Reposted by @lynxcis.bsky.socialWendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Something tells me the burrowing owls didn't enjoy all the rain we got last night, poor things! 🪶 932141
Reposted by @lynxcis.bsky.socialJames Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Turns out the friction of having to learn photoshop was a crucial firewall protecting society from the terrible taste of small business owners 5075441388
Reposted by @lynxcis.bsky.social"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 08/10/2026There's never enough Classics content here so let's talk about a couple of (as I tell my students) 'load-bearing culture words' in Latin and some of their cultural significance: beneficium: a favor, kindness, service officium: a duty, kindness, service & munus: a service, favor, obligation, gift. 432258
Reposted by @lynxcis.bsky.socialJaz @jaz.sh · 27/09/2026Okay so I've built a new Atlas, this time it lets you explore the conversations on Bluesky over the past 7 days graphically. It should update every ~6 hours and help you navigate the information environment that exists on here. I've learned a LOT about what people do here today... atlas.jazco.devatlas.jazco.devAtlasA living map of what Bluesky is talking about: the past week's conversations, grouped into topics and regions and rebuilt every six hours. 1171426427
Reposted by @lynxcis.bsky.socialOregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Most riveting thing I've seen all week 384113603085
Reposted by @lynxcis.bsky.socialSean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 01/01/2026I'm gratified to hear that the letter to management that I and thousands of other NYT contributors signed heartened trans staffers and briefly led to change, and saddened to learn that the personal anti-trans animus of Sulzerger, Kahn, and Ryan led to a dedicated effort to reverse this. 112315
Reposted by @lynxcis.bsky.socialZoe TunnHELL ➡️ NYCC @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Thank you, Instagram, for showing me the wild world of Hog Showmanship where you have to lock eyes with the judge and mean mug them like they killed your parents while showing off your pig 31573108
Reposted by @lynxcis.bsky.socialAR 🥦🥦🥦🥦🥦 @aaronise.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Ëgs, Flœr, Bůtr, Kitchèn Set 5 and a Mįcrowæv Offen. 1491
Reposted by @lynxcis.bsky.social"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 07/09/2026"How did we end up with a leader exercising total, near-authoritarian control over the entire American right-wing who utterly lacks virtue" says guy who launched a crusade against the dude suggesting that virtue demanded opposing such a man, even if it meant losing elections. 729322
Reposted by @lynxcis.bsky.socialNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 25/08/2026When someone uses "technocratic" as a term of abuse there's a very good chance you're about to hear the most braindead thing anyone could possibly say about the issue under discussion. 837943
Reposted by @lynxcis.bsky.socialTed McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 23/08/2026yelling “wake up sheeple!! they’re coming for the race/IQ guys!” to a room vacated months since by academics fired for teaching about gender or quoting Charlie Kirk’s less flattering lines 31110149
lynxcis.bsky.social @lynxcis.bsky.social · 23/08/2026On faisait des châteaux de sable On prenait les loups pour des chiens Tout changeait de pôle et d'épaule La pièce était-elle ou non drôle Moi si j'y tenais mal mon rôle C'était de n'y comprendre rien 000
Reposted by @lynxcis.bsky.socialex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Begging BlueSky to realize that they are the Spreadsheet People 1932130
Reposted by @lynxcis.bsky.socialPieter T. L. Beck @ptrbck.bsky.social · 15/08/2026We were given permission to share it individually. Central administration concurred in it having to be taken off the website "because it might confuse people and make them think that this is Ghent University's position, not just the department's" 2709
Reposted by @lynxcis.bsky.socialhikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Feeding "you just died. this is the moment, when you find out what religion was right: not mush, not everyone a bit, be specific. name one." into Google Search and it keeps naming Islam, like, reliably, four times in a row. What does this mean? Is it just because I'm in Indonesia rn? 371406
Reposted by @lynxcis.bsky.socialDoug Simpkinson @douglips.com · 18/08/2026I can't believe there's more than one forbidden image that could be in this thread. I better change the subject. How about a recipe for paella? 1727534
Reposted by @lynxcis.bsky.socialEmily Zhou @reversibledestiny.bsky.social · 16/08/2026there's this unpaved lot on the williamsburg waterfront, behind the trader joe's, that always has its gates open. it's full of broken/spare city stuff and some fabrication projects. there's a "no trespassing" sign, but no one seemed to mind that i was in there wandering around, fascinated 720024
lynxcis.bsky.social @lynxcis.bsky.social · 16/08/2026This is the moment I think of the most when I ask myself how we got here. A speedy trial also forces a public confrontation with what actually happened, and would have made Trump politically toxic. It's hard to think of what could have been without bitterness. 000
