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Alastair Millar @skriptorium.info · 23h

Mood.

A red banner, bearing the words:
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WE DO THIS
NOT BECAUSE
IT IS EASY
BUT BECAUSE
WE THOUGHT
IT WOULD BE EASY
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Ken Fang -- Very Asian @fangsbites.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The biggest takeaway is that people thought he was already dead.

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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 05/10/2026

Gallup Party ID 🟦 Democrat 50% 🟥 Republican 39% It's not just that Gallup is showing is a record D+11 party ID environment. It's the trend. Look at where party ID was in Q4 2024. This represent a net +15 swing towards Democrats in less than 2 years.

Gallup Party ID charts since 2024 Q4, showing a net +15 swing towards Dems.

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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago

I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861

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Doug Jones @dougjones.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A sitting president doesn’t go to a safe state a month before an election. Alabama is in play, folks.

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Bart van Zwieten @bvzw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This striking pre-Columbian greenstone masterwork depicts an Olmec shaman in mid-transformation, adopting the powerful facial features of a sacred were-jaguar. Originating from archaeological sites in the Gulf Coast region of Veracruz state, it was crafted between 900 BCE and 600 BCE.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A test photo of PATRICK STEWART wearing a wig for the role of Captain Jean-Luc Picard. (They wisely abandoned the idea) STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION (1987-94) Debuted 39yrs ago today.

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 27/09/2026

SUPER excited for this, after a year of chasing the angle, 30 minutes of waddling around up and down a parking garage, and over 6 hours of editing: A murder of crows flies towards the camera, in front of the full Moon, set to Blind Guardian's "Nightfall" and the sound of the crows themselves. 🪶 🐦‍⬛

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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So, Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean. The whole project cost the artist $860,000. Since 2020, the boat has saved more than 3,800 people. londondaily.com/banksy-funds...

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Banksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean - London Daily

Exclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities

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Christopher Reader @xopherx.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Republicans are making sure that the US is left behind while the rest of the world surges ahead.

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Generic Ballot polling trend among Independent voters by Marist (A) 🔵 2018: Democrats +6 🔴 2022: Republicans +12 🔵 2026: Democrats +25

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 24/09/2026

lol lol lol lol lol lol lol

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

23 September 1938 | A German Jewish girl, Mirjam Helene Friedmann, was born in Berlin. The family fled to Prague in 1938. In 1941, Mirjam was deported to Litzmannstadt ghetto & in August 1944 to #Auschwitz. She was murdered in a gas chamber. --- Children at Auschwitz: youtu.be/aYKx_zpLSqA

A vintage black and white photo showing a smiling girl in a hooded coat and white shoes standing next to a plush teddy bear.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

They were called RECORD STORES - and back in the day you could meet your favourite Artist and they’d sign your album or single. PRINCE at Sam Goody - NYC in 1988

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

An interesting point here is that the trend is just linearly down. He hasn't hit bottom yet. He could be hovering closer to 25% than 30% by the midterms.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

One of the best job applications ever written came from the hands of Robert Pirosh in 1934. MGM loved it, took him on and he went on to became an Oscar-winning screenwriter.

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Today is the 847th anniversary of the death of Hildegard of Bingen: saint, abbess, composer, writer, and haver of visions—including one where she saw the Gruffalo appearing from the Bride of Christ’s, um... well

Bride of Christ in Hildegard of Bingen's Scivias, Book III. Image shows a woman in medieval dress. A grotesque beast with red eyes, pointed ears, and large teeth is emerging from between her legs

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 15/09/2026

you can legally smoke a shod horse

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

National Jewish Survey, Sep 1, 2026 Generic congressional ballot: 67% D, 26% R Approvals JD Vance: -68 MAGA: -59 Donald Trump: -53 ICE: -50 Benjamin Netanyahu: -40 Marco Rubio: -33 "Israeli policy in Gaza": -30 Barack Obama +32 jewishvoters.org/wp-content/u...

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Dan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

MAGAs are MAGAs *because* they're assholes. It has little to do with politics. They just want to be part of the Asshole-American Community.

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Gavin Werbeloff @travelbuddha.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

We’re at the end of ‘security through obscurity’ because these AI bots will seek out and exploit every possible weakness they can find in every system and network they can access anywhere. The epitaph of AI will be:

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Ian Malcolm's Iconic Jurassic Park Quote

ALT: Ian Malcolm's Iconic Jurassic Park Quote

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Simon Knott @simonknott.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Inside the brilliant Culture House, Sunderland, which opened this morning. Four floors of libraries, galleries, arts and science labs, screens, performance spaces, children's discovery spaces and the archive centre, not to mention cafés and a sky garden!

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The Hobbit (1937) — binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe tolkienlibrary.com/press/983-bo...

