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Margo @margrouse.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I am always delighted to meet someone who has a job where my kneejerk instinct is "oh I could NEVER", or someone who thinks my job is boring. How wonderful to live in a time and place where we can choose our careers!

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Guy Smiley nodding calmly in the foreground while mayhem unfolds behind soundproof glass like that gif of Gina from Brooklyn Nine Nine with her headphones

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

imagine the comedy potential of Kermit trying to pivot to a podcast for interviews because that’s what everyone else is doing, so we are watching onscreen as absolute chaos unfolds which he is trying to keep silent so listeners don’t know Gonzo is trapped in the ceiling

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

the most bonkers thing about this is that if a network was smart they could literally use this as free marketing. have the stars of all your other projects guest as themselves, as if in this world the standard “my movie opens this week” circuit is like Good Morning America, Kimmel and The Muppets

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Margo @margrouse.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I'm so glad DBF is no longer Labor Day weekend, because I cannot IMAGINE trying to be outside all day in this heat.

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Margo @margrouse.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Me, last year, trying to replace my 2003 Element. I ended up with the 2025 CRV LX, but I'm not thrilled I don't have a CD player, Aux jack, or way to play music off a device too old for CarPlay.

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Margo @margrouse.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

It's interesting to compare to another dammed-river-valley lake I've been in regularly - Smith Lake in Alabama - because they DON'T have such a high number of drownings.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 02/09/2026

“‘Ida is precisely the day we stopped primarily worrying about coastal flooding and started worrying about stormwater,’ said Rohit Aggarwala, the city’s former chief climate officer and environmental protection commissioner.”

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5 Years After Ida, NYC Is Still Struggling To Deal With Extreme Rain and Deadly Flooding

Heavy rain and flooding is expected to become more common and intense in the city due to climate change.

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Margo @margrouse.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

@clairewillett.bsky.social Hi Claire! What Bible translation do you like that actually has good sidebars on the history/translation of stuff?

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I genuinely wonder if the weird right wing insistence on her neutrality had to do with the fact that she performed hyperfemininity. They saw her makeup and hair and tight clothes and that excused her clearly progressive politics. I also wonder if Dolly knew exactly that would happen.

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Margo @margrouse.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

No, Julie, this is how I found out 😭😭😭😭

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Margo @margrouse.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Are they Amazon exclusives? I can't find evidence of them on Libby.

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Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

critical to remember that for a lot of dolly's adult life she was a punchline - the reverence is recent. nevertheless she persisted etc

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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I think that Dolly Parton was, for a lot of people, an ambassador of the "good" values people think of about the South: kindness, hospitality, can-do spirit, sharp and witty and down to earth. I think for a segment of people, too, she was theantithesis of a lot of noxious masculine country stuff.

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 25/08/2026

It says a lot that the many agnostic/non-believers in my life today are hoping that there’s something after death to reward someone for the life they lived

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nicole froio @nicolefroio.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

But the coolest thing about "9 to 5" is actually its utopian imagination: the flexi-job implementation, the construction of a daycare center for working women, and the installation of equal pay. All feasible solutions that Dolly, Lily Tomlin & Jane Fonda dared us to dream about.

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I recommend to you this podcast series about Dolly Parton by Jad Abumrad (creator of Radio Lab). You may ask: how did a MacArthur Award winning pub radio guy meet Dolly? Because she personally funded his father's vaccine research, that's how. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/dol...

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Dolly Parton's America : Episodes | WNYC Studios | Podcasts

The story of a legend at the crossroads of America’s culture wars.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 23/08/2026

We actually know what moderating Trump looks like, because there were people who tried to do that in his first term, and while I don't thank those assholes, we know that the thing Trump did when he got a second bite of the apple was get rid of those losers.

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Margo @margrouse.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Even if they just taught the KJV and left out all the translation history (which would still be irresponsible) it would almost certainly still change minds

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Margo @margrouse.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Similar heat advisory over here in ATL. I thought it wasn't possible for feels like temps to get this high????

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Margo @margrouse.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

If Alabama hasn't had enough people agree to amend their clusterfuck of a Constitution yet, I think it'll take longer than 20 more years to get the US Constitution done. (Born and raised in Alabama, here)

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Margo @margrouse.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Access to healthcare has also come a long way since even the 2010s!

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Margo @margrouse.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Yup. I felt like I was extra super stinky for that whole week. Also, remember to drink as much water as you can, even though it tastes yucky. I am convinced it was my lack of hydration during my covid bout that caused my kidney stones a month later.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 30/07/2026

Great article, and also fuck this shit. Imagine thinking that "sure, one option to upending your life to take a test we could not administer is that you should just take the bar exam in February" is a remotely reasonable remedy.

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Margo @margrouse.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

With the hospital consolidation under private equity, too, lots of hospitals have changed names!

