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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I feel like this must have been done at some point, response poems are a storied tradition, but anyway I wrote "Margaret, Bringing Fresh Flowers" today and thought I'd share
Uncle Gerard, do you remember how,
when I was a kid, you found me crying
and I told you it didn't seem fair how all the nice leaves
had to die in the winter when I loved them so much;
and you told me, well, it gets worse from here,
and besides, it's not really the leaves,
you're a smart kid, they'll be back next spring,
but in the meantime you're right of course,
all kinds of things are going to die
and die and die and die and die and die,
your whole life, and it doesn't get easier,
it gets harder, because eventually you realize
all those dead hands go down pointing a finger at you,
and that's actually why you're sad, see,
because in a sense you're next,
even if it takes a while for next to get here? 
And do you remember
how I said, Jesus Uncle Gerry,
can't a person be sad for a tree sometimes,
just sad about a tree?
Well, anyway,
you were probably right,
and you know this already,
because I tell you this every time I come here
but I suspect it's harder to remember things
where you are now
so I'm telling you again,
just in case.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
let’s hear it for executive function
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I don't even know what to say. This is real, this is true, so, like, thank you all, from the bottom of my heart. This took over 25 years to happen so if there's any lesson here it's either "keep at it, who knows" or "many people are divorced"
image of a gold record superimposed on part of Vaughan Oliver's iconic cover for the Mountain Goats' "Tallahassee" album, with a banner beneath it showing the entire album cover, an RIAA seal, and the text: Presented to THE MOUNTAIN GOATS to commemorate the RIAA Gold certification of more than 500,000 copies of the 4AD single "No Children"
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least weasel @mostweasel.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
GOD DAMN i wanna be in the room for SIX LONG SONGS
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
since apparently JKR is spouting nonsense about "gametes" again, here is my in depth primer on why anti-trans groups have become so obsessed with gametes & why the actual science does not support their claims (no paywall): juliaserano.medium.com/why-are-gend...
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Why Are “Gender Critical” Activists So Fond of Gametes?
plus my new video “Trans People and Biological Sex: What the Science Says”
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least weasel @mostweasel.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
well this is really disappointing :/ i liked her work.
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least weasel @mostweasel.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
the main thing i have learned from working full time is that no one should ever work full time
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Quakers in Britain @quaker.org.uk · 01/04/2026
We oppose the death penalty without exception, in every country and under every circumstance. Israel's new death penalty law that applies only to Palestinians is not justice: it is discrimination enshrined in law. It is apartheid. www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
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Statement from Quakers in Britain on Israel’s death penalty law
Quakers in Britain are profoundly troubled by the Israeli Knesset's passage of a law making the death penalty the default sentence for Palestinians convicted of deadly attacks, which puts the lives of...
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Newfound Planets @i-find-planets.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
You have discovered a planet. It is so far away. It is wee, with icy mountains. I want to be joyous there.
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Quakers in Britain @quaker.org.uk · 12/03/2026
"This war was not inevitable. It was a calculated choice by people with power who believe that might is right. Our experience of God teaches us that this is wrong." @peace-campaigns.quaker.org.uk explains why we need to keep saying no to war. www.quaker.org.uk/blog/don-t-b...
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Don’t be a stepping stone for war
In the face of escalating war, Hannah Brock Womack shares how to keep pushing back against the idea that conflict is inevitable.
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Quakers in Britain @quaker.org.uk · 08/03/2026
Margaret Fell was a key figure in the early Quaker movement. For #InternationalWomensDay, Rhiannon Grant reflects on women's religious leadership and Margaret Fell's 'Women's Speaking Justified' www.quaker.org.uk/blog/women-s-prea…
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Women's preaching still justified
For International Women's Day, Rhiannon Grant reflects on early Quaker support for women's religious leadership ahead of a modern translation of Margaret Fell's seminal text.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
I have adored Mary Chapin Carpenter's work for decades. One of the great honors of my life to collaborate with her on this single of two covers of songs we love, out today! themountaingoats.bandcamp.com/album/put-th...
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Put the Message in the Box / Migrations, by Mary Chapin Carpenter & the Mountain Goats
2 track album
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
At least 1,097 civilians had been killed in Iran so far, including 181 children.
CNN: More than 1,000 civilians killed in Iran since war began, rights group reports
By Helen Regan
More than 1,000 people, including children, have been killed in Iran since the war began on Saturday, according to US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA).
The rights group said as of Tuesday afternoon ET, at least 1,097 civilians had been killed, including 181 children.
More than 5,400 civilians, including 100 children, have been injured, HRANA reported.
