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Metareferential (he/him)

@metareferential.bsky.social
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Space educator. Amateur forager/beekeeper/welder, has managed to not poison anyone (yet). All opinions my own. Trans rights are human rights. Fnord.

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Joad The Wet Sprocket @joadsprocket.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
well someone should invent a better way to do it
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Metareferential (he/him) @metareferential.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
www.npr.org/2026/09/15/n...
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NASA rushed engineers out of their labs. They say it risks future space missions
NASA employees say they've lost vital equipment and staff needed to make sophisticated spacecraft amid the agency's abrupt relocations over the past several months.
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PBF Comics @pbfcomics.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
“What a beautiful universe, hon" says a telescope as gazes upon an aurora borealis. “It really is”, responds the telescope's partner, who it turns out is not a telescope, but a microscope. Hands full of algae, she wades waist deep in a disgusting swamp, amazed by the heavenly microscopic life all around them.
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Sigma @silentwingsstudio.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Hey so you ever go in intentionally trying to make something fucked up looking and then accidentally fuck it up more but it works because the joke just keep building? Anyway here's the cross stitch I did. #art #crossstitch #crossstitching
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Heather Anne Campbell @heathercampbell.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool
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Maggie Wiggin @maggie162.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
My god, Octavia Butler, just miss ONCE
 Page from a book saying:

From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING
Choose your Leaders with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward is to be controlled
by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool is to be led
by the opportunists who control the fool.
To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.
To be led by a liar
is to ask to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
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Action Committee for Transit 👣🚲🚇🚍🚊🧑🏻‍🦽 @actfortransit.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
brb heading to Fairfax
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Justin-Bailey @justin-bailey.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
A #SizeSky contraption at the Baltimore Kinetic Sculpture Race. #GiantTiny #SFWSize
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Doug Caldwell @dacmess.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Uh-oh
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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
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🧌🥛 🏨 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
wow okay this gave me a full HP restore
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Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 03/12/2025
The Trump administration wants Maryland’s voter rolls
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The Trump administration wants Maryland’s voter rolls
Attorney General Pam Bondi is suing Maryland Elections Administrator Jared DeMarinis to get the state’s voter rolls.
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Not joking: has one reporter responded to his preposterous Sgt Schultz “I know nothing” schtick by immediately asking: * Doesn’t this level of ignorance disqualify you as speaker? * Do you really think we are so dumb to believe you? * Do you think it is appropriate to insult the voters like this?
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
A college student complaining about a grade on a paper is not national news. Not even close. The details have minimal import outside the class itself. Well-funded political activists targeting profs and TAs—in this case because they're trans—with the help of elected state officials? National issue.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Worth remembering now Protest by the United States Against Attacks by Japanese Naval Forces on Survivors of Torpedoed American Merchant Vessels June 1944 "The United States Government protests most emphatically against this inhuman form of warfare ..."
"The United States Government protests most emphatically against this inhuman form of warfare practiced by Japanese forces in brutally attacking helpless survivors of a torpedoed vessel and demands effective assurances from the Japanese Government that such criminal acts, which are contrary to all standards of civilized conduct, will not be repeated in the future. It is expected that the Japanese Government will at the same time punish those persons who with premeditation and full knowledge of their actions have so flagrantly violated the primary humanitarian concept of maritime warfare.” Request Swiss Minister Tokyo51 to telegraph date of delivery to Japanese Government
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Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
Pope stands holding a baseball bat on a plane
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
People in the U.S. need to be paying attention to what’s happening in the U.K., because it’s going hand in hand with what is happening in the U.S., the agitators at work on both sides of the pond are working hand in hand with each other, and both have similar goals of ethnic cleansing.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 26/11/2025
"Stuffing is wet bread with pieces of wet celery stuck to it. Everyone says they love it, but they never prepare it on any other day of the year. The majority of the other side dishes are factory-rejected baby food."
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How to Give Thanks by Cooking Food No One Knows How to Cook and Eating Food No One Likes to Eat
To remind everyone how grateful we should be for all the readily available, appealing food that is easy to prepare and that everyone enjoys eating,...
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Shannon Stirone @shannonstirone.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
This is a great example of what not do to when you write a headline—especially a cover story. This is irresponsible. He is not in science he’s against science. He’s killing people because he is so AGAINST science. Press—do better. Do not repeat their messaging. Do not repeat the lies.
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Kris Straub (كريس)📍PAXAus @krisstraub.com · 20/11/2025
the most scathing book review i’ve ever seen. absolute brutality
photo of a public urinal in a SEATAC restroom. on the ledge, someone has abandoned a hardcover copy of “chasing the dime” by michael connelly
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Gareth Hanrahan @mytholder.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
“Are the fae open source?” is such a terrifying question in so many ways.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 19/11/2025
No lawmaker in Congress should be able to buy, own, and sell individual stocks. Period. Let's make Congressional stock trading illegal.
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
I love the Dropkick Murphys because "Irish-American" + "gen X" + "punk rocker who's been at it for 30 years" should be the formula for the most racist guy alive but instead Ken Casey is constantly giving interviews where he's like "fascists are demons from hell and that's where they belong"
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Ian Boatman @wxdawg.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Any teachers out there? Ramping this back up again and figured I would advertise. I am on the National Weather Service National School Outreach Team. We are composed of various NWS meteorologists across the country that give school talks about the weather. We can use just about any online platform.
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Interesting fact! I live nearish to DC incidentally
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
C R Y I N G this is so perfect lmao x: www.instagram.com/reel/DQ7cPSf...
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Yvette Cendes @whereisyvette.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
LOOK WHATS HAPPENING FLYING OUT OF DENVER RIGHT NOW!!!!!! 🔭🧪
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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 12/11/2025
if you can’t see the aurora borealis tonight, here is a sewer tunnel which is a wonder in itself.
large 20-foot tall concrete lined sewer tunnel. in the distance three people stand with head lamps on their hard hats, looking toward the camera as they stand in ankle-deep water.
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Buttercup Festival @buttercupfestival.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
The rare em-dash Snickers
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Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Shout out to everyone else watching poll results tonight with Gen Alphas, praying the numbers 6 and 7 at no time appear in succession on any kind of screen
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 04/11/2025
REMINDER: A socialist act by a New Yorker was a major reason why polio was eliminated in the US.


