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Mary Beth Williams @mbwilliams.bsky.social · 8h

Should we also include Oct 31 holidays of the Brittonic peoples of Cornwall (Kalan Gwav) and Wales (Calan Gaeaf)?

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Mary Beth Williams @mbwilliams.bsky.social · 10h

Spent a few days in Lyme Regis this summer hunting ammonites this way. They’re everywhere.

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Mary Beth Williams @mbwilliams.bsky.social · 10h

If we’re limiting to just 15th century explorers, there’s Giovanni Caboto, arguably a much more decent human being.

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm thinking a lot today about Chronicle Heritage and what Private Equity did to fire 600 of our talented colleagues. Private Equity is *evil*. www.science.org/content/arti...

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Exclusive: Archaeology megafirm abruptly shuts down

Chronicle Heritage was largest U.S. cultural resources management company

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/10/2026

Up until very recently indeed, airlines were the only businesses that I dealt with regularly that practiced "price discrimination," charging different customers different prices for the same seats.

A 1970s Air Canada ad depicting a man in a brown velour pullover with a large collar sitting in a book-lined study, assembling model Air Canada jets on his desk. His head has been replaced with the blue, metallic head of a 1950s pulp robot and his skintones have been shifted blue to match.

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JunkboxJim @junkboxjim.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#BirdOfTheDay theme is #WingsOpenNotFlying. Sandhill crane colts trying out that flapping thing. Kensington Metro Park, MI

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Mary Beth Williams @mbwilliams.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Good. Get the **** out of my home state.

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Mary Beth Williams @mbwilliams.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A whole new avenue of prosecuting 4th Amendment claims may have just opened up in Texas. I still need to pull up the pleadings to see how the plaintiff's attorney's defeated QI (probably due to the arresting officer admitting the official reason for the stop was pretexual.)

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Mary Beth Williams @mbwilliams.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yes, there are great shows and movies about us as NDNs, but so seldom are our actors cast as generic characters—or allowed to be NDN, but not fetishized. Resident Alien. Last Frontier. Both did a decent job. But almost every Australian show I watch casts Indigenous actors as main characters.

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Mary Beth Williams @mbwilliams.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Bingeing the Australia "Ghosts" and yes, Aussies haven't fully addressed their colonial crimes, but seeing an Indigenous woman cast in an everyday, non-stereotyped role that could be played by any race/ethnicity is heartening—and yet still so rare on US television...

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Mary Beth Williams @mbwilliams.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It’s on my GenZ daughter and my list for this week (maybe tonight.) But we were big fans of Never Have I Ever, so familiar with Maitreyi Ramakrishnan’s talent.

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Mary Beth Williams @mbwilliams.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’d represent, but I’m hyperfocusing on determining the number of fishing vessels Dartmouth sent to Newfoundland and Maine in the 1620s while cooking a Moroccan lamb and chickpea soup. I’ll be over when my vyvanse kicks in…

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Mary Beth Williams @mbwilliams.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Yup. I didn't go all the way to my first post on this subject, but 20 months ago, I was already a broken record: bsky.app/profile/mbwi...

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Mary Beth Williams @mbwilliams.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’m currently on another yet deep dive on Charles I, and I can’t help but draw parallels with our current Mad King. Except I actually feel some sympathy for Chuck the Headless, scads more than the orange tyrant would ever deserve.

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Mary Beth Williams @mbwilliams.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

IIRC, there was an event a few months back where he was banned for a short period for something he wrote, and he decided it wasn’t worth the hassle. (I hope I’m remembering this correctly.) I didn’t really blame him at the time, but knew that I would sorely miss him.

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Mary Beth Williams @mbwilliams.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I hope the gods have found an appropriate means of causing perpetual suffering for John Marshall.

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Milton Tan @mtanichthys.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

As someone who studies fish diversification, intrigued that apparently swedish fish have diversified

A picture of a candy shelf with various kinds of swedish fish

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AltStateGov @altstategov.altgov.info · 20/09/2026

This thread contains voting & election information for all 50 states and D.C. Links lead to the state's main elections web page and where and/or how to vote. Please take time to ensure you are registered to vote and know how and where you can vote.

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Mary Beth Williams @mbwilliams.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I woke up to Canada being invaded by the 19th century Mexican navy.

Picture of a Mexican navy 3 masted dialing ship.

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/nəˈθænjəl/ @nathanielbdemiller.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Someone using the runaway truck ramp on I-70

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Mary Beth Williams @mbwilliams.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The fish are in the Creek. The bears too.

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Banned: Macklemore's powerful statement deserves reading. www.instagram.com/p/DdRdsy0m2H...

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

UPDATE: DOJ decided to play fast and loose this morning. Without even filing a notice of appeal in the DSCC case, SG Sauer made arguments to SCOTUS about the merits of the DSCC case injunction in a "supplemental brief" in the stay application pending in the California/LWV cases out of Mass.

Late last night, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia entered a preliminary injunction in three consolidated cases, DSCC v. Trump, No.
26-cv-1114 (D.D.C.); League of United Latin American Citizens v. Trump, No. 26-cv-1132 (D.D.C), and NAACP v. Trump, No. 26-cv-1151 (D.D.C.). See DSCC D. Ct. Doc.
192 (Sept. 13, 2026) (App., infra, la-24a). Much like the injunction at issue here, the D.D.C. injunction bars the Postal Service from implementing and enforcing its Ballot
Mail for Federal Elections Rule. See App., infra, 25a-26a. Because that decision does not contain any materially new reasoning, a stay in this case will require the district
court in DSCC (or the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
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Circuit) to immediately grant a parallel stay. See Trump v. Boyle, 145 S. Ct. 2653, 2654 (2025) (explaining that this Court's interim orders "inform how a court should exercise its discretion in like cases").