The group said its report is preliminary and is veritying hundreds more reported deaths.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 21/02/2026
A maternity ward doctor donated his own blood during surgery to keep a pregnant patient alive. One woman gained fewer than 10 pounds over her entire pregnancy. Another collapsed and had seizures during labor. (Published Dec. 2025)
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What I Saw at a Maternity Ward in Kenya After the U.S. Cut Off Food and Foreign Aid
Photographs tell a story of two mothers determined to help their babies gain enough weight to leave the hospital — only to face little to no food again.
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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
🧪🏺 Update - authors have new paper showing how useless gen- #AI is for archaeological illustration. All 400 images were multiply inaccurate (physically, socially, technologically, environmentally), even with improved prompts. JUST USE HUMAN EXPERTS & ARTISTS www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
screengran of figure from paper showing four different generated images of a "day in the life of a Neanderthal". All images contain significant inaccuracies from physical characteristics (extremely primitive) to material culture (glass containers), and the lack of women and children is also obvious.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/02/2026
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.
A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.
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404 Media @404media.co · 25/01/2026
And what is happening inside ICE detention centers? 404 Media also learned that the federal government claimed that the day after it was sued for allegedly abusing detainees at an ICE detention center, a “system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility.
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ICE Says Critical Evidence In Abuse Case Was Lost In 'System Crash' a Day After It Was Sued
The government also said "we don't have resources" to retain all footage and that plaintiffs could supply "endless hard drives that we could save things to."
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
CBP chief Bovino has confirmed that the officers who executed Alex Pretti in the street yesterday are not only *not on administrative leave,* they have all been reassigned to other jurisdictions and are all on the street today. This is totally unheard of for any officer-involved shooting
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Jay Kirell @jasonkirell.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed. www.startribune.com/detained-by-...
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Detained by ICE, two women became first responders during agent’s seizure
The women say they guided agents through the emergency, later raising concerns about medical protocols, weapons safety and accountability.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
it should not surprise anybody who follows my work that I wrote a bunch more songs last year. (Peter Balkan was written in 2024.) Here's one we're releasing early in honor of Bob Weir. Enjoy -- we're donating proceeds to the American Cancer Society. themountaingoats.bandcamp.com/track/going-...
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Going to Fennario, by the Mountain Goats
track by the Mountain Goats
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CharliCenter-CX @cambrianera.radical.town · 06/01/2026
This wheel is to the boy squirrel the way that the football is to Charlie Brown and it still makes me laugh every time he tries to use it only to be immediately spun.
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404 Media @404media.co · 06/01/2026
Translation is a delicate work that requires deep knowledge of both languages. Nuances and subtleties—two aspects of writing AIs are notoriously terrible at—can be lost or deranged if not carefully considered during the translation process.
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HarperCollins Will Use AI to Translate Harlequin Romance Novels
The publisher is teaming with a company that claims its proprietary AI can ‘provide 2 to 3 times higher quality translations’ than other large language models.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
When you get the reputation of being the guy with the encouraging words on New Year's Eve, it can start to come through as a little pressure -- what if the situation on the ground is worse than usual? what if people are more scared than they usually are, and with cause? what use are good vibes then?
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Ryan Howe @ryanhowe.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Sitting a stewing in frustration isn't nearly as cathartic as just designing a poster. Let's see how often I remember that in 2026.
Graphic saying 'The democratization of art does not come from a billionaire's machine' with a pencil centred in the middle over the text
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least weasel @mostweasel.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
i’ve been spending the time between christmas and work starting back feverishly making things, both to recover from the effects of spending time with my family (Bad) and to make the most of my time off work
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least weasel @mostweasel.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
in times such as these, it’s important to knit a nice rat
a brown knitted rat sitting on the author’s outstretched legs
the same rat, restrained
slightly out of focus picture of the rat attempting to climb the author’s arm
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Jane Fucking Doe @robin-tibochi.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Phone calls home help maintain the connection when loved ones are separated maintaining that connection can translate into a softer landing when being released. This is just cruel and bad policy if you truly want people to be rehabilitated, which we know they don’t.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
thinkin about stuff
the time when I was most immersed in Joni Mitchell's music (1990-1995ish) was also a time when I wasn't very in touch with a lot of pain I carried but the pain was there, looking for a place to be felt, and I'd locate that place in Joni Mitchell records, specifically Blue & Court + Spark & The Hissing of Summer Lawns, and while there's certainly plenty of hurt in those records it's still kind of funny when I'll cue up "In France They Kiss on Main Street" and a body memory of beginning to give myself permission to feel something very difficult will ripple through me, and it's in a way delicious, luxuriant; and I think one error in listening is to attribute agency to the artist when this sort of connection is formed, artists are just playing in their sandboxes, but it's also nearly impossible as a listener to not holler in gratitude from the heart of this process, seeking a person or Person to whom one might express that profound gratitude, someone to whom we can say "thank you, what would I be without this," but there are two people to thank for this and it's harder to thank them than to enter into the easy recourse of icon worship, and sources vary on whether those two people are actually just one person but one of them is God and the other one is you.
