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Victoria Rose Richards @aerialembroidery.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

This was the second forest fire aerial embroidery I made back in August, short title is 'Apathy' - something I was seeing a lot of around me during the extreme heatwave. It's now available and you can see its full name in the description: victoriaroserichards.co.uk/work/forest-... 1/2

An embroidery hoop containing a sewn aerial-view landscape. the landscape has a dry forest to the right with patches of dried out grass; the left has burned ground with smoke rising off. There is a actively burning line of fire down the centre.

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City of Minneapolis @minneapolismn.gov · 09/10/2026

Today, and every day, we stand with the Somali community.

The marquee at Cedar Culture Center with the message "We love our Somali neighbors" written out.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

NEW: Californians who try to visit loved ones in prison routinely felt last-minute cancelations from prison staff & harassment. The state passed new reforms last week that are meant to ensure they get better treatment.

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This New Law Will Make It Easier for Californians to Visit Family in Prison - Bolts

After driving five hours to visit her son in prison, Anita Wills, 80, found herself in an impossible situation: fish her bra wire out of the fabric using only a... Read More

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Yall wanna see a puppy with hiccups getting mad

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 09/10/2026

People in California who are facing a terrible ICE surge: remember that if you need whistles, we are still sending them out for free. In fact, we just passed 1.7 million whistles sent out. linktr.ee/3Dwhistles

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3D Printed Whistles | Linktree

We ship community protection whistles for free. Need some? Click the email link below & tell us how many you need (between 100 - 3000) & where to send them.

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Notorious RBMK @comraderobot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

its drunk blue jay tuesday

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Parisians dressed their dogs up for Paris Fashion Week. Video via @reuters.com

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 05/10/2026

this is a tribute to one of the all-time great tweets

Screenshot of tweet from @LeBearGirdle on August 17, 2017

brandAn is good
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[Dentist waiting room]

Me: [chanting] teeth, teeth-

Other patients: teeth, TEETH

Secretary: [pounding her clipboard] TEETH, TEETH, TEETH!

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 05/10/2026

[car dealership waiting room] Me: [chanting] knobs, knobs- Other car buyers: knobs, KNOBS Car salesman: [pounding desk] KNOBS, KNOBS, KNOBS!

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Knobs Returning To Some Automakers’ Vehicles, To The Relief Of Many

Auto companies are listening to the complaints of consumers, who want their knobs and buttons back.

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 05/10/2026

Spooky bird stories. My Halloween comic from 2024.

A comic titled Spooky Bird Stories. In panel 1, a turkey vulture is telling stories to other vultures, and it says, "She walked toward the source of the terrible smell. She got closer and closer, and then, to her horror, she saw... No dead body." A black vulture says "No!" and a turkey vulture says "Did someone already eat it??" In panel 2, a northern cardinal is telling a story to some songbirds. It says "They peered through the windows of the house at the gory scene. Zombies had smashed through the door in the night. The homeowner was dead. But worst of all... He hadn't refilled the feeders." An eastern bluebird says "Aaah!" and an American goldfinch says "It can't be!". In panel 3, A screech owl is telling a story to other owls. It says "And then the ghost fluffed itself up really big to appear scarier." A saw-whet owl gasps, and a long-eared owl says "Horrifying!". In panel 4, a downy woodpecker is telling a story to other woodpeckers, and says "The eerie sound rang through the dark woods. Tap-tap. Tap-tap. It was the distinctive two-part knock of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. The species had returned from the dead... FOR REVENGE." A red-cockaded woodpecker says "Yesss".

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

abolish the death penalty

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

unrelatedly I think it is weird that the Tubes have sort of just disappeared from general remembrance youtu.be/rs9wuaVV33I

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Tubes - White Punks On Dope (1977 R0X M1X)

YouTube video by them0rus

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Finding the book you want is instant when shopping online. But it’s vastly more fun to visit a bookstore or library and browse your way to your next great read. The full guide: lataco.com/best-booksto... By Hadley Tomicki and L.A. TACO STAFF

The interior of a bookshop where five people are browsing the bookshelves set against a wall.

Headline reads "L.A.'s Best Independent Bookshops to Support Instead of Amazon"

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Here is a nice mushroom

A big beautiful bear’s head tooth mushroom growing on a perimortuous maple tree. The green undergrowth climbs around it on all sides, and yellow summer sun infuses the woodscape. All photos by me

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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Heart pounding in my ears, I run, the muted sound of webbed feet slapping the pavement behind me. I dive into the car and slam the door, shouting in triumph. Turning the key, I am rewarded with nothing but a single dry click. My blood runs cold. From outside the window, I hear a dark, throaty laugh.