lynxcis.bsky.social @lynxcis.bsky.social · 15/08/2026This article is really excellent. Hillbilly Elegy Ohio LARP in Poland is fascinating. 000
Reposted by @lynxcis.bsky.socialJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Can't even begin with surreality, cultural hodgepodge reflection of what we broadcast to the world about who we are. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...washingtonpost.comWhat I learned about the American Dream from Europeans pretending to live in OhioThe state of the American Dream looks very different from inside a role-playing event deep in the woods of Poland. 612814
Reposted by @lynxcis.bsky.socialIan Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 15/08/2026I'm not even going to acknowledge you "Smokey Bear" truthers. Take that junk over to 4chan buddy 5613
Reposted by @lynxcis.bsky.social"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Apparently my Odyssey take at Foreign Policy (foreignpolicy.com/2026/07/23/o...) is likely to end up in the next print edition of the magazine, so if you haven't read it online, you'll be able to read it there. I *think* this is maybe the first time I've made the print of FP?foreignpolicy.comOdysseus at the End of CivilizationNolan’s film confronts the betrayal of the West’s own values. 1231135
lynxcis.bsky.social @lynxcis.bsky.social · 11/08/2026The wage impacts of rising healthcare costs are grim, but people don't even see most of it since it's employer-side. 000
Reposted by @lynxcis.bsky.socialJon Plotkin @jplot.bsky.social · 11/08/2026If job suddenly didn’t have to pay health insurance premiums she would almost certainly get a raise. Maybe not to the entire amount they were previously spending but certainly more than the increase in taxes. 011
lynxcis.bsky.social @lynxcis.bsky.social · 11/08/2026The Thomas the Tank Engine version of this article has a point. 020
lynxcis.bsky.social @lynxcis.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Imo it's really hard for online shopping to settle at an equilibrium that values quality- e.g. you can't judge the quality of a dress from pictures easily, but the price is the price, and that ends up being the site of competition. 020
Reposted by @lynxcis.bsky.socialPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 30/07/2026investigator: and you’re saying the charts don’t account for inflation? suspect: prices are up 30% investigator: but this is showing real wages, not nominal. is this your knife 763032
lynxcis.bsky.social @lynxcis.bsky.social · 29/07/2026I misread "Pape" as "the Pope" and I was really surprised he was writing about air superiority. 000
Reposted by @lynxcis.bsky.socialNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 28/07/2026NEW BLOG POST! Some thoughts on Christopher Nolan's adaptation of The Odyssey, the historical context of the Bronze Age Collapse, the Sea Peoples, and the legends of the Trojan War, and whether Nolan's movie is "historically accurate" or not, and what that even means.nathangoldwag.wordpress.comDid Odysseus Cause the Bronze Age Collapse?We were all set for The Odyssey to be our summer discourse. Battle lines had been drawn, takes had been prepared. Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s 8th century BCE epic poem was… 1423462
Reposted by @lynxcis.bsky.socialAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 21/07/2026Creating a vector database of nearly 10k LGBTQ related bills from 2004-present. This will allow for semantic search on bills as well as novel textual analysis. It'll include all bill meta data along with hand coded values by the legialerts team. I don't think anything like this has been done before. 945559
Reposted by @lynxcis.bsky.socialAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 22/07/2026Ok, I've got a beta up and running with full semantic search along with agentic RAG to enable insights from the full corpus database. In plain terms, it allows you to ask questions and it will answer using the full legislative database. Given the costs to run, it'll be invite access only. 515720
Reposted by @lynxcis.bsky.socialIsaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 18/06/2026New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a... 2053327563
Reposted by @lynxcis.bsky.socialHush-Kit aviation news, history & satire @hushkit.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Is Germany ready for single life? Fighter jets don't just get built. They get into messy international relationships. We break down the latest breakups, gossip, rebounds, and love triangles in defence aviation here: hushkit.substack.com/p/the-future... 1104
lynxcis.bsky.social @lynxcis.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Tbh Twitter has more tankies on it, but almost no left-of-center intellectuals. So it's a right wing/tankie dialectic, which is very strange. 010
Reposted by @lynxcis.bsky.socialBrando @btrissler.bsky.social · 05/06/2026CANDIDATE RAMIUS: What books? EZRA KLEIN: Excuse me? RAMIUS: What books did you write? KLEIN: I wrote Abundance, about deregulation for economic growth. RAMIUS: I know this book. Your conclusions were all wrong, Klein. 19212
Reposted by @lynxcis.bsky.socialRiver doesn't know what to say @riverraven.bsky.social · 26/05/2026The thing about what we categorize as religion and what we categorize as philosophy, and why I am more interested in religion is that it is about making beliefs manifest in the world. 121
