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Merrilee Proffitt @merrileeiam.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
I'm excited to share that we've made a collection of historic Supreme Court Records and Briefs available via @archive.org I've written a blog post where I go into detail about the importance of this collection. blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u...
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U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs: The Arguments That Shaped America, Now Freely Available | Internet Archive Blogs
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Lynda Pendent Clause @lyndapendentclause.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
My dog just did a little dance
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Lynda Pendent Clause @lyndapendentclause.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
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Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out (Video)
YouTube video by franzferdinandVEVO
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing
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Com-👻Boo!👻-ter Crimes 🦇☠️💾✨️ @esquiring.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Donnie, from Donnie Darko, with a speech bubble.
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mechanical twerk @ruhee.ca · 08/02/2026
No Kings includes Draft Kings
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Lynda Pendent Clause @lyndapendentclause.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Stop releasing all the episodes at once (this is a pop culture post, and a politics post)
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 04/02/2026
"rich dipshit owner doesn't understand the industry he's bought into and clumsily destroys what made it good" feels less like a narrative unique to the washington post and more like the music that's been playing in the background of all our lives for at least 40 years
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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Liberal white men love this because they get to be misogynistic while pretending they're being anti-racist
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San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 28/01/2026
ICE agents would be disqualified from working in California law enforcement and inside the public school system under a new bill introduced in the Legislature this week.
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California bill would ban ICE agents from jobs in teaching and policing
ICE agents would be disqualified from working in California law enforcement and inside the public school system under a new bill introduced in the Legislature this week.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I don’t think we should make concessions to the Masked Murderers Guild of America. I don’t think we should compromise so the Masked Murderers Guild of America stops using kidnapped kids from schools as bait. I thought this was already illegal. The Masked Murderers Guild of America should not exist.
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work. I don’t let bullies win. Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.
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LynxCoachReeve @lynxcoachreeve.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
This my city. #ICEOUT
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
This is the way, make “ok, abolish only ICE” the moderate position.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.
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Lynda Pendent Clause @lyndapendentclause.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
But we are, Blanche, we are in this timeline
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 07/01/2026
"abolish ice" doesn't seem so extreme anymore, does it, you preposterous, normalizing fucks
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 03/01/2026
You know, it’s plausible that this was done without a plan for what comes after because the only real goal was to get video of US troops looking cool arresting Marudo so it can be posted Online. It seems to be the only thing that matters to this administration.
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Lynda Pendent Clause @lyndapendentclause.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Did someone get an intern to digitize a bunch of mid-20th-century CIA documents about energy security and then ask a generative AI bot to make this plan
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Lynda Pendent Clause @lyndapendentclause.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
“Does [language with more agile wordbuilding than English] have a word for it when the person who is kidnapped is a world leader?”
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 30/12/2025
"We’re a tech-forward, future-oriented company that doesn’t shy away from the promise of new innovation—even if that innovation is a Giant Plagiarism Machine™ that copy-pastes existing innovation into fake sentient sentences." #McSweeneysTop25of2025
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A Company Reminder for Everyone to Talk Nicely About the Giant Plagiarism Machine
Our 12th most-read article of 2025. - - -Hey team. It’s your CEO. I know your time is valuable, so I’ll cut right to the chase: It’s come to my at...
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Lynda Pendent Clause @lyndapendentclause.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
If there is snow below you and sun above you, you want sunglasses more than you ever have in your life
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Sandra Aamodt @sandra-aamodt.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Acorn woodpecker female taking care of an itch, shot from my deck in California #BirdOfTheDay #ScratchersAndPruners #birds
Black woodpecker standing on a tree trunk with her beak tucked under her wing, against a blurred tan background. The top of her head is red, and the face below her eye is white, with a black stripe across her forehead in between.
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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 13/12/2025
This game has more ties than a Men's Wearhouse
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Chris Polansky @chrispolansky.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Stonington Lobster Trap Tree!
A “tree” made of lobster traps lit up at duskA “tree” made of lobster traps lit up at nightLooking up at the inside of a lit-up “tree” made of lobster trapsA “tree” made of lobster traps lit up at dusk
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Lynda Pendent Clause @lyndapendentclause.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
It looks like the gmail app stopped force-sorting-by-their-perception-of-relevance, but I keep trying to switch to “most recent” whenever I look at promotions tab anyway
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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
“The Daily Nebraskan found in the leaked spreadsheet that every program eliminated appeared to be profitable…every program that the chancellor proposed eliminating generated more money from tuition dollars than the department costs to run”
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Biodiversity Pics @biodiversitypix.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
🕷 Die Arachniden: . Nürnberg: In der C. H. Zeh'schen Buchhandlung, 1831-1848.. [Source]
Detailed historical illustration of a tarantula (Mygale erichsonii) from "Die Arachniden" (1831-1848). The image shows a large, hairy spider with a dark brown to black body and distinctive orange-brown hairs on its abdomen. The tarantula has eight long, segmented legs with thick bristles and lighter joints. Several smaller scientific sketches accompany the main figure, including close-ups of body parts and an egg sac with visible eggs. The drawing highlights anatomical details such as the spider’s eyes, leg segmentation, and hair texture in a naturalistic style typical of 19th-century arachnid studies.
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Lynda Pendent Clause @lyndapendentclause.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Brentford kits to deliver packages if not goals
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
NEWS: Libraries WIN in federal court! A judge in RI issued a permanent injunction stopping the Administration from dismantling the Institute of Museum & Library Services and nullifying all actions taken to do so. Read the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (More to come from ALA)
LIBRARIES WIN IN COURT. Federal court issues permanent injunction in Rhode Island V. Trump, stops the dismantling of the Institute of Museum and Library Services.The court ruled that all actions taken by the Administration to dismantle IMLS are nullified. This injunction takes immediate nationwide effect: all grants, in every state and territory. The Administration is stopped from taking these actions again in the future. Show up for our libraries, American Library Association.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 30/10/2025
📣 I am hiring a postdoc! aial.ie/hiring/postd... applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome pls share with your networks
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Postdoctoral Researcher on GenAI in Public Service
Post Title: Post-Doctoral Researcher, generative AI in public services Post Duration: 24 months Salary Scale: Post-Doctoral Researcher, PD2 Point 1 - 4 (54,850 - 59,654) Location: AI Accountability La...
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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
two characters one actor has played: thread
Pennywise and Frank-N-Furter played by Tim Curry.
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Lynda Pendent Clause @lyndapendentclause.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Text reads “pining for the fjords” 
Using the Mamdani sign generator
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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
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all Verizon?
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Hennepin County Library • 2h • ©
Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today... to introduce a limited-edition Prince library card! Sign up for your first card, or replace your existing one, while supplies last. Learn more at www.hclib.org/prince or visit any of our 41 locations.
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
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Rosalind Franklin and the damage of gender harassment
Spurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changed—and what hasn’t
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 06/11/2025
"Call me old-fashioned, but I prefer a city where everyday residents have to work three jobs and are under constant threat of eviction. Anything short of an excruciating existence for the working class just doesn’t cut it for me."
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If New York City Is No Longer Going to Be an Unaffordable Police State Run by Crooks, I’m Taking My Hard-Earned Sex-Pest Dollars Elsewhere
“New York millionaires are plotting their exit from the city after the election of Zohran Mamdani, the socialist who plans to increase the taxes of...
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JenniferJames100 @femmenoire.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
I love that Mamdani is what the right claimed Obama was: A Muslim socialist born in Africa. The right practically manifested Mamdani into existence.
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April Glick Pulito @aprilglick.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
TRANSITION CO-CHAIR LINA KHAN!?!?!??!
A NEW ERA for NEW YORK CITY

