What a surprise, the organizers of the covid cautious dyke bar hated the article, rejected its framing, and is defending their covid cautious patrons and performers. Anyone who joined in on the viral harassment campaign started by Jesse Singal wanna say oops or…? recorder.com/2026/09/24/g...

Current and former owners of Last Ditch could not be reached by phone, email or social media. However, Last Ditch did share on Instagram that the Globe story allegedly misconstrued statements from Noire, and urged community members to stop harassing Noire.
"It is neither productive, progressive, nor valiant to attack a Black patron. He has been a collaborator and performer of Last Ditch for a while, and he deserves to speak his mind about accountability and repair from the bar," the Last Ditch statement reads. "There are so many misconceptions due to the disorganization of the Globe article. He did not call for the bar to be firebombed. Further, he did not disparage the owner for being homeless.
"As a result of this abysmal journalism, he has been getting additional threats, slurs, harassment, and is being reported to the police over something he did not do," Last Ditch continued. "This is not supporting us at Last Ditch, and it is, at its core, anti-Blackness hysteria."

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Karen Czap @charmgardens.com · 25/09/2026

Just received this Outstanding Comics Award from the ALA's Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table for @galegalligan.bsky.social's Fresh Start! This particular honor made a point to recognize the whole creative team which means me, the colorist, gets to have a nice mail day!

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There are too many people in congress who would be happier doing this, and that's part of why our politics is so stupid bsky.app/profile/avit...

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anna, journalist, get woke or DEI trying @fakerobotgamer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

this is getting a lot of attention all of the sudden so i want to additionally point out: this is all a jesse singal op bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Leigh Walton @leighwalton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I gotta say it’s extra flattering to hear this from @jessnevins.bsky.social, a beloved pioneer in the field of “online annotations on pop-culture masterworks involving 19th century Europe”

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Leigh Walton @leighwalton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Glad we're excited about opera today because MusicDrama.net has updated again! It's the the most lesbian opera ever written by two straight men about a himbo twink and a middle-aged princess… a show about a breakup that sounds like the end of the world… Strauss & Hofmannsthal's DER ROSENKAVALIER!

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Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier

The Basics Der Rosenkavalier [The Rose-Knight]Music by Richard Strauss Words by Hugo von Hofmannsthal Language: German Premiere date: January 26, 1911 [Image: Cover design by Frank Parisi for the 1…

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shan🎷🐛 @shanhoran.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Why am I crying at the thrift store

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musicdrama.net

Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier

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Leigh Walton @leighwalton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

50 tons of books in one order! A lot of “rare” books are out of print for a reason — technical manuals for dead software, etc — but it’s galling to see them scanned, destroyed, and then the scans fed to a private black box rather than made publicly accessible via something like @archive.org

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Japanese used bookstores see 5x sales surge as books are being bought by the ton, one 50-ton order sent to the US for AI scanning and destruction — multitude of suspicious bulk buys thought to end up ...

Short-term boom could lead to a longer-term drought and removal of important works from circulation.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This guy has all the worst ideas for weirdos. I guess he got lucky once with one bad idea for weirdos that normies took to, once they completely eliminated its original horrible weirdo purpose

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gossip göre @britneyspheres.bsky.social · 17/09/2023

Tezuka Osamu, The Book of Human Insects, 1970

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.

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Leigh Walton @leighwalton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Love the project, and putting him on stage to watch the show is goofy fun. My quibble is the reduction of these performers to frozen props in a vague idea of “the opera,” instead of taking advantage of the sparkling charisma and star power that amost every pro opera singer has

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David Timoney @fromarsetoelbow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"The incident fits a broader pattern in the discourse around ‘free speech’ and ‘cancel culture’: whatever comes from the top down is freedom; whatever comes from the bottom up is bullying and censorship." www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

found a new type of guy

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AITA for correcting my girlfriend's family every time they mispronounce my turtle's name?
I have a turtle named Geoff. Yes I know Geoff is normally pronounced Jeff. His isnt. My girlfriend's family knows this and still calls him Jeff basically every time his name comes up.
His name starts with /dz/ instead of the normal American English J sound /d3/. So regular Geoff/Jeff is roughly /dzef/ and his is /dzef/. They are similar but they are NOT the same consonant. /d3/ is a voiced postalveolar affricate and /dz/ is a voiced retroflex affricate. Basically you make the beginning of "Jeff" with the tongue farther back/retracted, which gives it a harder, deeper "dzh" sound.
I'm really into etymology and historical linguistics so the spelling was intentional too. Geoff is already a weird spelling from a modern English perspective because gives you basically no reason to predict /dzef/ unless you already know the name. Obviously I am NOT claiming medieval Geoffrey was pronounced / dzef/. I

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Seth T. Hahne @sethhahne.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A stained glass window I did as part of an illustration for a client.

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