Reposted by NoraMorgan Johnson @poormojo.bsky.social · 14/10/2026No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads 185142295817
Reposted by NoraThe Associated Press @apnews.com · 07/10/2026Rescue kittens with names like Turkey Leg and Mouth Trap got to explore the aquarium at the Mall of America in Minnesota, watching in awe as fish soared by just out of reach.bit.lyOrphaned kittens meet sharks and stingrays on an aquarium field trip at the Mall of AmericaRescue kittens with names like Turkey Leg and Mouth Trap got to explore the aquarium at the Mall of America in Minnesota, watching in awe as fish soared by just out of reach. 122653
Reposted by NoraElizabeth Minkel @elizabethminkel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I was extremely pleased to be asked to come on another public radio show, "This Is Uncomfortable" from @marketplace.org! A delightful conversation about what is clearly my current beat, "fanfiction is big business now and that's a real downer." 🙂 link.podtrac.com/sbi5iko8 1182
Reposted by NoraOne Angry Eyebrow… @oneangryeyebrow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026IKEA is releasing a Pallas Cat plush, and they have nailed the expression… 23651219
Reposted by NoraLiza Adamczewski aka the accidental ecologist @lizaadamczewski.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Good to be back In the room cutting glass for a dinosaur window panel 312115
Reposted by NoraLisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Not only did I meet Robert Kraft, I worked for him. His kid Jonathan asked me to “remove the black music” from my gameday playlist in ‘94 & I refused so they fired me. I was the cheerleader director at the time.  I sued them for wrongful termination and won. So yes, I know that motherfucker.  329252965775
Reposted by NoraUsman T. Malik @usmantm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Ted Chiang's fav writing quote is from her essay 'Write till you drop' "There is something you find interesting, for a reason hard to explain. It is hard to explain because you have never read it on any page; there you begin. You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment." 015065
Reposted by NoraTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026We want money and housing and healthcare, not a shortcut to living the most basic unfulfilled human existence that a coked up programmer can devise. Some of us are happy. Others of us fully imagine that we can become happy. Many of us aren’t afraid of what that costs. 452266
Reposted by Norajenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 09/09/2026welcome to 2020s tech. we got - pervert glasses - wiretap - wiretap - wiretap - wiretap - the button that does nothing - we outta ram - we outta hard drives - we outta graphics cards - ten trillion vibe coded apps that nobody uses - wiretap 9678933170
Reposted by NoraJRho @jrho.bsky.social · 06/09/2026The most absolutely massive flex from the state fair exhibit. This quilt is made of 40 years of prize ribbons from various categories at the New Mexico State Fair won by Carol St. Clair Johnson. She also won a prize for this quilt. 6861072008
Reposted by NoraDr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Girl with a candle. Stunning painting by Godfried Schalcken, a master of candlelight, whose day has been today. 316531
Reposted by Nora🌺HippiesRule🌺 @teresa555.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Wut??? 🐸 *leaves work starts car speeds to store 64849133
Reposted by NoraThe Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.theverge.comThere is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter seriesYou can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry. 366201439891
Reposted by NoraJoseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 01/09/2026We got a live demo of the shirt that is designed to fool certain people detection systems. Read more here: www.404media.co/this-digital... 24932292
Reposted by NoraFansplaining @fansplaining.bsky.social · 26/08/2026On July 8th, we published a piece on AI in Heated Rivalry fic fandom. On July 30th, the New York Times ran a piece on the same subject. We weren't surprised—because we knew a Times reporter had read our coverage. A tale of two fandom articles, part of a longstanding dynamic in the media industry:fansplaining.comLessons From a Heated Media RivalryHow we learned that the New York Times has a Fansplaining account. 5503172
Reposted by NoraNational Writers Union @nwu.org · 27/08/2026It's not a good day for the NYT. In addition to @transnews.network's call for a public boycott for their role in enabling trans genocide, we're calling them out for ripping off one of our member's stories and failing to credit her, a situation all too common for freelancers. @kaytiburt.bsky.social 119485