TRANSITION CO-CHAIR
Lina Khan
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Cecilia Tan @ceciliatan.com · 05/11/2025
If you missed Zohran’s speech live, this is the link to the whole thing from PBS Newshour on YT: www.youtube.com/live/NnM_RgL... #zohranmamdani #nyc
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WATCH LIVE: Zohran Mamdani addresses supporters after winning 2025 NYC mayoral race
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
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Lynda Pendent Clause @lyndapendentclause.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Why does the great pop culture reference Halloween costume always suggest itself right after Halloween (aloof wife)
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 04/11/2025
thank you for the outpouring of support! those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.
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Donate to Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover, organized by Lexi McMenamin
More than half the team at Teen Vogue was laid off this week by our parent co… Lexi McMenamin needs your support for Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover
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404 Media @404media.co · 04/11/2025
When you book a flight through major travel sites, a data broker owned by U.S. airlines will sell details about your flight—your name, credit card used, and where you’re flying to the government. We found out how to opt-out of ARC selling your travel data. A guide: www.404media.co/how-to-opt-o...
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How to Opt-Out of Airlines Selling Your Travel Data to the Government
The Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC), owned by major U.S. airlines, collects billions of ticketing records and sells them to the government to be searched without a warrant. I managed to opt-out…
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born miserable @bornmiserable.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
BREAKING: Highlights Magazine Caves Into Trump Administration’s Demands, Kills Gallant Off and Only Keeps Goofus
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 03/11/2025
seems bad! www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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Here is where the bubble dynamics get complicated. Tech firms don’t want to formally take on debt—that is, directly ask investors for loans—because debt looks bad on their balance sheets and could reduce shareholder returns. To get around this, some are partnering with private-equity titans to do some sophisticated financial engineering, Paul Kedrosky, an investor and a financial consultant, told us. These private-equity firms put up or raise the money to build a data center, which a tech company will repay through rent. Data-center leases from, say, Meta can then be repackaged into a financial instrument that people can buy and sell—a bond, in essence. Meta recently did just this: Blue Owl Capital raised money for a massive Meta data center in Louisiana by, in essence, issuing bonds backed by Meta’s rent. And multiple data-center leases can be combined into a security and sorted into what are called “tranches” based on their risk of default. Data centers represent an $800 billion market for private-equity firms through 2028 alone. (Meta has said of its arrangement with Blue Owl that the “innovative partnership was designed to support the speed and flexibility required for Meta’s data center projects.”)

In this way, the data-center financing ends up being a real-estate deal as much as an AI deal. If this sounds complicated, it’s supposed to: The complexity, investment structure, and repackaging make exactly what is going on hard to parse. And if the dynamics also sound familiar, it’s because not two decades ago, the Great Recession was precipitated by banks packaging risky mortgages into tranches of securities that were falsely marketed as high-quality. By 2008, the house of cards had collapsed.

Data-center build-outs aren’t the same as subprime mortgages. Still, there is plenty of precarity baked into these investments. Data centers deteriorate rapidly, unlike the more durable infrastructure of canals, railroads, or even fiber-…
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 03/11/2025
FUUUUUUUUUUCKKKKKKK THIIISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
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