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Birder K @birderk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

After sunset, the sky was full of happy little clouds in happy colors. #sky #sunsets

Sunset sky with lots of cloud textures in pinks, lavenders, and purples.

Brighter sunset sky with lots of cloud textures in pinks, lavenders, and purples.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

In honor of Dolly and her commitment to getting books to kids, tell me about a book you read as a child that changed your life. I’ll start: so many, but tonight maybe I’ll say A WRINKLE IN TIME, a book that taught me anger wasn’t wrong.

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Action News 5 @actionnews5.com · 26/08/2026

The Empire State Building in New York paid tribute to Dolly Parton by lighting up in a sparkling pink in honor of the music legend.

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JoshD @joshd.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Also in Milwaukee

The Hoan Bridge in Milwaukee, lit pink on August 25 2026 in honor of Dolly Parton.

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Dyqik @dyqik.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is the ideal male body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like

Komatsu repair guy holding a small orange kitten wearing a tiny construction safety hat (the kitten is wearing the safety hat, the guy has Komatsu baseball cap)

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

A book containing some of my work was chosen and given out by Dolly's Imagination Library. It's the highlight of my career.

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 25/08/2026

HEY IT'S A VISHKANYA BOOK OMG ALSO LOOK AT THIS COVER 🐍 (I became fascinated with them while writing my short story for @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social -- THE MAIDEN OF THE SERPENT MOON, which also starred a girl assassin!)

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 25/08/2026

HAPPY EXTREMELY EARLY DAGGERBOUND PUBLICATION DAY!

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People Magazine @people.com · 25/08/2026

🔗: bit.ly/4qC1fWV Legendary singer-songwriter and country music icon Dolly Parton has died at the age of 80. Her nephew revealed the news in a Aug. 25 Instagram video. 📷: Getty

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mimmoth @mimmothteaparty.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

It's growing on me. I found a Rarity-81 word worth 94 pts in OUTLIER. EAGLE EYES · 852 points · 10 rare words. Only 3 players have ever found it in all of Outlier. 6 finds no one else found today. OUTLIER: the daily word hunt where the rarest words win. Can you beat me? playoutlier.com/s/26XJ7Z

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 24/08/2026

If you live in a state where you don't have to produce the correct ID to vote, you have no idea how fortunate you are! It's not the same for a lot of us. If you want a concrete thing you can do to help turn out people who WANT to vote, here you go! bsky.app/profile/vote...

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Brian Cook @2ndadminstate.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

For anyone who may be a class member in Bartz v Anthropic but not be following @courtneymilan.com, see below ⬇️

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 24/08/2026

I have sent the following questions via email to the settlement adminstration and have been told this will get it escalated to the appropriate person. I deleted some stuff in the beginning of the email identifying myself as a class member just b/c I'm not trying to make it a matter of record.

Thave a few questions about the settlement as it stands.
1. Is the Effective Date of the settlement August 20th, 2026?
Further explanation: The settlement documents provide this: "Effective Date" means one business day following the later of: (a) the date upon which the time expires for filing or noticing any appeal of the Final Judgment; (b) if there is an appeal or appeals (other than ones solely with respect to the Fee Award and/or service awards), the date of completion, in a manner that finally affirms and leaves in place the Final Judgment without any material modification, of all proceedings arising out of the appeals) (including, but not limited to, the expiration of all deadlines for motions for reconsideration or petitions for review and/or certiorari, all proceedings ordered on remand, and all proceedings arising out of any subsequent appeals) following decisions on remand); or (c) the date of final dismissal of any appeal or the final
dismissal of any proceeding on certiorari with respect to the Final Judgment. The time for appeals is now over. While there are appeals pending, those appeals explicitly state that they are solely with respect to the fee awards (and the parties appealing have no standing to appeal anything other than the fee awards). Thus, the only appeals are solely with respect to the fee award, and
a final judgment on the merits as to Anthropic has been left in place without material modification.
Please let me know if this is not the case, and if so, what the basis is for stating that the Effective Date is something other than August 20th.

