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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Itō Jakuchū's 'Frog' of 1790 for me is the iconic image of numbed uncomfortable bafflement at the predicament of existence in the coming modern world, much as Munch's 'Scream' expressed it through horror.

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 28/09/2026

‘In an age of statue-toppling, it is jaw-dropping to see the words “Mussolini Dux” still carved into the 17.5-metre marble obelisk that fronts the sports complex of the Foro Italico in Rome.’ @danigaravelli.bsky.social on the cult of Mussolini. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Dani Garavelli · Diary: Cult of Mussolini

A couple of days before I arrived in Predappio, I read that Hitler’s birthplace in Austria had been compulsorily...

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

seeing it each day as I work on a long piece of writing. If we're going to give up college writing, let's not do it by making a case that it was never useful in the first place. Sometimes it isn't of course-sometimes before AI students were rewarded for putting words on the page that meant little /3

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Virginia Woolf said of him, 'Here comes Tom Eliot in his four piece suit." Could this waistcoat be from that suit?

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

ImPRESSed Yet? I am thrilled to announce that Impressive Textiles: Premodern Printing on Fabric will be published October 27 in print and Open Access with @acmrs.bsky.social, thanks to 30 textile and print scholars, and 1 groundbreaking exhibition @newberrylibrary.bsky.social! #CoverReveal 1/5

Cover art for Impressive Textiles: Premodern Printing on Fabric!

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Dr. Antje Gamble @drantjegamble.bsky.social · 23h

Today, I’ve been sitting with the memories all the students who have disclosed to me they were assaulted. Most had already went to the ‘official’ channels, so they disclosed to me because they needed support that the univ wasn’t officially providing.

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Dutch Cycling Embassy @dutchcycling.nl · 29/09/2026

Rue de Rivoli: 1983 vs now In recent years, Paris has made leaps towards becoming a greener city. A big factor is the transformation of streets. By creating people-first environments, choosing the bike, walking or public transport is made easier and safer. 📸 via Ingwar Perowanowitsch

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Renatus Deckert @renatusdeckert.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Am 2. Oktober lese ich bei der Langen Nacht der Demokratie in Pforzheim aus Victor Klemperers Tagebuch 1933-1945 „Ich will Zeugnis ablegen bis zum letzten“. 18:30 Uhr im Gemeindezentrum Herz-Jesu-Kirche. Es würde mich sehr freuen, euch da zu sehen! 👉🏼 www.langenachtderdemokratie-bw.de/veranstaltun...

Titel des Buches "Ich will Zeugnis ablegen bis zum letzten. Tagebücher 1933-1945" von Victor Klemperer, erschienen im Aufbau Verlag. Das Cover zieren ein Porträt von Victor Klemperer und seine Unterschrift.

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Roman Sheremeta @rshereme.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Horrific video out of Kyiv shows scientists and researchers jumping out of windows after a russian strike on Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences.

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Rusni_pizda @rusni-pizda.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hitting the Academy of Sciences is the point, not a misfire. Moscow bombs labs and archives because a nation that cant think is easier to rule. Additional interceptors, and let them pay for the rubble.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 29/09/2026

Russia pounds Ukraine’s Kyiv after deadly strike on Academy of Sciences aje.news/59bce8

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

college for all, college for all

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 28/09/2026

Last month, we refurbished 10 tennis courts in Crotona Park — the only public tennis courts in the Bronx with lights for night play. We stopped by recently to see how things were going. Thank you to NYJTL, USTA and Yonex for helping us deliver high-quality public spaces that New Yorkers deserve.

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Slavko Bogdanov @slavkobogdanov.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m citing Ole Rømer’s work on the speed of light measurement from 1676 in a paper I’m working on. “Philosophers have been labouring for many years to decide by some Experience, whether the action of Light be conveyed in an instance to distant places, or whether it requireth time.”

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A demonstration concerning the motion of light, communicated from Paris, in the journal des scavans, and here made English

Abstract. Philosophers have been labouring for many years to decide by some Experience,whether the action of light be conveyed in an instance to distant pl

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ニドカオル @tsuinosumika.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

おはよう🌞ございますニラの花でございます去年とは違う場所で見つけましたなんでしょうニラと分かった途端にあの匂いがしてる気がする今日は病院で血糖値測ってきます乞うご期待！

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Given this appalling response from university administration, I have no choice but to declare a new policy directive…implementing an immediate moratorium on all student event & special event permits, including, but not limited to Greek life.” - Mayor of Ithaca, actually doin’ shit

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Ithaca Mayor responds to reopened sexual assault case

ITHACA, N.Y. (WETM) – Robert G. Cantelmo, Mayor of Ithaca, has issued a statement on suspending Greek life at Cornell University until certain official procedures are put into place. Below is the s…

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Rothaí @rothaiocht.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Anything about college presidents driving over students’ feet on purpose?

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I remember a really frustrating conversation with a generally decent cishet white guy about a news story where a woman was roofied. he went off about wishing he could beat that guy up to avenge her, and I was like "how about start with calling out your friends' sexist tweets?" and he was like 😳

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AZ Faust @azfaust.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I need more physician scientists to absorb this message. Do not put your data into any LLM system.

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is a great, and horrifying, read.

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Kinehora @kinehora.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Maybe these are questions we add to confirmation hearings. “Did you grow up in a segregated cult? Did you grow up in a sex cult? Did you grow up in a cult at all please for the love of god why can’t anything be normal?”