On the merits, although the DSCC court recognized that the Rule's labeling requirements might fall within the Postal Service's authority, see App., infra, at 16a n.7, it concluded that the Rule's requirement that state officials submit a list of intended ballot recipients as a condition of mailing ballots to those recipients likely exceeded the Postal Service's authority, reasoning that that requirement is about regulating elections rather than delivering mail, id. at 15a-16a. That rationale, which is essentially the same as the rationale of the district court in this case, see Appl.
App. 27a-30a, fails for reasons the government has already explained. In particular, creating lists of recipients helps to ensure that mail is sent only to the addressees the sender intends and to track if any fraudulent use of the mail occurs. See Appl. 9, 28;
Reply Br. 17. As such, that requirement falls well within the Postal Service's rule-making power and is analogous to the existing registration and tracking require-
ments for cremated remains or to a hypothetical rule requiring senders to provide
more detailed information regarding mailings to retirement communities that have been targeted for fraud. See Appl. 16-19; Reply Br. 7, 10-12.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Mathematicians out here saying it is not the proof that matters, but the human understanding of the proof. We are all humanists now.

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European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · 14/09/2026

🛡️ What does the Viking legacy look like today? Tom Birkett and his team have launched a project exploring how ideas and narratives about the #Vikings have evolved across Europe over the past 200 years. 👉 t.co/0L4WD9EsLL 📸 ©️Clare Keogh @norsemap.bsky.social @norseincork.bsky.social @ucc.ie

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/09/2026

mackenzie scott really seems like the only billionaire to figure out that you can be a literal hero to millions with a relative pittance

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026

UC Berkeley Law School bans AI—and other law schools quietly follow their lead—U Chicago bans AI use in the social sciences but NOT the business school & now MIT issues this damning report. But AI companies lobby the private equity execs on university boards to adopt it anyway.

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Mary Beth Williams @mbwilliams.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

You found another idiot to block. Kchi wliwni.

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026

Gonna be extremely petty for a moment: I am glad to stand in solidarity with my colleagues in mathematics against the tyranny of AI slop, but I have to ask: where the fuck were most of y’all when the humanities were first on the block to be sacrificed to the machine devils?

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Mary Beth Williams @mbwilliams.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Currently in Alaska, but no bears in sight. Hopefully tomorrow.

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Mary Beth Williams @mbwilliams.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

As an historian of cod fishing, this nearly brought me to tears. Incredible recovery, but it’s definitely not the time to pull back protection.

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🌺HippiesRule🌺 @teresa555.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Wut??? 🐸 *leaves work starts car speeds to store

Earbuds in the shape of... omg... omg... FROGS

Frog earbud in an ear looking fcking adorable!

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Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

NEW: A US judge blocked the Trump administration from carrying out for now the president’s latest effort to impose new limits on automatic birthright citizenship after losing an earlier legal fight before the Supreme Court www.bloomberg.com/news/article... Ruling: assets.bwbx.io/documents/us...

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Katiesaurus @katiesaurusseven.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"In an international study of more than 7 million people, type 2 diabetes patients taking a GLP-1 drug were less likely to develop TB compared with those on other antidiabetic medications"

medpagetoday.com

GLP-1 Studies Suggest Benefits Extend to Infectious Diseases

Another positive side effect of blockbuster diabetes, weight-loss drugs?

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

“Fear Mongols” was actually what Genghis Khan called his army

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Mary Beth Williams @mbwilliams.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Seriously? Come on, Andy. Don’t pull this sh*t.

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Nahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It’s hard to fathom the sheer scale of the devastation that occurred in Nepal and Tibet. The latest estimates suggest that the glacier-rock collapse mobilized more than 142 million m³ of material. Here’s what that volume looks like when placed over Manhattan, New York City for scale.

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Ben Alpers @benalpers.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

And anyone in the media who accepts the premise that Trump has actually renamed the Gulf of Mexico or Lake Ontario should be similarly mocked. Don't be a bootlicker!

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Mary Beth Williams @mbwilliams.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Boosting for my other WC friends. These boys look adorable, and orange kitties have their own lovely personalities.

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Mary Beth Williams @mbwilliams.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Almost every celestial event is a no-go up here in the PNW, so I was shocked (shocked!) that we actually have a clear night to see the lunar eclipse. Had to walk down the street to get past the tree cover, but at least we got to see it.

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Mary Beth Williams @mbwilliams.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

As a family who lived in an RV and traveled for four years, the Wild Thornberrys were everything good. RIP Nigel.

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Mary Beth Williams @mbwilliams.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The USPS can't determine that the dozen or so "home warranty" offers I get every week are scams and yet I'm supposed to trust them to determine if anyone is qualified to vote?

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Algorithms killed the spectrum of emotional valences. Everything now is set to 10. Bring back the eyeroll, the exasperated sigh, the hand wave, the shoulder shrug. Some stuff is just mildly annoying or blandly dumb. You don’t need to blow every emotional outburst on the mundane.

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Mary Beth Williams @mbwilliams.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Every state visited, consequence of living on the road for four years. I cheated slightly, as I only stayed one night in Alaska 40 years ago (flight from Japan diverted,) but I'm heading there for 10 days in two weeks time. Next goal: All the counties in England and Wales.

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