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Mac It Look Like An Accident @macrogers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Okay so we have a number now: the Onion is officially 6 months ahead of reality.
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Homestar Screens @grapenutsrobot.graphics · 26/09/2026
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Eleven days before the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack, Egypt's intelligence chief made a secret mission to Israel to warn officials of a possible assault. He was on the ground just 67 minutes, so intent he had to come in person. Vivian Salama has the receipts. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
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Egypt’s Warning to Israel
Cairo’s intelligence chief visited Tel Aviv shortly before October 7 with a dire message about Gaza.
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Keith Law @keithlaw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A Drop of Corruption, the second book in the fantasy-mystery series that began with the Hugo-winning The Tainted Cup, improves on the original a bit with a fascinating setting and more of the two main characters working together. My review: meadowparty.com/blog/2026/09...
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A Drop of Corruption.
Robert Jackson Bennett won the 2025 Hugo Award for Best Novel with his fantasy/mystery mashup The Tainted Cup, which introduced the world to Ana and Din, a
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Adam St. Bear @adamstbear.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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MLB @mlbbot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Open your eyes for a BIG surprise 🥹
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The separation of church and state
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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Tim “Positive Subway” Smith @positivesubway.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Tapping the sign again and again and again
Such double segregation by race and poverty is systematically linked to unequal educational opportunities and outcomes. Research has shown for a half century that children learn more when they are in schools with better prepared classmates and excellent, experienced teachers, schools with strong well-taught curriculum, stability and high graduation and college going rates? Concentrated poverty schools, which are usually minority schools, tend to have a high turnover of students and teachers, less experienced teachers, much less prepared classmates, and a more limited curriculum often taught at much lower levels because of the weak previous education of most students. They have much higher dropout rates and few students prepared for success in college. The academic climate tends to be very different.
The neighborhood the school serves is likely to have far fewer resources for the positive and educational out-of-school and summer experiences that enrich the learning of middle class students and neighborhoods. Students in segregated impoverished areas tend to experience serious summer learning loss.New Jersey has taken extraordinary steps to upgrade financial support for education in
its poorest communities through the Abbott decisions, in contrast to the enormous gap in money in many poor communities in neighboring states. Money can buy important things such as good preschool training, strong facilities and educational resources, if it is well targeted, but it does not typically buy the same kind of teachers, curriculum, level of instruction, level of peer group academic support and positive competition, and stability of enrollment of classmates and of faculties that are usually found in white and stably diverse schools.
Sometimes extraordinary leaders and deeply committed faculties can overcome some of
these obstacles, at least in preparation for the crucial state tests in a few fields, but the number of those schools that "break the mold" is very small, usually limited to elementary grades, and they are vulnerable to loss if key leadership or faculty members depart. Those successful schools should be supported and rewarded. We should end misguided accountability policies that simply brand the intensely segregated schools and their faculties as failures, increasing the incentive for the best teachers and principals to leave for schools with fewer challenges, as consistently happens. For the last half century federal and state policy has been focused on efforts to make highly disadvantaged schools more equal and hundreds of billions of dollars have been invested, but very intense educational inequalities remain. Obviously, in addition, it is impossible to learn how to function effectively across lines of race and class in schools and neighborhoods with zero diversity, but those skills are critical in college and later employment.
The schools in New Jersey actually are more segregated than the neighborhoods. Let us
repeat that-school segregation in New Jersey is worse than residential segregation! One has to ponder what demographic quirks or educational polici…
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Holly Stallcup (she/her) @hollystallcup.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
$200 more taken care of! Only $58.76 to go!
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SickosFC @sickosfc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
LOL they put cleats on the shark?
Shark with soccer cleats
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Pen, watercolor, acrylic paint, black & white charcoal pencil.

One of my favorite pieces from my new book, Spooky Pants. Coming out this October.

