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Rufus's Person

@mikesapoz.bsky.social
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Dad, lawyer for the good guys, and person for the world's silliest greyhound. In the prisoner's dilemma, I always choose cooperation.

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burnt undertones @burntundertones.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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king's co-op boo store 👻 @kingsbookstore.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
a nobel prize is cool i guess but Anne Carson also received a Sappho finger puppet from yours truly and just look at that smile
anne carson with a Sappho finger puppet next to a bearded bookseller
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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 08/10/2026
Just in! New Nobel Prize laureate in literature Anne Carson stands surprised in her kitchen in Reykjavík, Iceland. Stay tuned for our exclusive interview with her coming soon. Join us in congratulating our 2026 literature laureate - send your greetings in the comments.
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
@CethanLeahy

Me: oh wow, this shop has everything my heart desires!

Spooky shopkeeper: yes, I will warn you... every item comes with a price.

Me: yes, I know how shops work

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Spooky Shopkeeper: The price may be more than you expect to pay.

Me: Yes, I know how US taxes work, too.

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Shopkeeper, increasingly exasperated: I'm trying to tell you that I'm evil and offering these wares with no regard for the harm they will do!

Me, also increasingly exasperated: I know what capitalism is too goddammit
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United Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This morning, the D&D team and Magic's Studio X informed our leadership of our intent to unionize. We love the games we make and the work we do, and unionizing is how we protect that work. unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/dnd-stu...
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Dungeons & Dragons and Studio X Join United Wizards of the Coast - CWA
Today, October 6, 2026, the designers, artists, writers, producers, and workers behind Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, Duel Masters, D&D Beyond, and countless other games are uniting in soli...
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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 06/10/2026
We love a union around these parts!
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laurierking.bsky.social @laurierking.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Organizer Kyoko Takayama (@kyoko4us) put together a list for CA voters. Because before we can vote for a matter, it helps to know who supports it. #vote2027 #FollowTheMoney @IndivisibleGuide
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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately
Hello Bone Colleagues, 
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans. 

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine 
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.
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Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
My union has been lobbying for a California-equivalent of NIH to be established with bonds. Newsom recently signed a bill putting that plan on the 2028 ballot. Funding will be open to competitive proposals from all institutions in the state. Grads and postdocs will serve on its board. (2/3)
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Snailspace @ehwells.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
No cheating. Share the last photo of the sky from your camera roll.
Moon rising in a lavender sky over trees and house roofs.
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
TIL "She sells seashells by the seashore" is (likely) about Mary Anning. Despite transforming the science of paleontology, she had no official capacity as a scientist and sold seashells to make ends meet as men profited off her discoveries monetarily and professionally. youtube.com/shorts/2B8Iw...
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The Real Origins Behind This Famous Tongue Twister
YouTube video by Today I Learned Science
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Rufus's Person @mikesapoz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I still want the Monty Python secret lairs reprinted, since I was on vacation that day
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Rufus's Person @mikesapoz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Brett Leonhardt did it before it was cool
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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 01/10/2026
not helping, @theonion.com
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Saturn Rises Behind A World of Haze - From Ian Regan - flic.kr/p/2fpiy2Z
The Saturn image—captured on May 4, 2005—was created using raw monochrome images taken with the Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera (WAC) via red, green and blue filters. Assembly by Val Klavans.

The Titan image—captured on March 31, 2005—was created in a manner similar to that of the Saturn composite. Assembly by Val Klavans.

These two color composites were merged in Paint Shop Pro 9, using a special 'mask' layer, created by Ian Regan and Val Klavans.