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 28/09/2026

Months after the idea of directly using Russian assets was shot down in Brussels, Sweden led a new push on Aug. 27 to reopen the question as a way to deliver new support to Ukraine without hurting EU taxpayers and voters.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

US social media companies are interfering in the Brazilian elections in favour of the Far Right’s Flávio Bolsonaro. Meta is the latest. It’s just blocked the campaign account of President Lula in the final stretch of the election.

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Meta restringe la cuenta de Lula y su partido alerta por posible injerencia extranjera

De cara a las elecciones en Brasil, Lula enfrenta a Meta por restringir su cuenta mientras su partido alerta por posible injerencia extranjera.

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Jeremy Diamond ☕️ @dmnd.me · 28/09/2026

Yeah as a survivor you hate to see it progress to late stage. Too late to cure. The condition can only be managed.

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Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Or, just the MOST amazing book you’ve read in grad school (or thereabouts)?

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Gaijin Mommy @gaijinmommy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Tokyo in a drop of rain.

Bokeh city reflected more clearly, if upside down, in a raindrop about to fall from a rose this morning.

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Frank Horvat High Fashion with Iris Bianchi and Agnès Varda Harper's Bazaar, Paris, 1962

Bianchi in a leopard-skin patterned outfit. Crouching behind her is Varda with a smile on her face.

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Fuck all's well that ends well

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Winter's Tale: Exit, pursued by a fucking bear

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Marie Ruiz-Vidal @ruizvidal7.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Maintenant

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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you are a graduate student in the humanities (construed as broadly as possible), what is the MOST EXCITING book published in the last five years to you? Please repost if you’re not a graduate student!

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Lucy Munro @lucycmunro.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yes, yes, yes - it’s absolutely wonderful.

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

A tour de force portrait of Anthony Blunt by Lord Snowdon, 1963 "Blunt has literally put in intelligible order central rooms in the house of Western art." - George Steiner Steiner ends "Cleric of Treason", his Blunt essay in the New Yorker, "Damn the man." www.newyorker.com/magazine/198...

Blunt holds up a small slide print of a painting, which is perfectly projected on his face.

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The mayoral discourse in Berlin continues to be *utterly* unhinged. If the AfD had topped the polls the narrative would be “finally the people have been heard!” but since the Left won, it’s all “Queer Islamofascists and Woke are trying to conquer us with, er, affordable rents!”

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Condemnation is pure hot air if in the next breath you’re telling everyone you’re doing your best to give the fascists what they want, just without the masks

In fact, these are scenes we have not seen on British streets. Immigration needs to be deal with, I will be the first to say that and we are dealing with it. The boat crossings have been halved since six years ago, net migration is down massively.

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Jay Geller @jaygeller.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"AfD, CDU ban new Holocaust 'stumbling stones' in Heidenau [ . . . ] The initiators of the Heidenau ban argue that, while remembering Holocaust victims is an essential task, the placement of stones leads to 'passersby walking over or even stepping onto the names of the victims.'" My thoughts below.

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AfD, CDU ban new Holocaust 'stumbling stones' in Heidenau

Activists, politicians and representatives of Holocaust victims reacted with anger after the center-right CDU party joined forces with the AfD to ban new Stolpersteine (stumbling stones) in the easter...

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In case you were in any doubt that they're Nazis.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Pope Innocent III,who died in 1216, spoke of a certain kind of older man, who is "easily provoked", "will believe anything and question nothing", is "stingy and greedy" and "praises the good old days and hates the present." Reform UK's voter base has been knocking around for a very long time.

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Timothy Garton Ash @fromtga.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In London on October 12? Interested in Europe? (and want a signed copy of my new book?) Do register for this www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/can-europe...

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Can Europe Survive? And if so, How?

Inaugural Keynote Speech of King's European Week 2026 — Futuring Europe in Turbulent Times: Strategic Thinking for Acting Today

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kura @kuraspiele.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

本日の散歩道中からエナガ #birds🪶

Two Long-tailed Tits perched on lichen-covered branches, facing each other in a natural setting.
エナガ

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Paul Bavister @paulbavister.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

torchlit passionflower #photographer

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Vivian Maier (1926-2009), posthumously critically acclaimed, prolific US street photographer #womensart

Monochrome photograph featuring the photographer reflected in the metal wheel hub of a VW vehicle

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Detroit Tigers (Unoffical) @nottigers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

How can you not be romantic about baseball?

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

#Caturday Gustav in the Garden

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Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Another reflection on AI & writing at Harvard, from a former writing tutor trained by @janerosenzweig.bsky.social “AI trains us, more than anything, to parrot the AI voice. I’d rather we teach students how to find their own.” Well said! www.harvardmagazine.com/commentary/h...

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I Used to Think AI Could Make Me a Better Writer | Harvard Magazine

A former Harvard College writing tutor changes her mind on LLMs.

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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 27/09/2026

Fewest women I've ever seen in a single event space, and I cover comic conventions for a living.

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"Julia" shared this photo with us from the carrots in the Cuyama CA area. "We are paid piece rate and we only are given 4 hours of work a day. This makes it impossible to cover our expenses. The high was 97° when this photo was taken." #WeFeedYou

A carrot field where you see the Bunches of harvested carrots laid out

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If you'd listened in to the conversations between Himmler and his inner circle at Wewelsburg, you'd have been certain they were a gang of third-rate cranks. They killed millions. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wewelsb...

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