Reposted by NoraYashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 25/08/20261. AFM, the labor union representing professional musicians in North America, is paying tribute to Dolly Parton, who was a member of its Nashville Local 257 for 58 years. AFM says that for decades, Dolly consistently filed union contracts for her recording sessions, live gigs and tours. 51746499
Reposted by NoraAmadi Lovelace @amaditalks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Remember that if you got the Moderna Covid vaccine, you have Dolly Parton to thank, she gave the largest individual contribution toward their research to make it possible. 46149354071
Reposted by NoraAlex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.comimaginationlibrary.comDolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AUDolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas. 45121505977
Reposted by NoraSunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I think one of the major markers of what kind of person she genuinely was is how much of her philanthropy was quiet and under the radar She didn’t do it as PR, she didn’t do it to boost her own brand, she did it because she wanted to do good things 129568
Reposted by NoraMorgan Leigh Davies @mldavies.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Her literacy program is the greatest legacy of any famous person I can think of in recent times. A great lady. 03411
Reposted by NoraSurili @surili18.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Such a powerful, and again, all too recognizable, list of self-editing. Thank you for sharing. 063
Reposted by Norajamie loftus @jamieloftus.bsky.social · 24/08/2026infuriating that one of many things we're 'bringing back' with this wave of fascism is a dishonest, increased weaponization of racist, junk iq science reminder that IQ was never intended to be a fixed metric, and was originally meant for turn of the century french schoolchildren KNOCK IT OFF 317416
Reposted by NoraTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Almost every single student who has found me this week wants to talk about AI. A couple reflections. One student has taken three AI courses in philosophy, health sciences and comm. They’re basically the same class. As it turns out, it doesn’t take a lot of classes to “learn” ai. 91791312
Reposted by NoraGavin B @ghostflaneur.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Meanwhile for me: - page falling out? Toss. - looks funny? toss - what's that smell? toss. - is that yet another confession by an American celebrity? toss. - i don't want to know what that stain is. Toss. - book 4 of an 8 part series and book 1 fell apart last week? toss. 043
Reposted by NoraShepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 13/08/2026I have lived east and west and while the west coast mountains will kill you through indifference to humanity, they are brash young mountains. The Appalachians are the home of things whose names humanity has never known, and they resent us as newcomers and take us down into the dark when they can. 17721160
Reposted by NoraRamin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 12/08/2026If you missed the solar eclipse, this is what it looked like: 93142823812
Nora @lighthousenora.bsky.social · 31/07/2026i cannot emphasize enough how thrilled i am with this. i am giggling. i am kicking my feet. thank you @oldenoughtosay.com for taking the time to answer my question so thoroughly, and i subscribe to your theory 100%. you have made me a believer. this is the best day of my life 120
Reposted by NoraMatthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Terry Belanger would begin his Rare Book School classes by physically destroying/dismantling a (well-chosen) old book. This is NOT the same as what Anthropic is doing! But there is a popular culture of preciousness around books that is belied by the material realities of their circumstances. + 66618
Reposted by NoraQagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 29/07/2026I'm happy that Saint Jimothy will hang in City Hall. 110215
Reposted by NoraEschire Cat-tle, MSc @escherbug.art · 28/07/2026She loved her surgery cone for the first couple days (it made her feel powerful and intimidating) so we got her a courted ruff to look sinister in. 11557741210
Reposted by NoraDoctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 28/07/2026JUST skimmed a piece in the Harvard Gazette that totally validates this "any little bit is better than doing nothing" news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor... 223788
Reposted by NoraFansplaining @fansplaining.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Check out the site, and if you can afford $70 a year (that's under $6 a month! The cost of a fancy coffee!) for our basic Supporter tier, please consider subscribing. Help us keep publishing great fan culture writing—especially since the mainstream media can't seem to get it right... 😉fansplaining.comFansplainingReporting, criticism, and more, all by, for, and about fandom. 076
Nora @lighthousenora.bsky.social · 24/07/2026"Become my own blood boy" sounds like something Laszlo would say on WWDITS 000