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Credit: NASA / JPL / SSI / Ian Regan / Val Klavans
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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 30/09/2026
People always mix up Jonathan Swift and his sister Taylor
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
The first panel shows Sarah, the protagonist, holding a red ball labeled "A SILLY MEME".
The second panel shows Sarah taking the ball and going through a door labeled "GROUP CHAT".
The third panel shows a group of women sitting together and consoling one woman in the center. The woman in the center is saying "...And that's how it happened. It's been the worst day of my life."
The fourth panel shows Sarah standing in the doorway behind them awkwardly holding the red ball.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Rufus's Person @mikesapoz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Whereas I have a huge advantage: I played way too much Micro League Baseball during my wasted youth, and the '73 A's were great in that game
Screen from the MS Dos game Micro League Baseball where the player can select from great teams of the past, including the 1973 A's
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Rufus's Person @mikesapoz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
That, my good sir, is Vida Blue.
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Rufus's Person @mikesapoz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I know who it is, but then, I am very old. Should I say? His last name is a minor pun for Magic players.
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Teri 🏳️‍⚧️ @silentlyclicking.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
GM Bluesky! I should be getting a cold front next week which means more shooting for me! How do we feel about dragonflies? Here is a handheld in flight shot from yesterday. #Canon #Photography #ECK #Bugsky
dragon fly in flight
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’m seeing a lot of posts about talking to your sons in light of the Cornell article. And yes. Talk to your sons. Here are some things you should say, based on anti-violence research about what they need to hear:
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Rufus's Person @mikesapoz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Vida?
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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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Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Free tomatoes - Road 29 and Highway 113 in Davis CA
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Joshua Wallace @wildwallacephoto.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Northwestern Gartersnake along the Oregon Coast. It's always such a treat to see snakes on the beach
A red striped Gartersnake on a rocky beach along the Oregon Coast
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Craig Jenkins @craigsj.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
a ted talk i give guys ten years older than many of you goes that in this weird ass sham age of 50 year old mfs switch up over night there's not even societal pressure to creep into the crypt the same person you've always been and you leaving a lot of the good kind of fun on the table in the mindset
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Rufus's Person @mikesapoz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I just got praise for helping on a volunteer graphic design project, and had to explain that when I did High School Newspaper, we would lay it out physically using paper at the printer's office
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Rufus's Person @mikesapoz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
little friend spider on our rose bush just rolled up into a ball to avoid us and became a sporb
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Rufus's Person @mikesapoz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I'm not ashamed.
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Rufus's Person @mikesapoz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I don't have a bag recommendation, but I can share this: I found the perfect bag, just as you described, and used it for about a year and a half when the straps detached. It was a wonderful design, but cheaply made. So I took it to my local shoe repair for reinforcing. Still using and loving it.
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Rufus's Person @mikesapoz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Right, and don't assume the survey means they're actually seriously considering it. The survey may mean that a Right Thinking Person at WOTC needs to compile some data they can use to convince some other people in the building that this is a Very Bad Idea.
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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Hobbies are how we fight the Darkness
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
California is weaning itself off fossil gas, fast. Gas-fired electricity generation in California fell by 26% in the first half of 2026, as utility-scale solar, batteries and the new SunZia wind project feed power in via a dedicated transmission line. buff.ly/QWQoLPc #ShareGoodNewsToo
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How California Is Kicking Its Natural Gas Habit - Inside Climate News
Solar and batteries matter, but they’re not the only reasons for the steep decline in gas-fired electricity.
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A drawing from this evening. Something that might be a bird in flight. I never know, when I start, what I’m going to draw (and sometimes, when I get done, I still don’t). But I very often wind up drawing bird-like things.
Art. Black and white ink pen drawing, made of abstract shapes ands lines, that might look like a bird with a long, sharp beak flapping a wing above its head in mid-flight. The bird needs a name, so will call him Ruthanos. He has a long, sharp beak that looks perfect for spearing fish or hamsters. His wing spreads it above his head, and his leg trails behind him like a dingo chasing a kangaroo (never getting closer, never getting farther). He is dynamic, in the way of a toddler before the first bite of ice cream: on the very cliff’s edge of kinetic catalogs.

God speed, Ruthanos. It’s gonna be a ride.
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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"Call me by your name? You'll have to, you're so old you'll have forgotten mine! Ohohohohoho!"
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 16/11/2025
Got a couple dozen crows flying in front of a rainbow, best one was when it was faint, so really had to edit. Not sure if I missed the mark. Edited / original 🪶
A super vibrant rainbow behind a crow in flight An uncropped version of the same picture where you can hardly see the rainbow
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 26/09/2026
My top 4 Crow Full Moon shots tonight. P L E N T Y of video to edit someday! 🪶 🐦‍⬛
a crow flies in front of the moon, greyish sky, the crow is flapping their wings downtwo crows fly in front and near the moon, in the middle and the bottom left, a snowy egret is out of focus below the moon, greyish skya crow flies in front of the moon, dark sky, the crow is flapping their wings up but not fully extendeda crow flies in front of the moon, dark purple sky, the crow is in full cruise mode
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Kaye Elling @k000.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
OMG I've just realised what Google's AI search interference model is: An automated mansplainer. Think about it: Unsolicited ✅ Confident ✅ Frequently wrong ✅
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Rufus's Person @mikesapoz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Joust-Fandom tag on AO3 has no stories. That’s impressive! Even QBert-Fandom has five stories. But Joust has none at all. The world is ready…
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Rufus's Person @mikesapoz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I once flamed someone so hard my friends on the forum made a t shirt with a porcupine on it to memorialize the event
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I got to hold a one month baby today and so that should hold me over for a few months. Always willing to hold a new human, if anyone is looking.
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Most riveting thing I've seen all week
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Teri 🏳️‍⚧️ @silentlyclicking.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is a fairly old one and I honestly forgot about it but I love that you can see the green feathers properly. #Canon #Birds #Photography #ECK
Little Green Heron perched on a branch
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Teri 🏳️‍⚧️ @silentlyclicking.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
For #birdoftheday I figured being called the least all your life can’t be fun, and this is as #borb as they get. I including them in that tag too! They always fit for #brown #Canon #Birds #photography #ECK
Least Grebe
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Rufus's Person @mikesapoz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In general, if I think opposing counsel is violating an order, I would stop the deposition and get a ruling. It's honestly hard for me to imagine the situation where the "enforce a limitation" clause in 30(c)(2) would come up. That's just now how you'd do it.
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Rufus's Person @mikesapoz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I'm looking at 30(c)(2) and I'd never noticed before that it also says "to enforce a limitation ordered by the court." I've never heard of that coming up. Before relying on that, I'd make sure the court's order expressly says "counsel may instruct the witness not to answer questions about X."
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