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Settle down, Ish. Remember, our focus is the plot.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 13h

“GOTTA LEARN AI OR BE LEFT BEHIND.” Good. Fuck off! Leave me behind! Enjoy your artbarf rapture, your janky Temu future. I’ll be back here looking at real birds and writing weird, also real, books.

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Mike Freeman @mfreeman.bsky.social · 6h

Wrapping up Widow’s Bay here. If Tom kills poor Ruth I’m going to hate the world that we live in.

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Salty MacTavish @saltymactavish.bsky.social · 13h

There’s a persistent myth that old house timbers were squared with an adze and the tool nerd in me wants to scream LARGE TIMBERS WERE HEWN WITH A BROAD AXE – ADZES WERE GENERALLY USED TO HEW SMALLER SCANTLING OR FOR SHIP BUILDING and this is why I live alone in a car in a state forest

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Newsletter is out! I've noticed some panic over what the government should be doing to regulate AI. I have a pretty simple solution, make the people who put out harmful products afraid of prison link.heartlandsignal.com/v/443/b6619d...

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“No NEW wars” was the trick, and I can’t believe people fell for it, but many did (including most media). If Americans have to hear about war in a new location, that is bad and the US president’s fault (Libya, Ukraine). Trump Term 1 worsened Syria, Iran, Yemen, Afghanistan, but that doesn’t count.

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Mike Freeman @mfreeman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Second this. Brilliant indeed:

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The petty-ass bullshit this administration inflicts on people just trying to live their livea is truly something to behold

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Ryan CrawCour @ryan.crawcour.social · 01/10/2026

BREAKING NEWS: Tensions between Thor and the Care Bears have escalated rapidly overnight.

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Ruth Burger @ammtuesday.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'm ready for my dog to realize that it's ok for birds to be in the sky.

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Nicole @rolypolycoly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My grandmother worked at the Main Street store for years and Mr. Marcus always talked to my dad when he was a kid. He always emphasized to my dad that business was something you learn on the job so if you go to college, do something in the liberal arts or fine arts to expand your mind.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Neiman Marcus closed its downtown Dallas flagship on Wednesday. The store played a notable role in the history of desegregation in Dallas. Previously, Black shoppers across the US could enter department stores, but they weren't allowed to try on clothes without adhering to certain conditions. 🧵

A notice about the Neiman Marcus store opening in downtown Dallas.

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Mike Freeman @mfreeman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Saw this last night and woke up mad about it. This will make people reluctant to interview and it should. Sneaky, underhanded garbage in USA Today’s part.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

TIL there’s a fish that lives in the lowest depths of the Congo River that has stunted growth, no color pigment, and no eyes. And locally it’s called “mondeli bureau,” which translates to “white man in an office” LMAO

A very small blind pasty white yellowish fish in the palm of someone’s hand.

Lamprologus lethops, a fish that lives in the lower Congo River, is pale and blind like fish that dwell in caves deep underwater.
(Image credit: Courtesy of Melanie Stiassny)

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Republicans : be a bricklayer Also republicans : we’re making mandatory shade and water breaks illegal

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Mike Freeman @mfreeman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

God is this awful. It’s a hop-skip from the ugly laws.

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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 03/10/2026

Thread:

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Virginia Scharff @vscharff.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Justice Aileen Cannon? Consider that when you vote.

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Mike Freeman @mfreeman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Our town does this. It’s fantastic. About 30 families on one street deck out every year. Takes kids about an hour to work through. Abso brilliant.

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

New: Chris Rufo & his co-host devoted a podcast to "The Indian Question," framing Desi people as a problem to be solved. Their "solution?" Mass expulsion. For those allowed to remain: an “assimilation hazing process” w/ instances of “vulgar, defamatory racism" talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chris-r...

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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing

To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...

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Steve Edwards @the-big-quiet.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Official publication day for my new collection Rare Good! Thank you to everyone who pre-ordered and helped me spread the word. You all mean the world to me. ❤️ www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...

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Rare Good - Nebraska Press

Now I saw that I was more than who I thought I was—more than who I had been told I was. There wasn’t anything the diagnosis didn’t touch. In time, even...