Nora @lighthousenora.bsky.social · 23/07/2026The Wishbone Odyssey episode made such an impression on me that I recognized the woman who played Calypso when she played a random nurse in an episode of Parks and Rec decades later 000
Nora @lighthousenora.bsky.social · 17/07/2026"The discovery also calls into question previous assumptions that female burials found with grave goods must have necessarily been the wives of important men, he said." 000
Reposted by NoraByron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 17/07/2026The creator of Roger Rabbit (who is 85 years old by the way) is a good sort Crossposted with @openvibe.social 2845463614060
Reposted by NoraDylan 🎃 SPOOKington @kindofahugedyl.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Y’all. @jpbrammer.bsky.social did it again. I don’t know that I’d ever considered that the impulse to call people out for “performative reading” might come from a place of jealousy. In our current literacy crisis, it makes so much sense. JP digs so much deeper. Highly recommend.open.substack.comOn Performative ReadingLanguage, resentment, magic, and morals. 2295
Reposted by NoraJames Felton @jimmfelton.bsky.social · 10/07/2026I find the story of Hegelochus unreasonably funny. Imagine dying and the only trace of you millennia later is the time you accidentally said you saw a weasel in a tragic play in front of a packed audience, because people mocked you about it for centuries. (Thread for ease)iflscience.comHegelochus: The Ancient Greek Actor We Only Know About Because He Really, Really Fluffed Up His LineAround 400 BCE, Hegelochus really messed up his line. We only know about the actor because he was mocked about it for centuries. 361097388
Reposted by NoraLouisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Woke up to pee, saw Lindsey Graham died, immediately jumped on Bluesky to see the good posting. Have fun, everyone, but please steer away from the homophobia. Maybe this dude would have been less of a massive piece of shit if he hadn’t been steeped in self-loathing. Dunk responsibly 522562329
Reposted by NoraGetty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Celebrate National Kitten Day with iconic catwoman Eartha Kitt. Both on and off screen, Kitt was a true animal lover at heart. Growing up as a child in South Carolina, Kitt would befriend and care for stray cats. 214639
Reposted by Norahookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Follow me and the first thing I see is that you trade in hours of AI video and ambience and it's a block. Not to my door. Generative AI is a planet-killing theft engine hollow of lived experience. The bubble will burst, but that's not why we oppose it, we refuse AI because it's morally bankrupt. 1723147
Reposted by NoraSarah Armento @nosarahonlyzuul.bsky.social · 05/06/2026oh did the nazi tattoo guy turn out to be problematic 04610
Reposted by NoraMegan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social · 30/06/2026I can’t imagine the poverty of inner life required to care that much about other people’s genitalia. Fix your goddamn hearts. 17722
Reposted by Norashauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 27/06/2026WANT TO SNORFLE THE MURDERCAT (🔊 up) 1195432778
Reposted by NoraEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 23/06/2026A phenomenon I've noticed recently is people trying to occupy some untenable middleground wrt to the use of systems sold as "AI" -- this is a position where people try to recognize the harms of this tech but also hold space for "responsible" or "ethical" use. 🧵>> 17598255
Reposted by NoraSmall Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Actively annoyed by seeing some AI people smugly agree with each other that the reason we hate their shitty technology is that we resent it "lowering the barriers to entry" for the arts, which apparently the world of software development has always done. 512280449
Reposted by Noraworm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 18/06/2026I've been kinda obsessed with this video 833369
!["In a 2019 study in JAMA Internal Medicine that looked at all-cause mortality in some 16,000 older women, Lee and colleagues found that women who averaged 4,400 daily steps had a 41 percent reduction in mortality over sedentary women, and mortality rates progressively improved with more steps until they leveled off at about 7,500 steps.
Later research has shown that sedentary adults start to rack up benefits from movement with just an extra trip around the block — 500 to 1,000 steps.
The findings are heartening, Lee said.
“For people at the lower end [of physical activity], people who do nothing, they see a recommendation to get 10,000 steps and they think, ‘I can’t do that, so I might as well not get started,’” she said. “But with the research, now we can tell them that any little bit is better than doing nothing.” "](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sqhk2ksk2hgrgf7tfdztchls/bafkreia5oa5abfpu6b55c5z5qvj3yaj4grpfj76533sotr5fyq6paolm5y)