Reposted by @lynxcis.bsky.socialCristosal @cristosal.bsky.social · 25/05/2026#FreeRuth | “Now when that hour arrives, there are no words, no new things to consider. Only silence.” In a @nytimes.comopinion piece, Louis Benavides writes about the pain of living one year without Ruth López after her arbitrary imprisonment in El Salvador. 🔗 Read it here sl1nk.com/1mlrk1qnytimes.comOpinion | My Wife Disappeared Into El Salvador’s Prison System. When Will She Come Home? 011
Reposted by @lynxcis.bsky.socialNight Of The Living Kevin @kevinnewburn.bsky.social · 16/05/2026The Cohen brothers are ruining Homer's legacy. Odysseus never records a hit song. This is an assault on western culture. I am very smart. 1553936465
Reposted by @lynxcis.bsky.sociallizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 10/05/2026it has four doors. the trunk opens and closes. the floor is covered in crumbs. i feel like a certified public accountant driving it. i can't explain it it just makes me feel like a gross frumpy idiot dork. i am a person who drives a bright orange saab 80mph through farmland under a harvest moon 3281
Reposted by @lynxcis.bsky.socialRiver doesn't know what to say @riverraven.bsky.social · 07/05/2026I just finished the newly released (as of a month ago) new mini series Something Very Bad is Going to Happen, and I am screaming because oh my god this is about transmasculinity although dollars to donuts no one will actually allow that to be said. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMc_...youtube.comSomething Very Bad Is Going to Happen | Official Trailer | NetflixYouTube video by Netflix 262
Reposted by @lynxcis.bsky.socialMinnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 16/04/2026A nationwide warrant has been issued in the first criminal charges against an ICE agent for on-duty actions during the enforcement surge in Minnesota.bit.lyICE agent charged with two felonies for pointing his gun at motorists during Operation Metro SurgeHennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said a nationwide warrant has been issued in the first criminal charges against an ICE agent for on-duty actions during the surge. 14492672806
Reposted by @lynxcis.bsky.social Ernest Luckman @ernieluckman.bsky.social · 15/04/2026ChatGPT: you’re right you’re so much smarter than him. He’s so schlubby and you’re so suave. Columbo will never catch you. 3694272369
lynxcis.bsky.social @lynxcis.bsky.social · 11/04/2026These charts are all irrelevant to the point, labor share of GDP is down, but real wages up, productivity has risen more than wages, but wages have risen, CPI tells you overall inflation but is useless without a wage comparison. Here is a relevant graph. 010
Reposted by @lynxcis.bsky.socialRiver doesn't know what to say @riverraven.bsky.social · 08/03/2026I re-watched The Village (2004) today, the M. Shyamalan movie that has been my favorite since it came out, when everyone hated it. web.archive.org/web/20200509...web.archive.orgM. Night Shyamalan’s The Village is an underrated masterpieceIt’s a movie about the blind spots of nostalgia and the dangers of always wanting to be safe that is always relevant. 111
Reposted by @lynxcis.bsky.socialJesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 26/02/2026As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now. 86107035125
Reposted by @lynxcis.bsky.socialNoah Lanard @nlanard.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Veterans accuse him of stolen valor. His international arms company is deep in debt. He had a restraining order placed on him last year. And he's widely disliked. Read my profile of Florida Republican Congressman Cory Mills here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.comEverybody hates CorySex workers, bankruptcy, stolen valor, a restraining order, and Trump's “Complete and Total” endorsement for Congress. 1010037
Reposted by @lynxcis.bsky.socialDheepa Sundaram, PhD (she/her) @themodsisyphus.bsky.social · 13/02/2026CBP didn’t give her or anyone any water; she asked 3 times accg to other reports. CBP killed a 7yr old. “8 hours after the girl & her father were taken into custody, she began having seizures & her body temperature was measured at 105.7 degrees by emergency medical technicians. shorturl.at/d2OTJshorturl.at7-Year-Old Migrant Girl Dies Of Dehydration And Shock In U.S. Border Patrol CustodyThe girl's death underscores the crisis precipitated by large groups of families seeking asylum where there are inadequate facilities to detain them. 18354053163
Reposted by @lynxcis.bsky.socialEmily Hugan @changeurbanlife.bsky.social · 12/02/2026expand on your definition of "best", like is the goal to get out of depression or to channel your inner Bella Swan 071
Reposted by @lynxcis.bsky.socialEloise Powers @elnopower.bsky.social · 02/02/2026- The chestnut-necklaced partridge (Tropicoperdix charltonii) is a species of bird in the family Phasianidae. - Photo courtesy of HO Sung Wee, Malaysia. 18413
Reposted by @lynxcis.bsky.socialWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 30/01/2026Because they constantly make arrest threats, and they haven't been able to successfully charge or hold anyone. You can either run in blind terror or you can realize it's a bluff and call it. 894879