A small cabin in the snow surrounded by trees. Two cabin people stand outside holding mugs of hot cider. One of them shouts out, “Big Fella, we got hot apple cider happening over here.” On the other side of the page we see Big Fella, a massive spider emerging from the forest. 

Artist’s note: The spider only has 6 legs.. I made a mistake. However, I did read that some spiders can lose their legs in battle so maybe that’s what happened. Also, this drawing was probably directly inspired by the game Limbo. I love the art direction in it.
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
After the NBA smashed the Clippers, @pablo.show was asked over and over, do you feel validated? He wanted to say no. But after growing up in a crumbling media environment, and after pouring so much into his Pulitzer-winning podcast, he struggled to admit: yes, he did. www.thestar.com/sports/rapto...
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Pablo Torre uncovered the Kawhi scandal and won a Pulitzer. He’s still searching for something more
The Los Angeles Clippers-Kawhi Leonard cap circumvention case as presented on “Pablo Torre Finds Out” has been his masterpiece. It’s only part of his story.
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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Random note; since my dad passed away last December, I’ve been handling all of my mom’s mail and accounts. It is incredible. How many scams are aimed at the elderly in this country, including my companies that superficially seem legitimate. Every week her mail is full of this crap.
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Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
ME: *writing in my journal with the sole aim of pissing off future historians and archaeologists* I returned to my home - which is built in the usual style - by the normal way, and prepared and ate dinner in the way I often but not always do
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TK from the Paper @pipedreams.blog · 13/09/2026
Do Ohio State Football fans enjoy watching their team? They expect to win every game and are right to do so with their material advantages. Is there joy in their fandom?
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
One of the most haunting 9/11 stories I know of involved Prof. Eqbal Ahmad, my Hampshire College mentor in the 80s. He met bin Laden in Afghanistan in 1986 and tried to warn us in this 1998 talk (at the 1:23 mark). Tragically, Eqbal died during surgery a few months later, but HE WARNED US in 1998!!🤯
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Eqbal Ahmad Terrorism Ours vs. Theirs 12, 1998
YouTube video by Mona Ringel
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Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 09/09/2026
TODAY: @todseelie.bsky.social on the diners and other beloved third spaces that are disappearing. "We are attracted to convenience, but don’t seem to recognize the isolation that comes with it." flaminghydra.com/one-last-bre...
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One Last Breakfast
Recently, my wife and I went for breakfast at Hearts Coffee Shop, a historic diner in the San Fernando Valley, north of Los Angeles proper. We squeezed in at the end of the counter, the last seats in ...
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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 09/09/2026
Does anyone with more sophisticated media knowledge than mine understand why ESPN will burn endless cycles talking about tennis players' backgrounds/childhoods but will not ever, ever state that Pegula and Navarro are the children of billionaires, even when they're playing each other?
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/09/2026
this is great and also my periodic reminder that you should watch the original Planet of the Apes films. even "Battle," which is the weakest of the five," is pretty solid. and altogether, i think it is one of the greatest science fiction series in american movies.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
the whole section of the write-up on Mr. T is pretty notable
section of text reading :

"He takes me back to his earlier years at school. Sure, he wanted to be tough like his bigger brothers, and hoped to be a successful footballer or boxer. But even more importantly, he wanted to pass his exams, because Willie had taught him the importance of education. She told him how the abolitionist Frederick Douglass, who was born into slavery, had been taught to read by the wife of his enslaver, “and then his slave master told her: ‘Don’t teach a slave to read, because if you do, he won’t be a slave much longer.’” Education was the route to freedom.