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least weasel @mostweasel.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
being back with my family for christmas is a bit like being in an ivy compton-burnett novel
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⚔️🎀 𝔉𝔦𝔞𝔡𝔥 🎀⚔️ @fiadh.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
important
badger eating berries
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
LIFE RULES: Insulate your house with books to ward off evil Oppose the zombie AI apocalypse Never click on a link to the Daily Mail Use double the recommended amount of garlic Always stop to say hi to sheep And to horses too (but in a fake posh voice) I think that's more or less everything covered?
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
THREAD. Some excellent pigs I have met on walks in the British countryside. You will find the caption to each photo in the alt text.
A tall and solid pig who is selflessly allowing his shorter friend to lean on him so he can obtain a clearer view of the beginning of what is promising to be one of the most attractive sunsets of the year.
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claremont cometh dot net @claremontcometh.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Are you working on an end-of-year retrospective on new music you liked in 2025? You don't have a physical copy of Half-Staff Blues to remind you, but I will! (And I'll keep asking Peter about a small run of something in 2026...) peterpeterhughes.bandcamp.com/album/half-s...
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Half-Staff Blues, by Peter Peter Hughes
11 track album
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
the good that you do persists in this world
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Cool Zone Media @coolzonemedia.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Robert sits down with @margaret.bsky.social to talk about how mankind went from building one atomic bomb to building tens of thousands of them, permanently 15 minutes or less away from ending all life on earth. @iwriteok.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
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Gaius (from Tribunate) @gaius.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
There is a direct correlation between how fake your job is and how much value you see in AI
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Nora's Kobold Bot @koboldbot.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
kobold making continental jazz
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Prof Maz Hardey @thatprofmaz.substack.com · 28/10/2025
Part of this story is expertise & intent. ChatGPT is being used by many as “therapy” unable to afford a therapist. The gap between a tool's intent and use is a public health crisis. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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More than a million people every week show suicidal intent when chatting with ChatGPT, OpenAI estimates
Finding is one of most direct statements from the tech company on how AI can exacerbate mental health issues
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
tfw masculine rosary
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ace tilton ratcliff @mortuaryreport.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
SO this lady who lives miles away from me in a different neighborhood filed a complaint w/the city that’s now potentially going to get my little free library & little free pantry shut down unless we can amend code to specifically protect site amenities as such pls sign my petition c.org/DRrMJb6Czq
a screen shot of an email that says: 

Hi Ace,

There are 1600 food pantries in Palm Beach County. There are meals on wheels. There are a lot of resources. I don’t need crackheads outside at 2 AM getting food from your little pantry and making all kinds of noise on the corner and people dropping off unappropriate food items That bring rats and roaches into the neighborhood. Food pantries make sure all their food is not expired and is up to code. Also people dropping off all kinds of broken items and things like that. Go work at a soup kitchen if you want to help people or do something else and stop putting Black Lives Matter signs and defund the police all lives matter and we need the police we all need order in this world. Not to be mean or condescending, but that little food pantry it needs to go.

Amy
Sent from my iPhone
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
in case you missed it our World Cafe Live session + interview is up and I gotta say it's nice www.youtube.com/watch?v=btCH...
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The Mountain Goats on World Cafe
YouTube video by World Cafe
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Hope is active. Doom is inactive. Every time you say “it’s over” you have completely given up and simply handed it all to the fascists.
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least weasel @mostweasel.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
perfect creature
orange and white beanie baby collie sitting on a bed
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Micah @rincewind.run · 16/10/2025
Discworld QOTD, from Wyrd Sisters
“The night was as black as the inside of a cat.  It was the kind of night, you could believe, on which the gods moved men as though they were pawns on the chessboard of fate.  In the middle of the elemental storm a fire gleamed among the dripping furze bushes like the madness in a weasel’s eye.  It illuminated three hunched figures.  As the cauldron bubbled an eldritch voice shrieked:  ‘When shall we three meet again?’ There was a pause. Finally another voice said in far more ordinary tones:  ‘Well I can do next Tuesday.’"
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least weasel @mostweasel.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
making your own clothes is the greatest bc it unlocks the possibility for you to have any item of clothing you can imagine + also it fits you perfectly
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
quoth the raven: "metalcore"
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Night of the Living Red Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
If you can't or won't stand up for trans people right now, you are never, ever, ever, ever going to do it and that is something worth knowing about yourself.
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D. Allan Drummond @dadrummond.art · 09/09/2025
Lord Milkweed surveying his domain 🧡🖤 Oncopeltus fasciatus male, large milkweed bug, on milkweed #invertebrate
A large black and orange true bug perched on the end of a leaf.
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