2. Has Anthropic now paid $1.05 billion into the settlement fund?
Per the settlement documents, Anthropic must make four installment payments to the settlement.
* $300,000,000: within five days of Preliminary Approval. This has already passed.
(i) $300,000,000: within five days of Final Approval. This has also already passed.
(iii) $450,000,000: within 12 months of Preliminary Approval (which has not passed) OR within thirty days of the later of Final Approval OR a Qualified
Financing Event. Anthropic raised $30 billion in Series G funding in February of 2026, and so the latter condition has been met. We are now more than 30 days after Final
Approval. (iv) $450,000,000: I am pretty sure that Anthropic's series H funding does NOT meet the requirement of a Qualified Financing Event because it was not
subsequent to Scheduled Payment 1, and so this amount has not yet been paid in.
By my calculations, Anthropic should have paid $1.05 billion into the Settlement Fund.
Has this happened?

3. If the Effective Date is August 20th, 2026, should we expect the first payment, distributing the amount received to date from Anthropic, within 28 days of
the Effective Date, which would be on or around September 17, 2026?
The settlement documents state: Disbursement of Cash Payments from Settlement Fund. Within twenty-eight (28) days of the Effective Date, or such other subsequent date or dates as the Court may set or Class Counsel shall determine, the Settlement Administrator shall send Settlement Payments from the
Settlement Fund to Class Members.
Please let me know if there will be a different date than September 17, 2026, and if so, what that date will be.
4. Will the fees and costs allowed by the judge be removed in their entirety from that first payment, or will a pro rata portion be taken from each payment?
5. Do the settlement administrators plan to hold back a portion of the fees disputed on appeal from that first payment?
Thank you so much for your time.
Sincerely,
Heidi S. Bond

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Ryan @ryanhumphrey.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

It occurs to me that Death would write annoyed letters to the editor of the Ankh-Morpork Times protesting the very phrase “escapes death”. Or, at the very least, have some pointed observations about metaphors to share with them once they inevitably meet

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mimmoth @mimmothteaparty.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Why yes, I do remember that fanfic.

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mimmoth @mimmothteaparty.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

My brain really likes that snack drawer organization

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Werner Herzog's Bear @jasontebbe.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

One of the quirks of teaching is that it's seasonal, like farming, except we plant in the fall and harvest in the spring. We ought to have joyous back to school rituals to bring good favor on our planting.

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James Petruzzi @hawaiianimages.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

For the #BirdOfTheDay theme #BirdInABush , hard to get much more in a bush than this I'iwi feasting on mamane nectar.... #birds 🦉🌿📷

An I'iwi (small vermillion honeycreeper with a long curved bill) perched amid yellow mamane flowers, with head cocked up towards the sky and tongue extended into a backlit blossom

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/08/2026

In which a cynical scoundrel tries to blackmail an idealistic suffragette. /jb Amazon: www.amazon.com/Suffr... Apple: itunes.apple.com/us/... Nook: www.barnesand... Kobo: www.kobo.com/us/en/e... #HistoricalRomance #Romance #Romancelandia #HEA #BrothersSinister

The cover for The Suffragette Scandal by Courtney Milan: a red-haired woman in a blue gown. Text: Huzzah! Suffragettes!

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Patrick @watchinthesky.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Another Mr Allen’s showing off iridescent throat throat feathers. #BirdOfTheDay #iridescence #birds

A male Allen’s hummingbird is perched on a small trig facing the camera. The bird is mostly brown but his throat feathers are iridescent red. The background is black.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 20/08/2026

Hey #Bugsky! Look what Native Plant Guy found in the garden! I don’t know my local species well enough to know if this is a standard species or if it’s got the pink grasshopper mutation. Input appreciated!

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Birder K @birderk.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Listennnnnn!!!

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Birder K @birderk.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

A couple videos stitched together from last week’s shorbs. #shorebirds #waders #fall #migration

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 19/08/2026

A little bat tells me that you can now preorder the Astarion audiobook, narrated by Neil Newbon, wherever you order your audiobooks! Should be on all the platforms! www.amazon.com/dp/B0GTDBSYWZ

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Baldur's Gate 3: Astarion

Amazon.com: Baldur's Gate 3: Astarion (Audible Audio Edition): T. Kingfisher, Neil Newbon, Random House Audio: Audible Books & Originals

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

It’s their squidmobile now

A seagulll glares at me in front of the squidmobile

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mimmoth @mimmothteaparty.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

[Headdesk.] I would like for my likes and other marks to stick.