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In all seriousness, it's time to stop calling people opposing all this mainstream stuff "centrists" when they are actually trying to split the difference between the center and the radical far right

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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 01/10/2026

The woman has been in prison for 30 years you're overturning a stay because you're bloodthirsty ghouls.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 30/09/2026

perfect Eliezer Yudkowsky burn

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It annoys me greatly how easy it would have been for everything to be okay. Not perfect, not even great, but just 5/10 "I can slog through a day in undisturbed mediocrity without the Health Secretary declaring soap causes autism while the president literally shitposts about his war from the toilet."

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Gobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And once again, real harms imposed on real people must be set aside until after real damage is done in order to privilege the unproven right of Trump to impose those harms

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gg @ggold328.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

its surreal that she is the sec of education

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Ruth Burger @ammtuesday.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Note to self: just because I think it's funny doesn't mean the police think it's funny

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

The fact that the preferred political movement of the free speech set immediately set about establishing “western civics centers” while gutting the rest of the humanities and supports for marginalized students really does tell you what the source of their concerns really were

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ecoRI News @ecorinews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In this week's newsletter: ⚠️ Providence company violated 13 hazardous waste regulations 🏠️ Water emerges as new barrier to affordable housing 💧 Woonsocket is winning at lead-pipe replacement 💰️ Climate solutions abound, the budget to fund them is small bit.ly/4e3tFEd

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hard to imagine what that would be like

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Remember when the president of Cornell got so mad at some anti-Israeli-genocide protestors on campus he tried to hit some of his own students with his car?

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

Again, a *lot* of people wanted to pretend as if what we’re seeing is a “natural” backlash to the censorious “Bad Woke Times™️” offering a somewhat necessary corrective to policies addressing racism which they believe had “went too far”

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Knicks are such a weird cultural thing because the players have absolutely perfect vibes, the fans are amazing, the celebs, all of that is so fun and pure and great and then they are owned by one of the worlds worst human beings who uses the building as a straight up evil lair

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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Mike Freeman @mfreeman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This ends a great Humanities thread and hits a favorite topic, the wedding of toil and dreamish thought. Moby Dick expounds on the dark, fruitful thought labor produced in depth. Frost’s After Apple Picking, Keats’ To Autumn, so many others. It’s life refined, and glorious stuff.

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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am tired of having to pretend that the value of studying my discipline solely rests on the "marketable skills" we teach. Sometimes things are just worth knowing and doing because they make your life bigger and richer.

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Mike Freeman @mfreeman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My fking kingdom for a fking horse!! (Dick the III gets a deuce, just cuz he’s so bad.)

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🇨🇦JOY 🇨🇦 @joycomes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Canyon wrens 12-15cm rocky habitats from southern British Columbia W USA and Mexico. Canyon Wren does not drink water, getting all necessary moisture directly from its insect prey. nest build inside cliffs, female incubates 18 days, male feeds her parents feed 17 days in the nest, 14 days after

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Pope Deep Dish might end up inspiring what the Inquisition could never achieve: sincere conversions. I'm not Catholic or even Christian. But Bob is a light among us, and many will follow him.

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Tom Kimmerer, PhD @tomkimmerer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Joshua trees are uncommon, with a limited range, and threatened by climate change. Read what scientists are doing to stabilize the species.

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Pan: The Reverist @ok2panic.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Least Flycatchers are here. 🪶

A small grayish bird is backlit by the sun. Bright fall colors are the background.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

think all straight people who discoursed at great and punishing length about a western mass lesbian bar should have to give equal airtime to this. it’s your own community this time!

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The Rev. Andy McQuery @frandym.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

MACBETH: I bear a charmèd life, which must not yield To one of woman born. MACDUFF: Despair thy charm, And let the angel whom thou still hast served Tell thee Macduff was from his mother’s womb Untimely ripped. MACBETH: Fuck.

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Dave Palmer @davepalmerusask.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Western Salamander strolling the habitat at the @usask.ca Natural Science Museum today. Seeing these guys always makes me feel like it will be a lucky day. 🦎 #herps

A dark green salamander with black flecks walks across red rocks.

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