Nick Pettigrew
@Nick_Pettigrew
Polio was eradicated because Jonas Salk chose not to patent the vaccine, if you want a perfect example of a socialist act.
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Socialism is like polio, it comes back when people forget about the horrible damage it did last time.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Oh
Perhaps most significantly, researchers have learned that queer people were largely reported by people in their own communities. As many as a third of LGBTQ+ people who were arrested were denounced, that is reported to the Nazis, by their friends and family. 

”That really changes the understanding of the Nazi period, because it’s easier to think that this was just a top-down hard line or dictatorial regime implementing all these policies, and they’re the ones doing the hunting down and finding of the so-called enemies of the state,” said Newsome. “But what we’re actually seeing is that most Germans just did nothing to protect LGBTQ folks.”
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Monica Potts @monicapotts.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
The Republicans can end the shutdown any time they want because they have 53 Senators.
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Ken Alba @ken.wzrdz.cool · 30/10/2025
A dog in a purple hat.
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Magda Birkmann @magdarine.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
"The English profs keep sweeping our work under the rug, but that rug is about three feet off the floor by now, and things are coming out from under it and eating the English profs." (Ursula K. Le Guin, Prospects for Women in Writing, 1986)
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Frank Cvetkovic (from comics) @gofrankgo.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!
Grandpa Simpson yelling at a cloud
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Internet Dad @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 21/10/2025
Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.
STEREOGUM: People my age, we talk about how we were lucky that we didn’t have social media growing up, and there’s no record of all the dumb shit we said and did. You didn’t have social media, but everything you said and did in those years is on record, and you’ve got to live with it now. That’s tough.

VIOLENT J: And the amount of gay Juggalos out there is really surprising. I think about them doing their research and getting the old records, getting excited about it, and getting their hearts broke or something, you know? I tell my daughter, “For the rest of your life, when your friends ask why your dad said that, say it’s because your dad was a fool. Don’t defend me. Say I was a fool then, but I’m not now.” There’s no excuse. I was going with the flow, and that’s the very thing we preach against — being a sheep. And that’s what I was doing.

https://www.stereogum.com/2083804/icp-interview-juggalos/interviews/weve-got-a-file-on-you/
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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 20/10/2025
I can not emphasize this enough. Stop putting cameras in things. Stop buying things with cameras on them. We need to fix some very basic things before we even get back to talking about the internet of things. Just, absolutely no.
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Harmony @harmonys.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
More great signs (cropped for anonymity)
A sign reading “one nation under frog with ribbity and justice for all”A sign with an Obama Hope style frog that reads “ribbit, resist, repeat” A sign with a frog that says united we ribbit, divided we croak A sign that reads You sucked in Home Alone 2
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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Antifa #NoKings protestors: check your Sassafrasses for Soros check information. Do NOT check your Moonbeam Messengers. Moonbeams got pwnd. Only use your Sassafras Decoders for Soros check information. Good work today everyone!
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
MSNBC Grandmas in Skechers seamlessly reclaiming the frog from 4chan Nazis in about six weeks has gotta be the political upset of the century.
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🧌🥛 🏨 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
fuck i love hating america so much that i hand painted a sign and spent saturday getting my introvert ass whooped by downtown parking and crowds
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I Scream Ridge @eileen4ever.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
My friend’s neighbor’s house fell off its foundation (old steel structure collapsed), and they just did the funniest thing.
Giant skeleton looking like it’s tipping over a house.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
An astonishingly large crowd! Chicago
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 16/10/2025
"Until we go bankrupt or are fully devoured by one of the three beasts, things are going to be business as usual here. That means doing the job of two and a half employees without complaining."
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Don’t Let the Beasts from Revelation Distract You from Your Expense Reports
Thanks for coming in. Have a seat. I realize there’s a lot going on right now between work and the seven-headed dragon that is here to brutally mur...
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Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium @ptdefiancezoo.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Ever seen a 750-pound muskox face off with a 210-pound pumpkin? 💥 Hudson did, and won! 🏆 Catch more pumpkin-smashing, leaf-crunching, fall fun during #ZooBoo, October 18 & 19. 🎃🐾
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