Inside shot of a swan staring through the driver’s side window of a vehicle.

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Living well @thebestrevenge.info · 15/09/2026

I’m glad for her. The montage of her character escorting a jason-like slasher’s corpse to be cremated with a shotgun is the funniest thing I’ve seen on tv in years

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It's Abby. Yep @itsabbyyep.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The world is broken but the dik-dik is perfect

A wee baby dik-dik (weensiest antelope) drinking milk from a baby bottle because they are baby. This one is the babiest and makes life worth living to know they are alive. Holy fucking shit is it cute god damn

The same perfect teeniest antelope (which is a dik-dik) that's roughly 12 inches tall staring at the camera because they love you or would if they really KNEW you, the real you who is pure of heart deep down. A person's feet in slippers for scale

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Just realized that boro and kantha — the Japanese and Indian techniques for repairing cloth or creating new material from scraps by connecting them through a series of running stitches — looks a bit like the peeling bark on an aging tree.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Help the Internet Archive, which is saving a lot of the data being purged/censored by the Trump Administration (and so much more).....

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jordan @jordantyranny.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

"I'm sure of my talent and I'm sure of my love for life."

do you ever feel that you're a joke

all these years, the people thought the joke was on me, but the joke's actually been on the public

i'm sure of myself as a person, I'm sure of my talent and I'm sure of my love for life. I like the person I am, so I can afford to around with makeup and clothes because i'm secure with myself.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It was bad in 2022, when medical issues exacerbated by the hostility at work made me leave. It’s worse all the time. Show up for your local libraries. Get involved with the boards. Shout down the bigots. Demand protection for the freedom to read and for librarians doing their jobs.

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Claudia @metaclaudia.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Site is going down a lot so come back later to donate

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I started my PhD program with an eight week old at home, sole income being my doctoral stipend, in a history program, in Knoxville, TN. And every month we got a new book to read to my son, free, mailed to us, so my kid, my kids, grew up in rooms full of books even when I had no money. That's Dolly.

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com

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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026

It's actually absurd when you contrast how great and cute the WNBA can be when there isn't somebody there making the vibes all rancid for everybody.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

BREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...

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Washington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist Karen Attiah

An arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing.

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Mr. Blabalino 🇳🇴🇺🇸💙 @blabalino.com · 22/08/2026

Found this recording of Rita Moreno performing “Fever” on The Muppet Show from 1976. 14/10

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

How your email finds me.

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Mikołaj Wyszynski built a practice that blends acrylics, spray paint, and enamel into murals and portraits that adorn some of L.A.’s best taco shops, including Sonoratown. 🎨🌵 Read more about Wyszynski’s artistry: lataco.com/sign-painter... 🎥: Erwin Recinos and Karina Soriano

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I've been talking a lot about the disastrous recent loss of American institutional capacity regarding climate science. But today, I'd like to announce something we've been working on, quietly, in the meantime to offer a lifeline to some of those affected. [Thread]

First page of a 2-page flyer describing the Climate Science and Communications Fund. It shows a map of gift recipient locations, and also summarize statistics regarding the program thus far (including over $3 million disbursed to date), with testimonials from individual recipients.

Second page of a 2-page flyer describing the Climate Science and Communications Fund. It further describes the need for and goals of the program. It also includes a point of contact email: roshan@climate-talent.org

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/08/2026

Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica. They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick. (Published February)

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The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center

ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Happy anniversary! "The uprising on 10 August 1680 was one of the most successful acts of Indigenous resistance against colonialism and is sometimes called the first American revolution." My July essay on contemporary Pueblo artist Virgil Ortiz and his art about past and future Pueblo revolts.

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Rebecca Solnit · Diary: Before 1776

In 1848, the US seized the northern half of Mexico, from California to New Mexico, and imposed American law and the...

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

This guide provides a small handful of the hundreds of nonprofits in the Inland Empire region working to assist and support the most vulnerable among the population. The full guide: lataco.com/20-inland-em... By @afroxander.bsky.social

A man with a group of children huddled on a field in the middle of a cheer.