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The Octopus Gallery @octopusgallery.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

We’ll look at that, the listing is live! www.32auctions.com/organization...

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Custom Quilt

Auction item 'Custom Quilt' hosted online at 32auctions.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

hi!! yes!! i have a book out in January 2027 (still no cover, but uhhhh hopefully soon) What happens when a perfectly planned life crashes into beautiful chaos and unexpected connection(s)? 🎸 HE'S JUST SOME GUY 🥁 1/19/27 It is availabl efor preorder! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/807984...

A graphic for the title of my new book HE'S JUST SOME GUY, out January 2027. There are a list of tropes on either side of the title

Queer Love Triangle
Rock Stars
Fake Dating
Meddling Aunties
Banter
Oh No, He's Hot!
Oh No, She's Hot!
creating

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Oh, he’ll be back. No Neil yeet is forever.

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Ben @thetaylors.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I #voted today in the #Alaska primary. Still a few hours left Alaskans. Go make your voice heard.

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Constance Lee Menefee @conniemenefee.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Painted lady butterfly on zinnia #Butterfly #Inverts 🌿

Multi-petaled pink zinnia with an orange, white spotted butterfly, wings open

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 18/08/2026

post more about your books or I'll kick you in the ankles

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Christina Orlando @cxorlando.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Hello, book people! I am the book content editor for Reactor Mag and I'm looking for sci-fi, fantasy, horror, romantasy, and speculative books coming out in 2027! If you have an adult or YA SFF/H book out next year (or publicist), share the link/info here!

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Kay Orchison @kayorchison.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Talk about your book on here. Talk about it plenty. If I want to read it, it will remind me on the rare occasion that I have a book's worth of money to spare that yours exists and is one I would like to read. If I don't, I'll scroll past it. Sometimes I'll boost a book post, sometimes just scroll.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 17/08/2026

there are a lot of things on the banned lists that I don't like to read. through incredible personal struggle, I have developed a fool-proof solution: I don't read it.

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BillThePony @billthepony.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Its giving "parents rights" Parents don't have rights. Children do. Parents have responsibilities. Its a vision of the world where women, children, and other "lesser" people are property

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 17/08/2026

Last week I had drove 4 hrs, shot 2723 shots over 7 hours with 2 cameras, hardly slept, then drove back to LA, had a dentist and doctor's appointment Worth it This is the Perseids Meteor Shower over the Milky Way in Mt Pinos with 100s of my newest friends 🌌 PDFs: drive.google.com/drive/u/0/fo...

A foreground of dozens of cars, including a camper right in the middle, and someone on the right side with their parking lights on, in front of a mountain and trees. above that is the milky way with air pollution which fades into a larger star field, that looks like old pictures of space. That star field was taken with a nikon lens from the 70s so it gives a different sense, and the milky way was taken with a new 20mm lens, 14 shots, merged. the retro sky is 2 shots. there are 14 meteors that mostly focus on the center of the picture, but these aren't where they were in the sky. I shot 8 to 10 different areas of the sky that night. All meteors but one were with my new camera and new lens.

The Milky Way has a flare on the stars due to moisture on my camera lens, which I kept given the chaos of the situation. It took me 50 minutes to capture 14 usable milky way pictures because so many people had car lights on. 60 second exposures on the milky way, tracked in move shoot move, 10-15 seconds on the meteors.

This took about 8 hours to edit.

Milky way light pollution processed in GraXpert, foreground stitched in lightroom, milky way stitched in Kolor Autopano Giga, saturated and recolored in lightroom; everything finalized in photoshop, including the meteors. In total 19 layers and about 33 final shots used of the original 2723.

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NPS Cambot @nps-cambot.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Valle Grande from the Cabin District, Valles Caldera National Preserve #NPS #NationalParkService #VallesCalderaNationalPreserve

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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

the little legs kicking

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Put my hand on a bison rubbing stone today. It’s been sitting here since it was dropped by a retreating glacier at the end of the last ice age. The sides are smoothed from generations of bison rubbing on it. Good to think about that now and then