Front and back cover and spine of an addition of The Hobbit bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. I'm black leather embossed and printed on the front Smog on his cord and red and gold and on the back Bilbo with a torch in one hand and the Arkenstone in the other

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Judy Weston @westonjk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The University of Washington’s “ivy building” showing its in-between season, the push-pull from summer’s green to autumn’s crimson. Beautiful. 🍃🍂🏫

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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 10/09/2024

Detail of The Madonna and Saints implore the Holy Trinity for the Poor Souls in Purgatory by an unknown Lombard (?) painter, 1675–1700, oil on canvas, Chiesa Santa Maria Assunta, Condino (Trentino). Tag your friends! #earlymodern

Detail of altarpiece showing souls in the cleansing fires of Purgatory (above) and, in a giant monstrous mouth below, souls suffering the torments of hell

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Officially obsessed with the former home of the jazz musician Dave Brubeck.

A view of Dave Brubeck's amazing house through the woods

Dave Brubeck's old living room, with its ridiculous mahoosive windows, stone walls and a sofa for all of his seventeen imaginary wives.

A moon door in the garden of Dave Brubeck's house which is clearly an interdimensional portal

The wonderful extravagant stone staircase at Dave Brubeck's house, and the piano where he probably wrote my favourite album of his, 'Jazz Impressions Of Japan'.

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DG @1dgrn.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Oh come on…..

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

No one’s calling it Lake America. “Lake America” is what you name a summer camp for soft children who say, “Don’t you know who my father is?” after a t-ball stand strikes them out

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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Antique clockwork drinking bear automaton made in Paris around 1910 by Roullet & Decamps, stripped of its fur due to a severe moth larvae infestation. IG: @thehouseofautomata

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

ING: Real disposable income has effectively flatlined for well over a year in level terms and is well below the pre-pandemic trend. 🇺🇸 (via SoberLook)

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Art Deco Finland: The Helsinki Central Railway Station, built 1919.

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Toss @stevenspoints.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing

Instagram post from the official Muppets account: Few humans have earned the title of honorary Muppet more than the legendary Tim Curry. As a performer he was unparalleled - witty, charming, unnerving, and deeply funny. We will always consider it one of our greatest treasures to have been part of Long John Silver’s crew. Thank you for everything, Tim.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Sometimes I’ll open threads and immediately be hit with truths I never would expect to find there.

A Threads post by somebody called Georgie Porgie and it says no browse tomorrow for anybody tits at half mast for Dolly

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Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Edward Hopper (American, 1882-1967) The Dory, 1929 Opaque watercolor over graphite on paper, 35.24 x 50.96 cm. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, US

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Hollywood Steve Huey @hollywoodsteve.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton decided to cover "Stairway to Heaven" as a gospel song, and asked Robert Plant for permission to write a new verse for it, and Robert Plant basically said "of course you can, you're Dolly Parton" youtu.be/YhTvxVxXJLQ

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Dolly Parton - Stairway to Heaven (Audio)

YouTube video by Dolly Parton

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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Thank you. Had a typo- here it is again:

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Chris Paxton @cpaxton.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Incredible stuff

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Sam Biddle @sambiddle.com · 23/08/2026

The death of folk graphic design in favor of AI slop across our country's delis is leading to some incredibly Lovecraftian food horrors

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 21/08/2026

This is the funniest shit. Florida allows religious exemptions for vaccines. Catholic schools in Florida: we require vaccines. Florida's attorney general, who is Catholic, is threatening to pull vouchers if they don't allow for religious exemptions The Bishops: separation of church & state

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Catholic bishops remind attorney general about separation of church and state

“The government may not decide that Church teaching is insufficiently religious,” wrote the Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops.

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SlenderSherbet @slendersherbet.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

"I AM VENGEANCE! I AM THE NIGHT! I AM BATMAN! I'M IN THE SHED AGAIN SANDRA"

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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Wait, so everyone is twelve theory already had a name?

I think it's really funny that Japanese also has a word for 'edgelord', but theirs translates to 'eighth-grader'.

User holmoria replies,

It's not even 'eighth-grader" it's even funnier. chunibyo is eighth- grade syndrome. like explicitly a diagnosis. I diagnose you with edgelord

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The Handsome Hobo🇨🇦 @thehobo.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I still owe them Money from 1984

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 17/08/2026

Preserved remains of ancient Chinese pastries from Tang Dynasty (mid-eighth century CE) Xinjiang. Probably made of wheat flour and originally part of non-Chinese cuisine imported from the west, they help tell the story of interconnections along the Silk Roads 1/2 🏺 #Archaeology

Six dried and conserved baked goods of various shapes such as knotted pastry and leaf shapes, decorated with elaborate patterns.

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