Headline reads “20 Inland Empire-Based Nonprofits Doing The Good Work That Can Use Your Support”

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jordan @jordantyranny.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

GIRL SNAKE CATCHER. she makes a snug little income by securing reptiles for traveling shows SHE JUST GRABS THEM (The Washington Bee, Washington DC, November 8, 1902)

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Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · 04/08/2026

public libraries ftw

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

the concrete effects of Virginia restoring voting rights Friday boltsmag.org/virginia-gov...

One of these people, Quadaire Patterson, who lives in Henrico and was released from incarceration in 2024, was refreshing that page and hoping to see himself marked as restored.

“I’m definitely aware of my inability to vote and to be able to affect my community in that way,” he said. “My being disenfranchised keeps me a few steps away from the freedom I was hoping when I was released.”

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spooky glue @delightedbutdying.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

happy birthday to all horses in the southern hemisphere

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.

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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 27/07/2026

Pioneering L.A. assemblage artist Betye Saar, who ‘liberated’ Aunt Jemima, dies days before her 100th birthday www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/…

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 27/07/2026

It's the last night of National Moth Week. I had a good one. Moths are so pretty that they make me emotional.

A comic called Types of Moths. A small green and white moth is labeled bird poop. A moth with huge antennae is labeled gets wifi. A huge moth is labeled large friend. A tiny micromoth is labeled beautiful pattern, probably. A tussock moth is labeled impossible to ID to species. A generic brownish beige moth is labeled tha tone, you know, with the thing - arg, I forget the name. A pink and yellow moth is labeled stuffed toy. A sphinx moth is labeled so dizzyingly complex that it consumes your soul. A green moth is labeled ooh, green.

A Canada Imperial moth, an enormous yellow and purple moth.

A small-eyed sphinx moth, a brown moth with purple stripes.

Row 1: Blinded sphinx (Paonias excaecata), False hemlock looper (Nepytia canosaria), Larch tolype (Tolype laricis), Canadian imperial (Eacles pini)
Row 2: Virgin tiger moth (Apantesis virgo)?, Banded tussock moth (Halysidota tessellaris), Red-fringed emerald (Nemoria bistriaria), Canadian sphinx (Sphinx canadensis)
Row 3: Harlequin webworm moth (Diathrausta harlequinalis), Boxwood leaftier (Galasa nigrinodis), plume moth sp, Painted lichen moth (Hypoprepia fucosa)
Row 4: Yellow-headed cutworm (Apamea amputatrix), Polymorphic pondweed moth (Polymorphic Pondweed Moth Parapoynx maculalis), Variable antepione (Antepione thisoaria), Bristly cutworm (Lacinipolia renigera)

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Remembering Sinéad O'Connor, who died three years ago, on July 26, 2023. Photo by Andreas Larsson. #sineadoconnor

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 26/07/2026

A letter from the mother of Alex Pretti, six months after he was murdered by ICE.

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Today marks the six-month anniversary of Alex's murder. No one has been held accountable, no apologies, not a single phone call from any governmental official, hospital personnel, or the mpls police dept. Six-months of pain, a roller-coaster of trauma over and over. Every time another a death, another mention, a picture, a tribute, a sorrow so deep. I wonder how to move forward. Will I ever get over this loss and this pain?
Will I ever be able to enjoy life again? How does one live knowing that I have no power to change what has happened?

And yet the outreach not only from Minnesota, but from around the world has been nothing less than spectacular. Every card, every gift, every heartfelt letter has been read, touched, held, and cherished by us all. The kindness you've all shown us is beyond words. Please never forget Alex and what he believed in ~ equality and peace for all. I will remember the things that made you, you. It will never take your memory. As long as I'm here, you will never be forgotten.

For all you asking what you can do. Continue this fight. Never give up your right to speak out, protect your neighbor, your community and don't forget to spend time with those you love...

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

It is genuinely bizarre that we’ve become acclimatized to right wingers throwing a tantrum every time a black person (particularly a black woman) is cast in something, but are also supposed to pretend that this is not racism but related to some other substantive concern.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

If you make me take my phone out at the store to buy toothpaste I am going use it to buy toothpaste online

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

On August 27, art legend, Gronk, will grace Caltech’s Beckman Auditorium in Pasadena as part of the Moveable Feast series, which chronicles and explores L.A.’s vast and often overlooked history of arts and culture. The full story: lataco.com/gronk-moveab... By L.A. TACO STAFF

Artwork by Gronk.

Headline reads “Catch Chicano Arts Innovator Gronk In Conversation at Moveable Feast”

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