What did he study? “Philosophy and theology. A teacher in high school said, there’s no money in that, and I said: ‘Sir, that’s disrespectful. That’s insulting, because not everybody’s about money.’ They didn’t take the time to know who I am.” I tell him I’ve been reading a lot about him, but it’s the first I’ve heard of him studying philosophy and theology. “See, that’s the problem. I’ve told journalists the same thing I’ve told you, but they don’t print that. They didn’t want people to know what Mr T is like. I was born and raised in the ghetto, but the ghetto was not born and raised in me. We was poor financially, but we was rich spiritually. I never robbed nobody, I never raped nobody, I never broke into nobody’s house. I never snatched a purse.”
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Malaclypse the Fetus @omfproductions.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Like look at these two! www.reddit.com/r/MegaCon/co...
The Cosplayer I mentioned, you can find his reddit profile through the reddit link. The Cosplayer is wearing a red Hulk themed outfit. Mr T is rocking a red white and blue USA outfit. His pants have a blue field with white stars for one leg, and red and white stripes for the other. His shirt is red with white sleeves and white trimmed USA in blue font. There is an American flag beneath it. His durag is also the American flag.

The Cosplayer is smiling like its the best day of his life.

Mr T is grinning and pointing at the cosplayer with an expression that shows delight and admiration, as if he just got one of the best compliments he was ever given.
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Pablo Torre @pablo.show · 03/09/2026
Accountability for the wealthiest people on Earth is hard to come by. Thank you for believing in the power of independent journalism to accomplish it. (And, yes, more to come.) www.pablo.show/p/it-happened
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It Happened.
EPISODE 423: The biggest punishment in NBA history.
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Athens Grease @athensgrease.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
[giving a eulogy] the people who knew Tom — his friends, his family, his coworkers, even people with whom he had casual interactions — would say that he was goated, lowkey
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Students who nod and smile during lecture when we try to make a point? Heroes
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💖 Birdhism Jen @birdhism.com · 02/09/2026
Paint them things please. #climate #windpower #birds
Scientists painted one wind turbine blade black, and bird deaths dropped by 70% in a long-term study in Norway. 
@explaining.tech
"Imagine the solution being this simple the whole time."
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mcc @dryad.technology · 01/09/2026
This is the single biggest physics discovery of my entire lifetime. Or something's wrong with one of the cables. One of the two
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
WSJ takes a crack at how the bond selloff affects real life. @wsj.com www.wsj.com/economy/cons...
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Homestar Screens @grapenutsrobot.graphics · 01/09/2026
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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
If you're not using asbestos yet, you are being left behind. Everyone is using asbestos, there's no point in trying to fight it. Asbestos is the future.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The share of national income going to corporate profits is the highest it’s been in nearly a century. And sales at dollar stores are up. “Our core customers continue to be financially constrained,” Dollar General's CEO said. Inequality, summed up in a quote. prospect.org/2026/09/01/t...
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Trump’s ‘Golden Age’? Well, Yes—for Dollar Stores - The American Prospect
Sales are up at the modern-day bargain basements, as more financially stressed Americans are compelled to shop there.
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Chris Jackson @chriscjackson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Just imagine how corrupt you have to be to get banned from Kalshi
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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 31/08/2026
Sweet dreams, everyone.
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Mike @85mf.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
greatest cutdown day post of all time, maybe the greatest post of all time
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/08/2026
it is so interesting going through these negatives and looking at someone's slice of life photos from 80+ years ago. here are a few more.
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
My man looking like one of Val Kilmer’s disguises in THE SAINT
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I mentioned the men’s rights movement in passing to my very not-online therapist. Her eyes got enormous and then she said, very carefully, “Do men… not have rights currently?”
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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Too many people have forgotten what an ass Djoker was during COVID.
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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Before Doucet, baseball terminology in Quebec was a lot of franglais - "le shortstop a struck out sur un curveball" etc. - but that didn't fly with Quebec broadcasting laws, so he basically had to invent a French word to use for every bit of the baseball lexicon. Here are some of them:
Some French baseball terms coined by the late Jacques Doucet