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Margo @margrouse.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Yep, Adderall is the same

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 26/07/2026

Also, a lot of people are also saying in response to this that it includes within 100 miles of international airports, and the language of the statute authorizing the 100 mile zone clearly excludes international airports.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 26/07/2026

You always have the right to remain silent. If an officer tells you anywhere other than the point of entry that you should give them your device password, you can just say "I invoke my right to remain silent." You don't have to give them anything.

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Margo @margrouse.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Had a very similar experience with what sounded like an AI chatbot trying to imitate Indian English yesterday. Extremely unsettling.

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Margo @margrouse.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

And sometimes you will still have to double-check—mine filled my 90-day with the Bad Kind this time, because they only had 80 of the Good Kind. (I said "no I want the good kind, void the 10 as long as state law will let me fill again at 78 instead of 88" and they did!)

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Margo @margrouse.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

In a live-in situation where your food, gas, and car insurance are covered, I can see $17/hour being worth it.

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Margo @margrouse.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I thought those kinds of fees were illegal now???

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The labor librarian @laborlibrarian.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I am yet again getting on my soapbox to tell y’all about how my previous job (public library) received a grant once to keep branches in some neighborhoods open until midnight on Fri and Sat. The neighborhoods were picked specifically because of higher crime rates and lack of support services (1/ )

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Margo @margrouse.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

My cousin who works for the diocese is EXTREMELY salty they are "impugning the good name of St. Pius X" lolol

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Margo @margrouse.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Grain of salt because I am not great at the theology, but it's only sin if it is KNOWING and INTENTIONAL. So if you genuinely didn't know it wasn't licit, and stop when you find out it's invalid, and take steps to rectify it, you're good.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

it matters to have a pope whose official position is "nope actually your virulent antisemitism is a cancer that must be immediately sliced out to save the rest of the body and I simply don't care who that pisses off" that's not just about these guys. that's a warning to everybody else

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Margo @margrouse.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

And it DEFINITELY isn't what happened in '88!

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

but instead, not only was there a big public announcement which scoops up 300,000 people instead of 6 people, it was framed as a warning to the rest of the church not to fraternize with these people. that's a shot across the bow to scare potential SSPX sympathizers and other right-wing Catholics

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Margo @margrouse.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

So is xfinity having a national outage or what?

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Margo @margrouse.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Somebody on IG was pointing out the LHC is due a long downtime this summer, also. (Because a solid quarter of the theories hinge on the LHC knocking us wonky.)

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-us-o...

I squatted in a seat much better than the one I’d paid for and directly across the court from the Rolex suite. After 20 or minutes or so, the stands were still nearly empty. Soon the start time was moved to 2:30 and reports were rolling in online that the security lines had swelled while irate ticket holders remained stuck outside. It quickly became obvious that entry hadn’t just slowed—it had stopped almost entirely, even as the new start time approached. This was obviously strategic: Trump was expected to be back out on the balcony for the National Anthem and an emptier stadium would dull the potential negative reaction that USTA had anticipated. 5,000 people couldn’t be nearly as loud as the full capacity of nearly 24k.

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Margo @margrouse.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I need actual lawyers to chime in on the Hot Girls Read trademark drama because I do NOT have enough context but it seems even messier than the Patagonia v. Pattie Gonia mess.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 30/05/2026

Evan as a person who lives on the west coast, I agree. 7pm games are too late. One of the best things about moving west was how all the east coast games are at 4pm.

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alex roberts @lexlanham.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

it's true that a few of the uses shown (whether by pattie or others) plays on patagonia's registered logos. the brand could be entitled to a narrow injunction prohibiting those kinds of uses. i just don't think a broader one covering the name w/ merch is necessary.

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Short form: The second one is in the business of selling clothes, has used the name for years, and plans to keep doing so. The third one picked their name to reference the second, and has applied for a trademark registration to sell clothes. This is a bog-standard dispute over commercial activity.

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Dan Izzo @izzos.net · 29/05/2026

Saying "Patagonia is the name of a region, can Chile or Argentina sue Patagonia like they're suing Pattie Gonia" might sound like some clever gotcha... In reality it's just another way of saying "I am way over my skis and commenting on something I don't understand anything about"

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Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

To be really clear, Patagonia did not sue to stop Pattie Gonia, the drag queen, from using the stage name. Patagonia sued Pattie Gonia Productions to stop them from trademarking & selling Pattie Gonia apparel in competition - seeking damages of $1. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Complaint (Attorney Civil Case Opening) – #1 in Patagonia, Inc. v. Entrepreneur Enterprises, Inc. (C.D. Cal., 2:26-cv-00586) – CourtListener.com

COMPLAINT Receipt No: ACACDC-41318159 - Fee: $405, filed by Plaintiff Patagonia, Inc.. (Attorney Gregory S Gilchrist added to party Patagonia, Inc.(pty:pla))(Gilchrist, Gregory) (Entered: 01/21/2026)

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