amorti (deadened) - to bunt
balle fronde (slingshot ball) - splitter
balle papillon (butterfly ball) - knuckleball
chandelle (candle) - pop fly
souricière (mousetrap) - rundown
sabotage - blown save
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Show Pussy On Regular TV @turdguy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
(arresting a famous rich guy in a prostitution sting, knowing my wife is probably gonna see the bodycam footage) Wow. All the money in the world, and yet I can't help but think that I'm the rich one, having a strong, meaningful marriage.
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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 27/08/2026
did bluesky hear about Miss Teen Indiana’s Garfield costume
A young woman in a Garfield inspired outfit with a Garfield headdressThe young woman from the first photo is holding a lasagna that says “lasagna my love language”missinteenusa Tonight, Indiana is going Garfield!
My state costume celebrates one of Indiana's most iconic creations-Garfield, created by fellow Hoosier Jim Davis.
Born in Marion and raised in Fairmount, Davis turned an orange cat with a big personality into a character recognized and loved around the world.
But this costume represents more than a famous Hoosier.
The hand-painted comic panels on my skirt share messages inspired by my initiative, Captivating Confidence:
"Our differences are what make us beautiful."
"If we don't have love, we have nothing."
"Outer beauty attracts, but inner beauty captivates."
To me, true confidence is found in embracing what makes each of us different and recognizing that our greatest beauty comes from within. I am so excited to bring a little Hoosier humor, creativity and confidence to the Miss Teen USA stage tonight!
This one-of-a-kind costume was inspired by my vision and brought to life by Indianapolis-based costume designer, Jess West. @jesswestcostumes
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
spent a lot of money bribing politicians that they couldve spent having health influencers walk barefoot outside a data center and talk about how the ground there has positive ions thanks to the data center's peptides or something
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Lehigh Football Nation @lfn.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
"You know how Chelsea is owned by a criminal Russian oligarch? Well, the 49ers..."
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 24/08/2026
important piece of how journalism works right here www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/never-apol...
The Post, a truly immoral scumbag tabloid that is simultaneously the most skilled tabloid journalism publication in America in a way that we can all learn from, ran the story, and then it was picked up over the next few days by other right wing outlets making essentially the same “hey this left winger is a rich kid” joke, and then yesterday the story was picked up by the New York Times, which had profiled Gordillo earlier, and once that happened it instantly became acceptable fodder for non-right-wing reporters and pundits. This is a textbook case of how to shepherd a shallow partisan smear into the mainstream news cycle. You may find it distasteful, but you should admire its efficacy. Any competent cutthroat political communicator must be able to replicate this process on demand.

(When I worked at Gawker, we frequently played a similar but less political role in this general process, by writing about stories that the Times was interested in but considered disreputable, which would then allow them to write follow-ups framed as “People are talking about this thing,” which provides them an entry point to feed their readers salacious news while still maintaining an analytical, hands-off pose. Once you understand this dynamic you will see it all the time.)
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The Mockers @themockers.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Axelrod (and Carville for that matter) got lucky they ran campaigns for two of the most gifted politicians in modern history, who likely would have won without them. And now they both think they are brilliant political tacticians whose every utterance must now be treated like the word of the gods.
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Rey-Rey @rey-rey.net · 19/08/2026
"I still feel very good, but I also feel the comfort of slowing down a little bit," Ogwumike said. "I also feel mentally that I just feel content. I feel very content with where I've left my career with 15 years under my belt. I feel very content about what we were able to achieve coming into this season where we see the league today. Even when I think about the types of players I've been able to play with, I can say that I've played against Tina Thompson, also against Angel Reese, right? I was in the league during the Maya Moore era. I'm in the league during the A'ja Wilson era. It is quite amazing for me to say that I've lived these many lives and many generations across my time in the W."
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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
How do I explain to small business owners that the menu on the left is one billion times more appealing than the one on the right
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
if you want to see normally sclerotic do-nothing local governments suddenly snap into action, do some quietly beneficial tactical urbanism type thing like this and watch how quickly they race to remove it
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